If you live to my east, be advised the heat wave is faltering. This one, anyway. The temperature’s in the low 80s, the sun is behind clouds, it’s raining a bit and I can give the A/C a break. By Friday we’ll be kissing 90 degrees again, but any break is nice. Yesterday a brief, fast-moving storm moved through and took out our power. I had to wrestle the generator out of the garage, get it started, string cords, all the stuff we end up doing at least once or twice a summer so we don’t lose the contents of our refrigerator. I was almost literally pouring sweat and couldn’t even lie under a fan to cool off. The humidity was brutal. How the hell do you people in the south stand it? I would purely die.
The good news: The juice came back on after four hours. Did the whole generator thing in reverse. Settled in for some TV and it winked out again, for three minutes. It’s like DTE was playing a little joke. Bastards.
We all awoke to learn the news from New York City. I don’t want to read too much into it, because optimism is useless at a time like this. And this is only a primary; more will be revealed. But I will allow myself at least some glee that sex pest Andrew Cuomo will have more time to spend with his family. Is that good enough?
I don’t know what to say about much of anything at the moment, other than: Fresh thread for discussion. Have at it.
Jeff Borden said on June 25, 2025 at 4:57 pm
Maybe you have to be born in the South ’cause I lived in Charlotte for more than four years and never got used to the heat and humidity combo. And unlike the Midwest, a good storm doesn’t bring relief. It just adds to the mugginess.
I fear the Democrats –as usual– won’t rise to the occasion as tRump spirals out of control. There’s gonna be a civil war between the younger Dems (yay!) and the old guard (boo!). We need unity if we’re going to put these fascist pricks into the grave. Gimme AOC over Hakeem Jeffries, for example, but that’s too much to ask.
The more we’re exposed to the tumbling cognitive skills of tRump, the more we should realize the danger we’re in. The idea of a succubus like Hillbilly Elegy Boy succeeding him isn’t much comfort.
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Brandon said on June 25, 2025 at 5:42 pm
Cuomo considering independent mayoral bid.
Cuomo may not be out of the race just yet, telling The Post on Wednesday that he was waiting to make a final decision about whether to try his luck as an independent in the general election.
His campaign said last month that he would run on the independent “Fight and Deliver” ballot line in November regardless of the June 24 primary’s outcome — which saw the thrice-elected Dem trail the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman by a near-insurmountable 7 points.
“I’m looking at the numbers from last night. I want to get an idea of what the general election looks like and what landscape looks like, and what the issues are, and then make the decision,” he said outside of his home in Midtown East.
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ROGirl said on June 25, 2025 at 7:19 pm
I hate dte. My power goes out way too often and yesterday it was out for 8 hours.
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Julie Robinson said on June 25, 2025 at 8:17 pm
Not only did Andrew Cuomo lose, so did Anthony Weiner, whose bid for City Council ended in a distant fourth place. Too bad!
This Floridian only goes out in the wee hours or to the pool. When it isn’t surface of the sun hot, I’m outside as much as I can be. So it all evens out.
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Mark P said on June 25, 2025 at 10:44 pm
I grew up right here in NW Georgia. In the summer we ran around outside, riding bikes, running, playing games, all day long. I don’t remember feeling like my brain was baking, but apparently it was. My grandmother lived in a late 1800’s/early 1900’s house, basically a dogtrot house, with two rooms on each side of a central hall open on both ends. It had a wraparound porch. A bathroom had been added by the time I saw it, as well as a kitchen, both on what used to be the porch. It had floor to almost-ceiling windows and very high ceilings. That’s how the house was kept from getting too unbearably hot. There was also a sleeping porch, which was essentially a screen room on the porch off the main bedroom. It was a typical Southern house, built to try to make summers bearable. It didn’t work all that well.
I don’t know what I ever liked about summer.
Now I have to go outside to stand in the sun occasionally because my wife wants the house to feel like a refrigerator.
If we have a power outage in the summer, I have a generator that can save what’s in our freezer, but not the refrigerator. No AC, and no water. If it gets too bad, we can plug our travel trailer into the generator and sleep out there.
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Sherri said on June 25, 2025 at 10:57 pm
I grew up in the heat and humidity, but I am no longer acclimated to it. I remember the pre-air conditioning days, when homes and schools and cars weren’t routinely air-conditioned. I don’t miss it.
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