I hope everyone had an awesome weekend. My shoulder is STILL killing me from that second shingles shot, but other than that I feel good. I repotted a bunch of houseplants this weekend and stole some mint from my neighbor to propagate and plant in a container. I also went all around my house and touched up dings and marks on the walls. It was a very exciting weekend!
Let’s fucking gooooo
The Trump Trials: All rise
https://wapo.st/3Wb6KyY
So you’re saying he CAN ask a crowd to disperse?
Trump cancels North Carolina rally due to storm in first public address since New York trial
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/21/trump-cancels-north-carolina-rally-due-to-storm-in-first-public-address-since-new-york-trial
Stonks!
Stock futures rise slightly with S&P 500, Nasdaq on six-day losing streak
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/21/stock-futures-rise-slightly-with-sp-500-nasdaq-on-six-day-losing-streak.html
Sprots!
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir wins London Marathon women’s elite race and breaks women’s-only world recordhttps://www.cnn.com/2024/04/21/sport/london-marathon-peres-jepchirchir-mutiso-munyao-spt-intl/index.html
Ok this is cute
Kevin Bacon returns to ‘Footloose’ high school to mark film’s 40th anniversary
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/21/entertainment/kevin-bacon-footloose-payson-high-school/index.html
Break a leg!
Have a great day!
…actually laughed out loud…technically it might have been a guffaw…but I probably shouldn’t laugh?
I also chuckled, and then pictured about half of that crowd being annoyed at abandoning their homemade guillotine they were building for the clouds.
Really, that was an excellent line. Clever people hang out here.
The shingles shots hurt like hell. When I got the first one, they told me the serum is very thick so they have to force it through the needle. But I had shingles twice in my 40’s so no way am I doing that dance again.
When I got my shingles shot the pharmacist combined it with my second Covid shot. So, two shots, one in each arm. I was totally heading toward the light at one point, but I’m so ornery I shook this off and just retreated to bed for a couple of days.
My youngest has strep throat, second time in two weeks. On top of that, my wife found lice on him. She asked him to ask the nurse at school to check him a week ago, because he was itching (he has long hair) and he said she said he was fine. Then Saturday she came home with him and she was freaking out. My siblings and I had them when we were kids and my mother and grandparents washed our hair out with gasoline. The process is less toxic now, but more thorough.
If it’s not one thing, it’s another, and sometimes it seems like it’s all the things.
Oh no! I feel for you. My eldest got lice before Xmas and it took three treatments to get rid of them. It’s so stressful to think of itty-bitty bugs crawling in their sheets and clothes waiting to spawn again.
Lice killing treatments never worked in my family. The only thing that worked was me (because I had the attention to detail) going through everyone’s hair strand by strand and cutting out the nits and catching the lice, and washing bedding every day.
Yeah I wasn’t super impressed with the lice treatment and the comb didn’t work for us. So it was basically me bribing my eldest with TV as I sorted through their long thick somewhat curly hair section by section for an hour. My middle kid has extra fine hair and eczema. The lice treatment fucked it up and made it brittle and caused dandruff. Their hair still hasn’t recovered.
…the way I remember it there was a foul-smelling lotion that we had to leave in for what seemed like ages but was probably 20mins…then rinsed that off & the combing happened with wet hair
…only remember one time I had to have a second application so it seemed to work…but the bit that worked might have been banned since or something?
We have had to go over all of our hair but think we are clean
Last summer, my wife and son both got strep and they ping-ponged it back and forth between each other requiring two rounds of antibiotics for both. It suuuuucked.
Also, my wife is a preschool teacher and as such, is around lice enough where it’s one of her biggest icks and she’s obsessed about not getting it.
Which reminds me that I saw a perfectly charming episode of “Midsomer Murders” last night. It think it first broadcast sometime during World War II (“The Jerries Infiltrate Midsomer”) and there are thousands, tens of thousands of hours of footage. Last night’s number took place in a very expensive private care home. One of the residents is convinced that the Queen Mother is one of her closest friends. At some point we move to her room and she has one of those tabloid Sunday Supplement portraits of the Queen Mother in all her radiance tacked up to her wall. I don’t know why I found that so funny. I wonder if Joe Biden has something similar, or whether Dr. Jill and her minions are super-vigilant and she only allows that sort of thing in the private quarters.
This is a game we can play: what pin-ups does Joe Biden have tacked up in his closets in the bedroom? He was born in 1942, so let’s say his hormones were raging when he was 14, in 1956. I’m going to go for Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, with ElizabethTaylor as a wild card.
Speaking of the past, I was trying to date when this episode aired. No time recently, because no one has a phone, let alone a smartphone. Also, one of the residents is a gay man, a former schoolmaster, of course, who is referred to as “the poofter.” This passes without commentary. The only car you really see is a gorgeous vintage Aston Martin, so that doesn’t really help with the carbon dating process. There’s a scene where there’s a staff meeting and one of them is smoking, so that’s a clue. But then I fell asleep.
Given his choices of wife over the years, I’m betting blonde, so I’m in on both of your top two options.
Also, big congrats to the New York Times for reporting the news that lots of people are concerned about Biden’s mind. Do we know he’s lost it? No. But people are talking about it, so it must be an issue!
Publisher AG Sulzberger was asked recently about the flood of Biden OLD articles and he argued the number was perfectly fine compared to the number of articles about Trump’s indictments.
It’s telling that he made an argument comparing the two issues in the first place, and that he based his defense on just numbers rather than the content, which was obviously weirdly biased.
The Spectator and Freddy “Let’s not say anything bad about Trump” Gray are a joke.
Gray gives away where his sympathies lie when he claims Biden’s only major foreign policy issue was the Afghanistan and somehow Ukraine eluded him.
But dodging Ukraine is what you’d expect from Gray, who complained “self-righteous pundits queue up to denounce the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for visiting Moscow, apparently to interview Vladimir Putin.”
The current trials are fun but when can we charge him with treason & being a foreign agent?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/anton-postolnikov-russian-who-bankrolled-trumps-truth-social-set-up-dodgy-sex-pill-sites
Yes, you do.
First his ass and now this?
Whatever, grandpa will just fall asleep in the courtroom (like he has done yet again this morning.)
That chyron! LMFAO
Thanks, I needed that.