Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

đŸŽ¶ Those boots were made for mockin’ đŸŽ”

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Bark louder, little dog.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Everybody saw this coming.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

No one could have predicted…

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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  2. 2.

    demkat620

    I felt that way yesterday. Today blue skies and warm temps. And no work except for the flower beds. Life is good.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    Your garden seedlings should learn how to swim while they’re young, like babies.

  5. 5.

    Elroy's Lunch

    Oh yeah. Serious damp. And nothing better smelling than a 110-year old house that’s been closed up for the last 4 days of this rain. Defines the term musty…

  6. 6.

    dcBill

    Tarkus? Ever since I first heard the Ramones, I can’t listen to Extremely Lame People. Don’t get me started on Yes. Thankfully, I came to my senses before Rush showed up on my radar (the band, not the comedian).

    A couple years ago someone came up to me and, trying to pay me a compliment, said they thought I played like Neil Peart. While I recognize that Mr. Peart’s chops are indeed monstrous, and thanked him for the compliment (?!?), I hadda ask him “were you even listening?” On a good day, I might be Ringo. And I’m proud of that. Anyway, if you wanna talk chops, Billy Cobham could have Peart for lunch, and what a funky meal it would be!

  9. 9.

    dmv

    If you’re in D.C., it’s supposed to stop today, and then back up into the 80s next week. (I confess, I prefer the rain + 60 degree weather.)

  10. 10.

    estraven

    Had to water my garden yesterday! The tomato seedlings were gasping for moisture. The pepper plants were limp and about to give up.

    Got sunshine and blue skies at the moment, which is good, ’cause I still have stuff to plant.

    Our problem here in the thumb of Michigan is the cool temps–got up yesterday to 35 degrees. The basil is probably not going to make it. We had patchy frost two mornings in a row. Really not much like June here!

  11. 11.

    Dan

    The Ramones never did it for me – I gave the first two albums thorough listens and thought they were overrated. But then, I think The Clash is too (Is “London Calling” really all that? The awesomeness of, say, “Lost In The Supermarket” has always escaped me). Same for Talking Heads. There’s a whole swath of 70’s hipster music that just doesn’t do a thing for me.

  12. 12.

    Nicole

    It’s beautiful today in New York. Off to the Belmont to see if Borel can do a jockey Triple Crown. I had grand plans of handicapping the racing form last night, but instead I got drunk.

  14. 14.

    Rosali

    It’s been raining everyday for about 4 weeks straight here in FL. We need the rain because of the prior drought but daily thunderstorms are not fun. I think we’re in for 40 days and 40 nights.

  15. 15.

    Micheline

    The rainy season in South Florida started with a bang. Every day it’s been pouring rain but we do get sunshine time to time.

  17. 17.

    Laura W

    Gorgeous here in Western NC. I had a terrible night’s sleep. I totally blame Lily.

    In browsing the art thread I have fallen in love with several of Renato’s photos. Cypresses and Papigno. I am fascinated by hydrangea.
    There are two others I love but probably can’t find them again to save my life.

  20. 20.

    gex

    Cold and rainy here in MN. It was 47 degrees this morning when I went to take the dog for a walk.

  22. 22.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Western Sunrise

    The nature of man is not pure. As people, we are a checkerboard of good and evil. The Founding Fathers had personally experienced what many today have not. This is that when men are placed in positions of power, the checkerboard gets a little out of whack.

    This realization on the Founder’s part led to the concept of strict limits on government. These were very smart men.

  23. 23.

    Laura W

    @Brick Oven Bill: Gorgeous shot, Bill. There is nothing like the sunrise in the desert. I spent my happiest childhood days in the CA high desert with my maternal grandparents (Apple Valley, for anyone who knows where that is. Near Victorville.)
    I also had some very powerful weeks at conferences in the AZ desert when in my 20s and 30s. Your photo makes me very nostalgic for those times.

  25. 25.

    Digital Amish

    Rained here last night. For the first time in a couple of weeks. Just enough to get things wet but not enough to do any good unless you’re a slug. Hmmm? Is the Pacific Northwest the only area where slugs are the gardeners bane?

  26. 26.

    geg6

    It is a stunningly beautiful day here in WPA. My sister is going into the ‘Burgh for the Kenny Chesney (yuk) concert and staying overnight, so I will be heading to her house to dog sit her rescued Spitz, Cookie, who is now 10. Cookie loves me much and I am her favorite aunt. So I will spend the day basking on the deck, drinking some beer and eating the pizza she made and left for me and wrapping it up with cuddling with Cookie while watching hockey. Oh, and I could never understand a person who thinks the Ramones and the Clash are overrated. We have two completely different realities. Punk does and always has ruled my world.

  27. 27.

    JGabriel

    John Cole:

    It will never ever stop raining. Ever.

    Yeah, it’s been raining in NYC too. WtF, did April get timeshifted into June?

    .

  30. 30.

    cleek

    frankly, my sinuses would like a few more days of rain, to keep all that pollen down.

    this is spot-on: @Dan (except for the Heads. i love some Heads).

    except for a handful of songs, London Calling is just goofy.

  31. 31.

    El Tiburon

    Come down to Austin, Texas my friend.

    Like the eskimos, we have 2,000 ways of saying “When the fuck is it going to rain?”

  32. 32.

    eldorado

    via metafilter – apparently it’s now ok to taser someone in order to make them comply with a court order for a dna sample.

    link

  36. 36.

    R-Jud

    @JGabriel:

    Watch Stop Making Sense.

    …on a big screen, if you can. Cornell Cinema used to run it once a year when I was in college, and people would get up and dance. Good fun. And I agree that while the Ramones and the Clash leave me scratching my head as to what the fuss was all about, there is a lot more to like about the Talking Heads. However, with the exception of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, I don’t get much of a buzz from David Byrne’s non-Heads output. The monthly radio stream he curates is frequently super, though.

  37. 37.

    cleek

    Watch Stop Making Sense Storefront Hitchcock. It’s a Jonathan Demme film.

    I don’t get much of a buzz from David Byrne’s non-Heads output. The monthly radio stream he curates is frequently super, though.

    his blog can be interesting, too.

  38. 38.

    SGEW

    Ya know, it’s funny how racism (or “quasi-racism” or “race-baiting” or whatever) feels so viscerally different when it’s targeted at yourself, your family, and your cultural heritage, as the new National Review cover does to me. I’m surprisingly mad.

    Never mind the, uh, “inscrutable” decision to use east Asian stereotyping imagery to caricature someone from Puerto Rica. Those exotics, whatever, it’s all fungible.

    [But then again, all the Dominicans in my neighborhood think I’m Puerto Rican on Puerto Rico day here in NYC, so maybe there’s something more to it? No, wait, it’s NR, never mind, they’re just racist assholes.]

  39. 39.

    REN

    Hasn’t rained here in a month. Hasn’t been above 60 degrees yet either. One of the joys of living near Lake Superior,otherwise known as nature’s air conditioner.

  40. 40.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Talked with a guy from a big engineering company about his workload yesterday. They are finishing up some projects but are running out of things to do. Many smaller firms have closed their doors. A secretary who has a child was listening. I comment that if the engineers are slow now, it is not looking good for the construction industry in 18 months. The secretary nodded. Her husband just died and she cannot sell her house because of the market.

    The system, based upon greed, is running its course. Economies are founded upon things that are grown, mined, and built. Profits are maximized when labor costs are minimized. A building job in Central America pays $3/day and a basic job in America pays $100/day. So those with the power and greed did away with tariffs and imported low-cost labor, increased their profits, and are in the process of destroying the domestic economy. This they call ‘Globalization’.

    But, in order to maintain their power in the short run, promises had to be made that cannot be kept. As far as I can figure, the plan is to collapse the dollar and the associated safety net and use the social chaos to further consolidate power and wealth. It is the classic High using the Low against the Middle but I do not think it will work out for them.

    Why not, you ask. The reason is because Wade Rathke appears to me to be a wearer of makeup.

  41. 41.

    frankdawg

    In MN are in the middle of the 3rd driest year since they started keeping records right now. It is supposed to rain today but so far it is only damp not rain. I’d kill for a day long soaker.

  42. 42.

    PaulW

    If it keeps raining over you, you might just be a Rain God (re: Douglas Adams). Ergo ipso, you need to move to Georgia, because they (and Florida) seriously need to refill after 10-20 years of drought conditions.

  43. 43.

    Woody

    If it keeps raining over you, you might just be a Rain God (re: Douglas Adams). Ergo ipso, you need to move to Georgia, because they (and Florida) seriously need to refill after 10-20 years of drought conditions.

    Or you might consider the southwest?

    We’re droughted-out out here, too.

    In Abq, I doubt we’ve had 2 inches of precip since last Sept…

  44. 44.

    Wini

    Just took my Laura-shower (i.e., cold-stream-of-water-at-the-end-shower), and am headed to school for the afternoon… in the “rain”!! (it’s been a long time since we’ve seen it in Mpls, and it’s quite construction-dusty around here these days… unfortunately, it’s more of a drizzle right now)

  45. 45.

    burnspbesq

    We actually had a bit of rain (and one awesome thunderstorm) in SoCal this week. Was nice to see, even if the thunder and lightning at 2:00 a.m. freaked out the 275 pounds of dog.

    Copying 865 gigabytes of music files to a new, bigger disk array. Hopefully it will be done by next weekend.

    Oh, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you must see the cover of the current issue of TNR. Clowns can’t even keep their racism in order. I didn’t realize that “Sonia Sotomayor” is code for “Deepa Chandrasekar.” I guess there has been an undocumented update of the software for the Wingnut Decoder Ring.

  46. 46.

    SGEW

    Choice right wing craziness for the day! How these people are countenanced as being within the “mainstream” is frankly horrifying.

    From “Rediscovering God in America,” God.tv’s three hour event staring Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Oliver North (via Chris Good) (emphasis added throughout):

    “I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history,” Gingrich said. “We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism.”

    This is open, obvious, and unapologetic religious bigotry. No other way to put it.

    “The notion that we are just one of many among equals is nonsense,” Huckabee said [referencing President Obama’s speech in Cairo, which stated that one nation shouldn’t be exalted over another]. The United States is a “blessed” nation, he said, calling American revolutionaries’ defeat of the British empire “a miracle from God’s hand.”
    “I am not a citizen of the world,” said Gingrich. “I am a citizen of the United States because only in the United States does citizenship start with our creator.”

    It’s kind of nice to see American divine exceptionalism laid out on the table so brazenly. It has a sort of refreshing sincerity. Maybe we should have an open debate on it, and really pit the “reality-based community” against the fundamentalists. I wonder how “Is America God’s Chosen Land?” would poll.

    Finally, someone please explain what the hell this means:

    “Politicians aren’t interested in pleasing the public,” [Huckabee] said. “They’re interested in pleasing voters.”

    Wtf, exactly, does Huckabee think is the difference between “the public” and “voters”? Is he for further enfranchisement rights (e.g., felons, minors, gerrymandered minoritities, etc.)? Somehow I don’t think so.

  47. 47.

    smiley

    “Politicians aren’t interested in pleasing the public,” [Huckabee] said. “They’re interested in pleasing voters.”

    I love it when politicians talk about politicians as if they themselves were not a politician.

  48. 48.

    ruemara

    Please send the rain here to cali. My vegetable garden and water collection bin need it.

  49. 49.

    SGEW

    Also, just noticed the “Help Save the Unborn” Heritage House ad at the top of the page and the 9/11 truther one on th’ side.

    Pro-Life chotchkies, Truther propaganda, Meat-Is-Murder videos, nsfw webcomics (some w/ furries!), independent arts and crafts, and a fervent desire to “free” Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter.

    What a demographic!

    [N.B.: still prefer over PJMedia ads.]

  51. 51.

    SGEW

    Hi B.O.B.

    Actually, I thought I’ve been quite non-complaintative recently. I haven’t complained about you and your self-admitted misogyny, racism, or advocacy of oligarchy lately, have I? Talk about complainable.

    So how was the Beck two-hour-hate “comedy” special for you? Learn anything new about American history and how Woodrow Wilson was a Nazi, while Thomas Paine spins ever faster in his unconsecrated grave?

    As for your reference to Newsweek, I once again fail to see what your point may be. And linking to iowahawk just lowers my estimation of your sincerity.

    [must disengage from antagonist! so hard to ignore . . .]

  52. 52.

    Aaron M

    Google has a Tetris logo up today, not a D-Day one. How long until some wingnut notices and declares it further proof of Google’s anti-americanism?

  53. 53.

    Pasquinade

    @Aaron M

    You can always count on the FReepers. They have 2 threads up so far today.

  54. 54.

    2liberal

    It will never ever stop raining. Ever.

    move to a warmer, drier climate. (PHX area qulifies. Housing is cheap right now.) Bring the dog, give the cat to a neighbor.

  55. 55.

    gex

    @SGEW: VP of my company used the word “gay” the way 13 year old boys do, to mean stupid, lame, humiliating, etc. When I complained about him using the word as a derogatory term he just said, “I didn’t mean it that way.” And that was that.

    It’s not the first time he’s done it. It won’t be the last. It’s in the conservative white male DNA apparently. Walk around insulting people, never thinking about what you are saying or caring how it comes off. Then you get to feel all oppressed when people ask you to stop being a complete dick at work.

    Edit: Yes, *he* was angry when I complained to his boss.

  56. 56.

    AnneW

    The comic strip Candorville has been doing a series this week on Cheney’s recent media blitz. From today’s cartoon:

    “Dick Cheney just refused to get off my TV. Apparently during the years 2001-2008, his secret undisclosed location was the year 2009.”

  57. 57.

    Cain

    You people are such wimps. It rains constantly up till middle of June here in the great Northwest. (although it started being summer a month early here.. woo!!)

    BTW anybody catch E.J. Dionne’s article in the Post? Pretty good read and it kind of goes back to that idotic thread we had sometime back. Basically, it says that due to the media giving far right winger coverage all the time we aren’t debating the real topics with nuance. I have to agree that the media seems to have boiled everything down to caricatures of good/evil or socialist and racist and silly stuff without actually debating the merits of a policy. It’s lame.

    Here is the post

    and don’t go chasing waterfalls, stick to the lakes and rivers that you’re used to. Thanks.

    cain

  58. 58.

    asiangrrlMN

    @SGEW: I was with you all the way on every comment you made. Don’t pay attention to B.O.B. and keep speaking the truth (which, by the way, is not complaining).

    P.S. We got about four hours of rain today in the Twin Cities, and it’s cold. In other words, I’m really happy.

  59. 59.

    DaBomb

    It’s not raining in Houston. I wish it was. It’s just hot as hell. As always.

  60. 60.

    Chuck Butcher

    It’s been raing here for a week, not too unusual for NE OR, we may be semi-arid but June is ordinarily our wettest or second wettest month. I’m tired of it.

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