Scene:  Wife and Son have returned from neighborhood errands.

Son:  Pops, Mommy and I found a bakery that sells Belgian waffles made in the Liege style.

Me:  Nice.  You should save them for the weekend.

Son:  Why?

Me:  Because then you can have a Liege-y Sunday!

Son:  Crawl in a hole and die.

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My parents took me to continenal Europe for the first time in the summer of 1972 when I was nine.  When we flew from Dubrovnik to Paris, we went through Zagreb, and I felt really ill.

( Under a cut for explicit lower GI discussion )

(With apologies to Queen)

Is this surreal life?  Is this insurgency?
Lost by a landslide, just escaped from reality
Closing your eyes, cook up all the lies and see
I'm just a fool boy, I spread toxicity
Because I'm easy come, will not go, little sly, little slow
Any way my mind goes doesn't really matter to me, covfefe.

MAGA, just killed a cop
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Today, domestic terrorists, encouraged by their criminal ringleader, attempted to overthrow the government of the United States.  They undoubtedly will fail, but the fact that they were able to invade and trash the U.S. Capitol and force the suspension of Congressional proceedings, is the most horrific attempted coup against the United States in ( Read more... )

I want to organize a band -- a quartet of musicians who are trans-men.  I will call them (wait for it) . . .

The AFAB Four!

I wish I knew how to make gifs.


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From Ye Times of Lundenwic:  HASTINGS, October 14, 1066 -- His Majesty, King Harold Godwinson, declared victory this evening over his challenger, William, Duke of Normandy, in the contest to determine who will lead England.  "William's use of arrows is completely fraudulent," the King said.  "I won this battle by using axes and pikes, which are the ( Read more... )

News report from the Queens (N.Y.) Daily Eagle

New Yorker writer, CNN legal analyst and general asshole Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by the first and is on leave from the latter after he was seen polishing Lil' Jeff on a Zoom call with New Yorker staffers.  (Normally I wouldn't link to a NY Post article, but this is the kind of lurid story no one does better or more basely ( Read more... )

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