A bidet with a heated seat and water. The water doesn't get very hot but at least it's not freezing in the winter. The heated seat is underrated until you go somewhere without one and remember how cold a toilet seat can get.

"Just move somewhere cheaper! Abandon your lives, friends and careers and move to Topeka, Kansas where you still can't afford a home without going into deep, long-standing debt"

By ~140 years

As an American, I don't feel right asking for forgiveness just yet. We've won a major battle but I worry people will take the midterm victory as a conclusion to the MAGA era and disengage, allowing it to take hold again. We've got a lot more work to do before we earn any sense of redemption.

Ugly Gerry

A rebellion would imply that he has some entitlement to the seat

This just adds another barrier and pathway to abuse to women's sports

No harm in doing both. Sending an email is easy. Could take a little while for Congress freshmen to get their office communication systems set up.

I've had a similar experience. In my early adulthood, I fell hard for a girl at my school. She liked me back and we flirted for months.

Eventually, things escalate at a party and she ends up coming back with me to my dorm room. She crawls into my bed next to me and immediately pretends to fall asleep.

I'm young, inexperienced and nervous and not really sure what I'm supposed to do in that situation. So I end up laying there pretending to sleep as well. After a couple hours she gets up and leaves without a word or acknowledgement.

And thus that fling came to an end. I was devastated and confused. I asked her friends what went wrong and apparently the expectation was that I was supposed to make a move on her while she was "sleeping" and the fact that I didn't signaled that I wasn't interested. She took it as a rejection and left with hurt feelings.

We were young and dumb and as far as I'm concerned I did the right thing. I only wish I had the brains and maturity to communicate my feelings better at the time. But it's always struck me as weird that in that moment I was "supposed" to do what essentially amounts to sexual assault.

Imagine seeing another human begging for help and rather than doing anything about it you make a mockery of their situation to get a few laughs from your friends.

The irony of his statements about the destruction of the rule of law while referring to an illegal war that Congress, for which he is a member of, never approved.