Gardening in Memphis. Born in the first Eisenhower administration. IT pro since punch cards. Dudeist priest. Pragmatic progressive. Not always a fan of homo sapiens. "Keep your heart as open as a shrine You'll sail the perfect line" -Bob Seger
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She's a Senator. Not governor yet, and hopefully never. Marsha Blackburn is a jumped-up lady-who-lunches. I can't stand our other senator either (Bill Hagerty), but I have gotten responsive responses when I email him about issues, which is more than I can say about Missy Marsha.
If Donald were going after crime, he should have done something to stop gerrymandering.
The Republican super-majority in the state legislature is forever passing bills designed to damage Nashville and Memphis. Ex: okay for anyone to open carry. Okay to take loaded guns into bars. Okay to leave loaded guns in your cars (and guess what that has done to the crime rate?) -->
It's true, I am a sad spectacle. The problem isn't that I don't know any music, it's that they don't play the music I know.
I got it, too! Heardle 1970s #1212 🔈⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩⬜️⬜️ #Heardle70s #Music #Heardle #70s 70s.heardledecades.com
Argh. Yet another Not Available.
Double nope. I really should skip everything past the 80s. Heardle 1990s #1207 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle90s #90sMusic #Heardle @heardledecades 90s.heardledecades.com
I thought I had the artist but didn't know the song. Instead, it's a double nope. Heardle 1980s #1227 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle80s #Heardle #80s #music heardle80s.com
Another not available!
Not available, dagnabit.
Nope. Heardle 1990s No. 1s #150 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle #90s #Number1s #music 90s-no1s.heardledecades.com
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Nope! Heardle 1970s No. 1s #93 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle #70s #Number1s #music 70s-no1s.heardledecades.com
Happy dance! Heardle USA No. 1s #905 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #HeardleUSA #USAChartToppers #Billboard #Music #Heardle usa.heardledecades.com
Double nope. Heardle Australia #414 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Heardle #Australia #Music aus.heardledecades.com
Well, now we know why he's taken to wearing a hat all the time. I figured he was hiding something. Pott's Puffy Tumor? my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...
Reset the brick border, cleaned many weeds, replanted the native sedges that I had to dig up to get to the weeds.
✨Happy 901 Day✨
I'm not convinced that he recognizes the existence of other people as *people*. Everyone who is not him is just a human-shaped thingy that he is entitled to use and abuse to feed his narcissism.
It's a version of Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
🧵Solidarity Sunday -The Immigrant Pantry Update This week, our community came together to deliver 13 deliveries and feed 67 people. That brings our grand totals to 58 deliveries and 258 people fed through this effort. 💛 We also provided diapers and formula to families with babies under a year.
The Redbirds claim the interleague series victory 4-2.
"In a Truth Social post". Well, that has unbounded credibility. What is the reporter smoking? Or who is paying her?
Last night I dreamed that I was kicking Trump's decapitated head around like a soccer ball. This was odd since I don't play soccer. Every time I kicked it, it made an orange splat on the ground, like kicking decapitated heads when you're invisible in the 1997 video game "Blood". I miss that game.
He wants to be in the Dictators' Club, and He wants to be known as a peacemaker and get the Nobel Peace Prize, and He wants to go to heaven. Um ... Yeah, no.
"A little list ..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXfk...
He's never lived as a human being. He might be a physical manifestation of one of the Evil Things in World of Warcraft. They do tend to be pretty destructive.
Nurses say that RFKJr must be removed from office immediately before he kills again. www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
I like it!
Trump's difficulty in reaching Heaven seems to me to be caused by the fact that he is not doing a single thing to orient his soul in that direction.
"Shut the fuck up, Donny, you're out of your element!" Is grifting an ethos?
The line was crossed when Trump sent the military into Los Angeles.
We abide for all, man.
I keep seeing all these horrible things that the Republicans are doing, and my little brain says, "That's it, that's enough, I want to go home!" Then I remember that I am home. Shit.
I make typos. But I try to proofread before I post. Does that let me off paying for your house?
I must say that I don't see a problem with the paint or the quality of the applique. The problem is that he did it in THE WHITE HOUSE.
Home Depot sells Rust-Oleum gold spray paint for $6.98 a can. -Real flakes of metal leafing for a rich, shiny finish -Fast drying, decorative paint provides a trendy, metallic look -Metallic spray paint covers up to 12 sq. ft., interior use only www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum...
"Nothing can stop what's coming" You mean, congestive heart failure? Leg amputation? Stroke? Kidney and liver failure?
Liberation Day! "Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come." (from *The Big Chill*, referring to a wake.)
Well, huh. Thought I was going to know it, but double nope. ReHeardle #850 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #ReHeardle #Heardle #Music reheardle.xyz
Not available. This is always annoying when it's not available, but it's the era in which I have a cat's chance of knowing the music.
Oh, that's country. Heardle 1970s #1210 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle70s #Music #Heardle #70s 70s.heardledecades.com
Way past my era!
Pass; past my era.
Oh. Heardle 1980s #1225 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle80s #Heardle #80s #music heardle80s.com
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Well there's a blast from the past! Heardle 1960s #1206 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle60s #Music #Heardle #60s 60s.heardledecades.com
Got it from the lyrics. Heardle 1950s #911 🔈⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩⬜️⬜️ #Heardle50s #1950s #Music #Heardle 50s.heardledecades.com
Don't know it. I think I've heard of the artist, unless I'm confusing them with someone else. It's tough being old. Heardle 1980s No. 1s #1166 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle80s #Number1s #Heardle #80s 80s.heardledecades.com
Double nope. Heardle USA No. 1s #903 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #HeardleUSA #USAChartToppers #Billboard #Music #Heardle usa.heardledecades.com
I still don't know it, but this was on the heardle roster just a day or two ago, so I remembered enough to guess accurately. Heardle UK No. 1s #904 🔈⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟩 #HeardleUK #UKChartToppers #Music #Heardle uk.heardledecades.com
Double nope. Heardle Australia #412 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Heardle #Australia #Music aus.heardledecades.com
Pass; don't know the genre.
Sounds SO much like a different famous song, but I got it wrong the other day, so this time I remembered what it was after I guessed wrong. Heardle Rock #914 🔉🟥🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #HeardleRock #Rock #Music #Heardle rock.heardledecades.com
I don't know why I can never get this one early. Goodness knows Heardle plays it often enough. Heardle Pop! #572 🔈⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 #Heardle #pop #popmusic #music #HeardlePop pop.heardledecades.com
Heardle GRLPWR! #447 🔈⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩⬜ #Heardle #GRLPWR #Music #Game female.heardledecades.com
Didn't recognize it, and absolutely loathe it for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the song or the artist. Heardle Love Songs #566 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Heardle #Love #LoveSongs #Music love.heardledecades.com
Recognized the voice immediately and got it from the lyric, but I've never heard or heard of it. Heardle Covers #756 🔈⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 #Heardle #Covers #HeardleCovers #Music covers.heardledecades.xyz
"Emotionally unstable" would be a perfect description for what I've heard about many of them! Yep. The hypocrisy is exasperating. I should love to rewrite the 2nd amendment to clarify the linkage between "bearing arms" and being part of a trained and orderly ("well-regulated") militia.
--> Finally 5. I am willing to accept that you have some attachment to Julia Bradbury and feel protective of her, or are just having a bad day, and took it out on me.
--> 4. It seems possible that you have never been in the position of being the actual "special snowflake" and had medical professionals treat you like a chicken in a poultry processing plant -- forget what lay people say. If you had, you might be more careful about saying "chip on shoulder". -->
--> 2. Julia Bradbury claims to speak for everyone who has ever had cancer. That's an appalling thing to do. It's also cruel and dangerous. 3. Your first response began by insulting me, followed by telling me I am rude and to stop being so. Do you not see the hypocrisy? -->
Thank you for your good wishes. However, as you do not seem able to respond to me without attacking me, let's get few things clear. 1. I have never heard of Julia Bradbury and I don't know why you felt the need to defend her. -->
When someone declares that EVERYONE has the exact same response to an experience, and publicizes that declaration, they are being both ignorant and arrogant. It is beyond rude to claim to speak for "everyone".
But I've never been under the impression that the human body is perfectable or that if you do this, that, or the other thing, you can escape all bad outcomes. Shit happens.
'the reaction is the same for everyone: when you’re told “you have cancer”, it’s shocking and terrifying beyond belief.' Bullshit. Speak for yourself. I had breast cancer. Treatment for 3 more years. Permanent damage from treatment. Diagnosis alarmed, but did NOT shock & terrify me beyond belief.
Ditto
Dictator chic can be yours at Home Depot, apparently. www.housedigest.com/1953389/whit...
Collierville and Oxford played one of the wackiest high school football games of the season on Friday night.
"Easy access to firearms" really just means "lives in the US". :-) I'd disagree with "mentally unstable" if you mean "has a mental illness". Too often violence is blamed on mental illness, when it's really just evil.
I only know this because it was a plot point in one of my favorite tv shows. Never heard it before then. Heardle Greatest Hits #637 🔈⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩⬜ #Heardle #GreatestHits #Music hits.heardledecades.xyz
Double nope. Heardle 1970s #1209 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #Heardle70s #Music #Heardle #70s 70s.heardledecades.com
Nope. Heardle Super 70s #742 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Heardle #Super70s #Music #1970s super70s.heardledecades.xyz
Not available.
I guessed. Heardle USA No. 1s #902 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ #HeardleUSA #USAChartToppers #Billboard #Music #Heardle usa.heardledecades.com
Oh, I was way off on this one. Heardle Canada #411 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛🟥⬛ #Heardle #Canada #Music canada.heardledecades.com
Nope! Heardle Australia #411 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Heardle #Australia #Music aus.heardledecades.com
I know the song, just not the intro. Phooey. Heardle Soft Rock #266 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Heardle #SoftRock #Music soft.heardledecades.com
Heardle Rock #913 🔇⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ #HeardleRock #Rock #Music #Heardle rock.heardledecades.com
I decided to not bother with genres of which I know nothing.
Double nope. Heardle 1 Hit Wonders #749 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Heardle #1HitWonders #Music wonders.heardledecades.xyz
Can't believe I missed that. Heardle Love Songs #565 🔇⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Heardle #Love #LoveSongs #Music love.heardledecades.com
Ha! Heardle Pride #821 🔉⬛⬛🟩⬜⬜⬜ #Heardle #Pride #LGBTQ pride.heardledecades.xyz
Yup, and here it is.
Canada has always been a perfect neighbor and our best friend. Trump's betrayal of our relationship alone would be enough to send him to purgatory, and he's done so much more.
Trump is 10 days older than I am. If he can cause as much mayhem as he does every day, the least I can do is make a bit of good trouble every day. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-retire
🎙 Checking on the Arts | Darel Snodgrass spoke with Opera Memphis General Director Ned Canty, along with two of this year’s Handorf Company Artists — soprano Tina O’Malley and mezzo-soprano Perri di Christina — about the program and its impact.
Yup. Gotta celebrate slavery and all the career paths it opened for enslaved people. Now please excuse me for a few minutes so I can find a wall to beat my head against.
Reminds me of a line from an Asimov novel, along the lines of the second instance shows that two occurrences are irrational and cannot exist. Means: One instance could be unique, an anomaly. Two instances mean there have to be more. The book referred to parallel universes, but this works for me.
The Lincoln Project guys talked about it. Start at 38:00. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Ya...
Seems there's a 50/50 chance he'll be president before 2026.
Isn't there a vacant ambassadorship RFK Jr can be moved to? I don't think we've sent anyone to Ruritania. If there, RFK Jr. could host Trump in the castle at Zenda. Trump would love it. It has a moat, and a pipe for dumping bodies into the moat.
That's going to end well. Brits just love it when foreigners tell them what to do, and they rush to oblige.
I have a dear friend who is a devout Lutheran (and somewhat left of Bernie Sanders). she prays much, and to her, prayer works when the prayed-for thing happens. She also does everything in her power to work for the desired outcome. Practical as well as devout.
What is it prayer does when it "works", according to people like Leavitt?
Women aren't people? That tracks with the Orange Regime and other Republicans.
Do we have a way of comparing his pre-worm brain to his post-worm brain? We might be being unfair to the worm.
OMG 1984.
I've never heard that quote, but I'm glad to know it. It's so true of the time in which we live.
Mitochondria? Ooh! Ooh! It's that thingy in the cells and it has its own DNA and it's only passed down from the mother so geneticists can trace us back to Eve, right? Right? Can I be head of HHR now?