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Top Comments: #HappyValentinesDay from the Federal Government
Anyone else out there not in love with Valentines Day? Yeah, that's what I thought. I won't rehash the Why of it, we all know why. Instead, how about a random excursion around Twitter using Valentines...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Leap Seconds Will Take the World Hostage!
Driving home from the rheumatologist this afternoon I was listening to Here and Now out of WBUR in Boston where Robin Young was holding a conversation with Demetrios Matsakis, chief scientist for Time...
View ArticleI thought my MacBook was thirsty for delicious coffee
Turns out it was me who was thirsty and the MacBook was simply trying to tell me "NO! No coffee!" Now I understand that MacBooks are lactose intolerant and possibly pre-diabetic. So much for loving the...
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Disconnected in Tel Aviv.
The hardest in a long string of lessons learned while travelling in Israel was, at its core, a fundamental truth of Life:Don't piss off The Operator. It seems obvious now, that not giving her what she...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Tasmanian artist desexualizes dolls for much...
Anyone else in need of refresh on humanity? Boy, I sure was today. So, when I came across this video story on Facebook from SBS2, an Australian news channel, it was truly welcome.My kids are boys who...
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WYFP? Basement Cat has left the building...
It is with a heavy heart and diminishing hope of recovery that I share with friends tonight the sad news about our beloved Radar, aka Basement Cat. He has gone missing.
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Top Comments: "Exclusively for white people" makes Austin feel uncomfortable.
"Exclusively for WHITE PEOPLE maximum of 5 colored customers colored BOH staff accepted sponsored by the City of Austin Contemporary Partition and Restoration Program"Someone has decided that this...
View ArticleWomen Drivers
Last night my kids had a sleepover with their best friend K who I call my third kid. She and my oldest have been friends since he was three and she was four. She's just the loveliest child. Last summer...
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¡ Basement Cat Returns !
Let me OUT! (as soon as I finish this can...) It is with great relief and a sense of determined accomplishment that I bring to friends and readers the news that Radar, aka basement cat, has been...
View ArticleWYFP? Tomorrow is my birthday.
Yup, tomorrow I turn 43 years old and that is a problem. Not because I am afraid of getting older or because I'm one of those people who broods about aging. In fact, I am largely enjoying my entry into...
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Italian surgeon to attempt first HUMAN HEAD TRANSPLANT!
In honor of Daily Kos taking a long nap and sort of getting a new head screwed on, here's something strange for you to take away to whatever second tier watering hole you choose to fill the void with....
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Top Comments: Spring Flora and Fauna in Austin, TX
Click to embiggen for extra closeatude. It's springtime in Austin and that's pretty nice. It isn't hot yet and nights and mornings are still cool for the most part. We have had a ton of rain in the...
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Houston Equal Rights Ordinance Upheld!
Sometimes common sense and equality actually wins in Texas.Today state District Judge Robert Schaffer is the voice of common sense and equality.Opponents of Houston's non-discrimination ordinance...
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Top Comments: Small Town News
AS I suspect is the case with other Kossacks, my writing career began as a teenager working for the High School newspaper. I wrote editorials that took politicians, administrators and other Powers That...
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{Dear|Hey|Yo} {Markos|management}, Greetings from fabulous {Disappointment, KY|Horneytown, NC|Toad Suck, AK|Spread Eagle, WI|Looneyville, TX|Whiskey Dick Mountain, WA|Winnipeg}!I’m {bored to...
View Article"We Celebrated That Mother in Baltimore."
"Now Are We Willing to Face Our Own Hypocrisy?" That is the question asked yesterday by Goldie Taylor, Senior Editor for Blue Nation Review. It's a harrowing essay, beautifully written and poignant. It...
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WYFP? Mauled by Basement Cat and a Hard Deadline.
SO, praise be to the Universe, we are "finished" moving. Finished is in quotes because it only applies to Phase I, or the transporting of objects from one domicile to another. Now we have entered...
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Top Comments: A $150.00 House in gentrified Houston Heights?
Some of my DailyKos Houston friends should brush up their essay skills and get to work before June 13, 2015. Across my FB this morning came this little interesting twist on the typically absurd real...
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Friday Frustration: I would make a bad plumber.
The stuff of nightmares.There is an escutcheon, an o-ring, a bearing washer and a diverter that are conspiring against me. Their accomplices, a rusted mounting bracket and its attendant nut, hide like...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: On Reflecting Grief
Tonight I have two Community Diary responsibilities. I signed up for today and for next Wednesday because there were open slots and KTK has been in a temporary funk scheduling-wise. Since I have been...
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Top Comments: Tragic Death in PNW and a Bitter Mourning.
We will all perform this rite of passage from life to death. Whether there is or is not another side upon transition, we always live in the memory of the ones we leave behind. We have no control over...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: More Crazy Texas Weather
Hey KTK peeps! It's me again, signing on from Austin where it is sunny and...oh wait it looks like it might rain again tonight after all. Was that thunder in the distance AGAIN? Maybe it was just an...
View ArticleWYFP? I dunno, I forgot.
Guys, I forgot. Plain and simple.It's an open thread again. Sincere apologies.WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share...
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Top Comments: Austin City Council RWNJ Plays the Pedophile Card.
RIP Grackle.For all you readers out there who enjoy bashing on Texas, I have a new one for you.I live in Austin and since I'm a Progressive, I suffer almost by definition from the bubble syndrome....
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Top Comments: US-64 between Clayton, NM and Capulin Volcano.
US-64 New MexicoA few weeks ago my boys and I took a road trip from Austin to Denver where friends of ours live and own a hotel. Having always travelled as a family (almost exclusively by car) this was...
View ArticleCall 867-5309 and other best numbers for a Reals Technicals Support!
It is coming to our attentions that for so many of a Technicals Supports technician are making effort to earn some businesses without even simple a clues about how some supports work.Are you tired of a...
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Great News! Gluten Free WATER!!!!
Hey, y'all. I know lots and lots of Kossacks are super concerned about their health and want that lifestyle respected and reflected every day in every way, ESPECIALLY when it comes to gluten....
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Ask Me Anything about JADE HELM 15!!!!
Life is too short and shit gets too real to live in fear. Hey sheeple. While many of you are too busy fighting in the hiddens over third degree Berns and the Clintonary Financial Complex, some of y’all...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Dear Diary, sorry I didn't write earlier! Been busy...
Hey Kibitzers! What's good? Y'all chill or nah? Some of you may know that I have recently made a transition from classroom teaching to Higher Ed. I've always been pretty circumspect about revealing...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Peaceful Urban Austin Creek
Hey peeps,With all the negative vibes coming out of Texas of late (which is a realtive term) I though tonight I'd step back into my passion for photography, particularly iPhone photography, and give...
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Cranky Users' DK5 Metafestival: On My Experience with Creative Usage of...
Using things in ways they weren't intened can be creative or a car wreck or both. Back in 2005 when I created this account I couldn’t have possibly imagined how much my useage of this place would...
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Top Comments: Ted Cruz "Machine Gun Bacon" NOT SOURCED from Texas AG Ken...
“And Ken, I’m proud to call you my friend. You’re a strong, powerful conservative leader, and you smell good when you sear.” Cruz was apparently not referring to his future stint in Hell.
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LGBTQ: Actual Video Evidence of Religiopolitical Teh Crazy in Austin, Texas
Carlos León: a man in need of psychological assistance. AKA "Carlos Leon exposes Chem-trails during Citizens' Communications at Austin City Council on December 15, 2011." Ahhh, Texas. Love it or hate...
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Top Comments: Café des Chats Montréal! (photos de pootie inclus)
Attention Daily Kos:This is a Human Service Announcement from your Feline Overlord the Basement Cat.Each night at Top Comments, my human subjects place pictures of your feline betters in the magic...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: FIGHT!
ATTENTION HUMAN FELINE SUBJECTS> THIS IS BASEMENT CAT< YOUR OVERLORD AND BETTER> See my eyes with your eyes and know, that your DAILY KOS is broken. You will now jump my hairball for more.
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Night Prowlers on Campus
Been kind of a crazy week. Crazy awesome, crazy weird, crazy crazy.I really like my job a lot y'all. Like, super much, and I like my boss. And her boss. And her boss. And his boss. < Her boss I'll...
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"There are beautiful flowers all inside of your garden."
The future is in braids.On Saturday morning my cousin and her beautiful girls came to visit us in Austin, to surprise my mother-in-law and bring her to lunch for her birthday. We don't get to see them...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: I did NOT suffer anaphylaxis.
Hey peeps! Isn't that great news in the headline? You're telling me! Do me a favor and take a very wide berth around the paper wasp nest and I'll fill you in...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Central Texas Flooding Revisited
Hey peeps,Been a wild 18 hours in Central Texas with this weather, y'all. Honestly I had no idea it was coming. I went to sleep last night thinking about work and woke up to booming rain. Just thought...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Thanks
Hey friends! Long time no see! How y’all doing anyway? Everything well in your world? Things in mine are complicated and busy but I’m here to report that I am happy. In fact, I may well be the happiest...
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I've got fifteen minutes to kill until its 3am and I have to be up at 6am, so...
...I’ll keep it short and sweet. First thought: Hey, y'all! Long time no see!!! Also, that Trump image uploaded from my iPhone, from which I'm writing this. That used to not be possible, so that's a...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 5/5/16 - I'm BaaaAAAck!
Exactly one month ago today, some time around 8:30pm, I was sitting at a bar table in Legal Seafoods in Atlanta waiting on my dinner of fish and chips. It had been about half an hour since I ordered...
View ArticleAustin Women's March: My Boy Is Becoming A Man
I awoke at 6:30 am from four hours of crappy sleep. Yesterday’s inauguration had made me very anxious so I stayed up watching Bridge of Spies, Jane Wants a Boyfriend and Beyond the Sea till 2:30 or...
View ArticleHave a Soul Tonic
Some days the limestone calls us into submersionto pick boulder and stone
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: A New Year Message from B̶a̶s̶e̶m̶ Ceiling Cat
Time to move on to the next address!. Attention Human Felines! This is Ceiling Cat, your immortal Better and humble Benefactor.I contact you this evening to inform you of works done on your behalf in...
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Top Comments: You kids better behave or I'll call The Police.
Many parents use fear to gain compliance from their children. It's the oldest trick in the book, right?If you aren't good Santa won't bring your presents... If you talk back to me one more time...
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Anti-Vaxxers Speak!
Mmmmmmm, rubella. As we watch the efforts of anti-vax cultists bear fruit in real time, I thought a peek into their world might be worth while. I know many of us have heard the anti-vax arguments...
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To the Dad of the Boy who abandoned his bike.
To the Dad of the Boy who abandoned his bike, This morning kind of sucked. I stayed up too late playing online and when my alarm went off at six I hit that snooze button twice. My allergies are in full...
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Hmmm, I wonder what this button does...
Hmmm, how about this button…Ok, well, how about this one…What about this one then...And now this one…Sweet. The buttons all work just like they used to. It’s good to be home.- bastrop
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