Husband gets to--of course--feel his feelings but he doesn't get to be obnoxious to me, so I've gone to another room and shut the door. I understand that he's feeling anxious and depressed and all of that, and that's completely valid. And I also, having felt that way, understand not wanting to talk about it sometimes (though I did say he should talk to someone).
But when he just yells and gets angry (not threatening me, please note--he would NEVER) it upsets me. I am trying to help. He has a lot of things he needs to take care of before he goes to stay with his mom, and I can do some of them but he's very much refusing any help on my end.
Fine.
Then I'm not going to help. Fuck all that. I'm going to re-read this book that I love and that makes me happy and he can go be angry.
Later on tonight I will be changing out the memory card on my ancient "Wonkette laptop" from 4 Gb to 8Gb, hoping it will be able to run better. I'll let you know how it goes.
Count Ciano said, "Victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
To which we can add: "...and putting that orphan up for adoption will fail." Which Trump, getting nothing but rejections of his pleas for European help with the war, is finding out.
600 sailors aboard USS Gerald Ford. That fire last week destroyed their sleeping quarters, so now they get to sleep on the floor. The lucky ones, presumably, don't have to sleep near the overflowing toilets. Their deployment should have been over months ago.
Most people have no idea how much morale and fatigue can fuck up military operations. One bad move on a carrier deck can result in more ways to die than your insurance agent can dream up. Mess up inputting the weight on a cat launch and you get a $60M anchor with no chain.
What I Did Today Dept.: purchased a new toilet seat. The existing one is grubby, was that way when I moved in; ordered new towels (turquoise), shelves for the bathroom, a new bathrobe, new house slippers, a new pillow, and new pillow cases. Lotta money out the door but I need this stuff.
Also got a cool-looking solo game, M-18 Hellcat. Gotta make the game counters but NBD.
I regret to inform you that the nice young actor from the Inspector Morse spinoff Lewis is being an arsehole again.
Laurence Fox, of the Fox acting dynasty, has gone increasingly right wing doolally over the years. Racism, blackface, homophobia, islamophobia, London politics, libel trials, the lot.
Having been a Modern Lovers fan since I first heard them, and with only one album as I recall, I've been a Richman fan ever since. Not in the capitalist sense of course.
Nor is he. He plays to pay the goddam bills. So do we all.
He is a must see if he's ever in the neighborhood playing a small club.
Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz comes to mind.
Also, too, the Coen brothers often had him playing "live" in the background of their fims in bar scenes.
WASHINGTON — President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason, The Post can reveal.
Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.
Others in the room also found it “hilarious” and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” said one person familiar with the briefing.
Idiots are going to Idiot. Did anybody think that if trump laughs at something each sucking parasite in the room is also going to fall on the floor laughing. Is this a surprise? Are we to take it that it's perfectly reasonable to laugh at gay people? I wonder if Bessent was there.
This is gonna suck for all we USians. It's been sucking for a while now, but now it's really gonna suck.
And it's gonna suck for everyone elsewhere in the world who had been depending on the USA being a responsible global citizen, and sometimes a magnanimous and beneficent superpower.
And it's gonna suck for everyone elsewhere in the world who had managed to stay "under the radar" while not on the best terms with the global hegemon.
All that's over now. Now the US is going to be the rogue elephant in the room, destroying the room. The faster everyone gets out of the room, the better for them.
Eventually the rest of the world will be able to heave a sigh of relief, as the world always does when one Empire falls apart and no new Empire has really taken charge yet.
Of course it'll be China, and their concept of Empire will be very different from ours; but no less self-interested. China's everywhere with the money and technology (and spies), but not so much interested in having soldiers all over everywhere.
It'll take the world a while to get used to that, but they will, and things will go on.
For us though, we're "going to go through some things," as the constituents of every fallen Empire do. We'll have the crazies we have now, pretending we can just wish our way back to global dominance and proposing insane bloodbaths of revanchism. We'll have all the bad-idea utopians coming up with bad ideas. We'll have the main bulk of the population trying to get over their long-held, misplaced, notions of our importance, and trying to figure out how to get along when we actually do have to get along. Many people won't notice a difference, but things'll be different.
I've decided I'm going to be optimistic about the whole thing; because I don't have a choice in what happens but I do have a choice in how I interpret it. And I don't think Empire was a great look for America anyway.
As is my wont, I have a piece of media I grew up with as a reference point.
I watched [adult swim] on Cartoon Network pretty much since its inception. One of the anime shows in constant rotation on that block was "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex". And part of its backstory was that the US split into three separate countries before the present day of the show.
So maybe it's because of that show that the idea of the US no longer existing as it is doesn't hit as hard as it does some others.
I've considered buying a lottery ticket online but decided if I want one I'llget one when I go to the grocery store as the convenience is a slippery slope to buying them anytime and fuck that.
but they’re giving money away ! … seriously though, gambling is an activity that stimulates the production of neurotransmitters inside the brain … a gambler is a junkie that keeps his supply internally (got a Man on the inside as Burroughs would say) …
These are truly evil people.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4kshoaytrzhgsziro6ywozul/bafkreib3nl4yxbjfgafdwtjc2v44lthtpssn7nynpxocz2p4fdgwhytdbe
Husband gets to--of course--feel his feelings but he doesn't get to be obnoxious to me, so I've gone to another room and shut the door. I understand that he's feeling anxious and depressed and all of that, and that's completely valid. And I also, having felt that way, understand not wanting to talk about it sometimes (though I did say he should talk to someone).
But when he just yells and gets angry (not threatening me, please note--he would NEVER) it upsets me. I am trying to help. He has a lot of things he needs to take care of before he goes to stay with his mom, and I can do some of them but he's very much refusing any help on my end.
Fine.
Then I'm not going to help. Fuck all that. I'm going to re-read this book that I love and that makes me happy and he can go be angry.
Hugs Babe.
Bears gonna bear :)
💗💪💯🎶🌀😎
🫂
KEEPS STEPPING ON HIS OWN TIE
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2676245068/
Maybe the former President he spoke to was Henry Kissinger?
Later on tonight I will be changing out the memory card on my ancient "Wonkette laptop" from 4 Gb to 8Gb, hoping it will be able to run better. I'll let you know how it goes.
Well, alrighty then, the very erudite John Brennan most certainly did not talk me off of the proverbial ledge on MSNBC just now.
How far we have fallen, from having folks like him in positions of authority with gravitas in government.
*sighs*
Count Ciano said, "Victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
To which we can add: "...and putting that orphan up for adoption will fail." Which Trump, getting nothing but rejections of his pleas for European help with the war, is finding out.
HITTING BACK TEN TIMES WEIRDER
Shambles threatens Iran with 100% Tariffs until "Strait of Hormuz" immediately renamed "Trump Water".
Isn't RFKjr busy denim-dipping in "Trump Water" right now ? . . .
So wet! So tight!
Guess who won't be in their bunks?
600 sailors aboard USS Gerald Ford. That fire last week destroyed their sleeping quarters, so now they get to sleep on the floor. The lucky ones, presumably, don't have to sleep near the overflowing toilets. Their deployment should have been over months ago.
Most people have no idea how much morale and fatigue can fuck up military operations. One bad move on a carrier deck can result in more ways to die than your insurance agent can dream up. Mess up inputting the weight on a cat launch and you get a $60M anchor with no chain.
Cleanliness and comfort are woke.
markwayne needs a road trip...
What fire? I missed that.
A laundry fire. Not accidental 🚬,, fire.
https://news.usni.org/2026/03/12/carrier-uss-gerald-r-ford-suffers-fire
Christ. The fact that a ship with a nuclear power plant "theoretically" CAN stay on deployment forever doesn't make actually trying it a good idea.
WARFIGHTERS! don't accept the fact that machines break.
As do people.......
And on fucking fire; that's just great. GREAT.
Damn, that laundry fire must've been a lot worse than I'd imagined.
It took 6 hours to put it out, apparently.
[...seethes FURIOUSLY]
So, Germany just basically told the Donvict Fuck off - this isn't NATO's war.
That orange piece of shit has fucked us over SO bad.
Christ....
https://xcancel.com/davidrkadler/status/2033665643816341536
Stop him? No one's going to stop him.
He could bomb London tomorrow and Mile Johnson would be, "It's so good that Donny did that."
“I think I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth.”
This fucker really does think he’s Emperor Nero at this point.
He doesn’t want to be sent to the cornfield.
He will be sent to the cornfield despite his wishes.
What I Did Today Dept.: purchased a new toilet seat. The existing one is grubby, was that way when I moved in; ordered new towels (turquoise), shelves for the bathroom, a new bathrobe, new house slippers, a new pillow, and new pillow cases. Lotta money out the door but I need this stuff.
Also got a cool-looking solo game, M-18 Hellcat. Gotta make the game counters but NBD.
How was your day?
Good. Went to work in my double wide cubicle. It was great.
*shrugs*
That good?
I regret to inform you that the nice young actor from the Inspector Morse spinoff Lewis is being an arsehole again.
Laurence Fox, of the Fox acting dynasty, has gone increasingly right wing doolally over the years. Racism, blackface, homophobia, islamophobia, London politics, libel trials, the lot.
MP Zarah Sultana posts on Twitter
"Kick US troops off UK bases"
To which LozzaFox replies
"Wherever it is that you come from.
Go home."
She's from Coventry.
https://bsky.app/profile/ottoenglish.bsky.social/post/3mh7j3vzg322m
"I was born here! This is where I come from, you fuckwit!
He seems to have gone Bitter Curmudgeon very young. Now he can look forward to the certain Own Children Despise Him.
Nothing like being sent to Coventry.
His right wing trolling has really spoiled my fond memories of Lewis.
Yeah, but then again, it was Robbie who was the heart and soul of it; amazing and worthy as the successor.
*I have a nice model of that Jag, too, LOL
Gotta run. My Lovely Lady's making wild rice soup and it's almost ready.
She's got some great old Modern Lovers playing.
I'd never bring it up to Jonathon Richman, but I bet there were a few people who called Pablo Picasso an asshole.
Oh, lots of people have called Picassso an asshole. Still do.
Having been a Modern Lovers fan since I first heard them, and with only one album as I recall, I've been a Richman fan ever since. Not in the capitalist sense of course.
Nor is he. He plays to pay the goddam bills. So do we all.
He is a must see if he's ever in the neighborhood playing a small club.
Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz comes to mind.
Also, too, the Coen brothers often had him playing "live" in the background of their fims in bar scenes.
From many of the stories I've heard about PP, they weren't entirely wrong.
Yum. Never had it but sounds good!
Just saw his show in Brooklyn last night.
Wonderful (and packed)!
Jealous! Glad you had a good time.
WASHINGTON — President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic for that reason, The Post can reveal.
Trump couldn’t contain his surprise and laughed aloud when he was briefed on the intel, according to sources.
Others in the room also found it “hilarious” and joined the president’s reaction, while one senior intelligence official “has not stopped laughing about it for days,” said one person familiar with the briefing.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/trump-briefed-that-irans-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-is-probably-gay/
Idiots are going to Idiot. Did anybody think that if trump laughs at something each sucking parasite in the room is also going to fall on the floor laughing. Is this a surprise? Are we to take it that it's perfectly reasonable to laugh at gay people? I wonder if Bessent was there.
I hope he was.
Trump floats the idea that they started this war to save Iran from DEI mullahs.
New York Post. Mkay.
Jesus Christ, he’s gay-baiting other world leaders now.
TruthSocial nicknames incoming.
Stupid Hitler and his Stupid Nazis will regret that shit.
He is also much more right wing and maniacal than his father. Laugh it up, phat boy ... they know where you live.
This is gonna suck for all we USians. It's been sucking for a while now, but now it's really gonna suck.
And it's gonna suck for everyone elsewhere in the world who had been depending on the USA being a responsible global citizen, and sometimes a magnanimous and beneficent superpower.
And it's gonna suck for everyone elsewhere in the world who had managed to stay "under the radar" while not on the best terms with the global hegemon.
All that's over now. Now the US is going to be the rogue elephant in the room, destroying the room. The faster everyone gets out of the room, the better for them.
Eventually the rest of the world will be able to heave a sigh of relief, as the world always does when one Empire falls apart and no new Empire has really taken charge yet.
Of course it'll be China, and their concept of Empire will be very different from ours; but no less self-interested. China's everywhere with the money and technology (and spies), but not so much interested in having soldiers all over everywhere.
It'll take the world a while to get used to that, but they will, and things will go on.
For us though, we're "going to go through some things," as the constituents of every fallen Empire do. We'll have the crazies we have now, pretending we can just wish our way back to global dominance and proposing insane bloodbaths of revanchism. We'll have all the bad-idea utopians coming up with bad ideas. We'll have the main bulk of the population trying to get over their long-held, misplaced, notions of our importance, and trying to figure out how to get along when we actually do have to get along. Many people won't notice a difference, but things'll be different.
I've decided I'm going to be optimistic about the whole thing; because I don't have a choice in what happens but I do have a choice in how I interpret it. And I don't think Empire was a great look for America anyway.
Hooray to end of empire. But there were many better ways to end it.
As is my wont, I have a piece of media I grew up with as a reference point.
I watched [adult swim] on Cartoon Network pretty much since its inception. One of the anime shows in constant rotation on that block was "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex". And part of its backstory was that the US split into three separate countries before the present day of the show.
So maybe it's because of that show that the idea of the US no longer existing as it is doesn't hit as hard as it does some others.
"... trying to figure out how to get along when we actually do have to get along"
This right here ... America is no longer the big bully. We have no friends around the world any longer. And it only took 14 months to accomplish that.
What we do next will be telling: we know who did this and why. What will we do to those who destroyed our republic?
I've converted all my Ameros to Xi-Coin.
Reporter gets death threats from gamblers
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/
Yeah, college athletes get death threats from gamblers. It was and is a SUPERGOOD idea.
But was it an open area before the missile hit?
𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢
Online Gambling: the fastest way to indentured servitude.
I've considered buying a lottery ticket online but decided if I want one I'llget one when I go to the grocery store as the convenience is a slippery slope to buying them anytime and fuck that.
Reminds me of the Last Week Tonight daily fantasy sports commercial featuring Kathryn Hahn and Seth Rogen.
https://youtu.be/Xh-jygzzmK4
Las Vegas: Arrive in a $50,000 auto, depart on a $200,000 bus.
but they’re giving money away ! … seriously though, gambling is an activity that stimulates the production of neurotransmitters inside the brain … a gambler is a junkie that keeps his supply internally (got a Man on the inside as Burroughs would say) …
without ever leaving your home....