Funnily enough, there were pamphleteers who used to block access to a Wells Fargo in Seattle (in 2017, I think), pushing papers talking about the bank’s misdeeds (including their support for the oil industry and creating fake accounts for customers).

I needed to negotiate my way past, explaining that I don’t bank with Wells Fargo, but my landlady does, and I just need to deposit my rent check because it’s the first of the month. They told me that I should somehow convince my landlady to switch banks and I just stared back with unimpressed scorn.

I wanted to joke about him being a Hard Target, but that’s JCVD.

The best that I can offer is that even if he’s Marked for Death, Seagal would be Hard to Kill.

The sound of a dog drinking from a sprinkler?

Aha! This is the Cato for whom the Cato Institute (founded by Charles Koch) is (indirectly) named.

There was a collection of 144 essays by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon in the early 1720s under the pseudonym “Cato”, taken from Cato the Younger. Taken together “Cato’s Letters” were the inspiration for the name of the 20th century conservative think tank.

I’m guessing that most music platforms get the majority of their sales from outside the top 20.

Or are they talking about PC gaming versus console gaming? Actually, if you include mobile games, do the top 20 represent the majority of sales? Again, it feels like there’s a very significant long tail on mobile as well.

Trying to make out the headlines on the magazine.

It looks like “Whiskey cures AIDS” and “Interview: Anna Nicole MacDonald”, but I’m not positive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

In this case, they’re talking about being in the natural numbers club, and applying the “successor” (or “succ”) function.