I’m watching a re-run of the Eukanuba Championship from 2006.
…and reading about the dumbest lawsuit ever.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Infrastructure week. at last.
Hot air and ill-informed banter
Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.
Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
jake
I would kill to see a headline that reads: Angry Lesbians!
Those cretins. Think of how much tourism they could attract if they advertised all the Hot Lesbians on the island.
Based on personal experience they’re seriously outnumbered and should shut the fuck up before they get their asses kicked.
Riiight. Things are a real mess. When someone on the island says “I’m proud to be a Lesbian,” his friends beat him up. People are always throwing bricks through their neighbor’s windows because they’re disgusting Lesbians.
The neighbors are Lesbians, not the rock throwers. Well, they’re Lesbians too …
I seem to recall TalEvangicals and sundry dickheads making a stink about rainbow flags ages ago but no one ever filed suit over it. At least to my knowledge, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
But hey, give Lesbos a little credit. They’ve managed to make themselves an international laughing stock without invading another country.
jprice vincenz
Sorry to switch gears and talk about dog food, ala Eukeneba. I’ve owned dogs for most of my life, and I always bought the high-end food, i.e., Eukeneba, Iams, and Purina’s better brands. Remember the chinese food scandal when all the dogs died? Well, our cat had liver failure then; we always fed her Purina–and she was a little older, about seven, and our vet–a wonderful women who charges 25 buck an office visit and gets down on the floor with our animals, told us an interesting story: Seems she was at a vet conference (this would be about a year or so ago, right after the chinese food scare) and she an a group of her fellow vets who traded notes and literally had hundreds of animals in their practices being put to sleep or dying much too young. We had never talked politics, and she told us that she didn’t trust this administration to tell the truth about things like food when they lied about so many other things. We went home and the next day threw away all our pet food and went to an independent pet food place (not a PetCo, etc…) and bought Eagle Pack Holistic for twice what we paid for the other upper end dog food. There are two new brands on the shelves at that store, both organic and only five or six, Made in America, ingredients, and they are expensive! Over the months, the owner of the independent pet food store told me that she had reduced her stock of the commercial brands to one shelf and expanded her organic brands to two full shelves, which is a complete 180 degree change from the way things were before the Chinese food scare of 07. But the truth is, and here’s the relation to the post, we will never ever use Iams or Eukeneba, especially since their commercials and dog shows always emphasized how much they loved our dogs and cats, which, of course, was a fricking lie.
Dennis - SGMM
Next up: a class action lawsuit on behalf of bundles of twigs to stop the use of the word “faggot” as a pejorative.
Michael D.
The best food for large dogs is Jaxmax.
Louise
Nomination for Second-Stupidest Lawsuit.
Also…no Iron Man thread? Did no one else see it? It’s fantastic. Plus, we need to remind folks to stay all the way through the credits.
Krista
Can’t wait to see it. No spoilers please, though. The hubby and I have made plans with friends to go see it over the Victoria Day long weekend.
jake
Priya Venkatesan +10:
Jesus Dog Catching Christ. Is our professors learning?
Zifnab
Woo! Saw it last night. Freaking awesome movie. Lesbtastic.
There was something at the end? Damnit! I knew there was something at the end but my friends convinced me to walk out. I’ll just have to see it again. Ho hum.
Zifnab
Haha. Louise, that is great.
I’ll give Prof Venkatesan credit. This lawsuit is definitely approaching post-modernism. Certainly one way to teach a subject.
RSA
That’s a good one. Good luck getting another job teaching, anywhere, at any level.
Mike
Those cretins.
Yeah, will Crete be next?
shera
Iron Man was good. No insane Michael Bay-style action scenes (don’t worry, plenty of shit blows up), great acting (who knew Jeff Bridges would make such a great bad guy?). I still think Spiderman 2 and Batman Begins are the best comic book movies, but this slots nicely into number 3. The previews for The Dark Knight and Speed Racer were great.
BTW, when does Hulu upload the latest BSG episodes? I can’t keep clicking the refresh button every 30 seconds.
CrazyDrumGuy
Yeah, stupid lawsuit, but check out some of the great headlines!
“Lesbian Action”
“Lesbos Ladies Launch Lesbian Lawsuit”
The damn thing is so much fun to write about!
jake
That’s the brilliant bit. When Dartmouth gives her the boot or refuses to give her tenure or doesn’t let her have the very best parking spot or someone in the cafeteria gives her coffee that is too hot or cold she can sue the U. again.
And write a book about it.
First she’ll have to finish that book about all of the countersuits the students will file.
The fucked up bit is the fRighties will use this as proof positive that the PC police have gotten out of control, all anti-discrimination legislation is stupid and without so much as tapping the brakes will claim that this is more evidence that the lefty liberal elitist education system is a bunch of bigoted hypocrites.
Bill O’utRagey is probably inviting her to his show and squeezing his loofah even now.
Dennis - SGMM
New Statesman has a brilliant short piece on T.E. Lawrence’s (Lawrence of Arabia) prescient writings about Arab insurgencies.
Here’s Lawrence, 1920, writing in the Sunday Times:
JR
How ’bout those pointers, Michael?
If the commentary on those shows weren’t so much like “Best In Show,” I could stand to watch them more often. But how many times can you hear “a fine dog in the fields, AND in the home?”
Chuck Butcher
Gus, 150# Pyrrenes doesn’t like that high zoot stuff, he won’t eat it. He’s Fruit Loops sort of guy, Atta Boy or the local feed store’s generic stuff which is even cheaper.
Dennis - SGMM
That movie corrupted me. I tried to watch the last Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and I kept cracking up as I was assailed by “Best in Show” flashbacks.
OriGuy
Then have the book made into a movie with Ben Stein narrating. Expelled: No Insanity Allowed
Sarcastro
But according to Mr Lambrou, new historical research has discovered that Sappho had a family, and committed suicide for the love of a man.
A man who almost certainly, if Phaon existed at all, diddled boys. Modern ideas about sexuality don’t really apply well to the classical world.
Martin
I have the same problem. My dog is related to the last two best of breeds to win at Westminster, so we watch to see how they do, but I can only manage to watch his class. The rest of the time I’m just waiting for someone to say;
J. Michael Neal
My cats have done fine on the Purina Indoor for years, except the one who is prone to kidney stones. He gets expensive food from the vet.
Doonhamer
Doonhamer + 4 (with a potential for Doonhamer + 10 anon)
Cleaning the patio sucks. Especially when you’re supposed to be in Phoenix at a DBacks-Mets game. Stupid out-of-town-company-next-week. Thank God for beer. Taking a break to see what the Balloonatic Fringe has to say.
Happy to see Iron Man getting good word-of-mouth in addition to good reviews. Nice to see Robert Downey Jr. on the rebound. Looking forward to seeing it.
Stupid lawsuits: Wasn’t there a suit brought by a woman back during the 1992 presidential campaign against the Clintons for mental anguish at the thought of Bill for prez? I laughed then. I see her point now.
Back to my domestic drudgery. At least it’s a beautiful day here in Tucson with a gorgeous view of the Catalina Mountains from my still-filthy patio.
That is all. Cheers everyone. Enjoy the remainder of the weekend.
Brachiator
Agree that Iron Man starts the summer movie season off with a nice bang.
And the little coda after the credits is a nice touch.
scarshapedstar
OMG, what about the McDonald’s coffee case??! If we can no longer defend ruthless corporations via reductio ad absurdum, the terrorists have won.
Xenos
Most of the damages in the McDonalds coffee case were thrown out, and McDonalds was revealed to have chosen, as a policy, a coffee temperature that was significantly hazardous to their customers. As a result of the lawsuit, McD lowered the temperature and no other customers have been maimed.
So it was a pretty smart lawsuit, even if the plaintiff did not make any money after attorneys’ fees – since there was no regulatory agency willing to compell McDonalds to do the right thing, someone had to do it.