Did we listen? Nooooooo!

We ignored the warnings.

Too much bad, too little good.

And die a little inside every day?

There’s no reason to be an educator in states like Oklahoma, where education takes a backseat to dogma.

Odd bit of trivia: She was born in the Hudson Valley in NY, and her first language was Dutch. She learned English but spoke with a Dutch accent for the rest of her life.

As the US becomes more isolationist (except for the occasional invasion of small, oil-producing countries), old-fashioned diplomacy will become extinct, replaced by a pay-to-play arrangement with Trump. As this article shows, it’s already in progress.

The US has abandoned NATO, it just hasn’t announced it yet.

Classic BOFH.

This is a perfect example of something you can use in a “both parties are the same” argument.

Forcing use of a technology from the top down never ends up working well.

Wasn’t this Chrome Fuschia?

Resulting in an even more fascist party.

You definitely have to listen to Kate Lister’s podcast “Betwixt the Sheets”.

This sounds like a dysfunctional relationship, doesn’t it?

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“I’m in.”

How his face didn’t melt, we’ll never know.

Does it still have Original Sin?

They were born that way after all.

Valid, but not the first two things that I’d come up with.