*Not* one of the more successful Shakespearian updates…
Making everyone who works for me stand up one by one during a press conference and state that I was Not Mad during the meeting I stormed out of and have spent the last 36 hours complaining about
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) May 23, 2019
Hogan Gidley wasn’t even in the room for the meeting, but still attested to the president’s composure.
Larry Kudlow, leaned on a cane as he limped to the front of the room to tell his boss, in front of television cameras, “You were very calm.” https://t.co/Hli4ewYuf8
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) May 24, 2019
In DC, every week is #infrastructureweek and every day is Festivus
— JA Sobczyk (@Joenewsguy) May 22, 2019
Somebody knows where to slip the shiv…
"He says he's in charge. And I suspect, he may be," Pelosi says on Trump. "I don't think any responsible assistant to the president of the United States would have advised him to do what he did yesterday."
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) May 23, 2019
Pelosi on Trump’s refusal to work on an infrastructure deal:
“Maybe he wasn’t up to the greatness of the challenge.”
Poor guy. He’s #InfrastructureWeak.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 22, 2019
Trump’s problem is that Pelosi has framed the current kerfuffle as a question of maturity, and that’s a frame that the #ToddlerInChief can never win. https://t.co/7DZjT73MWc
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 23, 2019
Pro tip: if you have a track record of throwing temper tantrums and engaging in self-destructive behavior, it’s tough to convince people that you’re angry but in control and consciously, intentionally engaged in self-destructive behavior.
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 23, 2019
6. A few weeks ago, he met with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. They discussed a bipartisan plan to spend about $2 trillion on infrastructure, which is not something the Republicans want to do, but in any case, Trump was receptive. Things looked good. Yesterday was the follow-up.
— John Stoehr's Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) May 23, 2019
8. “I’ve said from the beginning … that you probably can’t go down two tracks,” he said. “You can’t go down the investigation track, and you can’t go down the investment track—or the track of ‘Let’s get things done for the American people.’” Those were his terms.
— John Stoehr's Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) May 23, 2019
9. Trump demanded the Democrats stop investigating him in exchange for $2 trillion. His thinking was transparent. The Democrats wanted something. So he felt he had the advantage.
— John Stoehr's Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) May 23, 2019
11. In other words, Trump came off not only as a petulant child but one trying to force the Democrats into doing something they’d never do. The president has learned nothing from the fight over the government shutdown.
— John Stoehr's Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) May 23, 2019
i do not disagree with this sentiment but can u imagine walking into an intervention and fuckin jared is sitting there https://t.co/yshGUxwRxE
— darth™ (@darth) May 23, 2019
No. Defamation requires a statement of provable fact. No reasonable person would take the President's yawp as provable fact, as opposed to unstable emotive hyperbole for the benefit of his illiterate ego and the gibbering moral cretins who support him.https://t.co/xw2oM4YECL
— ExtremelyCalmHat (@Popehat) May 23, 2019
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
rikyrah
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Uh uh uh??
Suzanne
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I wonder if this is how the rightward shift of the world begins to reverse itself.
What a cornflake.
rikyrah
Dolt45 is now out here tweeting a doctored video of Nancy Smash????
plato
brexshit begets Mayexit.
plato
Suzanne
I wonder how many times Boris is gonna get milkshaked in the next few weeks.
Also, I just taught my tablet that “milkshaked” is a word.
rikyrah
I believe that every time Nancy Smash is in front of the camera, she takes on the tone and mannerisms of an Italian Big Mama who is constantly disappointed in a loser grandchild. She completely infantilizes him, not in the way to excuse him, but to fully point out his inadequacies.. All of us have been on receiving end of this kind of belittling from an Elder at sometime in our lives. Thing is, we were probably between the ages of 15-25 when it happened..and we learned from it. He is a 70+ year old man, which makes him look even more pathetic, and he knows it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Suzanne: No, Fascism can never fail, it can only be failed.
Brachiator
The Republicans are desperately trying to push the narrative that “both sides” are being childish, and a recent CNN story about Trump’s antics takes the bait and wonders whether the American people will be disgusted by this Beltway exchange of insults. This nonsense keeps ignoring the fact that Trump’s actions precede from his resentment and insecurities, and that he simply cannot tolerate defiance, especially from a woman. He sets the tone and is the primary author of any ugliness oozing out of Washington.
Look for Trump to become even more defensive as investigations build up. He is going to try to rule by executive order and bypass Congress as much as possible.
OT: Theresa May is resigning on June 7. One of her last official duties will be to host Trump during his state visit to the UK.
Boris Johnson, who is like Trump in some ways, will be one of the people vying to replace May. The next Conservative leader will probably push the UK towards a no deal BREXIT. Corbyn will try to push for a general election, but will be rebuffed. Advantage Tories.
What a mess on both sides of the Atlantic.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
New Hampshire Poll – Tel Opinion Research – 5/22 (link)
Uncle Joe……. 33%
Wilmer………… 12%
Warren……….. 11%
Pete…………….. 7%
Kamala………… 7%
In a 2-way race
Uncle Joe……. 66%
Wilmer………… 22%
Wilmer won his neighboring state 3 years ago with 60% of the vote and now he’s dropped to 22%.
Feel the burn!
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?
Seems like a lot of people have joined the insomniacs brigade. As long as Dolt45 is squatting in the Oval Office it feels like no one will ever get a restful night of sleep again.
satby
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I’ll only be happy when Wilmer polls last. No, I’ll be happy when the old idiot shuffles off to a private life and never is seen in my TV or in the news again. Talk about past the sell-by date.
rikyrah
@satby:
Morning satby.
I have been up since two something. Going to try and get a few minutes more sleep, if I can.??
Brachiator
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Balloon Juice posters: “I hate how the devilish MSM insists on horserace reporting about the presidential…ooh, a new poll!”
Wake me when we get to the first primary election. I do enjoy how Wilmer is flailing, but otherwise the polling is most important to political insiders.
Brachiator
@satby:
It’s weird. I woke up here in California after some fitful sleep, turned to my browser and saw stories about Trump and then PM Theresa May’s resignation.
I need to try to get back to sleep.
satby
@rikyrah: Good luck!
@Brachiator: you too!
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Insomnia is not for the weak.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Brachiator: I waiting for the Iowa Fair and the fried mac and cheese with maple bacon bits and spicy cream sauce.
satby
Completely not about politics, but an FYI to my fellow bread machine users: wonder no more (as if you ever did) about whether you can substitute wine making yeast for bread making yeast. You can! And your molasses-oatmeal bread will have the delightful crisp dryness of a fine brut.
Seriously, the bread’s fine but not the slightest molecule of sugar can be detected. And I put both molasses and regular sugar in it to offset the wine yeast. I wouldn’t have done it at all, but the ingredients were already in the pan before I realized I was out of bread yeast.
NotMax
Couple of items which caught the eye.
1) Moon man craters. That was quick.
2) Nothing can go wrong … go wrong … go wrong.
“Don’t raise your voice to me, hoo-man. Just for that, Alexa has ordered $2000 worth of stuff you don’t want. And none of it is returnable. So there.”
OzarkHillbilly
Some days the headlines are so painful I can’t read anymore than that. Then I find Midnight Cowboy at 50: why the X-rated best picture winner endures. Finally something that doesn’t send my blood pressure thru the roof.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I hear you! Been since 3:15 am for me. Even the dogs won’t get up before 4:30.
NotMax
@David Merry Christmas Koch
Blech blech blech. At least could you stop calling him Uncle Joe?
That was what Stalin was called.
BC in Illinois
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
This means that Theresa May can welcome Donald Trump on June 3 and they can share stories of failure and unpopularity.
Then, it seems, Trump and new Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be able to bond over the joys of insulting allies and bringing disrepute to their respective nations.
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Wow. He was moon walked out of the building.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax:
Recognize this motherfucker! (grabs the baseball bat)
Brachiator
@BC in Illinois:
Man of the posh people Jacob Rees-Mogg will also be a candidate for new Tory PM. This guy is almost a caricature of an upper class twit. He named one of his kids Sixtus, for God’s sake.
I’m hoping that a relative unknown compromise candidate is selected.
Baud
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Maxit!
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Brachiator:
Does he wear a monocle? That would be cool.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Except that Voight is a fucking pig.
NotMax
So, if you happen to have some excess brain cells you want to shrivel up, TCM’s Underground is scraping the underside of the bottom of the barrel of holiday movies during the wee hours later on.
Beginning Saturday at 2 a.m. Eastern:
Santa Claus – Santa + Merlin vs. Satan.
A Visit to Santa – Enough to make one long for home movies of Great-aunt Grizelda’s trip to Walmart for Preparation H instead.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians – really nuthin’ more to say, is there?
:·P
Dorothy A. Winsor
We’re up and packing to go to WisCon. Back Sunday, assuming we haven’t fallen into a Mad Max world by that point.
NotMax
@Brachiator
I still maintain the name sounds like a politician conjured up by Lovecraft.
raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Door County?
MomSense
Another wide awake at 3:00 a.m. for me.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
What fun is it if they took away the Sin?
;)
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: It’s not my favorite movie, but Ratso Rizzo is one of my all time favorite characters, and I’m not a big Dustin Hoffman fan.
JPL
@MomSense: I woke at three but managed to fall back asleep until 5:30 Yeah for me! My company is still sleeping.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: His performance was amazing.
different-church-lady
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: In Russia, burn feel you.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I think it’s a great movie and so is Coming Home and Conrack is well done. He’s still a fucking pig.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Ratso Rizzo is what Benjamin Braddock became after the plastics firm went belly up.
;)
different-church-lady
@NotMax: It’s like they’ve never even heard of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: It is a great movie, it’s just so dawgdamned depressing that once every 10 years is enough for me. Voight is always a pig, but he can act when he puts his mind to it.
NotMax
FYI.
From reading the article, Lt. Col. Otter would have no trouble finding a sinecure in the Dolt 45 maladministration.
Bobby Thomson
@Suzanne:
That boy brings all the milkshakes to the yard.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
You want depressing? Try enduring it three or four times a night for three months while ushering.
(Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt.)
;)
OzarkHillbilly
A picture is worth a thousand words: Climbers queue on Mount Everest on Wednesday.
Bobby Thomson
@OzarkHillbilly: Deliverance. And I, too, smell bacon.
kd bart
It’s a West Wing full of Mr. Bernsteins without one Jed Leland.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Suicide is an option I’d probably consider but I think quitting my job is what I’d choose instead.
Ken
@NotMax: Have you read any of Charles Stross’ Laundry stories?
NotMax
Related:
Volunteers Remove 3 Tons of Trash From Mount Everest in Two Weeks
Cheryl Rofer
NotMax
@Ken
Nope. Ought I?
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: It’s a mess up there, an unbelievable mess.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: Never got around to watching it and you folks aren’t helping me decide to queue it up. I don’t deal well with depressing movies, especially right now.
Love that Harry Nilsson song from the movie though.
Betty Cracker
@Brachiator: There’s no contradiction there, IMO. It’s a disservice to the public for the mainstream media to devote 5% of coverage to policy and 95% to horse race bullshit. But at a blog that focuses on politics and is largely populated by commenters who are political junkies, of course early polls are fodder for discussion.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
“Edmund Hillary’s Frozen Feces Reveal He Suffered From STD”
:)
NotMax
@Ceci n est pas mon nym
Worthwhile though uneven documentary, Who is Harry Nilsson? (And Why Is Everyone Talkin’ About Him) on Prime. Also free (with ads) on Tubi TV.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Everybody’s Talkin’ is a great song.
Baud
Trust nothing.
NotMax
@NotMax
trailer
MomSense
@JPL:
No such luck here. I couldn’t go back to sleep. I’ve been having a lot of anxiety lately. I’m hoping some garden time this weekend will help.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It’s just for the rubes.
debbie
@rikyrah:
I wonder if that video would qualify as defamation (based on the definition in that tweet up top).
Ixnay
@OzarkHillbilly: Not exactly the experience I’m seeking when out hiking.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
That one is. Don’t you think they also spread misinformation directed to our sensibilities?
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
“I’m walkin’ here!”
Raven
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I just could not place THAT song from Russian Doll!
Harry Nilsson – Gotta Get Up
Kay
I can’t believe they’re going to say this exact same thing again. None of the other candidates who are at 1% or less say this and there are something like 7 of them. Gabbard apparently looks at all the people in her 1% bracket and thinks “I am far superior to them, and BUT FOR this persecution I would be competitive”
The truth is if their 2016 theory was correct Bernie Sanders should be doing better, and that’s been clear for months. He should have started higher. His support dramatically dropped from 2016 to 2019. It went down when it should have stayed even or gone up.
Ken
@NotMax: I recommend them, if you like Lovecraft – albeit in a modern-day setting – and/or spy novels. He also has one of the most horrific takes on vampirism I’ve ever come across.
The one problem is that he’s up to about eight novels and a bunch of short stories, so it represents a significant investment of time.
debbie
@NotMax:
That is good news. I have always hated the way climbers have thoughtlessly not cleaned up after themselves. I believe they charge fees for climbing there. All of it should be going to maintain the landscape.
NotMax
@Nilsson
As Nilsson was brought up, zone out on this for a few minutes to get the ol’ blood pressure down.
NotMax
Senior moment. Fix.
@MomSense
As Nilsson was brought up, zone out on this for a few minutes to get the ol’ blood pressure down.
OzarkHillbilly
From Morrissey posters banned by Liverpool’s Merseyrail transport network
Hmmmm, Morrisey strikes me as quite sincere in his racism, nothing pseudo at all as far as I can see.
debbie
@Baud:
Imagine the videos that could be made about Trump’s mannerisms!
Kay
@Baud:
The selective declassification by Barr is going to be wild. Our gross, embarassingly corrupt hack of an AG is going to pick and choose what to keep classified and what to release based on whether it’s good for Trump or not.
There won’t be any context and he’ll keep back the parts that go against Trump’s interests or contradict Trump’s claims.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Absolutely. Just pointing out how hamhanded that one is.
Baud
@Kay:
Is that what all the cool authoritarians call campaigning now?
NotMax
@Raven
Imagine if he wrote the score for Hamilton.
;)
Baud
@Kay:
Oh , absolutely. But I think it’ll hurt them when it comes to resisting the House’s subpeonas.
Immanentize
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: It’s a great movie. Ratso Rizzo is one of the best characters on the big screen, IMO. It’s depressing, like many love stories….
But if I had to do what NotMax did, I might burn the theatre instead of the T-Shirt.
PS. Where is Tony Jay when we need him (her?)
JeanneT
I am starting to think the Pelosi-Trump relationship has the makings of a drama – or an opera. Should there still be a civilization in 100 years, it sure will be interesting for creators to mine the historical video footage to work from.
Baud
@Kay:
BTW, I can understand why Taibbi would write that about Bernie, who is at least competitive right now. That he felt the need to discuss Tulsi suggests a non-journalistic agenda on his part.
Spanky
@satby:
I woke last night to the sound of catpuking.
How far off? I sat and wondered.
Then I made the mistake of checking BJ on my phone and saw Adam’s post on Barr’s declassification authority. Having had some skin in that game for the past 20 years made falling back to sleep … a tad difficult.
What a time to be alive!
So far.
MomSense
@NotMax:
That is nice and calming. I was going to go back to a knitting project I had put down but after about 10 minutes I realized why I put it down and ended up frogging it. Splitting yarn and lace is not a good combination.
Kay
@Baud:
Tim Ryan doesn’t say he’s being treated unfairly. He’s about as competitive as she is. There’s something insanely egotistical about attributing every failure to personal persecution. Why would she be more competitive than all the other house members/governors/former governors running? Just as a generic question? What sets her apart and indicates she should be in the top tier? If she’s supposed to be there why isn’t Cory Booker supposed to be there?
Their whole theory is “our candidates will be more popular”. That has to actually happen.
NotMax
@Immanentize
And people wonder why projectionists were prolific drinkers.
;)
Ixnay
@NotMax: I was hoping for “Coconut.”
low-tech cyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
If I’d ever had the urge to climb Everest, that pic would have fixed it for sure.
I mean, why would I want to go to the Ceiling of the World just to stand in a freakin’ line behind a hundred or so other people? And for the privilege of being able to claim, “I climbed Everest, just like hundreds of other people did, that very same day.” Did something special, I did! And paid tens of thousands of dollars, and ran a nontrivial risk of death, just for that privilege.
Kay
@Baud:
Well, the article is a disjointed mess if that explains anything. He throws Bernie in there to make it look like a conspiracy, but he strangely omits all the candidates who are at Tulsi levels of support along with Tulsi.
OzarkHillbilly
It’s a start anyway: Media outlets follow Guardian to reconsider language on climate
I had no idea ‘circumspect’ was a synonym for ‘cowardly’.
low-tech cyclist
@Kay: Kinda like how Nixon was planning to use the tapes.
Immanentize
@Raven: Oh my!
And I have a Nilsson greatest hits vinyl and Gotta Get Up isn’t on it.
Thanks
(I really like that show, haven’t seen season 2, but will miss “Sweet Birthday Baby”)
Immanentize
@JeanneT:
Yes but will it end up comedy or tragedy?
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
Because she’s Tulsi, of course.
Kay
@Baud:
They have a bigger problem when including Bernie in the group of Russian interference denialists. Bernie isn’t one. Bernie has made strong statements about Russian interference. Bernie never denounced the Mueller investigation as a witchhunt. Bernie is solidly in the D mainstream as far as Russian interference.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: C) Both
NotMax
@Immanentize
Still somewhat taken aback (though not, I admit, shocked) that our own Goku admitted a while back he had never so much as heard of Nilsson.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Her opposition to the Deep State/imperialism was supposed to be what set her APART. It was what would draw voters TO her. Other than that she has no claim to fame- she’s one of the D House members. She has no other defining issue or distinction. If she isn’t drawing voters with that there’s no reason to vote for her over any of the rest of the bottom tier.
Immanentize
@NotMax:
I think Goku is quite young? It’s like knowing about Wings but not the Beatles?
Immanentize
@Kay:
I thought her platform was
“We ❤️ Bashar”
Gelfling 545
@Suzanne: Or “milkshaken”? “Milkshook”?
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: She would be sooo disappointed to hear you say that.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
I take it back. You can’t even vote for her based on her being a D House member, so therefore presumably sharing the general Democratic platform. She has no issue positions on her website. She has a biography. She’s a surfer and she believes in love as opposed to believing in hate, I guess.
So really if you’re a Democratic primary voter and opposition to the deep state and imperialism don’t grab you and you’re instead looking to vote on health care or something you’d be better off with Tim Ryan. Who also won’t win.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gelfling 545: Milkshaken: What Nigel Farage was when his bus was suddenly surrounded by milkshakes in the hands of unhappy people.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Kay is just trying to sandbag her.
I do like how she conflates Bernie with herself. It is actually a clever bit of space grabbing.
NotMax
@Immanentize
Yeah, very young. But he’s said he knows from the Fab Four.
@Ixnay
Ask and ye shall receive.
:)
(And let’s hear it for the homage to Ernie Kovacs’ Nairobi trio!)
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Stop beating around the tulsi bush Kay, tell us how you really feel.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
We in the Hawaiian 2nd CD apologize. Profusely. Gabbard is what results from crawling over broken glass.
Immanentize
@Ixnay: @NotMax:
Kermit Coconut
OzarkHillbilly
‘Phenomenal’ 2,300-year-old bark shield found in Leicestershire
Kay
@Immanentize:
The Sanders supporters here are disappointed Bernie isn’t doing better, but they won’t admit that, so they have turned their ire on Pelosi who won’t impeach according to their specific timeline. I am so fucking sick of sore losers and know it alls. Their campaign against Pelosi coincides exactly with Bernie stalling in support. I don’t think “movement” is even about Bernie Sanders anymore. He’s become this symbol of their disappointment where they attribute positions to him he doesn’t even hold.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Does anyone “sandbag” anymore?
I thought “milkshaking” is current rage.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: He’s always been a symbol, usually for the perceived ‘fecklessness’ of the Democratic party. Or maybe it’s the ‘inherent corruption’ of the Democratic party.
Immanentize
@Kay:
That is a very good insight.
I never got why people thought Trump voters would like Sanders. But you are right — both are the voices of their disappointments.
PenAndKey
@NotMax: so what exactly defines “very young” around here? I’d never given it much thought before but always presumed you all were roughly my own age. The occasional meet up pictures and medical talks have disabused me of that notion but now I’m curious.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well that will give the members of the Society of Creative Anachronism hours of new play challenges.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Always blew my mind to contemplate that finds like that are there because they were thrown away for being junk and may be the worst examples of the craft.
:)
Immanentize
@PenAndKey: Just speaking for myself, I would say that being in your mid-twenties is very young.
NotMax
@PenAndKey
Don’t suppose Goku would mind passing along his own revelation that he’s in his early twenties.
OzarkHillbilly
@PenAndKey: Never trust anyone under 50.
Gelfling 545
@Baud: Oh god! Bertie Wooster for PM? Let’s hope he brings Jeeves along.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: So became the motto of boomers on the day the first Yippie turned 31.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Obligatory?
:)
Gelfling 545
@Ken: Yes. I read on his Twitter feed that somebody has picked them up for a tv show. Can scarcely control my excitement.
Gelfling 545
@NotMax: Yes you’d ought.
NotMax
@Immanentize
Abbie Hoffman was 31 when he founded the Yippies.
:)
Gelfling 545
@OzarkHillbilly: Got to love it. Sub-species! People who were advancing civilization while his own ancestors were still leaping from tree to tree.
Immanentize
@NotMax:
Really? I am surprised by that. That wasn’t reported in “Do It”
NotMax
@Immanentize
He was born in 1936. Would have been almost old enough to run for president today.
;)
Gelfling 545
@PenAndKey: Let’s just say that there are more than a few who will take cracks at “Boomers” amiss. I’m nearly 70.
Immanentize
@NotMax: But, dead you know.
NotMax
@Immanentize
No constitutional requirement that a candidate be living.
;)
--bd
No one has even suggested that the Milkshaking of racists is related to @PixelatedBoat ‘s classic Milkshake Duck tweet?
Except it’s now, “Milkshake! Duck!”
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Immanentize: You have email (comic!).
Happy Holiday Weekend to all the jackals.
Immanentize
@NotMax:
Like Nixon’s head?
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: The Detectorists!
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly:
Fixed that 4u. Next up, Jerkoff Grees-Slogg…
Uncle Cosmo
Fuckit, in immoderation again.
Mnemosyne
@Gelfling 545:
Bertie was at least well-meaning and good-hearted.
They’re nominating Gussie Fink-Nottle, the snotty know-it-all. ?
J R in WV
@PenAndKey:
Very young would be Goku, who is a college student in Nursing, also works in a supermarket to minimize his student loan debt load,
I’m 68 years young, myself.
karen marie
@NotMax: That is not his best, in my opinion.
But it led me to this, which I’d never heard/seen before – “I’d Rather Be Dead (Than Wet My Bed)” – with a wonderful old people chorus.
Brachiator
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
It’s kinda funny. I hear this quite often from people, especially about movies. They strongly prefer movies with happy endings and characters they can root for.
It all comes down to taste and I can’t knock people’s preferences. But some of the most exhilarating movies I’ve ever seen are “sad or depressing.” Maybe it’s that catharsis thing that Aristotle wrote about.
I saw Midnight Cowboy at my college film society. Hoffman and Voight were electrifying and I can still recall scenes from the movie. Loved the music in the film. I cannot imagine not having seen it.
katdip
Can someone explain to me how the president (and the press that covers him) thinks it’s OK for him to insult anyone who disagrees with him (crazy Nancy, crying Chuck, etc.), and then has a hissy fit if someone slightly impugns his actions by using the word cover-up, which is not even a personal insult? It’s like 3rd grade girls, for FSM sake..
different-church-lady
@katdip: a) The president has the psyche of a ten year old.
B) the press is lazy and cable news loves a freak show.
different-church-lady
@karen marie: My goodness, that certainly is… “of its time” shall we say…
different-church-lady
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Listen to the strings: they hold one gorgeous chord from the intro all the way through the first verse. Ballsy.
different-church-lady
@Immanentize: you realize Wings itself has not been a going concern for nearly 40 years, yes?
Tehanu
@Ken: Oh yeah, the Laundry Files are great! The first three are (among other things) parodies, or maybe “homages” is a better word, because they’re not just parodies, of the spy novelists Len Deighton, Ian Fleming, and Anthony Price [my favorite spy author btw].