I've been talking about this kind of a lot. Hope you lawyers and finance managers have a plan because you're next.

@Axtremus said in California homelessness survey: @Jolly said in California homelessness survey: If you are around very many homeless people, you find out very quickly that the vast majority are drug abusers, mentally ill or both. With regards to mental illness and drug abuse, and also addressing @Jon’s comment, the article mentions that one of the survey’s findings seems to be that many became mentally ill or started abusing drugs after they became homeless. The progression is more like loss/reduction of income homelessness drug abuse and/or mental illness. Granted, my personal sample size is only a few hundred and it's regional, but I stand by my original statement.

@Copper yeah, I guess you could include those. I was thinking of Bruce Johnston, who wrote his grammy-award winning song while a member of the Beach Boys. At least, that's the story I heard when I saw them live.

@George-K said in Sound familiar?: Wasn't it Stravinsky.... "Good composers borrow; great composers steal." ...and average composers settle out of court.

They're still fun. Trust me, I'm single.

Looked like misogynistic mansplaining. He had no right to take that tone with her.

I haven’t but I will. Thanks for the link.

I think there’s a good chance Scotus will strangle Warren’s baby, pro-life sentiments notwithstanding

@Doctor-Phibes said in Hay Cats! Your "Bring your friends to lunch" post of the day.: Since we got the second much larger dog, his main in life goal has been to ensure that she never takes ownership of any toys at any time. I too have a dog who's favorite toy is the one the other dog is playing with.

I’ve heard of gadflies, but never gayflies.

@Jolly said in Limed: Got a good buddy from Wolf Creek, West-By-God. Owns a piece of a mountain overlooking Alderson. He said by late spring, you could tell the heavy ramp eaters just by walking by them. I love the crap out of WV, but unfortunately I've spent more time in the panhandles than on the southern end. Been trying to plan a trip out to Dolly Sods at some point. Easily one of the craziest places I've ever hiked around in, and that includes the Presidential Range. A long while back, there was a storm that came out of Canada and brought lichen and other weird things you normally only see in tundra down onto the mountain there. The ground is blood red with the stuff in certain parts of the year. Once it gets close to winter, it turns pinkish if it doesn't get dumped full of snow. Speaking of snow, it's also one of those places that creates its own weather. I once went out there with a buddy in high school. We were only walking around for about 2 hours and in that time we had 80-degree sunshine, fog, rain and hail. When a storm formed, I had barely enough time to drop my shit, pull out a raincoat and put it on. It was that fast. And the storm's not just above you, it's all around you, too. The fog's actually part of the clouds and can get you just as damp as the rainfall. Lightning is scary up there. And there are pine trees up there with branches that only grew on one side of the trunk because of the wind. They're one of the few states that really do live up to their slogans.