I wish our red tabby Rocket would confine himself to eating actual food products. His taste runs to clothing (from socks to jeans to party dresses) and household fibers. We not only have to store all garments behind closed doors — he’s mastered opening dresser drawers, but not turning doorknobs — the toilet brush has to be bunjee’d into its case to keep him from gnawing the bristles.
Speaking of depraved appetites, commentor Paul W. is working on a comprehensive drinking game for Thursday’s GOP debate. I’m not a drinker myself, but I have an informed suspicion that the current guidelines would lead to acute alcohol poisoning somewhere around the half-hour mark. Go read, and let him know your opinion…
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Apart from slaking the pain, what’s on the agenda for the day?
BillinGlendaleCA
That drinkin’ game seems like a good way to end up in the ER with alcohol poisoning and end up turning a perfectly good TV into a smoking hulk(there’s alot of throw bottle at screen).
Major Major Major Major
I just got a stupid amount of money for not being able to beat the null hypothesis.
Grad school’s paying off!
There’s still this one guy on [gay app name redacted] that I really wish would message me but, first world problems.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Contemplating the fact that I seem to be fresh out of story ideas. This is a writer’s worst nightmare.
Major Major Major Major
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
“In the shadow of the volcano…”
“Cats achieve sentience”
“Once upon a time, there was a girl approaching puberty in an all-girls’ Catholic school”
“Who *really* makes Lay’s chips, anyway? A non-soylent green-style 1970’s investigation. By a journalist who also has a gun.”
“There’s a new virus that spreads via handshake. It decimates the plutocracy.”
“Four people are playing bridge. The lights go out. A mysterious dagger has stabbed one of them in the heart.”
Baud
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
I’d suggest a story about a blowhard real estate billionaire becoming president, but it’s too unbelievable.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Baud: I have contemplated a story about Goldman Sachs, involving the bulk purchase of souls being formed into large bond issues that are then sliced into tranches. Unfortunately, I’m more into character development rather than world building, and despite about seven years thinking, I haven’t been able to get anything to come together that I find satisfying.
I also have bits and pieces of a full scale fantasy world in mind. I’m particularly interested in producing one in which society is not static, and in particular focusing on two things, hopefully in relation to each other:
1) Different fantasy approaches to having a surplus of rural labor, or a work around for a lack thereof, allowing for growing cities and industrialization;
2) The ability of high magic to replicate modern totalitarian states.
Again, though, nothing has congealed enough to work with.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: How about an actor becoming Governor of California? I know couldn’t happen.
Major Major Major Major
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Re the high magic thing, if you’re a DnD fan I recommend reading the Economicon, which is exactly what it sounds like.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@BillinGlendaleCA: Maybe once, but never again.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Psst, it’s happened twice.
ETA: There was also a US Senator that was an actor.
Mustang Bobby
@Major Major Major Major: That messaging thing happens to me, too. I’ve found that staring at it doesn’t work, either.
Mustang Bobby
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’m sticking with my plan to get out of the country and go see real theatre. You could deliver this clown show to me with candy and a stripper and I still wouldn’t watch.
Major Major Major Major
@Mustang Bobby: Just hang out with the stripper.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mustang Bobby: I could always hike up to Verdugo Peak again.
Major Major Major Major
@Mustang Bobby:
A watched twink never, uh…. messages, I guess. That’s a crappy aphorism. Isn’t somebody on this thread a professional writer?
Betty Cracker
Today’s Google doodle commemorates the 101st anniversary of the first electric traffic signal system, which reminds me of a question I had the other day. We lost power in my town for a few hours last week, and it knocked out the traffic light too, which created a very dangerous situation because people are too dumb to treat disabled traffic signals as a four-way stop. My question is: why don’t traffic lights have battery or solar backup?
Mustang Bobby
@Major Major Major Major: I’d rather watch the stripper hang out….
Okay, yeah, we need a professional writer here…
BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: Cost. It’d be more expensive to purchase and maintain.
Major Major Major Major
@Betty Cracker: Somebody posts about twinks and strippers and then somebody else posts about strippers, what is it about your posts that just invite Florida comparisons?
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Still pretty unbelievable.
Baud
Given the conversation on this thread so far, I’m looking forward to seeing the ads that pop up.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Pray for twinks! They’re kyewwwwt.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
I had to look that up. My Google search history just got more interesting.
Mustang Bobby
@Baud: You were expecting maybe the Algonquin Round Table?
I plead the Fifth. Today’s my last day at work for the rest of the week and next Monday (O Canada!), my boss has been out the last two days, and I expect to be sea-gulled the moment she gets here.
Major Major Major Major
Just something I wanted to type, skip if you’re uninterested in my mental health:
i mentioned the manic cycle right? i’m being completely ridiculous but no more than if i was three beers in or so except it’s constant. so i guess that means the meds are working and i got a ten-page packet to fill out from therapy today so (i think she’s a really good therapist) but i don’t see her for another week.
anyway, just an update. this is my first manic cycle since i knew i was having them, so it’s coinciding with Defcon and i guess that’s convenient. but i know what’s going on this time so i won’t do anything stupid :)
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: What, twinks are cute. It’s like the whole idea.
Betty Cracker
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’m sure that’s it, but it seems short-sighted. Not only is it extremely dangerous, but a prolonged outage requires deployment of a cop to direct traffic, and that has to be expensive too.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Oh you googled it in the plural. Yeah that gets adult style fast.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
ObOpenThread: Dean Baker points us to a NY Times story on how drug patent monopolies are killing people. In this case, an effective treatment for ovarian cancer is not prescribed as much as it should be because it’s a generic medicine:
Too many in the for-profit health care world have let the search for ever increasing profits become the primary driving force in treatment decisions. It needs to be reined in, pronto.
:-(
It’s yet another example how a good idea (patents), and one that’s in the Constitution, has been corrupted by those with money and political power. Ever increasing durations, every increasing scope. (Yes, there have been some efforts to rein in these expansions (e.g. software patents, going after patent trolls, etc.), but there is still more that needs to be done (You changed the color? A new patent for you!) There’s no easy fix for it, but if we don’t fix it it will continue to be ever more entrenched with even more real-world consequences.
Cheers,
Scott.
Splitting Image
@Betty Cracker:
Newer ones probably do, depending on where you live. I don’t know what the life span of a traffic light is, but a lot of cities probably still have lights that were put in a few decades ago. Solar power probably wasn’t feasible then.
The key seems to be the behaviour of the first couple of people at the lights. If drivers see a car ahead of them stop at the intersection, wait its turn, and go, they will likely follow suit. During the big blackout of 2003 a lot of random people just walked out into the streets when the lights went off and directed traffic until a cop showed up. Things proceeded nice and orderly, all things considered.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Yep. Several times. ;-)
BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: It’s an infrequent occurrence, the costs outweigh the benefits.
Botsplainer
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Al Franken was an actor as well – not just a sketch comedian.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I was at a friend’s 30th birthday party one time and there was a toast.
30 is “gay dead,” for those of you who didn’t know.
“Ashes to ashes, twinks to bears…”
Botsplainer
@Splitting Image:
Frankly, you could probably get people to volunteer for doing that short term for free. People love doing that sort of thing – it’s fun.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Being gay is more complicated than I realized.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Botsplainer: Baggage handler 1(or 2) in Trading Places.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: The Onion reports…
BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: This is much too complicated, I’ll stay straight.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Ha! I learned something from America’s finest news source.
What animal are you?
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
It’s a choice!
Mustang Bobby
@Major Major Major Major:
So true. But they always want you to buy them stuff.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Otter.
Actual term by the way, The Onion only made up like a third of those.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That’s what my Republican betters tell me.
JPL
I advise against Paul’s drinking game. I’m not sure that even if you replaced it liquid with water, I fear you’d drown.
Cervantes
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Someone — Gimlet? — suggested watching with a pile of rolled-up socks beside you, instead of bottles.
Personally, I wouldn’t watch if they paid me to. Life is simply too short.
PaulW
Salut, Don Anne.
After finding out the final line-up for Thursday, I re-edited the drinking game and added a few more late-minute zingers based on some of the faux pas (except for Jeb’s recent anti-women thing) building up over the week. Thanks for posting the link.
There’s a link on that article to a site – Crazy Eddie’s Motie Blog – that’s promoting customized Trump drinks for the drinking game. We are promised custom drinks for the other GOP doombringers, so keep an eye open.
Yatsuno
@Betty Cracker: If you ever want to drive your more racist relatives nuts, mention the traffic light was invented by an African-American. I guarantee hilarity will ensue.
With that, I’m going back to bed. See y’all in a few hours.
Cervantes
@Major Major Major Major:
Saki did that one story about a talking cat.
Of course, speech and sentience don’t always go together.
MattF
@Cervantes: And, you’ll be reading all about it for a week afterwards whether or not anything interesting happens. That’s the real time sink.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Cervantes:
@PaulW: The throwing bottles at the TV seemed pretty extreme, sort of like shooting the messenger.
PaulW
@JPL:
True: Water Toxicity is real. You drink too much water, you can die from that…
PaulW
@Yatsuno:
And with that, traffic accidents at stoplights went up 38 percent (68 percent in South Carolina).
PaulW
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
A man makes a startling discovery about his parents.
Major Major Major Major
@PaulW: Upon further inspection, it turns out they’re just as human as he is and it’s not really that startling. Everybody makes mistakes.
Major Major Major Major
@PaulW: Wait I got one! “A stranger comes to town.”
We could also try “boy meets girl.”
Cervantes
@Betty Cracker:
Inertia — and cost to some extent.
Solar installations usually come with a battery back-up for night or other exigencies. They usually use low-power light, such as LEDs.
Nor do existing installations always have to be replaced. Some can be upgraded to add solar and battery.
raven
Aw grubs again
grumble grumble. . .
NotMax
Repeating.
Figure the chances are about 60/40 that one of the FOX “moderators” will ask for a show of hands from those on the stage who are packing heat.
That such a happenstance could even be considered seriously is a sick, sad* statement on what we have become.
*h/t to Daria‘s “Sick, Sad World.”
Randy P
@BillinGlendaleCA: Along with, as I recall, his SNL partner Davis.
I don’t know how Franken is in standup. I know he’s talked about doing USO tours. I thought the Franken and Davis sketches were tiresome, but since he had a great if short-lived radio show on Air America and he is absolutely brilliant as an author and senator (as far as I know), I guess he can be forgiven.
Heh. My phone keeps wanting to correct Franken to Frankenstein.
MattF
Jeb! says he ‘misspoke’ on women’s health. And then he retracted ‘misspoke’. Or his handlers did. Or something.
satby
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Thanks for that Scott. Important to know and share.
NotMax
@raven
“This life-size replica of the Taj Mahal, made entirely of oleomargarine, is the home of our guru. Let’s knock on the door and see if he’s in.”
*Ploop. ploop*
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Cervantes: To amplify your answer a bit:
Old traffic lights use incandescent light bulbs. They take a lot of power for the light they put out. LED replacement lamps are much more common now, and take much less power. Battery backups for incandescent lamps wouldn’t last very long so wouldn’t be worth the purchase and installation costs. LED lamps make thinking about battery backups much more attractive.
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@Randy P
Among my contemporaries, whenever Franken & Davis came on, it was a cue for a potty break or else a sojourn to forage through the fridge.
satby
@Cervantes: Safest thing for the TV is to just say no. No, nyet, no way Jose. Not watching, because the purported entertainment value is always outweighed by the horror of realizing there are people who would actually vote for any of those clowns because of the R next to their name on a ballot.
debbie
@MattF:
I bet Mitt’s boiling over with rage that the GOP insisted he step aside for Jeb. I can’t remember the bit but I remember the line: “How can I be losing to this guy?”
BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major:
Seventeen strangers come to town, a horror story.
debbie
@satby:
I bet it’ll be fun to follow the debate on Twitter.
Cervantes
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Yes. And solar-rechargeable batteries can be — have been — retro-fitted to some incandescents. As you can imagine, over-arching principles are secondary: what’s feasible is extremely location-specific.
raven
@NotMax: Fucker would melt here in about 2 minutes!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Randy P: Yup, Tom Davis was the other baggage handler. I liked Al’s “One man satellite reporter”, I think, in the 1988 campaign.
BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: It was 1988, Jon Levit was playing Dukakus and it was a reference to HW Bush.
Cervantes
@satby:
You say sooth.
debbie
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Right, with Dana Carvey. I was thinking Chevy Chase’s Ford.
Germy Shoemangler
@MattF: “Misheard” “Misspoke” A few months ago, someone here predicted we’d be hearing these words every day in the Jeb campaign.
Karen S.
I read some of the comments on the NYT story about Fox’s GOP clown car “debate.” Many of the ones I saw were of the pointing and laughing variety. Occasionally, a conservative marched into the comments, confident in their rectitude and Real True American status, to sneer at those doing the pointing and laughing, threatening to cast progressives off to their own enclave where, conservatives imagine, progressives will trash the U.S. Constitution. A few offered that John Kasich really does have the best chance at the nomination. At least one conservative insisted that the GOP presidential candidates are not going to do what they say they’re going to do.
Overall, my trip through the comments on that story was at turns hilarious and sobering. A capital way to start the day!
WereBear
Anne Laurie, it sounds like pica? In case this helps:
Cats and Hair Ties: What is pica?
satby
@Karen S.: When I remonstrate with people who insist on voting R because “tradition” or “fiscal responsibility” I often get told that the clowns in the car don’t really intend to do some of what they say they will, like privatize SS. They just say that but don’t mean it, but the Rs will quit giving money to the undeserving.
It’s just bizarre reasoning, but it comes up too often to be coincidental.
ThresherK (GPad)
@Cervantes: We named a cat Tobermory for that story.
And George Murphy goes on the list of actor/pols.
Matt McIrvin
@debbie: I think it was Jon Lovitz playing Michael Dukakis on Saturday Night Live in 1988.
Randy P
Special election result. I knew last night that Democrat Leanne Krueger-Braneky had won in a special State House election in PA in my district.
What I didn’t know but learned from a party e-mail this morning is that our state house district was gerrymandered to be R+15. So this is a BFD.
Krueger-Braneky won by 6 points, 48-42%. There was a third candidate, Lisa something, a conservative who was running a very aggressive write-in campaign. Perhaps that’s where the other 10% went. But I’ve also seen the statement here that these gerrymandered majorities are fragile, though I forget how that theory works.
rikyrah
and you thought it would be any different?
…………..
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/4/15
Fox News rigs debate to hide close call, RNC allows it
Rachel Maddow points out that Fox News violated their own debate qualification criteria by ignoring the fifth most recent poll and instead taking the sixth, with the result being a greater distinction between tenth and eleventh place, Kasich and Perry. Duration: 13:35
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fox-news-rigs-debate-to-hide-close-call-498639427657
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone :)
rikyrah
Idris Elba Makes History as First Male ‘Maxim’ Cover (Photo)
https://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2350/8725/original.jpg
Actor Idris Elba graces the cover of Maxim’s September issue, the first solo-male cover in the history of the men’s publication.
Wearing a dark coat alongside the caption, “Man Up,” Elba’s cover differs significantly from Maxim’s usual covers, which usually features scantily clad women.
“We’ve never in U.S. Maxim history had a man on the cover solo,” new editor-in-chief Kate Lanphear told Racked. “This is the very first time, and there was no one else in the world more badass than Idris.”
Elba is the perfect embodiment of what Lanphear wanted a man on the cover to be: “He’s multi-dimensional, he’s complex, he’s sophisticated, but he’s down to earth. It was funny when on set, I was like, ‘Is there anything this guy can’t do?’ He’s an award-winning actor, he’s a DJ, his capsule clothing line for Superdry is about to hit stores. The guy broke the [British] land speed record, which hasn’t been touched since like 1928. He’s sort of a living, breathing superhero.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/idris-elba-makes-history-as-first-male-%e2%80%98maxim%e2%80%99-cover-photo/ar-BBlp3uk?ocid=HPCDHP
bemused
@satby:
I agree. I’ve noticed the same reasoning often. They have different ways of expressing that reasoning but they do believe that they are the hard-working deserving who pulled themselves up by their own awesome selves and they won’t be affected at all. It’s just those useless laggers who will be culled from the herd preserving the prime stock.
Delusional.
Karen S.
@satby:
Maybe it’s the notion that politicians, especially when they’re campaigning, promise to do all sorts of things, but once elected never deliver on their promises that conservatives base their reasoning on? I just don’t know.
Gin & Tonic
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Interesting other fact about the LED traffic lights, though, for those of us in northern climes. Incandescent traffic light were essentially self-clearing of snow/ice accumulation in most cases, as the heat of the bulb would melt the blockage. LED traffic lights generate hardly any heat, and are far more prone to being blocked by snow/ice.
Gin & Tonic
@Germy Shoemangler: We sometimes have TV news on as background noise. Yesterday, as something was said about Jeb and “misspoke”, the Mrs G&T, who barely follows this stuff at all, blurted out “Again?!”
rikyrah
this is what I’ve been saying…he’s not appealing to a sliver of the GOP. He’s straight in the MAINSTREAM GOP.
……………………….
It’s Wrong to Call Donald Trump a ‘Fringe’ Candidate
A new Bloomberg Politics poll of Republican and Republican-leaning voters demolishes the claim that he appeals to mouth-breathing xenophobes and nobody else.
Donald Trump’s rise to a position of total dominance in the Republican presidential field has been accompanied by a dismissive snort from Beltway mandarins that Trump is merely a “fringe” candidate. The idea, in essence, is that Trump has a strong but narrow appeal to a group of mouth-breathing xenophobes and practically nobody else.
But a new Bloomberg Politics poll of Republican and Republican-leaning voters demolishes this claim. Trump not only laps the competition—he has twice the support of the second-place candidate, Jeb Bush (21 percent to 10 percent)—but he also leads among every demographic subgroup, but one (self-identified “moderates”).
Let’s break it down. Trump leads with male voters (Trump 24 percent, Bush 11 percent, Walker 10 percent) and female voters (Trump 18 percent, Bush 10 percent, Huckabee 10 percent). He leads with voters younger than 45 (Trump 15 percent, Bush 10 percent, Rubio and Paul at 9 percent) and voters older than 45 (Trump 25 percent, Bush 11 percent, Walker 9 percent) and seniors (Trump 23 percent, Bush 14 percent, Walker 9 percent).
Trump wins voters with no more than a high school degree (Trump 27 percent, Huckabee 13 percent, Bush 11 percent) and voters with a college degree (Trump 19 percent, Walker 12 percent, Bush 11 percent). He leads among affluent voters who earn $100,000 or more annually (Trump 18 percent, Bush 14 percent, Walker 13 percent) and those who make less than $50,000 a year (Trump 19 percent, Bush 11 percent, Walker 9 percent).
The thrice-married Trump, who recently told a Christian forum that he “never” asks God for forgiveness, wins “born-again” voters (Trump 16 percent, Huckabee 14 percent), as well as Catholics (Trump 27 percent, Rubio 9 percent) and Protestants (Trump 18 percent, Bush 12 percent). And he also wins “Tea Party” conservatives (Trump 24 percent, Walker 11 percent).
The only demographic category Trump does not win is self-professed moderate voters. But even here, Trump who is often said to horrify moderate Republicans, is a narrow second choice: Bush leads with 20 percent, followed by Trump with 19 percent. Nobody else is even close.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-04/it-s-wrong-to-call-trump-a-fringe-candidate
rikyrah
they’ve found Dorothy!
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NBC’s ‘The Wiz Live!’ Has Found Its Dorothy
Photo of Tambay A. Obenson
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
August 5, 2015 at 8:26AM
It was in May when NBC has announced an open casting call for the lead role of Dorothy in the network’s upcoming holiday special “The Wiz Live!,” set to air on Thursday, Dec. 3.
Revealed this morning, just moments ago, on NBC’s “The Today Show,” newcomer Shanice Williams has been cast as Dorothy, beating out the competition. This could be the break of a lifetime for the actress/singer.
Williams joins David Alan Grier, who will play the Cowardly Lion; Queen Latifah stars as the Wiz; Mary J. Blige will play Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West; and Stephanie Mills (who played Dorothy in the original Broadway production of “The Wiz”) will portray Auntie Em in NBC’s December production.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/nbcs-the-wiz-live-has-found-its-dorothy-20150805
Cervantes
@Gin & Tonic:
Extremely location-specific.
Germy Shoemangler
@Gin & Tonic:
So do we, usually while waiting for Jeopardy or something.
And the subliminal murmur is always “Hillary… investigation… emails… slipping” and “Jeb Bush… facing challenge… strong… misspoke… powerful…”
I have to assume the vast majority of american citizens who bother to vote don’t read Charles Pierce or Balloon-Juice. They just go with their gut, and their guts have been fed by TV background noise.
And I think the ratfuckers know this.
Germy Shoemangler
@Randy P: I think Franken captured the ’80s perfectly when he did the Al Franken decade on SNL. He captured the smarmy egotism of every young boss/middle manager I ever had in the 1980s.
Germy Shoemangler
speaking of every boss/middle manager I ever had, here’s a site that specializes in bullshit jobs:
http://www.bullshitjob.com
ThresherK
@rikyrah: David Alan Grier has some serious musical theater chops. He starred in “The First”, a musical about Jackie Robinson. I caught him in “Forum” and he was a hoot.
This bodes well. Especially that Dorothy is not going to be 25 years old in this version.
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: Fascinating. Thanks, rikyrah.
Interesting to me that even “moderate” GOP who don’t like him choose Trump over Scott Walker.
@Germy Shoemangler: You are so right about the subliminal Hillary Clinton messages. Emails, she’s so untrustworthy.
CNN does it all the time. Turned them off this morning when they got to the Jon King segment (although he’s odious no matter what the topic).
Did you happen to notice the NYTimes headline last week: Koch Brothers Brave Spotlight to Try to Alter Their Image
They could have removed “Brave Spotlight to” and accurately portrayed their reporting.
Ruckus
@Germy Shoemangler:
Read the first page. Sounds like people who lead with their gut. What little energy that is diverted to their brain must be being used for deciding what to have for lunch.
shell
Now that the Mighty Ten have been chosen, Im having second thoughts about watching. Don’t know if I can stand looking at that row of smug pusses.
satby
@Major Major Major Major: I hope you’re doing OK in spite of the manic cycle thing. Sounds like you’ve kept a handle on it. Hang in there! Cycles change!
debbie
@rikyrah:
This has long been the GOP’s MO: Say it and it will be so. Remember Karl’s Rove disbelief when Ohio went for Obama in 2012?
satby
@bemused: @Karen S.: I think it’s both those things: that the average stubbornly R voter is too self obviously deserving to be threatened with policies that would penalize people just like them but brown.
And that politicians just say any old BS to get elected and don’t mean any of it, so why pay attention to policies they propose? Much less work to understand how any specific policy will affect them? Try to help them think through what they’re actually supporting with their votes and you’re a naive liberal stooge (just got called that yesterday).
Cervantes
@Germy Shoemangler:
And they count on it.
Cervantes
@ThresherK (GPad):
I trust you’re having better luck with your Tobermory than the Blemleys did with theirs!
Mark
Nice Kitty. HaHaHa!
ed
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-official-gop-debate-drinking-game-rules-20150805
Official Rolling Stone Rules
bemused
@satby:
They don’t want to know. They have their rock hard belief of how the world works and they won’t accept anything else to the contrary.
Paul in KY
@Randy P: Great to hear that!
Elizabelle
Woo hoo! Richard Mayhew makes the LA Times business section!!
Richard Mayhew gets a shoutout in the Los Angeles Times yesterday. From their Pulitzer-Prize winning business columnist, Michael Hiltzik. Pleasure to find this in my FB feed.
Another benefit of Obamacare you probably didn’t know about
Maybe prepare for fresh readers? And fresh trolls?
PaulW
DAMN. I am getting competition for Google hits.
PaulW
@ed:
pfft. Weak tea. Mine’s funnier.
Brachiator
@Elizabelle:
Very cool. Thanks for pointing this out to us.
Ironically, when there was a high level of full-time employment, this was perceived to be a good thing.
Tom
@Elizabelle: Speaking of ‘newsertainment’ (h/t Stephen Colbert), we turned on the TV this morning to find a Today show host asking REINCE PRIEBUS about whether Joe Biden will be running for president.
We immediately switched over to the Stephanie Miller Show.
Elizabelle
@Tom: I’m considering writing the BBC America head of programming and begging them to bring back their early morning news program. BBC over US news media, any day. Plus: there’s a world out there. More topics than Trump and missing airliners …
PaulW
Woo-hoo. I F-CKING LOVE YOU GUYS.
JustRuss
Anybody been to LGM today? They’ve redesigned the site and it does not seem to be going well. Couldn’t load comments 30 minutes ago, now I can’t even get to the main page.
JustRuss
@BillinGlendaleCA: One of my favorite SNL moments. Carvey had just spouted some G.H.W. Bush “1000 points of light” word salad, and Lovitz’ response was perfect.
Sondra
My cat loves shower water. He will actually get in the shower with me – Afterwards he laps up whatever he can from the shower floor.