Not sure my bank account would allow for a trip to Las Vegas. But I’ll certainly look for The Outrage. Thanks.

Then there’s this:

That’ll show me for not attending the Women’s Convention! (I’m being serious, I really wish I’d been able to go.) Now I’ll need to find one of those t-shirts!

So, since there’s the slogan-ization of Senator Warren, I wonder if there’s a similar slogan-ization of Rep. Waters: “Reclaiming my time!”

I repeat my comment from the previous entry about Ms. Rao: can she and Malala Yousafzai get together and run the planet please?

Great news! When my dad had staples in his head (not quite the 70 you had, more like 30-40), we wanted to bring him to a tattoo/piercing convention, just so he could be an “elder statesman”.

So you’re saying that “Dick Eater LXIX” isn’t your real name?

A budget - whether it’s a personal/family budget, or a corporate budget, or a governmental budget - is a moral document. (I’m including tax policy under the governmental budget here.)

You’re not alone. I also think it’s deliberate.

This is a great itinerary! I have a friend from Secondary School in Kilfenora, County Clare. He’s a tour guide and he covers the Southwest (essentially from Cork up to Galway). He sometimes does stints in Dublin.

I don’t think it was only sugar in the fruitcake!

West? Did you get to the Burren? More beauty. Shows the geological history of the island: tropical flowers next to Alpine flowers next to Arctic flowers.

Did you get to Giants Causeway? More evidence of how beautiful Ireland is.

Can I meet you guys? I’d stay with family.* I’ve been so homesick for my second home country these past few months.

Also? So frelling cool that RTE is livestreaming this!

When I was a kid (in the 70s) you could just drive up and park next to the field and walk into the mound. My mother grew up about 15 minutes/half-an-hour away from it and some of her family still lives nearby; so everytime I was in Ireland as a kid (twice a year or so) we went.
Now you have to go through a visitors’…

“Do you like Scarlett Johansen?”

And you’ve now got me calling her in my head: Meghan Markie Mark Angela Merkel Markle.

These days they’re calling it “Complicated Black Lung”. Or “Advanced Black Lung”.

Nice. Especially “Down Girl” - one of my cat’s AKAs is “Stop It! Go Away!”