Within a month after getting his rabies vaccine, my dog became nonverbal.
Within a month after getting his rabies vaccine, my dog became nonverbal.
It’s also worth asking families why they are picking up with cars. Do they perceive the bus as unsafe? They say some kids live very nearby: could some of those walk or bike? Is police violence or kidnapping a concern?
Of course! My credit union often annoys me but I don’t suspect them of taking unfair advantage of me.
What is it tracking?
My credit union did something similar. I joined D— fed credit union. Then it merged with bigger R— FCU and took its name. Ok. Then many credit unions merged with M Valley FCU and took *its* name. After most open credit unions in region merged, they collectively changed the name to a random noun.
Trump is standing in front at the moment, but he isn’t leading. It’s not like he *wrote* Project 2025. If some other figurehead takes over the Federalist Society + the Heritage Foundation + Putin etc etc etc will still be going strong. Best you can say of Vance is he’s likely to stay bought.
Get well, Mr. Mayor. Whoever did this is dethpicable.
Hands you an orchid or a glass of milk or whatever you find suitably encouraging
The post that kicked off the argument was from an American racist sneering at the idea of chicken tikka masala being British. He said it was as absurd as calling Mexican food “American food.” (Tex-Mex was invented in America. He might not like Texas, but it’s ours.)
Also, every food bank needs money. They can buy what’s needed that week, get bulk discounts, and pay their electric bill.
Someday we’ll find it The rainbow reflection The lovers, the dreamers, and me
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
I'm a little disappointed ICE hasn't managed to Storrow one of their U-Hauls in Boston yet
It’s so frustrating, but it does appear to be correct. I’ve given up on the “mask everywhere because only idiots go anywhere unmasked!!” and shifted to “please mask in medical spaces and rooms where I am,” and “while we’re talking about health, masking in crowded spaces is a great idea!”
This is all true. Among its many other problems it feeds toxic masculinity. If feminists say “Men are inherently dangerous. They endanger women by their nature, regardless of their actions. Women and girls should be protected. Men and boys should not…some men are going to believe it.
And if you invade Persia, a great empire will fall.
There was a book about murder and math and quilting by Imogen Quy. “A Piece of Justice”
Tey’s academic mystery is “Miss Pym Disposes.” It’s slightly icky about lesbians and phrenology, but otherwise charming.
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I think a lot of it is religious. One of the roots of MAGA is evangelical. While they might kick a trans child out of their home, they would likely want a cis ally around in order to be an ongoing target of conversion efforts
Nah. We want visitors. We can just make everyone wear masks and get vaccinated, and that will scare the MAGAs away.
Cassidy voted to confirm Kennedy. McConnell (!!!) voted against him, because Mitch has been limping around with a deep appreciation of vaccines since he had polio as a kid.
In the war on cancer, they take the side of cancer against treatment and research and prevention. In the war against food poisoning, they take the side of bacteria and viruses
You’ve probably already thought of this, but HEPA filters, N95 masks, and rinsing my nose are pretty good protection against the airborne ones. I hate when I need to mask outdoors, though.
They side with fire against firefighters. They side with cancer against both prevention and cures.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
I absolutely want to wade into that! Radical movements are led by risk takers. Many are sexually adventurous, especially when young. Hippies and artists and theater people and activists had very strong hookup culture, partly to show each other they were rejecting mainstream respectability.
We lost so many. The survivors skewed to the timid ones who followed the rules. Not like the boomers, who were more likely to survive the Vietnam war if their families were rich.
The Ugandan government could decide to accept him. Or his home country could decide not to accept him. Deporting just means “away” not “back where you came from.” That’s how they can deport stateless people.
Was that based on the book by Rumer Godden? I once read all her work I could get my hands on, then about 4 of her books stuck in my head for decades. (Not that one, I would have sworn.)
I thought it was supposed to read “We prize and we will maintain our rights and our liberties.” But it also cries to the world: A mighty eagle is our graphic designer, please send help.
Secondary ID to prove what, exactly? Permission to use the library? Residence? School enrollment?
Does it burn silently and very fast?
My understanding is that Hegseth drinks because it’s a day ending in Y. Dunno if he’d be any less of a vicious incompetent bigoted misogynist if he were sober, but I doubt we’ll ever find out.
The interviews and background checks are to make sure they’re the Right Sort of criminals.
It’s been a while, but it looks like time for his soul to go marching on again
That’s brilliant. It reminds me of when she interviewed Jim Henson and had to apologize for the poor sound quality at the end of the interview because of the microphone being aimed at Kermit.
One day, there was a personal ad in the back of the paper, asking Pepper for a date. Quite a serious romantic invitation, with hope of puppies! The human writing the ad didn’t realize Pepper had no hope of puppies. I hope they enjoyed some long walks on the beach together, at least. 3/3
I used to know a grad student who kept her Dalmatian in her office during the day and they played frisbee between classes. Everyone knew Pepper was a good boy. (Here Pepper! Drop it, Pepper! Good boy, Pepper!) Everyone anywhere near the engineering quad heard it a lot. 2/
This reminds me of an incident at Cornell in 1990. Back in those days, people would buy a couple of lines of ad space in the back of the paper. Selling secondhand, looking for dates, lost and found, missed connections. Remember this, because it is important. 1/
Those of us on the extreme left want healthcare and food for everyone. Not just the rich and the lucky and the strong and the “deserving poor.”
Red cabbage with apples, onions, cider vinegar, and caraway seeds. Cook uncovered or it will be soup
Apple frittata, with or without sautéed onions, seasoned with garam masala.
National Guard members didn’t sign up to be secret police. Recruiters sell the picture of getting called up to help after hurricanes or earthquakes, and getting help from the GI Bill latter.
There *are* methods of making billions of people change their mind. They’ve always used mass media PR in the past. (Henry Ford, Coke, NYT, Rupert Murdoch.) But we are in an propaganda war and I don’t think we should surrender just because we aren’t winning yet
Thank you!
Clark Kent was a superhero, but it shouldn’t be a job requirement
This thread is magnificent. It reminds me of some of the Midnight Pals inside jokes about Joanne the talking snake who lived in a castle and plotted evil. I never understood the references to her attorney having pasta in her briefcase.
Are you proud of yourselves, @TheGuardian? You worked so hard, for so long, to make this happen.
The short answer is Reagan
3 writers are staying in to compete against him, including Avi Ben-Zeev (who wrote “Calling My Deadname Home” and just posted to Instagram that the Polari organizers should please disqualify Boyne but he personally is not going to silence himself.)
Dude, if you’re that concerned about traffic safety, regulating those 8-foot tall SUVs with enormous blind spots would be a whole lot more efficient than sending the National Guard in after kids doing wheelies.
A Wrinkle in Time! (It was serialized in a children’s magazine, so I remember starting in the middle.) A lot of short stories by Alan Nourse. When I couldn’t find any more I went on to read all the Andre Norton books the library had on the same shelf.
“Tactical” is a magic word that’s supposed to work against girl-cooties. Having everything you might need in your purse is feminine. EDC culture can tie itself in knots to make it look like they aren’t doing anything like that, nope nopity nope.
Code Name Verity. There is courage and humor and friendship, and scary parts because Nazis. It’s best if your first read is completely unspoiled (without even reading the back cover) though it’s still good if you know the ending. I’ve reread it many times.
Or because she was the same race and neighborhood of a lot of immigrants who lack documents
Sure, a congressional hearing can question Clinton for days on end, and have everyone talking about her in the context of other people’s crimes, but I truly do not care if it ruins her chances to be elected president next year.
Even the classic test of “How does he treat the waitress?” is not a reliable gauge of whether a person wants me or some of my neighbors dead.
Of course! It’s just that pressure from Disney is one of the few forces that restrains the government from shutting down tourism
It’s “up to $15,000.” Tourists from some countries are exempt, at their discretion. So the Europeans going to Disney can say “Pretty please, waive the $15,000 fee and let us pay only $500,” and Disney can limp along without going out of business.
Only ten years? Oh. That’s when they started calling themselves MAGA. Some of those same conservative bigots were attacking gay and trans people in similar ways since before I was born.
There are many reasons to attack Abbot. Insulting his wheelchair use, specifically, does collateral damage to other wheelchair users. “Trump is vicious to random bystanders too!” isn’t a reason to do the same
3 songs? Sunny day, chasing the clouds away. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Boston Mass 02134
Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme.
You seem to be saying that women of that class had really big closets
Might not be right for you, but it’s common to charge a no-show fee for therapy, lessons, etc. They set aside time for you when they aren’t working with other clients. Sometimes only if cancel last minute, but this kind of group therapy can’t just sub in a person from the wait list if you cancel.
They’re all shortbread, but the pretzel shaped ones have a higher ratio of outside (more crunchy, w crystal sugar) to inside (softer, more cakey) than the round ones. It’s a more subtle version of the question about whether you prefer corner or center brownies.
Have any of you made Laurie Colwin’s Tomato Pie with vegan cheese? Which cheese? I know the cheese helps the bottom crust not fall apart, so did it work?
I don’t believe you could do the whole thing, but you could certainly do a little self-contained story like “Borders of Infinity”
They might measure gender better than they measure anything else, but they still don’t measure gender well enough to use a bathroom at Brown
It’s not that simple. He is also stopping research into new vaccines and funding for vaccination of poor children.
Even if some writers do make sales here, that doesn’t mean a person who feels uncomfortable here should stay. I’m sure there are better things you could be doing with your time.
The pigeons are SO envious
Based on demographics, I expect they buy them for their teen daughters.
Bitch eating crackers
Senator majority leader John Thune represents South Dakota, and he has the head of a dead Dakota bison on the wall of his office. They’re protesting in his office because he’s majority leader (McConnell stepped down from that job though he’s still a senator.)
Did you have the background context that Dr. G is an eye dr?
No. AL only has death penalty for kidnapping if the kidnapper kills the victim. Kidnapping adults has a penalty of 2-20 years in prison, if victims are released. When cops imagine guns everywhere, they are even quicker to shoot first and ask questions later. This helps nobody.
Not in my experience. I have one on my hat, which has received compliments from a JW who hands out pamphlets around here
That was an amazingly tame statement of religion. The atheist response was so strong I had been expecting something way more altar-call-ish
I think of that subset of atheists as evangelical atheists. They have a detailed and specific set of beliefs about religion that they care about passionately and want everyone to share. I think it sometimes derives from political abuse rather than the personal kind
95% survival is certainly better than 80% or even 90%. But a 5% death rate is a LOT. One out of every kindergarten class. It’s enough to fill a community with grieving parents.
That doesn’t even account for the protective effects of measles or hepatitis A vaccines, because those aren’t given before 1 year. It would be better for surviving to second birthday. (Though the risk of accidents is higher for toddlers than babies, so the stats are different.)
It also includes news stories about Epstein. (They don’t say “overly graphic.” They don’t say “without redeeming social importance.”) It’s just a long non-exhaustive list with the kind of vicious penalties that are designed to cause over-compliance
Relative cost as well as relative time: I can buy a roast chicken from the grocery for the same price as washing and drying a load of laundry in the basement of my apartment building. Grandma didn’t pay per gallon for water or sewage. HER grandma sent laundry out the second she could afford to
“Watch the field behind the plow Turn to straight, dark, rows. Feel the trickle in your toes. Blow the dust cake from your nose Hear the tractors’ steady roar, No, you can’t stop now. There’s victory in every quarter mile.” Whose victory, Stan? The desert’s?
It’s probably safer for the kids that they don’t come. Venezuelan teens might listen to gangsta rap or buy a Chicago Bulls hat if they change planes at O’Hare. Or might talk to other Venezuelan teens.
Staying away from the United States is certainly prudent! Tourists should go elsewhere, but some in the comics business would lose a lot of money if they stayed away. I understand why they take the risk. And it’s not like LA or NYC are safer than SD. If you’re there, best to support others.
I don’t know if they’re coming for geeks as such. They could just be coming for people who look or sound like they might be foreigners. People with accents, dark skin. Hotel staff, art dealers,
More significantly, he can’t tell the truth.
How To Spread An Epidemic: part 3 Parts 1 and 2 were reducing vaccination and reducing access to health care (especially among people who live or work in crowded conditions.)
I’m old enough to remember when bitcoin was supposed to solve that problem. :-(
What do you mean by “speculative intent?” If it means “speculating in interesting directions I like,” that would rule out Rand but it doesn’t seem like a useful genre definition.
Nothing with that side effect profile would be called the “ultimate” treatment, but I agree that a lot of nicotine users were self-medicating ADHD.
It doesn’t show the Green Line Extension through the Shire. Yet. (It’s wonderful!)
#MorningEarworm is breakfast-y.
I’ve been wearing a mask in London all week (as a cautious traveler who lives with somebody immunocompromised) and people have been treating me like I myself am deathly ill. A bit odd. Though convenient to be offered seats.
I’ve heard of many different kinds of alternative therapies. Not this one. I wonder how insurance codes it, and if you have to get prior approval for conventional care (or for the epi-pen to go with the horse.)
I am annoyed at how accessible the British National Gallery isn’t. Broken lifts, long walks to lifts, museum guides who have no idea where a lift might be. And a toilet labeled as accessible (with the little wheelchair icon), reachable with a small flight of stairs.
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