WYFP? Open Thread
7 May blueoregon14 May Mortifyd21 May AVAILABLEToo distracted by doing a live blog of WHCD. Nice to see WYFP? get a mention.
View ArticleWYFP: Putting It All on The Table
And so, it’s finally happening. The inevitable crap shoot we’ve been predicting since the Reagan administration. Justice Alito is laying it all on the table. We have to yet to see where this bad road...
View ArticleWYFP - School's Out For Summer!
Another semester in the can, and I am relieved. Grades were not so great, 2Bs and a C (stupid French grammar) but not the worst either. I am actually on academic probation with financial aid because...
View ArticleWYFP? Open Thread: "Elongate" and E.D.
‘Elongate’ only applies to men making stupid comments these days, but maybe that’s what Musk calls the “Woke Mind Virus” and only applies to misogynous equine asses.The right wing puts the cult in...
View ArticleWYFP: GOP=Fear Itself
The Republican party has abdicated any responsibility to offer voters a policy platform. Instead, they have chosen to offer a meal of FEAR. And HATE for dessert. I’ve been reading “The Second: Race And...
View ArticleWYFP: Fed Up (Open Thread)
So, last night, I was in the kitchen washing dishes to cook something for dinner and was listening to NPR.There was a show on called, Today Explained and the host was playing messages left by listeners...
View ArticleWYFP - Summer Time Whews!
So summer time has settled in here in Louisiana and it is hot and muggy and gross. Not much going on this week — came back from shul last weekend and puttered around here and there around the house....
View ArticleWYFP? Open Thread
Today’s MFPs:xIMAGINE The World Today!! pic.twitter.com/8rJNItEBeB— Harry who (@HarryJoebanks34) June 18, 2022xMusic in war. As old as war itself. I used music in my own combat tours in Iraq. To calm...
View ArticleWYFP: You Have To Ask?
What a craptastic week, huh? I had a diary all ready about relaxation videos and yoga with goats and this morning….M@@@@@@@@@@@S! I’m having trouble thinking today. We are a nation of laws, except when...
View ArticleWYFP: Just Listening To Music To Make The World Go Away
I surrender. It’s a holiday weekend and it’s been a dumpster fire of a month and I just need to hear some cool new music. First up, this year’s Best New Band named by our weekly, Willamette Week,...
View ArticleWYFP - Some Days
And here we are at the end of another week, and I’m tired. So fucking tired. Between not sleeping super well and the state of the world in general, it’s just not been good for a while, and I’m...
View ArticleWYFP: Musical tunes to cover our illnesses.
For those that follow me at all, it might be somewhat obvious that I am not the Modern Major General of health. I often joke that I go to see every specialist someone could see from the usual...
View ArticleWYFP - Niggling Things
I have a chronic condition in my right ear that we haven’t sorted out what is going on with it yet, and it’s been a decade. I get fluid buildup behind the ear drum, so I have a permanently installed...
View ArticleWYFP: Hot! Hot! Hot!
OMFG. It’s 11am and 85F already. I tried sleeping in the kinda cool computer room this morning, only lasted 2 hours, chair isn’t comfortable enough to sleep in. I may go to a cooling center today. Or,...
View ArticleWYFP: That 70's Show
Not that 70’s show. The other one. Watergate.I’ve been reading Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff and it’s filled with new information that shows the throughline of corruption of the...
View ArticleWYFP? sorry, I won't buy a Tesla, and not because Grimes was reading the...
There’s still a "non-trivial possibility" that we’ll have a recession or a dramatic slowdown in the US, meanwhile there's the lives of the rich and famous… champagne wishes and caviar dreams.CEO...
View ArticleWYFP - Happy Birthday To Me!
So I have had another year around the sun, and I am 53 today. I have plans later on with Mum to celebrate, with breakfast for dinner and a carrot cake. It’s also Rosh Chodesh, the beginning of the...
View ArticleWYFP: This Might Be Worse Than The Dobbs Decision
Once again, I have to delete a perfectly good, well, actually flaky “woe is me” open thread because I find a story on the internet that makes me see red.I was reading my fb feed when a story from...
View ArticleWYFP - FISH!
Another week down the drain, but this one has something new in it for me — FISH! I got the volunteer position at the neuroscience lab and I’m pretty psyched. We had our first meeting Friday at noon...
View ArticleWYFP? do you keep a 'death list'
News of an Oath Keeper's J6 “death list” made me think about whether Johnny Depp or other celebrities keep death lists much like the Dead Pool or “rule of three” that emerges when a celebrity dies....
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