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You are here: Home / Climate Change / How about that weather? / Dorian, big and slow

Dorian, big and slow

by David Anderson|  August 31, 201911:06 am| 115 Comments

This post is in: How about that weather?, Open Threads

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11 AM Saturday NHC update:
Hurricane #Dorian stronger again up to 150 mph, nearing Category 5 strength.

The track envelope is shifted again to the right or east away from Florida … consistent with recent weather model data.

But, the coast isn't clear quite yet. pic.twitter.com/NLuTliZ4Z4

— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) August 31, 2019

He is getting big and strong. Florida looks to be facing better odds of a brush instead of a head on collision compared to Thursday.

Now, does North Carolina need to worry?

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115Comments

  1. 1.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    August 31, 2019 at 11:13 am

    NC always has to worry because it sticks out of the side of the US like Jimmy Durante’s nose.

    In other news DH IS HOME! Landed in Manchester this morning. He is currently sleeping off the jet lag and tonight we are going to his favourite place for Dinner the Boot and Shoe Pub.

  2. 2.

    gene108

    August 31, 2019 at 11:17 am

    As long as it doesn’t turn inland like Fran, in 1996, you should be fine.

    We lost power for week after Fran. But so did everybody else, so it was a lot of hanging out and chillin’ and cold showers

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    August 31, 2019 at 11:22 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    Yay you guys!

  4. 4.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    August 31, 2019 at 11:23 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    Good! Hope you guys have a good dinner!

  5. 5.

    Yarrow

    August 31, 2019 at 11:24 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt: So excited for you! Wonderful news!

  6. 6.

    MattF

    August 31, 2019 at 11:26 am

    Considering that the winds in a hurricane are all going in directions different from that of the hurricane itself… one can see why it’s hard to predict. Small, random, residual effects mostly add up to zero except when they don’t.

  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 31, 2019 at 11:26 am

    The New York Times botched up in a lot of ways, one of which was that they didn't headline Stepens' piece "Mein Karpf"

    — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 31, 2019

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 31, 2019 at 11:29 am

    It is a damn shame that Mar-A-Lago will be spared. Proof there is no God.

  9. 9.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 31, 2019 at 11:29 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Tumbrel ride for Bret, for sure.

  10. 10.

    The Dangerman

    August 31, 2019 at 11:31 am

    Sorry, Florida. I was hoping More A Larceny would be blown off the map. No one hurt, just a total wipeout of stuff.

    And I’m just stunned someone was apparently allowed to take a pic of the apparent Satellite Shot. If I had done that back in the day, they would have cut my wee wee off, grilled it in front of me, and served it up with a nice german mustard. Hell, my balls would have been in a vise just talking to the wrong woman in a bar. Unbelievable.

  11. 11.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 31, 2019 at 11:34 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    his favourite place for Dinner the Boot and Shoe Pub.

    How appetizing ?

  12. 12.

    zhena gogolia

    August 31, 2019 at 11:37 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    They didn’t deliver my Times today. I guess they didn’t want to hear the explosion.

  13. 13.

    MattF

    August 31, 2019 at 11:38 am

    @Major Major Major Major: I suspect that Stephens (former Jerusalem Post editor) hasn’t adjusted to the concept of a signed opinion.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    August 31, 2019 at 11:38 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    He’ll become a guest columnist after Trump loses.

  15. 15.

    OldDave

    August 31, 2019 at 11:38 am

    Skepticat wrote they had a home in the Bahamas. The Grand Bahama and Great Abaco islands are directly in the storm’s path, and the NHC’s track has the storm stalling a bit over the top of them. Ugly.

  16. 16.

    MattF

    August 31, 2019 at 11:40 am

    @The Dangerman: I’m happy that, being retired, I no longer have a security clearance.

  17. 17.

    Bill Arnold

    August 31, 2019 at 11:41 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    It is a damn shame that Mar-A-Lago will be spared. Proof there is no God.

    Mar–a-Lago is in Palm Beach county. Palm Beach county voted for H. Clinton, not Trump.

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2019 at 11:49 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Happy reunion!

  19. 19.

    wasabi gasp

    August 31, 2019 at 11:52 am

    All of us, together, aiming roman candles at the eye…we can do this!

  20. 20.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    August 31, 2019 at 11:52 am

    @Major Major Major Major:
    I don’t get the joke?

  21. 21.

    Yarrow

    August 31, 2019 at 11:54 am

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: The guy who commented on twitter saying Bret was a bedbug, his last name is Karpf.

  22. 22.

    Mandalay

    August 31, 2019 at 11:57 am

    @The Dangerman:

    Sorry, Florida.

    Not nearly as sorry as our local news channels down here.

    All their reporters are wearing black armbands today to mourn the loss of mountains of ad revenue for regurgitating the same five minutes of sensationalist twaddle (“ice, plan, evacuate, water, devastating, torrential, gas, neighbors, dangerous!!!”) for days on end.

  23. 23.

    CliosFanBoy

    August 31, 2019 at 11:57 am

    @Major Major Major Major: better than the Peach and Frog… ;)

  24. 24.

    narya

    August 31, 2019 at 11:57 am

    See, I”m glad that Grift-a-Lago will be spared–otherwise Cheetolini would whine incessantly AND try to grift some more, overstating damages, etc.

  25. 25.

    Wapiti

    August 31, 2019 at 11:59 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: The daily reports of the ICE/CBP concentration camps have convinced me that God either does not exist (or is powerless, same-same) or is fine with people who hate.

  26. 26.

    debbie

    August 31, 2019 at 12:01 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Congratulations!

  27. 27.

    DCrefugee

    August 31, 2019 at 12:03 pm

    Living on FL’s west coast (Hi, BC!), I’m feeling a lot better today. But if the new forecast proves correct, the east coast beaches and low-lying areas are going to take a beating if a Cat 5 moves north just offshore. Lot of beach erosion and tidal flooding. (Surfing might be epic, though…) And the GA/SC/NC coastal areas aren’t out of the woods unless Dorian starts off to the northeast.

  28. 28.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 12:03 pm

    @Wapiti:
    The Holocaust happened on his watch and this country is well stocked with “good Germans” i.e., Republicans.

  29. 29.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 31, 2019 at 12:04 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: great news! After a totally unnecessary delay.

  30. 30.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    The kid is trying cross-country this fall while battling senioritis, and had her first meet this a.m. She did pretty well, just out of the top-twenty in a 140-girl race but the winner was a whopping two minutes faster. Also the state champion, so what are you gonna do? What cracked me up was places 8, 9 and 10 are all Hannahs.

  31. 31.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    August 31, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    @Yarrow:
    Thanks! I’d heard about the “Bretbug” thing, but didn’t know the name of the guy who said it

  32. 32.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 31, 2019 at 12:13 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:

    Hope you guys have a good dinner!

    I’m guessing you’ve never eaten British food!

  33. 33.

    MomSense

    August 31, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    But her emails?

  34. 34.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 31, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    @trollhattan: when my kids were that age we had to declare a moratorium on friends names Lexi and Mackenzie. There were so many we couldn’t keep them straight.

  35. 35.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 31, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    @MattF: But have you enjoy a marathon of The Good Place yet?

  36. 36.

    Yarrow

    August 31, 2019 at 12:17 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
    It’s Dave Karpf. https://twitter.com/davekarpf. He’s kind of amazed at how this whole story just won’t stop.

  37. 37.

    Amir Khalid

    August 31, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
    I could explain it to you, but you know what they say about explaining a joke.

  38. 38.

    PaulWartenberg

    August 31, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    On the bright side, it’s looking like Central Florida is going to miss the worst of it.

    On the downside, GODDAMMIT ZEUS. My library staff and I SPENT THREE HOURS LAST NIGHT COVERING UP EVERY SHELF WE HAVE FOR LEAK PROTECTION. I’m still sore from yesterday, all that work and ON TUESDAY WE’RE PROBABLY TAKING THAT ALL DOWN AGAIN. WHAT THE HELL, DEITIES, WHAT THE HELL. WE WERE PREPARED FOR A PERFECTLY GOOD SINKING OF MAR-A-LAGO AND NOW THIS. I don’t know why I bother with Unitarianism anymore…

  39. 39.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 31, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Boot and Shoe Pub

    How’s their steak? Leathery?

    I’ll see myself out.

  40. 40.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 31, 2019 at 12:23 pm

    @Yarrow: Well, when a grown man has a toddler-style meltdown about being called an insect in print…

    The “Come call me a bedbug to my face, tough guy.” retort was weird too.

  41. 41.

    debbie

    August 31, 2019 at 12:23 pm

    Trump is now saying he canned his executive assistant because she said something “hurtful” about his kids. As if.

  42. 42.

    chopper

    August 31, 2019 at 12:24 pm

    @DCrefugee:

    yeah, loitering off the coast isn’t a great scenario. people are scared of a landfalling storm and all, but if it hugs the coast there’s just days of storm surge ahead. right around king tide season.

    likewise, if it dumps tons of rain, that all gets backed up by the pushing surge, creating another flooding issue.

  43. 43.

    patrick II

    August 31, 2019 at 12:24 pm

    “Big and Slow” is likely to be the new norm. Bigger of course because of the warmer water hurricanes are drawing energy from, but slower too. Due to changes in surrounding atmosphere, the average forward speed of hurricanes is slowing down. There will be bigger storms that are more lingering, as we have seen in some of the last few hurricanes.
    But I am sure Florida is happy with the climate-denying voldomortan senator they just elected to congress.

  44. 44.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 31, 2019 at 12:24 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: it also means ‘carp’ and is a pun in English, ‘my carp’ I.e. my petty complaint

  45. 45.

    PaulWartenberg

    August 31, 2019 at 12:24 pm

    @trollhattan:

    we had five Kimberlys in my high school class. Most of them were in the gifted track. You had good odds being in a classroom with any three of them at the same time.

    It was more noticeable than the high number of Chris(topher)s we had but only because it was Tarpon Springs FL with a high Greek population (no joke, half the guys was a Chris or a George or a Nick(holas).

  46. 46.

    MattF

    August 31, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Yes, I watched it, and it was good— on average. Some of the episodes were great (like the one with multiple Janets), some not so much. It continues to be genuinely thoughtful and wacky, so I’m pleased.

  47. 47.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 12:28 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:
    Nothing like kid sports to get a focus on the names du jour of your kid’s cohort. One of her peewee soccer teams fielded a triple-Sophie offense. I’ve also learned there are roughly seven ways to spell Michalea.

  48. 48.

    J R in WV

    August 31, 2019 at 12:28 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    So glad to hear your good news. Enjoy yourselves together!!

  49. 49.

    Renie

    August 31, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    My daughter had another girl in her middle school with the exact same name first and last and spelled the same way. Freaked me out the few times I would get a call asking why she wasn’t in school that day when I knew she went to the bus stop.

  50. 50.

    RAVEN

    August 31, 2019 at 12:32 pm

    @Renie: I coached a 4th-5th grade basketball team and 6 of 10 were Chris.

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    @Renie:
    Oooh, that would not be fun! I’d hope the school office would be a little more cautious, but they’re typically harried and overworked.

  52. 52.

    MomSense

    August 31, 2019 at 12:35 pm

    @PaulWartenberg:

    Our committee meetings are longer?

  53. 53.

    Chyron HR

    August 31, 2019 at 12:35 pm

    Its name is Dorian? I’ve been calling it “Dolan”! Why didn’t somebody tell me?

  54. 54.

    laura

    August 31, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    @trollhattan: how many Helens?
    https://youtu.be/z0uYgfWNbJE

  55. 55.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 31, 2019 at 12:39 pm

    @debbie: it’s part of the whole “too many scandals to keep track of” phenomenon, but….

    Donald J. Trump
    While Madeleine Westerhout has a fully enforceable confidentiality agreement, she is a very good person and I don’t think there would ever be reason to use it. She called me yesterday to apologize, had a bad night. I fully understood and forgave her! I love Tiffany, doing great!

    His attempted NDAs with government employees should be a scandal all their own, and from what I’ve gleaned from legal twitter, are not actually “enforceable”

    also, since I waded into his twitter feed to find that one, this too is the only president we’ve got, as the late Miss Ivins used to say about the previous worse president in history

    …Yes, I am currently suing various people for violating their confidentiality agreements. Disgusting and foul mouthed Omarosa is one. I gave her every break, despite the fact that she was despised by everyone, and she went for some cheap money from a book. Numerous others also!

    Tiffany is one of those I can still manage to feel a bit sorry for, as she hasn’t yet proved herself as awful as her larger siblings, and I’d be willing to bet has been treated to some epic passive aggressive cruelty from them. You write that fucking tell-all, Tiff, it’ll make you richer than whatever The Beast gave your mother.

  56. 56.

    SRW1

    August 31, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
    @Yarrow:

    What Yarrow said. Plus, plus it’s a wordplay on the German title (‘Mein Kampf’) of the ‘autobiography’ Hitler wrote during his internment after his 1923 putsch attempt in Munich had failed.

  57. 57.

    MattF

    August 31, 2019 at 12:43 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s typical that he just had to add that ‘fully enforceable’— a threat and a lie.

  58. 58.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 31, 2019 at 12:50 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    His attempted NDAs with government employees should be a scandal all their own

    Each a separate scandal, or just one big ‘NDA scandal’?

    Answer carefully.

  59. 59.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 12:50 pm

    @laura:
    Heh :-)

    Another name lost to the ages. Mom knew quite a few Helens.

  60. 60.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 12:51 pm

    @Chyron HR:
    I keep thinking it’s Durian–the hurricane that smells bad.

  61. 61.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 31, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Yes, I am currently suing various people for violating their confidentiality agreements. Disgusting and foul mouthed Omarosa is one. I gave her every break, despite the fact that she was despised by everyone

    Best self-own ever?

    “I hired her even though she’s disgusting, foul-mouthed and everyone hates her!”

  62. 62.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    @RAVEN:
    That’s closing in on coaching a team of all George Foreman’s sons. “George, you’re not hustling back!” [chaos ensues]

  63. 63.

    Aleta

    August 31, 2019 at 12:54 pm

    My worries are with the Bahamas area, esp when I look at windy . com showing Dorian slow and seem to stop in the northern parts to chew. Right now that seems like from early Mon. am to early Tues. Perhaps it’s just my limited access, but the internet news doesn’t seem to be focusing much on that area. Or maybe speculation about Fla and NC is the exciting part for those outlets.

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2019 at 12:58 pm

    @trollhattan:

    I wonder where all the Susans went. I thought that one was evergreen.

  65. 65.

    Chris Johnson

    August 31, 2019 at 12:58 pm

    You write that fucking tell-all, Tiff, it’ll make you richer than whatever The Beast gave your mother.

    That’s easy. Trump’s dick is just as broke as the rest of him :)

  66. 66.

    Michael Cain

    August 31, 2019 at 12:59 pm

    @PaulWartenberg:

    It was more noticeable than the high number of Chris(topher)s we had but only because it was Tarpon Springs FL with a high Greek population (no joke, half the guys was a Chris or a George or a Nick(holas).

    Michael was one of the three most popular names for baby boys in every year from 1953 to 2010. It was the most popular in well over half those years. I have spent my entire life surrounded by people with the same first name as mine.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack

    August 31, 2019 at 1:00 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    ‘She was a perfect fit!”

  68. 68.

    chopper

    August 31, 2019 at 1:00 pm

    Now, does North Carolina need to worry?

    everybody in the cone needs to worry.

  69. 69.

    wasabi gasp

    August 31, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    Wish i had a platform to call Bret Stephens a bedbug, just to get a double-sauced meatloaf invite with the wife and kids. I’m ghetto hungry, Bret!

  70. 70.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 1:05 pm

    @Michael Cain:
    I know [counts] four lawyers named Mike. Have always wanted to host a lawyers named Mike party just to see what would happen.

  71. 71.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    August 31, 2019 at 1:05 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:
    Hey don’t knock beer battered fish and chips! It may not be good for you but it tastes good, if it’s done well : )

  72. 72.

    MattF

    August 31, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    @Michael Cain: ‘Matthew’ was a rare name when I was a child. My mother would tell the story of my coming home from school in tears one day because I’d encountered a ‘Matthew with a different face’.

  73. 73.

    Jay

    August 31, 2019 at 1:08 pm

    That Bret Stephens column that not-so-subtly references Dave Karpf should be retracted. It knowingly slanders Karpf in the Paper of Record, likening a mild Twitter insult to the stuff of Nazis, and all because he got his feelings hurt. Children shouldn’t have @nytimes columns.— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) August 31, 2019

  74. 74.

    chopper

    August 31, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    man, that op-ed piece is passive-aggressive as fuck. he’s really doubling down, isn’t he.

  75. 75.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    @Jay:
    Karpf again proves he’s got this.

  76. 76.

    noncarborundum

    August 31, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    @Jay:

    Children shouldn’t have @nytimes columns.

    Once you’ve made a child President of the U.S., all bets are off.

  77. 77.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 31, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    @Yarrow: This is because Stephens is roundly and properly hated by most of those who know his works and name.

  78. 78.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    August 31, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    I could explain it to you, but you know what they say about explaining a joke.

    You’d have to kill me? ; p

    @Major Major Major Major:
    Learn something new every day. It fits and is pretty clever. “My Petty Complaint” by Adork Bretler lol

  79. 79.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 31, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    the Boot and Shoe Pub.

    Sole food. Nice.

  80. 80.

    MattF

    August 31, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    @Jay: It does raise the question of what, exactly, are the qualifications for having a regular newspaper column. I’ll note that it was thought, for a while, that Bill Kristol had the right stuff for that job— but it turned out that he didn’t.

  81. 81.

    Yarrow

    August 31, 2019 at 1:20 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: What I meant is that Karpf seems to be amazed that BretBug keeps doubling down, which in turn keeps the story going. BretBug just can’t quit while he’s losing. He wants to lose harder.

  82. 82.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 31, 2019 at 1:23 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: paging NotMax!

  83. 83.

    Amir Khalid

    August 31, 2019 at 1:25 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
    Oh dear. Apparently you don’t know what they say about explaining a joke: once you do that, you’ve killed the joke.

  84. 84.

    Skepticat

    August 31, 2019 at 1:26 pm

    @Aleta:

    My worries are with the Bahamas area, esp when I look at windy . com showing Dorian slow and seem to stop in the northern parts to chew.

    Mine too, with the path over Abaco not deviating so far. The speed, or lack thereof, is one of my chief concerns, as Floyd stalled over Abaco and did its Mixmaster routine, chewing away for two days; there’s still visible damage twenty years later. Please do note that I’ve found windy.com is totally unreliable. Many times I’d be sitting in bright sunshine with no wind when they told me it was pouring rain and blowing hard (or the opposite) right on the little spot they let me tag. Though it probably won’t be up long, here’s a webcam on Elbow Cay, Abaco, one island south of mine. https://www.rockybay.com/webcam_page.htm?wp=RB
    I thoroughly agree with my friend who says that waiting for a hurricane is like being stalked by a turtle, and this one is a damned nasty snapping turtle.

  85. 85.

    Skepticat

    August 31, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    “the Boot and Shoe Pub.” Sole food. Nice.”

    For the win

  86. 86.

    Michael Allen

    August 31, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    I’m really tired of all this concern and endless speculation about exactly what some hurricane is going to do. And all the federal money spent on the aftermath of each one.

    Everyone living in some areas of the country decided to live there. Multiple hurricanes happen every year. They chose to not buy housing or pay for infrastructure or land use planning that is designed to withstand the inevitable hurricanes and flooding that happens predictably. You pays your money, and you takes your chances.

    It’s a little different when a tornado strikes a particular spot that might go a thousand years with no tornado striking. But on the other hand people choose to live in a trailer in tornado alley that will blow away if a tornado does strike. Or a house with no simple reinforced concrete core room.

    I live in Brooklyn. Hurricane Sandy came at an extra high tide and pushed an unusual amount of water, plus oceans being a little higher. By the roll of the dice it might never have happened in hundreds of years, but it did. On the other hand, skinny barrier islands just off the Jersey coast were built up with wall to wall businesses and housing that never should have been there. Same thing with the Rockaways on the bay in Queens. Houses were allowed to be built too near the beach on the mainland in Neew Jersey and Staten Island. Finally housing in some places is now required to be raised or abandoned, protective sand dunes installed, etc., but mostly everything was rebuilt with federal tax dollars. The most expensive beach in the US is on the Rockaways where we restored beaches at the cost of millions and millions more every year into the future, all to maintain beaches near housing that never should have been built in the first place.

  87. 87.

    MattF

    August 31, 2019 at 1:30 pm

    @Yarrow: Stephens wants everyone to know that he’s an asshole.

  88. 88.

    Aleta

    August 31, 2019 at 1:30 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: jeez.

    Imaginary:
    I gave her every break, despite the fact that she was despised by everyone They advised Don’t do it. Naturally I ordered them to shut up — Blame is on them—Weak! “Sir we apologize for hurting Your Presidency” but I forgave. No Damage! Trump Strong and Very Fair.

    “While Madeleine Westerhout has a fully enforceable confidentiality agreement”
    I saw report that she refused to sign one when hired.

    Wild guess: he was grabbing at her. Or she was transcribing his twitter impulses and posting the Fox ones without oversight.

    The problem was not drinking with reporters or Tiffany. Ivanka had to ax her, arrange payoff and new job.

    All imaginary.

  89. 89.

    Jay

    August 31, 2019 at 1:31 pm

    @Yarrow:

    What’s going to be interesting, is a couple journalists are asking people if BedBugBret wrote to their bosses as well,…….

  90. 90.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 31, 2019 at 1:33 pm

    @Amir Khalid: What? Really? Could you explain that?

  91. 91.

    Amir Khalid

    August 31, 2019 at 1:33 pm

    EPL update: In the day’s last match, Liverpool are leading home side Burnley 0-2 at halftime. Burnley are putting up a fight as they always do, but an unlucky deflection of Trent Alexander’s cross led to one goal and giving the ball away to Bobby Firmino led to him feeding Sadio Mane for the second.

  92. 92.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 31, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    @Yarrow: Stephens is lobbying for a tumbrel ride at this point.

  93. 93.

    Aleta

    August 31, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    @Skepticat: OK, good to know. And model calculations change, sometimes dramatically, with the new initial conditions for each time period.

    Thinking of you. Wish I could make the wait less stressful.

  94. 94.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 31, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    @Aleta: Jeez? Didn’t think I went overboard.

  95. 95.

    My Side of Town

    August 31, 2019 at 1:39 pm

    Well, glad my town is out of the cone, per the latest path revision and I’ve learned not to panic until the wind crosses the county line. As my GF says, they are generally accurate in the end. Haha. Of course they are, but so far Dorian has maintained it’s original path, except they keep revising the ending, every update. I wonder if the cyclone is obligated to follow the prediction? I bet we still get a lot of rain in Central Florida.

  96. 96.

    Jay

    August 31, 2019 at 1:50 pm

    "Settlers have taken over dozens of springs in the West Bank, all of them on private Palestinian land, and are keeping the owners away." Settler-only springs in Palestine: https://t.co/WqShfHMaXB— Laleh Khalili (@LalehKhalili) August 31, 2019

  97. 97.

    Jay

    August 31, 2019 at 1:56 pm

    The organizers of the Straight Pride Parade had a press conference. One of the questions asked:“What do you say to taxpayers who want to know why you’re wasting this city’s resources because you three guys can’t get laid?” ?: @Brian_Ricciopic.twitter.com/j5MUaNAQ1u— Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) August 30, 2019

  98. 98.

    Jay

    August 31, 2019 at 1:59 pm

    I love this. "Just because the killer used a government issued, fake-name Russian passport, and killed a guy who Russia and only Russia had on its public kill list, you are groundlessly implyng it could be Russia?" https://t.co/UWakVEMZgG— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) August 30, 2019

  99. 99.

    wasabi gasp

    August 31, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    @Jay:
    Kissing my fingers at the turning of Santa Claus into the new Pepe the Frog.

  100. 100.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    August 31, 2019 at 2:12 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Well played.

    @Steve in the ATL: NotMax enjoys wordplay as much as anybody. So he’s likely to thank you. Also, too, you have mail.

  101. 101.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 31, 2019 at 2:17 pm

    @Jay: Giving young Jacob a run for his money, I see.

    Why isn’t one of these guys’ flys unzipped?

  102. 102.

    Skepticat

    August 31, 2019 at 2:24 pm

    @Aleta: As we know, the only truly accurate weather report is available only by looking out the window.

  103. 103.

    Amir Khalid

    August 31, 2019 at 2:27 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    It ends Burnley 0-3 Liverpool. The visitors have their first clean sheet of the season, and remain atop the EPL table with 12 points out of 12, two points clear of Manchester City.

  104. 104.

    Anonymous At Work

    August 31, 2019 at 2:49 pm

    2 PM EDT forecast shows it veering even farther away from Florida. So much so that, Merde-a-Lago being out of immediate danger, Donnie left Camp David to go golfing for the weekend.

  105. 105.

    Uncle Cosmo

    August 31, 2019 at 3:19 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Something more than 60 years ago, MAD Magazine did a story on different types of humor, one being “The Local Joke” in 2 panels: In the first a standup comic (recognizably Bob Hope) is delivering the punch line of a joke, which is “…the LA BREA TAR PITS!”, as his audience laughs. In the second panel he launches into several paragraphs of small-print explanation of the La Brea tar pits for the benefit of anyone unfamiliar with them…

    It was well done & I wish I could find it on line to link.

  106. 106.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    @trollhattan:

    What cracked me up was places 8, 9 and 10 are all Hannahs.

    Spawn the Elder has had classmates Aidan (and various spellings), Braydon (same), Hayden, Jayden, and Caden.

    Spawn the Younger has in her Scout troop: Isabella, Bella, Zabella, and Isabelle.

  107. 107.

    chopper

    August 31, 2019 at 4:05 pm

    @Suzanne:

    this is why i named my son Jahooswey. nobody else’ll use that one in a million years.

  108. 108.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 31, 2019 at 4:11 pm

    @Suzanne: Zabella? DFACS needs it step in on that one.

  109. 109.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 4:14 pm

    @Suzanne:
    “Big Little Lies” includes a little girl named Amabella, which I’m unable to hear uttered without laughing. Laura Dern (Amabella’s mom in the show) has a Twitter A game and invited the USWNT all to Amabella’s birthday party after they won the World Cup, which the team happily retweeted.

  110. 110.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 4:18 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    I’ve seen Man City twice this young season and must openly ask “Who is going to beat THAT?”

    Scary, scary good.

    Speaking of, UCLA women just smacked Florida State around, FSU being the reining NCAA champion and consensus preseason #1 pick to repeat. That was satisfying. It’s worth adding UCLA happens to have a starter who started for the Canadian national team in the WWC, which doesn’t hurt. Pac 12 will be brutal this year.

  111. 111.

    Suzanne

    August 31, 2019 at 4:24 pm

    @chopper: The new one is all the -ason variants being used now that “Jason” is passé. I know multiple Masons and Graysons. Even a Dason.

  112. 112.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    @trollhattan:
    “reigning”
    sheesh

  113. 113.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 31, 2019 at 4:55 pm

    @trollhattan: Go Bruins!

  114. 114.

    trollhattan

    August 31, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    Crosstown rivalry with SC should be epic this year.

  115. 115.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 31, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    @Yarrow: Ah, OK, in THAT case, it’s because Stephens, like Donald, can never let go of a slight and will double down indefinitely. Donald is still fuming about being labeled a “short-fingered vulgarian” a quarter of a century ago. I understand why Karpf is amazed by this; most of us shrug our shoulders and move on. Not Stephens, not Donald. It’s central to their assholishness to hold a trivial grudge forever.

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