Making pasta
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Today has been a bubba-cuddle day
Given the election news from last night/this morning, I’ve been needing lots of Byron cuddles today.
Sometimes fear triumphs over hope.
Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States in a win that sent shockwaves through America and around the world. His victory in the 2016 US presidential election was described as a leap into the political unknown. This time there is no excuse.
Trump becomes the first convicted felon to win the presidency. He is also the oldest person ever elected to the office, and put aside his boasts of being a stable genius, recent campaign gaffes indicate otherwise. He was impeached. Twice. America knew that he was a criminal, serial liar and racist demagogue who four years ago attempted to overthrow the government. It voted for him anyway.
The result will sound alarm bells in foreign capitals given Trump’s chaotic leadership style and overtures to authoritarians such Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un and Orban. He was branded a threat to democracy and even a fascist by his opponent and some of his own former White House officials. Those bells are now also ringing closer to home, with Trump having made campaign promises of mass deportation of immigrants, repeal of LGBTQ rights, female fertility autonomy rights, climate change policy u-turns, and revenge attacks against his political foes and the press.
Clingy, smoosh-faced dog
Back in the land of cheese and chocolate
My flights back, while long, were mostly boring and pain-free. Security, customs, baggage (ok baggage drop in Montreal was automated and the machine didn’t want to work until it did, but baggage claim was worry-free), connecting flight, all good. But now I’m jetlagged to hell and gone.
I think they went a bit too far
Cigarette advertising laws in Canada are just nuts. You can’t legally show any brand information beyond the brand name (in a standard typeface) and the packs are covered in YOU_WILL_DIE messages. It’s even on the cigarette filters. Every time I see shit like this, I think of Dennis Leary’s old comedy routine “I love to smoke”…
Helping!, a visual progression
Nat’s cat was trying to helps me work this morning.
The Great Wave of Coffeegawa
I say, Weasel!
Don’t ask me how the conversation got there, but at one point we all got laughing about the weasel from an old Looney Tunes cartoon – to the point where my dad had to hold his chest surgery scar because it was hurting too much to laugh. Then he tried made an impression of it.
Classic.
Family dinner
That table hasn’t had that many people around it in a long time.