I hope your mom feels better soon, Scrappy.
I have yet to do any work, but some friends came over, bread is rising, and I'm watching Brooklyn 99. I guess work after this one.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Mar 13, 2018 7:06:59 am PDT #23148 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 13, 2018 7:12:25 am PDT #23149 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm surprised Rexit took so long. I'm not sure if it's good news or not. Tillerson didn't seem, you know, insane, but it's hard to imagine a less effective Secretary of State.
I'm thinking bad news, because he was one of the few cabinet members who seemed to actually value the work of his department and approach it with the good of the country in mind. I have no hope of his replacement doing likewise.
Tillerson might have been an effective Secretary of State under a President who doesn't conduct diplomacy via 3am Twitter rants.
Theodosia - Mar 13, 2018 7:39:22 am PDT #23150 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
And Pompeo is pretty much actively Evil.
We only have like 2" down, but it is blizzarding with a vengeance out here in Somerville. I'm losing money by not driving, but on the other hand, I'm not risking my life or my car, either.
Scrappy - Mar 13, 2018 7:48:43 am PDT #23151 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Rexit— love that phrasing.
Laura - Mar 13, 2018 8:04:22 am PDT #23152 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Yes, Rexit is a double edged sword. About the only good thing you could say about him is that there are worse choices, Like Pompeo, for example.
Laura - Mar 13, 2018 8:05:09 am PDT #23153 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Much ~ma sent to your mom, Scrappy. Pneumonia and flu are miserable when the rest of you is well. I'm sorry.
-t - Mar 13, 2018 8:17:40 am PDT #23154 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I guess the Pompeo you are talking about is not Meredith Grey?
-t - Mar 13, 2018 8:20:28 am PDT #23155 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I have already run out of functional brain cells today. Not sure what to do about that. Have decided to go get Thai food for lunch, I believe that comes with soup, maybe that will help.
-t - Mar 13, 2018 8:23:21 am PDT #23156 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have 3.5 hours of meetings scheduled tomorrow. Yay.
Consuela - Mar 13, 2018 8:32:58 am PDT #23157 of 30002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm thinking bad news, because he was one of the few cabinet members who seemed to actually value the work of his department and approach it with the good of the country in mind.
He really didn't, though. He more-than-decimated the State Department, drove out career diplomats with combined thousands of years of experience, and has contributed to the ruination of the US's reputation overseas. That he's not obviously, overtly insane is, in fact, a pretty low bar. He didn't want to start a nuclear war with Russia or North Korea, fine: but his primary goal was pretty clearly not to maintain US interests abroad.
And because he made it a year in the position, he won't get taxed on the $54 million in stocks he sold prior to becoming SoS.
That said, we're not going to be better off with Pompeo in the slot: he's a xenophobic islamophobe, and a Trump toady.