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To be fair, a lot of people are exploiting the asylum system. No, the system hasn't been significantly reformed since the 1980s. Yes, the Republicans deliberately torpedoed an effort to remedy the asylum system just because Trump told them to. Yes, Republican portrayals of asylum seekers as...

Update: I called Geico and they called a towing company that would tow my car free of charge. It was supposed to be an hour wait. After an hour, I got a call from a really shady dispatcher who said the driver was on the way. Twenty minutes later, the driver called and said he was running late...

I have had two flat tires in two days. My commute takes me past a lot of construction. When that stormed moved through several weeks ago a lot of fences in my neighborhood were torn down. My neighbors are repairing the damage but they’re not too careful about where they leave their nails...

I watched some more of the graduation video. After that racist trash got thrown out, his daughter continued to sit with a glum look on her face. I cannot imagine being 17 or 18 years old and having THAT memory running through my head on what is supposed to be a day to celebrate an achievement...

Judging from the daughter's reaction, her Dad's behavior was probably expected. It's not a look of shock. It's a look that says, "aw jeez, here we go again."

Other faculty observed vultures picking at the carcasses. That means a bunch of vultures probably died. In a rural area like that, there will be a chain reaction.

Illinois Nazis? I hate Illinois Nazis.

When I go to campus, I usually pick up my lunch from Buc-ee's. For those who are not familiar, Buc-ee's is a Texas institution. Today I wanted to try something different so I went to the small barbeque joint across the highway from my usual Buc-ee's. I hadn't been there since the pandemic but I...

Well, I called around and the agriculture department has enough barn cats. They reached out to some staff who might want a pet but they JUST adopted some new dogs. Cottony also came back, meaning the cat skeleton with a gray tail was probably Ivy. That's a shame because Ivy was starting to...

I am rewatching Son-in-Law after more than twenty years. I am also realizing that I still hate Pauly Shore.

Update: Daisy was glad to see me when I fed her today. She ran right up to me and yelled for her food. She seems to be all right. I didn't find Ivy, though. She might be dead but the other professors who feed the cats never found her body. She hardly ever strayed from her home, so MAYBE someone...

My sister-in-law is ever so grateful that I share my Disney+ account with her. The niece and nephew (2 and 3 years old, respectively) are obsessed with Moana and Encanto and watch them repeatedly every day. If VHS were still a thing the tapes would have worn down to nothing by now. They've only...

I’ll call my university’s agriculture annex and ask if they need a barn cat. The problem is she might just walk away from the annex and go back to her old place, which would leave her in the same situation. I’ve checked in the area and there is nothing else.

They never would have done something like that at, say, UT or Texas A&M. But my campus is in the middle of nowhere and they probably assumed that nobody would be there. It’s still a huge risk, though. I will go to campus tomorrow and see how Daisy is doing. If she did indeed lose her last...

I heard from other professors who help feed the campus cats that the university used the long holiday weekend to leave out poisoned food for skunks and raccoons. Some of the local feral cats got into it as well. One of the cats that I fed regularly had been there for fifteen years. He had been...

Today I learned that Subway no longer carries black olives. There is no curse in Entish, Elvish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

Normalization of violence and intimidation is always chilling. We're seeing that in the US with all the loons who open-carry their AR-15s at Starbucks.

I predict he'll be found guilty but then he'll appeal. I'm sure his team will shop around until they find a judge he appointed.

And Abbot just pardoned a racist asshole who murdered a BLM protester last year. I'm surprised he didn't give a complimentary brown shirt to the thug.

We don’t have power here in Houston. There was a lot of damage. But we’re okay.