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You know it’s been said that 50% of all marriages end in divorce and ours is no exception.

It happened like this: one morning over breakfast Carlos began talking about Rosita; since he’s home more often than I, the two have bonded and while she sleeps between us she will only sit in his lap, but this isn’t about that. He began talking about how much like a dog she is because she roams the house checking on her people; he said she came out to the kitchen to see him, and then she disappeared down the hallway to find me. I said:

“Tuxedo used to do that. He used to come to the door, like a dog would, whenever we came home from somewhere.”

And Carlos said:

“Well, Rosita seems smarter than Tuxedo.”

Yes, he did; and he meant it, and so I said:

“This is going to sound crazy, and I don’t care cuz it is, but don’t you ever say a negative word about Tuxedo again.”

“Well, I was only—”

“BAH!!!!!”

“I just meant—”

“BAH!!!!!!!!!”

And because he saw the look on my face, with the glimmer of a tear in my eye, he said:

“Sorry.”

And all was right in the house again.

This week’s Tuxedo Memory is a quickie … from May 2012, just Tuxedo posing for a photo; he did love to have his picture taken!

"Caturday TuxedoDay

The Most handsome Cat Ever."

Note to self: remind Carlos of this.

Ryan Basye owns an Omaha, Nebraska apartment building and when he asked his daughters, ages five, seven, and nine, what color he should paint it, they all wanted the colors of the rainbow.

While his daughters were motivated by a love for colors, Basye was intrigued by the idea because of a 2022 conversation he’d had with a fellow property owner, during which the person made anti-LGBTQ+ remarks. So Basye painted the house rainbow and, in addition to making his daughters heroes at school, the house has brought joy to more people than he ever predicted:

“It puts a smile on my face knowing that neighbor has to see it every day [and] this place is right by an elementary school so we get lots of kids walking by with smiles on their faces. It has been about 99% positive.”

Basye—who owns about 25 properties and has been a realtor for 20 years—offered to help his tenants move out if the attention got to be too much but his tenants love the building.

So do I.

X, formerly known as Twitter, could lose as much as $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year as dozens of major brands pause their marketing campaigns after X owner, Elon Musk, endorsed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory this month.

Oh Elon, now buy Chick-fil-A and Hobby Lobby! And Walmart.

Neo-Nazis gathered in the town of Wunsiedel in Germany last week and found themselves the target of an anti-fascist prank when they inadvertently raised $12,000+ dollars [€10,000] for an anti-extremist organization.

After years of far-right extremists marching through Wunsiedel this year the organizers of Rechts gegen Rechts [Right against Right] took a different approach and had local residents and businesses sponsor the 250 participants of the march. For every meter they walked, €10 went to a program called EXIT Deutschland, which helps people escape extremist groups.

Campaigners hung posters to make the march look more like a sporting event, with slogans such as “If only the Führer knew!” and “Mein Mampf” [‘My Munch’] next to a table laden with bananas. They even hung a sign at the end, thanking the marchers for their “donations.”

And this is how Nazi’s donate to anti-hate groups! You know, cuz Nazis are stupid.

Fox News idiot Jason Chaffetz got roasted on X for claiming he spent $90 on a Thanksgiving turkey all thanks to Bidenomics:

“I mean, we went to go buy a turkey today. It was $90 for a turkey! It’s all a choice by Joe Biden. That is what Bidenomics is.”

To prove his point, Chaffetz posted a photo of the “premium young turkey” he bought from Meiers for $114.02—even more than the originally claimed $90—but failed to note in his idiotic snowflake rant that his turkey was “thoughtfully raised on sustainable family farms” and was “100% vegetarian fed, raised without antibiotics, no preservatives, minimally processed.”

Yes, this Fox News lying, rightwingnut MAGAt went out on bought himself a woke turkey!

This week Mr-Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl came to South Carolian for the Palmetto Bowl game between Clemson and USC. And because he can’t control crowds he doesn’t hire, Thing 45 was soundly booed as he arrived and given many one finger salutes, at the game.

Even better is that billboard erected in downtown Columbia reminding him that he’s a loser.

Sometimes South Carolinians get it right.

PS Notice that the sign was sponsored by “Radical Leftist Vermin.”

On the flip side of South Carolinians,  this was the temperature yesterday morning when I woke up and believe me, you never heard so many people complaining about the first really cold day of the year.

Oh, people wait until February …

Marcus Freeman is thirty-seven, a former linebacker and currently the head coach at the University of Notre Dame. Would You Hit It?

My Thought: a friend who is a Notre Dame football fan posted his picture on her Facebook page and I commented:

“Oh my … ::::thud:::”

And I meant it.