It’s an interesting show.

I binged all the seasons available on Netflix this year and the egregious use of passionfruit is what struck me personally. Mango is at least a change... 

That may be one silver lining - if there’s no constant white house reality show buffoonery taking up headlines every 10 seconds of the day, people might be able to pay attention to what the Senate is doing.

Well now you’ve got me excited for spring already. I have a perennial patch of ramps in my back yard and they are sooooooo good (especially sauteed with some morels... which, alas, do not grow in my back yard).

There are lots of signs and banners with angry eagles on them, everywhere, and there have been for a while. I hate seeing them. They might as well say ‘I don’t give a shit about you!.’

Just when I’m ready to throw in the towel on Jez, the comments COME THROUGH.

Agreed, can we at least get some kind of warning??

I really want Biden to open by offering Trump a five-dollar bill to help him get back on his feet

I saw a really interesting article about this sometime back, in relation to mainstream popular Christian music/movies/art. The hypothesis was that the folks who made that art don’t think that they need to work very hard at it, because the work is “inspired by God” and therefore will inherently be good. These people…

Agreed, my go-to travel shoes for when I’m covering 8+miles/day of walking around cool cities are Supergas, which are essentially the same as Converses.

4. Lastly, she ran a very poor campaign. When people in the Midwest warned the campaign about problems there, she failed to come to visit the Midwest or put money behind combating these issues.

Engaging in the democratic process is a civic duty. Instead of expecting it to be some fun, fulfilling experience, and then feeling let down, let it simply be doing what good you can for your community with the tools you have.

I am afraid she will be just another in a long line of centrist politicians.

My question is... who among the Republican elite (i.e., those who know the virus is serious enough to take precautions for themselves, but maliciously politicize it anyway) thinks it’s actually a good idea to SICKEN AND KILL THEIR OWN BASE?? What do they think is going to happen? 

I work for a similar place and have been lucky in this sense too. It’s been kind of fun to get to “meet” my clients’ dogs, etc. on calls - I think it’s led to closer professional relationships if anything else. Makes us all seem more human. 

...code for “I don’t like it when people are clearly smarter than me.”

Exactly. A friend of mine (who is in his late 20s, no pre-existing conditions or other risk factors) had a case that was on the serious side and was briefly hospitalized, but out of work for a total of 5 weeks. Just because you don’t die doesn’t mean it isn’t completely shitty.

She could do what, say, Leslie Jordan did the other day and handed his Instagram over to an activist for an afternoon. 

The first one of these posts that I read detailed that the “silence” was supposed to:

I’m moving to the moon.