50 years later and not so suddenly, Church Lady is us and we are her...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McV2...

Facebook's my jam but when I post extraordinary gift articles like this, no one responds. Oh well: maybe someone here needs this right now. "Here’s the thing, David: Moving on is, in many ways, grossly overrated."
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/m...

The Biden pardon: When I was young I'd have stood on principle there, refused the pardon.

But older, I know better. Love trumps almost everything, and you don't sacrifice a child to punishment that's overwrought.
Screw your formal "legacy:" caring for others is the one that counts.

Thanksgiving crazy uncle: you.

Young couple you've just met. At a previous gathering someone asked the man "and what are your intentions?"

"So what ARE your intentions?" You think you are funny.

(They don't know you and your partner aren't married, have no intentions.)

Awkwardness ensues.

Searching for groups here, I found "Japanese Clutter" and was really excited. Because who knows what that might hold?

But no: "Japanese CLUSTER." I can guess at that, and it's probably very nice.

But not what I am looking for.

Remember when the news said "The President promised..." instead of "The President threatened..."? I'm pretty sure it's not a completely false memory.

"Unfortunately, in Real World, if you break things, actual things fall apart. Diplomatic relationships. Social safety nets. Ecological systems. Bridges."

Understanding today through yesterday, reading Margaret Atwood stories (no need for "The Handmaid's Tale." She's not the voice only for 2017. www.facebook.com/ezraklein/po...

"How simply it happens, how easily, how convincingly. Just cut off all women’s credit cards and bank cards. Just declare it illegal to employ a woman...without any new technology being invented. It's never going away." 2018, Naomi Alderman, on the terrifying perspicacity of Margaret Atwood.