Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

So many bastards, so little time.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

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On The Road – Holidays When We Were Little – 12/28

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There was an editing mishap in the 12/27 post and I think I lost 3 people’s photos, but I don’t know which 3 people!

If you are not Karen H, Marvel or Sis, and you have not seen your holiday photos published yet, please speak up in the comments or send me an email message.

This first set of photos today (3 photos) is from SteverinoCT, and the second set is from Evap.

On The Road – Holidays When We Were Little – 12/28
December 25, 1960

Grandmother and her mother. House tree-stand made by my late grandfather. Santas made by uncle and Mom.

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December 25, 1960

Smokey and Uncle Pat.

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December 25, 1968

The Year of the Cat Carrier. Me (6), Mom (27!!), Sis (7). Quick-draw Bart, and slow-draw Etch-A-Sketch.

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Santa's Lap

From Evap:  I recently found a series of photos of my brother and I sitting on Santa’s lap, taken every year from 1959 to 1964. Unfortunately, they are quite faded. Here we are in 1961.

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Here we are in 1964, you can can see the results of the home perm my mom gave me. I can still remember those home perms, with the little plastic rollers and the awful chemical smell!

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  1. 1.

    debbie

    SteverinoCT’s grandmother and great-grandmother have the same awesome posture as my grandmother and great-grandmother do in my photos. I’m jealous.

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    mrmoshpotato

    If you are not Karen H, Marvel or Sis, and you have not seen your holiday photos published yet, please speak up in the comments or send me an email message.

    I am not any of those commenters, and I haven’t seen my photo published yet (because I didn’t send any in.)

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    MelissaM

    I want to know more about Quick-Draw Bart! Also WTF with all the tinsel? Why were people so into tinsel in the past?

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    steverinoCT

    @MelissaM: Pull down his arm, and it would tick-tick-tick until it would pop up. The idea was that you would try to beat him on the draw. I didn’t play with it much; good ol’ Dad was a Western fan and living with my divorced Mom in a house of wimmen-folk, I had to get my manlies somewhere.

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    WaterGirl

    @Marvel: Yes!

    Karen H, Marvel and Sis will all be featured in the New Year’s Eve edition.  (New Year’s Eve at 5 am, of course)

    So I know for sure that you’re not the ones that got mixed up. :-)

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