Daily Archive: November 7, 2024

/// November 7, 2024

Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ It (Again) and It’s Snowing

Winter’s here, Maribou’s not.

/// November 7, 2024

Election Returns

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

Ten Favorite Dog Breeds

/// November 7, 2024

Puppy Love in the IG Era: Ten Favorite Dog Breeds

Here is, in no massively particular order, a list of my ten favorite dog breeds

/// November 7, 2024

From NPR: Germany’s coalition government collapses as Chancellor Scholz fires his finance chief

Lindner’s ouster came despite appeals within the coalition to stick together in the wake of the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.

/// November 7, 2024

Keep Calm and Let Them Count

There are not 10-15 million missing votes. It was a high-turnout election. The numbers we’re seeing now do not indicate anything fishy for 2020.

Donald Trump’s Rights

/// November 7, 2024

Trumped

I’m reminded of H.L. Mencken’s “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

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