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We had a lovely, quiet, peace-filled weekend getaway for my birthday. So much so that I didn’t want to return, but we did, because we have cats and a dog and such. When we got home we were telling the pet-sitter about the trip, and I told her it was wintry and gorgeous and quiet and then I added:

“We got several inches on my birthday AND then it snowed.”

I thought Carlos was going to die, but our house-sitter guffawed and snorted.

My take: if you want to vote for the guy who pardons the traitors, know that you’re voting for a man who will free men and women who broke into a federal building and threatened to murder the Vice President and the Speaker of the House, and if you feel that’s presidential, fuck all the way off.

This week I posted about the idiot Republicans and conservatives on the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee, who have banned Art Spiegelman’s “Maus,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from the eighth-grade curriculum.

No sooner than they said banned, did the book, hell the entire series of the graphic novel, “The Complete Maus,” surge to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list.

If they ban the book, buy the book.

I have created a special uniform for the COVIDIOTS at work. They love the hat. But Donald decided it looked better without his clothes and I ain’t mad at it.

Ryan Utterback, who has supported banning books from North Kansas City School District libraries that depict sexual acts, is facing a felony charge of second-degree child molestation and a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree domestic assault. Oh, and he is also facing a misdemeanor charge of furnishing pornographic material or attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor in a separate case.

Just like the biggest homophobic bigots get caught trying to play footsie in a men’s room, doesn’t it always seem that the people who scream the loudest about protecting the children are the ones trying to molest children?

My whole life consists of wondering whether or not to make a sarcastic comment and yet knowing the answer will always be ‘Yes.’

Rihanna’s foundation, the Clara Lionel, has donated $15 million to 18 climate justice organizations, including the Climate Justice Alliance and the Movement for Black Lives. A statement explained:

“Climate disasters, which are growing in frequency and intensity, do not impact all communities equally, with communities of color and island nations facing the brunt of climate change. These grants support entities focused on and led by women, youth, Black, Indigenous, people of color and LGBTQIA+ communities. We invite others to join us in elevating, funding and supporting these groups and others who are on the frontlines of the climate justice movement.”

That’s how you do it.

After COVID-stricken Sarah Palin was spotted dining at two Manhattan restaurants and walking maskless on city streets, Mayor Adams’ office issued a warning to New Yorkers who cross her infected path:

“We encourage any New Yorker who came into contact with Sarah Palin to get tested, just as we encourage all New Yorkers to get tested regularly, especially those who believe they may have been exposed to COVID-19.”

 The good news is most intelligent people always steer clear of COVID Sarah.

France has a new law that bans so-called conversion therapies and authorizes jail time and fines for practitioners who use the scientifically discredited practice to attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ people.

As French President Emmanuel Macron said:

“The law prohibiting conversion therapy is adopted unanimously! Let’s be proud, these unworthy practices have no place in the Republic. Because being yourself is not a crime, because there is nothing to be cured.”

Bravo!

Curt Autry, a journalist for Richmond, Virginia’s NBC 12, had the best response to a transphobic email about Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider.

While reporting on Schneider’s winning streak Autry noted that Schneider was the first woman to win over a million dollars, and the first woman to win that many consecutive episodes. That set off a viewer, who identifies as “Gretchen,” who wrote into the show:

“Hey Curt, I saw that you somehow managed to read the story on the news last night (and with a straight face) that Amy Schneider is now the winningest woman in the history of Jeopardy! You don’t see the irony there? So which is it, are you stupid and not realize that Amy is a dude or do you stay that woke 24/7?”

Autry reminded “Gretchen” that most people don’t try to verify someone’s sex assigned at birth before addressing them with the correct name and pronouns, so why shouldn’t that same courtesy be extended to trans people?

“Dear Gretchen, we’ve never met, so I don’t know you—but since you approached me as ‘Gretchen,’ I assume that’s how you like to be addressed, I feel no need to peek in your panties to verify it. I’ll call you what makes you comfortable, the same goes for Amy. And that has nothing to do with my IQ or how ‘woke’ I am, it’s just a simple matter of respect.”

Respect. That’s all.

And here we have one Addis Miller, he of the dazzling smile and beautiful body, an Ethiopian-British model who also runs Lifestyle Limitless, a nutrition and training company. 

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