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Still hot, here. No rain. This afternoon I was in my fenced cat yard and saw a squirrel atop the fence, laying flat, head down, and with its paws hanging down the sides of the 8-foot-high fence. It looked dead. Oh dear. Then I noted it was just above the fish pond. And I thought:…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down…                                 Yesterday, while speaking on the campaign trail, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, said this about federal employees: “We are going to start slitting throats on day one.” I kid…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down…                             If you get your news from FOX you are, no doubt, certain how badly President Biden has destroyed the economy. If you listen to any Republican politician you are, no doubt,…

This is a political post. Please scroll down if interested.                                   From the NYT: A story in the New York Times today by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage, and Maggie Haberman outlined how president Joe Biden and his allies are…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                                         If you support democracy, this is a must watch:        

This blog thingy had a glitch thingy and people were not, I think, getting email notices about new posts. So, you might have missed this. And this And this. And this.      

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                               From Heather Cox Richardson. My bold: “New manufacturing construction is growing fast and is on pace to be close to $190 billion this year. In the entire decade of the…

Across the nation, Republicans are doing everything they can to demonize the LGBTQ community. My community. By way of contrast, President Biden today announced that he will host the largest-ever White House Pride Month celebration. The difference between the two parties is stark. Democrats HELP Republicans HARM    

Prepare to gasp…                                             This is the Alexander Black House, in Blacksburg, Virginia. It was threatened by demolition for a parking garage. The city though did something extraordinary: they saved the house. It was moved…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                           The media…as always…is doing a shit job of explaining to the American people what is going in in Washington regarding the debt ceiling. There are two issues: The debt ceiling. The new…

This is a political post. If interested please scroll down.                                   I have previously posted about how the Republican Party has lost its mind: WE NEED TO PROTECT CHILDREN SO DON’T SAY GAY! DRAG QUEENS ARE A DANGER TO…

We’ve lost an icon. And I am crying.          

This is a political post. Scroll down if interested.                                                   Democrats HELP Republicans HARM I keep saying this, and offer supporting documentation. When the Supreme Court kicked Roe to the curb…

  I have about had it with Gray. She keeps promising to help me restore lights. Yet, she sneaks into the liquor cabinet and knocks off a half-bottle of wine. And this is the result. Sigh.    

Last year, I wrote about Bella here. She had needed a new home and, thus, came into my life. It was instantly evident that Bella had been a lap cat. She was obsessively on my desk as I worked, wanting to be against me, but stepping on the keyboard (EEK!), knocking over my cocktail (FUCK!), and,…