Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died, and Moscow Mitch couldn't even wait for her body to get cold before proving what a lousy fucking hypocrite he is. I hate him, and it would give me great pleasure to wake up tomorrow morning and hear that he'd been hit on the head by a large chunk of blue ice from a passing airplane.

Justice Scalia died in ( Read more... )

If you enjoyed the space opera podcast Wolf 359, you should be interested to know that the creators and some of the cast are making a new podcast: Unseen. This time it's urban fantasy, and they're doing a Kickstarter (they've already surpassed their goal) for it. (If you aren't familiar with Wolf 359, but you like serialized radio shows, go listen ( Read more... )

There was something I was going to post. I'm sure of it. But then I saw in the ONTD stuff in the sidebar on the friends feed that there's going to be a live action Power Puff Girls?

I just . . . I just don't know.

Steve Bannon has been arrested for fraud related to the We Build the Wall charity. Yet another Trumper draining the swamp . . . right into his own pockets ( Read more... )

I had things to say, but my head disagrees.

We need to get our furnace and air conditioning replaced. That's . . . a lot of money. We also need to get the roof over the back of the house fixed, and get an outside staircase removed or replaced, and a door changed to a window (unless we actually get the staircase replaced instead of removed). That's . . . a lot more money ( Read more... )

On Monday, when the big storms came racing through the upper midwest, we had wires come down in our backyard. They set one of the trees back there on fire, and took out our electricity, as well. When I called the power company an hour or so later, to check on the outage, I was told there was no estimated time for restoration yet ( Read more... )

(Now I feel like I need to write a parody of a Van Halen song.)

I've been trying, off and on, for years to start a running habit.

I purchased the Zombies, Run! training app back in 2017, and even went on a couple of the workouts, but that fizzled out quickly.

Last year (maybe two years ago?) I even signed quiet_dignitea and I up for a 5K race, hoping it ( Read more... )

Wow. It's empty in here. And it's such a shame that so many people (including me) left for Facebook, when, to be quite honest, Facebook sucks. But I pretty much had to add therealljidol to my friends page, just so there'd be something there on a regular basis ( Read more... )

We have been seeing the word consensus used to mean something other than 100% agreement quite a bit lately, so I checked the definition. Sure enough, there is a secondary definition that says it can just be a majority opinion, at least according to Merriam-Webster. (I don't have access to the OED on-line right now, or I'd have checked that ( Read more... )