#politics I wasn’t in the camp calling for Joe to drop out. In fact, I’m still a little angry. I fully anticipate the GOP to try and disrupt the election with ballot challenges and every other spurious strategy their deviant minds can think of. But they were always going to do that. If this energizes Dems, then I don’t give a fat 🐀’s 🍑 what MAGA does. I’m going MAMA (Make America Malice Averse? — someone else can do better). Who’s your MAMA now? #womenundersiege #notthistime

#politics VP Harris is about to be subjected to some of the worst racism/misogyny as campaign “strategy” we have seen. It won’t be anything she hasn’t heard before, but that doesn’t stop it from being hurtful, enraging, and/or discouraging. As a 63 yo woman, I'm sick of this 🐂 💩. I’ll be going full Mama Bear on anyone who engages in such in my presence. I will be armed with a list of the woman’s accomplishments/stated goals, as well as a ton of snarky questions about THEIR candidate. #gird

#politics In no way shape or form do I care about trying to read the tea leaves to figure out what “voters” will want in a VP. MAGA voters will find something to hate about everyone; independent voters prioritize wildly different things; democrats will vote Democrat. Pick the best person for the job. Period. Yes, electability is part of the equation, but only part. One thing Trump definitely ushered in: a belief that merit and competence no longer count. I refuse to buy into that.

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#television So, I know I’m très late to the party, but I’ve been streaming Bridgerton — I find it silly and formulaic, but “silly and formulaic” is comfort food for the psyche (tropes are tropes for a reason) oh, 1 more side road, I LOVE Lady Danbury & the Queen because women with agency are sexy and superb and all the things — I’m a couple episodes into Season 3. I just yelled at the tv, “ Oh, criminy. You’ve got a stash of $ under your rug. Just run off and have an adventure. And wear pants.”

Hey — apropos of nothing, but my husband informs me that a proud girl dad doesn’t vote for a guy who brags about grabbing them by the p***sy and stacks SCOTUS to take away women’s health rights. Ever. #politics

Honestly, the sounds of young kids tubing (with a responsible adult as captain 😊) and teenagers teaching each other to ski (these days it’s almost always wakeboarding, but in my day it was learning to slalom) still brings a smile to my face. Every time. #LKNlife #longtimelakerat

omg I’m out. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

IF “HAH” IS PRONOUNCED THE SAME AS “HA” (and I’m not saying it is) HOW DO YOU SPELL THE HAT-WITHOUT-THE-T SOUND????
WHAT AM I PAYING YOU PEOPLE FOR?

[clears throat, rubs temples]

Carry on.

I just need to know how to spell the hat without the t sound!
You know, like in the old cartoons “Seven -Eleven! ‘hat without the t sound’.”

I might have an “I was today years old when…”

How do you pronounce “hah”? Like “hat” without the “t”?

My whole life, I’ve read it as the same as “ha,” but this morning I needed the hat without the t. Has it been under my nose this whole time?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

#politics Having said that, Chief Justice John Roberts is the worst SCOTUS Chief in history: a coddler of corruption on and off the court, and a less than mediocre jurist. A current avatar for the banality of evil.

It’s been 100 years since I graduated law school, but presidents, mayors, dog catchers, town managers, etc. have always had the kind of immunity the headlines are screaming TFG “now” has. Haven’t read the opinion. #politics

I’m loving it so far (on book 3). I did just read that a critic described the “early installments” as a high falutin’ hodgepodge.” ? I would suggest gently that said critic appears not to have made good use of the necessary “willing suspension of disbelief” that makes reading poetry and fiction such a joy, and had apparently no appreciation for the brilliant scattershot use of allusion King employed. END

I was walking fast for fear I was going to be late (this wasn’t a town I’d visited before and didn’t want to get lost, though how anyone could get lost in Raeford NC, i don’t know), turned a corner a little too quickly and almost bumped into a man coming around the corner from the other direction. I screamed. Loudly. I was so unnerved by King’s short stories, I screamed in a lovely gentleman’s face in the middle of a beautiful day. I took Mr. King in sporadic doses thereafter, so missed TDT. 2/

#books Okay. Sit down. I’m just now reading Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. I love King’s writing, but took a break from it way back in the early 80’s after I spent the afternoon in a small town library waiting for my boyfriend to get out of a job interview. I selected a book of King’s short stories with which to pass the time. When I left the library to go to the appointed post-interview meeting place, it was a bright sunny early summer day, sunshine, blue skies. 1/

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