University Of Michigan Alumnus in search of a kinder world. Opinions are my own and not anyone else's. Any resemblance between me and anyone, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Subscribe to my blathering - https://democracybesieged.wordpress.com/https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqvbk6gc2224ICYMI... [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jul 2026 03:00 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqvbk6gc2224https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqvbgtuql224It's a toilet, it's a shower, it's probably a fucking cryogenic chamber too actually.18 Jul 2026 02:58 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqvbgtuql224https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqvb7fbs7k24This, and to add, we're talking about forests which rivals some of the world's larger nations in size individually, not to speak of how much forested area Canada has in sum total, and they are largely or completely inaccessible but by air basically. You can't just turn the fucking hose on these. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jul 2026 02:54 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqvb7fbs7k24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqv4qsvoac24My daughter was scrolling weird Zillow listings and what the fuck?18 Jul 2026 01:34 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqv4qsvoac24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqv47fii7224ICYMI... [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jul 2026 01:25 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqv47fii7224https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqv2ypaghs24Yes, I don't plan on moving on until all of these assholes are rotting in jails for the remainder of their lives. I don't plan on moving on until there is restorative justice for all who were abused, tortured, beaten and killed by this administration, as well as for their families and communities. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jul 2026 01:03 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqv2ypaghs24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqv2mely4k24My wife is talking about using the iron. Do I use the "But it's July and it's hot outside" argument or do I just say, "Yes, that's a very nice bit of steam coming off just now" ?18 Jul 2026 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqv2mely4k24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquzj42ibs2418 Jul 2026 00:36 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquzj42ibs24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquyny5kv224This has been one of those days where fighting this ever-encroaching mass of inhumanity for various corners has made me tired. I was taught to believe that these were bad people, and yet I see people being bad if for no other reason than it is just easier to be that way now.18 Jul 2026 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquyny5kv224https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquvs4a5ds2iSorry for the yelling. I just had enough.17 Jul 2026 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquvs4a5ds2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquvnzokq22jFUCK THIS MAN. PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES, THEIR HISTORY, THEIR LIVELIHOODS AND SO MUCH MORE AND THIS PISSANT WANTS TO BLAME PEOPLE THE MIDST OF INCALCULABLE SUFFERING. THE FUCKING LACK OF BASIC HUMANITY FROM THESE PURULENT NUTSACKS IS SOMETHING I WILL NOT TOLERATE. /END RANT [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 23:27 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquvnzokq22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqutjl3bxs24"And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint." [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 22:49 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqutjl3bxs24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqut4us6ss24POINT OF LAST POST: "Why are pets?", asks my daughter, as she scoops litter17 Jul 2026 22:42 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqut4us6ss24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqut3wjxg224We have 4 water bowls placed throughout the house for our dog, but she only uses one and get mad when that one is empty. We also have 4 litter boxes for our cats, and they only use one of them. The other three are mostly or entirely immaculate much of the time.17 Jul 2026 22:42 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqut3wjxg224https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqup6c4ahs2o17 Jul 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqup6c4ahs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqukahibm224As a sidenote, my entire introduction to Pokemon was tripping over a Pikachu display in 1996 in the Target in Ann Arbor, which had actually only recently opened at that point.17 Jul 2026 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqukahibm224https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquk6jtvfc24Oh, and we've reached the point in the summer where my daughter raises supplementary funds by selling off things from the vast Pokemon collection.17 Jul 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquk6jtvfc24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquj4fww2s24RE: Mitch McConnell's "status": If it has gotten to a point where we cannot be honest about a death, if he is dead, because the uncertainty aids in the maintenance of power, then the problems are MUCH larger than some people seem to realize. That sort of self-serving behavior is sociopathic.17 Jul 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquj4fww2s24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquiojq6xs2d17 Jul 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquiojq6xs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquhq7svmc24ICYMI: You can't protect what you can't or won't define. You can, however, try to remake an organization in your own barmy image, which is what Hegseth is trying to do. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquhq7svmc24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquh37jyjk24Well, you've got a whole administration that does not see people as they are, only how they wish to see them, and they wish to see them as idiots. Sometimes, that's accurate, but if you're like me, who spent good money getting multiple degrees from a public ivy, it's honestly rather insulting. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquh37jyjk24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqugqr64zc24Some of these people are not at all interested in haircuts though....17 Jul 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqugqr64zc24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqugocuu3224The counterpoint to this particular bit of Nazi bullshit from Miller is that he would probably lose a fight with a middle schooler. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqugocuu3224https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquggzbtus24That's because Kilmeade is a moron, and he is smugly proud of that. I, for one, have been wearing one to even just take the trash out. I am a cardiovascular patient, and I am trying to live, for fuck sakes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquggzbtus24https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqufuciay224I asked people I know to read my blog. "Some of these entries requires as many degrees as you have to read, Lorne." My favorite so far.17 Jul 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqufuciay224https://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquc7gkdmk2s"Wait a minute.....WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BUILDING A TOASTER OVEN, GUYS. LOOK AT PAGE 53 OF THE SCHEMATICS....RIGHT THERE." [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquc7gkdmk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqubptapgs2sTOMORROW'S BLOG ENTRY: Tomorrow's entry will be my retort to Michigan's GOP delegation about the wildfires in Ontario. Like everything else on my site, it's just me speaking for me and my sense of what is right and wrong, but it is part of a longer letter I plan to send to these people.17 Jul 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqubptapgs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqubfyivlk2sWhat exactly are we trying to see with this torch?17 Jul 2026 17:25 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqubfyivlk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mquariq4vc2sYeah, it's beyond time for the man to reveal himself by digging out of the hole that someone has probably put him in....weeks ago, perhaps. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquariq4vc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lsaclassof2000.bsky.social/post/3mqu6kzqrbs2sThe problem with being dead and voting is that there just aren't enough taxis to get the dead people from the cemeteries to the polls and they certainly can't mail in absentee ballots when they are, for all intents and purposes, well and truly absent in all other respects. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:mxjbcbgtc7gitfrd2r7kejyo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqu6kzqrbs2s