Sara Kennedy
@theinfamous.bsky.social
Knitter and member of LSG, fountain pen user, art lover, avid reader and consumer of audiobooks. Cookie the puppy lives with me, and so do the cats Raven and Bowie. RIP Scout, who was a Good Boy and is deeply missed. She/her.
Love that I subscribed to a block list that took care of it before I ever knew he was here.
June 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Love that I subscribed to a block list that took care of it before I ever knew he was here.
In the DC suburbs you get people looking for day labor work in convenience store parking lots, right outside of the U-Haul property, etc.
June 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In the DC suburbs you get people looking for day labor work in convenience store parking lots, right outside of the U-Haul property, etc.
It’s not even that interesting. In 7th grade he needed one more subscription to win a prize, so he bought one to Guns & Ammo, and then actually read it. He really liked Charlton Heston’s column, and he ended up self-radicalizing.
June 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It’s not even that interesting. In 7th grade he needed one more subscription to win a prize, so he bought one to Guns & Ammo, and then actually read it. He really liked Charlton Heston’s column, and he ended up self-radicalizing.
Wipe your sunburn with some vinegar (I use apple cider vinegar, because I always have some). Takes the sting right out.
June 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Wipe your sunburn with some vinegar (I use apple cider vinegar, because I always have some). Takes the sting right out.
Then you get someone like me who will accidentally send you in the wrong direction since I compress distance in my brain and will forget that there are several intersections in the middle there somewhere.
May 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Then you get someone like me who will accidentally send you in the wrong direction since I compress distance in my brain and will forget that there are several intersections in the middle there somewhere.
They become their own markers, though.
May 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
They become their own markers, though.
I was on it and then ended up without coverage, and had to go off of it. I never had an issue with alcohol, but I continue to have no desire for it at all. I had been a 1-2 units per week drinker and now it’s more like 1 per month or less. The food noise in my brain is also still greatly reduced.
May 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I was on it and then ended up without coverage, and had to go off of it. I never had an issue with alcohol, but I continue to have no desire for it at all. I had been a 1-2 units per week drinker and now it’s more like 1 per month or less. The food noise in my brain is also still greatly reduced.
I’d think that improved vascular health would decrease the incidence of vascular dementia, the second most common type of dementia.
May 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I’d think that improved vascular health would decrease the incidence of vascular dementia, the second most common type of dementia.
We are the same age, and I have the same reaction. There’s also a pretty direct parallel between the Republican base reaction to Iran-Contra and January 6. Both obviously illegal and both staunchly defended by the base. Of course, I watched the hearings directly on CSPAN after school.
May 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We are the same age, and I have the same reaction. There’s also a pretty direct parallel between the Republican base reaction to Iran-Contra and January 6. Both obviously illegal and both staunchly defended by the base. Of course, I watched the hearings directly on CSPAN after school.
My dog Scout was running around the house, slipped on the hardwood and went into a skid, landing with his toenail on top of my pinky toe, breaking it.
April 26, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My dog Scout was running around the house, slipped on the hardwood and went into a skid, landing with his toenail on top of my pinky toe, breaking it.
There was a deli in Columbia, MD in the 90s that had a “California Health Sandwich.” It was a double decker on sunflower seed bread with hot mustard and filled with cucumber, tomato, bell pepper, alfalfa sprouts, and havarti cheese. I think they made the mustard in-house.
April 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
There was a deli in Columbia, MD in the 90s that had a “California Health Sandwich.” It was a double decker on sunflower seed bread with hot mustard and filled with cucumber, tomato, bell pepper, alfalfa sprouts, and havarti cheese. I think they made the mustard in-house.
LOC’s Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is also quite beautiful in a very different way. You cannot tour the facility, but their magnificent theater does public film screenings most Fridays and Saturdays.
April 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
LOC’s Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is also quite beautiful in a very different way. You cannot tour the facility, but their magnificent theater does public film screenings most Fridays and Saturdays.
Pair this with Vance being on record as advocating for this administration to ignore court rulings because he apparently believes that this is where the checks and balances lie. Yale really needs to rescind his JD independent of the Bar yanking his license.
April 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Pair this with Vance being on record as advocating for this administration to ignore court rulings because he apparently believes that this is where the checks and balances lie. Yale really needs to rescind his JD independent of the Bar yanking his license.
He was advocating for that stuff before Oprah. She amplified him, she did not create him.
April 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
He was advocating for that stuff before Oprah. She amplified him, she did not create him.
Cheese & dagger skills - but if it’s only cheese, I’m still in.
April 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Cheese & dagger skills - but if it’s only cheese, I’m still in.
I get that. But if the federal government says that congestion pricing is illegal, then it is also in the interest of other entities that get to set congestion pricing in other jurisdictions to lobby on behalf of the MTA so that they do not miss out on their own profits.
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I get that. But if the federal government says that congestion pricing is illegal, then it is also in the interest of other entities that get to set congestion pricing in other jurisdictions to lobby on behalf of the MTA so that they do not miss out on their own profits.
I’m sure that Transurban was also lobbying on this issue. They operate the express lanes in Virginia around DC and down to the bedroom communities, and their whole business model is based on congestion pricing. They own 50% of those lanes and get 100% of the fees for decades.
April 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’m sure that Transurban was also lobbying on this issue. They operate the express lanes in Virginia around DC and down to the bedroom communities, and their whole business model is based on congestion pricing. They own 50% of those lanes and get 100% of the fees for decades.
I suspect there’s going to be a tipping point soon, but it’s hard to say whether we are too spread out for massive protests to be widespread enough to be effective. Sane people need to do the same local to state then federal ground-up takeover on the left that the right did.
March 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I suspect there’s going to be a tipping point soon, but it’s hard to say whether we are too spread out for massive protests to be widespread enough to be effective. Sane people need to do the same local to state then federal ground-up takeover on the left that the right did.
59% of us are one paycheck away from homelessness. Yes, people care less about distant federal government than they care about food and rent, and cannot see how they can risk the food and rent to change the distant federal government. There hasn’t been enough widespread pain to change that.
March 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
59% of us are one paycheck away from homelessness. Yes, people care less about distant federal government than they care about food and rent, and cannot see how they can risk the food and rent to change the distant federal government. There hasn’t been enough widespread pain to change that.
If you’ve been paying attention to the efforts to disenfranchise people, it shouldn’t surprise you that it works.
March 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you’ve been paying attention to the efforts to disenfranchise people, it shouldn’t surprise you that it works.
A lot of this comes down to voter registration. There’s a 30% gap between eligibility numbers and registration numbers nationally, from what I have seen. And that may be less about caring and more about access to registration offices, documents needed to register, and time off to do it.
March 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A lot of this comes down to voter registration. There’s a 30% gap between eligibility numbers and registration numbers nationally, from what I have seen. And that may be less about caring and more about access to registration offices, documents needed to register, and time off to do it.
There are never too many doggos.
March 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
There are never too many doggos.
That’s so sad. I remember my mom telling me that she and my dad were allowed to look at other people, because “we’re married, not dead.” They were married for 53 years.
March 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
That’s so sad. I remember my mom telling me that she and my dad were allowed to look at other people, because “we’re married, not dead.” They were married for 53 years.
Kennedy directly called it a crisis during his radio and television address on October 22, 1962.
That said, my father lived through it and said that contemporary news coverage called it the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a senior in high school and worked part-time at a local radio station.
That said, my father lived through it and said that contemporary news coverage called it the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a senior in high school and worked part-time at a local radio station.
March 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Kennedy directly called it a crisis during his radio and television address on October 22, 1962.
That said, my father lived through it and said that contemporary news coverage called it the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a senior in high school and worked part-time at a local radio station.
That said, my father lived through it and said that contemporary news coverage called it the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a senior in high school and worked part-time at a local radio station.
Cuba called it that
March 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Cuba called it that