Why should the FBI investigate? Last I heard, murder was a state crime.

The right in question is more or less about 13 years old. It always weirds me when a fairly paltry amount of time like that is called “the first time in history.”

Not that I’m not pissed at our country for letting that happen. It’s a big deal but not really a “first time in history” big deal.

My guess is that half of ICE agents stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 as well

Oop. Apologies for failing to see past my local ‘Murican norms. I’ve watched enough “Call the Midwife” that I should know better.

The etymology of “doula” is “female slave” in Greek. So, it’s already got a rough history. A doula and a “god-sib” or the gossip of this post had about the same responsibilities. In modern times, neither of these women have a role in hospital birthing, so it’s kinda pointless to differentiate.

A man who puts ketchup on his well-done steak— a man who wears a blue suit to a funeral— is the arbiter of any sort of artistic endeavor? The very idea is insulting.

And then I feel angry over terms like “improper ideology” being applied to things like the Smithsonian Institute. Or hearing JD Vance whine about college professors. Trump wants to program the Kennedy Center? That’s absurd and casts burning oil onto the concept of “American culture.”

I feel wistful: every day there’s some health-related service being destroyed. The article will say, “So there goes of monitoring the spread of Lyme disease.” I’ve never really worried much about Lyme disease, but I suspect it’s because public health officials were fighting it back. Somehow.

No. Sorry. The university was founded in 1873 (after emancipation, after the Civil War, and after most of Reconstruction) so, no slave-made bricks here. I’m sure we could dig around and find other unethical behavior, but not this one.

VUMC legally separated from Vanderbilt Univ a number of years ago, so technically whether this university has balls or a pussy remains to be seen

Honestly, no. WE don’t do that. Now, some effed up far right goobers may, but they join friends in every other state while hiding in the woods

Are there any Dems supporting “Liberation Day”? If so, they are prolly already on my primary list for being lousy objectors in the past three months.

See “Africa: Economic and Social Failures throughout 20th Century.” I dislike piling on Africa since most of their problems were caused by colonialism, but that place is such a quagmire of trouble, I can’t imagine even where to start.

I dunno about the speed of tariffs but I think it’ll be six months or more before Myanmar sees any effects (what do they export to the U.S., anyway?) and by that standard, Myanmar isn’t different from most other countries. Anybody driving up prices today because of “tariffs” is dishonest.

This was my Lula. She passed three years ago but there’s not a day since that I don’t miss her.

Maybe bang on it a couple of times?

Does “human composting” mean what it sounds like? Turning a bod into mulch for the garden? Not the worst idea but I’ve never been confronted with such an idea.

Do you figure it’s BlueSky or is it you leaving bait like this to stir up “visibility” in the social community?