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Cake day: October 7th, 2025

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  • Yay!!!

    Yeah, gotta be extra careful with dogs and sugary things - they DO have a sweet tooth.

    Many decades ago, my dad’s black lab got into a grocery bag and ate a pound of grapes.

    She laid on the floor under the kitchen table and groaned for hours while she was bloated and farting the Farts of Eternal Doom.

    It was so not good…












  • Ain’t that the truth.

    If you pull up the ewg.org working map of the perflouro- contaminated sites in the country, it’s horrifying.

    Thing is, if the Pro Publica article is correct, these chemicals are afflicting male reproductive viability at the EXACT same time the Trump Administration’s cabinet is filed with natalist-leaning advisors… and they just don’t see it as going into part of why men are fathering fewer children.

    They lay the blame on feminism and the birth control pills.

    Thing is, globaly, male fertility has been falling for decades. Wanna bet part of it is tied to chemical exposure?

    But… we won’t go there…


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    This is SO true for SO many familiess. Intergenerational social swing is a real thing.

    If you’ve got way cool grandparents that are the exception and not that rule, it’s critical that you spend time with them - as adults.

    I got decades with my grandparents - both children of the Great Depression - and I learned SO much from them. (Who’d have thought that budgeting and housekeeping and living with little money to spend would be a critical skill in 2025?)

    Truth is, they raised 9 kids and none were bigots or judgemental at all (I had awesome aunts and uncles) and I think that all my cousins that spent time with them picked up on their kindness and generosity and knowledge…





  • Look at the demographic of any “left” and you generally find kids that don’t understand how societal power works.

    Taking a few classes on sociology and reading Marx is fine and all that, but they need to understand the framework of conformist, consumerist America and leverage that… and as it’s anathema to what Marx says… they’ll forever be smacking their heads against the walls.

    Then they grow up and become Wall Street brokers.

    Sause: Am 60, and have seen this same shit happening over and over - for decades.