December 2011
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“Be friendly, you idiots.”
– @nostrich
Quote of the year.
Robert Reich: Why the Republican Crackup is Bad... →
robertreich:
Two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the Republican crackup threatens the future of the Grand Old Party more profoundly than at any time since the GOP’s eclipse in 1932. That’s bad for America.
The crackup isn’t just Romney the smooth versus Gingrich the bomb-thrower.
Not just House Republicans…
Sometimes, I really love this guy.
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“I will let Julie and Alex in right off.
The rest of yous are on probation.”
– My mom, with whom we’re hoping to stay with later this week, responds to our holiday card.
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Suburban Report
Jason stopped over with a bottle of gin. He had texted me, earlier in the week, to ask me if I wanted one while he was at the store, and I told him I did. But when he arrived today, he confused me by presenting it as a gift. I told him no, no, let me give you some money for it. Here, I said, I have enough money to pay you for the thing you got me at my own request. No way, he said, it’s a...
Julie Kresen Barnes, Master of Science In...
Congratulations, Jul.
Fix me?
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I Work For The Internet →
True story.
“Jack Barnes is in a relationship with Name Changed To Protect the She’d...”
– Welp, there’s something new. Thanks, Facebook! Because, swear on my grandma’s grave, I don’t think I was going to hear about this from a more credible source.
At tuck-in time tonight, I quietly showed him the status on my phone and said, “So, I saw this today,” and I...
Spirituality
I’ve been paying attention to what spirits I really like and don’t like, for about a year and a half now. That makes me what’s known as a serious novice, and it’s high time I start mistakenly feeling like I’ve got something of this to share with the world. Therefore let me tell you about the four spirits of this Christmas.
Around the holidays, a lot of people start...
The Sauce
I’m making the kids their first Eggs Benedict this morning. Alex is about the age I was when I was first introduced to this little corner of culinary heaven, and realizing that reminded me of my first Eggs Benedict.
My family was in New Orleans or Galveston, what’s the difference really, staying at a hotel with high-hung, slow-turning ceiling fans in the lobby. White Doric columns to...