by Fourscore | Nov 5, 2024 | Musings
When we retired and moved to the woods we wanted more than the limited through-the-air TV. Cable hadn’t come here yet in the countryside so we got the big satellite antenna. I forget which company but to change channels the eight-foot dish had to rotate and find...
by Banjos | Nov 5, 2024 | Daily Links
Good morning one and all to another exhilarating day! Democrats Spend over $2.1 Billion Trying to Stop Donald Trump Hundreds of NY Times Staffers Go on Strike As Election Day Looms Washington, DC Businesses Barricade Windows Ahead Of Election Day Joe Rogan Endorses...
by Derpetologist | Nov 4, 2024 | Fiction
I found a way to balance the typewriter on my torso so that I could work while lying in bed rather than hunched over in a chair. The famous composer Rossini was extraordinarily lazy and wrote music in bed. Once he accidentally dropped the sheet he’d been working...
by trshmnstr | Nov 4, 2024 | Daily Links
*EDITOR’S NOTE* THIS IS TIMELY, AND IT GETS ME OUT OF DOING LINKS, SO ENJOY. BTW – WE NEED MORE POSTS FOR THE SITE. /Swiss In this post, I give you ten low-thought ideas for improving the voting pool. If I offend you, I’m sorry, be better. Rule #1:...
by Animal | Nov 4, 2024 | Fiction
The Shade Tree Jean Barrett and Darrell Weems, Amole’s “executive assistant,” were overseeing the loading of the three cargo containers containing two small pre-fab shelters and various and sundry supplies for Amole’s fledgling colony when the call...
by sloopyinca | Nov 4, 2024 | Daily Links
I’m not sure what to think of this NFL season. So many teams with high expectations that suck and so many teams that were supposed to suck that are balling out. And now we have the trade deadline approaching, which could really shake things up. Gonna be an...
by UnCivilServant | Nov 3, 2024 | Fiction, Literature
A dozen disastrous scenarios flooded through my mind at the prospect of Stefak controlling a second crossing of the Lugnerstrom and able to pour troops in behind our prepared positions. Instantly, the statue went from a curiosity to a catastrophe in the making. I...
by Not Adahn | Nov 3, 2024 | IFLA
So… This week’s theme is “domestic change.” We’ve got the moon and Mercury doing their thing, with Mercury in particular entering Sagittarius yesterday. That become important soon. What about on election day? Well, that day sees a...
by Old Man With Candy | Nov 3, 2024 | Daily Links
Never give up. Never give up. Never give up. After all the NPR Lady ordeals, I’ve been trying once again. And this latest one may even be ready for the first of my two major filter tests: an evening with WebDom. If she gets past that, the much more rigorous...
by Spudalicious | Nov 2, 2024 | Daily Links, Harambe
You offed a pet squirrel? Okay. Here we are in continued times of weirdness. Cowboy hat wearing squirrel got o-f-t for no good reason. Trump supporters are racist, bigoted, white supremacist neo-nazis, but they are definitely NOT garbage. And anyone woman who supports...
