My laptop is in the shop getting some updates and I have come to realize I can’t watch tv without a laptop to imdb stuff.
This was some unexpected nice news:
The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis had allowed priests to bless same-sex couples, his most definitive step yet to make the Roman Catholic Church more welcoming to L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics and more reflective of his vision of a more pastoral, and less rigid, church.
The Vatican had long said it could not bless same-sex couples because it would undermine church doctrine that marriage is only between a man and a woman.
Not that I really give a shit what the Pope or Cardinals or the Catholic church think, but I am aware that the godbotherers exist and will continue to do so despite whatever I do, so any signs of them at least moving in the right direction is welcome.
My first thought when seeing the headline earlier was “Ehh- that’s nice,” and my IMMEDIATE next thought was “Somewhere Rod Dreher is having an epic fucking meltdown.”
Decades of blogging have taken their toll on my soul. Atone for my sins and buy a fucking Pet Calendar.
mrmoshpotato
What about using your phone for IMDB?
Rose Weiss
John Cole, we all love you. I’ve been reading this blog since you were a Republican with serious doubts about you party. I’ve loved following you every step along the way.
Viva BrisVegas
Dreher isn’t even Roman Catholic, he’s not entitled to give a fuck.
Mike in NC
Speaking of laptops, what will the Republicans dream up next that was hidden on Hunter’s fake laptop? Nothing about a coup I’m sure.
Alison Rose
I already bought and received my pet calendar. That should cover at least one sin.
I hate winter because I wash my hands a lot and my choice is to either wash them in the ice fucking cold water that comes out of the bathroom sink at first or leave it running for at least a damn whole minute for the water to warm up which as a Californian makes me feel like I am committing both a felony and whatever the worst type of sin is but I don’t know the name because I’m a Jew and we barely bother with that shit and so anyway most of the time I just go with the ice cold water and my hands are so dry they look like they’re part of a statue that’s been hanging out in the basement of the British Museum for a decade which means I have to constantly coat them in Aveeno lotion but then inevitably I have to wash my hands again like half an hour later and it sucks.
Thank you drive through.
Mike in NC
Bailed on the Catholic Church when I was 18 and never looked back.
bbleh
No Catholic here, not even a monotheist of any stripe, but from a political point of view it’s fkn huge. The Lawyers of the Church have found a way to straddle divides and split hairs and conjure principles and all those other things that lawyers do, and now it’s a HELLA lot more ok to be gay according to the Official Doctrine of a 1500-plus-year-old organization that commands the loyalty of more than a BILLION people worldwide. And speaking as someone whom the Evangelical Christianist Fascists of America (ECFA, “No Questions Allowed”) would happily ship off to camps in the desert from which mysteriously nobody returns, I’m more than just OK about that.
2liberal
get an ipad and set up SIRI
Mapaghimagsik
they can bless as long as they don’t call it marriage or something?
If not, cool.
If so, fuck them.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
Glucosamine and olive oil.
bbleh
@Mapaghimagsik: as I understand it, WE can call it marriage, and they can “bless” it, but they won’t admit it as a “sacrament.”
Fine. It’s a huge step. Don’t need everything at once. (In fact, I don’t really care much about their sacraments.)
Alison Rose
@Jay: Am I supposed to eat that or rub it on my hands? I don’t think I wanna do either.
mrmoshpotato
@Alison Rose: Try Neutrogena hand cream if you have any issues with Aveeno.
Works great year round for me.
Ruckus
Bought 2 calendars this year. One a xmas present for a friend of 50 years, and his wife.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … France24.com:
The world is getting smaller all the time…
Cheers,
Scott.
gwangung
Born and raised a Southern Baptist. And that’s formed a lot of my ethics.
I struggle not to despise the more rigid Catholics and evangelical “Christians.”
Chetan Murthy
@Alison Rose: Please don’t confuse me with someone with a clue, but …. wouldn’t cold water mean you strip off less of the body’s oils, so you should have less-dry skin? I’d always been told it was the spiking-hot needle showers that give you the dry skin …..
In any case, I sympathize with you: these dry months, after I go for my every-other-day swim, I have to put on moisturizer (I use CeraVe) all over my lower legs and ankles. As in: I use a silicone spatula, b/c it’s more efficient at spreadin’ that shit out. Or I’ll wake up in the middle of the night scratching with my toenails until I *bleed*.
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
I worked with my hands making things out of metal so the hands needed some help to actually look like hands. Neutrogena was and is the answer.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
Glucosamine is a cream, scented or unscented. You rub it in.
-40F, but a dry cold, : ) working outside would cause my hands to “crack”, be painful, get infected,
Then I got Glucosamine.
Olive oil is great for the skin. Rub it in wash it off. Make oven fries or massage a chicken. It doesn’t need to be Virgin Olive Oil unless you are Baud.
Parfigliano
Who gives a shit what a cult for pedophiles says about anything.
Nukular Biskits
I sure hope we’re not going to see Marjorie Taylor Greene waving pics of you around in a congressional hearing.
Kristine
@Jay:
Nominated
Alison Rose
@mrmoshpotato: Oh, I love the Aveeno lotion. It works great, but no lotion is gonna stay on through handwashing.
Alison Rose
@Chetan Murthy: No idea, all I know is it’s way worse in the winter, and I assume the cold water is to blame.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: What about massaging your skin with a chicken?
mrmoshpotato
@Alison Rose: Gotcha.
billcinsd
@Viva BrisVegas: He was RCC for a while before deciding it was getting too woke and he went Eastern or perhaps Russian Orthodox. Also, he probably wasn’t entitled to check out his classmates primitive root wieners and yet he did
Chetan Murthy
@Alison Rose: I don’t stint on the hot water, and go thru a tub (19oz) of CeraVe moisturizer every winter. Don’t use it at all in the spring/summer/fall months. Never happened back East (Ithaca NY/NYC/Boston) nor as a child in TX. Nor in Paris, come to think of it (and I swam a shit-ton there).
Moisturizer.
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
Molesting a Chicken?
PETA will hear about this.
Jackie
The Seahawks win!!!
My contribution to this thread 😊
Roberto el oso
@Viva BrisVegas: Dreher isn’t really anything. He’s ‘searching’ for a god made in his own image, and he’ll grow disappointed with Eastern Orthodoxy before the decade is out. My bet is that eventually he’ll start his own religion.
StringOnAStick
@Alison Rose: Get some solid shea butter and put it on at night. Works miracles. As it warms up in your hand it becomes something that you can rub in as it melts.
Roberto el oso
The whole ‘blessings’ without officiating anything is a baby step, I guess. But it does remind me of a funny situation a friend was in many years ago. His father was severe RC and disapproved of his son’s cohabitation with a woman without being married to her. When my friend and his SO went to visit they were not allowed to share a bedroom. But his mom, who was the more flexible version of RC let him know that while they couldn’t share a bedroom that if they were both to just happen to go into the garage for an extended period of time they would not be interrupted. The girlfriend was easygoing about the whole thing and said it was actually sort of nice as they got to cosplay being teenagers all over again.
C Stars
Looking up movies and TV shows after I’ve watched them is one of my favorite things to do. Embarrassed to admit it, but I like looking on Reddit because people just get so fanatic and minute in their discussions. I enjoyed the batshit crazy conversation on Reddit about what *actually* happened at the end of KATLA
C Stars
@Roberto el oso: Yeah he seems like too much of a self absorbed weirdo to actually adhere to any specific spiritual dogma that is not uniquely tailored to fit his own neuroses. Then again he loves being a submissive to the big fearsome alphaman in the sky so maybe orthodox will stick. (Although didn’t he get divorced and isn’t that a no no for his brand of orthodoxy?)
Aw geez, I have just officially spent too much time thinking about Rod Dreher. Bleah. I’m going to go rewatch the Florida kid take down Bridget Ziegler as a pallet cleanser.
Anotherlurker
@Alison Rose: Aquaphor works well for me dealing with post shave razor burn . It looks like vaseline but it is water soluble.
TriassicSands
We’re talking about Cole here. Remember, he was a Republican, even long after the party’s initial descent into madness. So, yes, he gets special consideration, but you’ll probably have to buy at least one more calendar for each Republican John voted for prior to his miracle conversion. Perhaps, a GoFundMe appeal will ease the burden.
On the other hand, Cole’s work on behalf of troubled critters does much to erase his debt, so maybe buying just one more calendar to give to a friend would even the score.
PS: I will deny to my dying day that Cole hired me to reply to your comment. Only a Republican would stoop so low, and he’s not a Republican anymore.
I did note that Cole’s message said:
So, given your comment earlier about the use of that word, maybe his was an appeal (order?) aimed directly at you.
Note: Take none of the above with a grain of salt.
Brachiator
@gwangung:
What you talking about? Southern Baptists ain’t got no ethics. Hell, most of them can’t even spell “ethics.”
I grew up in the South, and yet somehow religion just bounced off me.
I am happy that the Pope says that same sex couples can be blessed because it will make some people happy, and incense right wing dopes.
The Pope is “woke.”
TriassicSands
@Alison Rose:
What are you doing that makes your hands so dirty? You don’t have to tell me.
I have to wash my hands a lot because I’m doing home infusions of nutrition, and I would prefer to avoid a fatal infection of which there are apparently 25,000 a year in the U.S. But the recommendation is for me to use warm, not hot water, in order to avoid excessive hand dryness. If it makes you feel any better, to get even warm water, I have to turn on the water for a lot more than a minute. I suspect the hot water heater for the building I recently had to move into is located in a nearby county or possibly an adjacent state.
piratedan
all I know is that it’s gotta be one helluva job to determine the virginity of those olives……
Jay
@piratedan:
Virgin Olive Oil is olive oil from the first pressing.
As far as I know, Extra Virgin Olive oil comes from when a Cappa Di Tutti stares at the unpressed olives until they sweat oil, take the gun and leave the cannoli.
Alison Rose
@TriassicSands: I might be slightly germ-phobic. I wash my hands any time I go to the bathroom, do any cleaning, feed the cat, etc, and then again right before I eat.
HumboldtBlue
I think Cole needs some kangaroo boots.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
There are soaps that won’t strip your hands dry.
I think that there is someone here who can help with that.
NotMax
Scrubbed of any, um, revealing pics, presumably.
//
Alison Rose
@Jay: I don’t want anything Baud makes.
cain
@Roberto el oso: I expect a lot of new religions as the mega church christians start thinking maybe Jesus was a bit too woke for them and are looking for something else – that is kind of like Jesus but more like them.
Rose Weiss
@Alison Rose: You’re certainly not alone. I was a nurse in my previous life and was trained to wash my hands after every interaction and before every action. So interpreted into Real Life that means washing my hands dozens of times a day. Before, during, and after food prep, before and after eating, goes without saying after every time I use the bathroom, tend to plants, do any outside work … you get the picture. I can’t help myself.
cain
@NotMax: It’s probably all GOP pr0n.
Alison Rose
@Rose Weiss: Same! But I don’t have a medical career to pin it on, just my inane brain chemistry.
Chetan Murthy
@Jay: Oh ha! I found that Dove bars (the white bars, cheep cheep) also helped with the dry-to-point-of-cracking skin problem. But only a bit, where CeraVe just cleared it up completely, so I just went with the CeraVe. But Dove bars helped.
Jay
@Alison Rose:
@Rose Weiss:
Tool Rental and Repair at a Big Box Store as an “essential worker”, through Covid, not that it’s gone,.
Washed my hands all the time, probably 60 times a day, plus harsh chemicals.
Glucosamine lotion and olive oil soap were my go to.
Talk to a local or Esty, (this week, soon to be gone) soap maker.
SWMBO’s best friend makes soap, we each came back from Arizona with two bars, her’s clay based for exfoliation, mine essential oil based for dry skin.
They are a small luxury.
TriassicSands
@Alison Rose:
All sensible practices. It reminds me of a joke from decades ago.
Two young men enter a men’s room at the same time. One is attending Harvard; the other Yale. They proceed to urinate. When finished, the Yale student washes his hands, but the Harvard student doesn’t.
The Eli turns to the Harvard student and says: “At Yale they teach us to wash our hands after peeing.”
The Harvard student replies with an air of superiority: “At Harvard they teach us to avoid peeing on our hands.”
I heard it as a Harvard and Yale student, but any two rival schools would work.
C Stars
La Roche Possay Cicaplast balm is the best. My 13 yo gets such chapped hands and cheeks in the winter that on occasion to they bleed and look like abrasion wounds. We tried the CeraVe and Cetaphil and Aquaphor creams but had to slather it on constantly to make any difference. The Cicaplast balm, a little dab each night, has been preventative this year as well as just generally making their skin soft and healthy looking. It’s weird because it rarely gets below 45F here. Can’t imagine what it would be like if we lived somewhere that actually gets cold.
cain
@Rose Weiss: Whew – that’s a long time! I must say that my relationship with this blog has been longer than any other website/relationship :D That is a strange thing I must admit.
Chris T.
@Alison Rose:
Nope: it’s the dry (or drier, anyway) air. The cold temperatures can aggravate joint pain as well (both cold in general, and the cold-water wash).
Places that get seriously cold generally have humidifiers to go with their heating systems. In coastal CA (and OR and WA) we don’t need that, as it’s usually sufficiently humid even with the heat on.
Rose Weiss
@cain: Well, before I found this place, I was a daily visitor to DK. But when really nasty pie wars started, I went searching for another online goto. This felt like shelter in the storm.
frosty
@Alison Rose: Here’s a thought on water conservation. Well, two (no, three, no four, four is the number, the number is four) thoughts.
1 put a pot or bucket under the faucet to catch and save the wasted water before it gets hot. Use it for cooking or drinking later.
2 microwave the amount of water you need to use for washing to warm it up.
or 3 Ignore the conservation issue and just let it warm up. I know, it’s tough, but realize you’re doing good somewhere else. Which reminds me …
4 Get a Navy showerhead. It has a button that shuts the shower off while you soap up. We have one in our trailer to stretch the water tank when we’re dry camping. “Navy” refers to needing to save water shipboard – my FIL had one in his house decades after WWII in the Pacific.
@Alison Rose: I see #1 and #2 may not be feasible. Go with #3 and get #4 to ease your water conservation guilt. If you already have #4 comfort yourself that Tulare Lake is still out there and they don’t know what to do with all that water.
Mike in Pasadena
Ross Douchehat is having a meltdown too.
Ruckus
@Jay:
I use Safeguard. Made by P&G. Used to be in most stores, now it seems tough to find, on line it can be bought many places, WallyWorld seems to be the only local place for me to buy it any longer.
I worked for decades with metals and oils and solvents and my hands are none the worse for wear. The rest of me on the other hand……
Alison Rose
@frosty: Yeah, I don’t mean to sound snippy but these are things I have thought of.
1. The sink is too shallow to fit a pot under the faucet, and even if it weren’t, I don’t cook and the tap water here is too disgusting to drink even if you put it through a Brita. I also do not have plants or any outdoor space to use it for watering.
2. Microwaving a cup of water ten times a day seems like a bit much, plus I would still need water to rinse soapy hands off with, and then whatever cup I’d used would get soap all over it while I’m holding it trying to rinse my hands off.
3. I do usually ignore conservation, but it just feels shitty. We’ve already gotten a decent amount of rain (for CA, that is) but even so, when you live here, drought always feels like it’s just around the corner again. Plus it adds to my fucking rent.
4. Showers aren’t the issue. I only shower every other day and I’m in there for five minutes tops.
Rose Weiss
@Rose Weiss:
Plus pets! My late husband and were both big cat fans/servants. We grieved about every loss JC had, especially Tunch, who was like an adopted member of our family.
Tony Jay
It’s all fantastical arglebargle that only matters because people pretend it’s real, but so are democracy and human rights, so it does matter how they’re interpreted by the PTB.
Frankie Bergoglio seems to be a real Christian in the Jesusy sense of the word, which is better than having a corpse-faced German fascist in that job. What’s not to like*?
*Also applies to the Sadness of Dreher. I guess some people just want to watch the world’s rootlike penises being showered while they flagellate themselves and cry about the unfairness of it all. Which is fine by me.
steve g
@Alison Rose: In this old house, I run the hot water in the tub first, because it gets warm quicker. Then turn it off and use the sink, which then takes just a moment to start yielding hot water. It is just as much waste, so no help there, but it happens faster.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: But maybe not just dressed in boxer briefs.
Ohio Mom
@Alison Rose: Would either of these McGyvers work (and fit your budget):
Get an electric tea kettle and a pitcher. Fill the pitcher with a mixture of cold tap water and hot water from the kettle, pour over hands (over the sink obviously).
Or a baby bottle warmer but fill the bottle with water and pour that water over your hands. A bottleful may not be enough water though.
I hate chapped hands. I also wash my hands a fair amount and credit my good hand hygiene for allowing me to keep the number of head colds I get to a minimum. But I get my water from the Ohio River. If that dries up, the weld is coming to an end.
lowtechcyclist
@Roberto el oso:
The garage, huh?
Well, I saw you makin’ love with him
He forgot to close the garage door
-Dylan
Barry
@Roberto el oso: “Dreher isn’t really anything. He’s ‘searching’ for a god made in his own image, and he’ll grow disappointed with Eastern Orthodoxy before the decade is out. My bet is that eventually he’ll start his own religion.”
Seconded. I followed his descent into madness over on The American Conservative.
Mousebumples
Late to this thread, but I’ll endorse satby’s soaps and lotions. When Covid hit, I ramped up my hand washing, even though I was mostly isolating at home, and my skin was Not Pleased.
My daughter also had sensitive skin, and she does not deal well with the store bought soap at her 4K. Satby’s soap and lotion to the rescue!
Princess
Rod Dreher and poor, poor Russ Douthat.
satby
@Mousebumples: Thanks! Glad to hear it helped your kiddo too. That’s what got me started and keeps me going 🙂
evodevo
@cain: What do you think all those “independent” megachurches are for lol – you just go around to all of them and find the one whose dogma and scripture cherry-picking matches your prejudices…it’s quite a lucrative racket…
Nettoyeur
@Roberto el oso: Dreher now lives in Hungary and extols 21st C fascist Orban. But as I seriously doubt he speaks Hungarian after 8 months in the country , he has no idea what is really going on. Peobably used to that , as he converted to Eastern Orthodox without speaking Greek or Slavonic. His so called intellect is barely more coherent than Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Suzanne
@Ruckus: There’s a Cerave lotion with salicylic acid (says “for rough and bumpy skin”) that helps get dead skin to slough off and then moisturizes like a charm.
I also make homemade body scrubs from coconut oil, plus other oils like Vitamin E, then add sugar (white or brown), and then some essential oil or cooking extract to make it smell nice. I use this in the shower and it helps keep my skin fantastic. I got Mr. Suzanne hooked on it, too. I have issues with shaving creams and I use this instead, and it allows a closer shave and much less irritation.
frosty
@Alison Rose: Not snippy, glad you’re thinking of it. OhioMom had some ideas at #66. Finding a way to warm the water without running it that’s convenient seems to be the best approach. A coffee maker? Heat up a pot a couple of times a day and turn it off?
trnc
@Rose Weiss:
Beat me to it.
JC, thanks for switching sides, and just for being you.
Glidwrith
@Alison Rose: Perhaps wash your hands in the kitchen? Have a bowl for hand washing and a teakettle for warming the water. Combination of it and tap water so it isn’t freezing.
ETA: and several jackals upthread beat me to it. I like the idea of a bottle warmer.
trnc
@Alison Rose: I don’t suppose you have any option for installing a small on demand water heater under the sink, do you? They’re pretty small these days and shouldn’t cost much to install if you have to hire someone.
Subsole
@cain:
And thus was born the Church of Nugentism.
Paul in KY
@Alison Rose: I wash cold. Can’t wait for it to get warm, as I pay the heat bill.
MichiganderGail
Bought my Pet calendar (3 of my beloved late greyhounds are in it – fantastic job in layout Watergirl!). Didn’t know there was a Fucking Pet Calendar. Just Ewwww! No thanks! I’ll stay with the regular version.