Jessica Ellis

Ok buddy

You are living in fantasyland on this.

I’m sorry so your argument is that Elizabeth Warren betrayed Bernie by attacking a hideous opponent?

That’s called an election, hon. You have to try to get the most votes. Bernie was not owed anyone’s vote.

I don’t know what this means. She publicly savaged Bloomberg so hard he bailed on the race.

Not shocking from Schiff, whose office will be getting an angry call from me later

Pretty shocking from both Hirono and Whitehouse, but I guess we should stop being shocked at Dems collaborating.

Wait, I genuinely can’t tell, is this a straight documentary or a docu-drama type situation, since it’s based on a book?

Can you imagine what our country would look like if we were in Elizabeth Warren’s second term?

I’m not sure what in the pancakes I reacted to, but if it’s millet, there goes my very last grain carbohydrate (after I lost wheat, corn, rice, oats, buckwheat, quinoa, and sorghum) and I will officially be entering the malnutrition mambo.

Do not keep getting Covid. Wear a mask.

Taking all the antihistamines and steroids in my arsenal has left me wired and foggy, seven hours later, with electric jolt palpitations every few minutes. Also, I called about a referral my doctor sent three weeks ago, and was told they’d ignored it because they didn’t want to do what it asked for.

Here’s an update on what long covid was like today: I ate a pancake in the afternoon, the same batch I had three of this morning, and my throat immediately swelled. I took all the drugs and went and sat outside the ER for two hours in case I went full anaphylactic.

I’m doing my very best, Helen!

Oh no! Are you trying to live in a society?

That was a very dark episode.

Yeah my dad’s job was decent, but not high paying, esp for a family of 7.

I’m so sorry. Fuck cancer.

If you’re going to whine about communal inconveniences at the coffee shop but disdain communal disease prevention at the same place, don’t.

Goes without saying but I will bet $10,000 this guy doesn’t mask.

What an ivory tower monster you are for going into a place that sells coffee and ordering a drink on the menu.

Exactly what Robert Frost was worried about

Amateur hour, real ones swim WHILE eating

The feminine urge to rebel against medications that tell you not to eat for an hour afterwards.

Dad there were raccoons in the walls.

Yes, I think that’s probably true.

Monterey is the best place to write!

While it’s true that not everyone in the 80s was living blissfully in a one income family, it’s also true that the ability to do so has disappeared almost entirely in the working and middle class, and the places you could do so have drastically changed.

There has been a pretty horrifying shift in a place like this that *was* once quite affordable. When I was a teenager, our school system was strained near to bursting with enrollment, the small city we lived in was packed with families. The school system is now collapsing because of low enrollment.

We certainly didn’t take vacations except camping locally once or twice in my childhood, any extra expenses like money for high school sports gear, etc, was a struggle. Most of us kids started working as soon as we could. But it was possible, and this was in the Bay Area, no less.

I may be an outlier but it happened in my family. My dad was a computer programmer, no degree. Five kids, owned a (admittedly shabby) home and car. My mom’s only outside job in 30 years of raising kids was running a dressmaking business for 2-3 years. Money was very tight, but we survived.

I adored it, right in the vein with a Capra film. It’s old fashioned but a gem.