I watched “Jay Kelly,” the new George Clooney movie, this week. I found it to be entirely enjoyable, yet also, as the kids say today, mid. Which is to say it may be like the book I talked about earlier this week: It wasn’t terrible to watch, but I’ll forget every frame of it in 10 days. My main takeaway was this: George is old now.
For me, it might be the most unsettling part of aging — seeing the movie stars I grew up with turning into senior citizens. Some of the most striking women of my youth, beauties like Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer, all old now. The men, those lust objects like Clooney: Old. Robert Redford had a cameo on the last season of “Dark Skies,” and looked as lined as one of those dried-apple dolls, and he’s dead now, anyway.
It’s unsettling, of course, because it means I’m old now too, which I objectively am, but apart from the pain in my knees, honestly, I don’t feel old. I feel…mature. Capable of holding my tongue in situations where I once would have let loose, to no good end. I can take the long view more often. I have no interest in chasing trends, or even knowing anything about them. You say baggy jeans are back? That’s nice. I think I have a pair in my drawer. From the ’90s. And as someone who could never, ever coast on her looks, I even think I look better than I did at, say, 30. I’m a better-looking old person than I was a young person. That has to count for something.
“Jay Kelly” is about an aging actor, and — this is not a spoiler — culminates with a career-tribute highlight reel, many of the shots recognizable from Clooney’s earlier work. He watches it with a slow tear sliding down his cheek, tinged with all the joy and regret over roads taken and not taken, and I guess that’s what life is like at our age. George and I are about the same age but he took the rich-Hollywood-movie-star-male-division life path of marrying a much younger woman, so he could have children. I wouldn’t want to be mothering twins at 56, or even 39, the age of his wife when she gave birth, but I can’t afford round-the-clock nannies, either, so it all works out.
We’ve spoken here often about growing old, and I know I’m still in early old age, that everything can go south tomorrow, but so far so good. Look me up in five years, see how I feel.
I’ve almost grown out of one of my bad habits of aging, which is to say, comparing my physical decrepitude with that of other women my age: Look at that crepey cleavage. At least I don’t have that, and so on. Sooner or later the crepe is all we have. Live until you die, I guess.
Getting older means I’m more likely to be a victim of a scam, something I’m reminded of almost daily, as I read about some miscreant persuading one of my cohort into depositing cash into a Bitcoin ATM to avoid prosecution for child porn, or something. I worry that one day I’ll get a call from someone close to me, begging for bail money, and I’ll fall for it, but it’ll turn out to be an AI sample of their voice. I think we should discuss a family code phrase to use. I think I should let Kate have veto power over big withdrawals from the nest-egg funds, so it doesn’t all go to Chinese or Russian thieves. Then I think, nah. Not time to panic yet.
Alan used to chide me for peeling off a couple singles for every panhandler we pass, arguing that it was just going to go for booze or drugs. That’s a type of scam, I guess. No one asks for money on the street for a pint of Mad Dog. On the other hand, everyone should have a small pleasure. So I keep giving.
Why so philosophical today, Nance? Can’t say. I had an enjoyable morning, meeting two friends of the blog in town for a couple days. Then a quiet afternoon. Indiana rejected further gerrymandering the state, indicating the cracks in Tubby’s coalition are widening.
I hope I live long enough to see him die, though, preferably of natural causes, in public and painfully. It’ll be awesome. How’s that for maturity?
Have a good weekend, all!
Sherri said on December 12, 2025 at 1:36 am
I listened to the preview of Olivia Nuzzi’s book, and the only thing worse than Olivia Nuzzi’s writing is Olivia Nuzzi reading her writing.
Despite all the claims about too much handshaking, it seems pretty obvious that Trump is getting an infusion of some kind regularly. If only the media were as concerned about this as they were about a Parkinson’s expert visiting the White House during Biden’s administration. Perhaps it’s also related to the “preventative” MRI he had? Some potential side effect of the transfused drug?
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Deborah said on December 12, 2025 at 4:32 am
Looking better older than I did younger worked for me for a while, then it didn’t. This year I feel really old and look it too. Oh well, I’m still alive and happy to be so.
Heading into a very cold weekend then things warm up a bit in Chicago. In 3 weeks we head back to NM where it’s been quite mild lately.
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David C said on December 12, 2025 at 5:49 am
I still shake my head thinking about my dad being taken for $40,000 in a grandparent scam. I guess it was really a parent scam because it was supposedly me needing the bail money. I still can’t figure out why he didn’t think to call my wife. If I was in trouble, her world would have been crashing down too. One damned phone call could have prevented the whole thing.
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Alan Stamm said on December 12, 2025 at 7:24 am
Interesting background from Noah Baumbach for Clooney’s tribute highlight reel scene. NYT quotes the director as saying “that’s him watching the reel for the first time” on set.
“CLOONEY: I didn’t know Noah was doing that, I was shocked. When I grab Adam’s hand, that was very real — we were both kind of tearing up. … You don’t really have the perspective of aging that other people have of you.
“The only way that works is if you go away for a while and come back, but if you’re doing it constantly, slowly, it’s the frog in the water. It’s fascinating to sit in that room and feel it. Part of it is, you’re shocked that it’s been 40 years.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/movies/george-clooney-adam-sandler-noah-baumbach-jay-kelly.html [paywall]
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Alan Stamm said on December 12, 2025 at 8:24 am
Among others with a vision of 47’s public, painful demise is 78-year-old Lucian K. Truscott IV, who posted Thursday at Substack:
“Unless he falls to his knees clutching his chest from some kind of aneurism they’re staving off with infusions of whateverthehell into the backs of his hands, we’re going to be listening to this verbal disassociation for the next three years.”
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Jeff Gill said on December 12, 2025 at 8:40 am
The beginning of my journey with my father-in-law was him getting scammed for $8,000 (thankful it wasn’t more) in 2016; the scripts are good, no doubt due to so much field-testing on what doesn’t work. Still, there’s a certain sort of mindset it takes which I suspect our host won’t fall for. (And he did finally call my wife before the third round to verify the implausible, at second-hand at least, story of what was going on with our son.)
On Truscott’s worst-case scenario, he’s got statistics on his side. I keep discussing this in two flavors when I get home from Bloomington, about my mother, and Trump, vs. the very carefully observed progress of cognitive decline & ultimately dementia with her father . . . and dozens of parishioners over the years previously. Buck almost made it to 94, with the delamination of his thinking & metabolism in parallel over the last three precipitous years. But my mother’s dementia in terms of outright fabrication & delusion has been pretty advanced for three years, while her body is in some ways doing better than she had been over the previous decade. At risk of ungraciousness, she would complain & even moan piteously about certain issues for years which got her a low dose oxycodone prescription, long suspended because in her current state, she reports no pain of any sort, and is frankly happier than I’ve known her since early childhood. An odd blessing of her mindset is old resentments and ongoing grievances that made talking to her a burden are all gone, and she’s freely delighted by new foods, visitors, or being asked to go somewhere. “I’m so happy to see you!” she says to one & all. I’m avoiding some of the painful aspects of the forgetting, but it really is interesting to meet & talk to her as a happy person (even if that’s effectively yet another sign of advancing dementia).
In other words, Trump’s path is likely to be unique in its own right, however long it lasts, albeit with access to the nuclear codes, where my mother isn’t allowed to try to exit door panel number keys even under supervision. But there comes a point when enough synapses stop firing that the whole sequence pauses, and ultimately stops. Even for people who’ve never drunk alcohol or used drugs. It just means they won’t have an infarction or TIA to cut short or speed up the mental decay.
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Jeff Borden said on December 12, 2025 at 9:38 am
Years ago, I read that most people fix a particular year in their minds and it remains the way they view themselves as time passes. I still think of myself in my early ’30s, when my career was strong, my salary was starting to allow me to breathe and I was hitting every rock and blues show I could find in Columbus, Ohio, while hosting legendarily loud and long parties with the esteemed, Miss Nancy Nall. (I’m still amazed police were never called.) Yet the face that stares back at me from a mirror is framed with a gray beard. The skin on my neck is sagging. And the arthritis that invaded my left knee is moving on to my left wrist. After the first of the year, I’ll be seeing an audiologist about hearing aids. And now I look at the start times for concerts and shows, often opting for theater matinees because I prefer being at home most nights. How did I go from someone pogoing at a Ramones show to someone who is usually in bed by 10?
Time doesn’t march on. It gets behind the wheel of a Bugatti Veyron and accelerates with every passing day.
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alex said on December 12, 2025 at 9:38 am
I, too, worry about cognitive decline. My executive functioning seems off, and staying on task sometimes seems impossible, but I cannot help but think that it’s because of deep anxiety about the state of the world. It feels eerily like a very early-in-life memory.
I remember vividly the day my mother put me into pre-school. I was 3, soon to turn 4, and had never been separated from my mother for any significant time or left alone in unfamiliar surroundings with strangers. One day she takes me to this place and announces that she’s leaving me there and of course it makes me hysterical. A couple of ladies are trying to occupy me with a toy telephone and I’m not into it. Every time my mother gets up to leave, I start bawling hysterically and try to follow her out, dragging the toy phone on the ground by its receiver, and the ladies restrain me and drag me back to a seat.
My tasks of daily living have come to feel just like that toy phone. I simply couldn’t give it my attention when overcome with hypervigilance and fear of the unknown. Besides, I felt that it was being imposed on me and it wasn’t what I’d have chosen from the toy box.
The memory of that toy phone has always come back to me whenever I’ve found myself impatient with tasks or unable to devote my full attention to them.
I eventually settled into nursery school. I never liked it. It was the first time I had experienced crayons and coloring books and I remember getting upbraided by the teacher because I didn’t know what I was doing and she didn’t like anything that I did. So when she would come around to check my work, I would show her already colored pictures in the books and she’d call me out on that. I hated coloring but eventually figured out what they wanted just to get them off my back.
They were fond of corporal punishment there, face slapping and ass spanking. I was fortunate to have only gotten hit once, a slap in the face for cutting in line when it was time to leave. Clearly I was much too eager.
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David C said on December 12, 2025 at 9:54 am
I feel like a total shit when I think like this, but I’m grateful for the heart attack that took my mom’s life before her Alzheimer’s robbed her of her memory my sibs and me. As much of her as we lost, we still had the past we could talk about. I still mourn the mom we had ten years ago more than the one we had three month ago. I know that’s normal, but I still feel bad about it.
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Mark P said on December 12, 2025 at 11:07 am
I was going to go through a litany about my old age but all I can think of is this from Olive Kitteridge (a clip is all I have seen): “I’m waiting for the dog to die so I can shoot myself.”
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Suzanne said on December 12, 2025 at 11:15 am
I was visiting my 90 year old mother last week in the nursing home when an aide walked in and asked if I was her sister. I am only 67. I thought I looked pretty decent for my age [insert crying emoji] so that pretty much ruined my day.
As for the barely functioning executive brain function, I blame the massive amount of chemotherapy I had. It’s been almost 4 years since I was diagnosed but that chemo brain thing is reality and coupled with an aging brain often brings my brain to a screeching halt. But, I can live with it because dangnammit, I am still alive to be foggy! For that, I am beyond grateful.
Also, go figure that of all states, the crimson (as in cream & crimson) state of Indiana told team Trump to eff off and refused redistricting, even after Trump threatened federal funding for roads. In Hoosier style, one GOP member said something about his lack of concern that because Hoosiers already knew how to navigate bad roads.
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Jeff Gill said on December 12, 2025 at 11:21 am
I’d love to give my home state more credit, but I suspect the apparently Mitch Daniels led (or at least coordinated) resistance was due to the ability of the IN Senate GOP to still do basic math. Eliminating 2 “safe” D seats means creating 4 competitive R seats, and if Trump keeps it up, the midterms could lose them 3 of the 4, so math. (And if it’s the deluge some predict this Nov., the loss could be 4 of 4. Keeping Dems in 2 corrals makes more sense to them, even if Trump & Heritage can’t do math.)
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Dexter Friend said on December 12, 2025 at 11:28 am
We in recovery from alcohol problems live by ODAAT. Just one day at a time, and many will say their main goal is to die sober. I look amazingly like my gruff maternal grandfather, always have through my aging, decade by decade, and so as I now use canes and rollator to move around, I saw it coming years ago. I even have Grandpa’s wooden cane that he used until he passed 67 years ago. I use HurryCanes, folding canes with a pad on the bottom.
Dementia, my brother has battled Wernicke-Korsakoff for 11 years, still alive, and was recently able to send a one-sentence text with help from his wonderful wife.
Late in life, after her stroke, Mom began having either Parkinson’s or dementia symptoms, seeing soap suds in corners and on walls and concocting a scenario in which she accused me of breaking into a relative’s house and stealing their money and valuables.
I admired and loved those people and would never break into their home , or commit any crime whatsoever. She also told me she knew I was breaking into their house and going upstairs and “smoking marijuana all night long.” She would get all worked-up when she attacked me then. My Dad and brother would try and calm her; I would have to leave and head back across the state line when she was in that state. Mom, now long gone…I never smoked weed in your house.
The UM coaching job may have driven Gary Moeller to drink and disgraceful behavior not far from where I sit now, as the regents fired him the next day all those years ago, but the Sherrone Moore firing this week was even sadder. Possible violence, hints of mental illness, betrayal of his wife and 3 babies, and a possible pregnant side-piece fellow beautiful staffer. Violation of his contract and University policy, he is done, just arraigned a few minutes ago in Washtenaw County.
How many of us worked in an environment where intimacy with a co-worker was a fire-able offense? Where I worked for 30 years, it seemed over half the workers were hooking up, married or not, and many married co-workers. After my early divorce, I sought women in what were called singles bars in Fort Wayne. Never the factory floor, never ever.
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Dave said on December 12, 2025 at 11:28 am
Our governor and lieutenant governor must not be able to do math, either, they’re both making ugly remarks about primaries. I especially despise the LG of this state, a very much right wing Christian nationalist.
Suzanne at 11, my mother told my sister she really looked old after she finally figured out who she was, she was about 57 at the time.
David C., don’t feel guilty, my mother was also gone long before she passed away at 90.
I look in the mirror and think I don’t look so bad for 75 but then I see a picture and think, oh my, is that what I REALLY look like? 75 is a big number, so many I know never reached it so I’m grateful for every day. What I hate most is struggling for a word that I know and can’t come up with and then sometimes wondering if that is the right word and other times, words and names come right to me.
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Icarus said on December 12, 2025 at 11:42 am
Eleven years ago, My wife gave birth to our twins when she was 39. A few days later, she turned 40, and I was already 45. We wish we had met sooner, but that’s just how the Universe works.
I have a friend who suffers from what I call Pretty Privilege. She used to be one of the prettiest women in the room; now she is one of the prettiest in her age group.
She’s not dealing with it all too well. Doors that used to open for her are now not necessarily shut, but no one is holding them open as before.
It’s not that she isn’t smart or talented, but she is blissfully unaware that a lot of the breaks she got wouldn’t have gone to less comely people.
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Deborah said on December 12, 2025 at 12:17 pm
“It’ll come to me” is a well used phrase these days. I had long covid for a while, lightheadedness and brain fog. The lightheadedness is better, but the fog continues, it might be slightly better.
Mark P, Olive Kitteridge is a fantastic series with Frances McDormand and an even better book. I’ve read everything Elizabeth Strout has written after reading it.
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Deborah said on December 12, 2025 at 1:36 pm
Did any of you listen to or watch the Ezra Klein (long) interview with Gavin Newsom? I thought Newsom came off quite well, I had not paid much serious attention to him before except for his Trump trolling tweets which were hilarious. I have a hard time knowing that he was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle for 5 years. I didn’t know that he’s dyslexic and open about it, he always has so many facts and figures at his disposal, that surprised me. California has the highest affordablity of any state, high taxes too, what with the tech wealth etc there the CA economy is higher than many countries. Is it too early to start thinking about the next presidency, I realize a lot can happen between now and then?
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tajalli said on December 12, 2025 at 1:54 pm
Ezra Klein Show interview with Newsom – 1 hr 49 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqBsRNUXWfs
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Sherri said on December 12, 2025 at 2:07 pm
I don’t know what definition of affordability they’re using to say California has the highest. California housing is very expensive. The median house price in the state is over $800k.
Newsom is very busy running for president, and he’ll throw anybody under the bus to get there. He stands for Gavin Newsom.
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Dorothy said on December 12, 2025 at 2:11 pm
I was at a quilt show committee meeting last Saturday morning. Twelve us sitting around the table at Barb’s house, and 3-4 more sitting in chairs in the family room were just getting started. It’s fair to say the average age in the room was likely 61 or so. That’s just a guess. Lucy was sitting next to me – she spoke up to answer someone else’s question and she said “Well speaking as someone on the younger side of old ….”. etc etc. We all laughed and laughed. Another woman, probably past 72 or so, said “I wonder where the line is to move between the ‘younger side of old’ and just plain ‘old.’ There was much merriment in the room about that phrase and now I think we should get shirts made with YSOO on them to commemorate what Lucy said.
Dave @14 – I’m the same way about struggling for the right word sometimes. It seems like it happens more and more frequently each week. Or maybe I’m imagining it. But it just makes me really mad when I rarely needed to wait for the ‘right word’ to come with me. I think I have a pretty good vocabulary. Stumbling over words is very unfamiliar territory for me.
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alex said on December 12, 2025 at 2:23 pm
Deborah, I was never a big fan of Newsom but I have to say I’m impressed that he’s got the panache to troll Trump, and to outmatch him with wit and wisdom when it comes to gratuitous mudslinging. I have a feeling that whoever is running in ’28 will need to do more than just take the high road and be prepared to do battle with schoolyard bullies by landing better insults.
Being from California shouldn’t be any more of a liability for Newsom than being from NYC was for Trump. Being able to overcome dyslexia is impressive. I’m not going to say he’s my candidate at this point but he certainly deserves more credit than I was willing to give him in the past, even if being involved with Kimberly Guilfoyle makes me question whether he has good enough judgment to be president. But, hey, I’ve been romantically involved with some losers in the past so I can’t fault him there.
ON EDIT: And Jasmine Crockett is showing the kind of panache that it might take to turn Texas purple.
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Suzanne said on December 12, 2025 at 2:46 pm
Jeff Gill, I agree that My Man Mitch probably had more to do with the GOP rejecting redistricting than them growing spines but I also think it shows their intense dislike of Braun & Beckwith. The fact that the two top people in Indiana sided with Trump 100% and the bill still went down in flames speaks volumes about the amount of Braun’s power.
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Julie Robinson said on December 12, 2025 at 3:50 pm
Newsom is being touted by many as the front runner for 2028. I feel like he hasn’t been fully vetted, but I am enjoying the trolling.
Next year we both hit 70. That seems to be officially old to me.
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Julie Robinson said on December 12, 2025 at 5:28 pm
Also, my mom, while looking through boxes of ornaments from her house: “Where did these come from? I don’t recognize any of them. These aren’t my ornaments.”
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Deborah said on December 12, 2025 at 7:09 pm
I have a good Trump/architecture story that I heard this afternoon and since then I’ve had a martini so I hope this comes out correctly:
My husband and I went to a model makers shop to look at a model that’s being made for our current design project (which has been going on for 5 years). The owner of the shop said they do a lot of work in NYC and I asked him if he ever worked for Trump and he said yes. And of course I had to know the story. So he had made a model for the Trump Tower back whenever that had been designed (in the 90s?). The model had been delivered to their then sales office and Trump loved it, but then it had to be moved to a different sales office and the elevator for that building was to short to fit the 7ft tall model, so whoever moved it had to tilt it to fit and in the process there was some damage. Trump’s staff decided to send the model back to the shop in Chicago to be repaired but they didn’t tell Trump it had gotten damaged because they knew he would be furious. So they sent the model back to Chicago but gave no instructions about where to send it after it had been repaired and a couple of months went by when the model shop was just waiting for instructions about where to send it. One day the model maker got a call that said for him to hold on for Trump to come on the line. When Trump came on the line he said that he was sitting at a table with some lawyers and they were going to sue the model shop for holding the model hostage until they got paid. The model shop guy of course had no idea what Trump was talking about because he was just waiting for instructions about where and when to send the model back. So it was news to Trump that the model had even been damaged in the first place but it got squared away. The model was sent and the model maker actually got paid for the whole amount for it. In the meantime the model maker had made friends with some of Trump’s staff as they were working out all of the logistics for getting the model where it was supposed to go and they told him later that they were astonished that he had actually gotten paid for the full amount, they said that Trump usually gets out of paying the last 10 to 15% by threatening to sue, or actually suing but then pulling out before trial and by that time the person being sued figured that the cost of lawyering up for that last amount wasn’t worth it, they’d pay way more for the lawyers than getting paid by Trump.
Anyway, this was such a typical Trump story, I wasn’t surprised by any of it, but I loved hearing about it directly from the guy it happened to.
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Colleen said on December 12, 2025 at 7:26 pm
I’m very glad my looks were never my currency. I’ve known women for whom it was, and they don’t handle aging particularly well.
My husband suddenly became elderly around age 70. We have quite an age difference, which has previously not been an issue. But now, our living room is like the day room at the nursing home, with him nodding off periodically while watching TV. I am not equipped to be a nursemaid,and feel guilty that I have no desire to become one.
Alex, I too am having executive function problems. Part of me wonders how much it has to do with the constant state of high anxiety we find ourselves in.
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Jeff Gill said on December 12, 2025 at 9:27 pm
Julie, my sister was skeptical of my assessment that our mother had cognitive issues heading into dementia . . . until the day she told sis “this is my room, but all of this is not my stuff; it’s all a very good copy for the most part, but this isn’t my bed/table/chair/items on wall etc.” That was blessedly brief; we also were fortunate that the “what have you done with all my money” phase was short, as well. I know some people deal with the full-blown “A Thousand Acres” scenario with an elderly parent.
Deborah, I’m perversely pleased to know the model shop got full compensation given how many piano tuners and other everyday vendors got shorted or stiffed. Don must have liked his balance that day in the checkbook.
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ROGirl said on December 13, 2025 at 8:41 am
I turned 69 in October and am not ready to walk away from my job and paycheck yet. Besides, it keeps my mind occupied on things other than getting old and worrying about how long I will keep all my marbles.
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alex said on December 13, 2025 at 10:02 am
I’m having a shitty day so far. I tried logging onto my credit card web site with the same ID and password saved in my computer and then it directed me to reset my password but then wouldn’t recognize the new password and my browser crashed. So I get two e-mails stating that my user ID was looked up followed by one that says my password was successfully reset. (It wasn’t.) So I’m waiting for a callback from their Security department. I’m not sure why it asked me to reset my password because I hadn’t wanted to change it. Just aggravating. All I want to do is pay my balance. I’m worried that I’ve been Phished.
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alex said on December 13, 2025 at 12:58 pm
Managed to re-set my password and all’s good as far as I can tell. Didn’t get my call back from the bank, though, because I set up my cell phone to screen my calls, so it blocks people whose numbers aren’t recognized and sends them to voice mail. Technology is more trouble than it’s worth sometimes.
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Dexter Friend said on December 13, 2025 at 6:50 pm
That was one hell of a football game in Baltimore. Navy 17, Army 16. I was on the edge of my seat…really.
Mass shooting at Brown. 20 shot I heard. Nowhere is safe. No damn where.
The pitfall of being cheaper than most: my old hoopdees keep breaking down. Every time I get another bill like this one of $980 for the Honda, I look online to find a much newer vehicle. Then I sleep on it and say…well…one more repair, just one damn more, THEN I’ll trade up. Well, I did buy one Powerball $2 ticket as it’s for $1,000,000,000, minus $560M for cash option claiming . Then minus 40% of that for taxes. Still, that’s a nice pot of gold. So $1B really is $264,000,000. Chump change. Right.
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Deborah said on December 13, 2025 at 8:50 pm
The rightwing has figured out how impactful Heather Cox Richardson is so now we are starting to see negative articles about her in the liberal bubble. They’re panicking (the right), facing 2026. She’s everywhere and they hate that. I’ve been reading her since she started online, she has certainly caught on. The only other person like that, that I adopted before they caught on was Obama. It’s very satisfying to see it happen.
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Sherri said on December 14, 2025 at 5:44 am
The funniest freak out about Heather Cox Richardson is “Heather Cox Richardson Stole My Wife!”, which reads almost like satire.
https://www.piratewires.com/p/heather-cox-richardson-divorce-2025-12
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Jeff Gill said on December 14, 2025 at 8:03 am
7 to 8 inches of snow fell overnight on Granville’s east side — our county is Level 2 on Ohio’s snow emergency announcement system. The semi-controversial part is each county sets their snow emergency level based on . . . the opinion of the county sheriff. Our sheriff is very conservative, and if he calls the second of three levels, you know it’s schlippery out there. Level 3 means stay home or get arrested on the roads. Also 7 degrees this am, 4 degrees is tonight’s forecast low. Our warming center for people who are without shelter is open, trying to muster enough volunteers to cover Monday night when it “only” will drop to 13 (our formal threshold is 10 degrees or lower for activation).
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ROGirl said on December 14, 2025 at 8:07 am
From today’s Detroit Free Press:
“First on the win, to say this has been a crazy 24 hours for your guys,” Fox sideline reporter Jenny Taft said after Michigan football beat Penn State on the road on Nov. 11, 2023. “To win on the road, in this environment, when there were doubts — Sherrone, what does it mean to you?”
Then, it was like a flip was switched. Moore was overcome with emotion and started wiping tears. “I want to thank the Lord,” Moore said. “I want to thank coach (Jim) Harbaugh.”
How does one switch a flip? Is it a gymnastics move?
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alex said on December 14, 2025 at 9:32 am
After the Indiana gerrymander went down in defeat, I was surprised to see so many Hoosier GOP pols taking to the air to argue frantically and apocalyptically about the imminent communist takeover of the House in ’26 and all the horrible consequences. You’d think even these dorks would have more dignity than to debase themselves by acting like what the far right is calling “based,” but David French explains the debased meaning of “based” and it’s chilling (gift article):
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/maga-right-wing-young-voters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.IfYV.nqRgcKc16h8B&smid=url-share
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