Not only do I love the Godfather and The Godfather Part 2, but this past weekend my wife and I watched the Godfather Epic. It’s the first two movies edited together in chronological order. It’s a bit more than 7 hours in one movie.

It would probably kill you.

Yesterday afternoon, my wife had a doctor’s appointment at the hospital. When she was in the lobby, someone was playing the Godfather theme on a piano. Then I see this post. The universe can seem weird sometimes.

When my wife and I bought our house almost 30 years ago, it didn’t have a fridge or a washer and dryer. It had a dishwasher and a range. We bought the fridge and washer and dryer when we moved in.

We’ve replaced the range twice and the dishwasher, washer, and dryer three times each.

The fridge is coming apart at the seams, but it still keeps food cold. Most of the door shelves are gone. Both crispers have broken and been put back together with epoxy. The deli drawer is cracked such that it falls out of its track and has to be carefully put back. We want to replace it, but every time we get ready to, another large appliance bites the dust and its replacement gets postponed again.

I’m afraid to even talk to my wife about replacing it at this point because it feels like if I mention it, the washer and dryer will go.

My daughter doesn’t have anything to play a DVD with, but she buys DVDs and gives them to me to rip and add to my media server so she can watch the movies via my server.

It’s a three story brick Victorian, using the different colors to accent different parts of the exterior. $50 dollars wouldn’t get you up to the trim under the roof.

You get what you pay for. It was freshly painted when we bought it, and the paint started falling off almost as soon as we moved in.

Back when we got it painted we got estimates from 13 different companies. Lowest estimate back then was $9000. We asked everyone how long they guaranteed their work for. 12 companies said you can’t guarantee paint jobs because sun and weather can cause them to fail.

The remaining guy was the most expensive, but he guaranteed his work for 8 years. His paint job lasted more than 15 years before it started to wear out.

Of course, it’s almost been 30 years now, and it’s in pretty bad shape. I wish I had the money to fix it up, but we also raised three kids and put them through college in between.

Back when we were painting our house, I disagreed with my wife about one of the colors.

It’s a Victorian house. We were doing a Forest Green, and a mint green, and I wanted to include burgundy. However she chose plum.

As soon as we saw it on the house, she realized the burgundy would have been better.

We just lived with it.

We’re about 10 years late for repainting, and the paint has faded so much the greens look blue. I don’t know when we’ll be able to do it again. The painter we used was very, very good, but if I correct for inflation, hiring him again today would cost over $40,000.

Disappointing.

I would expect a sign in a library to say, “No fellatio in the library.”

Rewatching M.A.S.H. right now.

Edit: Wasn’t exactly niche back in the day, but I wonder how many people have watched it recently.

They have to. They’re driving.

That’s a far cry from a stipulation that any state unhappy with the union could leave. While the Declaration of Independence is an important founding document of our country, it does not have the force of law.

I would argue secession as it was imagined by the rebel states was implicitly unconstitutional already. That was certainly the position of the Union during the Civil War. You can’t guarantee individual rights of U.S. citizens in the Constitution and allow states to free themselves from the obligation to respect those rights by just choosing to secede.

We do have the ability to dissolve the union as envisioned by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence, but it can’t be done unilaterally by any one state. We could do it with a constitutional amendment.

The only other way is through blood and death. As you point out, that hasn’t worked so far.

and the founding fathers even put a stipulation that any state unhappy with the union can leave

What are you referring to?

I like how everyone is gung-ho except Foreman who looks like he wants to quit but he knows no other zombie-infested hospital will hire him.

If I recall from seeing the original article, it actually made a new butthole.

I had forgotten that, but you’re right.

Shit, you must have nodded off. We passed stupidity a few miles back.

They haven’t declared war on autism. They’ve declared war on science and knowledge in general.

I hate to say it because it’s become a cliche, but it’s Idiocracy.

Why not?

America is better because we can complain and it won’t be the reason we go to jail.

They’ll come up with another reason.

Holy Christ, I hope not!

That’s not the same person.

Good news: no co-pay.