The Magdalen Writing
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I have a doctorate in English literature and work in a library, which probably explains everything you are about to read. Proud member of Vatican II's Lost Generation.
I hope he gets primaried out from the left.
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I hope he gets primaried out from the left.
Obviously not the same thing but any time anyone brings up cats and Christmas I remember this one.
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Obviously not the same thing but any time anyone brings up cats and Christmas I remember this one.
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." If it was good enough for Mark Twain ...
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." If it was good enough for Mark Twain ...
(With all due sympathy to those whose bodily or mental states deteriorate during cold weather/winter darkness, of course. But I absolutely would aestivate through SE Pennsylvania summers if I could.)
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
(With all due sympathy to those whose bodily or mental states deteriorate during cold weather/winter darkness, of course. But I absolutely would aestivate through SE Pennsylvania summers if I could.)
The secular media keeps noting Coakley, Flores, and Barron as frontrunners which, if their approach to papal elections is anything to go by, means that the Holy Spirit has one of the other seven guys in mind.
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The secular media keeps noting Coakley, Flores, and Barron as frontrunners which, if their approach to papal elections is anything to go by, means that the Holy Spirit has one of the other seven guys in mind.
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Believe you me, I was imagining someone without my resources in that situation and getting even more angry at anyone who thinks we need to light the health insurance hoops Americans jump through on fire to prevent “waste and abuse.”
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Believe you me, I was imagining someone without my resources in that situation and getting even more angry at anyone who thinks we need to light the health insurance hoops Americans jump through on fire to prevent “waste and abuse.”
My disabled brother got booted off my mom’s insurance after my dad died and it took me eight months of fighting two different bureaucracies to get him reinstated. And I’m a healthy adult with the spoons to fight and the money to hire a lawyer to help (didn’t have to but was ready to) …
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
My disabled brother got booted off my mom’s insurance after my dad died and it took me eight months of fighting two different bureaucracies to get him reinstated. And I’m a healthy adult with the spoons to fight and the money to hire a lawyer to help (didn’t have to but was ready to) …
Save Dr. Seuss. Boycott Walmart. #booksky #angryreader
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Save Dr. Seuss. Boycott Walmart. #booksky #angryreader
Which, of course, they haven’t bothered to read. CHRISTMAS DOESN’T COME FROM A STORE, YOU ILLITERATE LICKSPITTLES.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Which, of course, they haven’t bothered to read. CHRISTMAS DOESN’T COME FROM A STORE, YOU ILLITERATE LICKSPITTLES.
I’m now imagining Walmart’s marketing department staffed with Oncelers rubbing their greedy little hands together. “We can sell commercialized Christmases forever because everyone loves Dr. Seuss’s Grinch book!”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I’m now imagining Walmart’s marketing department staffed with Oncelers rubbing their greedy little hands together. “We can sell commercialized Christmases forever because everyone loves Dr. Seuss’s Grinch book!”
By parody I mean some kind of fair-use scenario. Which is marginally better than the Geisel estate having authorized these monstrosities.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
By parody I mean some kind of fair-use scenario. Which is marginally better than the Geisel estate having authorized these monstrosities.