golden eagle in garfield is the spot for the good polish deli foods.

kudos to you for cooking a proper egg for that sandwich, one with a proper runny yolk. i hate that most every place that makes them smashes the yolks so they're completely cooked thru.

truthfully, njt probably would need 20-30 billion to get all of its lines in a state of good repair and electrified which would be a good first step that will never get realized unfortunately.

this is just a reminder that the turnpike authority is a completely separate entity from the department of transportation and does not take in any state tax money. it issues its own bonds and designs its own projects and pays for all of this with your ever increasing tolls. this isn't passing a value judgement on how money is spent (although it's time for the njta to take a serious look at how it budgets things), but before you come in hot with "for that amount of money, we could have x, y, and z!" remember that the njta for its faults is a self sustaining thing so this isn't taking money away from another project that you think matters more.

larry higgs from the ledger is really the only reporter who regularly covers transportation issues.

the dates are never fixed anyway. weather and other issues do occur which leads dates to slip and there's not a ton anyone can always do about it.

look at mr. moneybags here who has money for eggs to egg his neighbor's house. hell, i bought an 18 pack at target recently because 4.79 was way better than the nearly 6 bucks shoprite and wegmans are selling an 18 pack for.

which is frustrating, because teachers don't usually send the lists of needed supplies until maybe the last week of august. at least staples still exists and is always stocked up on school supplies all thru september.

the north planfield costco still had the big bags of chocolate miniatures on friday, but i'm sure those went fast.

went to target on friday night to try to get a few decorations and they have basically emptied the store of halloween items and it's all christmas all the time across the store. welcome to the new reality. i'm glad i had bought candy weeks ago.

those days are dead and not returning. in fact, one side has slid even further to embracing fascism pretty openly and just declaring that any electoral result that is not a win for their side is obviously illegitimate. there's no coming back from that, and even republicans who aren't bought into the worst ideas still care more about their party's power than accepting some time in the wilderness by backing the opposition until they can extinguish this movement and come back and try again. there's no other way to look at it.

paper planes is pretty good. java love is also pretty good. both are up in montclair.

in two more weeks we'll get our 9 month respite from them. then we get the statehouse election ones starting up, then a respite, then the shitshow that will be 2024.

i remember my mom getting the sunday ledger for years, mostly to get the coupons that were in the sunday paper. i really do remember that fun comics section with the bright yellow "COMICS" header at the top. blondie and peanuts were always the two above the fold comics in those days. c&h got prominent space on the front too if i remember. and yeah family circus got a lot of space, as did hagar the horrible. getting your hands on that comics section on a sunday morning was something to look forward to.

they were parked on the side street behind the other side of the library. trust me, during the height of 2020 they were doing their stupid "truck parades" up and down this stretch of road frequently.

vets getting va benefits and a lot of seniors who get ssa checks and medicare (nevermind that their lord and savior's party wants to cut back or outright eliminate both).

the one on tv with the farmer is the same, but i fear it will be effective. i think their campaign thinks it too, because he's not basically out to slander malinowski like he did two years ago.

his "platform" is basically generic republican drivel.

• "end wasteful spending" without identifying what he thinks is wasteful spending (just that malinowski did pelosi's bidding and voted for it. so was it the covid relief bills, or the infrastructure bill, or what?)
• "promote american industry" (you know who's already done that? malinowski, who voted for the chips act, for example)
• "support middle class tax relief" (insert the kek laughing gif here because we all know that he means in name only while his donor class friends continue paying zero in taxes)
• "back energy independence" (which is another generic republican talking point that basically boils down to be friendly to the coal industry)

and that's it. at least he wants you to think that's it. don't forget he has an unlinked portion of his website here that he will put in fundraising emails but is too fucking chickenshit to just take ownershp of, because it's the same chickenshit buzzwordy things that "modern conservative" voters want to hear, but he knows doesn't go down well with more moderate types that make up a lot of this district.

seriously, for the love of god, if you live in the 7th (and if you're not sure if you are, look up your address in the state's tool and it will tell you your congressional district, make sure you're registered, and vote against this clown.

sadly it was because he barely beat kean last time around. it sucks. i am mostly happy with the work malinowski has been doing in the district, but we're likely stuck with kean jr next year who will just vote for whatever bullshit national r's tell him to.

kim, goettheimer, and sherill. malinowski got the short end of the stick because he won by the skin of his teeth two years ago.