Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Books are my comfort food!

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

“But what about the lurkers?”

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Let there be snark.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Bark louder, little dog.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Let’s finish the job.

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Ghosts of Holidays Past: Flashes From The Past Edition

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Wonderful flashes from the past from ET and AliceBlue

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Grandma's house

Wonderful flash from the past, in 1970-something, from ET:

It was the year of the stove. Was it a portent of the future?  No. I don’t so much remember it but remember that I loved it.

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Grandma's house
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ROME, GEORGIADECEMBER 20, 1958

Wonderful flash from the past, from AliceBlue:

I mostly lurk here, but I wanted to get in on the holiday picture fun. This is 5 year old me on Santa’s lap in 1958. For some reason, I wanted a stuff tiger that year instead of a doll.

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    eclare

    All the pictures are adorable!  Is that stove color autumn gold?  I remember the other popular appliance colors being avocado and brown.

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    Miss Bianca

    @JanieM: Oh, so cute! Whereas, I was *terrified* of Santa! Which made things terribly awkward from my parents’ POV!

    (I was so relieved to learn that Santa wasn’t real, and *then* I felt I had to keep pretending to believe in him, because all the grown-ups seemed so invested in that belief!)

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    JanieM

    @Miss Bianca: I honestly can’t remember how I felt about Santa Claus. But we have pictures of my son at three months old, sitting in Santa’s lap happy as a clam, and then at a year and three months old, crying. Apparently that’s a common age for kids to be afraid of strangers. He later reverted to being so friendly with anyone he met that I was sometimes afraid he’d just walk off with a stranger one day and I’d never see him again.

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    Miss Bianca

    @JanieM:

    He later reverted to being so friendly with anyone he met that I was sometimes afraid he’d just walk off with a stranger one day and I’d never see him again.

    Sounds like my Siberian Huskies, lol!

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    phdesmond

    WaterGirl, is this post appropriate for this conversation?  if not, you can remove it.

    does this post count as “from the past”?  it’s before our time.

     

    U.S. deaths increase most years, so some annual rise in fatalities is expected. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%, and could go higher once all the deaths from this month are counted.

    That would mark the largest single-year percentage leap since 1918, when tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers died in World War I and hundreds of thousands of Americans died in a flu pandemic. Deaths rose 46% that year, compared with 1917.

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/22/nation/us-deaths-2020-top-3-million-by-far-most-ever-counted/

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    Mary G

    AliceBlue’s Santa looks like a model for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. I love the tiger. And I can see that ET’s Grandma gave the good presents!

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    Tazj

    @eclare: My younger sister got the princess phone in pink, while I got the French style phone in blue. I was mad.My parents had a princess extension phone in their bedroom for a time and I think the dial lit up, so high tech for the 70’s.I thought it was great when I was little.

    The two of you are so cute in those pictures.

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    Juju

    I wanted a stove like that, but Santa never brought me one. The thing I really wanted, and it was in the Sears catalog, was a cotton candy maker. I never got that either.  I also got a princess phone, and it was light blue.   That must have been the go to gift for Santa for little girls.

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    sab

    Electrical malfunction? Rodent wirechewers? Arson?

    Whatever and however, I am so sorry. (2020 is ending soon.)

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    Princess

    Wow, I had a dress very similar to the one in the photo — that same white collar and blue bodice. I *loved* it. I’m guessing I had it around 1972 if that helps.

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    ET

    Yeah it was definitely the early 1970s but I have no idea how old I am here! But 1972/1973 sounds about right.

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    WaterGirl

    I am loving all the reminders of childhood, and what makes all the holiday posts so far really special is seeing the joy and wonderment on these little faces.

    Send in some more pics, peeps.  :-)

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