My dad always insisted on being unlisted and would call and complain if they put us in. He also was weary of me being on Facebook and didn't want Google to list his business.

Besides early telemarketing, sometimes you have family you just don't want to hear from.

Besides memorizing my home number, my parents' work numbers, and my grandma's number, I also had memorized several close friends home numbers because I called them to hang out of talk so often.

We've been teaching our kids to memorize our cell numbers in song form. It's easier when you're young.

Children's books have WAY too many title pages, including blank or nearly blank pages.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

Booooooo!

and not the 👻 kind

It's sad that the white toddler moms still need to be convinced to speak up via an edgy shirt from Etsy. Which they feel comfortable wearing in the spaces they inhibit, and that's great. But it also gives the pink pussy hat energy.

I mean that both sincerely and a bit sarcastically. I'm also just over the edge-lord t-shirt approach. An anti-ICE shirt feels great and direct and shouldn't even be controversial. But where is the money going? Where was that shirt printed? What country of origin produced it?

Look, as a parent with young kids, it's a minefield out there. You have to talk to other parents at school and social settings, and your kids are going to be friends with kids whose parents you just don't like.

You gotta let em know where you stand quickly and directly with a political T-shirt.

Eclectic Laundry
Eclectic, AL

The lesser-known Kurt Vonnegut novel "Jailbird" centers on a protagonist, the lowest possible White House official, in the basement of the Nixon admin, where the boxes of files were kept, ALSO serving time in prison. Yeah.

I don't know why everyone is celebrating, they literally did air strikes in Lebanon THIS MORNING.

Wait okay ours was oddly close in the third line:

"I don't wanna be a chicken
I don't wanna be a duck
so kiss my butt!"
*clap* *clap**clap**clap*

Fascinating. Pennsylvania has a long history of polka music and to my knowledge this is a polka song. Not the lyrics. No idea where those came from.

Everyone thinks their state is special in certain ways.

Pretty sure PA is the only state where not only has the Chicken Dance song been unofficially given lyrics (that it seems like everyone knows) but where it is also routinely played at weddings.

New rule: if you start your day with a big glass of Coca Cola then you have no need to tell me your opinions on RFK Jr. I'm good.

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

During July’s eight-day municipal worker strike, the city spent almost $1.26 million per day on added costs needed to maintain basic services, such as hiring contractors to haul trash from dump sites and paying overtime to some Water Department supervisors, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker announced Friday.

Good thing they brought their professional lighting and film crew to make more propaganda. Are my taxes paying for a low-rate Goebbels now?

Sometimes I wear a mask into the grocery store just so people can't tell I'm talking out loud to myself.

I’m starting to think Mike Johnson is in the Epstein files

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

Narrator: they did not

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

When I was there last month a tourist (I'm guessing?) brought his two dogs up the steps, let them off leash to play fetch, and let them run in and out of the fountain. No one said a word to him (I really wanted to but I was with my kids and didn't want a confrontation). I guess that's the vibe now.

It finally clicked for me why Manic Monday is such a good song when I learned that Prince wrote it. Feels like a similar swap.

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