Not sure what’s going on here. OK, so: backstory. The Elder has brain disease and a house. Can’t do much about the worms invading the skullbox but the house is a can-do, methought. Got some familial tenants residing, keeping eyes on things … good for them, good for all. Anyhoo. House needs some TLC … …
Law #10 – Misery Loves Company; Decline the Invite
Mary Mallon was born in Ireland 1869, and emigrated to the US at 15. She worked as a cook for several rich families in NYC, seven of whom contracted typhoid fever. In 1907, Ms. Mallon was forcibly quarantined and required to give stool and urine samples, which tested positive for high amounts of a particular …
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Law #9 – Don’t Talk … Move
A vizier is the most trusted consul of the sultan, with powers constrained only by the sultan himself. One particular vizier had dutifully served his sultan for over 30 years, but his blunt honesty had created many enemies within the sultan’s court, who spread rumors designed to instill doubt in the sultan’s mind as to …
Death Metal
Sitting here amazed that there aren’t more 70-car pileups with multiple fatalities on a day-to-day basis, on these here ‘Murrican highways. What the Staties call a “high-casualty incident.” I mean … seriously. Recently read a BuzzFeed … feed? Article? Post? Musing? about the Internet’s perspective on the world before and after the plandemic (yeh I …
It Ain’t the Kids
theKid has been involved in sports from, oh, say, slightly after exiting the womb. Half was instrumental in that. I’m inclined to let children grow like weeds, let ‘em take over and blossom as they will but I’m also deeply in debt and fairly irresponsible soooooo … yeh. So theKid has played sports (sport) for …
Paroxysms of Paradox
Watched “Se7en” again just recently. What a great movie. Not as big of a fan of “8MM” but to each his own. Nic Cage did his usual; Joaquin Phoenix was actually quite stellar. Had to die, tho.’ Anyhoo, back to “Se7en” … “What’s in the baaaaaahhhhhkkkkkksssss?!?!” There’s a scene before the scene where Mills asks John …
Law of Unintended (or Maybe Intended?) Consequences
All this bru-hah-hah, all this strum ‘n drang, all this hullabaloo, makes me wonder just how (not)smart the Supremes really are. And how much of the Dobbs decision is rooted in the Supreme Court’s own demagoguery. Alabama (we can already see the problem there) recently ruled that embryos are actual people, despite having neither brain …
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[Sigh] Screaming Doesn’t Help
OK so … marriage is [supposed to be] a partnership, right? Then why is it so endlessly frustrating? Because people gonna people. Ergo / to wit … Half likes to keep information fairly close to vest until … “Duh-dunna-naaaah!” Here; do this now. Sigh. Grunt. Groan. Half is the only one in the household w/info …
Talk Left / Live Right, or What I Said is Not What I Do
Well isn’t that interesting. Article by Brad Wilcox in the Atlantic discussed a book called, “Get Married,” and how the college-educated espouse alternative family types without actually embracing those alternatives themselves. Finish education. Establish career. Get married. Have kids. In that order. Although those selfsame folks claim bastardizing children is no big deal, they themselves …
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The Deep Suck
theKid is Gen Alpha, and young enough that (most) adults dismiss those generally angsty feelings withOh, you’re just young. You’ll get over it … yet is still old enough to be clinically depressed. theKid does not like school. Does pretty well at it, teachers are consistently complimentary, other kids are yelling “Bye!” as theKid is …