To be fair, John McCain is 80, and symptoms of dementia can begin as early as 65. It’s not ageist to state that fact on its face. I would agree that it is possibly offensive to someone with dementia to see the term being bandied about.

Been reading this book about how people (successfully or not, usually not) fake their own deaths. Apparently a lot of folks try fake drowning, but with drownings you usually find a body, so law enforcement gets suspicious when they don’t. However, one of the experts interviewed specifically mentions hiking as a great…

No! I haven’t, and now I feel like I’m not in a rom-com mindset these days :-(

Fool’s Gold, for Matthew Mcconaughey during his romcom phase. I also saw Failure to Launch, Sahara, and The Wedding Planner. In addition to, of course, many of his more serious movies. Because I’ve been a fan since Contact.

Precisely - however, I would argue that for a certain level of security clearance, the vetting agency probably does have some access to your bank statements and so on. Otherwise how else do you check for blackmail-ability? Just because people are required to disclose doesn’t mean they’ve done so fully or accurately;…

Maddow has been reporting that Flynn’s clearance would have expired and needed re-upping by the time the Trump team was supposed to be vetting/background checking him. Wonder how that plays in real life.

Eventually if you wore the glasses long enough you would likely notice some eye strain when focusing. So yes, initially your eye focusing muscles are stretching but after a while it probably is doing more harm than good.

Gateway give-in... what an accurate term!

I saw a headstone once for a Mary Christmas. People have been pulling this shit for centuries.

Also happened to us - we were approved for nearly double as well. Which OK - you can see that we “could” afford it, but the monthly payments would have really strapped us. House poor.

It’s less of a “why not” (because the “why not” would be: it costs money to host a big dinner) and more of an etiquette thing for a lot of people - apparently it is traditional etiquette to invite everyone from out of town.

Nothing real to add except I also have extreme disdain for Denver drivers - driving 6 every day is... not as bad as I-25 I guess!

Yes, and was he just “not allowed” in that bathroom? If I own a house you can better believe that I’m going in every room of the house. No one tells me I can’t open this closet in my own home.

Not a comment on JonBenet, but hello fellow Denver area person!

So weird that there was more than one!! Here is a link to a story about the owl beer!

Was it the owl? In Oregon or Washington somewhere? I heard they named a beer after that owl and also had to put up signs?

In a hardly-surprising-for-this-journalistic-era move, Teen Vogue just announced they will be shifting to four larger collectible-style issues in order to better focus on their digital brand. I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned in your article.

She also describes herself as a “runaway bride,” which is a little weird. In context I think she means more “running away with joy”/so ecstatic she’s running around?

It does. Each individual stitch is basically a knot, when you think about it (a finished off section in its own right); a knit stitch is just a loop (has to be held in order to function - 2 needles). I don’t think one is better than the other, but some people take more to one than the other.

Don’t forget that crochet also uses more yarn than knitting, bringing down your margin :-(