Oh, Lord. I would not want to see ICE “rounding up pedos.” They’d stake out gay clubs and beat on anybody not cis-hetero in their eyes.

Why should the FBI investigate? Last I heard, murder was a state crime.

The right in question is more or less about 13 years old. It always weirds me when a fairly paltry amount of time like that is called “the first time in history.”

Not that I’m not pissed at our country for letting that happen. It’s a big deal but not really a “first time in history” big deal.

My guess is that half of ICE agents stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 as well

Learning more about AI slop and I’m so glad I deleted my other social media accounts.

Another fugly truck, only I think they finished this one in naugahide

Oop. Apologies for failing to see past my local ‘Murican norms. I’ve watched enough “Call the Midwife” that I should know better.

The etymology of “doula” is “female slave” in Greek. So, it’s already got a rough history. A doula and a “god-sib” or the gossip of this post had about the same responsibilities. In modern times, neither of these women have a role in hospital birthing, so it’s kinda pointless to differentiate.

A man who puts ketchup on his well-done steak— a man who wears a blue suit to a funeral— is the arbiter of any sort of artistic endeavor? The very idea is insulting.

And then I feel angry over terms like “improper ideology” being applied to things like the Smithsonian Institute. Or hearing JD Vance whine about college professors. Trump wants to program the Kennedy Center? That’s absurd and casts burning oil onto the concept of “American culture.”

I feel wistful: every day there’s some health-related service being destroyed. The article will say, “So there goes of monitoring the spread of Lyme disease.” I’ve never really worried much about Lyme disease, but I suspect it’s because public health officials were fighting it back. Somehow.

I try not to fret over national news, but I have to keep up. It’s all unnerving, but I feel particularly upset over all the science and cultural institutions under attack.

“Havok,” a Gareth Evans action film has little plot, but a good setting for a bunch of brain-splintering combat/action scenes. This is a good thing. It it’s the kind of action film in which one guy can shoot a bad guy 11 times and just to make sure they got him, they bury him in shelving.

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

No. Sorry. The university was founded in 1873 (after emancipation, after the Civil War, and after most of Reconstruction) so, no slave-made bricks here. I’m sure we could dig around and find other unethical behavior, but not this one.

VUMC legally separated from Vanderbilt Univ a number of years ago, so technically whether this university has balls or a pussy remains to be seen

Honestly, no. WE don’t do that. Now, some effed up far right goobers may, but they join friends in every other state while hiding in the woods

Something pleasant, but melancholy today. This is Lula. She was my dog through about 10 of the worst years of my life. But she made it survivable. She died of an inoperable tumor about three years and there’s not a day goes by that I don’t miss her. Some days more than most. Such a good dog.

Are there any Dems supporting “Liberation Day”? If so, they are prolly already on my primary list for being lousy objectors in the past three months.

See “Africa: Economic and Social Failures throughout 20th Century.” I dislike piling on Africa since most of their problems were caused by colonialism, but that place is such a quagmire of trouble, I can’t imagine even where to start.

I dunno about the speed of tariffs but I think it’ll be six months or more before Myanmar sees any effects (what do they export to the U.S., anyway?) and by that standard, Myanmar isn’t different from most other countries. Anybody driving up prices today because of “tariffs” is dishonest.

A good dog named Lula, looking at the camera with the smile she’d show to all her friends.

This was my Lula. She passed three years ago but there’s not a day since that I don’t miss her.

Maybe bang on it a couple of times?

Yes. I am ready for this. I was in NYC when Schumer clobbered Al D’Amato for his Senate seat and it was fresh air and smiles all around. But even when he wasn’t capitulating to tyrants, he was a miserable party leader. So many of the directionless Democrats problem come from him.

Does “human composting” mean what it sounds like? Turning a bod into mulch for the garden? Not the worst idea but I’ve never been confronted with such an idea.

Do you figure it’s BlueSky or is it you leaving bait like this to stir up “visibility” in the social community?

It’s probably for the best. Can you imagine some of the ways Trump could screw up such a duty? Now, make it 10x worse and that’s what would have happened,

Looks like he’s really ready to have a big ol’ coronary event.

Not trying to undercut your point, but I chuckle about headlines like this. OMG Wall Street types haven’t done this for almost … 18 months? Is it really such a catastrophe as all that?

I HATE that I’ll see GWB at some function and think longingly that I miss when he was President. Which is completely wrong. He was a vile president. Even Tricky Dicky (although he had a cast of bumbling idiots in the Plumbers) would be an improvement on what we have now