@mfriedmannola
Cranky old queer bear in Mid-City, New Orleans. Previous lives in San Francisco, Boston. Grew up in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Proud Uni High and UIUC (Univ. of Illinois-Urbana) graduate. No fascists. No Trump. No gay Republicans. Ever.
I do not want a robot salad.
Robots make it extremely pallid!
No no no robot root beer float!
The robot will just make it bloat!
No robots ever near my food!
Leave it alone you robot dude!
(With apologies to Theodore Geisel, of course and the rest of you, this isn't very good).
You have to wonder what turns people into assholes this big.
I've certainly met my share of them (the hatred of some people toward gay men is profound and deep) and all I can do is laugh at them and point.
Thanks for being stalwart and funny even when people are being stupid twits.
So who made you such an asshole Mister President of the Maldives?
Christ. Were you born a prick or did you learn how to be a bitter one when no one would date you?
But please, tell me again how a tan suit was the end of the world.
He's disgusting.
People often looked at me weird when I was a kid in IL because I called my parents Mama/Daddy (Still do, even though she's no longer with us).
Because they both called their parents those things. Huzz calls his Mom 'Jacque' because she worked at Toys R Us for too long and doesn't respond to "Mom!"
We are being ruled by a bunch of FUCKING GOOBERS.
With a complex about it.
The entire thing is insane. There is going to have to be some kind of reckoning when this is all over and Trump is gone.
The violation of people's fundamental rights is deep and wide. They keep pretending (and saying) non-citizens don't have constitutional rights. This is 100% a lie.
ALWAYS cracks me up when I hear that US cities are "war zones" from people who never leave lily white suburbs.
They're not. I've lived in large cities for 40 years. Yes, they have their problems. But mass shootings always seem to happen in suburbs and small towns. Wonder why?
"Treats?"
She IS a fool. Everyone could see that after her weirdo disastrous SOTU response a few years ago.
They are screaming with laughter that the price of oil went up 30% in 10 days.
The Chinese, though, are not.
"Don't worry. I have camel milk. We're also getting bleach enemas."
But I digress. ;-)
Pet peeve: I studied Russian and its history and they constantly use the old transliteration "czar" when the word in Russian is tsar.
It's one letter in languages that use Cyrillic: Π¦Π°Ρ (TS-A-R). Cyrillic does that a lot. One letter represents ts, sh, shch, ch, zh. Drives me crazy.
Can't it be both? Make them both go.
Feb 13 β White House on Noem, in a statement: βThe President continues to have full confidence in the Secretary.β
Mar 6 β White House on Bondi, in a statement: βThe President has full faith in the Attorney General.β
Start the clock.
He only speaks Butch Complex in the "Little Dick Complex" dialect.
Wow. That's a really good way of looking at it! "maybe this interesting tangent would be better elsewhere!"
Most need an editor to help shape prose.
99% never get one. The appalling prose I've edited in my day (for basic business communications). I was taught by a very special woman (though I didn't know it at the time) in about 1979 how to write cogently.
Best skill anyone ever taught me.
Fuck that damage. This is precisely the right time and place.
She could've walked out giving two middle fingers and said
"YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!I TOLD YOU THIS WAS COMING BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN TO ME."
And it would've STILL been the right time and place.
No. America wouldn't listen to the smart woman AGAIN.
THEY FUCKING TOLD YOU AND YOU IGNORED THEM.
AT. YOUR. PERIL.
He's a cuckold. He probably gets off on it. It's a pretty common fetish.
Nothing to be ashamed of.
The polling they're showing him is called the QBC-Madeup Poll. It has a 63% margin of error.
No. It's not. But it's still funny.
They were blamed for things like outbreaks of disease but mostly they were envied for the money they lent to the English crown.
Hatred of Jews has always been used as a political weapon.
I would watch Mark Rylance read the phone book. His Cromwell was sublime. I have yet to watch the final series on TV because I know how it ends (obviously he dies) and I don't want to watch him be humiliated. I read the 3rd novel.
England kicked all the Jews out in the reign of Edward I in 1290. They had four months to leave the country. The first European state to do it.
The entire Reformation was about murdering people over which flavor of Jesus was 'right.' Reading Hilary Mantel's great novels reminds us all of this.