From your lips to God's ears?

I am reliably informed that it's harder to immigrate to Canada and the UK than to the US, which is (I assure you, as a Canadian-British dual citizen in the US) itself not easy.

Don't apologize. It's scary. The only comfort (?!?) is that everyone will be in the same boat, which I know, is not much comfort.

Yes. The deal is, once you win an election, you get to govern. Don't win an election? You don't get so much clout. And if Democrats were doing this to Republicans, I would feel the exact same way.

I'm originally from Canada. Lots of people, during this, have been saying "This would never happen in Canada!" And it's true, it wouldn't, because a government that couldn't pass a budget would fall and there would be a new government with a new mandate. However, in Canada, we have minority governments with increasing…

Isn't it ridiculous? It's the kind of thing that, if it had shows up in a Tom Clancy novel, you'd roll your eyes because it couldn't happen.

When I bet on 13 days, I really thought I was staking out the outside limits. The total lack of urgency is kind of blowing my mind.

I'm with you, and that's something I would never, ever have done. However, lots of parents do things I consider utterly unacceptable. But honestly this is not a shock, given the people involved in this particular situation. On the bright side - crappy parents remind me that I'm doing most things right, and make me…

Yeah, this is getting extremely ugly.

Someone will write a doctoral thesis on this in the future, I'm sure.

Can you expand on that? You mean you see the letters they send supporters, since theirs and yours overlap?

That is incredible. Thanks so much for explaining. What an awesome (and unusual) job!

How in the ever loving hell does that evolve? How do you know this? How are you able to look at that without feeling queasy?

Does a ladypart in that species have four portals? He has sex with four of them simultaneously, while they all stand very close together? This is making me think I do not understand how the sex works.

The second one sounds much more painful.

And they're sort of weirdly funny looking, just dangling there, kind of wrinkly and weird.

OMG I know a Kotybarov. (It might be spelled Kotybaroff?) That is so awesome.

What happened to "that takes guts?" That's gender neutral and was actually a thing. Intestinal fortitude. Gutting it out. It's already there, it offends nobody. Run with it!

I had never seen that ever before in my life. Thanks to you, I will never unsee it. I don't suppose that's photoshopped?

OK, that's very interesting. Jewish knitter, here, but the few times I wanted to do needlework on a Jewish theme I ordered it from a wonderful online place that no longer exists :(