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1. 2 days ago on Speed Bump

   When our local farmer’s market switched to the grange fields which have baseball field on the other side of the road, the “dog days” were over. The grange flatly refused to allow them, but you still see the folks sneaking them in backpacks, etc. Geez, it is REALLY that hard to be without Pookie for an hour (or is Pookie so destructive that you can’t leave him at home????)

2. 2 days ago on Joe Heller

   One of the longest standing wineries in Southeast PA (Chaddsford) is now for sale. The original owners sold it to a family who bought it as an investment, but now want to “exit the wine business,” and they’ve made it clear that they don’t care if it is turned into something other than a winery as long as they get their millions. The current staff is now furiously trying to find a buyer (or group of buyers) who will be interested in keeping the winery going. It would be a shame to see the winemaking disappear, but this is the risk you take when you sell to someone who views your business as simply an investment.

3. 4 days ago on Joe Heller

   There’s a good article on SLATE where restaurant employees talked about the “endless” shrimp special and other problems at Red Lobster (Tales From the Trenches of Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp, SLATE, 5/20/24): "But the top thing employees will not miss about Red Lobster are the arguments and confrontations they’d frequently endure when informing customers about the rules that come buoyed to the Endless Shrimp deal. For instance, guests cannot request a box to take their Endless Shrimp home, nor can they share their servings with the rest of the table. (In other words, only one phantasmagoric shrimp binge per person.)

   “You had groups coming in expecting to feed their whole family with one order of endless shrimp,” Josie said. “I would get screamed at.” She already had her share of Cheddar Bay Biscuit battle stories, but the shrimp was something else: “It tops any customer service experience I’ve had. Some people are just a different type of stupid, and they all wander into Red Lobster.”

   Steve told me he’s “never been more disrespected in my life” than by the Endless Shrimp patrons. (“My manager got spat in the face,” he added.)"

   Oh – several of the employees also had to work Mother’s Day and then discovered their restaurant closed and padlocked on Monday morning. “They made us work Mother’s Day to get that quick buck, and then they closed us."

4. 6 days ago on Dana Summers

   Good for her, glad she did what she wanted to do. As did the the doctors you mentioned, even if you can’t figure out how they did it.

5. 6 days ago on Dana Summers

   Which was none of your business, but your comment shows your disagreement with how they chose to live, work, and raise their children. Oh, and I asked you if your wife CHOSE to be a homemaker. Saying she was “pleased” does not actually answer a yes or no question. I will give you credit – you are really good at word-playing your way around the questions and comments others throw at you without directly answering them.

6. 6 days ago on Dana Summers

   The actual number for the RALLY is in dispute – one local official described that number as representing the NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE TOWN, not necessarily at the rally. Wildwood typically brings in over 250,000 people on weekends once the weather begins to turn warm.

7. 7 days ago on Dana Summers

   I’d love to be the proverbial fly on the wall when Kelce and Butker see each other again once the preseason starts.

8. 7 days ago on Dana Summers

   Per right wing conservatives? Anything they disagree with and anything that grants rights to people they don’t care for or who they believe should either serve them or simply not be visible.

9. 7 days ago on Dana Summers

   Did your wife CHOOSE to be a full-time homemaker or did you insist that was to be her role in your relationship? If she CHOSE and made this decision with you, good for her. That doesn’t mean that a bunch of women who are supposed to be celebrating their brand new degrees should be told their primary purpose is to be subservient to their man and only serve as homemakers. The “dr” in my name here reflects my MD degree, and while my mom was a homemaker, my dad was determined to make sure I could make my own way in the world and have a career (and for the record, I’ve reached my Medicare years and am retired, and my parents had me in their 40s so they married during the post-WWII baby boom period).

   Men like Butker are a big reason of why I am no longer anything resembling a practicing Catholic or even involved in any specific Christian church anymore. And anyway, husband and I are childless by choice, which I believe makes me a heathen in the eyes of the Butkers of the world.

10. 7 days ago on Dana Summers

    KC Chiefs kicker – who gave a commencement speech at a Catholic university and decided to it was the appropriate time to slam Joe Biden, snark at the LGBTQ community, condemn IVF and even bemoan “Congress just passed a bill where stating something as basic as the biblical teaching of who killed Jesus could land you in jail.” (hmmm…wonder who he meant as the “Jesus killers”…). Most infamously, he told women in the audience that while their little old degrees are nice, he’s SURE they are most excited to be wives and mothers and should submit to their “true vocation” taking care of their husband and kids instead of nasty old careers. All while telling the men to man up and stop being “emasculated.” Oh, and deciding to quote a certain singer completely out of context whom he didn’t name but called his “teammate’s girlfriend.” Basically he used the speech as a bully pulpit for his religious and personal beliefs, not to really highlight the actual graduates. It didn’t go over well with a lot of females in the audience – or in the country. The Chiefs posted an X/tweet today about their upcoming schedule – and oh, myyyy, the responses from women and even some men:.

    “I’ll be too busy in the kitchen.” “I was going to buy a jersey to support the team but is my woman money OK to use?”“Wish I could tune in but my husband took away my TV privileges.” “I wanted to show this to my wife but she’s not allowed to read.” “I won’t be able to watch. I’ll be over here having more babies and less thoughts. Blessed be the fruit.”“Sorry, I’m not allowed to have a bank account, how can I buy tickets?”

    And after a year where the Chiefs and the Kelce/Swift relationship were believed to have brought more woman and girls into watching football. All blown up in 20 minutes by this idiot. Butker is Catholic, but this was about the grads, not HIMSELF. But, of course, Summers here breaks it all down into “woke” – the standard BS for “anything that isn’t conservative that I don’t like.”