I was browsing around YouTube on my TV, and a Washington Post video came up titled “Is AOC sus?” And then I realized I’m an old.

Move over politicians “whom you want to have a beer with”.

My friend convinced me to visit her in NZ back when the LOTR movies were out, by telling me none of the landscapes were retouched. She was right. That trip has spoiled me for every other landscape, because I don't think I've seen anything to compete with it anywhere else.

I’m in New Zealand so I went and voted and yay - Jacinda won! On the downside though the local candidate I wanted didn’t succeed but at least she was beaten by someone from Jacinda’s party (could be worse). And I’m worried about the rise of our far right party who used to only have 1 seat in Parliament and will now…

Please enjoy this fabulous takedown of Facebook in the New Yorker.

Hung out with Caroline a bit in my early college days as she was good friends with one of my good friends. She was probably about 17, still in high school. She was sweet, fun-loving, and clearly deviated from her father’s values then, so I’m not surprised to see her speaking out now.

You’re a good egg, Caroline. I’m…

This doesn’t sound like the words of a daughter who hates her father.  Only one that yearns for her dad to see the light so they can come together in agreement on moral issues.  She seems disappointed in being unable to convince her dad of her point of view, not mad.

This. I’m a government employee, and I’m astounded at the defensive reactions I get from the older, more conservative crowd when I ask basic questions like, how are we going to pay for this, where did this statistic come from, what does success look like?

So Amy Coney Barrett's main qualification is being a wine drinking mom?  Waiting for my call to fill the next open seat.  I'm not a judge or lawyer, but she doesn't seem to think that's relevant, based on her responses. 

“Barrett said that her 10-year-old son, Liam, was so upset during the questioning portion of the hearing the day before that he had to leave.“

This is an obvious statement, but I’ll say it anyway: if they oppose abortion even with regards to an already dead foetus, an abortion that will kill no-one by any definition and will save the mother’s life, they fucking ain’t pro-life. They’re pro-woman-control. Keep saying it until the idiots and Republicans at the…

I’ll settle for people who are less shit at being a human.

‘Senator John Cornyn lifted Barrett up as a role model for young women, balancing work and motherhood. “How do you do it?” he asked.’

I’m wondering from that article how they determined Arsinoe was “African”- was that genetic testing or analyzing why they thought the bones looked like? The BBC news article isn’t very exact. According to the wiki page, that guy was using craniometry which is basically nonsense science that’s been dead since the 19th…

Unfortunately the article you link to is neither in depth nor scientific in the least. The truth is, that it is very disputed that the bones supposedly identified as her sisters really were her sisters and even if they were, nobody really knows if cleopatra and arsinoe shared the same mother or not. Anyway, here is an…

I am so so exhausted. My uncle passed away last week and it has been such a long week and now today we had all the services in one day so I have been awake and surrounded by people since basically 8:30 this morning. Wakes and funerals are already awful occasions but the masks really top off the awful.

Rough week. My friend from all the way back in elementary school died of Covid. I’m still trying to absorb all that.

Holy smokies y’all, we’re moving to Panama this week, if, IF, everything falls into place. Cat passports, negative Covid antigen tests, narrow time windows for all the ridic red tape, though isn’t all red tape, by its nature, ridiculous? Also, there appears to be a calico elephant on the catsle!

Whuddup jezzies. In an unbelievably stressful week (home life, work life, the sustained hellscape of our politics) I had one HUGE bright spot. A few weeks back, I posted about possibly finding the sister that my mom had given up for adoption 8 years before I was born. I found her on ancestry.com.

I wanted to watch this during some of my me time, and it’s so, so stupid, unfortunately. Just the most obvious, tired, lame, old jokes about stereotypes about the US vs. France - it’s so passe it’s not even relevant anymore, therefore it’s not even remotely clever. I couldn’t get past 15 minutes. Terrible script. The…