This sucks. The town I grew up in, ran in to a similar issue because they had a municipal utility, so when the transmission lines went down after a big storm, the larger utility said “that outage only affects a single customer” not realizing that that customer was a whole town of 12,000 people

Sometimes your cat wants a cat of his own

Only to discover that what is called a river on a map of Arizona only has actual water in it for about two months in the spring

I also remember reading about a camp in Arizona where a group of German officers considered it their duty to attempt to escape. They got out of the camp with a jury rigged collapsible canoe and made their way to the nearest river, expecting to float down to the Rio Grande …

There apparently were a bunch of escapes, but they were generally picked up the same day at the county fair.

There was a POW camp in New Ulm near where Tera grew up, because there were a lot of German speakers in the area. The joke was that the camp only had a fence to keep the local women out.

It means a big gap, filled with empty space!
It’s a content-free vacuity!!!

Cap barely squeaked out a win in Somerville in that election. Just looked it up and he won Somerville by 150 votes out of ~17,000 cast. (And of course he got trounced in the rest of the district)

Warren never ran against a Democratic incumbent. She was unopposed in the primary to run against Scott Brown.

A good bottle of red wine, a large hunk of red meat and A Lion in Winter has been a holiday tradition for us for some years now. This years wine was a suitably Aquitainian Latour, since we didn’t have an Angevin Loire red to hand

Joe, I regret to inform you that the younger part of the democratic base doesn’t remember anything before 2015 and the gerontocratic leadership doesn’t remember anything after 2001

And this has happened within recent memory! "I'm the guy who always said invading Iraq was bad" was a huge part of Obama's case for why he was better than Clinton, and why he won a race that everyone assumed was sewed up for Clinton before it even started!

I'm pretty sure we had a replica of the hippo in our house when I was growing up

"...and with thy spirit"

Some time in the next 12-168 hours

Also, if you don't want to make calls, but you're good at Zoom and patiently helping the tech-unsavvy with their problems, we could also use tech support people. DM me if you're interested.

What if I’m cancelling my WaPo subscription but I already back Ranged Touch on Patreon?