Most women I know rightly object to assholish behavior from men. Instead of having harmed of male jacanas who raise the chicks, what if the female jacanas decided the males weren’t worth the bother and aggravation and just refused to have anything to do with them?
"Puttin' down roots... picking 'em up and putting them down again..."
... harems of males during breeding season, with one breeding female typically copulating with one to four males, and some females maintaining harems of eight or even up to ten mates... She's gotta be pretty busy, it's a jacana's life...
So, both here and in the article about Gloria Steinem, you reference an article in New York magazine and you tell us it “ends with a gut punch.” Could you please reveal it rather than teasing something that is paywalled? I believe in paying for journalism, but I pay over here, not for New York Magazine so…
Hey all! Don’t forget to come visit The Brewery at Four Star if you are in Western Mass this weekend and have the time/inclination. We are only about an hour from Windsor and I’ll be there all afternoon today having Book Club and rocking out to some old-school country music (yay Rosie Porter!! She had a lap steel player last time she came) and there will be a crepe truck.
Thomas Mills of "Politics NC" thinks it's a sign of desperation -- he says you usually don't see these sorts of ads until less than a month before the election, so you can rile people up and have them voting before they have time to actually find out the truth behind the accusations.
Oof another story on that Alpha News place was pretty conservative and inflammatory. Much ado about a kid tipping a drag performer at an all ages show. Whether or not you like drag (indeed I'm not the biggest fan!), it absolutely can be all ages - pretend they are clowns who can lip sync and dance - and guess what. Tipping is the approved gesture to show appreciation. It's not a strip club (though there, nothing against the dancers!) - there can be more than one place you tip cash!
Nobody tell them why the skycap at the airport looked really pissed after helping with their luggage, if they have such a negative view...
Bugs the crap out of me too, the way Democracy Docket hustles so aggressively and shamelessly. That org does great work but have some dignity, dude. I’d happily give you money if you’d ease off the gas pedal some.
He and Brian Tyler Cohen (another offender, though less so) A/B test constantly on YT and it took forever to train my feed to *not* show me the drooling nonsense SHOCKING versions.
I remember when Mr T moved into Lake Forest (an insanely wealthy, white suburb of Chicago, on the north shore). (I grew up there in very different circumstances from my wealthy friends, by the way). He and his family bought a huge, historic estate and the pearl-clutching was fun to witness. What sucked though is that he had all of the old growth trees cut down on acres of property. I'm sure it was a fuck you to the entitled white folks of the town, but it broke my heart that he chose that method to hoist the middle finger. His daughter Lesa went to my high school, and she was cool, though I have no idea how hard it was for her; at the time I believe she was the only Black student, and she was probably the first Black person the denizens of the town had seen outside of their housekeeping staffs.
It's always made it hard for me to see Mr T without that event serving as a filter.
Curiouser and curiouser: The Dow Jones Industrial Average
fell on Friday as August’s hotter-than-expected payrolls reading increased expectations that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates at its next meeting. (CNN)
And now Vivek Ramaswamy is pulling exactly the same thing in Ohio, blaming Amy Acton for a woman’s death in Kentucky
Not only is the whole ad a lie for many reasons like Acton had resigned 6 weeks before it happened and there were visitation rights by that time, but the woman in the ad, Linda Caudill, is a long time GOP operative and a total crackpot who actually was such a pain in the ass dipshit that she was fired from Jim Renaccis campaign for trolling Jon Husted.
This is how that measles thing between PA and CDC played out:
1) CDC asks for patient-specific information about two measles deaths that it knows, or should know, PA can't legally provide;
2) PA offers to provide information with patient redactions, but needs CDC to sign off on paperwork for that;
3) Instead of signing, CDC removes two PA deaths from measles tally and states in a footnote on its website, "At this time, available information does not establish whether measles caused or contributed to the (Pennsylvania) deaths..."
IOW, CDC committed the public-health equivalent of shutting its eyes, covering its ears, and shouting "LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU"
This is what those fuckers do all day. Try to justify the latest erratic raving of that ridiculous failson reformed junkie that Trump put in charge of our health out of revenge for the pandemic.
Before retirement, I had to do multiple online trainings every year. Because I worked in a clinic, they were legion -- hand hygiene, active shooter, mandatory reporting of child and elder abuse, breaking the chain of infection, sexual harassment, you name it. I shall never miss it. Beloved Husband was a NYC public school teacher, and of all the online trainings, he loathed bloodborne pathogens above all others.
Ta, Rebecca. G-L-O-R-I-A indeed. May her memory always be a blessing. Ta, Martini. Birdy feet! Darling Meccalopolis served us flowery white tea, luscious fruit bowls, elitist avocado toast (how elitist? whole wheat sourdough!), and is making lovely coffee. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last, catch up on any other vaccines you need, and get any kids in your family vaccinated as well, and stay the fuck away from us and anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg, Holly's heroic pilot friend Tony, Dolly Parton, who put up a million dollars of her own money to make the Moderna vaccine possible, and nearly eight million dead worldwide, possibly including Gav, who had long COVID. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we love you, medicos of Wonkette, from student to active to retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe. When we vote, we WIN!!
Christian Right: "PAGANISM! EARTH WORSHIP! The Buy-bull sez Gawd gave man dominion over the Earth so we can do whatever we want to it. Besides, the End Times are a commin' any second now, so who cares?!"
I think Gloria would have approved of jacanas’ social structure: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/big-ol-feet
Also, it’s a meme chat for you: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/0ed7a39a-6852-4ecd-add1-d79404f7ab76?utm_source=share
Such feet are a feat to grow into.
The pic of the small jacana in the 'big-ol-feet' substack made me think of line dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgQiIx-nkl4
https://substack.com/profile/157420297-kirsty-gnome-squattor/note/c-329582450
They have the coolest looking eggs!
We're going out to stand in front of the Cheboygan Post Office this afternoon. Wish us luck!...
All the luck for much peaceful success.
Now that's a set of peds.
Nobody notices they have great wings, too.
“Very loud bird” and now it’s associated with a Warner brothers cartoon.
Feets don't fail me now!
You know what they say about someone or some bird with big feet
Most women I know rightly object to assholish behavior from men. Instead of having harmed of male jacanas who raise the chicks, what if the female jacanas decided the males weren’t worth the bother and aggravation and just refused to have anything to do with them?
Feets!
"Puttin' down roots... picking 'em up and putting them down again..."
... harems of males during breeding season, with one breeding female typically copulating with one to four males, and some females maintaining harems of eight or even up to ten mates... She's gotta be pretty busy, it's a jacana's life...
Peculiar Babby Birb.
If you’re not sure footed with feet that big…
Yeah, go ahead Sketchers, make a slip-in for him.
Wattled jacanas like water to wade in.
Bigfoot!
So, both here and in the article about Gloria Steinem, you reference an article in New York magazine and you tell us it “ends with a gut punch.” Could you please reveal it rather than teasing something that is paywalled? I believe in paying for journalism, but I pay over here, not for New York Magazine so…
Hey all! Don’t forget to come visit The Brewery at Four Star if you are in Western Mass this weekend and have the time/inclination. We are only about an hour from Windsor and I’ll be there all afternoon today having Book Club and rocking out to some old-school country music (yay Rosie Porter!! She had a lap steel player last time she came) and there will be a crepe truck.
Fourstarbeer.com in Northfield Ma.
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𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑜𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛.
Thomas Mills of "Politics NC" thinks it's a sign of desperation -- he says you usually don't see these sorts of ads until less than a month before the election, so you can rile people up and have them voting before they have time to actually find out the truth behind the accusations.
Oof another story on that Alpha News place was pretty conservative and inflammatory. Much ado about a kid tipping a drag performer at an all ages show. Whether or not you like drag (indeed I'm not the biggest fan!), it absolutely can be all ages - pretend they are clowns who can lip sync and dance - and guess what. Tipping is the approved gesture to show appreciation. It's not a strip club (though there, nothing against the dancers!) - there can be more than one place you tip cash!
Nobody tell them why the skycap at the airport looked really pissed after helping with their luggage, if they have such a negative view...
Bugs the crap out of me too, the way Democracy Docket hustles so aggressively and shamelessly. That org does great work but have some dignity, dude. I’d happily give you money if you’d ease off the gas pedal some.
He and Brian Tyler Cohen (another offender, though less so) A/B test constantly on YT and it took forever to train my feed to *not* show me the drooling nonsense SHOCKING versions.
I remember when Mr T moved into Lake Forest (an insanely wealthy, white suburb of Chicago, on the north shore). (I grew up there in very different circumstances from my wealthy friends, by the way). He and his family bought a huge, historic estate and the pearl-clutching was fun to witness. What sucked though is that he had all of the old growth trees cut down on acres of property. I'm sure it was a fuck you to the entitled white folks of the town, but it broke my heart that he chose that method to hoist the middle finger. His daughter Lesa went to my high school, and she was cool, though I have no idea how hard it was for her; at the time I believe she was the only Black student, and she was probably the first Black person the denizens of the town had seen outside of their housekeeping staffs.
It's always made it hard for me to see Mr T without that event serving as a filter.
I guess from now on, Congress will have to include a list of people and organizations that have standing to sue under each new law they pass.
Curiouser and curiouser: The Dow Jones Industrial Average
fell on Friday as August’s hotter-than-expected payrolls reading increased expectations that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates at its next meeting. (CNN)
And now Vivek Ramaswamy is pulling exactly the same thing in Ohio, blaming Amy Acton for a woman’s death in Kentucky
Not only is the whole ad a lie for many reasons like Acton had resigned 6 weeks before it happened and there were visitation rights by that time, but the woman in the ad, Linda Caudill, is a long time GOP operative and a total crackpot who actually was such a pain in the ass dipshit that she was fired from Jim Renaccis campaign for trolling Jon Husted.
I think, if people are allowed to vote, that things might be a little unpleasant for the bloated orange crapsack and his sycophants. Good.
This is how that measles thing between PA and CDC played out:
1) CDC asks for patient-specific information about two measles deaths that it knows, or should know, PA can't legally provide;
2) PA offers to provide information with patient redactions, but needs CDC to sign off on paperwork for that;
3) Instead of signing, CDC removes two PA deaths from measles tally and states in a footnote on its website, "At this time, available information does not establish whether measles caused or contributed to the (Pennsylvania) deaths..."
IOW, CDC committed the public-health equivalent of shutting its eyes, covering its ears, and shouting "LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU"
This is what those fuckers do all day. Try to justify the latest erratic raving of that ridiculous failson reformed junkie that Trump put in charge of our health out of revenge for the pandemic.
Denying measles deaths isn't gonna stop the measles, just like ignoring Covid didn't stop Covid.
I pity the fool who doesn't love Mr. T.
OT: Does anyone want to do my Safe Schools? No? I'm super unmotivated to even test out the bloodborne pathogens training for the millionth time.
Before retirement, I had to do multiple online trainings every year. Because I worked in a clinic, they were legion -- hand hygiene, active shooter, mandatory reporting of child and elder abuse, breaking the chain of infection, sexual harassment, you name it. I shall never miss it. Beloved Husband was a NYC public school teacher, and of all the online trainings, he loathed bloodborne pathogens above all others.
Ta, Rebecca. G-L-O-R-I-A indeed. May her memory always be a blessing. Ta, Martini. Birdy feet! Darling Meccalopolis served us flowery white tea, luscious fruit bowls, elitist avocado toast (how elitist? whole wheat sourdough!), and is making lovely coffee. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last, catch up on any other vaccines you need, and get any kids in your family vaccinated as well, and stay the fuck away from us and anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg, Holly's heroic pilot friend Tony, Dolly Parton, who put up a million dollars of her own money to make the Moderna vaccine possible, and nearly eight million dead worldwide, possibly including Gav, who had long COVID. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we love you, medicos of Wonkette, from student to active to retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe. When we vote, we WIN!!
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
Mwah! I love you, darling. Happy Friday to all Wonks who celebrate!
TGIF Tab's and Coffee ☕ R.I.P. Gloria
"Polluting our earth is a sin against GOD."
Christian Right: "PAGANISM! EARTH WORSHIP! The Buy-bull sez Gawd gave man dominion over the Earth so we can do whatever we want to it. Besides, the End Times are a commin' any second now, so who cares?!"