Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 6:34:52 AM

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Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 7:19:50 AM

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And if you want a good example about how “positive rights” actually enable state tyranny, well…

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-59772299

doppelganglander 12/25/2021 7:33:27 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

Merry Christmas! I didn't get a chance to respond yesterday, but your parents having lasagna and baked ziti is just delightful. 

Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 7:53:45 AM

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In #3 doppelganglander said: your parents having lasagna and baked ziti is just delightful. 

The baked ziti was actually for one of my nephews, who, I am told (never knew this before), "doesn't like lasagna".

I do not understand how anyone cannot like lasagna.  (Then again, he also doesn't like chocolate... I'm not sure what planet he's from, but he's a great kid young man anyway.)

Alice in Dairyland 12/25/2021 8:00:06 AM

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In #4 Occasional Reader said: I do not understand how anyone cannot like lasagna.  Then again, he also doesn't like chocolate...

Maybe he's anti-dairy.  Hmmmp, can't understand those people, says the resident from Dairyland.

Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 8:02:49 AM

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In #5 Alice in Dairyland said: Maybe he's anti-dairy. 

Nope, this has nothing to do with any sort of food intolerance (though he did have a gluten allergy when he was a kid, but grew out of it).  He apparently just doesn't like these foods.  

lucius septimius 12/25/2021 9:05:17 AM

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Alice in Dairyland 12/25/2021 9:11:04 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

It was a joke, son.  I wasn't referring to an intolerance, I'm from the Dairyland.  Sometimes my humor is just unappreciated. :(

Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 10:28:57 AM

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In #7 lucius septimius said: Quiet day around here.

I love Christmas and the entire holiday season.  At the same, I have to admit; Christmas Day itself can actually get a little... boring.  Everything is closed,gifts are opened, etc.  But I'm going for a hike later wtih Little OR; it's 67 degrees here in DC, BECAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE IS GOING TO KILL US ALL UNLESS WE SUBMIT TO THE WHIMS OF A MENTALLY-ILL SWEDISH TEENAGER!

Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 10:54:32 AM

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I still think we should dispatch one of our first-in-class nuclear attack submarines to the North Pole, to investigate for signs of clandestine industrial activity there (e.g. workshops); just so we can get the headline:

Virginia: No, There Is No Santa Claus

lucius septimius 12/25/2021 11:35:31 AM

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In #9 Occasional Reader said: At the same, I have to admit; Christmas Day itself can actually get a little... boring.

I know the feeling. Now that the kids are older there is no delightful chaos in the morning.  I spent some time reading sort of a book but not really concentrating thinking "I need to be doing something productive!!"  Then I reminded myself it was Christmas and I should enjoy the moment.  I did have a very pleasant text convo with a friend of mine, though it does sort of bug me that here he is, a year older than me, and has a boyfriend 30 years younger.  

Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 11:41:16 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 11:

So… how old a boyfriend are YOU looking for?

lucius septimius 12/25/2021 12:14:23 PM

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In #12 Occasional Reader said: So… how old a boyfriend are YOU looking for?

Yeah -- I guess it's easier when you're teh ghey.  Nope, no bf for me.  

Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 1:39:33 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 12/25/2021 3:01:21 PM

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Occasional Reader 12/25/2021 4:12:29 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 15:

I kind of love that version. I think I recall reading an interview with David Bowie in which he said that he actually hated this song “the Little drummer boy“, but liked that version that he did with Bing Crosby.