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Monday Evening Respite Open Thread: Dogs, Bruh

by Anne Laurie|  January 18, 20215:21 pm| 56 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads


Who, me?!?

this dog mocking a Corgi has me in tears pic.twitter.com/EnV0f9uI8I

— yella enchanted (@chantshmant) January 2, 2021

There’s a sucker born every minute, and some of them live with dogs…

A South Korean startup has developed an AI-powered dog collar that can detect five emotions in canines by monitoring their barks using voice-recognition technology https://t.co/hlf28v32kw pic.twitter.com/knKpWDn8RM

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 13, 2021

“he doesn’t bite”

“he just throws cinderblocks” pic.twitter.com/1JQNAAshtL

— Alessio ? (@itscoffeesenpai) January 4, 2021

Or, if you prefer a more formal venue for working on losing those pandemic pounds…

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Whatever Today is (Tuesday? Wednesday?) Morning Open Thread

by John Cole|  January 6, 20219:55 am| 69 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging

Lily is very relieved we won Georgia and is not going to pay attention to the fascists throwing a tantrum in DC unless we get to watch the police use batons and a water cannon on them.

Whatever Today is (Tuesday?  Wednesday?) Morning Open Thread

Lily is a very wise dog. You should do the same.

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: New Year’s Eve, At Last

by Anne Laurie|  December 31, 20207:10 am| 326 Comments

This post is in: Biden-Harris 2020, Dog Blogging, Open Threads

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— Tom Morello (@tmorello) December 30, 2020

Programming note:

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President-elect Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden are set to give “their last interview of the year” in New York’s Times Square as part of @ABCNetwork's New Year's #RockinEve special with @RyanSeacrest.https://t.co/jqKxXr2ACD

— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) December 30, 2020

*frantically searching for game about puppy dogs and rainbows that can be delivered by end of day*

— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) December 31, 2020

Mexico will repay the party guests. https://t.co/1ycwpqyvV6

— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) December 31, 2020

Palate cleanser:

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Displacement Activity

by Anne Laurie|  December 30, 20206:57 am| 248 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads

pic.twitter.com/rssryzd9OK

— Alish you a Merry Xmas???????? (@cptnwtrpnts) December 18, 2020

Angry Doxie has been told and told and told that yelling at the doorstopper is an exercise in futility. He is all too well aware that people are gonna laugh at him for attacking the doorstopper, again. And yet there is another dog barking out there, just at the edge of human hearing, and there is nothing he can do about that other dog. So he comes scrambling in, banging chest-first off the wall, to… yell at the doorstopper.

Angry Doxie is the spirit animal for at least half of Political Twitter.

(But a lot more entertaining to watch.)

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Speaking of which, I don’t know why this seems like a portent, but…

Amazed to see a bald eagle soaring over DuPont Circle area midday today

Cc @ccaryl @BeijingPalmer pic.twitter.com/dyyGnfnZ2Y

— Christina Larson ?? (@larsonchristina) December 29, 2020

It's hard not to watch this, over and over again. https://t.co/yS8hR57UBb

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) December 29, 2020

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Friday Morning Open Thread: Merry Xmas / Happy Holiday

by Anne Laurie|  December 25, 20206:06 am| 199 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Music, Open Threads

Timeline cleanser:

Flashmob of Beethoven’s 'Ode to Joy'…pic.twitter.com/0dUuh2XTGf

— Rex Chapman???? (@RexChapman) December 23, 2020

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It's an early Christmas for these gorillas at the London Zoo as they cheerfully unwrapped their gifts ?? pic.twitter.com/CpiWd8bjii

— Reuters (@Reuters) December 23, 2020

It was a rough year. But this mailman rallied and made Christmas stockings for all 250 dogs on his route. https://t.co/58B6ax6iZZ

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 23, 2020

There are 250 dogs on Scott Arnold’s U.S. Postal Service route, and every year, he gives each one a personalized Christmas stocking that has their name, dog treats and a note from Santa.

But for the first time in 25 years, Arnold thought he might skip it this year. He knew that the families in the 22101 Zip code area of McLean, Va., would have understood. Arnold, 66, lost his adult son, Jason, in May of unknown causes, just days before his 37th birthday.

Arnold said that an outpouring of love and support from hundreds of his longtime customers helped fuel him through a difficult year. But he wondered whether he had the energy to make and deliver hundreds of stockings.

Then Arnold thought about how much his son had loved dogs, and he knew he had to continue the tradition he calls “Santa Paws.”…

So in November, Arnold bought more than 250 miniature Christmas stockings that were decorated with Santas and snowmen. He pulled out his red and green fabric paint, and sat down at his table to carefully personalize each one. “Rocky,” “Finnegan,” “Tesla,” he began, until he had written one for each pooch he has come to know and love in McLean…

As he does every year, Arnold stuffed each stocking with dog treats, then added a few extras: photos of his dog, Milo, and his grandsons — Jackson, 8, and Luke, 6 — and a special Christmas newsletter.

“Another Pawliday season is upon us, though this one is quite different than any other,” Arnold wrote. “We will begin, as always, welcoming the new members of our ever-growing pack.”

After listing all of the new dogs in the neighborhood (Teddy, Daisy, Biscuit, Lula, etc.), he mentioned those who had moved away (Molly, Rosie, Zeus, Monte), then paid tribute to all of the dogs who had crossed the “Rainbow Bridge.”…

On the other side of the letter, he thanked the people on his route for their support and kindness during the worst year he could remember.

“The outpouring of caring and compassion from all was incredible and appreciated,” Arnold wrote. “It helped so much, and continues to help.”

When he began delivering the socks about two weeks ago, Arnold said, he discovered it was good therapy.

“I’m so glad that I didn’t deprive the families and their dogs,” he said. “They look forward to the socks every year. We’re all feeling overwhelmed because of the pandemic and this was something positive I could do.”…

Merry Christmas to everybody who stayed home to make us all safer.

— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) December 25, 2020

For the cynics:
Friday Morning Open Thread: Merry Xmas / Happy Holiday

(Shoe via GoComics.com)

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: National Readership Capture

by Anne Laurie|  December 24, 20206:46 am| 165 Comments

This post is in: Biden-Harris 2020, Dog Blogging, Open Threads


(President-Elect Biden has a really good media team)

Biden going old-school and meeting with newspaper columnists including @GeraldFSeib
Biden tells them why he's optimistic on bipartisanship: "Republicans are beginning to realize that there is a center that has to be responded to"https://t.co/nNz8TEZ6q8

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 23, 2020

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.@ktumulty was also part of the group.
She reports that Biden noted that he has taken some criticism for stocking his administration with many familiar figures
“One reason you need old hands is the old hands know where the old bodies might be buried.”https://t.co/Y399ujXQVH

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 23, 2020

I think Tumulty has the right take — “Trump is trashing the government on his way out. Biden is confident he can fix it.”:

… “What this president has done and what his political appointees have done and what landmines are laid out there, I can’t tell you that I have a clear view of what they are,” President-elect Joe Biden says. “Many of the people with the competence to be able to tell us what exactly is going on in the Justice Department or the Energy Department, they’ve either been fired or they left — but they’re not there. And so I think it’s going to take a while to find out where the intentional as well as unintentional landmines are.”…

Speaking with a small group of columnists on Wednesday, Biden noted that he has taken some criticism for stocking his administration with many familiar figures, rather than bringing in more fresh faces. As Biden put it: “One reason you need old hands is the old hands know where the old bodies might be buried.”

He also said his team is having quiet consultations with “former Republican appointees, former Republican personnel telling us what they know and don’t know about how the system is rotten,” as well as GOP senators “worried about things being left untethered.”

Still, the soon-to-be 46th president sounded upbeat and confident about his abilities to marshal the resources — and the bipartisan political will — that he will need to lead the country out of the coronavirus pandemic. With covid-19 now killing about 3,000 Americans a day, he said, the costly denialism that Trump fostered in the early months of the pandemic is being replaced by “a new sense of urgency, I think, on the part of the public at large.”…

Biden also said that, as a president who wants to avoid inflaming a closely divided Congress, he plans to tread lightly when it comes to using his executive power — a declaration that no doubt will cause some heartburn on the left, where such caution is considered naive.

Upon his inauguration, Biden says he plans to issue executive orders to undo some of what Trump has done. He will instruct the United States to rejoin the 2015 Paris climate agreement, to protect immigrant “dreamers” whose parents brought them to the United States as children, and to reinstate environmental regulations that Trump did away with…

“It’s a balancing act, but I’m optimistic that we can get a lot of the things that I’d like to do done,” he added. “I’ve spent most of my career arguing against the imperial presidency. . . . We got three equal branches of government. I’m confident that there are a number of areas that are of such consequence that they go beyond the partisan boundaries.”…

Almost saved this one for New Year’s Day:

Dear 2021,

I’d like to introduce you to mean reversion.

Thought you two should connect, as I cannot think of a better collaboration than combining what you two bring to the table. You have much to discuss.

— Michael McWilliams (@JMichaelMcW) December 23, 2020

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Bixby Is Not Amused

by TaMara (HFG)|  December 5, 202011:02 am| 145 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads, Pet Blogging

The face he makes when I forget to give him a piece of my breakfast banana.

“You know I can smell banana on your breath”

Looks like we could use an open thread.

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