Great Danes are like velcro
I love my dogs. Duke, our current great dane, but also our first, Elwood, are velcro dogs. Duke is by my side anytime I am home. If I go to the bathroom he escorts me and gets annoyed when I close the door.
It's both very endearing and also very funny and annoying.
And I was thinking about the breeding that led to this for the breed. Most people don't realize, but references to a 'boarhound' are referring to great danes. They were hunting dogs. So the breeding is to keep them close and not prone to wandering off when hunting. And in the modern day that means staying by my side in the house.
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The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy.
That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Saw it in context of discussion of Republicans being angry at the Virginia political map redrawing. AOC called them out that Dems had been trying to ban this sort of thing for ten years and they always block it. So, since they want it to be the rules, the Dems have begun pushing back.
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Twenty years old and yet it has aged quite well. Still a classic.
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Automated Archives for April, 23rd 2026
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-7
Net Elo Change: -7
Games Played
- Ivan-3 - WIN
- tonybasanta - LOSS
- Zelemer - WIN
- Andre_P_1972_BAR - LOSS
- lepnume - LOSS
- adnybro - LOSS
- silfon - LOSS
- ElZapatoca - LOSS
- Flamingochen16 - LOSS
- Maksat7 - WIN
- Pino_2020 - WIN
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