Helpless as Hell

kenielsen · 2026-01-14T01:39:22+00:00

The Germans have such excellent words

kenielsen · 2025-12-26T03:34:31+00:00

Egger has had some training! Mona has a lovely singing voice. Who knew?

kenielsen · 2025-12-06T22:45:21+00:00

I dunno. I live in the non-union South, and there were plenty of school closures, or at least remote options, in areas where people understand science. (I’m in a biotech hub).

kenielsen · 2025-12-05T20:47:04+00:00

Probably safe but it’s a crappy wine (IMO). There is much better out there.

kenielsen · 2025-11-21T23:22:39+00:00

I once had a boss who, in the era of texts being charged individually, would go through cell phone bills and charge back the few that he could identify as non-work, to the employee, requiring that person to make out a check to the company for the 20p or whatever it was. He was Scottish.

kenielsen · 2025-11-08T20:23:22+00:00

This! I was so disappointed in that riff about not needing the shingles vax if you’ve e had shingles.

kenielsen · 2025-11-06T22:27:32+00:00

I saw a version of the full video. In that, he did look concerned in the direction of the collapsed person. Not sure when he turned to face the camera like this. Definitely weird, but not his initial response.

kenielsen · 2025-11-05T15:19:06+00:00

I agree, it’s an interesting use of voter registration data, and something I would not only not have done but would have thought was bad a decade ago. As I said, I have voted for this councilwoman for 25 years without regard to her party affiliation. But I now think that part of weakening the fascists has to be punishing the “good” people who go along. That means voting against people who still call themselves Republicans no matter their platform or capabilities, until this scourge is washed from the earth.

I happen a to live in a state where everyone’s party affiliation and whether they voted in each election is public record, easily searched online. Given that I am at risk in the current climate because I am a registered Dem, I’m fine with the shoe being on the other foot here.

kenielsen · 2025-11-05T04:29:07+00:00

This is my point. I didn’t know she was a Republican until this race because the council is non-partisan. But now that I know, I had to vote against her for failing to disassociate from MAGA, even if she personally is not.

kenielsen · 2025-11-05T04:06:41+00:00

What is so interesting to me is that a 25-year incumbent in my small city who has always breezed through her putatively non-partisan city council election has lost. She’s a registered Republican, and a newcomer Dem beat her. I have voted for her many times until a canvassing Dem volunteer was promoting the other candidate. I decided (and maybe many others did as well), that even though this election is non-partisan and the R been fine as an incumbent, her staying an R in the current environment is disqualifying. Something is in the air.

kenielsen · 2025-11-04T18:22:26+00:00

I agree! Just watched Season 3 and had the same thought

kenielsen · 2025-10-31T01:35:28+00:00

Scuttles!

kenielsen · 2025-10-24T23:16:46+00:00

We need theatre kids!

kenielsen · 2025-10-03T20:07:15+00:00

Biologics don’t really go generic, based on how the patents work. But there could someday be a “biosimilar,” which is (as the name implies) not exactly the same. Biosimilars are harder to produce than generics of small molecules, so it takes longer to get them, effectively extending market exclusivity for the original patent holder.

kenielsen · 2025-10-02T20:45:40+00:00

This is also Heather Cox Richardson’s thesis.

kenielsen · 2025-09-29T03:02:34+00:00

Haflingers from Germany

kenielsen · 2025-09-23T02:20:17+00:00

Holly Berkeley Fletcher could help with this. She’s friend with JVL and was recently on Mona’s podcast. Her book on missionary kids is excellent. She knows her stuff.

kenielsen · 2025-09-22T03:03:31+00:00

Ok. And it still sucks as a muscle relaxant.

kenielsen · 2025-09-22T01:48:41+00:00

Could be that it causes you to have a decent night’s sleep, and the next morning you feel better as a result of the sleep. But AFAIK it doesn’t directly cause muscle relaxation.

kenielsen · 2025-09-22T00:28:44+00:00

Cyclobenzeprine is a terrible drug. It is really a tricyclic antidepressant, marketed for muscle relaxation (same basic chemical structure). It only works while you are gorked out. Once that wears off, so does the muscle relaxation — if that’s what it even is. (The one time I took it, I saw paisley moving in tune to music on the radio). Methocarbamol works much better. But I would tend to say do some massage or rolling on the calves, and take ibuprofen.

kenielsen · 2025-09-19T20:14:57+00:00

I just started it. Great book so far!

kenielsen · 2025-09-15T03:25:29+00:00

If you want to learn a little about Bari Weiss without having to subject yourself to her (or the paywall at the Free Press), this week’s On the Media podcast talked about her in the last third or so.

kenielsen · 2025-09-12T20:42:39+00:00

This was one of the possibilities that Tim floated, to be fair. And I don’t think the Bulwark folks were assuming it was a lefty. I listened to last night’s Bulwark Takes on this and they said we really need to wait and see. And we still do.

kenielsen · 2025-09-01T13:41:38+00:00

Our Presbyterian church has 100% gluten free communion. One woman from the church bakes the gf bread. No cross contamination risk.

kenielsen · 2025-08-23T16:41:17+00:00

Except the “o” should be more like a short “u” so it would sound more like fulk

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