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I saw the news too but thought you deserved the honor of breaking it here. To repeat Bill Kristol, he, more than anyone else, is responsible for transforming the GOP and Evangelical Christianity in general from the party of Lincoln to the party of a white, gun-toting Jesus. Tragically, that transfor...

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Hm. My brain autocompleted the word tulip when it anticipated typing bulb, but we don't actually have any tulips, which I now see are toxic to dogs. We do have daffodils, though, which are also bad. She's fine so whatever she was chewing on didn't hurt her, but now I'm going to be worried about it...

Good advice; will give it a try. I'll also add that even though I knew perfectly well that puppies can be trouble, I didn't have "will dig up the tulip bulbs and eat them as soon as the snow melts*" on my mental con list.

*to bring this sort of back on topic

You know the least appealing thing about winter? I can't just grab the dogs and go for a walk. I have to put all the winter gear on as they watch me and get more and more impatient and vocal. As improbable as it seemed at the time you posted this, I now have the same problem! And she's smart; she c...

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Wed 01 Feb , 2023 2:19 pm

If you have Netflix, you need to watch Cunk on Earth. I laughed so much it hurt.

Ok that was hilarious. It's a single joke stretched out over 2 and a half hours, but it keeps being funny.

Just a touch below 0C (in the sun). (Seasonably) colder weather is incoming, though; down to ~-10 by the end of the week.

Feb 1 and right on schedule, we have our first sunny day since... December something? and a Cardinal is singing.

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Thu 12 Jan , 2023 12:53 am

The first guy to ever vandalize

That guy is also responsible for this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5A-EFykO8M

Nothing so anxiety-provoking here, except it feels like spring. But then it starts getting dark at 4:30.

Unsolicited dog pic

It’s bizarrely warm and sunny here too; enough that you only need one dog

Dave, did you get anything? There's snow and wind and cold, but none of that is particularly remarkable here, though it's perhaps a few weeks earlier than you'd usually expect the first big blizzard. I think what's exceptional must be the amount of geography affected at the same time, and the fact ...

You should occasionally get up, put on the gear, and then just sit down again. It’s the only way to defeat Pavlov.

I had an Amazon box delivered today and it has the words "Rings of Power" all over the tape. I'm a little afraid to accept this gift... :help: It gets worse… https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220929/9072ea43df579ffa3937007a9eea9069.jpg On the other hand, it’s a triumph of capitalism that...

I tracked Fiona all the way along its (rather weird) route. By going straight up the Gulf of St. Lawrence instead of over one of the landmasses on either side, it did seem to pick about the best possible place to hit (given that it had to hit somewhere).

Ditto to all that. It's too difficult to calibrate anything you might want to say for such a wide audience. And everyone must feel that, because hardly anyone does real posts anymore; it's just shares and ads.

I enjoyed the first two episodes, then it became a bit of a slog. The Harfoot storyline is the most engaging, maybe because the writers aren’t constrained at all? Elrond is growing on me. Galadriel reads as neurodiverse in her single mindedness and complete lack of social awareness, which just make...

Dave, that is ominous. Do you above all desire power? Did it come to you on your birthday? Is it precious to you? Uh oh; it's not my birthday, but the box held laundry detergent and I *do* above all else desire power to remove stains... Saw e2. For what it is, it was very good, and I appreciate tha...