at 20 years old, working in a chemical plant, doing hydrostatic testing on piping on the roof on a 12 hour shift and the fucking Fred Flintstone whistle blew and I swung down off that pipe like a monkey and landed asshole first on an instrumentation pole. I broke my coccyx, but because I was still probationary and couldn't afford to lose the job, I had to suck it up and walk it off.
to this day (35 years later), a couple times a year, I can't sit down for a few days.
Yeah, perhaps I should rethink that. My tailbone is dislocated outward from childbirth. I fell chasing said child in a playground. Either they skimped on the mulch, or 9" of mulch was not enough to cushion it. I couldn't sit w/o adonut for weeks. No worker's comp bc moming is not real work.
Sainted Mom, I remember, once wore her hair in a ponytail while doing housework. Remembering the Good n' Plenty TV commercial, I latched onto it and, holding on with all my weight, went "Choo choo"!
Evan--DO go to Grand Isle (near the Convention Center). We're in NOLA a couple of times a year and we go there each time, because it's nice and casual, and good food, and great staff. People always go to the "big name" places but there's a place for just great oysters too!
But regarding "name" places, The Turkey and the Wolf's collard greens melt is SO GOOD--maybe the best sandwich I've ever had (weirdly).
So what you're saying is that if Pete (hic!) Hague-seth's super-jacked, smooth-shaven Army won't have you >cough<muscle queen>cough<, Kirsti Noem will take your mom's-basement-dwelling bod into her gestapo?
Just got done at my doctor’s office. Thank god she took her time examining me—that’s more than can be said for the two ER docs. Verdict? Venous insufficiency. She put me on a more intense fluid pill, but she also confirmed no infection (thank god).
The swelling of fluid backing up, the tiny bit of leakage, and the raised areas of skin are, she said, all indicative of venous insufficiency.
So fluid pills, plus I’m supposed to get compression stockings. Hooray.
Yesterday I posted a tongue-in-cheek comment here about the two survivors of Trump's Caribbean murder spree, sitting on a plank of their demolished boat and planning to surf bushels of cocaine to Trinidad. Now that details of the snuff film have gone public, it turns out that's a pretty good description of what they were doing: sitting shirtless on a piece of flotsam from their vessel. Nowadays nothing is too grotesque to be real...
According to Tom Cotton the two were on the verge of flipping the still seaworthy twenty foot boat loaded with its drug cargo, multiple outboard engines, and enough fuel to continue their mission upright while treading water.
Another fun New Orleans timing thing is that one of the largest annual earth sciences conferences is happening Dec 15-19 at the convention center. Its expected to be smaller this year since there will be fewer federal agency attendees, and I suspect a lot of international scientists are not attending for their own safety. But smaller is relative, because this was a 15-20k person gathering at its peak.
I didn't realize that Alligator Alcatraz was open for business again. Surprise, Amnesty International
just released a report that found “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” rising in some cases to torture.
Molly Best, press secretary to Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, told the Guardian the Amnesty report was “nothing more than a politically motivated attack”.
“None of these fabrications are true. In fact, running these allegations without any evidence whatsoever could jeopardize the safety and security of our staff and those being housed at Alligator Alcatraz,” she said.
I just paid almost $600 for a 2-year license plate renewal in MD. (We don’t have an annual car property tax like Virginia.) $200 of that is the surcharge for an EV or PHEV. I figure that’s okay, as I certainly avoid almost $60 a year in gas taxes (I drive relatively few miles)… and even my Escape plug-in is pretty heavy, compared to the antiques, i.e. ice vehicles, so causes more road wear.
If you’re rational … I know, a high bar … that extra $100 a year is an incentive to plug in your PHEV. I’d feel pretty stupid if I didn’t, and just paid $100 extra a year for nothing.
I decided to only go with the 2 year renewal, rather than the max 3, since I have no confidence even Maryland will exist for 3.
“Remember, folks, if you go to the Hanukkah party at JD Vance’s house, don’t sit on a couch! All the couches are JD’s seat”
It’s okay. As someone who celebrates Hanukkah I can tell you that all Jewish mothers cover their furniture in plastic. Probably because somewhere in Deuteronomy there’s a law about it after some redneck gentile tried to fuck a love seat one time during Yom Kippur.
Hi all, here is your gif source post for today, and my last missive from Italy. Thanks to Ziggy for keeping the meme posts going.
https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/tail-tug
Kids!
MAMA ... MAMA ... MAMA ... MAMA ... Pay attention to meeeeeeeeee Mama!!!
Mommy, I kill danger noodle creeping up on u!
I would have like having a tail to entertain them with when I had 3 toddlers.
Mama lion looks so patient, it warms my heart.
Mama lion is probably thinking "What's for dinner? Gotta catch it first."
Mama Lion looks like she goes through this a LOT.
Training cubby to hunt for hubby.
All hail ziggy!
Master of many hats!
Movie Night Boss
Smasher of Bots
Keeping the aisles of Wonkette
Clean….
So Rebecca or our beloved authors can go on vacation and have a good time !
Knowing that they’re not gonna come back to find the whole
Mother-Ship on fire!
ALL HAIL ZIGGY!
The next time you see them, give them some love and appreciation!
3 Huzzahs for Ziggy!
HUZZAH
HUZZAH
HUZZAH!!!
"ALL HAIL ZIGGY!"?
are you sure?
She isn't A cat you know.
Ok.....
ALL HAIL ZIGGY!
ALL HAIL ZIGGY!
Love you Chickenz!
I love you right back, Ziggy!
Mama doesn't get upset
Although it takes some tryin'
The urge to give that kid a bat
Takes some strong denyin'
But mama takes it in her stride
Cuz she loves her little scion
She knows he is a growing cub
And will be a fine grown lion
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
I wish humans had tails.
I have tailbone deformity resulting from a fracture that looks like a docked tail.
I wish like hell that I'd known about Worker's Comp when I fell off of that ladder onto the shoe display table at the old Anthony's Deptartment Store.
at 20 years old, working in a chemical plant, doing hydrostatic testing on piping on the roof on a 12 hour shift and the fucking Fred Flintstone whistle blew and I swung down off that pipe like a monkey and landed asshole first on an instrumentation pole. I broke my coccyx, but because I was still probationary and couldn't afford to lose the job, I had to suck it up and walk it off.
to this day (35 years later), a couple times a year, I can't sit down for a few days.
yeah, I gots me a little tail nub too. :)
Yeah, perhaps I should rethink that. My tailbone is dislocated outward from childbirth. I fell chasing said child in a playground. Either they skimped on the mulch, or 9" of mulch was not enough to cushion it. I couldn't sit w/o adonut for weeks. No worker's comp bc moming is not real work.
It hurt like HELL for a while, didn't it?
Sitting down became a major undertaking.
To this day there is an obvious deformity there and I have to be careful about skin breakdown.
Yes! I forgot how much. You know what? Fuck tails.
We could use a whole tribe of mommy lions snacking on ICE agents.....
Contented mommy, keeping her baby happy and occupied.
I have a picture of a foster kitten about to attack my older cat's tail, taken in the instant before the pounce. It always makes me laugh.
https://substack.com/profile/155713940-queen-meabh/note/c-184474236
Mom.
Mom.
MOM!
*sigh* What is it now?
"Junior? Go see if your father needs help. If he doesn't, help him anyway..."
Mom might have to go shopping for dinner soon.
Sainted Mom, I remember, once wore her hair in a ponytail while doing housework. Remembering the Good n' Plenty TV commercial, I latched onto it and, holding on with all my weight, went "Choo choo"!
Mom never wore her hair in a ponytail again.
Funny, I did the same thing.
It's been an entire week now, and mom still hasn't spoken to me.
Babby lion and Mama - lovely!
Mama Mia!
Pop up bs made that Newsweek link unusable IMO....
Evan--DO go to Grand Isle (near the Convention Center). We're in NOLA a couple of times a year and we go there each time, because it's nice and casual, and good food, and great staff. People always go to the "big name" places but there's a place for just great oysters too!
But regarding "name" places, The Turkey and the Wolf's collard greens melt is SO GOOD--maybe the best sandwich I've ever had (weirdly).
So what you're saying is that if Pete (hic!) Hague-seth's super-jacked, smooth-shaven Army won't have you >cough<muscle queen>cough<, Kirsti Noem will take your mom's-basement-dwelling bod into her gestapo?
Gotcha...
Just got done at my doctor’s office. Thank god she took her time examining me—that’s more than can be said for the two ER docs. Verdict? Venous insufficiency. She put me on a more intense fluid pill, but she also confirmed no infection (thank god).
The swelling of fluid backing up, the tiny bit of leakage, and the raised areas of skin are, she said, all indicative of venous insufficiency.
So fluid pills, plus I’m supposed to get compression stockings. Hooray.
Will Bari Weiss smoke on camera during the town hall like Ed Murrow?
Perhaps not the best takeaway from that survey, but what kind of choice is "I am such person"? Is the other choice "I am not such person"?
Yesterday I posted a tongue-in-cheek comment here about the two survivors of Trump's Caribbean murder spree, sitting on a plank of their demolished boat and planning to surf bushels of cocaine to Trinidad. Now that details of the snuff film have gone public, it turns out that's a pretty good description of what they were doing: sitting shirtless on a piece of flotsam from their vessel. Nowadays nothing is too grotesque to be real...
According to Tom Cotton the two were on the verge of flipping the still seaworthy twenty foot boat loaded with its drug cargo, multiple outboard engines, and enough fuel to continue their mission upright while treading water.
Another fun New Orleans timing thing is that one of the largest annual earth sciences conferences is happening Dec 15-19 at the convention center. Its expected to be smaller this year since there will be fewer federal agency attendees, and I suspect a lot of international scientists are not attending for their own safety. But smaller is relative, because this was a 15-20k person gathering at its peak.
ICE. ICE is who needs to be deported to Eswatini. Or just locked up in some Florida swamp. Forever.
I didn't realize that Alligator Alcatraz was open for business again. Surprise, Amnesty International
just released a report that found “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” rising in some cases to torture.
Molly Best, press secretary to Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, told the Guardian the Amnesty report was “nothing more than a politically motivated attack”.
“None of these fabrications are true. In fact, running these allegations without any evidence whatsoever could jeopardize the safety and security of our staff and those being housed at Alligator Alcatraz,” she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/alligator-alcatraz-human-right-violations-amnesty-report
I just paid almost $600 for a 2-year license plate renewal in MD. (We don’t have an annual car property tax like Virginia.) $200 of that is the surcharge for an EV or PHEV. I figure that’s okay, as I certainly avoid almost $60 a year in gas taxes (I drive relatively few miles)… and even my Escape plug-in is pretty heavy, compared to the antiques, i.e. ice vehicles, so causes more road wear.
If you’re rational … I know, a high bar … that extra $100 a year is an incentive to plug in your PHEV. I’d feel pretty stupid if I didn’t, and just paid $100 extra a year for nothing.
I decided to only go with the 2 year renewal, rather than the max 3, since I have no confidence even Maryland will exist for 3.
I thought there was no Menorah allowed this year? Was that just in the White House? The VP's residence is allowed? Did I mis read something?
I hate to say it, but Hegseth has a point. Doesn’t Stephen Miller seem like the kind of guy just looking for a bag of kittens to drown?
I wouldn’t want that ghoul around my kids either.
"Celebrating 50 years of Christmas at the Vice President's Residence". Very Hanukkah.
Also, who decided on that illegible font?
Probably the same "graphics design is my passion" fuckknob who made those Oval Office signs. These assholes are like polymaths of incompetence.
“Remember, folks, if you go to the Hanukkah party at JD Vance’s house, don’t sit on a couch! All the couches are JD’s seat”
It’s okay. As someone who celebrates Hanukkah I can tell you that all Jewish mothers cover their furniture in plastic. Probably because somewhere in Deuteronomy there’s a law about it after some redneck gentile tried to fuck a love seat one time during Yom Kippur.
Damn Canaanites.