Belated Merry Christmas

Best Nativity scene ever. ourtesy o commenterPicky Pecker at Joe.My.God.

One of the Things

I love about eing a grown-up, is that if you decide you want pizza for breakfast, you can have pizza for breakfast.

Giggle du Jour

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Today's Awww! Moment

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Image du Jour: Cornered

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Antidote

I almost remembered the nursery rhyme -- I finally caved and looked it up on Google.

No, I don't know now anyone gets a cat to put up with being dressed up like that. I would never attempt it.

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Giggle du Jour

Somehow, I find this a particularly appealing image:

Spotted at Midlands Beer Garden in Washington, DC. (Reminder: 4% of this city voted for Trump.) pic.twitter.com/kD3zoIaAfU

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) November 7, 2019

Giggle du Jour

Giggle du Jour

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Personal Ad du Jour

It's funny, but it's also a sad commentary on men.

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Giggle du jour

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Giggle du Jour

Just because:



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Fun Facts

The Chicago Fire Department has a Scuba Unit. I suppose that makes sense, since we're right next to a major lake where people do stupid things and need to be rescued.

The Windy City, birthplace of the skyscraper is a place where the wind is blowing from whatever direction you happen to be facing. Once, when I was an art student, our class met at the Art Institute to see a major Robert Rauschenberg exhibition. (It was a class on collage and construction.) I left work on LaSalle Street and walked through the snowstorm to the AIC. By the time I got there, I was covered in snow on every side.

Comment du Jour

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Antidote

to just about averything. It's still too cold to go out, so stay inside and play:

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Tweet du Jour

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And the Oscar goes to...pic.twitter.com/1nyEgE8cM3

— Question Everything (@LMAO_in_Fla) January 27, 2019

Happy New Year!

At least, I hope it's going to be happy. To you and yours, the best. And just to start the year off right:

From the Hindi edition of News Now, with this greeting.

नए साल 2019 के आगाज में अब चंद घंटे ही रह गए हैं। हर ओर बीते हुए साल को अलविदा कहने और नए साल का स्वागत करने के लिए जोर शोर से तैयारियां हो रही है। अपनों को भेजें ये खूबसूरत कोट्स।

No, I have no idea what it says.

I am celebrating the beginning of the New Year by making a big pot of potato soup with lots of garlic and minced ham.

Today In Delusions

I just ran across this this morning, and, while it's become increasingly obvious that there is a certain percentage of humanity that's impervious to evidence, I hadn't realized how far it can go:

The question is, which is the hoax? Australia or this Facebook post?

Antidote

If you know cats, you know that there's no way this could have been staged.

It's just math is all I am saying pic.twitter.com/msUZekvCpS

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 15, 2018

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It's Monday

Do you know where your weekend went?