breaking news from the New York Times: Joe Biden is interested in policy and does his homework.https://t.co/A9XZL7r2sa
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) May 15, 2021
The Slightly-Soiled-Grey Lady is shocked, shocked:
… Quick decision-making is not Mr. Biden’s style. His reputation as a plain-speaking politician hides a more complicated truth. Before making up his mind, the president demands hours of detail-laden debate from scores of policy experts, taking everyone around him on what some in the West Wing refer to as his Socratic “journey” before arriving at a conclusion.
Those trips are often difficult for his advisers, who are peppered with sometimes obscure questions. Avoiding Mr. Biden’s ire during one of his decision-making seminars means not only going beyond the vague talking points that he will reject, but also steering clear of responses laced with acronyms or too much policy minutiae, which will prompt an outburst of frustration, often laced with profanity…
Mr. Biden is gripped by a sense of urgency that leaves him prone to flares of impatience, according to numerous people who regularly interact with him. The president has said he expects to run for a second term, but aides say he understands the effect on his ability to advance his agenda if Republicans regain power in Congress next year.
He never erupts into fits of rage the way President Donald J. Trump did. And the current president rarely exhibits the smoldering anger or sense of deep disappointment that advisers to Mr. Obama became familiar with.
But several people familiar with the president’s decision-making style said Mr. Biden was quick to cut off conversations. Three people who work closely with him said he even occasionally hangs up the phone on someone who he thinks is wasting his time. Most described Mr. Biden as having little patience for advisers who cannot field his many questions…
We thought we could spook that Obama guy. And working with TFG was so *fun*! But Joe just doesn’t appreciate how very, very significant we Media Mudlarks are…
What I argued 25 years ago (!) in Breaking the News:
Combo, for much of the media, of:
1) Theater-critic outlook (it’s all a performance);
2) Ever-present fear of being called “liberal-biased” [which of course will happen in any case].
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) May 15, 2021
Also, much of our Very Serious Media is hopelessly addicted to idiot clickbait:
This is as outrageous as Nancy Pelosi getting that special ice cream machine for her grandchildren! https://t.co/0Gb5HRe1hn
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) May 15, 2021
dexwood
Thanks, AL. Hello, I must be going.
Baud
His auto warranty was about to expire. I was trying to help him.
Baud
I wonder what search term they used.
mrmoshpotato
So the Kremlin’s orange mobster shitstain wasn’t serious about the job? Because we haven’t had any 3AM Twitter tantrums from Biden – yet.
Baud
Why is it public by default????
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I am shocked to find Biden is a normal adult male his age, dots on his grandkids and not some perpetual child like Donny.
Xantar
@Baud: because Venmo originally thought they were going to be a social network. It was all the rage at the time.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: LOL! Well done.
Catherine D.
Open thread – thanks Dolly, I got my hair cut today. Die, ponytail, die!
moonbat
Wait, I was assured by our media betters that Biden was a doddering oldster who had all his policy spoon fed to him by his VP and other “nefarious” characters. You mean, he’s actually doing the job he was elected to do???
Cool.
Feathers
@Baud: Venmo sucks.
Also, built as social media platform, with money transfer as what would make it unique. When it became all anyone used it for, they were left with an architecture that did not match their user’s needs. They have not spent the money to create Venmo 2.0.
MattF
I read the article and thought it was mostly good news about Joe. I agree that it tilted a bit negative. But the message I got is that Biden tries to get it right and pushes his staff harder than you might expect. That’s better than someone who watches TV all day and shitposts between cheeseburgers.
Baud
@Xantar:
@Feathers:
Thanks. Never used it and didn’t know the history.
Baud
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I can’t believe he hasn’t hired his grandkids given all the foreign affairs issues going on right now.
Mike in NC
Will the media ever recover from spending four years following an impulsive, vindictive moron?
mrmoshpotato
@Mike in NC: But enough about W.
Van Buren
Let’s say you used an attorney in the past-like a decade ago. He did a perfectly acceptable job.You have need of an attorney for a similar situation.
In the last few years, however,said attorney has made it clear in multiple ways that he is all in on Trump.
Do you find a new attorney?
Baud
@Catherine D.:
?
Baud
@Van Buren:
I would.
Spanky
@Mike in NC: Eight Ball says “fuck no”.
mrmoshpotato
@Van Buren:
@Baud: I would too.
Barbara
He gives money to his grandkids is like learning he has cereal for breakfast. Umm, okay.
Pete Downunder
g@Van Buren: Yes. Anyone who is all in on Trump has shown they lack judgment and good judgment is, in part, what you pay a lawyer for.
Barbara
@Van Buren:I would seek referrals to someone else, and see what shakes out.
mrmoshpotato
@Catherine D.:
End of an era
Baud
@Van Buren:
Is your attorney Lin Wood or Sidney Powell?
Bluegirlfromwyo
@Barbara: But how do we know his grandkids will ever work if he gives them money? I just have questions. /s
John Revolta
@Van Buren:
Yes. And if the occasion should arise, tell him why. “Nothing personal but……..”
Just One More Canuck
@Baud: or Steve in the ATL?
Gloomyjim
@Van Buren:
IANAL but from my thinking it would entirely depend on who the judge was on a per case basis.
#MostDefNotLegalAdvice
Edit, typo corrected
Rob
@Van Buren: Yes. Find a new attorney.
Baud
@Just One More Canuck:
Then the question is easy — hell yes find someone else.
dmsilev
@Barbara: According to that article, we at least know Biden’s cereal preferences from his time as veep:
The important news of the day.
Parfigliano
@Van Buren: I find a new attorney and tell the old one why I did it.
Steve in the ATL
@Just One More Canuck: hey now—I was only 75% in for trump!
WaterGirl
@Van Buren: Yes. Absolutely.
Wag
@Van Buren: Absolutely
BlueNC
@Van Buren: How much will his prior knowledge help you? If his previous work for you matters, then consider the cost of switching. If you just need an attorney generally competent in a not-too-specialized area, then I’d look for another option.
WaterGirl
I’m not sure BJ has ever agreed so completely on the answer to a question. In this case, the question from Van Buren. The answers are yes, hell yes, and absolutely!
Catherine D.
@mrmoshpotato: Not quite that long, but good riddance! I gave my stylist a folded wad of bills to cover the missing haircuts, and she called out as I was leaving that I had overpaid. Nope, I could arrange my work to avoid infection, but she couldn’t.
artem1s
@Van Buren:
lots of attorneys out there who could use the business. I personally wouldn’t trust the legal advise of someone who thought TFG was on firm legal ground at anytime during the last 5 years.
Nelle
Did I read it right? Mr. Biden. President Donald J Trump. Mr. Obama.
mrmoshpotato
@Catherine D.:
Hehehe
Just One More Canuck
@Steve in the ATL: my apologies
mrmoshpotato
@artem1s:
Or on firm mental ground for the last 50 years.
Baud
@Nelle:
My guess is that Biden and Obama were referred to as President earlier in the article. That might be the first time the article referred to Trump.
WaterGirl
@Nelle: Just the idea of that make smoke come out of my ears. Is that really what they did? So maddening.
Brachiator
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
In their mind, this must be the equivalent to finding Hillary Clinton’s email servers.
WaterGirl
@Baud: It makes me crazy when they refer to Mr. Biden or Mr. Obama. It feels so dismissive!
Baud
@WaterGirl:
It’s their style, I think. Saves ink.
Steeplejack (phone)
Relevant from our own DougJ:
Brachiator
@Van Buren:
Is this a trick question?
I immediately want to say, “Oh hell, yeah, new attorney.”
But did the guy do a good job for a reasonable fee and were you happy with the results? How easy would it be to find someone else who could do as good a job?
Raven
fyi
Federal legislation limiting the federal government’s ability to seize people’s assets appears headed for law, thanks in part to an Athens gun dealer.
The bill would bar the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies from seizing assets without some reason to believe there was criminal wrongdoing beyond simply a pattern of deposits that seemed structured to avoid the $10,000 limit that triggers reports under the avoid a Bank Secrecy Act.
In 2013, the IRS seized about $940,000 from Andrew Clyde, owner of the Atlanta Highway gun shop Clyde Armory. Clyde had regularly made cash deposits of just under $10,000 as he built up the balance. Clyde’s account was one of hundreds seized by the IRS for so-called “structuring.”
Investigators ultimately found no criminal wrongdoing, a federal 2017 audit showed. But under the law, the government was still able to keep the money.
Danielx
@mrmoshpotato:
I told him I was with (the infamous) Microsoft Tech Support. Still can’t figure out why he hung up.
Spanky
@WaterGirl: To be fair, they also referred to “Mr. Hitler” back in the 30’s.
Seriously, they’re probably following their style guide per Baud’s comment above.
feebog
@Baud:
So morons like Joel Rosenberg and Matt Gaetz can leave a digital trail detailing their crimes.
lowtechcyclist
Which is exactly what good staffers do: (a) know their shit, and (b) figure out how to explain it clearly and succinctly to their boss. Anyone who can’t do both shouldn’t be in a job involving even occasional meetings with the President.
Well yeah. There’s a metric ton of shit on the President’s desk these days, and his time is a precious commodity. I’m damned glad he hangs up on timewasters. Good on him.
debbie
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Grandkids will bleed you dry every time!
schrodingers_cat
Isn’t there a much simpler explanation, NYT politics desk and assorted media hacks are Republicans that’s why much of their coverage skews in their favor. Most of the big names are the prime Republican demographic, rich, white, older and male.
debbie
@Catherine D.:
I too got a haircut today. Still a bit skittish about things, so I washed it myself and all she had to do was cut in. In and out in 10 minutes!
debbie
@WaterGirl:
That’s their style guide at work.
e julius drivingstorm
@Van Buren:
If the appropriate judges in your area are all republicans you’re stuck. Otherwise report him to the ABA. Heck, report him anyway.
Baud
@debbie:
They’re the worst.
rikyrah
Joe Biden has been a professional politician for over 40 years. He has surrounded himself with professionals. He is President of the United States. He SHOULD expect those that work for him to know their shyt and not waste his time .
These aren’t the third-rate, scraping the bottom of the barrel that proliferated the last Administration. That the NYT would publish this thinking what? Folks would think less of 46?
Phuck Outta Here??
Skepticat
@Van Buren: One look at the antics of the “lawyers” surrounding the malignant mango should answer that question. Do you really want to associate with that ilk, much less have them control important parts of your life?
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Baud:
Amtrak
Fair Economist
The Examiner put quite an anti-Biden spin on the Venmo article. The Buzzfeed article was criticizing Venmo for making it impossible to make a secure account.
Fair Economist
@rikyrah: Agreed. President Biden is making huge numbers of difficult, critical decisions that almost always affect millions of people. It’s critical he do it right, and he should have the highest quality advice and information. It’s good that he demands it and doesn’t allow people to waste his precious time.
Skepticat
Interestingly, Associated Press style is to not use honorifics, including “President,” after the first use of the full name. I was surprised to see the (rude and useless) “Mr.,” but I’m not a big fan of the NYT in any case.
rikyrah
@Catherine D.:
????
The Dangerman
Slang for an easy layup is called a bunny. No, not that kind of bunny, Donald.
Why a bunny? Who knows? Likely same as why an assist is called a dime. Completely random.
rikyrah
@Nelle:
??????
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Times is sitting on a massive exposé — apparently Biden always takes up TWO parking spaces
Brachiator
@schrodingers_cat:
The NYT is establishment. But I don’t know that the family that owns the Times are registered Republicans.
NYT Executive editor Dean Baquet is not white. Don’t know if he is Republican. Don’t know about other editors.
There is a strange political culture at the NY Times. I am not sure why they kiss up to the GOP so much. Some writers and editors I knew from the 70s tended to be liberal.
ETA: I knew a Los Angeles Times reporter whose parents were so left wing that they named her Ninel. Lenin backwards. She was a chip off the old commie block.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Were you Christy, a Medicare consultant on a recorded line? He loves that shit.
debbie
@rikyrah:
No wonder, what with all those food demands!!! //
zhena gogolia
@moonbat:
They subtly try to make him look senile by stressing how long it takes for him to make up his mind.
zhena gogolia
@Van Buren:
Yes.
Take it from me. I stuck with my dentist too long.
My hairdresser is okay because I don’t believe she voted for Trump. She just didn’t vote for Hillary.
Steeplejack
@Nelle:
Calm yourself. Biden and Obama both got a “President” on first reference (not in the clip), as did Trump (in the clip). After that it’s “Mr. [Surname].” House style at the Times.
@Baud:
Yes, this.
zhena gogolia
@Catherine D.:
I sent mine checks throughout the pandemic. I’m still paying her twice as much as she’s asking.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
It must be. They use the title once, then switch to “Mr.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Nelle: That’s probably just the NYTs'(which is garbage) style book, the first time they refer to someone they use the title, after that they’ll use Mr. or Ms..
geg6
@Van Buren:
Absofuckinglutely. I will never voluntarily pay or socialize with anyone who is a TFG voter ever again. If I don’t know, fine. But if I do, fuck that asshole. Not a penny from me. There are plenty of all types of professionals and trades people out there who aren’t disgusting MAGATs.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
It’s their house style for everybody! [Title] [Full name] on first reference, then [Mr. | Ms.] [Surname] in the rest of the story.
This particular story has just “President Biden” on first reference, but that’s because it’s a “soft” analysis piece, not a straight news story.
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
That Ven Buren now doubts his TFGista lawyer’s judgment is by itself good enough reason to seek a new lawyer. I think there are ways to research a lawyer’s competence on the intertubes.
WaterGirl
@Spanky: It’s a bad style guide, then!
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: Hell, John Cole cuts me off If I’m taking too long to get the point when we talk on the phone: “cut to the chase”.
Geez, have the people complaining about this every had a real job?
Rule #1: Don’t waste your boss’s time.
edit: Rule #1 is also: Don’t make your boss look bad.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I don’t care if it’s their style; I don’t have to like it. It feels disrespectful.
moops
There is loyal GOP voter, and then there is All-In-For-Trump. If someone you rarely interact with is clearly a Trumper-Humper then that person is not idly political, they now participate in their own brainwashing.
Several of my neighbors vote R, but they have the decency to not say a word about Trump and actively avoid political topics now. My middle sister and her husband still think we can talk casually about Trump. They are wrong and we don’t speak anymore.
Villago Delenda Est
Nuke the Vichy Times from orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.
Bill Arnold
@Nelle:
The first use in the article of each is “President” and the subsequent usages are Mr (or just the surname). Trump is called “Mr. Trump” a couple of times.
ETA except for the headline, which uses “Mr. Biden” and “Joe”. (The writers don’t or sometimes don’t control the headlines.)
Brachiator
In other news, the Chinese Martian lander has touched down:
Trump probably would have sent Space Force to shoot it down and claimed Mars as his personal real estate.
As it is, I expect a fair amount of paranoia from Fox News and other right wing sites crying about how dangerous it is to let China make technological advancements.
Raven
The emergency vet says the Bohdi’s leg is ok. Let’s hear it for pet insurance!
Ksmiami
@Van Buren: yes – run far away and find another lawyer
Mary G
@Nelle:
@Baud:
It appears to me that the FTFNYT’s extremely weird style guide dictates that they use “President” the first time and Mr. Whoever subsequently. TFG is mentioned once farther down as “Mr.”
I think doing it in the headline is problematic, though.
Mary G
@Raven: Yay Bohdi! I still think of him as the bouncy puppy cavorting around Raven, who is giving you the stink-eye.
TS (the original)
@Baud:
I am fairly sure this “style” came in during the term of President Obama (but of course it did). Suddenly they started calling him Mr Obama & when queried said it was a style change to only use the title on the first mention. I’ll have to go back & check, but the first time I noticed it was when Nate started using it when his 538 moved to the NYT
Feathers
@Mary G: Hence the wondrous use of Mr. Loaf for subsequent mentions in an article about the singer Meat Loaf.
Baud
@Feathers:
He uses the Asian practice of putting the family name first, so it should have been Mr. Meat.
Brachiator
@TS (the original):
It’s their style, I think. Saves ink.
No, pretty sure that they have been doing this for some time.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator:
Agreed; after all, as noted upthread, the NYT referred to a certain German dictator as “Mr. Hitler”.
Ruckus
@Van Buren:
Absolutely find another.
Faster than the speed of light.
No need to support someone that deranged.
Villago Delenda Est
@Raven: YAY Bohdi! Get well soon, get back to chasing sports cars!
zhena gogolia
@TS (the original):
I really don’t think that’s right. They’ve done this forever.
The Moar You Know
@Van Buren: hell yes. For starters, it shows your attorney’s a moron.
More seriously, I’m not giving those people my money. Not one dime. They’ll send it to Trump. It HURT getting rid of my really good, really cheap plumber, but he was 100% on the Trump train and he had to go. I’ve had contractors show up with Trump 2024 stickers on their trucks and I just tell them to turn around and leave. And I tell them why. And they get pissed, but fuck it, I don’t make a goddamn dramatic production out of my politics and they’re going to learn the hard way that they shouldn’t either.
Not one fucking dime to those people. At a minimum, if they’re still on board, they don’t believe in America or democracy. They are fascists.
Don’t give money to fascists.
Nelle
@Bill Arnold: ah, I just saw the excerpt. Thanks.
Lacuna Synecdoche
Washington Examiner via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Thanks, Washington Examiner. Now tell us how Matt Gaetz and Joel Greenberg use their Venmo accounts.
Doug R
@Van Buren:
YES
Matt McIrvin
@Brachiator: If I am recalling correctly, this is the first successful landing on Mars from any country other than the United States. There have been multiple attempts by the Soviet Union and the ESA, all failures. One of the earliest landers from the USSR actually landed intact, started transmitting and immediately failed–maybe because a huge global dust storm was going on.
Amir Khalid
@Feathers:
Which is silly, because Loaf isn’t a surname. If The NYT wants to mister him, it should call him either Mr Meat Loaf or, using his real surname, Mr Aday.
TS (the original)
@Brachiator:
Checking early NYT (which I don’t find so easy without a subscription) – they still used the title every time in 2001 but it was gone by 2007 – so I was out by one President. Guess I never noticed the change with Bush.
The Dangerman
@Van Buren:
No, keep him.
PSYCH. Ditch the asshole and make sure he knows why.
Steeplejack
@TS (the original):
Random 1973 story from the Times after 10 seconds on the Google:
It has been their style basically forever. AP style, by contrast, is title and full name on first reference, then just the surname after that. The horror!
The level of Times derangement syndrome on this site is astounding.
Amir Khalid
@Matt McIrvin:
I’m pretty sure it was a Martian sneaking up from behind with wire cutters.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: Rule #2- If you find yourself in conflict with your boss, you should look at both sides: The boss’s side. And the outside.
debbie
@Feathers:
I remember that!
JoyceH
Sigh. Guys, guys, guys. It has always, always, always, AL. WAYS. been considered perfectly correct and not at all disrespectful to refer to the President as Mister Last Name. Can we NOT do this? Can we NOT act like Trumpies and get our bustles in a bunch because a newspaper is disrespecting OUR President by not giving him a sufficiently respectful honorific? It. Is. Correct usage. It has ALWAYS been correct usage. There are plenty of other things to take offense at. Let’s not take offense where none is offered.
brantl
@Van Buren: Yes, you do; don’t subsidize crazy/stupid and he’s either/both.
The Moar You Know
@Raven: Good. Nothing worse than when your dog gets hurt. Wish we’d done the insurance with our Golden. He’s been an expensive little fucker. Worth every cent, though. I love our little (90 pound) guy like nothing else ever.
JoyceH
BTW, if we’re wanting to be disrespectful, I saw a delicious way to refer to MT Greene – “Empty Greene”. Or Empty Gee. Marvelous.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack:
That said, the framing of this Biden story is atrocious.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@Van Buren:
Only if you require rational decision-making from your legal advisors.
Manxome Bromide
@WaterGirl: “Is Lily a good girl?”
Geminid
@JoyceH: Or you could call her Simple Greene, like the cleaning agent.
frosty
@rikyrah:
Off topic, but I saw that Peanut got her first jab. Congratulations! I expect you’ll be incredibly relieved when both are done.
TS (the original)
@JoyceH:
I find it just another reason to take offense at the NYT – everything they do & say about dem presidents tends to be offensive.
Presidents are head of state – for that reason alone they should be given their title. I don’t see many articles talking about QE II as Mrs Windsor. Westminster systems don’t refer to their Prime Ministers via title but they do give a title to their heads of state.
JoyceH
@TS (the original): John Adams agreed with you, he thought Presidents should be referred to as His Excellency and addressed as Your Excellency. But he lost that argument over 200 years ago. Presidents have literally been Mister President and Mister Last Name since then. So when it now becomes disrespectful, that seems to me to indicate someone determined to take offense.
JoyceH
@Geminid:
But the great thing about Empty Greene is that it’s the same as MT Greene, just putting emPHAsis on a different SylLAble.
The Lodger
@TS (the original): The Times has used Mr. and Mrs./Miss/Ms. at least since the 70s, when I first started to pay attention to that sort of thing.
Geminid
@JoyceH: Ah. Now I see it.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: Fuck LBJ?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Gin & Tonic:
Fuck Mr. LBJ!
Citizen Alan
@Van Buren: I do not tolerate anyone in my life who supported Donald Trump.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack (phone): Understood.
J R in WV
I’m pretty sure the NY Times style book has been title on first use, Mr last name in the rest of the piece for a very long time. Mr Hitler comes to mind, along with Mr Churchill and Mr Stalin in that time period.
So perhaps around 85 years that I recall… Mr Hitler came into office in 1933, right?
Raven, glad Bohdi Puppy appears to be OK, I would take him to your regular Vet Doc when you get home, though. Could be that the ER wasn’t going to do much if it wasn’t “life threatening” … Not life threatening isn’t the same as won’t need treatment going forward.
Geeno
@Geminid: Or Soylent Greene – no that would imply she’s human…
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Raven:
I’m glad for the good news about your pup (they’re always ‘kids’ to me) and yes on the insurance!
The Scottish Fold in the sack that’s a part of the B calendar May ‘centerfold’ section turns 7 today, so he’s being spoiled rotten.
IWO, the usual… :)
Raven
@The Moar You Know: This is a pressure wound, I thought so but didn’t want to chance it being something more. I tried to clean it but realized it needed more than I could do.
Raven
@J R in WV: we actually had to go back because it wasn’t life threatening. The dude was brief but thorough and we’ll be keeping close watch till we go home next Thursday.
J R in WV
Regarding your lawyer:
Dump that MFer immediately. He’s incompetent because he doesn’t think, doesn’t know any better, doesn’t… Dump him, tell him why, run away, run away.
I need to find a family law lawyer, wills, trusts, power of attorney, etc. Back in the day we never expected to have anything to leave anyone, now we may. Do NOT want RWNJ brother to get a cent! Need a good lawyer to avoid that… same for wife’s sisters, RWNJs. At least I still speak to my brother, wife hasn’t communicated with her sisters in a long time now…
Citizen Alan
@Brachiator:
My understanding is that he prefers to identify as Creole rather than black. Take that however you want to. Regardless, he would not be the first black person who chose to earn a place for themselves among elite society by acting as a tireless advocate for white supremacy. There’s a reason I’ve referred to Baquet as “the Clarence Thomas of American journalism.”
ChiJD Doug
@Catherine D.: or dye?
J R in WV
@Raven:
I know you keep a close eye, you treat your dogs like your kids, just like we do. Wife once left with one of our dogs for Columbus Ohio to get Clyde to a Vet hospital up there with access to a MRI scanner. They shared one with a Children’s hospital, two passes into the imaging center, one for kids one for fuzzy kids.
Clyde lost the use of his hind legs suddenly, local vet couldn’t do much, Columbus Vet Hospital found adhesions within his spinal cord, brilliant neurosurgeon operated, they threw him out a couple of days later because he was SO NOISY.
I walked him for a few weeks with a belly band holding his hind quarters up so his feet barely touched the ground. Suddenly his back feet were moving a little bit. He lasted several years after that.
Was the smartest dog we even had ever. Had a relationship with the squirrels, the deer, everything on the farm. Would come to get me if something needed attention, injured buck, come here JR, look at this.
Still miss him.
I know you will take care of your pupper, just wanted to be supportive. Best wishes for all~!!~
Ruckus
@Geminid:
Simple Green is good stuff, Simple Greene not in the least.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Citizen Alan: Every plantation had at least one.
mrmoshpotato
@Ruckus:
Yes. And Green River is delicious.
But don’t mix up the two.
Another Scott
Um, it took 6 days to find it…!!!
(via nycsouthpaw)
Cheers,
Scott.
mrmoshpotato
@Another Scott: That’s good. But did it hurt anyone or any other animal on its 6 days on the lam?
Bluegirlfromwyo
@Geminid: I call MTG Marjorie Soylent Greene.
EDIT: and I should’ve looked upthread.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Mike in NC:
Probably not
@Van Buren:
I definitely would
dr. bloor
@Another Scott: Right? They’d have had him in twenty minutes if they put out some empty cardboard boxes.
Calouste
@TS (the original): In British usage (going by the BBC here) Queen (and Duke etc.) is a title, but Prime Minister (and President etc.) is a position. So second references in the same article of a titled person will typically by their title only, without their name, I.e. QEII would be “the Queen” rather than Mrs. Windsor.
And office holders don’t keep the name of their position for life, they will be called “former President” etc.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Another Scott:
I think that was the tiger that was illegally owned by somebody in that neighborhood. I remember reading that there are more tigers in private hands in Texas than in the wild. Glas that tiger was found and nobody seems to have been hurt
L85NJGT
I keep telling y’all – FTFNYT were staunch supporters of Andrew Johnson.
smike
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
That right there should be spoken aloud in a Scottish brogue. I have no idea what it means, but hey, not the first time.
CaseyL
@Raven: Yay for Bohdi!
Isn’t there a medical procedure for yourself you were waiting on until after Bohdi’s leg issue was resolved?
Will you be able to take care of you now?
Origuy
@smike: Scottish Fold is a breed of cat, known for its small ears. The rest of it is about the Balloon Juice calendar, which features photos of Juicer animals; I think there were two versions this year.
Ian R
@zhena gogolia: As I’m pretty sure we’re in the same city, any tips on dentists to avoid? Finally have dental insurance again.
Starfish
@Baud: Because you really want to see that time I repair a co-worker for lunch or that time I paid my yoga teacher?
smike
@Origuy: Thanks for that explanation, which is close to my best guess of what you were saying. Still, I would like to see that snippet of conversation in a movie dialogue.
rikyrah
@Raven:
Yeah????
rikyrah
@frosty:
Thanks. I will be on pins and needles until shot 2 and 14 day antibodies .
Sloane Ranger
@Calouste:
Yes. There can be only one office holder at a time. It pisses the hell out of me when US interviewer’s still refer to former British Prime Ministers as Prime Minister and address them as such.
SFAW
@The Dangerman:
As NotMax could tell you, the more important question is: Why a duck?
WaterGirl
@Manxome Bromide: You’ve got me there!!!
Yes, yes she is. :-)
Uncle Cosmo
@Steeplejack: You know why RWNJs get such a charge out of “pwning the libs”? Because The Libs have this distressing, depressing, disgusting tendency to (in the immoral words of the Mountain Man in Deliverance) squeal like a pig at the slightest perception of a slight. Which only tells them they’re getting through & triggers sneering and snickering.
That’s not how you deal with fucked-up fascisti:
Dr. William McClain (RIP), my German Lit 1914 to the (then-)Present prof at Johns Hopkins many years ago, told a story in the course of explaining why there was no German Lit to speak of during the Third Reich: The Nazis set about “aryanizing” the German language and the instant they started, people across Germany ridiculed them so ferociously they pulled the plug on the project and never went near it again. As he put it,
Too damn bad most Libs are such wussies they can’t even conceive of putting those tactics into play.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Parfigliano: & then the prior atty shoots you.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@The Moar You Know: cancel culture alive & well.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Geminid: i would rather drink simple green than contemplate the existence of median UGA alumna Marjorie Taylor-Greene.