School board? More like a MAGA clown college: A San Diego grand jury criticized the Grossmont Union High School District Board for abruptly canceling mental health services for kids based on a single, false complaint that the contractors that delivering the service were LGBTQ “groomers."
San Diegans desperately want more affordable housing without changing neighborhood character, reducing home prices or reducing dependency on cars. That’s just not possible.
Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine seems to be unclear on the subject of how many hands most individual people have.
Anybody have experience running an account on a Glitch instance? I’m tempted. Is Glitch reliable? Can anyone recommend an instance?
We watched the first episode of “The Boroughs” and only the first few minutes and last few minutes were horror. The remainder was a story about a nice, curmudgeonly nerdy septuagenerian (played by Alfred Molina), who is struggling with the sudden death of a wife he adored and his own mortality. He has a detached retina and so he can’t drive anymore and he’s moved into senior living and hates it. Also, Geena Davis is 70. I mean, she looks FANTASTIC but she is 70. Seems like ten minutes ago she was a starlet prancing around in her underwear in a dressing-room scene in “Tootsie.”
And I was like fuck I can’t deal with this just give me monsters eating people.
Also I turn 65 in precisely one month and one day.
Minnie would like everyone to know that despite her dire medical prognosis she feels great today and she did zoomies and ate all her breakfast.
They Want to Get Rid of Your Property Taxes Because They Think You Are Morons: The Republican plan to defund everything.
Ron DeSantis wants to eliminate property taxes for 92% of Florida homeowners, starving local services and concentrating power in the hands of the state, says Hamilton Nolan.
Republicans want you dumb and desperate and willing to serve them drinks on a golf course for less than $15 an hour. That’s it! Enjoy your tax cut, suckers! Huddle in your home and pray there are no storms this year. They ain’t coming to rescue you. They cut the funding for that. Maybe that money you saved on property taxes can buy you a bus ticket to a blue state.
I could tell by the vet's concerned tone on the phone that it was going to be bad news
I brought Minnie in for a routine check-up and shots a short time ago. Rabies, bordetella, heartworm test. I wasn’t concerned. Though she is 13 years old, she’s an active dog, going on a daily 3.2-mile walk, jumping up on the sofa, standing on her hind legs to counter-surf (she’s not supposed to do that). She is definitely arthritic; I have to lift her up to get in the car now. But other than that, healthy beyond her years.
Or so we thought. After her blood test, the vet called to let us know she has kidney failure, confirmed with a urine test a day later. Prognosis: Fatal in a few months to three years. The upper end of that range would be a very long life for a dog her size. For now, we’re taking care of her. She’s still outwardly the same, happy, healthy dog. She’s slowed down significantly in the past few months. She hasn’t done zoomies in weeks. But other than that, she seems to be doing great. We’ve switched her to a prescription, low-protein food. We’ll take her in for more tests in a month, and (according to the vet), at that point we’ll know how rapidly her condition is deteriorating.
Also, Lulu, one of our 18-year-old cats, stopped eating at around the time we took Minnie in to the vet and got the bad news. This was even more alarming than Minnie’s situation because it could indicate a condition that would be fatal in days. However, Lulu puked on Julie one morning while Julie was sleeping — I saw and heard it happen but was powerless to stop it — and then the cat’s appetite returned.
The “dead economy” theory. “Vibes and memestocks all the way down.” By Cory Doctorow.
An optician reviews “Project Hail Mary,” with a particular focus on Ryan Gosling’s glasses.