Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

This blog will pay for itself.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

I can’t take this shit today. I just can’t.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

I did not have this on my fuck 2021 bingo card.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

‘Forty-two’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

Militantly superior in their own minds…

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

All your base are belong to Tunch.

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: FOCUS

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Book Club posts in an hour or so — here’s an Even More Open Than Usual Thread to tide y’all over…

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Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread

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I think I had a breakthrough with Pete the Puppy on the potty-training front today. It’s the same breakthrough I’ve had with all the dogs I’ve trained (a total of five, including Pete): when they learn to bark at the door to request to be let out. I’ll probably still have a few stray puddles to mop up and an errant turd or two to flush before we’re 100% there, but it’s a big day.

Speaking of bothersome turds, I was reading something a while ago about the NY AG’s investigation into Trump’s business practices. From the Associated Press:

The New York attorney general says her investigators have uncovered evidence that former President Donald Trump’s company used “fraudulent or misleading” valuations of its golf clubs, skyscrapers and other property to get loans and tax benefits.

Basically, the investigators are saying he inflated the value of assets when angling for loans and cried poor when the tax man came around. Is there anyone, friend or foe, who doubts that Trump did exactly that? At every opportunity? That impulse — to inflate or deflate assets to maximize his personal advantage — is who he is at his core.

An analysis of his every utterance, by turns braggadocious or self-pitying, would find the same principle underlying all. (Well, maybe not lunch orders and such, but everything else, including the three marriage proposals.)

Anyhoo, open thread.

PS: Looks like folks were working on posts in the backroom, and if that’s you, please feel free to squash this post immediately. But the old thread is getting way long, so I’m setting out a new sandbox.

 

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Monday Morning MLK Day Open Thread: Mark the Day

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One possible charity:

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Squishable Morning Open Thread: Ted Talk

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I didn’t intend to watch “Ted Lasso” because, despite the rave reviews, the show’s premise and the vignettes I’d heard repeated led me to conclude it would be formulaic drivel. But puppy-induced insomnia got the better of me, and I started watching it recently. I was right; it is formulaic drivel.

But the fans and critics were right too — it’s fun, and the acting is good. Also, because the story revolves around a soccer club, there are many fit young men in various states of undress to look at.

In other news, this may be the goofiest picture of any dog, ever:

This is the “I will fight you to the death, Giant Scary Hand!” look.

Open thread!

 

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: VitaMegaCATaMix

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They’re no Jorts, but the Vitamix Kitnapping Trio are a little Sunday treat.

… It arrived on Dec. 16 at their home on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Jessica put the hefty box down on the floor in the kitchen, just for a second. Her 4-year-old tuxedo cat, Max, otherwise known as the “sentient soccer ball,” jumped up on the box. Jessica thought it was funny and snapped a photo.

Then Max’s 13-year-old feline siblings, George: Destroyer of Worlds (“sentient potato”) and Lando Calrissian (“the questionably sentient dust bunny,”), demanded their turn on the knee-high box…

On Jan. 2, the couple reached out to Vitamix on a public Facebook post, asking for three empty boxes that might fool the cats into relinquishing the appliance. The company immediately obliged, but between snowstorms and customs, the empty boxes have yet to arrive — and Nikii and Jessica aren’t quite sure how the boxes will fit in their small apartment, much less if they will satisfy the cats.

But the duo and their many followers are happy to let the battle run its course…

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Saturday Open Thread: Pets and More…

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I could not post anything about my pets this week without acknowledging what many Coloradoans are feeling this week. The presumed loss of two people in the fire and the loss of so many pets, folks who could not get home to rescue their furry and feathered loved ones. Someone I work with lost everything, but she, her partner, and their neighbor were able to get out with their pets, and kick in another neighbor’s door and rescue his dog along the way.

As many know, the last half of 2021 was really rough here – loss of family and pets in numbers that just seemed unbearable. But I was holding it together – mostly with tissue paper and spit – but holding it together, nonetheless. Until the fire and that story. I was out buying dog food, treats and supplies for them and suddenly between the farm store and the pet store, I completely broke down – total ugly cry. I finally had to use my phone-a-friend option so someone could talk me down enough to finish up my errands. Luckily I have a lot of friends who are nurses, LOL.

Grief is a weird thing. You cannot circumvent it, no matter how hard you might try. Something, somewhere, some time will trigger it and you just got to roll with it.

So on to happier things – the face that makes me smile every day, even when she’s chewed something she shouldn’t or is chasing a cat, along with her beautiful big sis.

And here is Emma explaining to her that this is HER crate and she’s just letting Trixie borrow it:

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A full update on Trixie’s adventures if you’re interested is here: her first snow and all, she’s never going to grow into those ears. 

And this, believe it or not, was Scout, four years ago this past week:

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Still miss that big guy. Sigh.

Also, speaking of loss, the NYT has some really good tributes to Sidney Poitier. I watched In The Heat Of The Night last night – I own it because it is one of my favorite movies of his – and I was once again struck by how this one film defied so many film conventions of the time to make an Oscar-winning film.

This is an open thread….

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: Year of the Tiger

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