Off to a Cole family reunion. Thirty to forty people who share my bloodline. Should be entertaining.
Or frightening.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.
No one could have predicted…
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
Only Democrats have agency, apparently.
When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.
I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.
We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.
Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
He really is that stupid.
This chaos was totally avoidable.
Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.
When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.
Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.
An almost top 10,000 blog!
myiq2xu
Looking to pick up chicks, eh?
John Cole
Hey- this is West Virginia, you know.
liberal
Are you a breeder or a protector?
4tehlulz
Frightening usually. At mine, the person who put it together announced to the gathering the existence of a previously unknown; apparently, the 4tehlulz ancestor that came from Ireland had an affair soon after he got off the boat.
Zifnab
Hey, get off my dingy!
The Grand Panjandrum
It was the first thing that popped into my mind. But, I would NEVER stoop that … never mind.
I hope its not like my reunions where alcohol, guns and 4WD vehicles always give evidence as to why we should all belong to MENSA. Or not.
Have a good’un, JC.
Punchy
I’m always the designated lifeguard at our family reunions.
Apparently my relatives either lack the ability to swim or possess an outstanding ability to act like they’re drowning.
Who’s bloggin in your absence? Can we get Jake please? PLEASE?
Beth in VA
So you’re going to scare them?
greynoldsct00
We’ll miss you today. Have a good time.
Krista
Have fun, John!
Brachiator
Here’s a little Rodney Dangerfield:
S
The population of West Virginia is smaller than I thought!
Tsulagi
Probably all living within a five block radius, right? Sorry, couldn’t resist.
When my family manages to have a reunion, we look like the freaking United Nations. My family on both sides has long been equal opportunity fuckers. A proud family tradition I did my utmost to uphold until the SO. Guess we’re sort of the anti-WVs.
Perry Como
Could you leave the door to the blog propped open while you’re gone? kthxbai
cmorenc
What’s particuarly frightening about family reunions is to rediscover just how vastly your situation and worldview has diverged from people who closely share ancestry and DNA. In some cases, it even seems appropriate to measure the gap in light-years, since some “relatives” seem to now inhabit an entirely different planet than the one you know. In other cases, the discomfort is for quite the opposite reason – damn! you haven’t escaped some unsettling family resemblances or traits nearly as much as you’d somehow convinced yourself you had.
jake
Heh. Same here. For extra fun I’m probably the least liberal person in my family. Nothing spells a-m-u-s-m-e-n-t like five little old ladies of various hues expressing their opinion of Bush2.
RSA
That’s a lot of vampires at one time; keep an eye out for anemia.
Genine
I find it fascinating when families get together- on purpose.
Mine doesn’t, and there are good reasons for that. So I am always riveted at the family gatherings of other people. I like to observe the undercurrents and the interactions. Its great stuff!
liberal
jake wrote,
wow!
jake
Well, I didn’t have to put up with Close Encounters of the K^3^ kind.
Seeing my grand-parents return fire probably didn’t help either. ;-p
Tsulagi
In mine, while there are one or two toward the farther ends of the political spectrum, the large majority of my family leans center-right. Fairly conservative, but not the Party of Bush 28%ers joke version.
When I told my dad I had contributed more than a dollar or two to ACLU, he couldn’t have looked more bewildered if I’d told him I’d just returned from Mars hanging out with Jesus who appointed me his 13th disciple. That was fun.
skippy
i vote for frightening. the thing about family reunions is you’re stuck with a bunch of strangers whose only excuse for being together is someone else’s sexual encounters.