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Diaries published: 360 (1839 days since last diary on Sun Nov 25, 2018 at 02:22 PM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: Fear and Loathing at the Hair Salon: The Return of the Teabag Lady, 295 comments, 363 recommends
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The season of excess is once more upon us. Thanksgiving and Christmas, occasions that evoked childhood delight, now loom as Scylla and Charybdis. Holiday expectations have reached epic proportions, with advertisers shaming us into expenditures of money...
by cassandracarolina
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on Sun Nov 25, 2018 at 02:22 PM PST
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Mesozoic mayhem continues with the elevation of Bloviasaurus donaldii to the White Cave, a location now desecrated beyond the reach of modern decontamination methodologies. His random vocalizations and snarky petroglyphic pronouncements continue to...
by cassandracarolina
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on Wed Mar 01, 2017 at 11:12 AM PST
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When future paleontologists stumble upon the mass graves of late-Cretaceous GOPasaurs, they will discover the true cause of extinction. It won’t be asteroids, volcanoes, or disease. It will be infection arising from preventable, self-inflicted wounds....
by cassandracarolina
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on Sat Oct 08, 2016 at 01:56 PM PDT
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All creatures reach the end of their evolutionary journey, some suddenly, some over geologic time. If they’re clever, they can evade the Grim Reaper by evolving into something more suited to their environment, as some land-bound dinosaurs evolved to take
by cassandracarolina
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on Sat Mar 05, 2016 at 03:10 PM PST
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In a shocking turn of evolutionary events, Griftasaurus palinii, considered banished to the ash heap of electoral relevance, has reappeared by the side of one Bloviasaurus trumpii. The latter, growing
by cassandracarolina
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on Tue Jan 19, 2016 at 07:02 PM PST
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As a tsunami of Cretaceous carnage sweeps through over the craton, your intrepid diarist returns from Twitterlandia to the Great Orange Tar Pits with a ...
by cassandracarolina
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- I have spent the past 15 years of my life as an educator and the past ten years helping refugees seeking political asylum in federal courts. I looked around me and said to myself, “if I can help the most vulnerable, why can’t I help my own neighbors?...39 comments 41 Recs
- Follow Jen on Twitter at @...40 comments 133 Recs
- This is a quick hit: Last night, a TX District court ruled 2-1 that the 2010 redistricting was racially based — and therefore invalid under the VRA. www.motherjones.com/… The Mother Jones article has not just the 200-page opinion, but the...46 comments 124 Recs
- To the miner let me say that he stands where the farmer does—the work of the world waits on him. If he slackens or fails, armies and statesmen are helpless. — Woodrow Wilson I worked in coal mining for 32 years. I won’t go so far as to call myself...434 comments 526 Recs
- A newly discovered species of Tarantulas has been lovingly named Kankuamo marquezi - after Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian Nobel-prize winning author of the book One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Its genus has been...22 comments 13 Recs
- First time diarist here. So yesterday there was a special election for the Connecticut State Senate. It was for the 32nd Senate District. If you don’t know Connecticut, the 32nd is the reddest district in an otherwise purply-blue state. The 32nd...206 comments 382 Recs
- On Wednesday, a twitter account was briefly active before being shut down. The tweeter, @WhiteHouseLeak, is an anonymous mid-level staffer in the West Wing of the White House, who described a chaotic atmosphere, a demoralized staff, and an unfocused...966 comments 767 Recs
- THIS is what American Carnage means. Just as FEMA failed to get help to NOLA after Katrina, so Trump and his team have dropped the ball after tornado storms ripped through the SouthEast this past Saturday and Sunday. There are 20 people dead and...624 comments 519 Recs
- There are a few differences between what Donald Trump represents and what President Barack Obama represents. When Senator Barack Obama celebrated in the same place, the day before his inauguration, it was estimated that about 400,000 people were...526 comments 380 Recs
- We tend to flag, or at least strongly resist speculation here, especially when one speculates as to facts that might support a theory. But, with respect to key aspects of Trump’s business status, and the potential conflicts with the Office of the...691 comments 484 Recs
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