Yes, it is. It is the only Christmas movie I like.

Midnight in Oregon, and Sen. Merkley is reading the poem again, sounding the alarm bells. He’s outlasted the livestream, so they started a new livestream. www.youtube.com/live/ymDt1Xe...

“For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.”

poets.org/poem/paul-re...

It’s 11 pm here in the west coast, 2 am in DC, and midnight mountain time. My 68-year-old senator is reading Longfellow. “It’s about ringing alarm bells.”

Rename it Bicks and Dots?

Yup. Gone.

I kinda feel like they should… think for a few minutes about how that movie ends.

It’s also the plot of Elysium. Not enough medbeds for everyone, only the rich get access to them, floating above the grimy, sickness-riddled masses in a gated community space station….

I just got off a plane after a 5-hour flight and wondered the same thing. Apparently it didn’t happen. Quelle surprise.

Gotta add a clause noting that every word of that was false.

(Well, not ALL of them… actually I need a couple more but they only let you get 3 at a time.)

More of this please

time is a flat circle

According to this map, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Hawaii do not exist.

Yes, sadly we lost the little one a few years ago and Thawra last summer at the ripe old age of 12.5. They were the best. It took us a while to feel ready for a new pup, and then Fiona needed a new home asap, so here we are. She is also the best. A bit too smart for her own good.