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The emergence of Sluggo singing "Il Mio Baffino Caro" to an audience of none:

If I were the Venezuelan government, I’d just contaminate the oil.

Abolish ICE.

Taking over Greenland is batsh*t crazy. That is all.

Pasadena. pasadenanow.com/main/pasaden...

It refers to the Stanford study. Ferhevensake! www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

When the US overthrows a government, the depend on the country’s military. That’s why they had to use US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. I guess they decided that the Venezuelan military was unreliable.

When people note that Venezuelan crude isn’t very good oil, we should not expect someone who doesn’t understand battery storage to have any idea what that means.

When people are surprised by the cowardice of Democrats, I laugh. I’ve dealt with them for decades, and you’ve never seen so many cowardly people.

Poor me. Having to go through this without John.

Maduro was KIDNAPPED. The kidnapping was not carried out by Trump, but by the United States government. And the US government has done this before. The people of the United States should suffer consequences for this. It’s not a “my bad” situation.

You didn’t think this through, did you, Lupin? You have to keep him in prison here, or he’ll just scamper back next door. You’re as dumb as a human.

The US can only “run” Venezuela if it puts tens of thousands of soldiers into Venezuela, kind of like Iraq.

John would laugh at the thought that I’m trying to make my coffee the way he made it. He used to complain that my coffee was so strong that it could pour itself into a cup and walk over to the table. His was better.

I thought everyone knew that you tried Latin American leftists in Miami, not New York.

It’s shocking how cowardly so many people on the left are. I expect anti-imperialism to be non-negotiable. But no.

Does Trump have any idea what you have to do to occupy another country? With Hegseth ”in charge”?

Highly recommended.

Trump is not the first President to pull this. Remember Noriega and Aristide?

@pbsnews.org David Brooks lied about the collapse of the Clinton Israel/Palestine negotiations. But I guess that’s the standard these days.

It’s legal in California. And I am a recreational user.

A bit of pink in the sky this morning. John would have pointed that out to me, so I’m pointing it out to you.

I hope bunches of New Yorkers take themselves and their friends and families out for a nice dinners tonight.

Socialists like nice things, and we don’t buy the cheapest crap out there. Most often, we don’t want positional goods, but every so often…

One interesting note on the CPR audit. I’ve been through audits, and it’s hard to imagine sloppier audits. In audits I went through, the receipts and reimbursements of anyone who had check-writing/preparation authority were examined.

Do you ever remember the olden days, when the only reference to Trump was in the tabloids you saw in the grocery line, and you never gave him a moment’s thought?

So to start 2026, one of our holiday CDs has died, and I find that I can’t replace it.

Happy New Year!

🚨 Breaking: NYC no more affordable than it was 53 minutes ago. An exclusive on how it all went wrong for Mamdani.

Thinking again of abandoning social media.

John and I usually stayed home on New Year’s Eve. But it was never lonely then.

May we please have our blankets?

Today would have been our first 45th Anniversary.

Okay, who wants my clothes from the 1990s?

The NYT has reupped this one, so I’m going to comment. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

Heating up tamales.

Freed the lizard!💪🏻

Some of my ancestors have been in what became the US since the 1630s. I would be ashamed to describe myself as a “Heritage American.”

Tariffs are making clothing much more expensive. Donating clothes to nonprofits means that a lot of clothes will be sold to consignment stores, and sold for higher prices than in the nonprofit stores.

John and I went camping a lot. We had a romantic notion at one point that we’d move to the country after we retired. We’d live in the woods, take long walks, live near a creek… We didn’t do it because we realized we’d have to spend a lot of time in the car.

Ian is lying on the floor of the living room in a sunbeam. I offered him the opportunity to go outside, but he said, nah, I’m good.

One year I bought Solstice tree lights with a controller that did strobe, random blinking, regular blinking, and just on. John hated them and threw them out when we took down the tree. I had lost interest in them, and just left them in the on position, but he didn’t want me to renew my enthusiasm.

Listening to John’s holiday music mix CDs.

Poor Ian sees the sun, demands to go out, and discovers that it’s still cold and wet.

Happy Christmas!

And the kid was eight, ferhevensake!

Listening to the Gospel Messiah. I heard parts of it and really liked it. John hunted down some of it and turned it into CDs for me. toohot2handel.com

I bet there are a lot of university professors who are very glad to be retired.