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Hayden Panettiere was once my neighbor. In 2020 I wrote up the amusing parts of the night I discovered she was in fact a star. Hearing of her passing moved me to post the heavier ones: her story of the two wolves, the conversation about addiction that prompted it, and the last time I saw her.
Feeding The Good Wolf
A few heavier moments I left out of an old story about my neighbor, Hayden Panettiere.
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September 1, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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You may laugh at the Onion, but early AI recipes were really something to behold:
April 18, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Science is good. We should fund it.
April 11, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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There’s no need to treat these people as anything but the sordid rabble of crooks and grifters and subnormal bigots that they are.
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Noem leaves the hearing and is heckled as she departs the room
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Rain is not enough to deter my badass wife from a daily hike. (Palo Comado Canyon trails)
Wife in a blue rain jacket and leg warmers, with her arms outstretched to welcome the rain. A usually dry creek bed instead with a large amount of flowing water. Selfie with a rain jacket.
February 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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It is difficult to verbalize just how glorious this rain is to those of us in SoCal.
Photo of rain falling on a pool, with palm trees in the background, in southern California.
January 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM