Our kiddo made out crazily. Each house was decked out, most had a theme going, and families were hanging out outside. Trick-or-treaters started forming ad-hoc groups among themselves. Our daughter dressed up as Anna, and she made friends with a VERY scando-looking kid who naturally was Elsa. We told folks why we were down there and half the houses doubled up on what they gave us as a result. Halloween kicks ass. Anyone who says otherwise can look forward to flaming shit bags and sugar in their gas tank, courtesy of me.

We had a pair of gray cats we bought from a couple in Ohio when we lived there. Turns out they were half Russian blue. Must be why they were almost free. They were really beautiful, if not pure breds. They were named after the Fords, Henry and Edsel.

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@klaus said in Bill Maher - Words Matter: Saw that and liked it. So did I.

Nobody's getting rich in the American health care system. It's a magical money evaporator. Maybe P*D can write a book about how it's all totally normal market forces, nothing to see here.

And Bob’s your uncle.

@george-k said in Netflix and Chappelle: I have to admit that this was my first exposure to Chappelle. Are his earlier shows funnier? I’ve been a massive Dave fanboy for a long long time. That last special wasn’t really comedy.

Here’s the whole sonata. I remember reading people being critical of it because he played it too slowly. Link to video It must be at least 10 years since I saw that video. It is part of his concert in Paris. During the concert he plays the Beethoven Op. 14 number one, and the Beethoven Op. 28. I have the DVD of that recital somewhere.

You don't keep a guy like that around because of his ability to turn a wrench. You keep him around because he's seen everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(sports) Miscellaneous In any context where a game score or the pair of teams meeting in a game are mentioned, the team mentioned first (left or top) is the home team, except in the United States, Canada, and Japan, where home teams are mentioned second. The North American and Japanese practice of listing the home team second likely derives from baseball, in which the home team bats after the visiting team in each inning.[citation needed][8] Exceptions are found in most North American soccer competitions, where the international standard of listing the home team first is mostly adhered to.

Eyebrows, very different contours.

@doctor-phibes said in Biden tells the pope...: You don’t think His Holiness thought Trump was a bit of a twat, by any chance? I don't think most people (including those here) didn't think that Trump was a twat. But thanks for killing the meme...

@mark said in "Medicine is quickly becoming overwhelmingly corporate": @jon-nyc said in "Medicine is quickly becoming overwhelmingly corporate": @mark said in "Medicine is quickly becoming overwhelmingly corporate": I agree with Jolly, outlawing for profit health care would be a good start. Most of these hospitals doing this are non-profits. I am talking about the entire "health care" system not just hospitals. Specifically, the insurance racket. Making profits on human illness and injury is just wrong on every level. Making me pay an obscene amount of money per month plus another obscene deductible, and then making me go to a specific group of facilities or I have to pay even more should be illegal. Down with network based health insurance. Health insurance should be just like any other kind of insurance. I should be able to pick and choose who I see and where I go to see them. The problem stems from zero controls on cost. Doctors don’t know what specific procedures cost and that’s seen as a virtue. Treatment A may cost 10k and have an efficacy of X, Treatment B may cost 1k and have an efficacy of X-5%. Docs don’t think along those lines. No one in the system does. It’s gold plated steaks all around if you’re fully insured.

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Ok, The Shining was well done…