That’s karma, handing us the same lessons until we graduate to new ones.

Oh yeah, that was s give amount of PTO. 😶

Lee Atwater full interview told the real reason for the dumbing down of America. Two younger family members went through four years of prestigious private universities, and neither had ever read classic literature, let alone discuss main themes and philosophical implications, which is sad, since Shakespeare still addresses basic and timeless western human conditions, and I daresay the reach may be broader than that.

Whatever happened to Jerome, anyway?

If we’re going to have the superheroes, they’re going to be us, so I guess it depends how badly we want them.

Oooh, like when the whole purpose of paying for cable television was no ads?

Oh I’m amazed. They’re truly accomplishing the Great Work.

Strumming my pain with her fingers, singng my life with her words…

My child seems to be in a reasonably healthy relationship. It’s a wonder since I put them through a few bad ones, but I eventually left. They’ve been in a stable relationship for five years. I don’t pry much and I pray they aren’t staying because they feel they’d flounder, otherwise. Their partner is a good person, in not implying they aren’t. Compatibility is a thing, common interests are necessary.

I just told a care provider recently that I’ve no idea if I’m capable of a healthy relationship, because I don’t even know what one looks like from the outside, let alone from the inside. I’m nearly 60.

I don’t know that turning onward is a bad idea. It can be, if we get terrified and refuse to go deeper. What I mean is, grief work and rage work and all the icky stuff is necessary, as are breaks from the heaviness. Be gentle with yourself, friend.

Same with Lowe’s and some ACE.

Richardson had recently filed a federal lawsuit against Sheffield police, accusing them of abusive behavior during his 2022 detention

If it was suicide, she should still sue.

Here is the oath, so it’s iffy. They have no problem with charging exorbitant costs, financially, physically and emotionally, for the training, though.

This is why I’ve turned against economic sanctions. Texas will still get federal tax dollars, though.

Pro life fetish.

Some states won’t let hunters’ surplus game to be donated or sold. Some will and do. It’s a good balance. Then you find the city slicker trophy hunter deer - whole carcasses, minus the rack. It’s disgusting, even for me (flexitarian), and we grew up raising or hunting our own food. We would never kill an animal that wasn’t an immediate threat that wouldn’t be eaten, except for rats and bugs, but we still didn’t go out of our way to prolong suffering (but we did to quickly end it).

The idea of not raising minimum wage and keeping wage slaves and corporate welfare is what they’re arguing. It’s not that it costs taxpayers more, it’s that it costs rich people and corporations less.

Death panel

That people are so hell bent on spending more money to do the worst* possible things rather than just doing the right things in 2024 blows my mind.