Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

We still have time to mess this up!

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

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

A consequence of cucumbers

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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  1. 1.

    SGEW

    Go Bitsy!

    [Also remember: there’s a Project Wonderful ad for Bitsy up on this site – clicky clicky!]

  7. 7.

    Brick Oven Bill

    This is the first and last time I will ever vote for something called ‘Little Bitsy’. Come on Laura.

  14. 14.

    donovong

    Done and done. I have like 5 email addys, so I will vote from all of them.

    And this is probably the last time I will ever agre with BoB on anything.

  15. 15.

    Violet

    I’m trying to register to vote, but it won’t let me register. The page just keeps loading. I’m not having a problem with any other site, so I don’t think it’s on my end. Perhaps BJ has overwhelmed their site with voters.

  20. 20.

    Laura W

    @Jay K.: I’ll ask Evelyn her age, but she is probably still putting on weight from her ordeal:

    Evelyn wrote:

    I found Little Bitsy on Old Toxaway Road..Skin and bones..had been hit by car. According to vet, car accident was several weeks before I got her. Had seen her several times and would stop and feed her but took a while to get her to come to me. She is now is a great home..Sleeps in bed with them under the covers..Great ending.

    The voting booth must be too full right now since the site won’t load. Please keep trying to get on. It happened to me earlier this morning. Week 5 ends Sat. night, so if we can push her through this week, she’ll be a top 12 semi-finalist.

    Welcome back, Bill. I, for one, missed you.

  22. 22.

    harlana pepper

    PS, I also am getting over a cold transferred all the way from Key Largo. Snot Central here. I know you want detail.

  25. 25.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Thanks Laura, I enjoy this place. And your dog is very cute, good luck with the contest. Perhaps a good adopted name for this cute dog would be ‘Glenn’.

    None of my business really.

  26. 26.

    dr. bloor

    Bitsy looks like she was assembled by a four year old without proper supervision. Which is to say, adorable.

  31. 31.

    bedtimeforbonzo

    I’m with Max on being a sucker for the head tilt.

    Also, I could not access the website, and will try later.

    Welcome back, BoB.

    Good to see you around, DecidedFenceSitter. I think we both had terrible 2008s — 2009 hasn’t been a day at the beach, but ’08 was a personal low point.

    Seeing how we have so many dog lovers here, you really should check out this blog, Three Woofs and a Woo — the photography, and captions, of the daily adventures of The Food Lady’s dogs is delightful.

    It will cheer you up on a sad day and make you happier on a happy day (which, to me, captures the essense of why God gave us dogs).

  32. 32.

    Laura W

    @AhabTRuler: It’s simple. Many days BOB is my first out loud laugh. Like today, for example.
    Make me laugh…I’m yours.
    Sorta pathetic, but there you have it.

  36. 36.

    Comrade Darkness

    I flipped through a bit of the gallery to see what the competition looked like. Most real competitors are stymied by poor photography. I have to say I am most impressed by the average dog owner’s ability to name their pet. Some of the names are simply awesome.

  38. 38.

    sylvia

    Site is back up! Thanks for voting! I’m the one that has adopted this precious dog and I thank Evelyn every day for saving her. She really is the cutest dog! Thank Y’all for taking the time to click “Cute”!!!!!

  42. 42.

    CaseyL

    Well. Maybe you can vote every day. The site won’t load for me at all.

    Hope Bitsy can win without me :(

  44. 44.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Gawddamn Comcast. Tuesday my DSL went out suddenly and I went outside to see what gave, and a Comcast tech was tinkering where all the buildings wires came together, and told him my DSL went dead. He swore it wasn’t him but I had my doubts and basically said I didn’t believe in coincidences, and he just shrugged. Called Qwest and the next morn they arrived and said someone had stole my DSL wires apparently to use on a cable teevee hookup.

    They replaced the wires but a lot of other shit wouldn’t work at their servers and they dint get it fixed until now.

    Comcast. The very face of EVIL.

  48. 48.

    AhabTRuler

    Oh, and John, I am disappointed that you did not (badly) photoshop MS Paint (oh, the humanity) Bitsy’s naughty-bitsies out of the photo. You’re slipping, son!

  50. 50.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Comrade Darkness:

    The Qwest guy told me since I only have a DSL line and no phone that was probably why the guy thought it was useless, or something/ I don’t know anything about this stuff but the line went dead for the first time in two years and go outside and there is a Comcast dude fiddling with wires where the crime occurred, or allegedly occurred.

  56. 56.

    Violet

    Server is back! I registered and voted! Bitsy is really cute.
    I scanned through the other competitors and it seems she’s doing pretty well on votes. There are something like 225 pages of dogs, though, so I wasn’t going to check all of them.

    Remind us again tomorrow and hopefully that will put her over the top. All for a good cause!

  57. 57.

    Comrade Darkness

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Other lines being loosened (intentionally or unintentionally) by a tech working in a box is pretty standard, so I’m not arguing this guy wasn’t the problem. But someone taking your dsl lines for cable doesn’t make any sense. DSL runs directly on old copper phone wires, normally anyway. You may not have a phone hookup on your dsl line, but that wouldn’t affect the kind of wire.

    As long as you got it fixed, the details aren’t important.

  59. 59.

    sylvia

    There are alot of pages of dogs! So it’s hard to see what the competition is. I did see several that have more than Little Bitsy. Looks like she is in the running though. With all of your help she just might win this thing!!!

  60. 60.

    daryljfontaine

    @Comrade Darkness: I bet the “leaderboard” doesn’t exist for the voting public, precisely to avoid horseraces. I went and clicked through about 20 pages, then clicked “Last” — there are over 2500 pages of dog pictures in this week alone! No one is getting anywhere in a competition like that without having someone campaigning for them, and campaigning aggressively. In the first 20 pages, no one was beating Little Bitsy, but three dogs named Maceo, Bruno, and Baby were all in the triple digits.

    Best of luck to LB!

    D

  63. 63.

    harlana pepper

    @jibeaux: peanut, cashew nut, pistachio, red pistachio, all-natural white pistachio nut . . . and then at this point, my mama goes crazy

  66. 66.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Comrade Darkness:

    But someone taking your dsl lines for cable doesn’t make any sense.

    Just to clarify, the Qwest guy just said someone took the wires, “apparently” for a teevee cable hookup was me musing, to use the Tom Ridge excuse. And with Qwest doing weird stuff is not unusual, and sometimes I wonder if they aren’t secretly run by the Mafia. They have decent service and don’t give info to the NSA, but you have to watch them close to make sure they aren’t fleecing with some phony tax, or fantasy product.

  67. 67.

    AhabTRuler

    @daryljfontaine: A dog named Challenger was beating Bitsy last night, but the early day freeping here has definitely helped Bitsy to pull ahead. However, I think if John had more better “pathetic acolytes” like GG does (snicker), we could really putch push this thing over the top.

  68. 68.

    Comrade Darkness

    @daryljfontaine: It doesn’t look like there is a public leaderboard. If I didn’t have a todo list that I really dream of finishing for a work-free weekend I’d hack at the form a bit to see if I can force a sort.

    Yesterday’s winner had 803 votes (a cheat anthro in a costume). But that’s an outlier. But maybe we should aim for that, just in case.

  69. 69.

    daryljfontaine

    This is a weird way to waste time, but the many facets of Internet “votes” fascinate me. If you look at the list of Week 4 “Top 30” dogs, and change the URL to check Week 3, you may notice a few that have been submitted across the weeks, but who have not managed to be Top Dog. Odds are, these dogs have been resubmitted for Week 5. As examples, I did a search on “Luther” (Greyhound in a hoodie), “Scooter” (amputee dog with a cart), and “Stanley” (dog peeking under a door), and found that the first two have nearly as many votes as LB, while Stanley has well over 600 votes. These folks are re-entering each week and learning each time. LB may not have a chance this week, but a quicker effort next week might make the difference.

    D

  70. 70.

    Comrade Darkness

    @daryljfontaine: I don’t think you have to resubmit. You are automatically reentered; the votes zero out at the start of each weak. I actually glanced at the rules. Which is so not like me.

    Luther is one sweet looking dog. Not to be disloyal to the cause or anything…

  71. 71.

    sylvia

    Also with a lot of votes is a dog named Coda. Anyone have great ideas how to get more votes? She needs to win this thing!

  72. 72.

    Violet

    @daryljfontaine:

    Agreed. I bet the leaderboard doesn’t exist to keep horseraces to a minimum.

    Also agree that people are learning each week. The first three weeks, the winners’ votes were only double digits. Then last week’s had over 800 votes. So we at least need to get her to 800 votes and maybe shooting for 1000 would be helpful.

    I’ll see if I can spread the word. I’ve got some animal-loving friends and others who also get a kick out of vote spamming (don’t get me started on the whole golden retriever “cutest video” contest debacle. Heh.). I bet they’d be willing to toss a vote or two.

  75. 75.

    Comrade Darkness

    @Violet: May be best to gear up for the next round. Getting friends lined up to vote every day next week.

    Hm, I have vote spamming friends too, now that I think about it.

  76. 76.

    Violet

    Okay, I have told some of my friends. I’ll see who else might be amenable to vote spamming. Nothing like helping a pet rescue organization. How can you resist that!

  79. 79.

    Violet

    Uh oh! Cosmo, the dog drinking out of the Snapple bottle on the beach, has 1199 votes. Time to get busy, people!

  80. 80.

    Violet

    Double uh oh. Big Boy, the dog on the floor by the dog-gate, has 1406 votes. Someone has definitely gotten their spammers working overtime.

  82. 82.

    licensed to kill time

    I voted for Little Bitsy’s big ears and eyes – and that cocked head. Hope she wins!

  84. 84.

    tim

    I’m sorry, but the head of this dog does not belong on the body of this dog. There is something creepy about the look in those eyes: “where did my body go? and how did my head get put on THIS body?

    sorry, this is NOT a cutest anything.

  85. 85.

    licensed to kill time

    oops – wrong email addy in addition to the see oh see kay word, I guess. anyway, will vote each day in hopes Laura W’s friend gets funding for her good work.

  87. 87.

    opium4themasses

    So I figure this is a good place to put this little bit of news (and request for advice too I guess).

    My new kitten turns out to have Feline Leukemia. I don’t want to put her down but the chances of finding a good place for her to live are next to nil as best I can determine. (I can’t keep both her and my FeLV negative cat, they’ll just get each other sick.)

    I was wondering if anyone knew of any home I could take her in the College Station, TX area. (I could arrange to drive her to Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio…)

    I am heartbroken and trying to find something I can do about the situation. She is the most adorable cat ever (proof)

  88. 88.

    opium4themasses

    I am reposting this because I really do want help with an issue, but I don’t know if there is anything to be done.

    original comment

    So I figure this is a good place to put this little bit of news (and request for advice too I guess).
    My new kitten turns out to have Feline Leukemia. I don’t want to put her down but the chances of finding a good place for her to live are next to nil as best I can determine. (I can’t keep both her and my FeLV negative cat, they’ll just get each other sick.)
    I was wondering if anyone knew of any home I could take her in the College Station, TX area. (I could arrange to drive her to Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio…)
    I am heartbroken and trying to find something I can do about the situation. She is the most adorable cat ever (proof)

  90. 90.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @opium4themasses:

    REally a tough break O4Masses. It’s great that you want to give her a chance, but sometimes to alleviate suffering it’s best to put our beloved pets down. Not saying you should, but if that’s what you decide, you shouldn’t feel guilty about it is all.

  91. 91.

    Little Macayla's Friend

    Sending people to this website’s ad to vote would be twice as good to me, but in case anyone wants to send an explanation for the link in an e-mail to someone who might think otherwise (sadly, not snark), this is almost a copy (may be errors, improvements to make, test first) of the ad text:

    “Little Bitsy” is the story of one dog, one of thousands of cats and dogs rescued over the past fifty years through the love and efforts of one woman.
    By simply following this link:
    http://www.cutestdogcompetition.com/vote.cfm?h=08C91FF88447651C43B224AF9FFC1E6E
    once per day, you can vote and any funds raised through this contest will support the:
    Charlie Powers Memorial Animal Rescue Fund
    c/o Evelyn Bridges
    226 Panther Gap Road
    Brevard, NC 28712
    Sponsored by Annie W. with gratitude to Evelyn B.

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