Ah hey! Is your avatar Dr. Thackery?

Dementia's a bitch. My father's mother passed recently (from chronic pneumonia) after living with dementia for years. Always a difficult woman, she became more irascible, maudlin and paranoid as the disease took her wits and her past. Which is a shame. She'd been intelligent and cultured and she'd been through some…

Heeeey, I have no social life, but I manage to be mostly nice.

Those harmonies were just mindblowing to little me. See also: CSN&Y

One tries one's best!

Mother rabbits are also prone to eat their own young if their diet is lacking. You're welcome :)

Fun fact: when under stress, pregnant rabbits reabsorb their unborn babies, making rabbits impossible to raise the way we do chickens.

I never had a language teacher like that. My Economics teacher had been to 'Nam and swore a lot. His class was fun.

La poubelle were the first French words I learned in high school. Our teacher really hated gum-chewers.

Except every time folks say not to take Trump literally, he then goes and literally does the thing he said he would. (Or tries.)

Well done, you.

And imperialism in general.

After all the Cubs world series coverage last year, I'm inclined to say yes.

Really? I haven't followed his dismal character arc.

Really? I haven't followed his dismal character arc.

It probably serves that purpose by accident, even if it wasn't an elaborately constructed persona.

Certain Blacks For Trump are extremely anti-gay and anti-liberal. They could give Alex Jones a run for his money. Lunacy knows no race, apparently.

You know that wasp that lays its eggs inside a living caterpillar? The eggs then hatch and the larvae devour the caterpillar from the inside. That sort of relationship is ideal, according to the GOP.

Alcohol, stupidity and sadness are year round, unfortunately. I've read that there are more drownings in the warmer months just 'cuz more people are out partying.

Wrong unity!