Up a bit. Can't edit original. All the good stuff listed is also true.

Everything you mentioned, plus kids had been driving less due to the recession and high gas prices. Auto deaths are going back up due to people having a little money again, in happy sad news.

But even racists and rural people are more willing to support some control measures like closing the gun show loophole than either congress or the NRA. And yet here we are, where the gun manufacturers’ lobby (NRA) has a stranglehold on policy. It is amazing.

Like, I am now wondering if my period should just be treated like medical waste, because maybe there’s fetus in them there pads. I will have to ask my landlord for a medical waste disposal service.

Vancouver will give even a New Yorker sticker shock, but it is glorious. I have visited a couple of times. Lots of natural beauty, startlingly clean by most American city standards, and surprisingly small - the entire metro area is 2.5 million according to Wikipedia.

It started with the Southern Strategy in the Nixon years and has been refined ever since. The Southern Strategy was designed to pull racist democrats who were starting to be disaffected with the SJW wing of the Democratic Party into the Republican party. Newt Gingrich’s Contract on America in the 90s was a watershed.…

Thank you for reminding me to get Yaktrax. They are brilliant.

The Fifth Element

This is some thing that Torrid really nailed...they had a lot of darts and buttons and bits of elastic so clothing would have shape and be forgiving of different curve extremities. They seem to have done away with that so they could do the same shapeless sack shirts as everyone else. Anyone know where I can find old…

Depends on which docs. They have a cheap line made in China and an expensive line made in the UK, with quality to match. I think it is a bad idea to dilute the brand name, but nobody asked me.

I still have 3 roll neck sweaters from the early 90s. Just unpacked them this past weekend. I can't quit them.

I can’t unsee Ted Raimi. Time for an eye exam y/n?

Home ownership is a pretty classic definition of middle class. Most of the current “middle class” are actually working poor/working class (need a better category name) who won’t admit it. “Real” middle class people have a financial cushion. They have options. They have to work, but won’t fall down the disaster hole…

In my family it is orange jello, carrots, celery, pineapple and maraschino cherries. Mayo optional.

There has been a purge. Google Awl Gawker accounts disabled

Ergo Starbucks needs more lions?

Nope I am neither a starship captain nor the owner of a 6 legged cat. And in both your case and mine I think maybe it all worked out for the best.

Gifted Hands is your Atlas Shrugged. Everyone who reads has one of these! Mine was the Honor Harrington novels. #facepalm

+1 Camus and the Cure twofer

Oo she Serena’d him good.