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  1. The Economist regularly places end punctuation outside the quotation marks. It drives me nuts. Clearly, it’s an alternate convention, not an error (because it’s consistent). But I hate it.
  2. Making final preparations. Not too much left to do. Wife is helping preside at the 4:00 service, we’re all attending the 6:00 service tonight, I’ll be the reader for the passage from Matthew. Both kids are here. They couldn’t come home last year; the boy was stuck in Germany with visa challenges due to the backlog of applicants from the war. Yeah, our kid couldn’t come home “because of the war.” Odd phrase to be saying, but there we are. And it turned out to be our last Christmas with my father, who was gone a month later. So, we’re still digging through generations worth of their stuff. 1944. Probably somewhere in France. My grandfather spent a very cold Christmas tending to the P-47s of his unit, hoping they could get in the air to provide some much-needed air support to the troops on the ground holding off the German counteroffensive at the Bulge. A ranching man from deep South Texas, at war in Europe. A few months later, he would cross the Rhine at Worms. Today, his great-grand daughter lives and studies near the banks of the Rhine, downstream at Bonn. The world keeps turning, taking us to places, then back again. Some Christmases are peaceful reveries with family. Some are bitterly cold, in a tent (or worse), unsure of how a war will end. I’m not sure what to do with that truth. I’m glad grandpa Ted came home, and raised my mother, who had just been born in January of that year. I’m glad that our family has gone back to Germany, making friends, and a future. I don’t know what next Christmas will be like. But we have this one, right in front of us. I hope you can spend it with people you love. I hope your tent is warm, wherever it may be.
  3. My son put it more succinctly: “just treat women like human beings, and it all falls into place.” Seriously, all the dominoes fall once you do that. Have give-and-take conversations with women, treat them with respect, actually get to know them…and then it become super-easy to engage with and attract women you’re interested in because guess what? You’ve already run the drill. The boy has several female friends. They do things together, make each other laugh, trust and help each other. That’s the foundation for any healthy relationship, including an intimate one. I mean, does it frustrate me that he just thinks of that super-cute and smart Sarah from Manchester as just a friend? Sure. But the flip side of that is that she’s one of his biggest advocates, looks out for him, speaks well of him to other women, etc. The bigger umbrella problem here is what is pointed out above: these dudes have no social skills AT ALL. They can’t even engage in decent relationship with other guys.
  4. And....that's the part that Bozo etc. don't get. At the first sign of discomfort -- real or imagined, it doesn't matter, so your "empathy" and acknowledgement doesn't make a shit -- white america immediately looks for "others" to sacrifice into a volcano, throw under a bus, deport, imprison, whatever it takes.
  5. That's really all you need to know. Switch those names, and the right-wing news ecosystem would be non-stop, 24/7, in neon lights ZOMG HUNTER BIDEN!
  6. Man. This pisses me off. Mostly because there was a day when I really, really, dreamed of having some special quality time with Megyn. But going full MAGA has turned her fucking UGLY. Seriously, MAGA-ugly is ugly to the bone. There's a reason that all the MAGA women have to get the MAGA surgical makeover: MAGA makes you so fucking ugly you have to take emergency measures to counter it.
  7. Yeah. Guys. Come on. You know this already. It's actually worse than that -- TRUMP VOTERS ACTUALLY LIKE THE RAPES AND PEDOPHILIA. A REAL LEADER TAKES WHAT HE WANTS, AND TRUMP DID IT! A play in three acts: "Women like to be raped." "Women shouldn't be allowed to vote." "Why can't I find any decent women who are willing to go out with me?" Fin.
  8. Yeah....see....when y'all realize that "rapey" is a fucking QUALIFICATION, not a disqualifier, for MAGA....well, the whole movement makes a lot more sense. Alpha men take what they want, from who they want, whenever they want. Raping women, minors, whatever -- those are qualities to look for in selecting a leader. If the candidate does NOT rape women and minors, then he's too weak and woke to be MAGA.
  9. Yeah, there's only one way to fill out that bracket:
  10. Man. AI really could have seized the opportunity and bought a lot of good will with a response of "All you can eat buffet? Sure you need that, fatty?" Sez you. I'm a sucker for a gal with a supple, curvy basilar ganglia. The stupid Japanese blur them outta photos, but I've gotta source.....
  11. Hey, Cunty McCuntbrain....now try on the next level of thinking. If you were THAT FUCKING WRONG about your judgment as to the most obviously stupid, narcissist, criminal, shitty person in human history....MAYBE consider the fact that you are ALSO that fucking wrong about your political beliefs as a whole. I know, I know, I'm in fantasy land here, but that IS the next step in the logical progression. They'll never get there, because logic isn't a thing with them -- they only grasp concepts when said concepts beats them over the head till a gallon or two of their blood spills.
  12. 1) They look around, and see how utterly fucky and fucked everything is. 2) They presume "surely things weren't ALWAYS this fucked. Surely there must have been a period when things were fair and colorblind and merit-based. Surely things weren't this shitty." Women and minorities, upon hearing point 2: And.... Much like white people have started to realize that cops are by and large abusive, shitty liars who are crooked and have contempt for the rule of law, and minorities have the exact same responses as I noted above. "Powerful people will act corruptly and purposefully divide you so they can completely fuck you over." Yeah, that's always been the fucking case, but you fucking dumbasses thought you were on "team Powerful People" when instead you were ALWAYS on "team Get Fucked."
  13. All of them. At this point, the only rational presumption about a man who supports the GQP is that he is a pedophile himself.
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