I am lactose-intolerant. If I have even a single yogurt or glass of milk, I'll be farty in a few hours. If I have lots of dairy — a large helping of ice cream, say — I'll be farty all night long, some of the farts might be sharts, and my poop will be lumpy and float.

Yesterday, I had too much ice cream, but it was lactose-free ice cream, or so said the label. My intestines and anus disagree. Either my Kroger-branded lactose-free cherry cordial ice cream had all the lactose and none of the lactose-free, or I've become lactose-free-intolerant.

Dean's day-after-Thanksgiving dinner was fine, I guess. Oddly, for a guy who brags endlessly about what a great cook he is, what tasted best by far was the store-bought and microwaved mashed potatoes. Other than that it was roast beef and fancy green beans (kinda blah). One bite of the beef tasted wrong to me, and I discreetly spat it out. The rest of it tasted OK.

The conversation was as blah as the beans. Dean told us about his long career as a chef, and about how ruined his home town has become. Robert talked about football and World of Warcraft. I participated, slightly and uncomfortably.

I respect Dean's Thanksgiving gesture, and I've had worse meals and worse flatmates. I like Robert, and I'm getting used to Dean, and of course I'm too damned snarky when I write about them.

But I'm not good with people, and tired of trying. It was all conversation we've had before, and little of it was of interest. I would've rather been alone in my room, in my recliner, watching an old movie, or farting around on the internet like I'm doing right now.

Here's the news you need,
whether you know it or not

• Biden Administration lifts sanction against Venezuelan oil drilling allowing Chevron to import oil to US

Change the rules to benefit one corporation that's bigger than you can imagine, over other corporations also bigger than you can imagine, in order to drain the world's limited oil supply a few months faster, which maybe, if it's OK with Chevron and the rest of the cartel, might lower gas prices in America by 1½¢ per gallon.

• Rich nations have promised to pay for the climate crisis – but will they?

Of course not. What a stupid question.

• What can Democrats push through Congress in the lame-duck session?

It's pointless to ask what Democrats can or could push through Congress before the Republicans' circus begins in January. Most Dems in Congress are content with the status quo, so what they will push through is jack, and shit.

• Fears for all Ukraine's nuclear plants after emergency shutdowns

• Greta Thunberg sues her native Sweden for failing on climate

• US federal judge denies 19-year-old's request to attend her father’s execution

• Study: Climate change is increasing the frequency and temperature of extreme heat waves

And it never stops, never stops...

• "Officer shuffle": Some ousted cops find jobs at new departments in Massachusetts

And it never stops, never stops, never stops, never stops, never stops, never stops, never stops, never stops, never stops, never stops...

• What it's like to be the child of a January 6 insurrectionist

And it never stops, never stops, never stops...

Links I liked

• We are living in Robert Bork's America

• Everything you wanted to know about pronouns (but were afraid to ask)

• Fanta was created for Nazi Germany

• Unaired pilots

• Earthquakes

Mystery links
"Like life itself, there's no
knowing where you're going"

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♫♬ Mix tape of my mind ♫

• "Crimson and Clover" by Joan Jett

• "God Must Be Doing Cocaine" by Charlotte Lawrence

• "Mad Shirt Grinder" by Quicksilver

• "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave

• "Veneno" by Chuy Flores

The End

• Michael Pertschuk

• Bao Tong

11/27/2022
Tip 'o the hat to Linden Arden, ye olde AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf's, Captain Hampockets, CaptCreate's Log, John the Basket, LiarTownUSA, Meme City, National Zero, Ran Prieur, Voenix Rising, and anyone else whose work I've stolen without saying thanks.
Extra special thanks to Becky Jo, Name Withheld, Dave S, Wynn Bruce, and always Stephanie...