I can only think of a friend, B, who used to date rich guys who'd spent their college days in fraternities and now considered themselves playboys of the western world, or at least of San Francisco's Marina District.
With one of them, a "tennis pro," things were getting serious. Then in the middle of a holiday party, the tennis pro dumped B.
"But why?" asked B, who hadn't seen this coming at all.
The tennis pro replied, "It's nothing personal. I've just decided that I prefer Kimmie. She's more bubbly than you."
Similar to Bookshop.org, but for audiobooks, is Libro.fm. It's pretty much the anti-Audible – downloads are DRM-free, and credits never expire. All selections and narrations are done by actual human beings.
You're buying the audiobooks from the independent bookstores of your choice, and can listen using Libro's app or anything you like that plays mp3 or m4B files (I like BookPlayer).
Remember the good old days (last week) when you could buy a book printed on paper, then lend it to anyone you wanted to? It's like that!
So my husband talked with his mom today--which frustrates him, because of a lot of things, but of course we have to recall that her dementia's getting worse and she's in pain from the chemo. We thought she was getting close to wanting to go into a care place, after rebelling when she was convinced she couldn't take her pets.
Also, we know that his sister and her husband are there, and doing day to day, but ALSO (and I have feelings about this) that the BiL could be pretty bad about pressuring her.
So the plan was that she'd be talked to about it and would get more comfortable, and that Husband would spend a few months living with her ending with her wanting to go to the right place.
But when he talked to her this morning she made it sound like she's going SOON and now we don't know if that's true (and how she feels), and we don't know when it is, and his plans that we JUST tried to make work (and communicated to his family, so they knew he'd be going May-July) are again up in the air. He doesn't know if he needs to go now--which will throw work and appointments out the window--or if it's true, or what's going on.
It might be worth reaching out to the local animal shelter where she lives. The one here has a program. I think it’s called home again, in which they help people who are looking for animals to connect with people who are looking to home animals, so they never have to go through the shelter experience. She might feel better about that if she has some autonomy in the placement.
She refused to go without them--luckily, we looked into it and (with the help of Wonkette Thalia) found some places where she could go with them--I think a huge part of it is that they're the tie to her life with her husband.
One place would take them, but only on the second floor, and she can't get the dog outside now for a walk.
I'm assuming, and waiting to hear, if the place they found will take the dog and 2 cats, otherwise I'll really know something's up. If they found a place that will take the heavy dog and two cats, okay. But if not...my BiL doesn't like the dog. He's allergic, which is fine, because I'm allergic to dogs and cats too. But he wouldn't take her in last month when they had an ice storm because of his allergies (again--I stay there, so he could cope for a couple of days). That meant she was in the dark and set off the carbon monoxide alarm because she was using the stove for heat.
Bookshop.org is awesome - it's my go-to now. Not only can you *download your books* which Bookshop.org will not fuck with or randomly delete, they have an excellent selection, and you can support your local Indy bookstore by ordering from them! (But you should support Wonkette.)
Thanks for reminding me that Lindy West exists and I need to read more of her books. But I don't quite get the controversy around her new book. Writer shares her thoughts. Readers/fans have thoughts about those thoughts. That's basically how autobiographical writing works.
By stuffing oversight panels with his own cronies, Trump has destroyed the process of design review intended to preserve Washington as a city whose layout and design reflects the simplicity, dignity, and majesty of the American people. Yesterday the White House began the process of ripping the beige Tennessee flagstone pavers out of the West Colonnade that connects the Oval Office and West Wing to the Executive Residence. Trump wants to replace them with black granite, which will contrast more effectively with the gold doodads and the gold-framed portraits in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” Trump has installed along the walk.
I don't want a reporter to ask him something like "what do you say to people who think you shouldn't make these changes?" or such. I want them to lead in with a statement of fact: "you have no sense of history or taste--why should someone with no qualifications be allowed to just overhaul property belonging to the American people and make it so trashy?"
I could go with a reporter who asked: “What do you say to experts who tell us that granite is radioactive and will slowly cause your balls to decay and fall off?”
This is the way to go. Just outrageous stuff he won't know isn't true and will try to bullshit his way through like a book report on a book he didn't read.
Then the pundits can play these clips and ask, "How is this not elder abuse?"
"More of these lawsuits against Meta (Facebook/Instagram) for letting grownups perv all over your kids please! Jury says only $375 million in damages in New Mexico suit, I think we can do better"
Then there is Fuckerbergs yacht...
"Mark Zuckerberg sailed on his $300 million superyacht so much that it underwent repairs at France’s La Ciotat shipyard for 80 days straight. Shiny as new, the 387-foot vessel filled her massive tanks with 400 tons of fuel and is now sailing at full speed across the Atlantic"
You realize that Kharg Island, where the Marines may be sent, to be slaughtered, actually HAS a giant faucet on the mainland that the Iranians can use to just shut off the oil. Maybe that’s where Trump got the idea.
I've been ready for "boots on the ground," since I heard about the first attack against Iran by the US of A. It won't be the boots of any Fortunate Sons, I can guarantee.
It'd be nice if people would be disliking the short-fingered vulgarian because he is a liar, thief, con artist, cheat, woman hating pervert with a yen for his own child, rapist, racist, bigot, hypocrite, intellectually sterile, draft dodging death dealing cowardly Fortunate Son and quisling, and not just because goddam gas prices are up!
My (MAGA) father asserted to me this past Sunday that people just hate der Führer SO MUCH, but can't articulate exactly why. Apparently we're just VERY BIAS and will never listen to reason.
I tried to draw an analogy with his knee-jerk hate of Biden for four years, and he acted like I was trying to change the subject. So, Dear Friends, that is why you don't try to use logic or reason or thought to get through to the FAUX-poisoned.
Well, I object to that, too, but good luck convincing the FAUX-poisoned that he's ever committed a rape, regardless of age. They don't believe the court decisions ever happened. It's communication with another goddamn universe.
I am sorry about your father. That must be very difficult.
I can articulate my reasons just fine - I did in my comment. I spotted him as a liar back in 1980, when he told a fairy tale to Tom Brokaw (The Today Show) about his "small" loan, and also why he didn't try to preserve the "ladies" on the Bonwit Teller Building. He also did a small riff disparaging affordable housing. A liar, and a con artist. He might as well have been wearing a sign. 1980.
His cheating was widely known, including his marital cheating, and as I've said before, I remember sitting with my Mom having coffee, and wondering why no woman had ever punched him in the throat. That was when he took his pregnant mistress to the ski resort. And so on, through the decades.
Kimi, a spunky little donkey in your hed gif: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/kimi-the-baby-donkey
And today’s meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/01c7d880-2139-4e9b-86df-f39434c4ec4c?utm_source=share
Kimi has a beautiful coat pattern.
Thanks for the cute donkey Martini. It helps while the Orange Oaf makes an ass of himself.
TIL: Baby donkeys and baby goats are basically the same.
"Kimi"
I can only think of a friend, B, who used to date rich guys who'd spent their college days in fraternities and now considered themselves playboys of the western world, or at least of San Francisco's Marina District.
With one of them, a "tennis pro," things were getting serious. Then in the middle of a holiday party, the tennis pro dumped B.
"But why?" asked B, who hadn't seen this coming at all.
The tennis pro replied, "It's nothing personal. I've just decided that I prefer Kimmie. She's more bubbly than you."
Donkeys having fun and Pharrel singing Happiness is Truth. Great way to start my day.
Every morning I look forward to these. You brighten my day.
There were several moments that I expected the goat to get a good ass kicking.
Donkeys are really smart. This looks more like organized crime waiting to happen.
Donkey/Goat miscegenation is the work of the devil!
"MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM! LOOK AT ME!!!!!" (repeat for every babby animal)
"CHASE ME MOM! CHASE ME MOM!" [Mom begins to chase the baby.] "EEEEEE! EEEEEEE!"
I didn’t realize that I required babby donkey zooms in my life!
"Kimi, will you calm down. You're making an ass of yourself."
Babby Pygmy Donkey!
OMG, Martini, you’ve outdone yourself, those Democrats are squee.
Donkey Kong!
"Now I know why tigers eat there young!"
Rodney Dangerfield
bebe giraffe!
Boing boing boing . . .
Thanks for the link to the AntiFreeze app.
It also serves to tell people that apps can be created that aren’t controlled by app stores.
Similar to Bookshop.org, but for audiobooks, is Libro.fm. It's pretty much the anti-Audible – downloads are DRM-free, and credits never expire. All selections and narrations are done by actual human beings.
You're buying the audiobooks from the independent bookstores of your choice, and can listen using Libro's app or anything you like that plays mp3 or m4B files (I like BookPlayer).
Remember the good old days (last week) when you could buy a book printed on paper, then lend it to anyone you wanted to? It's like that!
They have an Affiliates program as well. https://libro.fm/affiliates
My local independent bookstore is an affiliate of both.
Why did I hear “Johns Hopkins Center For Stop Killing People” in Tor Johnson’s voice?
Funny. I heard it in Mongo's voice.
Time for go to bed!
So my husband talked with his mom today--which frustrates him, because of a lot of things, but of course we have to recall that her dementia's getting worse and she's in pain from the chemo. We thought she was getting close to wanting to go into a care place, after rebelling when she was convinced she couldn't take her pets.
Also, we know that his sister and her husband are there, and doing day to day, but ALSO (and I have feelings about this) that the BiL could be pretty bad about pressuring her.
So the plan was that she'd be talked to about it and would get more comfortable, and that Husband would spend a few months living with her ending with her wanting to go to the right place.
But when he talked to her this morning she made it sound like she's going SOON and now we don't know if that's true (and how she feels), and we don't know when it is, and his plans that we JUST tried to make work (and communicated to his family, so they knew he'd be going May-July) are again up in the air. He doesn't know if he needs to go now--which will throw work and appointments out the window--or if it's true, or what's going on.
That’s so tough, on so many levels.
It might be worth reaching out to the local animal shelter where she lives. The one here has a program. I think it’s called home again, in which they help people who are looking for animals to connect with people who are looking to home animals, so they never have to go through the shelter experience. She might feel better about that if she has some autonomy in the placement.
https://home-home.org/
https://www.mygrandfatherscat.ca/
You could also consider looking for a pet friendly assisted living facility.
She refused to go without them--luckily, we looked into it and (with the help of Wonkette Thalia) found some places where she could go with them--I think a huge part of it is that they're the tie to her life with her husband.
One place would take them, but only on the second floor, and she can't get the dog outside now for a walk.
I'm assuming, and waiting to hear, if the place they found will take the dog and 2 cats, otherwise I'll really know something's up. If they found a place that will take the heavy dog and two cats, okay. But if not...my BiL doesn't like the dog. He's allergic, which is fine, because I'm allergic to dogs and cats too. But he wouldn't take her in last month when they had an ice storm because of his allergies (again--I stay there, so he could cope for a couple of days). That meant she was in the dark and set off the carbon monoxide alarm because she was using the stove for heat.
When you make a TACO, add TOFU (Trump Only Fucks Up) to it.
Bookshop.org is awesome - it's my go-to now. Not only can you *download your books* which Bookshop.org will not fuck with or randomly delete, they have an excellent selection, and you can support your local Indy bookstore by ordering from them! (But you should support Wonkette.)
I just realized what Turnip's "gift from Iran" is! It's their hacked copy of the Epstein files!!!
i saw a flash headline somewhere on my phone/news feed that said bibi blackmailed trump into invading iran with epstein file material that Israel has.
on this timeline, i think that's likely.
I believe simply on the basis of one sentence in Bibi's speech, which I recall as, "Can you tell me when anyone has ever made him do anything?"
Well, there was this one teenager... and every foreign leader using the Epstein Files as poker chips and playing cards.
It's obvious who's dummy, but who's going to take the trick?
AOT,K.
Everything is … um … interesting? Oh, let’s wander over to Raw Story, for maybe some variety of headlines?
“Trump gets gut punch as Iran knocks back his plan to end war: report”
Translation? Carnival Barker May Be Suboptimal Choice for President
Other suggestions?
A Bluesky post suggested that Iran should only agree to negotiate with Obama.
That "translation" should've run in 2015-16
I wrote a piece back then comparing his "voters" to Sneetches and him to Sylvester McMonkey McBean
Still holds up
OT clickbait I just saw: whatever happened to the unforgettable stars only people from the 90s will remember?
With a picture of Richard Grieco.
I knew a guy who worked with him back then. RG was, as you might imagine, a cocky jerk.
(My friend put it a little more colorfully.)
Who?
I clicked on one of those what were you like in the 90s reels the other day, and lo and behold it was Skeet Ulrich.
I’m not sure if they can just throw a bunch of voter ID laws in with reconciliation. But either way the deal sucks if it doesn’t rein in ICE
Thanks for reminding me that Lindy West exists and I need to read more of her books. But I don't quite get the controversy around her new book. Writer shares her thoughts. Readers/fans have thoughts about those thoughts. That's basically how autobiographical writing works.
More on WH "renovations."
By stuffing oversight panels with his own cronies, Trump has destroyed the process of design review intended to preserve Washington as a city whose layout and design reflects the simplicity, dignity, and majesty of the American people. Yesterday the White House began the process of ripping the beige Tennessee flagstone pavers out of the West Colonnade that connects the Oval Office and West Wing to the Executive Residence. Trump wants to replace them with black granite, which will contrast more effectively with the gold doodads and the gold-framed portraits in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” Trump has installed along the walk.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-24-2026
I don't want a reporter to ask him something like "what do you say to people who think you shouldn't make these changes?" or such. I want them to lead in with a statement of fact: "you have no sense of history or taste--why should someone with no qualifications be allowed to just overhaul property belonging to the American people and make it so trashy?"
Still waiting on an answer to @jefftiedrich 's daily query as to when a reporter asks "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
I could go with a reporter who asked: “What do you say to experts who tell us that granite is radioactive and will slowly cause your balls to decay and fall off?”
This is the way to go. Just outrageous stuff he won't know isn't true and will try to bullshit his way through like a book report on a book he didn't read.
Then the pundits can play these clips and ask, "How is this not elder abuse?"
Bastard! You do NOT fuck with Olmsted's masterful landscape design.
Agreed! Also, for those who might be interested, there is a wonderful open-access edition of Olmsted's papers at https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/OLMS.html
Here's a fun fact, kiddo's!
"More of these lawsuits against Meta (Facebook/Instagram) for letting grownups perv all over your kids please! Jury says only $375 million in damages in New Mexico suit, I think we can do better"
Then there is Fuckerbergs yacht...
"Mark Zuckerberg sailed on his $300 million superyacht so much that it underwent repairs at France’s La Ciotat shipyard for 80 days straight. Shiny as new, the 387-foot vessel filled her massive tanks with 400 tons of fuel and is now sailing at full speed across the Atlantic"
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/mark-zuckerberg-superyacht-repaired-10302025.php
Please tell me why he doesn't seem to give a flying fuck lawsuits? $375M probably came about the cushions on "Launchpad".
You realize that Kharg Island, where the Marines may be sent, to be slaughtered, actually HAS a giant faucet on the mainland that the Iranians can use to just shut off the oil. Maybe that’s where Trump got the idea.
🤦🏻♀️
I've been ready for "boots on the ground," since I heard about the first attack against Iran by the US of A. It won't be the boots of any Fortunate Sons, I can guarantee.
Perhaps the safest place on the plane is the flight attendant's seat? Because I also remembered this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
It'd be nice if people would be disliking the short-fingered vulgarian because he is a liar, thief, con artist, cheat, woman hating pervert with a yen for his own child, rapist, racist, bigot, hypocrite, intellectually sterile, draft dodging death dealing cowardly Fortunate Son and quisling, and not just because goddam gas prices are up!
Good morning.
I get so tired of people describing horrific crashes like this where only they survive as miraculous.
Basically, they're telling the families of everyone else that God thinks it sucks to be them.
No argument from me, at all.
My (MAGA) father asserted to me this past Sunday that people just hate der Führer SO MUCH, but can't articulate exactly why. Apparently we're just VERY BIAS and will never listen to reason.
I tried to draw an analogy with his knee-jerk hate of Biden for four years, and he acted like I was trying to change the subject. So, Dear Friends, that is why you don't try to use logic or reason or thought to get through to the FAUX-poisoned.
What's to understand? He rapes children. I object to having a President who rapes children.
Do you think he's still raping children, or are his Lothario days behind him?
Well, I object to that, too, but good luck convincing the FAUX-poisoned that he's ever committed a rape, regardless of age. They don't believe the court decisions ever happened. It's communication with another goddamn universe.
I am sorry about your father. That must be very difficult.
I can articulate my reasons just fine - I did in my comment. I spotted him as a liar back in 1980, when he told a fairy tale to Tom Brokaw (The Today Show) about his "small" loan, and also why he didn't try to preserve the "ladies" on the Bonwit Teller Building. He also did a small riff disparaging affordable housing. A liar, and a con artist. He might as well have been wearing a sign. 1980.
His cheating was widely known, including his marital cheating, and as I've said before, I remember sitting with my Mom having coffee, and wondering why no woman had ever punched him in the throat. That was when he took his pregnant mistress to the ski resort. And so on, through the decades.
No, you can't reason with MAGA.