Keith Chayer

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Heard… and felt. 😔

Maybe ORD is their IFR alternate 😆

A man (me) and woman (my flight instructor) shaming hands in front of a small mostly-white airplane

This is great! Here I am with my CFI when I passed my PPL check ride late 2023.

Hey, neato — followed for trains!

Indeed they do.

A mostly white (with a few orange spots) and a properly-dressed black tuxedo kitty laying on the back of a gray couch with their backs touching. There is a book bag in the background.

These two almost never get along, but yesterday, for a few minutes, they were friends. Or at least they were too lazy to care.

Haha I have one that does this. He gets absolutely soaked and doesn’t give the first rip about it. Cats are indeed great.

This whole thread is well worth the read, but this post stood out the most to me. 😔

I’m familiar with that environment. I’d guess Jmac was too liberal for them. 😔

My family and I standing next to (and on) a tree that has a butt-shaped protrusion. There are four of us: a woman in the foreground, a man (me) back and to the left, a ten year old boy on my shoulders, and his thirteen year old brother standing on the tree-butt.

Haha I always thought the same thing about that tree. I have (sort of) that picture. Did you make it all the way to the hand tram?

This pieces puts into words something I have struggled to articulate: we can’t “both sides” our way through this with the people who support objectively terrible, abusive practices. I suspect many of us have changed the locks on some relationships, possibly before understanding why it was necessary.

WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED what every single wisdom text in the western canon to include Proberbs told us would happen when we put people of low character into power? Who could have known?

Hey, this is awesome — congratulations.

Tom Lehrer was indeed a treasure, and this story exemplifies his genius and wit. Imagine waiting 60 years for the payoff for a joke you propagated so long ago. Rest well, sir.

100%. It’s an argument that makes whatever was legal the baseline norm for ethical acceptability, and in Western history, what’s legal has always almost exclusively been what powerful white men decided was best for them.

I don’t think I’ve heard Frederick Douglas described as a man of his times.

It is so heartbreaking.

Oof, yes. A close relative to this lesson is the things that broke my heart also helped fix my vision.

We were in Paris on a normal Tuesday about six weeks ago and the trains were just PACKED in some places. I cannot imagine what this must have been like for you.

Ngl, when I saw you start into the fake tan thing I was all like, “Aww, not that too—? ….oh.” 😆

I feel like it’s time to join the trend!

Excellent.

Burnt end cubes of pork belly on the smoker

I put some pork belly on earlier today to make burnt ends. By now it’s not quite dead, but it’s not fooling anyone. At some point some chicken legs also marinated in that smoke.

Oh D.L., times such as these are truly awful, but I enjoy your posts and so much.

Totally cool — I did not know this! Thanks for pointing it out. I just gave it a listen.

😔

What a shame. It shouldn’t be this way. But here we are.

We lived there in 2010 and voted for her in the unprecedented write-in campaign in the general election. I’m so disappointed in her and all of the other republicans. Err well I’m straight up pissed off at the whole lot of them. She talked a good talk about this for awhile anyway, but for nothing.

Hahaha I did pretty much the same thing, with the same result. Still felt good. What a shit show this is. 😔

It’s such a cruel disease, to the sufferer and those close to them. I’m sorry, Laura. I can’t imagine the heartache.