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That sucked
Long story about why this site has been down for a while now, mostly having to do with my hosting company getting bought out by inbreds hell bent on driving themselves into insolvency through nearly infinite layers of inanity and ineptitude. Last week they decided to try an unannounced server migration without making proper backups. [...]
Read More..>>Is this still broken?
Jerry McNerney Has No Dick and No Balls
Democrats should move beyond their confrontational approach, away from tough-minded, partisan withdrawal resolutions, to be more conciliatory with Republicans who might also be looking for a way out of the war.
“We should sit down with Republicans, see what would be acceptable to them to end the war and present it to the president, start negotiating [...]
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Mensch
In my family, my mom was typically the one who smacked first and asked questions later. My father’s method of punishment was, at least to my mind, far far worse: an interminable lecture that would end with the guilty party being told to commit to some introspection. God almighty, how I wished the [...]
Read More..>>The Blacks
“So do you ever have to deal with The Blacks?” the woman asked me. I was at a bluegrass festival about twenty five miles southeast of Scranton. I don’t know the woman’s name: we’ve met a few times before at bluegrass festivals, and the night before I’d picked until after midnight with [...]
Read More..>>FOOB: No Fat Chicks!
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Today’s FOOB is more than a little offensive. This morning’s message from Lynn can only be stated as “No Fat Chicks!”
If it wasn’t made clear enough yesterday that Julia is inferior to Lizzie, with the wonky teeth and the gaping maw, now we see that Julia is also -horror of horrors- FAT!
Worse, she [...]
Read More..>>Boxcar!
The beloved Grandpa Jim (he said with a smirk) of “For Better or For Worse” had a stroke sometime last year, and he has been struggling ever since to regain his faculties. One of his many problems, one quite common among stroke survivors, is problems with expression: the brain damage that often accompanies a [...]
Read More..>>Vonnegut
The first time I read Kurt Vonnegut’s work, I was about 14 years old. The blurb on the back of the book, Breakfast of Champions if memory serves, promised “a zany romp through another of Vonnegut’s hilarious fantasies” or something like that. It was, to my young mind, a total gyp. “Zany”? [...]
Read More..>>Fred and Len Get Nervous
Oh Boy! Today’s unsigned editorial drivel at the Post is something else. Let’s see what’s going in Fred Hiatt’s bloodlust-addled brain today.
“THE WHITE HOUSE and congressional Democrats have drawn deep lines in the sand over who will testify, and how, as Congress investigates the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys. The stubbornness and overheated [...]
