My rep voted against both anti-trans bills. In the past she's been sadly willing to go along with this crap because she thinks this is a purple district; it kinda is, but one where the R's will never ever vote for her. So I found that slightly encouraging.

Oh lord no

Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.

Same.

Now that I'm done with breakfast, he's sitting on the couch, loudly proclaiming his complete innocence.

He put one paw up on the table. He put his whole front half on the table and tried to claim he wasn't on the table because his back legs were on the chair. It took about 5 times as long as it should have to eat breakfast because I had to keep chasing him off.

Yup. Need to take a lesson from the other side and do things without waiting for permission!

I mean, that would require QuickBooks to recognize and implement useful features though.

In my head I always think of it as "The jolly book flood". I'm not Icelandic but I absolutely believe books and chocolate are the BEST Christmas gifts!