Most peope do not ralize that the window frame makes a huge impact on noise reduction, not just the window panes. That is why noising insulating windows cost so much. The design involves both the glass and the frame. If you do shop for new windows, ask for the STC (sound transmission class) rating. The higher the…

I nearly sobbed with relief. We have grownups appointing qualified adults to crucial positions!

We can make good decisions.

This. My partner and I briefly considered doing a city hall wedding followed by a very small (<15), outdoor gathering with local friends to take advantage of cheap rates right now. Along with soliciting quotes and dates and the normal planning activities we took an afternoon to map out potential issues and places…

I’m not sure how others are doing quarantine but I really don’t understand the logic behind some of the regulations I’ve read for air and interstate travel—they don’t seem to take incubation time into effect and false negatives. But this is my quarantine plan for the trip I’m planning to see my MIL—who is currently in…

Just want to chime in and say I’m frustrated as hell with people not adhering to guidelines. I lost 2/3 of my income in April because it’s dependent on live events. I have friends telling me about their anxiety with upcoming travel plans and it’s taking everything in me to not just snap and say “Yeah, you shouldn’t…

I have heard so many people defend him by leading with this, or the riff on him being a good businessman. It is exhausting to listen to.

Jon Stewart said something similar re: Biden to Colbert last summer. The man understands grief, and that kind of grief humbles you, and makes you realize that no amount of power makes you a god. Trump absolutely does not have that gear in his brain. That’s what makes Biden the right President for 2020, even if it…

Theory: He validates their bigotry by displaying his own. They feel justified, legitimized and generally better about themselves ...and they LOVE him for it. They don’t care that he’s awful. He’s one of them.

We’ll have plenty of time for navel gazing about what this, that or the other tidbit of information about the election means. We’ll have plenty of time to go after President Biden for his many failings, I’m sure. But today ... today I am just happy.

I did not anticipate watching her take the stage meaning so much to me. Then I was crying. An actual fucking woman was making her VP victory speech. My DIL texted me that she was doing the same. This is the kind of me too we deserve. May there be many more.

I think John Oliver summer this up nicely, about how Trump would be legitimately hilarious if he weren’t so scary.

I honestly think it highlights just how much privilege one gets being born into wealth. Any other narcissist would be much less successful in conning other people. But if you are born into wealth, well so many people assume that being wealthy is a sign of character (hard worker! smart!) and will buy the blow hard…

Like the BLM marches in the summer, there is unlikely to be infection clusters associated with these parties because THEY ARE WEARING MASKS LIKE RESPONSIBLE ADULTS.

And think of the twist ending!  He despised Obama with every fiber of his soul.  Becoming POTUS and destroying Obama’s legacy was his grand ambition made manifest.  But who comes in and rips it all away from him?  Obama’s VP!

When this is all over and Trump is finally out, I want the public and/or media to make sure to keep reminding everyone that these so-called men and women in the GOP will suddenly come up with excuses to save their own political skin and claim they never supported Trump’s policies or they were silently horrified by his…

There is a whole world of difference between “a lifetime in the gulag” and “maybe this isn’t someone who should hold elected office.”

Conservative students hosted an anti-BLM event on our campus last week that received local news coverage. One of my students spotted her boyfriend in attendance at the rally, and later told our class that she didn’t know he was a Trumper until then. (Ah, young love). She asked him about the laundry list of issues that…

Pulled a (T)rump roast out to thaw, will be slow-cooking it all day tomorrow. I’m hoping it will just deliciously fall apart like Karl Rove when the results start to come in.