This an opportunity to recommend The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi, which is excellent.

Here’s a fun read for y’all:

My older cat (17) is getting that way. In the middle of the night, she’d be crying in the living room for no apparent reason. :\

“This dog lying on the dungheap.”

Physiologically, cats have fewer facial muscles than dogs. This contributes to the misconception that cats are less expressive. What they do have is body language. Cats are aloof and emotionless only to people who don’t know how to read the mood of the cats and/or the particular cat(s) they’ve encountered simple just…

...and died immediately after.

Cats are ordinarily not social, expressive creatures. It doesn’t make them inferior to dogs, or any other animal. What you posted are two instances that are the outlier, the extraordinary. Dogs are far, far more expressive about their emotions, so it’s easier to judge if a dog remembers something when compared to a…

“stop making your husband so mad” or “just try to reason with him”

Everyone forgets (or doesn’t know) that the Temperance movment had as much to do with women not wanting the men in their lives to get drunk and beat them all the time.

Yeah, there’s a focused effort in the RW media to rewrite what the historical record says about Nixon, Regan and McCarthy (every so often a ‘Actually, McCarthy was right about all those communists’ take floats around there). We got to be vigilant about keeping the facts of history alive.

The husband’s name is Steve.

Exactly this.

I read a biography of Nixon earlier this year and this line is essentially what was given. That is, the contemporary author mentioned to rumors, and that the press of the day wouldn’t go into ‘family matters’ like this, they way they would now.

Heck, in 1955, the #2 sitcom in the country used the husband’s repeated threats to beat his wife as a recurrent joke. “One of these days, Alice . . .” is literally the “Bazinga!” of 1955.

Yep. Even if these reporters could independently confirm solidly enough to publish about this, they’d have been hogpiled for “embarrassing” the president and Pat, “revealing a private family matter,” and so on. Nobody would have seriously considered it something important as far as political reportage.

Exactly. It’s imperative that we continue to discuss how the modern day conservative movement is from a poisoned tree. Trump isn’t the outsider making a mockery of it, he’s the grand fruition of it.

What is most stunning about this story is the realization that not only were these abuse allegations widely known among the journalists and members of the political class of the day, they were brushed off and deemed unimportant, irrelevant to what were considered more pressing political matters.

Is it? No one remembers Tricky Dick as a good guy. Maybe just throw a line of two about this in the history books and move on.  We kind of have out hands full with alive people.

I assume we’re both thinking of the same BS obituary of Yvonne Brill? God, that was a disgrace. I “loved” how the NYT doubled down by demonstrating the art of the tone deaf non-apology:

WHy don’t they cut to the chase, stop calling these things “knights”, and call them Daleks, which they clearly are?