Bye and bye

Given another week straight out of a Salvador Dalí painting, here’s the song that’s been echoing in my brain. Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt singing the old gospel hymn, “Farther Along”.

I mean—we can only hope

 

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Hot wheels

So, this is a new one for me: Bentley has an SUV.

Because, I guess, of course?

Naturally, it was in a Whole Foods parking lot.

 

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For you advanced planners

For the record, this was in the local Costco on 3 July.

You got room (and $260) to store half a giant skeleton for three months?

 

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Bee-yutiful

Bees apparently love coneflowers. At least the coneflowers in front of the Fairfax County Public Library in the People’s Republic.

Viz:

 

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Gratitude Monday: Doing their jobs

As I reel from the cataclysmic horror that is the legislation Republicans passed last week, I’m going to pull one grain of gratitude from it.

The staffers who answered the phones in the offices of representatives Eugene Vindman and Don Beyer were polite, professional and incredibly stalwart through what much have been the crappiest week in their young lives. (I’m estimating early 20s from their voices.) I would have been close to tears were I in their position, but they did not break character. God bless them and all their colleagues.

Virginia Democrats, on the other hand, who ran the “firehouse” primary to choose a replacement for Gerry Connolly—they made this a requirement for voting:

I flat out told the volunteer that this statement was ridiculous and that if they nominated some crack-brained jerk I most certainly would not be supporting him/her. They should have stopped after the affirmation that the voter was a resident of the district and a Democrat, but noooo—they gotta put in a load of shite that’s patently unenforceable and most likely illegal. They can all just piss off.

(In the end, the crony Connolly had anointed before dying in May won.)

But I’m grateful for the turnout, which was out-the-door large all day in my polling place. I hope we can get it together for the mid-terms; give those staffers a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

 

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