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Y’all know by now that Carlos and I love us some Jeopardy, and I am constantly stunned by the severe lack of knowledge some people have; it scares me for the future of the world that last week two out of three contestants could not answer a simple question about ::: gulp::: The Golden Girls in a category called Everything’s Coming Up Rose:

“In 1986 she won an Emmy for playing Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls.”

Naturally, Carlos and I shrieked:

“BETTY WHITE!!!”

The first guy answered:

“Who’s McClanahan?”

And then Carlos and I screamed:

“BETTY WHITE!!!!”

The second guy, a self-professed homosexual who was subsequently asked to turn in his Gay Card, said:

“Who is Bea Arthur?”

And we screamed and threw our shoes at the TV:

“IT'S BETTY FUCKING WHIIIIIIIIIITE!!!!!!!”

The third contestant did not offer an answer but gets no props for not knowing that it was FUCKING BETTTY WHITE!!!!

It took me several hours to calm down.

Carlos is still annoyed.

This is a post from August 2009 and is Tuxedo through and through:

“Sunday Morning Tuxedo.”

Again, I was constantly amazed at how he would decide to sprawl out on a rug or chair or windowsill. He was all about comfort.

On the PBS show, Finding Your Roots, Henry Gates traced the ancestry of famous people. Every week is an interesting show, but one time he featured actor Tamera Mowry. Mowry is biracial—her mother is Black, her father is white—and learned that on her mother’s side, her family were slaves in the Bahamas and then in America.

But on her father’s side she was told her ancestors originally lived in England and were victims of religious persecution until they fled to the US aboard a little ship called the Mayflower. Mowry let all that sink in and then held her left hand UP, saying:

“This side of my family started this whole thing, and then … [she held up her right hand] … they enslaved this side of my family.”

What an amazing perspective on her ancestry.

It's a fascinating show if you aren’t watching.

It’s official, Thing 45 has been found guilty of the sexual abuse and defamation of E Jean Carroll and ordered to pay her $5 million.

I wonder how the MAGAts will feel paying this bill for him.

Ah, Murphy's Law ... Last Sunday was a housekeeping and yard cleaning kind of day; lawns mowed, hedges trimmed, laundry done and the oven cleaned. I tackled the lawn first and it went bad quickly. The week prior Carlos had been pulling these invasive vines out of some trees in the side yard. He would then take the vine and roll it up like an electrical cord and tie it up in a bundle and toss it on the ground with some leaves. I didn't know he'd left them there, under the leaves, and so I ran the mower over the leaves to mulch them, but one of the coiled vines wrapped itself around the mower blade and jerked the whole machine to a standstill. 

We tried to get the vines off to no avail, and then called a lawn mower service to fix the problem and do the routine maintenance on the mower. To the tune of some $400. Ah, well, we learned a lesson to not tie up vines into little bundles and to not run the riding mower over a pile of leaves because we don’t know what’s under it.

Next, I'm back in the house setting the oven to clean; a three-hour process which means the oven and stove are unusable until about 3PM. I wanted to grill salmon and do it up with all kinds of veggies and serve it over rice, so I set about prepping the dinner. I sliced onion, poblano pepper, mushrooms, fresh ginger, garlic, carrots, celery, broccoli, scallions and fresh cilantro. 

After the oven was cleaned, and wiped out, I decided to start dinner and took the prepped veggies out and set them on the counter. I then thought, to keep it light and fresh, I’d drizzled a little Rice Wine vinegar over the veggies when they were sautéing so I grabbed the bottle of vinegar off the top shelf. It slid out of my hand and landed on the plate of prepared veggies, shattering the plate and sending veggies sailing all over the kitchen.

Oy, the curse words that rained through the house as I cleaned up the mess and then meticulously set about slicing more veggies for my dinner.

At least it tasted good; I think. I was still kinda seeing red at my clumsiness.

First Thing 45 and now this … federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Representative George Harrison Takei Lucas Michael Orwell Kitara Ravache Pinocchio Santos whose blatant lies about every single facet of his life stunned everyone … except Republicans who honor liars.

He has been indicted on 13 counts, including seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.

And he swears … foot stomp, head snap, hands on hips … he’s innocent.

Federal prosecutors investigating Thing 45’s handling mishandling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at Mar-a-Lago, part of an intensifying effort to determine whether Thing 45 ordered boxes containing sensitive material moved out of a storage room there as the government sought to recover it last year. The name of the confidential informant is not being released but I have an idea …

Italian actor Stefano Gianino is famous for his role as Niccoló in The White Lotus. Where he showed off all his goods. But this isn’t about that, it’s … Would You Hit It?