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96% done on latest video production. I still find it amazing that I can detach this tablet from the keyboard and everything else and it's still producing a multi-track video that would've taken a major TV company not that many years ago. I'm as amazed as I was when I first saved data to an ordinary audiocassette from my Radio Shack Model I back in 1978.

Chi #431: I have a pretty strong Libertarian bent, but have never called myself one. To a man, every single person I've ever met that identify as L is a whackadoodle nutjob....

I did self-identify as a libertarian, until I met some of the Libertarians.

The Libertarian Partiers have done to libertarianism what the Progressives have done to liberalism and what the RINOs have done to conservatism. Spoiled the brand.

Pre-spoilage comic from 1995:
How-to Tell the Republicrats from the Demmicans
http://bit.ly/how-to-tell-15

Random thought as I read upthread:

Is there any hope of salvaging the Internet?

Congress sure isn't going to do it.

Doomed.

OTOH, Milady is making another batch of sunflower seed butter. Especially great when it's warm. MMmmm. Life can be good even in the dark times.

I knew Johnson was no libertarian. But I haven't paid him much attention, and so didn't realize what a complete lunatic he was... until I saw this tonight.

Gary Johnson is a Complete Idiot
https://youtu.be/TW5gQo43ay4

Chi: ...You said you were late. Just a throwaway joke.

Oh. The dullness of explaining jokes aside, I appreciate the Chisplaining. Missed the context completely.

Still getting my "ONT legs." And of course by the time I do, it will be time to retire.

Hello & goodbye to chemjeff who said hi to me.

For all the disruption he's caused lately with a certain political obsession, I have a bit of fondness for chemjeff. One of the first Moron characters I became aware of.

Chi: I can put you in touch with a network of fine adoption organizations...

I'm truly grateful that I was misreading that you said you could put me in contact with abortion organizations. Not much need for that. Or adoption, come to think of it. Whut???

Having now unloaded my comments on the post...

...which of the 400+ comments are worth reading? 'Cause it's unlikely I'll peruse them all, my AoS OCD notwithstanding. (Hate to miss a meme.)

I well remember walking into my eldest (9 yrs older) brother's man cave and hearing Presley's Hound Dog for the first time. My thought: what a stupid song.

I later learned to respect him a bit more, but I never was a big Presley fan. First impressions.

Auguste Toulmouche, Sweet Doing Nothing, 1877

Oh, my! That's an image I'll bet ol' Poppins could go for! Rightly so!

CBD: ...because HuffPo coded their page to prevent cutting and pasting...

There's always a workaround.

Worst case, you look at the source code (Ctrl-U on Opera browsers).

I'd be more helpful, but, danged if I'm going to click on HuffPo just to wrangle your tech tanglies.

GOOD EVENING, FRIENDS! It's tired and I'm late.

In addition to how painful it is to watch the Hildebeest have a five-minute coughing jag, she doesn't seem able to acknowledge that she's doing it. She'll hold the mic up to her face and cough right into it, and keep coughing into it. Disgusting.

In the early 1970s, unaware that "Choice Not an Echo" was hers, I only knew of Schlafly as some lunatic who thought if we passed the ERA we would be forced to have unisex bathrooms, just like we had to start sharing water fountains with blacks, or something...

I was so naive. Obviously, we didn't need the ERA to have sex-confused bathrooms!

RIP, Schlafly.

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And, "There was another death yesterday that nobody really cares about…except me."

Yeah, you'd like to be that special, wouldn't you, Pete! But, there are others of us out here who remember. Me & Milady being two.

Not only were good guys good and bad guys bad in those days, but writers knew how to spin a good story, week after week.

grammie winger #273: I confess I might have had too much to drink at my own wedding reception. I have a vague recollection of falling down on the floor of the yacht and laughing too hard to get up....

Pics...?

And with that, I'm off to do stuff as if it were daytime.

Anyway, the good wine has run out now. And we don't want to go scraping the bottom of the barrel here!

Kindltot: ...There is discussion that the Wedding at Cana was actually Jesus's wedding, the bride being Mary Magdalene. And discussion of how it was scrubbed out for various reasons, including issues with celibacy for the clergy....

There is discussion that Jesus never existed...

There is discussion that the apostles were all ghey...

You can make anything up and say it was scrubbed!

Reminds me of those weird-zone YouTubes. "Some say" the pyramids must have been built by extraterrestrials...

Seamus Muldoon #169: ...And Jesus even did the Macarena!

* sound of one hand clapping *

ALH #140: Nice painting, if historically inaccurate. Jesus didn't make alcoholic wine, he made what was known as "new wine" or grape juice....

Um... at the risk of invoking theological disputation...

...the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. ... he called the bridegroom aside and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."

Don't think you'd get that kind of praise with grape juice.

bluebell #127: I suspect we are looking at that moment in time right before the miraculous wine is handed round. That's why Jesus looks so pensive; He knows that This Is It. The steward on the lower left is handing the first glass to the master of the house to taste.

Aha! So I was right about all the sour faces. They're all just getting the news that the wine had run out...

It was Jesus' fault the wine ran out in the first place. Buncha uninvited folks showed up unexpectedly just because he was supposed to be there.

He was kind-of oblivious to this, though. When Mary told him about it, he says, "What've I got to do with that?" But then Mary gets the sadz, and, zap, instant wine. Who can resist a mom's tears!! Jesus was actually the most surprised at what he'd done.

troyriser #100: I see nowhere in Scripture where Jesus, in a rare moment of whimsy, transports the entire wedding party to the 16th Century.

The "rare moment of whimsy" made me chuckle.

Just clicked on the pic and examined the bigger version up close. Nobody is smiling and some people look positively sour-pussed. I conclude this is before they rolled out the good wine.

Jesus has kind of a blank look on his face. I suspect he's contemplating how to make the party livelier.