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While the cat is eating more (without anti-nausea meds now) and sleeping more comfortably, her mobility has worsened. The animal hospital we use is closed until Monday so I’m calling them first thing in the morning. We’ll go over her condition and, if I need to, I’ll make the most cruelly hard...

This dude made a bunch of quarantine videos in spring of 2020. Millions of people saw them and that made lockdown a little easier. That's what I was talking about, with people working together to flatten the curve.

I just got off the phone with the vet. Good News: Her liver is definitely not killing her anymore. Her increased food intake is working to make her healthier overall. While she may never regain full vision in her right eye, at least it's not causing her pain. In fact, the painkillers have her...

I guess the painkillers are working. She doesn't have as much of a limp now. The ophthalmologist also said her eye pressure is back to normal and her blood pressure is down. At least that's not bothering her anymore. I'm hoping she gets back to improving but I'm also mentally preparing for that...

That cat just got worse. With one eye not functioning properly, she must have misjudged a jump and hurt one or both of her rear legs. The vet gave her a new round of painkillers so she's stoned. Right now it's hard for her to walk or even use the litterbox because she can't hold a proper squat...

The cat had been improving but then started to become lethargic. I thought it was just the meds. She was seen last Thursday and there was nothing alarming. Over the weekend, however, the pupil in her right eye became dilated. I made the call on Monday and brought her in yesterday. She didn't...

I enjoyed every second of it. By the way, this is the first MCU film to use the f-word.

The vast majority of population growth in Texas over the past decade has been non-white and urban. Republican lawmakers who represent mostly white small towns and rural areas know their comfortable arrangement is coming to an end and they're terrified. This has always been a problem with white...

Or in the Middle East. My family moved to Egypt for a couple of years when I was in high school. We had a Sudanese maid who came by a few times a week. My Mom took her to a shopping center for groceries. The Egyptian cashier outright spat on the maid. Then there was that time she was helping my...

I remember the Covid Karen videos that circulated throughout 2020. There is definitely a racial element to it as well. Conservative white Christians are accustomed to being the default or even preferred demographic in the US. Their views, beliefs, and status were never questioned and nobody ever...

That was when everyone tried to bake bread or work on home repair. They also got into sea shanties and bardcore. People tried things they otherwise would not have considered. They tried self-cultivation. There was this one professional pianist in the UK who specialized in Victorian and...

Some people just plain don't like to read. My wife has a reading disorder so reading is a little difficult for her. Fair enough. But you should see her folks' house. There isn't anything to read outside of some home decor magazines. My family is the complete opposite. We used to have an actual...

My father-in-law constantly bitched and moaned that "some egghead virologist with a fancy degree is telling us what to do." I didn't care how much he complained so long as he put the mask on, which he did. I kind of miss the early pandemic. I realize that I had it better than the vast majority...

Honestly, I’d erase the student’s name and circulate that paper around the department so we could all have a laugh. Then I’d ask to meet with the student so I could go all Willy Wonka.

I see the Epic of Gilgamesh is on the approved list. Those prudish parents are going to flip out when they learn what’s in it. Ancient Mesopotamian mythology is filthy as all hell.

Yeah!

Carson seems more like an idiot savant. There's no denying that he's a brilliant surgeon, but he is utterly out of his depth in other fields that he pretends to be knowledgeable of.

Oh I know that some otherwise intelligent people fall for Fox News. I’m related to some. I’m saying that the Fox News audience demographic tends to be older and less likely to have a college degree than, say, an NPR listener.

The typical Fox News viewer is a 68-year-old white man without much education. Let's call him Wally Krunkleburger. He is still fighting the Civil War even if he lives in a Union state like Ohio or Kentucky, and he firmly believes that "woke" teachers are trying to indoctrinate his grandchildren...

I’m not sure who I’m more disgusted with. The GOP lawmakers who will just say it’s too soon to talk about it, or their white trash voters who are probably flocking to the nearest gun store to stockpile ammo as we speak.