Archive of entries posted on March 2026

Ratchet Question: When Market Prices for Transportation Costs Go Down, Do You Ever Reduce Prices?

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March 25, 2026

U.S. Postal Service Announces Transportation-Related, Time-Limited Price Change

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service filed notice today with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) regarding a time-limited price change to better align its costs of transportation with the market. This temporary price adjustment will provide needed flexibility for the Postal Service by helping to ensure that the actual costs of doing business are covered, as required by Congress.

While this price increase is a time-limited adjustment, it will provide a necessary bridge to a permanent mechanism to reflect market conditions in prices for competitive products that can support the Postal Service’s ability to achieve the universal service obligation in a more financially sustainable manner going forward.

The planned price change, which was approved by the Governors of the Postal Service on March 24, is an 8 percent increase that would affect base postage prices on the following retail and commercial domestic competitive products: Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage, and Parcel Select. No other products or services would be affected, including First-Class Stamps. Pending favorable review by the PRC, the price change would go into effect at midnight Central Time on April 26 and would remain in place until midnight Central Time on Jan. 17, 2027. At that time, the Postal Service can determine if a different long-term approach is needed.

Transportation costs have been increasing, and our competitors have reacted with a number of surcharges. We have steadfastly avoided surcharges …

…but … still … yet … however … nevertheless …

and this charge is less than one-third of what our competitors charge for fuel alone, so even with this change, the Postal Service continues to offer great value in shipping with some of the lowest rates in the industrialized world.

Stock Up on Strawberries and Steak!

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… before the welfare fraudsters grab them all.

Democrats revive a once-taboo idea: Capping grocery prices
Washington Post | February 19, 2026 | Julie Z. Weil

On Thursday, the Center for American Progress, a prominent left-leaning think tank that often cultivates policy ideas later adopted by the Democratic Party, proposed a two-year freeze on the prices of 22 food items, such as strawberries and steak.

If this passes, the steaks literally couldn’t be higher.

Bond Girlathon Friday : Results from 3/20/2026 : New Matches for 3/27/2026

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Best thing about a guest hosting gig, getting an opportunity to have my Intern application reviewed.

Results from 3/20/2026

Claudine AugerNo PreferenceDenise Perrier
140131

Izabella ScorupcoNo PreferenceLuciana Paluzzi
144142

New Matches for 3/27/2026

Match 1

(6) Molly Peters (Patricia Fearing) vs (4) Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
(6) Molly Peters4 – 1 – 0818 – 2 – 398
Patricia Fearing

Actress:Molly Peters
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:Thunderball (1965)

Synopsis:

Patricia Fearing was a nurse working at the Shrublands health clinic, where Bond had been sent to detoxify from too many martinis. After nearly being killed by SPECTRE agent Count Lippe, Bond won the sympathy of Patricia, and the two spent the night with a steam room and a mink glove.

Molly Peters

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
(4) Famke Janssen5 – 0 – 0747 – 7 – 217
Xenia Onatopp

Actress:Famke Janssen
Nationality:Dutch
Bond Movie:Goldeneye (1995)

Synopsis:

Xenia Onatopp was a henchwoman working alongside the traitor General Ourumov. She stole a Tiger Helicopter, a new prototype that was resistant to electromagnetic pulses. She then helped Ourumov steal the codes and launch key for the Goldeneye satellite weapon from the Severnaya Space Control Centre. She killed the staff and programmed Goldeneye to destroy the facility with electromagnetic pulses that wouldn’t effect the Tiger. She flirted with Bond and tried to kill him on multiple occasions, but Bond ended up onatopp.

Famke Janssen

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Match 2

Maryse Guy Mitsuoko (Mademoiselle La Porte) vs Serena Gordon (Caroline)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Maryse Guy Mitsuoko1 – 4 – 0358 – 11 – 765
Mademoiselle La Porte

Actress:Maryse Guy Mitsouko
Nationality:French
Bond Movie:Thunderball (1965)

Synopsis:

Mlle. La Porte was Bond’s French liaison during his attendance of SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar’s funeral. She informs Bond that Bouvar passed away in his sleep, and as the two leave the funeral she ends with “Is there anything else our French station can do for Monsieur Bond?”, to which Bond replies, “Later, perhaps.”

Maryse Guy Mitsouko

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Serena Gordon0 – 5 – 0306 – 12 – 617
Caroline

Actress:Serena Gordon
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:Goldeneye (1995)

Synopsis:

Caroline was a psychological evaluator working for MI6. She was sent by M to evaluate Bond, who took her for a drive in his Aston Martin DB5. Bond drove very fast and engaged in a race with Xenia Onatopp, making Caroline very uncomfortable. After screaming at Bond to slow down, Bond came to an abrupt stop, and seduced Caroline with a bottle of Bollinger champagne hidden in an armrest. The two proceed with a “very thorough evaluation.”

Serena Gordon

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Molson Labe

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Canadian Minister of Public Safety Talks of Sending Police Door-to-Door to Collect Guns
Breitbart | 03/26/2026 | AWR Hawkins

With only one week left in Canada’s buyback-of-banned-arms program, Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree suggests police will go door-to-door during Spring and Summer to collect guns.

I Don’t Care Very Mulch What Happens To My Body After Death, But Yuck!

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Oklahoma Advances Bill To Turn Dead Humans Into Actual Fertilizer
The Daily Caller | March 25, 2026 | Anthony Lafrate

The Oklahoma State House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill that would make it legal to use the decomposed and ground-up remains of human corpses as soil fertilizer in the state.

“Grandma Got Run Under By a John Deere . . . “

The legislation, HB 3660, seeks to include so-called “natural organic reduction” (NOR), a common euphemism for human composting, “as a form of cremation” under state law. Oklahoma’s lower chamber passed the bill 59-37, with both Republicans and Democrats voting in favor, prompting a harsh rebuke from one of the GOP lawmakers who opposes the legislation.

“… If this bill is put into law, Oklahoma joins 14 BLUE states that have legalized this process,” Republican Oklahoma State Rep. Jim Shaw wrote in a Tuesday X post. “So, instead of outlawing this type of practice outright, we’re on track to take the use of humanure as fertilizer another disgusting step forward.”

The 14 states that have legalized NOR include Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.

To err is human

Aerating is humus;

To dig without dignity

Surely will doom us.

Lamented remains

The same old story:

First voluntary

Then mandatory.

Just When They’re Getting To the Age When They Don’t Think Girls Have Khoutis?

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Minimum age for joining IRGC lowered to 12
X – Iran International | Mar. 25, 2026

An official from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the minimum age for participation in war-related support roles has been lowered to 12, according to remarks aired on state media.

Rahim Nadali, a cultural official with the Guards in Tehran, said an initiative called “For Iran” was recruiting participants to assist with activities such as patrols, checkpoints and logistics.

“Given that the age of those coming forward has dropped and they are asking to take part, we lowered the minimum age to 12,” he said, adding that 12- and 13-year-olds could now take part if they wished.

So, I Guess Any One of You Can Sue?

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Meta, YouTube found liable for woman’s debilitating social media addiction in $3M landmark trial
NY Post | 3/25/26 | Daniel Farr, Jules Corderoy

Jules Corderoy? You should see my corduroy jewels.

A Los Angeles jury found Wednesday that Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube harmed a young user … a 20-year-old woman who claimed she became dangerously obsessed with the apps at a young age because they were deliberately built to be addictive …

Snap and TikTok were also defendants ​in the first-of-its-kind trial; however, both settled with the plaintiff before it began.

… she started using social media apps at just 6 years old, and her addiction fueled depression, anxiety and severe mental health struggles, including body dysmorphia and thoughts of self-harm.

Well, yeah, especially after stumbling across IMAO.

Straight Line of the Day: Incentives You’d Offer to Millionaires To Return to New York City: …

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Because Gov. Hochul really, really needs some ideas:

Kathy Hochul Begs Rich People to Come Back to New York
Hot Air | 18 Mar, 2026 | David Strom

Hochul’s appeal to the millionaires who are fleeing New York came last week at a POLITICO “Fireside Chat” …

Governor Hochul: Let me frame it this way: …

Well, letting you frame it your way would only exacerbate the problem, but go ahead:

… I know New Yorkers are exasperated. They feel that everything’s stacked against them. They’re not getting ahead, their rents are too damn high, their childcare costs are high, their utility bills …

What I want to make sure we are smart about is having a system in place where it’s not just taxing for the sake of taxing. And being conscious of the fact that I need people who are high-net-worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state. Right?

Right.

Not left. Except they have left. In abundance.

Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks.

Since you’re a politician and a Democrat, I have to ask: you meant cut the government the checks, correct?

If you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded. So I philosophically don’t have a problem, …

?

I would posit that you do — and you realize it, you’ve just circled around it, and will now home in on it:

… I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals.

So, other than seeing “who we can bring back home” at the point of a gun — I’d call the new TV series “The Fungitive” — you’ll convince them how? …

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Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results from 3/18/2026 : New Matches for 3/25/2026

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Brackets busted? Well it’s Opening Day and we’ll always have the Bond Girlathon.

Results from 3/18/2026

Francois TherryNo PreferenceAngela Scoular
79562

(1) Barbara BachNo PreferenceCassandra Harris
181020

New Matches for 3/25/2026

Match 1

(16) Sue Vanner (Log Cabin Girl) vs Kristina Wayborn (Magda)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
(16) Sue Vanner4 – 3 – 0815 – 10 – 658
Log Cabin Girl

Actress:Sue Vanner
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Synopsis:

The log cabin girl, played by Sue Vanner, was a KGB agent, and a lover of James Bond. While Bond and the girl were curled up under some furs on the floor of an isolated log cabin, M sent a message to Bond’s wrist watch that he was needed at once at HQ. As Bond got up to leave, the girl said “But James, I need you.”, to which Bond replied “So does England.” After he left, the girl radioed to KGB henchmen that Bond had let.

Sue Vanner

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Kristina Wayborn3 – 4 – 0669 – 8 – 566
Magda

Actress:Kristina Wayborn
Nationality:Swedish
Bond Movie:Octopussy (1983)

Synopsis:

Magda was the right-hand woman of Octopussy, and assisted her smuggling partner Kamal Khan on many occasions throughout the film. After attending an auction in which Bond stole a Fabegé egg, Magda was sent to sleep with Bond so that she could steal it back. After Octopussy found out that Khan tried to kill her, her cult of girls, Magda included, storm Khan’s palace.

Kristina Wayborn

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Match 2

(6) Caroline Munro (Naomi) VS (14) Tina Hudson (Bianca)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
(6) Caroline Munro7 – 0 – 01123 – 11 – 338
Naomi

Actress:Caroline Munro
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Synopsis:

Naomi was an aid for Karl Stromberg, and escorted Bond and Anya Amasova to Stromberg’s oceanic citadel, the Atlantis. After Bond’s meeting ended, Stromberg instructed henchman Jaws to kill the two spies. In an intense chase sequence with Bond and Amasova driving a Lotus Esprit, Jaws shot at them from a car, another henchmen tried to kill them with a sidecar-missile, and Naomi tried to shoot them down from a helicopter. She met her end as Bond blew up her helicopter with a surface-to-air missile.

Caroline Munro

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ContestantRecordTotal Scores
(14) Tina Hudson4 – 3 – 0931 – 14 – 582
Bianca

Actress:Tina Hudson
Nationality:English
Bond Movie:Octopussy (1983)

Synopsis:

Bianca was an MI6 agent assisting Bond in Latin America. She helped Bond disguise himself as Colonel Toro so that he could infiltrate a military base and plant an explosive on a Cuban spy plane. When the mission went awry and Bianca saw Bond being taken away as a prisoner in an army jeep, she went into action. She drove alongside the jeep, and flirted with Bond’s captors, showing off her legs to distract them while Bond pulled their parachute cords.

Tina Hudson

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