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The death of local newspapers is partly how we got into this mess. Go to most small towns and have a look at the newspaper racks. You'll find USA Today, Epoch Times, and the nearest city's publication. There's nothing local. So when a neo-Nazi runs for the school board nobody knows until well...

I finished Mighty Ducks: Game Changers before Disney+ removes it. This is definitely a series parents can sit down and enjoy with their kids. I'm sorry to see it go and I hope it finds its way back to streaming one day. The second season takes place at an elite summer hockey academy. I taught...

So spicy it will require everyone to bring a fire extinguisher into the bathroom?

I miss the days when the older ladies on my Facebook just sent me FarmVille requests. Now they post Christian nationalist garbage all over my news feed.

Like I said before, Republican voters tend to see themselves as morally superior people who are standing by the same old-fashioned values that their families have cherished for generations. Admitting to being conned (first by Trump, then by Santos) would make them feel foolish. Their attitude...

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother. It sounds like one stressful episode after another. You can easily upgrade that to a high-grade rant.

Yeah, and the streaming services have pretty much rediscovered cable plans. You now what else I like about Game Changers? It has a lot of positive messages beyond sportsmanship. One of the kids has two mothers and they have a healthy family life. There is also a big "take that!" message to the...

Mighty Ducks: Game Changers is leaving Disney+ next week. I don't just mean cancelled, I mean removed entirely. I understand that streaming services are cutting costs and that subscriber numbers have been declining. I get that, but it still sucks. I know it was geared towards a younger age...

I agree. The abortion divide is not based on sex or gender. It’s based on faith. Evangelical women are much more likely to be pro-life because they were raised from birth to believe that their primary purpose is to pop out kids.

Now that the grades are submitted, I'm getting the panicky "OMG plz boost my grade!" emails from students who failed. They are almost invariably the ones who were chronically absent or who only went to class to look at their phones and sleep. I had told them over and over that the Canvas grades...

Eh, call it a micro-aggression if you want. I was referring to that South Park episode based on 300.

Just a few months ago we were driving around downtown Houston. This was on a Sunday morning and there wasn't much traffic. Suddenly this convertible came from out of nowhere, weaving in between the lanes. It cut me and several other drivers off. The douchenozzle in there was wearing a shiny silk...

I used the Firefly cookbook for dinner tonight. Then Shadow Spare Ribs and Garlicky Green Beans came out perfectly. The mashed potatoes were just instant mix but still good.

I put my grades in two days ago, cooked a full family dinner from scratch last night, and went to the gym for the first time since Catness had her feeding tube put in. Tonight I’m making short ribs which require at least twelve hours to marinate. Part of me will always miss her, and I am...

She needs to tell her parents to start abusing her. That way she can have plenty of material to start her career as a filthy Bohemian artist.

It's funny 'cause it's true! Seriously, though, the UN Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty and Human Rights observed that some parts of the US are at Third World status. The Trump administration went livid when that report was released.

Yikes. The consumption in a First World country?

Thanks everybody. We'll be okay. If this were Inside Out, yesterday was a blue core memory. Now that blue has a few yellow swirls in it. In time, that sadness will be subsumed by the sheer weight of happiness and love that Catness brought to our home.

I’m sure Catness is having a ball with Lucky, Diomedes, and the other Halforumite pets who have passed on. It still hurts, especially with all her stuff lying around and reminding us she’s not coming back. I woke up on my own at 5 am this morning because that was when I’d prep her medicine and...

The cat survived the night but I could tell she was on her last legs. The wife and I rushed her to the animal hospital and they said there were some underlying issues in her stomach and liver that had been aggravating everything else. That would have required biopsies, blood work, and invasive...