from the weekend, that I didn’t particularly think appropriapic for Mother’s Day.\n<\/p>\n
\nFirst, from David Thompson, red-hot furniture sex.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nSecond, PowerLine are threatening to liveblog the Miss Universe pageant, which seems to me like listening to the Westminster Dog Show on radio. I.e., it would be nice to have actual visuals. They seem to like Miss Brazil, and she has impressive assets<\/a>. Personally, I’ll be rooting for Miss Turks and Caicos, because I dig the wholesome thing<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \nFinally, Darleen’s post, below, puts me in mind of these lines from The Importance of Being Earnest<\/i>:\n<\/p>\n \nJACK Upon my word, if I thought that, I’d shoot myself . . . [A pause.] You don’t think there is any chance of Gwendolen becoming like her mother in about a hundred and fifty years, do you, Algy?\n<\/p>\n \nALGERNON All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.\n<\/p>\n \nJACK Is that clever?\n<\/p>\n \nALGERNON It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilised life should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" from the weekend, that I didn’t particularly think appropriapic for Mother’s Day. First, from David Thompson, red-hot furniture sex. Second, PowerLine are threatening to liveblog the Miss Universe pageant, which seems to me like listening to the Westminster Dog Show on radio. I.e., it would be nice to have actual visuals. They seem to like Miss Brazil, and she has impressive assets. Personally, I’ll be rooting for Miss Turks and<\/p>\n