So in that Cheney movie, are they going to start with Cheney already active? Because I don’t think we need another Cheney origin story.

Steve Carrell as Donald Rumsfeld? I’m having trouble seeing that.

Man, he really does look a lot more like Dick Cheney than he does Christian Bale.

I’d buy the “temperament” argument more if it weren’t also paired with “he’s a gang rapist!” That’s not the argument you believe in; it’s the one you’re settling for since the others didn’t pan out.

I always felt safe with Dick Cheney around. This was a guy who shot his friends in the face with a shotgun; just think of what he’d do to our enemies.

If the Republicans actually gain Senators in November, their next SCOTUS nominee will be so conservative he’ll have a cowboy hat and a six-shooter at each hip.

dancing and firing two guns in the air
“Yeehaw! I’m going to repeal Roe v Wade!”

Wonder how this would be different if it were just Ford’s accusation and there wasn’t also Ronan Farrow’s extremely thin hit pieces and Michael Avenatti’s complete nonsense. They’ve hurt the #MeToo movement by making false and politically motivated accusations look commonplace.

Jennifer Rubin definitely doesn’t have traditional views of someone on the right, so I guess you could call her “alt-right.”

All of you who thought Devil’s Triangle was some weird sex thing are weirdos and the FBI should investigate you.

Isn’t the amount of time a bunch of old weirdos in the Senate have spent poring over a teenager’s yearbook one of the creepiest things?

Where do you buy “thin gruel”? Seems like a good thing to have on hand to feed the kids when they’re bad.

How often in Supreme Court cases do the lawyers make nonsense allegations against the judges of gang rape? Because Kavanaugh has proven he doesn’t have the temperament for that.

Pro Tip: If a trial isn’t going well for you, accuse the judge of gang rape. If he gets mad, you can then get a mistrial for bad judicial temperament.

It was time to say goodbye to Rowdi today. When we adopted her back in January 2006, we were told she was 3yo. That would mean she was well over 15 and a half. She was a good dog.

With a fourth kid on the way, going to be a long while until we get another dog. There’s a certain emptiness, though, in a house without a dog.

How ever many votes Kavanaugh gets, Trump will claims it’s the most votes ever for a Supreme Court nominee.

There are a lot of upset, angry people in politics these days. What’s needed are for people with calmer heads to sit down with these people and reassure them that all their concerns are stupid.

Why do Senators have to be there in person to vote? That hasn’t really been needed since the invention of the telegraph.

What people say they believe about gender and what they through their actions show they fundamentally believe about gender don’t seem to have a lot of overlap.

So the other day I’m reading Matthew 22:36-40 to my 7yo daughter. Now this seems like a pretty important verse as Jesus say all the law and the prophets come down to these two commandments.
On hearing “love your neighbor as yourself,” my daughter asks “But who is your neighbor?” Now this is great. My daughter is engaged and asked a question — a question I know how to answer! Or know how to find the answer.
So I turn to Luke 10:29 where Jesus is asked that exact same question. His response is the parable of the Good Samaritan.
I of course have read the story a million times. I assume even my 7yo had heard it multiple times. But something was different this time. Maybe telling it to my daughter as if it were something new let me see it for the first time.
We read about the first two — the ones the man would have expected to help him — but they just cross to the other side of the road when they see him. So far, it’s as expected.
Next we get to the despised Samaritan. He stops and helps the man. And he goes above and beyond and makes sure the injured man is completely cared for. And I have that rare thing I don’t know how to deal with: an outburst of emotion.
And I guess that’s why you read the Bible over and over. Because most of the time you don’t get it. It’s just encouraging words like you could find in any self-help book. But if you keep at it, every so often it is something more.
Every so often it’s Jesus talking — and not just in some general way to everyone but to you personally. To communicate to you something you need to know. And even if that’s just for a brief moment, it’s a glorious thing.

The key to defeating Trump is to not be a bunch of horrible garbage people that make Trump look like the reasonable, compassionate adult in the room in comparison.
It’s apparently much harder than it seems.

If I were the other Supreme Court Justices, I’d start labeling all my beer in the Supreme Court fridge before Kavanaugh gets there.

This whole Kavanaugh affair was really an issue of temperament. If the left could have controlled themselves just a little and not instantly seized on every single dishonest garbage argument and not dumped all their principles, they probably would have been able to stop Kavanaugh.

“If millions of dishonest people are intent on destroying you and your family for partisan reasons and accuse you of gang rape and put on trial your high school year book, the correct way to respond is…”
Just stop it. Stop being garbage. Move on. It’s not worth it.

The most important thing is that at the end of the day no one learned anything.

If Trump has to appoint a replacement for RBG, these past few weeks will be known as “the good ole days.”

Missed the dog this morning when I had a leftover piece of sausage from feeding the kids and nothing to do with it. No one appreciates leftovers like a dog.

My daughter’s party for her 8th birthday was today. SarahK was overjoyed when my daughter requested a Harry Potter birthday and made her a Monster Book of Monsters cake.

My daughter has only read the first three books, so no spoilers.

SarahK is excited because now she doesn’t have any more birthdays to prepare for until May. Well, there’s a literal birthday coming up in February, but she doesn’t have to make a cake for that.

There’s a lot of important work to do in this country. Very little of it has to do with elections and it helps if you’re not constantly freaking out about everything.

Elections are stupid. They’re all win/lose, and mature people know you do everything you can to avoid putting each other in win/lose scenarios. That’s for sports; not for life.
Hey, this coming election we have a choice between Republicans and Democrats—same as the last 100+ years. Which choice this time will finally solve everything?

When my 3yo is really entertained by something, she lets out a high-pitched “Ahhh!” that’s an exact imitation of Lucille Bluth being surprised by Gene Parmesan.

If you really want to change the world, follow Jesus’s example and stay out of politics.

We have this dumb idea of how change happens these days. People think change is getting a certain person elected. Or change is getting a certain law passed. Or winning a Supreme Court case. But that’s garbage.
Change is not some benevolent majority of 51% dragging the other 49% along through government force, but that’s what politics is all about.
Real change is about changing people’s hearts. But all the red versus blue stuff does is close people’s hearts. Elections are almost specifically designed to keep people from being influenced by each other.
It’s dumb. All the money and energy put into politics is money and energy that is not actually helping this country. It’s just stuff thrown into the void of the same pointless conflict we’ve had for decades.
If you want to influence people, you need to step away from that. It’s like when people tried to drag Jesus into a political issue on taxes. He just side stepped it because He had more important to talk about.

The character John Ralphio from Parks and Rec always causes and argument between me and my wife.
“I don’t like that character.”
“Yes, but that’s the point of him. The joke is how over the top awful he is.”
“Yeah, but I don’t care for him.”

I just need to come up with one more made up term, and then my second draft for the sequel to Superego is done and finally ready for someone else to read.
On my first draft, I put in notes in brackets that are either things I need to fix, stuff to fill in later, and most often made up names and terms I had to come up with. I started with over 600 of those when the unreadable first draft was done. Now they’re all handled.

People make lots of great arguments that Trump is bad. They just keep failing at their arguments that he’s worse.

Do not quote Churchill. His name references religion which many people find offensive.

If you honestly think things in this country are terrible, then why don’t you stop contributing to it?

Nothing has made me appreciate the night sky like my 3yo. She makes me take her out every night before bed and gets so excited when we can see bright, red Mars up in the sky. And she’s started to learn the stars’ names. “Der’s Vega! Der’s Arcturus!”

“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”

A lot of people don’t like climate change because they are threatened by change. “I don’t want the climate to change; I want it to be just like it was in the 1950s.” But in the 1950s, there was also RACISM.

When the one allegation came out about Kavanaugh, the pattern was there should have been numerous other incidents from his years in professional life. When those didn’t surface, people didn’t know what to do. Hence the nonsense insinuation about his teenage years.
A disgustingly large number of people in the media and out (including Ronan Farrow) signed on to the idea that Kavanaugh must be guilty, so any insinuation that makes that argument in people’s mind was fair game.
In the end, no bad behavior was proved about Kavanaugh, but plenty of horrible behavior was proved about those who tossed out all principles to try and take him down.

According to the far-left theory of intersectionality, any two lines that aren’t parallel will eventually intersect. This has not been proven.

Maybe what antifa is doing is like steering into the skid.

Voting is dumb. Don’t register or you might do something dumb.