Month: November 2019

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Monday

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Absolutely True


Instead they hide, refuse to testify under oath, avoid subpoenas and base their whole defense on disparaging the characters of those citizens who ARE willing to testify UNDER OATH and who have honorably served the country.

Republicans other defense "strategy"—putting forth debunked conspiracy theories which by the way echo the exact talking points of Russian operatives and Putin.

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The End of the Saga

Why am I not excited about this? Why—after FORTY TWO YEARS of waiting for the final episode of the final trilogy—do I not care?

Is it because the first trilogy with JarJar and the midiclorians left such a bad taste in my mouth that I've dismissed out of hand everything after Return of the Jedi?

I honestly don't know.

Will I see it? Of course. For a saga that set the spiritual theme of my entire life, I cannot not see it. Will I see it more than once? That, my friends, is unlikely unless it somehow manages to recapture the magic of the original.

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OK, Boomer

Overheard at work:

"But if we give up our land line and only use our cell phones that means my wife and I will have two different numbers where we can be reached. Right now people know to just call the home number if they need to reach either of us. How's that gonna work?"

Ben and I haven't had a land line for almost the entire length of time we've been together, and it hasn't proven to be a barrier to anyone getting in touch with us…