this is more awful then you think but also i'm basically fascinated by how so much of this is a social compact to essentially make it your childhood again

The DOJ can’t indict Comey or anybody. They can present their evidence to a grand jury and ask it to issue an indictment, which the grand jury refuse to do.

I’ll take fragrance over gorgeous every time.

My only and possibly (but hopefully not) last bloom.
#Rosewednesday

Max doesn’t care why. He’s just there to help

#rosewednesday

Roses winding down but sometimes the best are saved for last
#rosewednesday

Peace rose from earlier this summer
#roses

Your sentiment is far too reminiscent of the defense of the Kent State killings.

This old school dem is not particularly comfortable with the idea of justifying her shooting death on moral or political grounds. She was hardly innocent, but the person who shot her had no right to kill her for that.

Today’s rose from my garden is Chrysler Imperial

Good morning, sunshine.

Season 2 of “13 Minutes to the Moon” podcast tells the Apollo 13 story remarkably well.

Another old person here. Don’t you find it ironic that you complain that old Dem politicians don’t do anything and yet you don’t seem to be doing, as opposed to talking, about it.

Time to own it.

#Caturday

Chrysler Imperial

Apri in Paris hybrid tea rose

American politics are and have always been ugly, base and mean. As long as Dems make their policies clear and do whatever they can to implement them, I’ve got no problem with political brawling.

Question. We used to use B.C. and A.D. in dates. Now we use B.C.E. and C.E. Seems odd when the same event is the inflection point.

Congressional Republicans, presumably at Trump’s direction, have introduced legislation that renames the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after him and its opera after Melania Trump.

All you historians, are there any historical precedents for this?

Hooray it’s #Caturday!

Ghost Riders in the Sky

Imagine what it was like seeing his illustrations in real time on magazine covers like Collier’s in the 1910s.

I totally agree. Cases claiming that an EO violates the Constitution on its face and requiring nationwide relief seem to be well-suited for class action treatment.