I saw one of the videos of Biden kicking his dog and it looked to me more like he half-tripped over the dog when he was getting into a helicopter, but he could have been kicking it out of the way.

Was it Gail Collins who never wrote a column about Romney without mentioning Seamus, the dog on the roof? Romney didn’t turn out to be worth much, but that joke, if that’s what it was, got stale fast. It is surprising, though, that Sassenach Mitt gave his dog an Irish name and still managed to get elected (one time) in Massachusetts.

FDR didn’t look wrinkled and age-worn in that clip, but at times he did have a lost look, a tired look, an old look. Still, he was able to string words into sentences, whatever his physical or mental condition. He seemed especially old to young people like our parents or grandparents — he was just about the only president they’d known in their lifetime. Twelve years was a very long time.

Making the rounds on the internet: not only do more American households have dogs than cats, more American households have guns than cats. I don’t know if that is true.

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You can thank FDR (another elitist, “blue blood” politician who never held a real job in his entire life) for extending the Great Depression until the onset of WWII as well as literally inventing the federal administrative state.

I get the sense that everyone here understands life expectancy is based on averages.

When trying to excuse his vicious dogs’ behavior (dogs that have bitten as many people as Major and Commander are categorized as vicious in any jurisdiction in the U.S.) he too, like KJP, tried to blame it on the WH environment. “You turn the corner and there are two people he doesn’t know and he moves to protect.”

Like it’s normal for a dog to take that kind of initiative. Funny how Clinton’s, Bush’s, and Obama’s dogs never felt the need to do that. No strangers were ever bitten by them. Yes, they weren’t German Shepherds but all dogs feel protective of their owners when the need arises.

Dogs don’t like to feel they have to be in charge. They want a confident “pack leader” they can rely on; they’re bred to be subordinates otherwise we couldn’t control them. When dogs feel they have to take charge they’re always nervous.

When I said I wouldn’t vote for Biden to walk my dogs I never knew how right I was.

And now a man who can’t be trusted to take charge of a dog is in charge of the country.

The Bidens should never be allowed to own dogs again. They have USSS protection for the rest of their lives. Wherever they live is a work site and people like them will be placing their protective details in danger if they have dogs.

I thoroughly enjoyed “Coolidge” by Amity Shlaes as well. IIRC he did not or run for another term because of the toll it had taken on his health. He also had reservations about Herbert Hoover. Coolige is a greatly underappreciated president.

Unfortunately most people have to work in order to live and hard physical work breaks a body down. So discounting occupational causes of death is curious. I would posit that a lot more people had hard physical labor as a routine in the past, or today in the third world. What is the life expectancy disparity today in the third world vs the developed world? Or in Moscow/St. Petersburg vs Siberia?

I said that re disease.