Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The time is always right to do what is right.

We’ve learned to fly the air like birds. 

We’ve learned to swim the seas like fish. 

And yet we haven’t learned to walk the earth like 

brothers and sisters.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

No, violence is not the way. Hate is not the way. Bitterness is not the way. We must stand up with love in our hearts, with a lack of bitterness and yet a determination to protest courageously for justice and freedom in this land.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the  narrow confines of his  individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

So even though we face difficulties of 

today and tomorrow, 

I still have a dream.

… that no one believes that I have no skeletons in my closet I do have a tiny box of souls in my underwear drawer.

… that nothing pisses me off more than pulling up to my job and finding the building still standing.

… that just because I like to walk around in my underwear, eating Doritos, does not make me strange and the people in Aisle Four need to get a life.

… that I often feel the need to tell people they should go to church because I don’t want them in Hell with me

… that more people don’t ask for my opinion. I mean, like the other day I said to a coworker, ‘Relax, you aren’t the dumbest person in the world but you better hope he doesn’t die.’

… that I often tell songs to “Shut up” before I skip them.

… that once I’m in bed and I turn over on my stomach and make that 4-shape with my legs it’s a wrap

.… that my idea of help is a sniper on the roof.

… that if I died and went straight to Hell it would probably take weeks to realize I wasn’t at work anymore.

… that every time I try to donate blood I always get the same stupid questions: Who’s blood is it? Where did you get it? Why is it in a bucket?

Jean Smart, on the red carpet for the 2026 Golden Globes, about America this year:

“Everything’s kind of, a little bit overshadowed, with what's going on in our country. I feel like we’re kind of at a turning point in this country, and I hope people can keep their heads, because that’s actually, really, the hardest thing, I think, is to keep our heads. It’s going to take a lot of courage and a lot of restraint, but I think that’s important. I feel like there are certain entities that would like us to fight back and possibly… I don’t know, it’s very concerning.  I know that there are people who find it annoying when actors take opportunities like this to talk about social and political things. But I'm not here right now speaking as an actress, I'm just speaking as a citizen and a mom, and I hope people understand that. I’m not as optimistic about things these days, about the world these days, but I just hope the people realize how important what’s going on is right now … this is kind of a moment of reckoning, I think, in this country. And I just hope that people do the right thing, and I think almost everybody knows in their hearts what is the right thing. [I don’t] feel like my opinion matters more than anybody’s [but] I feel like if you feel strongly about something, and you have the chance to share your feelings or encourage people or cheer somebody on, you should do it … Let’s all do the right thing, and I think everybody in their hearts knows what the right thing is to do. So let’s do the right thing."

Could it be more simple: do the right thing.

Don’t shoot people in the face; don’t grab up,  detain or deport American citizens; don’t blindly follow orders from criminals.

Do. The. Right. Thing.

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Jacob Frey, Minneapolis Democrat mayor, on the GOP ignoring the shooting in his city while taking him to task for his profanity:

“I’m so sorry if I offended their Disney princess ears, but here’s the thing: if we’re talking about what’s inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an f-bomb and on the other you have someone who killed someone else.”

Fuck off is one thing; calling a woman you just shot in the face a "fucking bitch" is quite another.

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David Frum, Canadian-American political commentator, on the shooting of Renee Good and Kristi Noem’s responsibility for it:

“In retrospect, probably a mistake to pout the safety of the American people in the charge of a woman who would personally kill her own dog, boast about it, then lie about it.”

Concise, yet cogent.

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Tim Miller, political commentator, writer and former political consultant, of the lies from the regime over the murder of Renee Nicole Good:

“I will not be fucking gaslit by these people. I will not tone down the rhetoric. Jonathan Ross murdered her. She talked to him calmly, said ‘Dude, I’m not mad.’ This is fucking insane. This is not a tough call. He orphaned her child and called her a ‘fucking bitch’ after he killed her. Do not let [Cankles] and JD Vance and Kristi Noem and these thugs try to convince you this is anything other than murder.”

Do not listen to them.

Renee wasn’t an agitator; Renee was leaving the scene; Renee was turning her vehicle away from Jonathan Ross when he fired three shots into her car, two of those threw her driver’s door window; he was not in danger, he was a tiny little man given a modicum of authority and took it to the wrong place.

He is a murderer..

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Seth Magaziner, Democrat representative for Rhode Island, on Kristi Noem trying to justify murder:

“Kristi Noem’s an idiot, right? Like, she went on TV before any of the facts were in. She made up this story on TV about ICE agents trying to dig their truck out of the snow or something, which was clearly false. Like she didn’t even realize that there was gonna be video of what happened when she went up and gave a false story. Everybody in the [Cankles Regime] lies, but she’s not even good at the lie, right? And we’ve seen that over and over again. So, you know, it would be ridiculous, it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad and tragic because actual people’s lives are being ruined and in some cases ended by the lawlessness of the administration. And, again, like, if they had just done what they said they would do and just focus on people with serious criminal records, no one would be complaining, but they can’t help themselves.”

When you give anyone with no soul, no heart, no conscience any kind of power you end up putting innocent people behind bars; you end up murdering innocent people.

Kristi Noem, Cankles, JD Vance and Jonathan are all complicit in the cold blooded murder of Renee Good.

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Zohran Mamdani, NYC Mayor, taking on the DogKiller and CitizenKiller and how he’s calling it a murder:

“That was the conclusion I came to just in watching that video and I think that many Americans came to that same conclusion. That ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis.  If that is following his training, then I think there are larger questions about the training that’s being provided to ICE agents. A 37-year-old woman was killed by an ICE agent. She leaves behind children. She leaves behind her family. She leaves behind an entire community in the city that will mourn her. And this is something that was entirely preventable. What many New Yorkers woke up with feeling today was a heightened sense of anxiety and fear as to whether they were safe in leaving their homes.”

Ross trained for a few hours before he was armed and sent into the streets; ill-equipped and unprepared for any situation.

He’s a murderer.

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I have a birthday coming up—I’ll be somewhere between forty and death—and Carlos has already given me two gifts. 

Now, before I divulge the gifts, let me say that I love Carlos more than anything in life, but one thing I do enjoy is solitude. And since I don’t normally work on Tuesdays, not even from home, Carlos told me today that next Tuesday, as well as the 27th, the anniversary of my birth, he will be busy and gone all day and I can have the home to myself. 

Carlos doesn’t get that feeling because he grew up as an only child; I had siblings and relatives nearby and friends and such and learned to like a little peace.

I can do everything or I can do nothing.

That’s love.

Of course, the weekend after my birthday we will be away for a mini-vacation to celebrate!

This is Tuxedo from July 2021 … mid-pandemic …

I’m thinking of running for Mayor of Smallville, but only as a front for Tuxedo, who would be the real mayor.

Nikki Glaser hosted the Golden Globes the other night and released a list of jokes she cut from her monologue. I kinda wish she ‘d left this one in, about “Wicked” star Jonathon Bailey being named the 2025 “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine.

“Jonathan is the first openly gay man to be named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. And at first I was like, do we really need to say ‘openly’? And then I looked at a list of past winners and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, we do.’”

Snap.

Kristi DogKiller and CitizenKiller is a liar; do not let her fool you.

ICE’s jurisdiction is only on matter related to immigration; not stopping vehicles at random.

They do not have nor mal police powers or authority.

To stop a vehicle they need to have reasonable cause to believe it contains an undocumented immigrant.

They cannot detain anyone without reasonable cause to believe that person is undocumented.

They cannot detain a  US citizen for passing by the area.

To draw their weapon on someone they must have reasonable cause to believe their lives are in direct danger.

ICE had no jurisdiction to stop or interact with Renee Nicole Good at all, never mind drawing a weapon, shooting her in the face and then calling her a “fucking bitch” as she lay dying.

The regime is conducting a thorough investigation of Renee while Noem exonerated the murderer, Jonathan Ross, before Good’s body was even cold.

These are the facts; don’t be gaslit by the regime.

I saw this meme on Bluesky, posted after Renee Good’s murder about how she should have just complied; something to think about …

“All you have to do is comply and you won’t get hurt by cops. When they tell you to get down, you get down. When they tell you to turn in your guns, you turn in your guns. When they tell you to get in the boxcar, you get in the boxcar. Why is this so difficult for people to understand.”

Think on that.

Last week, the House passed a bill to extend desperately needed healthcare subsidies and stop millions of people from being kicked off their health insurance and one of the more surprising “Yea” votes was from MAGAt cultist Lauren Groper.

Except once this was highlighted by the media, Boebert played the “um, actually” card and posted a picture of her holding an “incorrect vote form” that said she actually wanted to vote “nay.”

How dumb is Boebert? There are two choices for the vote and you say you accidentally picked the wrong one. You had two choices and you chose the one you didn’t want to choose.

It’s hard to fathom which degree of stupidity we’re dealing with here. 

Thankfully, the bill still passed even with Boebert switching her vote to “no.” 

Matty Carrington’s modeling career began at sixteen, when a casual shopping trip in London with his mother turned into an unexpected stop at Select Model Management so Would You Hit It?

The Grube Residence could perhaps be overlooked at first glance because of its modest presence, but this Germanic Chalet is an important architectural work to be carefully studied. The home was sited and designed to take full advantage of the beautifully forested, sloped setting while nestling lightly into nature’s envelope of firs and rhododendrons. A founding partner of Portland’s Yost Grube Hall Architecture, Grube designed a handful of homes alone and in collaboration with the acclaimed William Fletcher but this home was designed by Grube as a labor of love for his family and sits in between former partner Richard Campbell and Grube’s 1966 twin-like family homes, creating a triad of architectural wonders in a row.

The home opens skyward with each floor cantilevering out beyond its impressive concrete foundation and is framed by the forest around it. Tongue and groove cedar siding and a metal roof add to its distinctive look and protect the home from the elements. Use of native materials brings the outside in and make this creative retreat cozy, warm and inviting. Clear fir is used extensively throughout on custom windows, casework, built-ins, tray ceiling frames, doors and windows and red oak clads the flooring. Walls of glass flood the home with private forest views and natural light all day and dimmable lighting controls the ambience at night. A custom architectural floating oak stairwell connects the 3 levels.

This home is an inspiring peaceful sanctuary for relishing in natures beauty and life’s richest experiences. A generational work of architecture—designed not only as shelter but as a steward of the natural environment, creating balance and harmony both inside and out.

There are three bedrooms and three bathrooms in just over 2400 square feet in Portland for just $1.3M.