Saw it when I was about 8. Scared the heck out of me.
I was born in 1954, the year of rock & roll and Brown v. Board. I retired from 25 years as a Spanish teacher in 2019. I now spend my days and nights reading, hiking, playing chaotic electronic music, and chasing deep sky objects with my telescope.
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Saw it when I was about 8. Scared the heck out of me.
They told us that if we took more than 3 ounces of toothpaste on a plane, the terrorists would win.
The hot seat!
I simply cannot imagine him with a cart of groceries, standing in a checkout line. Heck, I can’t even imagine him microwaving a bowl of soup!
“Trust me! I’m a Christian!”
My 5th grade teacher was Mrs. Corbett. From her I learned that both the Sumerians and the Norse used runic alphabets, that Eratosthenes demonstrated that the Earth is round, and that the first place where steel was forged was Africa. This was in the south, in the 1960s. She was extraordinary.
"Dedos del pie" (toes) literally translates to "fingers of the foot". Spanish speakers have a word (or several!) for everything.
Himmler started out as a chicken farmer.
I was a teacher for 25 years. I can spot it when someone had someone else do their work for them. I have built-in radar for that.
She has a good dad.
Dial my contempt for Vance up a few notches.
It’s about just one thing all the way through. And no caps lock.
Well, this ought to clinch him a Nobel for Stirring Up Trouble. They have one for that, don’t they?
Um...I don't think that's the world's first flying car.
I swear, if he gets any smarter it will probably give him a headache!
They know stuff.
You seem determined to annoy me, so I'm going to mute and block you. You're welcome.
Never did get that alligator lizards reference. I just assumed LSD.
Those immigrants are going to have to walk somewhat briskly for a few minutes if they hope to get away from him!
We have a nest of those on our front porch right now.
The two of them are standing behind a camel, pushing with all their might. Who’d have thought that a needle’s eye would be so small?
Made me cry.
It sure is embarrassing being human sometimes.
And Scout!
Sounds like Tech Bro Paradise. I’m going to go feed the cat and make breakfast now.
Melania? I didn’t know that there was a Nobel for paid escorts.
I grew up in the south. A lot of kids were not allowed to play with my sisters and me because our family was branded as “ n****r-lovers”. I’m proud of that.
If you want to go live on Mars have at it. If you survive the journey you’ll quite likely die shortly after your arrival. If that’s your idea of a good time, who am I to argue?
Our cat does that when she sees a crow. No other birds, just crows.
I’m an atheist but I don’t care when or where religious people pray. Just don’t force me to participate and we’ll get along just fine.
And raw milk; lots of raw milk.
I don’t wish anything upon anyone other than what is required to pay, in full, their karmic debt.
Paper straws. Don’t forget the paper straws. Those things strike abject fear into the hearts of MAGAs who, for some weird reason, identify as “male”.
So he’s saying we should take advice from people who don’t know what they’re talking about? Questions about English grammar? Ask Sarah Palin. Marriage counseling? That would be Hegseth. How to be successful in business? The president himself is your go-to guy for that one.
I think the Tr*mp “library” is just an box of old, dog-eared Penthouse and Playboy magazines from the’70s. He only bought them for the articles.
When I saw them in Boston in 1981, this was the song they opened with.
She ought to sue whoever wrote that headline for revealing to the world that she's Kash Patel's girlfriend. That doesn't seem like the kind of information she would want circulating.
He looks like a bust of Mel Gibson carved out of poop.
He's probably saying that because RFQ promised a cure for baldness by October.
Every day is "Opposites Day" in Magastan!
A purrs snatcher!
I'm fine with using telescopes and probes to learn what's out there and where we came from, but given the absolute lack of respect and caring we've shown for this planet, I say we have absolutely no business going to other planets.
I'm told this God fellow is omnipotent, which means he can do anything, which means he can stop mass shootings, but he chooses not to. What should I pray for? That he stop being an uncaring asshole?
We had better be careful, lest Collins pull out the big guns and start glowering.
Vine Deloria Jr., the Native American writer and historian once said that, after WWII, survivors of the Holocaust should have been given the Rhineland, rather than taking land away from the Palestinians. The people who committed the crime should have given land as compensation to their victims.
Let me guess--they're picking iceberg lettuce.
How does she maintain an upright posture without a spine?
Looks like a few folks need to take their satire detectors in for recalibration.
Just wait a few minutes. She’s bound to say something even more fucked up.
It was a hoot watching a bunch of billionaires sitting around a table talking about what great pals they are to working people.
How would metal detectors INSIDE a school prevent someone shooting from OUTSIDE a church?
Wasn’t he shooting from outside the building?
Mission Im-paws-sible!
I do.
Rumor has it that she raised BOTH of her eyebrows.
Not only that, but don't you think it's kind of weird that 47 hates Taylor Swift and Seth Myers more than he hates the guy who (allegedly) tried to kill him?
Actually, I'm having a pretty good day, but that orange guy just made it a tiny bit better. Thanks, orange guy! (No, not YOU, 47! I meant the LIKABLE orange guy.)
Thank you for smiles and laughter. They are so welcome in these dark times.
Hey, guys, if you're not too busy, I saw some McDonald's wrappers in a nearby park. You think maybe you could go clean it up? Be all that you can be!
I don't pray, but if I did I would be praying that 47 is taking medical advice from RFQ.
Be all that you can be!
This country is starting to smell like North Korea.
And it's a safe bet that every one of his killers was sitting in church the Sunday after the murder.
We live right on a bike path (it crosses our driveway) and it scares me how fast some of those e-bikes zip by. It’s only a matter of time before something tragic happens. I’m not anti-e-bike but I don’t think they should be weaving through bike and pedestrian traffic at 30 mph. Use the road.
Great song, great album. My favorite track is “Don’t Hang Up”.
Collins is holding out hope that the virus will have “learned its lesson” and will stop infecting people.
That was really good except for the part where he insulted hogs.
A guy who thinks it’s mathematically possible to lower prices 1500% shouldn’t be allowed near a national economy.
If you see ANYONE from this regime looking at children, be it in an airport or anywhere else, call Child Protective Services immediately!
American women should pull a Lysistrata on the patriarchy. No sex until MAGA is 100% gone.
Don’t forget the bullet-proof book bags. Those are actually a thing in America now.
If we could somehow stop the madness right this second, there is already more damage than we can ever fully repair. Not that we shouldn’t try (WE MUST!), but this nation is never going to be the same again.
I think some of the White House tour guides are adults, but they clocked out hours ago.
They put the Cracker back in in corporate franchise dining!
I wonder where this "male loneliness syndrome" comes from?
"Socialism, political system that essentially mirrors the teachings of Jesus on a widespread socio-economic level, though that idea is rejected by both followers of Jesus and followers of socialism." --The Onion Book of Known Knowledge
Yeah, but it's murder what she can do to a 1.75-litre bottle of Smirnoff.
I've said too much already.
He’s a shoo-in for a Nobel after getting Cracker Barrel to go back to their old logo. In fact, I’m amazed he didn’t get one for banning paper straws.
Not sure what the MAGAs were so undie-bunched about. The company left “Cracker” in the name.
OK, when Trey f***ing Gowdy starts making sense, maybe it’s time to address the problem.
I don’t care what anyone says. It’s a great song.
I already married the most beautiful woman who ever lived. Where can I go from there?
I’m vegan and I have Celiac Disease. I’d probably die if I ate anything on their menu.
Someone should buy him lunch!
I lost my music partner and very dear friend to cancer in March. It still hurts. You’re right-/fuck cancer.
What, no “Merry Christmas“?
Hey, if he doesn't get the Nobel for getting Cracker Barrel to go back to its old logo, then I don't believe in NOTHIN' no more!
They would appear to be slightly less out of touch with reality, which is to say that it would be a step UP for them.
The guy should get a medal. He sacrificed his dinner to help make America free.
I've never seen Mace get this upset over someone who WASN'T going to the bathroom.
NYT to SC: "Hey, you're enabling the president's power grab. That's OUR job!"
That's the kind of joke that a fun guy would make!
Having worked as a janitor myself in my youth, my heart goes out to the poor custodial staff who had to clean up that room after the meeting. I hope they were wearing gloves and masks and had LOTS of disinfectant.
