This will be quick because I have a long to-do list, as generally happens to women before a holiday. But they’re all happy errands, for the most part, so no biggie.
First, let’s go with the lighter stuff, if you consider waiting for a fool to drown “lighter,” but you know my sense of humor.
There’s a guy who’s been hanging around the local waterways for a while, navigating what’s charitably called a “homemade houseboat.” It looks like a shipping container sitting on a raft, the raft itself floating on 55-gallon plastic drums. It might not be a shipping container, but that’s about the size. Everything about it is what you’d call “makeshift,” and maybe “half-assed.” It made the papers when it required Coast Guard assistance to get through the considerable currents at Port Huron, where Lake Huron drains into the St. Clair River. Once past, though, the captain — of the houseboat — waved them off and said he was fine. He’s now docked in Lexington, Mich., and the story goes that he’s trying to do “the Great Loop,” or the circumnavigation of the eastern U.S. via the Atlantic Ocean, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. It’s unconfirmed, but if he is, I’d advise taking a few days off, or even a few months.
The gales of November are blowing as we speak, with a blizzard bearing down on the U.P. and just general misery everywhere else. If that ridiculous thing leaves the safety of its current mooring, it’s bound to be broken up before he reaches Saginaw Bay.
On a darker note, I don’t know how I missed this earlier in the week, but here’s a gift link to a great analysis of the Epstein emails by that guy whose name I always have to look up, Anand Giridharadas:
At the dark heart of this story is a sex criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with President Trump. But it is also a tale about a powerful social network in which some, depending on what they knew, were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering: the financial meltdowns some in the network helped trigger, the misbegotten wars some in the network pushed, the overdose crisis some of them enabled, the monopolies they defended, the inequality they turbocharged, the housing crisis they milked, the technologies they failed to protect people against.
This is Giridharadas’ particular hobbyhorse; he writes a lot about the global elite, who care less for the rest of us than they do their own spouses. But it’s pretty perceptive, rich with detail and observations like this:
Many of the Epstein emails begin with a seemingly banal rite that, the more I read, took on greater meaning: the whereabouts update and inquiry. In the Epstein class, emails often begin and end with pings of echolocation. “Just got to New York — love to meet, brainstorm,” the banker Robert Kuhn wrote to Mr. Epstein. “i’m in wed, fri. edelman?” Mr. Epstein wrote to the billionaire Thomas Pritzker (it is unclear if he meant a person, corporation or convening). To Lawrence Krauss, a physicist in Arizona: “noam is going to tucson on the 7th. will you be around.” Mr. Chopra wrote to say he would be in New York, first speaking, then going “for silence.” Gino Yu, a game developer, announced travel plans involving Tulum, Davos and the D.L.D. (Digital Life Design) conference — an Epstein-class hat trick.
Landings and takeoffs, comings and goings, speaking engagements and silent retreats — members of this group relentlessly track one another’s passages through JFK, LHR, NRT and airports you’ve never even heard of. Whereabouts are the pheromones of this elite. They occasion the connection-making and information barter that are its lifeblood. If “Have you eaten?” was a traditional Chinese greeting, “Where are you today?” is the Epstein-class query.
A long read, but it kept my interest throughout.
And with that, it’s off to tackle the to-do list. At the end, I’ll have a homemade apple pie, a brined turkey, the makings of tomorrow’s green-bean dish and maybe time for a cleaned bathroom or drink with a friend. (I’m hoping for the latter.)
Have a great Thanksgiving, all. Back after.
David C said on November 26, 2025 at 9:59 am
We moved back to Michigan partly to be able to spend holidays with family. So for the first major holiday, we have a winter storm warning and are staying home. The best laid plans. Oh well, I bought a standing rib roast and now we’ll have that to ourselves for Thanksgiving and plenty of leftovers after. I’ll take a roast beef sandwich over a turkey sandwich any day.
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basset said on November 26, 2025 at 10:56 am
Been making venison sausage this morning, with some of the meat left from last season in the bottom of the freezer… already ground, just mix in the spices and pack it up in little bags. Haven’t been getting out as much this season since Mrs. B can no longer be left alone, only “harvested” one this year so far but that’s just how it is. Used my 1943 army rifle, though, just for something new to try.
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Jeff Borden said on November 26, 2025 at 11:39 am
Reading about the emails in the Epstein circle of rape and sleaze is actually easier than reading some of the “erotic poetry” Bobby Brain Worms Jr. sent to alleged journalist Olivia Nuzzi. My stomach is pretty strong, but ewwww. It is some gross shit. Boy howdy, he’s creepy.
While the holidays generally bring me low, I am thankful for the life I have and especially all the people in it. My warmest wishes to the NN.C community. Hope you all have a lovely holiday wherever you may be.
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Heather said on November 26, 2025 at 11:45 am
Welp, my cousin just called and she has the flu, so Thanksgiving is canceled. Her sister-in-law was going to take over but her daughter may have to have her gallbladder removed. I think I have a couple other invitations so I’m not going to get depressed just yet.
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Jeff Gill said on November 26, 2025 at 12:26 pm
From the Giridharadas piece:
“In another email, Mr. Epstein asks a legal question about whether Mr. Trump can declare a national emergency to build a border wall. She responds that a prospective employer has offered her a $2 million signing bonus. The glide from tyranny to bonus distills a core truth: Regardless of what happens, the members of this social network will be fine.”
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Brandon said on November 26, 2025 at 12:58 pm
the global elite, who care less for the rest of us
Maybe that’s human nature. I don’t know Alex Karp, but I recently read that he arranged to have excavated the entire yard of his childhood home to retrieve the body of his dog Rosita for reburial at his current home.
According to the book, Rosita is now buried at Karp’s home in New Hampshire. The CEO has previously said that he enjoys cross-country skiing, often near his home in the Granite State.
“I took Rosita, and, yeah, now I have her burial site near my home,” Karp said, adding that “Rosita was the best.”
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alex said on November 26, 2025 at 1:44 pm
Belatedly defrosting a turkey for a Saturday friendsgiving at our place. My family are out of town. Hubs and I are going to his family’s carry-in tomorrow and need to conjure up a casserole or something for that. I need to get our turkey defrosted so I can dry brine it in the fridge for 24-48 hours and slow roast it at low heat.
Jeff B, I don’t think I have the stomach to think about Nutsy Nuzzi swilling the sacred Kennedy spunk. As my mom used to say, “Don’t spoil your appetite.” I read that Vanity Fair is reconsidering Olivia’s continued employment there, a good idea considering that the magazine will probably get more mileage out of writing about her than it would have ever gotten from hiring her.
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Deborah said on November 26, 2025 at 2:00 pm
The Thanksgiving meal at our place will consist of no turkey or meat of any kind, stuffing (from a box) but I haven’t figured out yet how I could make gravy to put on the stuffing, mashed sweet potatoes with lots of butter and pecans on top, canned cranberry sauce (the jellied kind, which I love), pumpkin pie for dessert w/ whipped cream on top.
I went to 2 grocery stores yesterday that were both sold out of whipped cream, the kind that’s in a can that squirts out of a nozzle. I don’t have mixing beaters to whip it up myself and I refuse to whip it by hand, I’m too lazy. I found the kind of whipped cream I wanted at Eataly finally and I didn’t know until I got to checkout that it cost $10! I already had the pie (store bought) and there’s no way I’m eating it with out piles of whipped cream on top.
Both my husband and I are not fond of roast turkey, we only like smoked and I didn’t have the energy to find a place to buy it. Our oven doesn’t work, well it works technically but the dial that sets temps is unusable because the label with the numbers came off, so I’d have to guess if it’s set properly and again, I have done this before and it’s a pain, I have no energy to deal with it now. I bought an air fryer for use until we figure out what we want to replace our stove/oven with which involves figuring out the design of a kitchen redo which is ever-changing. The stove/oven we have is over 40 years old, believe it or not. We know this because a couple of years ago we had to buy a new dishwasher and the guys who delivered and installed it were amazed that it still works (at that time it still had numbers on the temp dial) because they recognized it and knew the age of that model. Also the airfryer I got seems to just dry everything out that I’ve tried to roast so far.
I would miss having leftover turkey sandwiches the day after, so on Friday I’m going to just buy some pre-cooked packaged smoked turkey to use.
It’s obviously only me and my husband having this sad meal, nothing fancy for sure, except maybe the $10 Italian whipped cream from a can, that better be special. Oh and we do have a good bottle of wine, the reason we went to Eataly, where I surprisingly found the canned whipped cream.
LB is having a friendsgiving, which currently will just be her and one friend, because of others having to cancel because of work or illness. They weren’t going to have an all out feast or anything anyway, only appetizers which they did last year and everyone loved it, it was potluck.
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Heather said on November 26, 2025 at 2:13 pm
Welp, my favorite cousin, who was going to host Thanksgiving, got the flu. (She works with kids and didn’t get a shot, hello.) Then her SIL was going to host, but her daughter might need gallbladder surgery. So I called a childhood friend to see if his invitation last month was still open … turns out his wife’s mom, who has terminal cancer, is in the hospital so they are no longer hosting. But he invited me over to have dinner with him and his parents, so I’m doing that. But what is up this year?
I could have gone to another cousin’s, but I’ll see them all at Christmas and that’s really enough extended family time for me. Anyway I’l get to introduce my family’s traditional mashed rutabaga dish to another family, so there’s that.
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Jeff Gill said on November 26, 2025 at 2:19 pm
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Heinz-Homestyle-Roasted-Turkey-Gravy-12-oz/15529431
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Sherri said on November 26, 2025 at 3:07 pm
We’re doing Friendsgiving with our usual group of friends who are basically family we’ve been doing this so long (over 25 years and two states!) Then we’re doing a second Friendsgiving on Saturday.
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Scout said on November 26, 2025 at 3:22 pm
We’ll be enjoying our traditional Friendsgiving with 2 other couples that we call our OGs. My daughters are each having their own (now very extended) family feasts and while I was invited to both, I’m going to neither.
We’re taking a veg Celebration Roast, roasted brussels, boozy cranberry sauce and dinner rolls as our contributions to tomorrow’s festivities.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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Deborah said on November 26, 2025 at 3:37 pm
We have a wind chill of 12º in Chicago, the temp is 35º so it’s very windy. It finally feels winterish here, I was in Santa Fe when they had the first snow a few weeks ago. It’s supposed to snow Sunday. I don’t like to deal with walking with melting snow but it’s pretty when it’s coming down.
Jeff G, is that jarred gravy actually OK tasting? I’m loathe to go to the grocery stores today so I’ll just skip the gravy. I’m using chicken broth instead of the water the back of the stuffing box says and I’m adding onions that I’ll cook first and then the broth, then the contents of the box. I have my fingers crossed that it will be edible.
Scout, I’d like that boozy cranberry sauce recipe.
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Scout said on November 26, 2025 at 5:28 pm
Deborah, here you go!
Easy Brandy Cranberry Sauce – https://marleysmenu.com/brandy-cranberry-sauce/#recipe
I found another recipe that uses Grand Marnier but I only had Brandy, so I chose this one. I made it a little while ago, tasted it and it’s GOOD!
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alex said on November 26, 2025 at 5:31 pm
So I moved the turkey from the fridge to a cooler full of cold water and I’m weighing it down with a cast iron Dutch oven. After half an hour I went to take the temperature of the water and it was 52 F. So I just added several ice packs and we’ll see what that does. I’ve been reading that the water has to be maintained below 40 F. If this doesn’t help, I may just have to throw the damned thing back into the fridge and hope that it completely thaws by Friday evening. Fifteen minutes in and the water’s only down to 47 F.
For tomorrow’s potluck I’ve decided to do a cheater chicken divan with rotisserie chicken, frozen broccoli and Ready Rice (but at least a roux with dry sherry and heavy cream).
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Suzanne said on November 26, 2025 at 6:25 pm
“Contentment and gratitude do not erase hardship. It holds it with open hands. It is the song of the soul that still chooses to rise above. This Thanksgiving, and always, may your heart be grounded in the gift of what is, and may your spirit, though it may be weary, still find the courage to sing: ’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free, ’Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be…”
Happy Thanksgiving!
https://hopefullykimberly.substack.com/p/the-grateful-table
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Sherri said on November 26, 2025 at 7:20 pm
Here’s a thought experiment for your holiday gathering, that my husband posed to me as we were driving to the grocery store yesterday (and his choir director had posed to his choir):
Suppose you had to select two musicians to save their work to represent humanity to the aliens/the distant future/whatever. Who would you pick?
There are no right or wrong answers.
Since everyone’s first pick is Bach, assume that Bach has already been saved, and you still have two picks.
My choices were one of Bob Dylan/John Lennon/Paul Simon, and Stephen Sondheim. My husband’s choices were the Beatles and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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susan said on November 26, 2025 at 8:17 pm
Antonin Dvorak and Beethoven chamber music
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Julie Robinson said on November 26, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Without a doubt it’s Beethoven and Sondheim.
Mom deteriorated rapidly today with all the classic symptoms of a UTI. So after we got back from cardiac rehab for D, it was off to the Minute Clinic and she’s just started antibiotics. The other three of us have been cooking and cleaning for two days and my ankle is throbbing. Yay holidays!
Hope everyone has a good one. Enjoy whatever you eat and whomever you’re with.
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annie said on November 26, 2025 at 10:29 pm
tchaikovsky and springsteen
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Brandon said on November 27, 2025 at 12:22 am
Anand’s Journey
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Deborah said on November 27, 2025 at 7:08 am
Mozart.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Alan Stamm said on November 27, 2025 at 7:51 am
The Detroit News writer reporting on the raft cosplaying a houseboat tells us she’s unfamiliar with maritime practices, or hesitant to assume the obvious:
“The name ‘Neverlanding’ and ‘Windsor, Ontario’ are written on the rear of the boat, perhaps indicating its name and origin.”
Ya’ think?
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Icarus said on November 27, 2025 at 9:34 am
Happy T-day to those who celebrate. We are in Chicago, well Glenview, but go into the city and to my moms crapshack everyday.
No traditional meal for us. Our kids don’t care for it and it’s tough to make in a hotel suite anyway. Precooked packages always have too much and after 50+ years of eating traditional, I’m okay with good Chinese or Mediterranean or whatever we can scrounge up.
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David C said on November 27, 2025 at 10:34 am
John Dowland and Frightened Rabbit. One Renaissance and the other contemporary, but both have melancholic music down pat. Not that I suffer from melancholia, but sad songs make me happier than happy ones. Strange, right?
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Minnie Fleming said on November 27, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Dylan/Simon. Willie. Miles. Billie Holiday. Oh, I can’t limit it to two – or even five.
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Jeff Gill said on November 27, 2025 at 3:23 pm
Deborah, with some chicken broth & thyme & black pepper & a dash of Worcestershire sauce then a good simmer: I heard no complaints!
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Deborah said on November 27, 2025 at 7:10 pm
We still haven’t had the pumpkin pie with fancy whipped cream but the stuffing and mashed sweet potatoes turned out ok. The stuffing was marginal but along with some cranberry sauce on my fork with it, it was fine. I used a stick of butter between the two dishes and I put more butter on the table but it wasn’t necessary to add anymore.
It will be a while before I have a craving to cook a traditional Thanksgiving dish again. At least these didn’t take much work at all.
We didn’t step one foot outside today, where the wind chill was pretty bad again today, a little better than yesterday though. They say it’s supposed to snow 7-8″ on Saturday now.
Did I mention that my pain is much better the last few days, not sure why but I hope it stays that way and keeps getting better.
Now onto the pie and topping.
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Deborah said on November 27, 2025 at 7:14 pm
So sad. The woman national guard member who was shot has died, at 20 years old. Bummer.
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JodiP said on November 27, 2025 at 7:30 pm
I went up north last weekend for family Thanksgiving and a great niece’s birthday.
I spent today with long time friends and the caregiver for o e and the caregivers daughter. Great food and wine, much laughter and some tears. The last 18 months have been tough for my friend who had a pretty big stroke in May 2024. It’s brought us much closer as we spent much more time together. But mostly it was pretty raucous filled with good stories.
I’m back home watching the American Revolution on PBS.
Thanks to all for checking in.
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Julie Robinson said on November 27, 2025 at 10:05 pm
We ended up having a lovely, lovely and my pain is much better too. I laid backwards on the bed with my foot up on the wall and it really helped.
Everyone brought delicious food and a new friend blended in seamlessly, even though she hadn’t even met half our party before today. She’s a political refugee from her family, and I’m so happy she made us her family of choice today.
And now we’ve just gotten back from the new Wicked movie and had a pie top off. Life is good.
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Mark P said on November 27, 2025 at 10:20 pm
Donald Trump has blood on his hands.
Our neighbors, who sometimes take pity on us oldsters, brought us two plates of traditional Thanksgiving dinner, turkey, ham, dressing, the whole deal. Otherwise I was going to pan fry some salmon, which would have been fine, but you don’t turn down a kind gesture like that.
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Ann said on November 27, 2025 at 11:28 pm
We had a Friendsgiving with neighbors a week and a half ago. I always offer to bring the turkey because I want a good one. I wanted to buy a 20 pound turkey from a local farmer and though he’d promised to harvest one early for me, when I went to pick it up he said it had been too cold and could I use a frozen one? Since I still had four days I said sure and ended up with one 17 pound whole turkey and one 10 pound half. Dry-brined them, roasted them, and suitably impressed the neighbors. Made wonderful stock from the half turkey but regretfully threw away the other carcass after it had been sitting in the garage for a week. Lots of people thought it was weird when someone offered up a carcass on FB today,but not me.
Lots of Thanksgiving trips cancelled and dinners postponed up here thanks to the first blizzard of the season, so I was happy to be snug at home, eating homemade pizza and being grateful that my power was still on.
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Peter said on November 28, 2025 at 3:53 am
Your Thanksgiving and Friendsgiving entries are so nice and thoughtful.
I ruined a lot of people’s thanksgivings yesterday – Monday evening I was feeling lightheaded and woozy, and next thing you know a couple of paramedics are pulling me off the bathroom floor and hauling me to the hospital. Two hours, two IV bags, and one scan later, and it looked like there was no long term damage so I was sent on my way.
When I got home my lovely bride suggested I take a Covid test, just in case. I hadn’t even started the timer when it cam up positive.
We were supposed to host 14 people, but it was just me and the lovely bride drinking chicken broth.
Anyway, hope your Thanksgiving was better.
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Jeff Gill said on November 28, 2025 at 8:28 am
Peter, so sorry to hear you had to take that detour through Thanksgiving. Hope you are feeling better! I’m working on an old family tradition of avoiding stores of any sort on Black Friday.
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Deborah said on November 28, 2025 at 9:03 am
Peter, quite dramatic, sorry to hear that. A friend had covid a couple years ago and kept passing out while he had it, when he’d get up to use the bathroom or something. His Dr said covid messes with your vagus nerve sometimes and can make you very dizzy and pass out.
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Julie Robinson said on November 28, 2025 at 9:27 am
Peter, scary. I’m surprised they didn’t test you at the hospital. Guess I thought it was routine. But glad you survived to write about it.
Remember when Black Friday shopping was considered a sport? I can’t think of a thing we need anyway. I thought I wanted some new clothes, but I figured out I just needed to look at the ends of the closet instead of the middle. There’s things I haven’t worn in ages, and it’s been fun putting together outfits in different ways. Take that, capitalistic overlords!
Informed Delivery says we have two Christmas cards arriving today. Who is that organized?
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basset said on November 28, 2025 at 10:34 am
The solo speed record for that loop route was just amazing – nineteen days by a 71-year-old “adventurer” in a sixteen-foot john boat.
Thanksgiving was about what it usually is for us… same old turkey menu, Mrs. B makes the same two pies, we issue no invitations and receive none, the standard template for our holiday season.
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Suzanne said on November 28, 2025 at 11:56 am
We had a decent Thanksgiving. We had lunch with my mom at the nursing home which didn’t last long because mom seems to get easily overwhelmed by too much activity so we ate and left. Later, we had a gathering with in-laws, several from out of town that we hadn’t seen in a while, so it was good to visit. The food was decent, the wine good, and even though the weather was a bit crappy, a nice time.
These type of gatherings are increasingly bittersweet because I know they will end at some point. The parents who drew us all together are mostly gone and none of my generation is young anymore. The next generation is scattered all over the country. The good that came from my brush with cancer is that I have learned to appreciate every day and I am grateful to still be here to connect with family, even the chemist niece who gave me a 10 minute lecture on the importance of home fire extinguishers, the different types, the need to check the expiration date, and that if you can’t get the thing to work, that it would be important exit the house in a safe manner and call 911 (as though I was a fool who didn’t know any of this and was interested in the topic on Thanksgiving after a full meal and some wine).
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Heather said on November 28, 2025 at 1:36 pm
Peter, hope you are feeling better!
The mashed rutabaga was a hit with my friend and his parents. His mom said they used to have it when she was growing up. Bland Irish-American food FTW! Anyway it was a nice evening. They’re all very funny and smart people so the conversation always flows and is interesting.
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Dexter Friend said on November 28, 2025 at 3:40 pm
I kept silent but when the turkey presented was a goddam turkey roll and there were no broiled Brussel sprouts I was disappointed. I will go to a supermarket trying to find a couple turkey drumsticks. The families got along very nicely and a good time was had by all. As I age, I no longer eat giant plates of food, so I felt well and good, and the 142 round trip miles in the Honda Hoopdee went very smoothly. I love driving, actually. I enjoy blasting down then up the I-75 super-slab in the fast lane. Back in my day, cops were always out on holidays. Now I rarely see traffic cops anywhere. I drive 79 in the 70 zones and cars blast by me. Sometimes I will surge up to 85mph to get into a more stable traffic grouping. Snow will pile up a little tomorrow. I hope like hell the heavy snow hits Ann Arbor at noon Saturday. I can’t see my Wolverines beating the fucking Buckeyes without divine intervention somehow, by snow, fucking up the playing surface and the Buckeyes slip more that the sure-footed Wolverines. I used to go to those games. I didn’t give a fuck what it cost, I came prepared with a cash roll yelling “Who’s got one?” The year when one team was #1 and the other #4, I did get shut out. I and my grandson’s dad had to watch it inside Frazier’s giant tent, slugging down reasonably priced Labatt’s Blue Lager. I had promised Pete I could find tickets. I failed…no one was selling. The atmosphere, the tension…man, I remember. This is what life is all about. For sports nuts like me anyway.
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Jeff Borden said on November 28, 2025 at 4:03 pm
I must add the Gershwins and Cole Porter to the list of must-have songwriters.
The attacks on the poor West Virginia National Guard soldiers just sickens me. The guard is being used as a political prop by a five-time draft dodger. In Chicago, they strolled Michigan Avenue and seemed to be guarding the tourist attractions. There were no forays into “tough neighborhoods.” (The same could be said of ICE and CBP, who never ventured into Back of the Yards, Englewood or West Garfield Park, where they were likely to face people who’d have no compunction shooting back at them.) And now, of course, comes tRump’s overreaction. More guard troops to D.C. and a halt to all migration from “Third World countries.” If only we had a functioning Congress, huh? God, I am so sick of these people.
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Dave said on November 28, 2025 at 6:30 pm
Alex, I see that you’ve made it into the Washington Post article, “What Rural Folks Don’t Understand about City Life”. Sorry, can’t offer a link.
Jeff Borden, all of the regulars here are so sick of these people.
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Deborah said on November 28, 2025 at 7:51 pm
I’m baffled. Why in the world would Trump pardon this guy at the same time he’s ordering bombing and killing those on board for what he considers cartel boats delivering drugs heading to the US? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/world/americas/trump-pardon-honduras-hernandez.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.lfTF.c0cpcTrqxUCl&smid=url-share gift article. This makes no sense, not that much of what he does makes any sense what so ever, but this is a real head scratcher, unless he’s getting a huge bribe, which of course is most likely. How does his base square this?
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Suzanne said on November 28, 2025 at 10:24 pm
Deborah, his base doesn’t square it because many of them don’t know about it or if they do hear about it, they figure it’s all fake news.
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Suzanne said on November 28, 2025 at 11:36 pm
So, for some Republicans, there IS a line they will not cross. You take the wins where you can get them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/indiana-republican-disabled-daughter-revolts-222217615.html
“Indiana state Senator Mike Bohacek (R) publicly declared he will vote against President Donald Trump-backed redistricting efforts in his state as he raged against the president’s use of a slur Friday to insult Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D).
Bohacek, a Republican from Michiana whose daughter has Down syndrome, said Trump’s Friday remark – using the word “retard” – crossed a personal line.”
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susan said on November 29, 2025 at 1:42 am
“Bohacek, a Republican from Michiana whose daughter has Down syndrome, said Trump’s Friday remark – using the word “retard” – crossed a personal line.”
Only crosses Republican lines when it affects them personally. Otherwise, screw the little people. Bohacek is a classic odious mercenary Republican.
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alex said on November 29, 2025 at 9:17 am
Thanks, Dave. I need to go check that out before my subscription expires any day now.
I got to see an edited (and I mean fucking obliterated) version of my original response in an e-mail they sent me a couple of days ago. They wanted to know if my submission was exclusive to the Post. I wanted to say “Well, duh, it’s a direct response to a direct question posed by the Post.”
I had spoken much more in depth about the false way in which Chicago is served up by right-wingers but I guess the new and improved Bezos Bothsider Bulletin can’t allow that.
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Dexter Friend said on November 29, 2025 at 9:50 am
Janis Ian wrote to introduce ourselves listing a movie, a book, and a musical favorite.
Mine: Waking Ned Devine…Maggie Cassidy (Kerouac) and Tom Waits ,who edged out BRUCE !!
Still praying for this blizzard to blanket Ann Arbor so the Wolverines have a slight chance to beat the horrid stinking Ohio State Worthless Nuts Buckeyes. Ohio State has a QB named Sayin who is a real robot. Nobody throws 80%+ pass completions…except Robot Sayin. GO BLUE !!
It is time for our rookie QB Underwood to earn his $12,000,000 NIL payment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE&list=RDgGdGFtwCNBE&start_radio=1
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susan said on November 29, 2025 at 11:56 am
By golly, a Republican with actual ethical standards… and from Indiana, to boot!
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Brandon said on November 29, 2025 at 2:09 pm
Musical choices: Louis Armstrong is one.
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