Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The willow is too close to the house.

This fight is for everything.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

You cannot shame the shameless.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Let there be snark.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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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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