On November 7, Virginia will elect a new governor. One of the pressing issues for me is gun control. Unfortunately, Ed Gillespie is bought by the NRA; therefore, he won’t fight for regulations that will prevent mass shootings. In addition, he is tied to Trump. If he can’t stand up to the incompetent president, he won’t stand up for Virginians. He is just a weakass candidate.
Through it, we’ve learned that while scheduled sex lacks spontaneity (truly folks, there’s not a lot of spontaneity anywhere in life when you’re raising two kids), we could intentionally build in novelty by adding in new positions or surprising sexy talk.
On the important of sex in a marriage:
Sex, as I’ve discovered, isn’t just an added perk of pairing up; rather, it’s one of the things that keeps us paired up. Love, honesty, partnership, togetherness, vulnerability, and good conversation are all hallmarks of a good marriage, but without sex, that’s just a friendship.
Can’t agree more.
Thomas L. Friedman on Secretary of Defense James Mattis:
[T]he only one who has not been infected by Trump’s metastasizing ethical cancer, the only one who has not visibly lied on Trump’s behalf, and who can still put some fear into Trump.
It’s hopeless. No one will stand up to the big bully.
Oswalt kicks off his latest Netflix special with hilarious Trump jokes. His interactions with the audience members were also entertaining. The riveting part of Annihilation is when he talks about his deceased wife and how he dealt with his daughter during the difficult time. He closes out the heartrending show with a quote from his wife: “It’s chaos. Be kind.”
In one particularly graphic example, Jones claims she witnessed Kelly urinating on two women while she and the women were in the middle of a sex act with the singer. “It was just a game for him,” she says. “He just went back and forth [on them] when he was peeing and told [another girlfriend] to clean it up afterwards. That was the worst that I’ve ever seen.”
Damn!
Tôi cảm kích em rất nhiều. Tôi cảm kích sự đảm đang và ân cần em dành cho con cái. Tôi cảm kích sự chăm chỉ của em dành cho sự nghiệp và cho gia đình. Tôi cảm kích những việc em làm cho chồng. Và tôi cảm kích nhất là lòng tốt của em.
Em đối xử chu đáo với những người xung quanh. Em không tranh đua hay ganh ghét ai. Người ta tính toán với em, em vẫn không để trong lòng. Giống mẹ em, em không nói xấu người khác. Với một số người thì việc làm này rất khó. Có người thích nói xấu người khác đến nỗi tôi nghĩ lúc không có mặt tôi họ sẽ moi tôi ra nói xấu. Nên giờ tôi sợ nhất là nghe người này nói xấu người nọ. Có cái gì tốt thì nói để học hỏi còn xấu thì tự mình hiểu là đủ rồi. Không cần phải kể lể.
Dường như ganh ghét thường đi chung với đâm thọc. Có ganh ghét mới đâm ra thọc vô. Tôi cảm kích bởi em không phải là người ganh tỵ hoặc đua đòi. Hãy giữ lấy những tính tình tốt đẹp đó nhé. Tôi cần học từ em rất nhiều.
In Virginia, Ed Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman and counselor to “compassionate conservative” George W. Bush, is attacking his Democratic opponent for governor, Ralph Northam, for being too sympathetic to immigrants and too unsympathetic to Confederate monuments. One particularly incendiary commercial accuses Northam of “increasing the threat of MS-13,” a drug gang from El Salvador that is evoked with pictures of tattooed gang-bangers who actually belong to a rival outfit. Gillespie’s tendentious reasoning? As lieutenant governor, Northam voted against a bill in Virginia’s Senate that would have prohibited the establishment of any “sanctuary cities,” even though Virginia does not have any such cities. MS-13 has long been a favorite Trump target, symbolizing the supposed menace of Latino immigration.
Chip Kidd is a prolific graphic designer and Book Two showcases an extensive collection of his work in the last decade. Most of his works are book jackets and cover designs, but they cover a wide range. From poetry to novel to comic to non-fiction, his designs are impressive and inspiring. I am glad that the rise of e-books has not affected his work.
Dani Shapiro’s part memoir part advice on writing reveals how she became a writer and her writing process. Growing up as the only child of older parents who are observant Jews, she spent most of time in the Sabbath reading or writing. Although I have not read any of Shapiro’s book, I have always interested in learning about a writer’s process. In Shapiro’s case, the level of concentration to just write appeals to me. I don’t plan on becoming a writer either, but I enjoyed reading how writers still writing.
Xuân, being sick, sucks the life out of my wife. He clings to her twenty four seven. He cries and whines and wakes up every hour at night. I have been miserable myself from a cold.
Yesterday we decided to go to Six Flags to get some fresh air. On the way, I asked my wife, “Do you still love us?” Her respond was, “No, I love no one but myself.” Đạo and Đán was a bit sad. Đán said, “That means you hate us.” I said, “No, she loves you guys more than me.” She said to the boys, “I love you more if you don’t make me yell.” I thought to myself, “I don’t make you yell. I just make you scream.”
I held my joke because I didn’t know she was in the right mood for it. I didn’t want to get yell at.