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- Happy Day After Thanksgiving Day, aka TGIF (Turkey’s Gone, I’m Full). We hope that your post-feast digestive systems and indoor plumbing are functioning properly on this blessed Brown Friday. As we announced earlier this week to great rejoicing...62 comments 168 Recs
- Washington Post: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations ...375 comments 452 Recs
- Yesterday was probably, politically and spiritually, the darkest Thanksgiving for our nation in our lifetimes. So how about a quick story out of America’s earliest history that eerily echoes this moment and may give us some hope? Donald Trump has told...55 comments 179 Recs
- POLITICO : Why voters may not buy Trump's messaging on food prices The president says Thanksgiving food prices are down. But Americans are still feeling stretched thin by their grocery costs. ...292 comments 400 Recs
- The recession of 2008 hit some states earlier than others, and the state we'd moved to seven years before was one of them. Oregon fell on hard times, my husband was laid off and he & I were struggling to juggle part-time jobs with caring for two young...76 comments 265 Recs
- In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…I guess I have to come out of my food ...54 comments 34 Recs
- When court-assigned prosecutor Peter J. Skandalakis dismissed Georgia’s election-interference case and justified his decision by claiming that “reasonable minds could differ” about Donald Trump’s conduct — and that therefore Trump was “entitled to the...154 comments 430 Recs
- Pre-gobble gobble preparations No pardon for this one: - Wherever your travels take you over the holidays—whether by plane, train, automobile, blimp, or a twisted-up blunt on your living room couch—have a safe and stuffy-facey one. In fact, go...158 comments 125 Recs
- The Myth of “Lost National Innocence” The assassination of John F. Kennedy is often remembered as the moment America “lost its innocence.” That phrase has become a fixture of white middle class liberal Baby Boomer memory. Yet as history, it collapses...37 comments 59 Recs
- Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD comic strip, published this comic yesterday titled “Fifteen Years.” This comic is the fourth one in a series since 2012 - 2012: Two Years, 2017: Seven Years 2020: Ten Years 2020: Fifteen Years Parts of the previous...91 comments 327 Recs
