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Rubbing the base of the ears, sure. I think getting most dogs to relax while rubbing their leg joints might take...practice.

Will Savino did a great job on Flight of the Icaron. I'm sure this will be good, too, but I am curious. Where's Taylor? Hope all is well.

Think about it. Segregation is still a memory for people living today. Old people--but we're living a lot longer now. I grew up being taught the Civil Rights Movement as if it were ancient history. I was born in 1967; MLK was killed in 1968. No, we don't all know better now.

That'd just it. Obama was elected twice; women have been serious candidates for president; gay marriage is legal nationally; trans people are getting recognition and rights; and whites will soon not be the majority in the U.S. A backlash was inevitable.

Seriously? I hope you're joking, because if not, you are weirdly unkind to a stranger missing a beloved pet.

Yes, well, Congress decided long ago that they did not want that responsibility. They have not declared war since WWII. They just authorize the president's actions.

Good things yesterday, as today is young:
1) My new car proved itself worth my first-ever car payment by warning me of cross traffic behind me as I started to back out.
2) My kid joined their dad and their grandpa and me for brunch.
3) Sunshine!

This person has been reading too many Trump tweets.

WTAF?!?

Someone from England answer, please?

I think that's standard British pronunciation, isn't it?

"doing something they love..."

Bluesky needs an edit feature.

My husband plays heavy metal drums. That is *not* my style; I like Celtic folk. But it's fun watching someone have that much fun doing something they live and are good at.

Answering a record 30 audience questions!

That would mean the two viable parties, and leadership within them, could actually be challenged. Therefore they will *both* fight it tooth and nail.

That scene is when I knew that Carrot was "simple but not stupid."

Ah. I was reading that as twenty-one C.

These are incredible.

Please translate 21C.

Unfortunately that's the U.S. model of everything: eliminate public services or else starve them to the point that anybody who can afford the private version does. Then the only people left using public services are the ones who can safely be ignored. Then stigmatize them as "a drain on society."

Everybody go buy Butterfly Effects right now. The author might as well get *something* good out of this.

The Prince and the Pauper

I mean, I've heard of only wearing a formal dance dress once, which is bad enough, but regular clothes?!? Surely nobody is *that* crazy.

Maybe "rewear outfits" meant "you can actually wear most things more than once between washes" rather than "at all." I hope.

Who says the GOP plans to take care of anybody? Kick 'em all off. That will save a whole week's worth of war funds, and their philosophy is survival of the richest anyway. They only need the rest of us long enough to design robots to do all the actual work.

They've been calling her every name in the book since she started her first campaign.

Another option: aikido or probably any martial art. Exercise your brain and your body simultaneously while throwing and being thrown.

Who has most of the brains!

Someone here was saying they had read *Wee Free Men* to their 9-year-old daughter and she was determined to read all the Tiffany Aching books. I and several others cautioned that the parent might want to read them first and pump the breaks a little.

My music history/appreciation teacher in high school told us we knew more opera than we thought. She hummed a few notes and the class broke out in, "Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!"