Well, to be fair to you, he’s already walked out of one signing having forgotten why he was there. It would funny (not funny) if Congress passed a perfect budget and the govt shut down anyway because Trump took off to Mar-a-Lago without signing it.

I know I’m a Nate fan girl but you might want to go back and read his posts before the election. He was saying that Trump had over a 30% chance to win. It’s not Nate’s fault that people heard that as a shoe-in for Clinton.

A lot of gyms have women-only pool hours. Ever wonder why? It’s so we can exercise without getting leered at. Fox may have made that particular pool’s schedule an issue but men behaving badly around women who just want to do their own thing isn’t new.

She’s like the Moira Kelly character on the first season of The West Wing. Fucked up royally, was hard to listen to, and generally got on everyone’s nerves. I was about four episodes into season 2 (back when it originally aired) before I even thought, “Hey, where is Mandy?” I was relieved they got rid of her but they…

Jonathan Randall isn’t gay. He will have sex with anyone as long as he can thoroughly break them to his will. I can understand why so many people think he is gay, though, because of his fixation on Jame in the first book. But he fixated on Jamie, not because Jamie was male and therefore attractive to him, but because…

I agree about her treatment of the gay characters. But you have to remember, these books are a product of the decade in which they were written. So that and the rapes and anger-sex are all overly represented in romance novels of that era. Do I excuse it? No. But I try to look at it through a lens of our…

I don’t think she uses the SAT words to show how smart she is. I think she just likes words. Since I like words as well, I’m mostly satisfied with her style. I felt the same way about JK Rowling with the Harry Potter books (the original seven; I haven’t read the newer stuff yet). It felt like Rowling used the words…

Brianna’s being graduated from high school, not college.

Frottage.

I guess they “borrowed” that sentence from the definition of plagiarism.

Let it be Trudeau!

That’s when you start to worry that in a few minutes, he’s going to be wearing your skin...

I think they never dreamed a Republican would win in the first election after Obama. So they obstructed and moaned all thru his presidency thinking they’d do that for at least four more years.

The one thing Congressional Republicans are good at is branding. I’m firmly convinced that’s why it took so long to do anything about the travisty No Child Left Behind. Immediately calling the ACA Obamacare to negatively brand it was a pretty genius move too.

So the ground-up dried bay leaves might be the way to go? You’d probably need fewer leaves since the ground powder would remain in the product. Claire, another test?

But you didn’t talk about my grandmother’s fear: will bay leaves kill you if you eat them? She thought yes but Google pretty much says no (and lots of cuisines add ground dried bay leaves to spice mixtures). But just like I’m still sure today that if I swallow a watermelon seed, I’ll grow a watermelon in my tummy, I’m…

The short lifespans of the giant breeds make me sad too. We actually got ours because a couple of breeders were trying to create a hybrid called Great Bernese because the Bernese Mtn Dog has a super short lifespan — apx 6 years — because of the breed’s predilection toward cancer. They had sold three of the litter,…

My Great Pyrenees/Bernese Mtn Dog blend is perfect for our apartment. I think he sleeps more than the cats do. We take him to the dog park and he is not interested in running around like the other dogs. He sniffs his way around for about 15 minutes and then looks at us like he thinks it’s time to go. So little energy.…

“We’re not going to make an American do what they don’t want to do.”

Possum on the half-shell!