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And it's a man who introduced it. Go ahead, first term Sen. Blackmon: "All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation," he wrote. "This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me." Speaking of Democrats we need more of in red states, Ms. Yvonne Reeves-Chong, vice-chair of Missouri Democrats:

Abortion travel bans have already been proposed, at the state and county level. I think the only place they're in effect at the moment is in some Texas counties, and in Idaho (that one was court challenged, and what was upheld was a prohibition on taking a minor out of state for an abortion without parental consent, even where the girl can consent on her own in the state where the abortion was provided). States have also chipped away at access to birth control. That's how the right to abortion was lost -- chip, chip, chip (Casey, Carhart, Webster, etc.) as soon as Roe was decided, until they finally got the Court they needed for Dobbs. It happens incrementally, and it's always in service of an eventual ban.

The executive orders, memos, and emails exist. If any of them don't wind up happening, it will be because they're illegal (and the rule of law actually holds).

I have reusable mesh produce bags, but a lot of things I leave loose. I mostly just use the bags for herbs and greens. If I have a lot of something, I'll use a bag, especially if it's sold by weight, so the checker can easier position it on the scale. For example, limes. Sometimes they're by piece, sometimes by weight. If they're sold per pound, and I buy four, I just leave them loose -- four lines can easily be set on the scale. But if I have a dozen, I put them in a bag, because loose they'd be rolling off as the checker tried to make them all fit.

So does Susan Collins. Lisa Murkowski has a slightly better track record, IIRC, but it's the MO for Collins to make sure she has a hall pass from McConnell before she doesn't toe the party line. Then you might not want to know what happened even later last night, but just in case: Trump fired - in what looks to be a clear violation of federal law, mind you, but that's never bothered him - nearly 20 independent watchdogs of federal agencies (inspectors general; independent positions that conduct audits and investigations [into allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse of power]). Get rid of a critical oversight component, clearing the way to replace them with loyalists so you can operate unchecked. Autocracy 101. I haven't had the energy (or a joint) yet to delve into it more today, but that's what I went to bed on last night. Edited with an update: The Council of the Inspectors General wrote him a nice little response memo suggesting he check with White House counsel about the legal requirements to dismiss them from their presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed positions.

Yay, Mehal! So close -- I got everything except Bhutan in the first round. Nowhere in the vicinty of close in DJ, though; I blew Dickens almost entirely, only correctly guessing Bleak House. Other than that, I did fine -- I ran '90s hits and middle letters and got all but Dr. Alzheimer in names (I really can't believe all four of us missed that one), missing two each in the rest. No idea for FJ.

My parents have one, a double -- regular oven on the bottom and a combination microwave/convection oven on the top. It's what I'm going to put in my kitchen when I renovate it. I have a fantastic electric stove/oven from 1960, but it dictates the layout of the kitchen and will have to go when the time comes. It's also a double oven -- one full size and one a little smaller than half that. And then I have a small toaster oven on top of it, so I never have to heat up more oven than I need. Small, medium, and large.

She's an actor and director. I've liked her in the things I've seen her in, but I have not seen that commercial.

Dammit, I was all prepared to cut the cord entirely with the Raiders thanks to Tom Brady, but I must root for Pete Carroll, so now I can't. It's okay, he probably won't last long.

I'm not doing anything to put me on their accounts until/unless it's clearly on the horizon that I'll have to handle their banking while they're still alive. If they're able to do it until the end, there's no need, and everything passes to me as the sole beneficiary of the living trust. I have the power to make medical decisions, and they've filed advance directives with their health plan (and have a copy in the motorhome should something happen while they're traveling, and of course I have a copy). But I'm not setting up financial power at this point. No funerals. Maybe a celebration of life party at the house not in the immediate aftermath, but possibly nothing and definitely no funeral.

Oh yeah, I didn't say the other contestants weren't given a chance to answer after she got it wrong, I said the editors cut immediately to Ken's explanation of why she was wrong rather than showing the part where no one else rang in after she was ruled incorrect. (And only mentioned it because it was possible there was no cut, my tipsy mind just took a little power nap.)

Right now, the assistance my parents need is still manageable, but of course it's only going to get worse. It's a lot emotionally even when it's still easily managed physically -- you become the parent to an extent. My dad is very appreciative and apologetic. My mom ... she's driving us both crazy. She is appreciative, but she's also disturbingly comfortable sitting around like some imperious lady of the manor barking out orders. The switching roles to where I'm the parent thing kicks in again -- she raised me by saying "If you don't knock that off, we're leaving/I'm taking X away" and following through if I didn't indeed knock it off. So now I'm "raising" her to understand when I say "If you don't knock it off, I'm going home" I do in fact go home if she doesn't knock it the fuck off. My dad says things are getting better. I am NOT moving back in with them/moving them in with me when they need someone daily, so when that time comes we'll have to hire someone. My dad wants me to loop in on all their financial stuff. I'm very simple and hands-off with my investments, but he handles all theirs himself and it's much more complex. I've told him I'm happy to sit down and go over everything, but if it reaches a point where he can't manage it anymore, he'll have to get a professional to do it, not me (and when it becomes mine, it's going to get mightily simplified and handled by Vanguard; I'm not interested in that shit -- keep it diverse, don't get aggressive, don't invest in X,Y,Z that I do not want to profit from, and just send me quarterly statements I'll ignore and the tax documents I'll use).

Any functional adult who asked me "What's for dinner?" would be met with "I don't know, what are you making?" Anyone lucky enough to have a partner willing to do all the cooking needs to just eat what's put in front of them (and then do the dishes). Because those partners tend to make things they know the person likes, ask things like "Chicken or fish tonight?" and so on. Demanding to know what's on the menu is a very good way to find yourself making your own damn dinner.

I didn't watch, but maybe he's just tired of being asked about a demographic that voted overwhelmingly for Harris, as if the fact the minority of self-defeating idiots within that population was larger in this election than the last one is the big story, when Black voters were not the problem. This election is on white voters.

The J! curse strikes again, with David Lynch. I almost ran colorful world, but I joined Will in saying Silver Springs instead of Spring. I corrected myself immediately, possibly before Ken would have had a chance to rule me incorrect, so I could give myself credit, but I'll keep it as an almost. I definitively ran everything else in the first round except page to screen, in which I missed two. I did not continue to kick ass in DJ, though. I only ran words. I got all but Billy Budd in lit and all but Abby Phillip in news, but missed three in Britain and two each in the rest. FJ was an instaget, though, so I looped back around to a high note. I'm rooting for Mehal, so glad to see him in the lead.