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When we had the skylights taken out of the sunroom our contractor couldn’t match the wood on the ceiling so we agreed to just put bead-board up on the whole thing and I would paint it.

Last week Carlos stumbled upon some things we’d had hanging from the ceiling pre-renovation and he wanted to put them back up which started this conversation:

“I’ll just use the hooks we used before.”

“They’re gone.”

“Why are they gone?”

“Craig replaced the ceiling with bead-board so the hooks were taken down and I don’t know where there are.”

“They should still be up there.”

“Underneath the new ceiling?”

I told him I was going to get my cartoon frying pan and he muttered something.

“What that that?”

“I have a cartoon frying pan, too, you know.”

Now I’m sleeping with one eye open.

This Caturday is from May 2011 …

There are places in our house where cats are allowed to be … on the bed … on the couch in the sunroom … on the couch in the living room … on a kitchen table chair. There are not allowed on living room chairs ... or dining room chairs … or kitchen counters.

Tuxedo, however, because he's so delicious, gets away with murder. He is allowed on the bathroom counter, because he enjoys a sip of water from the faucet … he's allowed on one of the living room chairs … if he's in my lap. 

But now, apparently, he has granted himself access to a dining room chair. There he is, peeking at me when I asked if he was hungry.

And here he is, doing his Gargoyle impression from atop a living room chair. He doesn't use his front paws to hold on because he's been declawed … DO NOT DO THAT … so he looks like he's just hanging around. And he just looks so darned cute, that I looked the other way and ignored his infractions.

Luckily for us both, Other Daddy wasn't home.

Harriet Hancock—a Columbia attorney and stalwart advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and our families, and is the namesake of the Harriet Hancock Center, a Columbia institution serving that community—died September 23, just shy of her 90th birthday.

Harriet became a fierce advocate and ally for the LGBTQ+ community when her son Greg came out to her in the early ’80s. As she came to know other LGBTQ+ young people whose families had rejected or struggled to understand them, she realized how desperately South Carolina needed places of acceptance, support and belonging and so she built that place; the Harriet Hancock Center.

I first met her about eleven years ago when Carlos and I joined a group of LGBTQ+ South Carolinians who formed The Will of the People Fund to fight for marriage equality in our state. We achieved that goal in November 2014 following a federal court ruling in the case Condon v. Haley that struck down the state's ban.

Harriet helped establish the Columbia chapter of PFLAG—a national organization dedicated to supporting, educating and advocating for the LGBTQ+ community—in 1982. And she soon became a quite visible and active public spokesperson, combating prejudices and stereotypes on Columbia talk radio, writing letter after letter to state news media responding to the homophobic attitudes then commonplace in public conversations about AIDS and LGBT people.

She was a force of nature and she will be missed.

RIP Harriet, you’ve earned it.

The fact that MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezo’s ex-wife and one of the biggest single donors in history, has given out $26,300,000,000 to charity and not run out of money really puts into perspective how the arguments against a wealth tax are bull shiz.

When I saw these cakes the first thing that came to mind was, “Why on Earth would you cover those up?”

On September 24, 2026, Fox “News” hosts spent the day telling their audience that Democrats are Communists  and Communists are evil. And then they went home and put on gowns and tuxedos to run to the White House to attend a state dinner honoring an actual communist.

PS Then Cankles made a commercial about himself using OUR tax dollars in which he says he will take down the communists.

Was that before or after you invited them to the White House for Melanie’s goulash? And by goulash I mean she’s a Slovenian Hooker and goulash is one of her sexy time high priced moves. 

These are the rich white men at Cornell University who decided it would better suit them to protect seven rapists than the one girl who was terrorized by them and the fifty other young men in their text chain. They are as complicit as the seven rapists and their fifty coconspirators who did nothing when they learned of the rape.

Instead of teaching young girls how not to get raped howsabout teaching young boys not to be rapists. Oh, and in the cases of Kavanaugh, RFK Jr, and Cankles teach the old white men, too.

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Another tale of Carlos and his hearing, and his refusal to wear his ‘ears’: I heard him ranting in the living room about the MyPillow jackass who’s come up with a new ‘cure’ for VCOVID-19, and he runs into the laundry room to vent. I listen, and then I say:

“It’s made from the oleander plant , which is a toxic plant.”

Cut to ten minutes later and I’m in the office and Carlos comes back:

“That extract they keep talking about is made from the oleander plant , which is a toxic plant.”

It took all my strength not to reach for my cartoon frying pan and thump his melon.

Once again, as it should be, I am totally with Tuxedo on this one. Neither one of us really like people very much …

Jared Kushner is a birther because that makes Daddy-in-Law happy. When asked if he accepts that Kamala Harris is a qualified candidate, Kushner said:

“I personally have no reason to believe she’s not.”

But after CBS This Morning co-host Anthony Mason pointed out that Harris was born in Oakland and that makes her a qualified candidate, Kushner spun:

“[_____] just said that he had no idea whether that’s right or wrong. I don’t see that as promoting it. But look, at the end of the day, it’s something that’s out there.”

It’s out there because you, your racist Daddy-in-Law, and the entire GOP put it out there.

Like, I question if you’re even a real person or some kind of self-loathing queer goose-stepping blow-up doll who spends his days carrying water for his complicit wife and bigot father-in-law.

It’s just out there.

Back to Mike Lindell, the MyPillow lunatic, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson who met with _____ to push the use of oleandrin, that extract from the oleander plant as a cure” for COVID-19, despite lack of proof that it works.

Hydroxychloroquine, say what?

But best of all is that Lindell and Carson have a financial stake in the company that develops the product. Swamp Things.

More Carlos … when he practices his trumpet Consuelo sits outside the closed door and waits, because after practice Carlos always gives the cats their treats. And so she would run into the kitchen—Consuelo only runs for food—and wait impatiently for Carlos.

The other night, though, she stopped short and Carlos stepped on her. She howled at him. He howled at her. And she took off. I finally found her in the master bathroom, tucked into a corner. She was upset because her other Daddy yelled at her.

It’s been seven days and she is still mad. Every night Carlos calls the cats for treats and Consuelo goes to the back part of the bathroom and sits in the corner.

Bitch can hold a grudge!

The Democratic AND Republican chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee notified federal prosecutors last year of their suspicion that several individuals, including _____’s family members and confidants—Donald _____ Jr. and Jared Kushner—might have lied in the panel’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Huh. Shocking.

It looks like the RNC will stand for Racists Nutjobs Convention this year because two prominent features of the convention will be Mark and Patricia McCloskey aka  Ken and Karen, the St. Louis couple who brandished guns as Black Lives Matter protesters marched through their neighborhood.

And then they throw in pipsqueak white supremacist in training, Nick Sandmann, aka the Covington Catholic school kid who was part of a larger group of MAGAt-gear wearing children who swarmed Native American activists in Washington, DC in January 2019.

That’s the kinds of people the GOP wants you to hear ... racists, toddlers, gun nuts, and Scott Baio.

Last May David Lynn Richards Jr., a  former pastor was convicted of repeatedly raping his adopted teenage daughter over a four year span, was sentenced to just twelve years because a Knox County judge called him a “good Christian” who had a lot of friends supporting him … and who never seemed bothered as to why the “good” pastor’s semen was found in his daughter’s bed.

White "Christian" male privilege.

Melanie will give a speech at the RNC, though we don’t know if she’ll give Michelle’s speech or Jill’s. But what we do know, because even the _____ Administration and the RNC say so, is that after she speaks she’ll do very little to nothing to help her husband’s campaign.

So, either it’s time to visit Plastic Surgeon for an upgrade ... yes, that's Melanie in both pictures ... or even Missus _____ won’t speak to reelect her husband.

I like a good horror movie, but they’re scarce these days because horror movies have been dumbed down over the years. Still, I watched a little something called Countdown, about an app for your fun that tells you how long you have to live … and it means it.

It was silly, well, dumb, and I was thisclose to turning it off when one Jordan Calloway appeared onscreen and suddenly I was, um, interested. I’d never heard of him, but he was cute, with a rockin’ body in a tight t-shirt. And then, because he was a person of color, he was :::SPOILER ALERT:::: killed.

But he lives on in my dreams … where we wrestle.

Jacob Anderson Another White Rapist Walks Free

And folks, mostly white folks, mostly white male folks, say there’s no such thing as white privilege.

Jacob Anderson, the former president of Baylor University’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was accused of raping a woman at an off-campus party in 2015. The victim, then a sophomore at Baylor, says she was given a drink at an off-campus frat party and “became very disoriented.” She says she was taken “to a secluded part of the grounds behind a tent in order to get some air, however once away from everyone else attending the party” Jacob Anderson sexually assaulted the woman. She lost consciousness during the rape but awoke all alone a short time later; she returned to the house, found a friend, and went to the hospital.

This past fall, the district attorney’s office offered Anderson, who was originally indicted on four charges of sexual assault, a plea deal for a lesser charge of unlawful restraint, which is a third-degree felony. Anderson pled no contest.

Jacob Anderson will not serve any prison time.

Jacob Anderson will not be required to register as a sex offender.

Jacob Anderson will pay a $400 fine and receive counseling.

If he completes three years on deferred probation, he won’t even have a criminal record.

For rape.

The victim’s family learned of the plea deal via an email from Hillary Laborde, the assistant district attorney:

“I’ve accepted an offer on Jacob Anderson. It’s for probation on the charge of felony unlawful restraint, not sexual assault—therefore, he will not have to register as a sex offender. I realize this is not the outcome we had hoped for or that I had originally offered, but I tried a very similar case to this one last month, and lost. In light of the similarities between the cases, it’s my opinion it would be worse to try Anderson and lose and have the entire matter wiped from his criminal history than to accept this plea offer.”

It appears that because she lost one case,  Hillary Laborde won’t bother with rape cases that are hard; sad, because even if she lost the case Jacob Anderson would have to go to court and defend his indefensible actions, but, because of Laborde, he gets a pass.

Vic Feazell, the former McLennan County District Attorney, who represents the victim’s family:

“As a former DA, I never, ever have seen such a sweetheart deal for a defendant like this. It pays to be rich and white in McLennan County when you’re charged with a crime.”

Well, if you’re a white man charged with a crime, because, as much as it pains me to say this, had Jacob Anderson been black or Hispanic, there would have been a trial; there would have been a guilty verdict; there would have been jail.

But being white, Jacob Anderson, rapist, walks free.

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