I live in a neighborhood where even the transplants have adopted the habit of over exaggerated waving and smiling when you meet each other on the street. If you don't play the game, they take it personally. With today's root canal, I probably looked like this.

You could nearly fit two of me in this ‘one size fits all’ bone stimulator unit. I can only use it lying down and love the fact that I get to be a physician sanctioned ’poaster’ for two hours a day.

This showed up in my husband’s grading pile this morning on quizzes about the 17th Amendment. He thinks it’s goofy but heartfelt. I think it’s bait. I did have to stop him from drawing a red line through Charley and replacing it with the correct spelling.

Whelp. If the rapture actually happens tomorrow, I won't have to pay for a root canal on Wednesday. Silver linings and all that.

Further proving my theory that Nextdoor is Facebook for people whose entire family have blocked them, I present this MAGA 'gem'. The most amusing and biting satire is wholly unintended. Melania sleeping in the same bed as Trump? 'Now that's funny'

this is just obscene

So glad I opted for a day of reading and trash television and was spared the morbid curiosity of tuning in to today's MEGA MAGA rally. Listening to Lee Greenwood perform what I've called "That Effing Song" since childhood would have thrown my recovery off track.

Now I'm doubly, triply glad that my mother let this one go when she went on her post Hulu canceling spree.

The only thing this coffee house fan fiction lie is missing are the scores of customers who started a slow clap that built into thunderous applause and men (big strong men who never cried before) thanking her for her service with tears in their eyes.

"Outrageous incident" turns out, in fact, to be manufactured outrage by, checks notes, a right-wing individual. Twisted on so many levels, including the fact that people could have been hurt. The store had to close because of threats based on disinformation. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

“There is not one farmer wanting the general public to bail us out; we don’t want that,” said Grimes. “We just want to be able to sustain our industry by selling our commodities and paying our bills". Bullshit They yearn for the sweet cha-ching of public monies. www.kait8.com/2025/09/16/f...

It looks like my spine has been fixed with a Walkman for the early 90s or maybe an old Nikon camera

Do YOU have what it takes to be a giant douchenozzle? The Pentagon needs you. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I have a metal cage and a cadaver bone replacing a vertebrae in my body and I still have more of a spine than ABC.

At this rate, the only entertainment the networks will be brave enough to put on will be 1. Kid Rock Variety Hour 2. Scott Baio pretends to be a good actor 3. Old man exercises with Kevin Sorbo 4. Jon Voight yells at clouds

Melania to Trump: "Well I command you to find the cure. Wherever it is in this world, I command you to heal yourself, and then return to me. We need to squeeze out three more years of grifting and robbery"

Hey! I've seen that hat before.

The podcasts poisoned big brains on my local Nextdoor page are all pissed that their plan of 'triggering' Starbucks employees by having them write Charlie Kirk on their cups was such a flop. Oh well. Congrats for giving Starbucks money today. I'd say I hope they tipped but I doubt they did.

Me, to the insurance company

Thirteen years ago Americans shook their heads when North Korean leaders started punishing North Koreans who didn't sincerely mourn. Today the Republican-led FBI, DOJ, White House, and Congress are threatening to punish, or are actively punishing, Americans who don't mourn Charlie Kirk.

I am a master of self sabotage. This is the first day post-surgery that I feel like I might want to eat something so naturally I schedule dental work. Hours later, I'm trying to move my jaw manually like a Nutcracker and...it's not working out very well.

The next time some navel gazing blogger asks "Is this the republican party's libertarian moment?" it can be safely assumed that the answer is and will always be no.

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how disrespectful. let’s get this guy fired from his job.

Just saw this on a page for county residents and it really highlights the FoxNewsification of every facet of society. Some of these people would be happier with a weekly Trump rally than a traditional service.

One of the great things about hitting the out of pocket maximum is getting all kinds of weird stuff (bone stimulator? Who knew?) and not fretting over the price. Hell, yes. Send me everything-daily-until 12/31/25.

The video is worth a watch, if for nothing else, than to laugh at Ted Cruz doing his first (and likely last) day of hard labor. As for the 'whitewash', he's now created more work for the professionals by not choosing grey. abcnews4.com/news/nation-...

One of my secret joys in life is commenting "the usual suspects" just to get the local racists bent out of shape and then turning off the notifications.

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

He dropped out after a single semester and joined a trade school. It's like he was created in a lab to make people like Dinesh look dumber than they actually are.

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

My husband fields a half dozen emails every week asking when papers are due, what material are they covering for the week, and where the final exam will be held. All of this is in the syllabus. If they cannot be bothered to read it, I doubt he'd successfully indoctrinate a league of snipers.

I've been existing on protein shakes and broth for nearly a week. This afternoon, I chanced an eggroll. It looks like I won't have to worry about an upset stomach because Penny the food motivated beagle decided to eat it before I got the chance.

Art of the Deal.

Can't wait for the next Jake Tapper that exposes the conspiracy of silence. (Just kidding. He won't write one)

I know my mother has dementia and I have developed a thick skin over the years but her asking "Does your back still hurt?" after I've just undergone one of the most barbaric surgeries known to man has to be the understatement of the year.

The wasteland formerly known as Twitter is doing what it does best and that's crafting wild conspiracies and doxing innocent people for innocuous comments.

because they'd never fly at full staff again.

xAI has a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense to provide... whatever this is.

It's a blessing and a curse that opiate painkillers give me such awful waking hallucinations (no chance of dependency and no relief) but going through a spinal fusion on baby aspirin and tylenol really is...less than ideal. It's a shame the old hippie professors we knew have all retired now.

Turn those frowns upside down, MAGA farmers. Sure, the soybean crop may be a flop but the comeuppance crop is growing like crazy. finance.yahoo.com/news/farmer-...

On one hand, you could have a career and wait until you are ready to have children. On the other hand, you could be Charlie Kirk's broodmare and dependent on him for half your life. Decisions, decisions. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The six year old version of myself that was obsessed with E.T would have been traumatized by my town's creative ideas for Halloween decorations.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

"In the short term, they have no choice but to mail us a check." Nope. That's not how things work. You voted to ruin lives. You got it. www.yahoo.com/news/article...