There's always some Sidney Spoilsport who has to come along and ruin the party

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nothing about marrying the ring bearer, though

Busybody CT legislator with nothing better to do wants to ban marriage between consenting cousins.

A proposed bill, introduced by state Rep. Devin Carney, R-Old Saybrook, now before the legislature’s judiciary committee would add “cousin,” to the list of people Connecticut residents may not legally marry.

“Somebody actually sent me an article about it. Tennessee recently banned it. They passed a law to ban it,” Carney said. “I was told it's not banned in Connecticut, so I started looking into it and over 30 states do ban it, and Connecticut is not one of them.”

Representative Carney refused to divulge to FWIW the reason he is so otherwise unoccupied that he has time for matters like this, but he does deny that he was responsible for the law already on the books that declares invalid “The marriage of a niece and her uncle in Italy.” “Someone beat me to that one”, he admits, “but I’ll find something equally compelling to address — what would you think of a ban on Armenian left-handed seamstresses hooking up with one-legged ox cart drivers? Or Eskimo mukluk nibblers tying the knot with an RCMP or his horse?”


Contract on North Street

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351 North Street, $8.750 million; originally started at $10.750 million in July, ‘24, pre-construction. The builder paid $1.650 for this lot in 2021, so there was plenty of room for a “price improvement”.

The design does nothing for me, but I’m not the target demographic.

i though bad marble and gold bath fixtures had gone out of style 15 years ago; are they back, or were these just warehouse leftovers from that period?

I’ll admit to a mind twisted toward the double entendre, but mayonnaise in a scene infamously about orgasm?

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well, i never!

No, I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, but reading this post this morning makes me wonder what else I missed.

And this would be different from current practice how? (Updated)

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Our native idiot and wannabe president Chris Murphy is at it again:

"The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends. He can punish his political enemies. That is the evisceration of democracy."

we gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs!

UPDATE:

David Strom: HOW BUREAUCRATS THINK ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY: “Elon Musk and DOGE are doing what amounts to a comprehensive audit of the federal government, and it is driving the Democrats nuts. This is, of course, because the federal budget is their piggy bank that funds both the leftists themselves and all their evil plans.”

They've just begun to fight — screw 'em

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face of the enemy

Your Connecticut tax dollars at work:

What a difference a VP makes — and an IQ, for that matter

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OOF! That's Gonna Leave a Mark: J.D. Vance BURIES Ro Khanna in Heated Exchange About 'Racism'

Twenty-five-year-old Marko Elez had resigned from the DOGE team over his old posts, one of which saw him proclaim, 'I was racist before it was cool.' To any normal-thinking person, this was obviously a statement in defiance of the left and their cancel culture. They call EVERYONE racist. Naturally, many people responded the way Elez did, saying, in effect, 'Fine. Call me whatever you want. Your words have no power over me.'

For Democrats, however, who despise that DOGE is exposing so much corruption in Washington, they saw it as a chance to (pardon the expression) POUNCE on the young man. 

They clearly haven't gotten the memo that this doesn't work anymore. Vice President J.D. Vance addressed the issue on Twitter, noting that he might not agree with some of what Elez said, but that DOGE should bring him back.

Vance’s defense of the Elez triggered a response from a freshman congressman who thought he saw an opportunity to make his chops with the liberal Californians who put him in office; he should have resisted the temptation.

UPDATE: (Mr. Elez has been reinstated on the Musk team)

And now for a trip down Memory Road:

Ten minutes? The GOP could have run a five minute slice of this every day during the election campaign and Trump would have won by 90%

UPDATE: