Matthew @yeahno@mspsocial.net

In Warren's defense, it is less than an hour before dinner. It's a behavioral free for all and I know that.

#TeamOrangeKitty <- although as I typed this, guess who hopped into my lap and smacked the glasses of my face

"He's one of those food-obsessed ginger toms that you absolutely cannot reason with." —someone describing their cat except that this is clearly about Warren

I'd have more sympathy if the clearest pavement I walked on wasn't the goddamn roadway.

58 minutes ago. I left my apartment 58 minutes ago and am only now getting on a bus.

*gives up on metro transit and walks to Saint Paul, besting the time of any available bus route*

So! Italian press is reporting Lega Nord accepted €3 million in campaign financing from Putin but everyone tried to make it look like a normal business deal. SO WEIRD.

Warren is testing whether or not the treats might be awarded proportionally, I guess.

This? This is a treatless table kitty. Do not pity him, for he knows the price of his table brashness.

"Only floor kitties get treats! Table kitties don't get treats!" —me, daily, as I shove a cat paw away from my plate

I've always believed James Mercer thinks of himself as a poet who puts text to music rather than as a musician who has to write some words because they're something complete songs have.

It's a disturbingly accurate mix of boredom, antagonism, apathy and arrogance as coping mechanism.

"Phantom Limb" by the Shins came up on random. I forget how sharp James Mercer description of adolescence in a small town is:

So we just skirt the hallway sides,
A phantom and a fly,
Follow the lines and wonder why
There's no connection.

So, when they tap our Monday heads,
Two zombies walk in our stead.
This town seems hardly worth the time.
And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme,
Too far along in our climb,
Stepping over what now towers to the sky,
With no connection.

It looks like the delay will add a total of 45 minutes to my morning commute. So... Almost two hours today.

I need to come up with a better strategy.

I was going to have to wait 9 minutes to transfer to this other bus but now I will miss it by 10 and then wait for 20 for the next. Don't take infrequent lines, my babies. Learn from the mistakes I have made.

I dislike it when there are a string of cancellations due to weather and then everyone in Minnesota decides to get all stoic or macho or determined or whatever and keep stuff open when it shouldn't be.

IM BITTER OKAY

But that's a very long story.

The myth of "voting is the best way to make your voice heard" keeps power more entrenched than dark-money expenditures ever could.

The part of the campaign cycle where everyone acts like presidential campaigns are deliberative, policy-focused debates is upon us and this is my least favorite pointless ritual in US democracy.

@hollyamory If you don't know this already: The Dutch word for verb is "werkwoord" and that is delightful.