Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

This fight is for everything.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Infrastructure week. at last.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

This really is a full service blog.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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  3. 3.

    demkat620

    It has been raining for the last three days here. Good excuse to feel lazy and exhausted.

    Give yourself a break John and go cuddle with Tunch.

    Edit: Too tired to spell properly.

  4. 4.

    beltane

    There was an ad insert from Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge in my local paper offering a free TV or kayak to anyone who buys a car this weekend. Soon they will be giving away a car to anyone who buys a TV.

  5. 5.

    Violet

    You just made a big commitment to your new doggie. That’s pretty emotionally tiring. Big responsibility you’re taking on.

  6. 6.

    Ned R.

    I suggest avoiding Away We Go and Land of the Lost — requires no effort whatsoever! (Going to finally catch Up tomorrow.)

  7. 7.

    Twisted Martini

    The best blast I read today about “Going Galt” is as follows:

    From Every Day Should Be Sunday, discussing whether there should be a “Rooney Rule” in college football…

    GAs make next to nothing, and the post-grad safety net is simply not there as often for black players wanting to get into coaching as it is for white players. (Note we said: “as often.” You paid off your student loans by working three jobs and scraping the barnacles off boats for extra money with your eyelids. Congratulations on being awesome. You did it all by yourself, right down to the oxygen you brought with you to breathe everyd day, white guy. You’re like John Galt, but with titanium nuts that taste like caramel! You’d care about this compliment/mockery, but others are irrelevant to your circumstances and outcomes, so you really shouldn’t even really be reading this Ayn Rand blows goats she bred by herself from thin air.)

  8. 8.

    Politically Lost

    I’m going to my local bar associations elegant shindig at John Ash. Being one of the newly minted attorneys in this town, it seems necessary to hobnob with the other landsharks.

    I hope to be able to eat $40.00 worth of hor derves in two hours. Since I don’t drink my wife will have to drink enough wine for both of us.

    I have to cut it short because I’m going for a sleep-over at a Doctor’s office for a sleep study. The sleep apnea thing has finally boiled over for me.

    Seems like it should be an OK Friday night.

  9. 9.

    R-Jud

    @Politically Lost:

    I have to cut it short because I’m going for a sleep-over at a Doctor’s office for a sleep study. The sleep apnea thing has finally boiled over for me.

    When you say “boiled over”, what do you mean? Mr Jud has sleep apnea and has so far refused to do anything about it.

  11. 11.

    JL

    My allergies are bad today so I also feel drained. I’m going to get in some comfortable clothes and watch Revolutionary Road.

  12. 12.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Politically Lost: Let us know how it goes. I really should do that, but I don’t wanna.

    @D-Chance.: Well, you know, Latina, Asian, it’s all the same for the rightwingnutters.

    John, well, if past “I’m so tired” posts are any indication, it means you will write five more posts in the next ten minutes. Nope. Not going to get burnt again.

  13. 13.

    joes527

    @beltane: What is a warranty written by Chrysler worth these days?

    “If I were a betting man, I’d buy a new car.”

  14. 14.

    Matt

    I just want to point out that Jonah Goldberg says this when asked what surprised him the most about the reception to Liberal Fascism:

    One surprise, for want of a better word, was that I didn’t get more stuff wrong.

    Holy Hell, if you can stomach it, the interview is here.

  15. 15.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @D-Chance.:

    Looks like ol Sparkles has an eye fixation, sort of a love/hate thing by the looks of it.

    This was amusing:

    In an e-mail, Salon asked Lowry, “Why approve the depiction of her with slanted eyes, given the sensitivity of that stereotype? Was that something you considered before publication? Were you worried about the reaction to it?” Lowry responded, “[N]ot sure I’m following you. Can you be more specific?”

    “You say “stereotype” like it’s a bad thing”, Lowry presumably continued, clearly baffled.

  16. 16.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @JL:

    Suggest reading the book also if you haven’t.

    I thought the movie totally missed it. Good enough on its own, but nothing like the book, which I’ve loved for years.

  18. 18.

    JL

    Last year someone wrote about an online sports channel, ADTHE.net. I can’t remember who mentioned that site but thank you. I was able to watch the Federer tennis match this afternoon. For baseball fans, they now have the sox/rangers game on now.

  19. 19.

    mcd

    Uh oh. Another one who’ll have to prostrate to Rush:

    Senator Richard Lugar praised President Barack Obama’s Cairo address to the Muslim world as a “signal achievement” and dismissed Republican criticism that the speech was too apologetic.

  20. 20.

    JGabriel

    Bill E Pilgrim:

    “You say “stereotype” like it’s a bad thing”, Lowry presumably continued, clearly baffled.

    “I mean, her eyes aren’t slanted,” Lowery said. “They’re just caught mid-wink.”

    .

  22. 22.

    Linkmeister

    Food prep advice requested:

    I just got a $3 deal on two Portabello Mushroom caps (regularly $6.99). I also just cooked a steak last night, so that’s not on the immediate meal radar. What should I have with these things, and how should I prepare them? (Channeling Haldeman/Ehrlichman here) to the best of my recollection I’ve never had a Portobello before.

  24. 24.

    John Cole

    @Linkmeister: Honestly, I just basted them with a little olive oil and grilled them the last time I had them, and ate them with nothing but some salt and a touch of pepper. Sides- I like squash and zucchini and light vegetables. Sliced tomatoes are always excellent.

    I have no idea what to say wine wise.

  27. 27.

    John Cole

    @Linkmeister: I can’t remember what else I had. I’m not big on starches, but I think others suggested something. Search for portabello or portabella on the sidebar and you will find a ton of suggestions from that thread.

  31. 31.

    Incertus

    @gex: I wondered about that deal–how did they protect themselves from having someone default on the one they financed and keep the freebie? It couldn’t have actually worked as a buy-one-get-one.

  32. 32.

    gex

    @Incertus: I never considered that. I suppose they can repo 2 cars as easily as they can repo 1. (Edit: they must work out the sale such that the lien is on both cars)

    I was in a pretty bad car crash last weekend, totaled my 2001 Avalon. It’s a weird time to be car shopping. I think I need to figure out who will still be alive in ten years.

    Edit: which reminds me. When the new doggy comes, John, make sure to get her a seat belt harness. I got really lucky. Cone dog (Casey) got lucky too.

  33. 33.

    Laura W

    @John Cole:

    I have no idea what to say wine wise.

    “Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc”.
    No one would ever take issue or pick a fight with you over those three words.

  34. 34.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    @Linkmeister: How about a risotto? It’s just rice, broth, wine, cheese, butter and whatever else you have on hand, but it feels luxurious.

    Dead easy to make, too. And you don’t have to stir constantly: keep the heat gentle and stir as needed to distribute the broth, but otherwise leave it alone.

  35. 35.

    Incertus

    @gex: Well, when you’ve been through as many bad credit periods as I’ve been, you start thinking about potential scams, even if you’re never going to go through with them.

  37. 37.

    John Cole

    @Laura W: Yeah, but depending on your sides and how you season the mushrooms, a really nice pinot noir might be better.

    But then again, I really think there are only three wines worth drinking- sav. blanc, cab. cav., and pinot noir. Maybe nouveau beaujolais in the spring, too.

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    I have a date with my turntable tonight. Going to rip all of the vinyl I got as birthday presents and load it on the server.

    Salami, cheese, and tortilla chips for dinner tonight.

    There is a youth soccer tournament all weekend at the school across the street. Evacuation is a real possibility if we can figure out what to do with 275 pounds of dog.

  39. 39.

    TenguPhule

    I dunno why, but I am just exhausted tonight. Not sure what I am going to do with myself.

    You couldl finish Guards Guards and then start Men at Arms.

    *nudge nudge*

  41. 41.

    Tonal Crow

    @mcd:

    Uh oh. Another one who’ll have to prostrate to Rush: Senator Richard Lugar praised President Barack Obama’s Cairo address to the Muslim world as a “signal achievement” and dismissed Republican criticism that the speech was too apologetic.

    There go the media again, post-moder(n)ating what the wingnuts actually said. Inhofe (R-Event Horizon) had this to say about Obama:

    “I just don’t know whose side he’s on.”

    And this to say about his speech:

    “un-American”

    Inhofe’s past prostrating himself to Rush. Now he’s working on outdoing Rush — and Bachmann, too.

  42. 42.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    @R-Jud: Was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea about fifteen years ago; solution was a CPAP.

    It changed my life. No more randomly falling asleep in the afternoons; in fact, i actually had a brain all day (well… i was able to simulate having a brain).

    Tell Mr. R-Jud that it takes a bit of getting used to, but there’s no way in hell I’d ever go back.

  44. 44.

    Ejoiner

    Recipe request:

    Someone posted a recipe for grilling an onion a few weeks back which I tried tonight with less than spectacular results.

    It called for coning the top of the onion and putting a lot of stuff on it such as beef bullion and grilling for an hour in tin foil.

    Questions:

    What is coning and would cutting it in half work just as well?

    What kind of bullion (liquid, solid, etc.) and how much?

    Also – how about just grilling without the foil? Or is that crucial to the final product?

    Just checking – if you posted the recipe please help since I’m determined to try again!

  45. 45.

    Rosali

    Maybe nouveau beaujolais in the spring, too.

    Why in the spring, as opposed to the fall? Where is it being stored?

  46. 46.

    Doug Wieboldt

    @Linkmeister

    Portobello (grilled or not), goes very well with pasta, a bit of Gorgonzola or Blue cheese and a dash of olive oil and heavy cream (or half n half if you must).
    Just chop up the shrooms and saute them with olive oil, a few minutes before your pasta is done. Then, on low heat, add the cheese. Stir vigorously until the cheese is incorporated, then take the pan off the heat add a couple of tablespoons worth of cream, stir, add the cooked pasta. Voila Pasta con Gorgonzola al Funghi!

    Measurements for this dish aren’t all that important. It’s almost impossible to take these ingredients and make them taste bad.

    Also, if you want meat with this, you can take chicken breast or veal cutlet, pounded very thinly and sauteed on both sides in equal parts butter and olive oil, when both sides have been sauteed for 2 or 3 minutes per side, remove from the pan, then start at the top of this post by sauteing the mushrooms etc..

    At the end, take your sauteed meat with its’ side of pasta, cover with a bit of the remaining sauce and serve.

    Yum!

  47. 47.

    John Cole

    @R-Jud: Got diagnosed with sleep apnea four years ago and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I had always been a horrible snorer. In the army, they used to joke it was a damned good thing I went armor instead of infantry because I would have given away the position to the enemy. I thought it was normal when you were 18 to wake up with your girlfriend sleeping on the floor of your apartment with two pillows over her head.

    Changed my life. I think it runs in families, my father has it, too.

  48. 48.

    TenguPhule

    What is coning and would cutting it in half work just as well?

    Imagine sticking a cone point first into an onion.

    That hole is the coning.

    Do not cut onion in half.

    What kind of bullion (liquid, solid, etc.) and how much?

    Liquid.

    Also – how about just grilling without the foil? Or is that crucial to the final product?

    With tinfoil, or you will get messy black charcoal.

  50. 50.

    freelancer

    @Incertus:

    Somehow I found myself on Donald Douglas’s radar again—

    You unmitigated jackass. Now I have to know that guy exists?
    His profile lists his interests, hobbies, etc as: “Film, Family, Hiking, Neo-conservativism, [and] Newspapers”.

    Who knew it was an activity for besieged right-wing academics?

  51. 51.

    Laura W

    @John Cole: You are absolutely correct about the Pinot Noir when paired with mushrooms, John. Did you know that Pinot Noir is known as “The Sensualist’s Grape?”
    I would add one to your list: Pinot Grigio. It can be equally as refreshing as a good, stainless steel fermented Sauv Blanc, as long as it’s not too acidic and grapefruity. Then it will trigger your GERD.

  54. 54.

    John Cole

    @Incertus: I am 100% convinced that guy is an elaborate spoof. Please don’t ever link him in the comments. I don’t want to deal with that shit. I already read Hewitt and NRO and the Weekly Standard. Enough is enough.

  55. 55.

    JGabriel

    John Cole:

    Got diagnosed with sleep apnea four years ago and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. […] Changed my life.

    I think it’s fascinating that you became a democrat once you started sleeping better and breathing at night.

    .

  56. 56.

    freelancer

    @ John Cole:

    I’d be a little more discriminatory when linking to yourself circa Jan 2005, but then again, who the fuck am I?
    I know you blush whenever somebody dives in the memory hole, so I won’t quote it; but this post, both sentences of it, and the tag all juxtaposed, is the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
    It might be a candidate for the second-most embarrassing BJ moment ever.

  58. 58.

    Incertus

    @John Cole: I’ll never link directly to him, I swear. Besides, I’m trying to pimp my own site, not anyone else’s. I’m not even sure how he found me, considering that he’s #71 on that list of influential blogs and I’m, umm, yeah.

  59. 59.

    asiangrrlMN

    @freelancer: Nice. The comments, too. This musta been before full conversion?

    Sigh. I guess I need the CPAP, too. Can’t I just order one instead of having to do the stupid sleep study thing?

  60. 60.

    Chuck Butcher

    leftists nit wits who are churned out of these wretched collages by the usial left-wing educators

    This should have been a 2005 warning who was reading…

    eddykashun is a soshulist plott.

  61. 61.

    John Cole

    @freelancer: I keep my archives for a sense of perspective. And to be honest, I still hate crowds. They could be chanting “John Cole RULES!” and get enough of them together, and I would support pepper spraying them.

    Also, just WTF is your problem with the A-Team?

    On a side note, I finally realized what it is I like about Burn Notice (beside Gabrielle Anwar and the fact that it has Bruce Campbell)- it has a serious A-team vibe.

  62. 62.

    John Cole

    @Chuck Butcher: That was an earlier incarnation/handle of birdzilla. He is always welcome here.

    When I look back at the old threads, I often wonder what happened to Kimmitt and Ted Barlow.

  63. 63.

    JenJen

    @Laura W:

    “Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc”.

    Oh gawd, any Sauvignon Blanc sounds just heavenly to me at the moment. Is it particularly citrus-y? If so, yum!!

  64. 64.

    TenguPhule

    They could be chanting “John Cole RULES!” and get enough of them together, and I would support pepper spraying them.

    That’s just the inner Tunch talking.

  65. 65.

    TenguPhule

    I keep my archives for a sense of perspective.

    Something to show the kids someday.

    “Take heed, lest ye start down the dark path of being an idiot like I did before I saw the true way of despising everyone.”

  67. 67.

    gex

    @John Cole: God, I just love Fiona on Burn Notice. It’s nice to not always have the girl be the one who always gets captured and needs to be rescued. She has a kick ass attitude too!

  69. 69.

    freelancer

    @Cole:

    Funny you say that, I was just explaining to a woman I work with my handle and after shrugging, saying dunno, came up with this:
    “it’s from a nickname I picked up about 8 years ago because I have a frustrating time identifying or following a hierarchical movement/organization. People one on one are always interesting to me, but if you form groups of them, you end up with a rigid and imbred thought process. I tend to work better on my own, and whenI heard the handle way back when, I adopted it and it stuck.”

    As far as the A-team, well I’m a bit young for the reference, plus IIRC, wasn’t there a common trope in the show where it was like a Live-Action G.I. JOE where everyone was armed, they had firefights every ep, but no one ever got shot?
    I’m not saying my TV taste or personal collection’s all that either. I have TMNT Season 1, and 5 seasons of 24 on dvd.

  72. 72.

    gwangung

    On a side note, I finally realized what it is I like about Burn Notice (beside Gabrielle Anwar and the fact that it has Bruce Campbell)- it has a serious A-team vibe.

    Hm. I thought it was the fact that the series lead was seriously competent and un-dumb in the field and saves all his stupid moves for family and his personal life.

    Or at least that what it seems to me.

  73. 73.

    John Cole

    @freelancer: What with my sparkling online personality, I’m not sure if it comes through how much I genuinely dislike 99.9% of people. I like the concept of people in the abstract, and I hate people suffering, but more often than not I am ok without them around me. Or in front of me in line, or cutting me off in traffic, etc.

  74. 74.

    Chuck Butcher

    @John Cole:

    I often wonder what happened to Kimmitt and Ted Barlow.

    With the displayed amount of rage and personal heroism I’d guess they flung themselves from a high place and ended kersplat on their Mom’s basement floor three feet later. It is really impolite they no longer come around to provide relief from all the useless leftist chatter.

  75. 75.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    @John Cole: NPR had an interview with a guy who is one of the biggest reality TV stars in Spanish language TV. His show is a reality TV about his car repo business. Link is here.

    In the interview he goes on about how much he loved the A Team and how it led him to his present line of work. There is some good A Team audio in the piece..

  76. 76.

    AnneW

    @asiangrrlMN:
    If your sleep study is anything like mine, once they determine that you need a CPAP, they will next need to figure out on what level it should be set.

    I love my CPAP machine. When it’s a bit too chilly, or if I’m trying to nap during the day, I can pull the covers completely over my head (which always reminds me of the Far Side cartoon in which the kid used a snorkel device to hide under the covers so the monsters couldn’t get him).

  77. 77.

    Chuck Butcher

    @Incertus:

    Either my blog is way kinkier than I thought it was, or Bing sucks as a search engine. The possibility of both being true has not escaped me.

    I inadvertantly discovered that “Tossing” in a title has sexual conotations in Great Britain, to the point of doubling my daily hit count for several days. My hit counts demonstrate that my site sucks.

  78. 78.

    freelancer

    @ John Cole:

    I like the concept of people in the abstract

    Yup, that sounds like something said by a fellow Dish reader.

    They could be chanting “John Cole RULES!” and get enough of them together, and I would support pepper spraying them.

    Hmm…

    I think I’ve seen this movie before.

    People together, in large numbers, chanting things like “John Cole Rules” and then John pepper sprays them:
    https://balloon-juice.com/?p=22073#comment-1253029
    [EDIT: Goddamnit, why does the second link sometimes erase the post?! Jesus that’s frustrating.]

  79. 79.

    Max

    I saw a great tweet on Twitter this afternoon, can’t remember who said it, so apologies to the footnote universe.

    The GOP is divided over Obama’s Cairo speech, some are pissing themselves and the others are $hitting themselves.

    Made me laugh.

  80. 80.

    Laura W

    @John Cole:

    What with my sparkling online personality, I’m not sure if it comes through how much I genuinely dislike 99.9% of people. I like the concept of people in the abstract, and I hate people suffering, but more often than not I am ok without them around me.

    I LOVE HUMANITY, IT’S PEOPLE I CAN’T STAND. …

    -Lucy (Peanuts)

    (I’ve heard this about myself from more than one astrologer. Which reminds me, Lucy is an awesome pet name. Or online handle.)

  81. 81.

    Chuck Butcher

    @John Cole:

    Or in front of me in line, or cutting me off in traffic, etc.

    I’ve had several scooter pals lobby me to go to Sturgis with them, I can’t think of anything less appealing than being there, the getting there would be cool. What a brawl…

  84. 84.

    John Cole

    @gex: Pretty much. If I am in control of the situation I can handle people, and with a couple belts of scotch I can handle parties for a bit. Other than that, I am cool with chilling out with the cat.

    Basically, anything more than two people oogs me out for extended periods.

  86. 86.

    TenguPhule

    I LOVE HUMANITY, IT’S PEOPLE I CAN’T STAND. ..

    Vice versa for me.

    Like individuals, sick of the species.

  87. 87.

    John Cole

    What is weird is I used to be an extrovert. Always had to be with the group, with the crowd, with large numbers of people. I know it is anecdotal, but my own personal experiences have made me think that Costa & McRae and also Eysenck are all full of shit. I wonder about the stability of these traits, especially considering that so much social science research is done using them as foundational research. Maybe people change over time more than those pushing supertraits want people to admit?

  88. 88.

    Montysano

    Our local arts center, the Flying Monkey, has a used vinyl store. It started out kind of lame (lots of Herb Alpert and Styx), but he’s suddenly got it going on.

    So I’ve discovered what a fabulous band the original Funkadelic was. Not Parliament/Funkadelic with the spaceship silliness (YMMV), but the early stuff like Maggot Brain, America Eats Its Young, Free Your Mind, Standing of the Verge, and Cosmic Slop. Psychedelic soul? I dunno, but it’s bangin’.

  89. 89.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    Hmm. John, do you actually feel drained by being around other people for a long time, even people you like? Or do fewer and fewer people seem worth the aggravation these days? If you’re drained, you’re a brand spanking new introvert. If you’re irritated, you’re a curmudgeon.

  91. 91.

    TenguPhule

    Always had to be with the group, with the crowd, with large numbers of people.

    The intelligence of a crowd is an inverse function of the number of people comprising it.

  92. 92.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    Not in my experience, but I blame cycling in Toronto. You do not want to know how many people offered me the door prize today.

    But drained = introvert in my book, which is shorter and easier to read than Eysenck’s. You can be a curmudgeon, too, if you like. I highly recommend it.

  93. 93.

    TenguPhule

    You can be a curmudgeon, too, if you like. I highly recommend it.

    “Get off my lawn!”

  94. 94.

    gex

    @John Cole: Interesting. I’ve always been an introvert, but admittedly I because less so as I entered my 30’s. However, I still like the idea of people better than actual people.

  95. 95.

    Garrigus Carraig

    @JL

    Last year someone wrote about an online sports channel, ADTHE.net. I can’t remember who mentioned that site but thank you. I was able to watch the Federer tennis match this afternoon. For baseball fans, they now have the sox/rangers game on now.

    It’s < atdhe.net >, but you and the original referrer are the greatest people on earth. Jamie Moyer is at the plate Right Now.

  96. 96.

    Montysano

    @AnneW:

    I love my CPAP machine.

    Same here. It absolutely changed my life. I was a zombie and didn’t know it.

  97. 97.

    freelancer

    via one of my heroes (relevant @ 4:10 if the link screws up):

    “People who hate people, Come together!”

    “No!”
    –
    “Are you gonna be there?”
    “Yeah.”
    “Then I ain’t fucking coming!”
    “But you’re our strongest member!”

  99. 99.

    freelancer

    Holy Crap,
    Thank you to whoever mentioned ATDHE.net, it is SO much better than myP2P.eu. Sweet, college baseball on ESPN2, and the CWS comes to town next weekend.

    I now completely do not miss Cable.

  100. 100.

    2th&nayle

    @Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse: That’s It! Irritated! Some of it’s my age, some of it’s years of disillusionment, and some is just fatigue (possibly mixed with depression), but I’m finding myself less and less able to muster much give-a-shit as regards enduring the same inane blather even from people I like. Curmudgeonhood here I come! Thanks Comrade Mary!

  101. 101.

    Jay C

    @Linkmeister:

    A little late in the thread, but “Portabella pizza” is a useful use for them: get a couple of the big caps (caps only): saute gill-side up for 3-4 minutes in some olive oil; then saute gill-side down for 2-3 more, then turn over (gills up) and fill the cap with shredded cheese; then grill under a broiler until the cheese is nicely browned.

    As for wine choices, light reds go well with mushrooms; a Beaujolais, maybe a California Petit Syrah, maybe a rose.

  102. 102.

    slightly_peeved

    You can make a nice burger out of portobellos: put a grilled portobello in a bun or bagel, stick some lettuce (or baby spinach) on top, some tomato, and some cheese (goat’s cheese works pretty well).

  103. 103.

    burnspbesq

    @Montysano:

    That looks like a pretty cool joint. And I’m not going to say “for Huntsville, Alabama,” because any town in the former Confederacy that has (or had – is it still there?) a college hockey team is just too cool for words.

  106. 106.

    asiangrrlMN

    @John Cole:

    What with my sparkling online personality, I’m not sure if it comes through how much I genuinely dislike 99.9% of people. I like the concept of people in the abstract, and I hate people suffering, but more often than not I am ok without them around me. Or in front of me in line, or cutting me off in traffic, etc.

    Dude, get the fuck out of my head. No, seriously. This is me all the fucking time.

    @JL: Woah. Thank you for bringing this up. I have now bookmarked it!

    @AnneW: I don’t wanna sleep in a strange place. I just don’t wanna. However, I am at the end of my rope with the sleep thing, so I will grudgingly give in one of these days.

  107. 107.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @John Cole

    In the army, they used to joke it was a damned good thing I went armor instead of infantry because I would have given away the position to the enemy.

    Plus there’s the added benefit that you’re not going to be annoying anyone in your company since most tankers are deaf by the time they hit their mid 20s.

  108. 108.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @freelancer

    Hmm…
    I think I’ve seen this movie before.
    People together, in large numbers, chanting things like “John Cole Rules” and then John pepper sprays them:
    https://balloon-juice.com/?…..nt-1253029
    [EDIT: Goddamnit, why does the second link sometimes erase the post?! Jesus that’s frustrating.]

    Funny, I had always thought that John was more of a punch you in the neck kind of guy rather than a pepper spray kind of guy.

    As far as why the second link erases the post the reason for this is that WordPress’s coders are a bunch of useless drunks and idiots. However you can get around their drunkenness and idiocy by submitting the post and then checking to see if the links and the rest of the post are there. Usually they are, but sometimes, for reasons known only to the drunks at WordPress, the links have “nofollow” tags appended to them or the brackets around the link get translated into the literals for the greater than and lesser than signs &gt; and &lt; rather than being properly read as part of a tag.

  109. 109.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @John Cole

    On a side note, I finally realized what it is I like about Burn Notice (beside Gabrielle Anwar and the fact that it has Bruce Campbell)- it has a serious A-team vibe.

    Gabrielle Anwar and Bruce Campbell? Why didn’t anyone tell me about this. I’m going to the iTunes store and buying me some goddamn Burn Notice, shitfire.

  110. 110.

    AhabTRuler

    Well, I don’t stay in to comment on a blog on weekends, I comment because I stay in.

    Full Disclosure: Tonight I went to see John Prine play at Wolftrap, and last night I saw Man Man and Gogol Bordello play in Baltimore, so this week/weekend, I am not as lame as I usually am.

  112. 112.

    bago

    @Wile E. Quixote: Have you read the mish-mash of JS libs and whatnot that make up this site? Random additions to the html spec are “supported”, you just can’t search for regexes, and I have NO IDEA what goes on server side. It’s a crap katamari!

  114. 114.

    Linkmeister

    Jay C and slightly_peeved, thanks. I think seeing the Carl’s Jr. ads for the $6 Portobello burger gave me the idea to pick them up when I saw them at Safeway this afternoon, so leaving out meat might not be a bad idea. Pizza or stuffed caps with canned crabmeat might do it, too.

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    freelancer

    @ Wile E,

    It just occurred to me because that was a very heated thread about gagortion which still stands unmolested for all to see [btw, Cole did the appropriate thing to the other thread] that basically turned into a Sullivan dogpile/two-minutes hate. And the events mirrored exactly the way John described his social worldview as well. He tried to put a stop to it at comment #204, making a very similar point to one I had made earlier.

    Oh, and Via C&L, this one’s for you:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJJW7EF5aVk

    PS FUWP

  116. 116.

    burnspbesq

    @AhabTRuler:

    Thank you for reminding me that I need to get my act together to go to the Acoustic Music Festival on the pier in Santa Monica tomorrow. Richard Thompson, Natalie McMaster, Bruce Cockburn. An opportunity to show Man-Cub what real music sounds like.

  117. 117.

    Anne Laurie

    Mr Jud has sleep apnea and has so far refused to do anything about it.

    R-Jud, make him get the effin’ CPAP machine! ! ! (If insurance is a problem Medicaid should cover the cost, I think, at least in some states.) I had a friend who thought we were being “overdramatic” when we nagged her, just because her audible-from-the-next-room snores stopped & resumed every 20 seconds…. until she took a “micro-nap” while on the freeway and ended up in the ditch. Once she got a proper sleep-apnea diagnosis, and started using a CPAP, she was so much more focused that she got a promotion at work. Which was nice, but what her friends appreciated most was her being NOT DEAD, if you know what I mean.

  119. 119.

    laxel

    This is dumb, but I was 2 seats from winning an entry to the WSOP main event today, via satelite. My pocket 8’s got beat by A9. Three of us left, only one spot. Gdam. In an unrelated way, this is a good story of poor ranching family winning hundreds of millions in Winner, SD.

  120. 120.

    R-Jud

    Thanks for the advice w/r/t sleep apnea, y’all. I may have made some headway today, pointing out to Mr Jud that being caught napping while on the motorway with the baby in the car would be pretty fucking tragic. Normally I just complain about the snoring, and how I never get a full night’s sleep, or bring up the apparent increased risk of heart disease, but appealing to his paternal instincts may just be the ticket.

    Thankfully he had grown out of sleepwalking long before we ever met, but I have a feeling the Bean may do that once she’s able. When she dreams, she twitches and squeaks and makes funny faces. I’m waiting for one of her legs to start kicking like a dog’s.

    I thought it was normal when you were 18 to wake up with your girlfriend sleeping on the floor of your apartment with two pillows over her head.

    Was it your snoring, or her own deep, abiding shame?
    /ducks, awaits the banhammer

  121. 121.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @bago

    @Wile E. Quixote: Have you read the mish-mash of JS libs and whatnot that make up this site? Random additions to the html spec are “supported”, you just can’t search for regexes, and I have NO IDEA what goes on server side. It’s a crap katamari!

    “Crap Katamari” that is brilliant.

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