Category: News

Ah, RedState

I’ve never hidden the fact that I used to have (still do as far as I know but they’ve stopped sending annoying spam about cruises with Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham) an account at RedState. They never banned me, unlike dK (Twice!), even though I posted under my usual pseudonym and even mentioned on occasion …

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Cartnoon

Circus folk.

Cruzing Under The Bridge

Verified. Is that like being a Trusted User? Thank goodness I don’t Twit.

Cartnoon

Less funny than usual.

Not A Rant

Stars Hollow likes to consider itself rural, but we have 30,000 people living here (97% White). By contrast North Lake is lucky to have 200 over Winter and By The Sea about 4,000. World Headquarters is in New York City (New York City?! Yes, just like Salsa.). I’ve always found the residents friendly and accommodating …

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No Sports?

Why aren’t you watching the finish at Le Mans or the final stage of Le Tour? Oh, Throwball. 2019 Lacrosse Championships, Yale v. Virginia Think of it like Hockey only you can use your stick to attack people.

The Breakfast Club (sausage links)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for September 20th Magellan begins globe-trotting voyage; Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies; Actress Sophia Loren born; Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in ‘Battle of the Sexes’; Singer Jim Croce dies in plane crash. Breakfast Tune Bad Bad Leroy Brown (Jim Croce) Banjo Cover Lesson with …

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In Memoriam: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020)

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in her home last night. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old. Barely five feet tall and weighing 100 pounds, Justice Ginsburg drew comments for years on her fragile appearance. But she was tough, working out regularly with a trainer, who published a book …

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House

Le Nozze di Figaro, for Ruth. Glyndebourne, 1999.

Interacting With Crazy People

It’s kind of a weird thing but people talk to me whether I want them to or not, especially crazy people. Perhaps they think I’m sympathetic and paying attention. They are after all, by definition, mentally ill and in many cases delusional. When I talk with my Therapist about this phenomena she tells me I …

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