Anyone who's ever played a Zelda game knows that no matter how loyal Ganon's minions, toadies, and puppets are to him, the Big Pig will turn on them once they're no longer useful.

Didn't watch SOTU, partly because I spent the evening working on one of several book-editing projects that are on my docket, but mostly because the Orange Oaf can STFU about the SOTU.

Was listening to tropical-sounding music while working on book-editing projects today so I would forget that it looks like Hoth outside. I am so ready for warmer weather.

Vive Canada - well played, one and all. Love from your neighbo(u)rs on the other side of the border.

I don't think the poets and the dictionary compilers have come up with a sufficiently base insult to describe a scumbag like him.

You're a credit to your office, your constituents, and your country, Rep. Balint. Keep up the good work, and keep up the fight.

Well, Michelle Obama was making efforts to do just that, and the Faux News brigade were positively foaming at the mouth about it.

And then there was the story about that company that makes wedding favors and decorations, including paper napkins with romantic-sounding quotes from literature printed on them. One of those quotes was from a certain Vladimir Nabokov book...

Bondi is a high school queen-bee bully turned up to 11. She makes Regina George from Mean Girls look like Eleanor Roosevelt.

Good grief. Jayapal and Lieu and Raskin and Johnson (Hank, of course, not Mike) and all the other sane and ethical people on that panel deserve combat pay for having to deal with Bondi and her s---.

So much for peace on earth, goodwill toward men. (I'm pretty certain those "prayer services" meet the legal definition of taking God's name in vain.)

It's always important to have additional pairs of eyeballs on the page.

You and me both...

Or as Mad Magazine once put it, "It's Clear the President is a Danger."

It's going to take a very long time before we as a country recover from all this $@%&. That is, assuming we actually CAN recover.

We could have had President Harris and VP Walz: two people who were worthy of those offices. Instead we've got the Tangerine Scream.

Joining the chat a tad late. I'm Erin - I'm a freelance editor/proofreader (mostly for trade fic and nonfic) based in New Jersey. #ACESchat

OMG, I miss Borders. #ACESChat

I'm convinced that middle names have no use whatsoever other than being an indicator that you're in really big trouble.

What a century this year has been...

Gee, it's almost like they're trying to drive women out of the armed forces. (Oh, wait...)

You know, I'm pretty certain that a bunch of meanies going around trying to literally erase rainbows has been the plotline of at least one Care Bears or Rainbow Brite story...

#Orlando #Pulse #crosswalk

And given that Congress - well, the GOP arm, anyway - has been catering to Mango Mussolini's every gold-plated whim...

Contract rules indicate that all dogs on set shall be generously supplied with skritches and ear rubs.

Dear WSJ. I expect to see ALL the tea spilled on your front page tomorrow. And the cream and sugar and lemon. No excuses.

I'd call CBS's execs a bunch of chickens, but that'd be an insult to the species G. gallus domesticus. #StephenColbert

Look in the dictionary under evil, and you will see Miller's face.

After Hurricane Sandy, my local library had extended hours in the evenings so people could some in, charge their devices, and just spend some time in the light and warmth. (My street was without power for ten days - it's a miracle we didn't all go bonkers.)