When every citizen has only as much Healthcare as they can pay for, bankruptcies and suicides will skyrocket. We are doing a darwinian experiment, survival of the richest, and luckiest

not entirely a joke: they may mount a concerted effort to have her transferred to federal custody on some fabricated basis, and then the pardon works. I think.

If Trump really does have late stage neurosyphilis, this is all going to go "Baron Harkonnen" in coming months

"It's the most wonderful time of the year..." for working from home. Flannel pajamas, fuzzy robe, puffy slippers, scented candles, spiced cider, background holiday music, light snow outside, cuddly cat, hot lunch etc Make your guesses now for how long until I get some Email grenade in my inbox

I've had such a brilliant evening of posting, I'll expect several job offers tomorrow

When Vance and the cabinet finally try to do the 25th on Trump, how likely is it that Trump will blame his psychotic, misanthropic posts on Stephen "Pee Wee German" Miller?

Every 6 months, our President has a detailed psych eval for mental acuity, and has his head literally examined by MRI. He then implausibly boasts of extraordinary fitness, and lashes out at those who question it. Am I the only one who can add 1 + 1 + 1 = 3? He's crumbling, knows it, and resents it

Your tax dollars, at work for you!

I know it was partly the lighting, but when Marian (Louisa Jacobson) appeared in this particular dress, I gasped and fell in love with whoever did the costumes for The Gilded Age

This story is unbelievable. Mind blown.

I greatly prefer the hokey hallmark Christmas movies filmed in actually snowy and cold places

LOL, perfect comment caught on hot mic: "being an officer, she didn't trust me to be around any of it because she didn't know if I had a big mouth or not.”

During classical music radio fund drives, the one song I DO NOT need to hear any more is Bolero. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

You know, I was just getting used to it being 2025. Since we stopped having to write it on checks, one tends to lose track

It's been a year, all right

Bookmarking for later, then the holiday, then yet again even later

Loosening of fuel efficiency standards, disfavoring EV's and renewables, virtually promising 'free oil' if he invaded Venezuela. This all is a direct result of Trump shaking down energy executives for a billion dollars. This is why they bankrolled his re-election www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

Well damn I'm ten minutes into the Burns documentary and I'm sobbing for all we've apathetically let slide into hopeless stupidity

Nominee for Post Of the Year

Irving Berlin's great nephew gives a call back to the freakin' 19th century. America is bigger, longer and more essential than recent warty MAGA toads

Those who do not study criminal history are condemned to be condemned for repeating it.

While watching a Hallmark Christmas Movie, part of the brain turns off. But that part isn't missed while watching a Hallmark Christmas Movie

underlings are likely responding to Bannon's command to "flood the zone with shit" as a major distraction

I'm not a huge fan of my home town football club but I generally watch to keep abreast of what everyone else comments about it

"Getting on in years" is watching a Hallmark Christmas film with Cary Elwes and Brooke Shields and thinking how fine these 50ish folks with crows feet still look

Collecting recyclables from our weekend hosting our kids and grandkids, I realize we've not raised a family as much as an industrial-scale beer-drinking machine

What's the extension to get this site to block every post involving Stephen Miller from my feed? I don't like the constant reminder that our country now has pubic lice

I wonder what proportion of households goes from turkey yesterday, to pizza today. That cook is TIRED, folks, and if leftovers don't excite you, then you can suit yourselves. And use the paper plates!

BBC = Being Big Cucks

'Lame duck' clown *still* has a flamethrower, folks

Why the hell would I ever watch a "news" show called 'Trumpty Minutes'

If someone proposed at a Chicago NFL tailgate party, it could be da beers, da Bears, and De Beers

We've tried mousetraps, and we have a cat, but what finally does in the mice in our house is old age.

What a legacy Marjorie Taylor howler monkey leaves behind

I pray this will stand the test of time, but it smells like truth on this first day

It's been a helluva year, so it's going to be damn hard to come up with "things I'm thankful for this year." So don't push your luck with that. At least with Trump taking a few hits these days, I'm no longer avoiding listening to the news entirely. It's only 90% bad these days.

In future, I hope schoolchildren are encouraged to memorize this for speech competitions.

"Fate of Ophelia" as a pathological earworm might be in the next DSM

There should be a fund drive to buy Trump's boyhood home in Queens to serve as a perpetual symbolic site at which to register one's opinion about his legacy.

You remember Len's engaging content which started during the great lockdowns (Scots Word of the Day) but this is next level from an author, scholar, and prize-winning poet (Poyums). Looking forward to a listen, to brighten the dark days. They specialize in that in Scotland: lots of dark days there

In grade school music class we sang Stephen Foster tunes with gusto like they were recent chart-toppers. This year is the 175th anniversary of his first genuine hit, which launched his career. "Oh Susanna" is so essentially American, I never considered it had to be written by anyone in particular.

This is truly worthy of a documentary film. Astounding

Here we are, trying to bolster (literally) a last line of defense against the Enemy Domestic

Truth

I've been watching Hallmark Christmas movies this year like they might save my life. Normal people, acting charmingly. I miss that world.

LOL Whole Foods with a new ad campaign about their yellow tag "sale prices"

"...everyone needs to stop pretending that the caricatures created by Trumpist assholes is a real thing.."

114 billion pennies remain in circulation. If every household in the US (~133M) now hoards just $8.57 in pennies "because they're going to become rare," there will be no pennies in circulation

I get to these enraging online moments where the stress hormones are whirling my brain into angry froth. And then I have to step away, and go watch Britbox for a bit, and have some tea. And I don't drink tea. But for the end of our country, I'll make an ironic exception