Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A norm that restrains only one side really isn’t a norm – it’s a trap.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

The revolution will be supervised.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

No Justins, No Peace

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Democrats are back in array!

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

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  3. 3.

    aimai

    Cleaning, blogging, made brownies, sending one child on a day bus trip to perform in repertory show and the other child off to see the ballet. We are excited to think we will be childless for the whole afternoon. On checking, it turns out really to be just an hour or so. Ah. Well.

    aimai

  4. 4.

    burnspbesq

    It won’t last, but …

    Duke 7, Virginia Tech 0

    And you know that there are two many sports channels on cable TV when one of them is showing Central Connecticut State playing football. No offense to any CCSU alums out there, but srsly.

  6. 6.

    Robertdsc-iphone

    I do not want to be here at work today. I’ve got a sore throat & runny nose, am sore all over & have no motivation to work at all. Bleh.

  7. 7.

    Comrade Darkness

    Corned beef and cabbage?

    Dude, I don’t know how you do it, but you make me want food I never eat.

  9. 9.

    Bill H

    Making corned bread, stewed tomatoes and blackeyed peas.

    My grandmother worked as a dietitician for the LSU athletic department for many years, and I have very fond memories of watching college football with her and watching her go ballistic over The Tigers. She passed away more than 30 years ago, but my fondness for LSU has not faded. On the other hand I lived in Atlanta for almost 20 years, fell in love with that city, and many close friends went to Georgia, so I usually pull for the Bulldogs.

    What to do, what to do…

  10. 10.

    Max

    I am headed out with the doggie to try a new (for me) trail loop at Chabot Regional Park. Go Bay Area! Woot.

    Let’s hope that the Bay Area Hiker Website hasn’t steered me wrong and I don’t get to the middle of the loop and am faced with a steep climb. Going more for distance today, not elevation.

  12. 12.

    gbear

    I’m going thru my CDs today listening to some that I hadn’t listened to for years or I forgot I had. Right now it’s Kitchens Of Dinstinction. Martha and the Muffins got put into the ‘sell’ pile last night. Some 80’s stuff doesn’t age well.

    We’re getting the first replentishing rains that we’ve had in the Twin Cities in the last year and a half. The Cities have been in a horrible drought pattern for three years and I am enjoying this rain today, although I hope the sun comes out for the Twin City Marathon tomorrow.

    @aimai: just wanted to complement your great posts on the previous threads.

  13. 13.

    Mark S.

    Could Boise St. actually play for the title? They are already #5, and at least two of the teams in front of them have to lose.

  15. 15.

    Kirk Spencer

    The weather in Georgia has finally broken enough I can use the oven.

    Thus tonight’s meal will be baked spaghetti with a simple salad on the side.

  16. 16.

    gbear

    @JK: I haven’t been listening but I imagine she has. Her self-regulating circuitry is pretty much fried.

  17. 17.

    geg6

    Oh, John, you make me go back to dinners at Grandma Schnell’s (who, despite her married name, was Irish through and through). She died when I was only 8, I still remember how good her corned beef and cabbage was. She also made the most fabulous Irish stew and soda bread. Mmmmm.

  18. 18.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Go William and Mary. Do us proud on TV. Beat Villanova to move up the ranks of the IAA.

  19. 19.

    burnspbesq

    This post by Deborah Pearlstein should be read and considered by anyone who thinks that Obama’s approach and position on detention issues are the same as Cheney’s.

    http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/10/catching-up-with-critics.html

    I also think it’s interesting that we haven’t heard much bitching from the Obama Administration when it loses the court cases it inherited from the Bush DOJ. I may be far too optimistic, but it seems to me that they are perfectly happy to have political cover for changing policies that they were always going to change.

  20. 20.

    anie

    Today – making beef stock…well, really tomorrow too since it takes about 18 hours and then I have to chill it down. I made butternut squash soup that was fabulous to go with this weeks Pacific NW rain.

    Speaking of which – the big football news here, home of the University of Oregon, is that Blount might be reinstated some time in November if he meets conditions.

  21. 21.

    smiley

    @Mark S.: Doubtful. To a BCS bowl, maybe, but not the title game. Their strength of schedule won’t be anything like the UFLs, OUs, UTs or UAs (bama).

  22. 22.

    RedKitten

    I’ve been doing some re-organization today. I installed the roller blinds in Sam’s room, put our summer clothes and Sam’s newborn-size stuff away in storage, and swept the upstairs. Not too bad. Mind you, I’m well-rested, so that helps (he slept from 10:30 to 7:30 last night).

    Will probably just do pasta for supper tonight — something quick and simple.

  23. 23.

    smiley

    @Kirk Spencer: That’s pretty much what I was going to have except I wasn’t going to bake the spaghetti and am throwing in some hot Italian sausages. Now I thinking of baking the spaghetti. Hmmm…

  24. 24.

    Morbo

    Holy poop on a stick. That was about the worst fake punt call I’ve ever seen, regardless of who made it. 4th and inches at your own 25, yeah, that’s a great idea. (Michigan/Michigan State)

  25. 25.

    KRK

    Was finally motivated to cancel my local paper today. They ran yet another Saturday feature that was a self-titled “AP News Analysis,” this time a piece on Obama’s “hugely embarrassing defeat” over Chicago’s Olympics bid and his now-doomed presidency. Also a feature on a Kentucky church that ordained a convicted sex offender as a pastor. I live in western WA. I’m tired of paying for this crap in my local paper.

  26. 26.

    tess

    Slept in, after a full 8 days of horrible respiratory illness, and will walk to the stadium for the Georgia-LSU game in a bit. Downtown was crazy last night–my husband dropped me off at a corner while I went to pick up our pizza while he drove around the block five times. We’ve only had night home games so far, and I forgot how packed downtown gets the night before an afternoon kickoff.

    I’m a big fan of LSU–“Geaux Tigers” never gets old–but was born and bred a Dawg. Woof!

    Dinner will be cold pizza–which really hits the spot after an afternoon in the sun.

  27. 27.

    henqiguai

    @Top

    Talk amongst yourself.

    Okay, but does anyone else here, besides myself, also answer themselves ?

  29. 29.

    Betsy

    Having a hard time keeping my spirits up today. It’s rainy and glum and I just found out that the one job prospect I was really excited about almost certainly won’t be interested in me, since they already have someone who does almost exactly what I do. Blerg.

  30. 30.

    R-Jud

    @RedKitten:

    from 10:30 to 7:30 last night

    Tuckered out from hockey practice, huh?

    We hiked, hit Ikea just as it opened for some new pans and a proper crib for the kid. We priced up some materials for a DIY project we’re planning. Then we put the garden to bed for the season. I made pizza from scratch with this crust recipe; worked pretty well but I generally like something that’s more fermenty.

    Mr. Me is watching Michigan/Michigan State downstairs. It is nice to hear college football in the house, but it’s not the same without my father swearing at people. I smell like lavender, sage, and chamomile, as I am still wearing the clothes I gardened in. Yum.

  32. 32.

    donovong

    Just smoked one half of a turkey, dressing is cooked and ready to go, there is a loaf of honey- whole wheat- oatmeal bread baking, and an apple cake cooling. Life is good. Also.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    corned beef and cabbage

    What a terrible thing to inflict on potatoes and carrots.

    With that, I’m off to one of my favorite restaurants for Thai BBQ pork chop.

  34. 34.

    gbear

    @JK:

    Just found out that Michele Bachmann does indeed have something batshit crazy coming up

    Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a fundraiser in November for controversial ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCRBYCH). Based in Annandale, Minn., the group has made a name for itself as an anti-drug Christian punk rock band that organizes motivational student assemblies to bring Christ to public schools. But over the last several years, parents and school administrators have complained that the ministry misrepresents itself, claiming that the group is not transparent about its Christian mission. And since schools pay using public funds, some are concerned that the group is violating the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state.

    As you read the story in the link, it keeps getting worse.

  35. 35.

    gbear

    At Pequot Lakes High School in central Minnesota in 2007, the group stirred controversy when students reportedly ran out of the assembly crying after the group showed graphic images of abortion and told the students that God wanted women to be subservient to men. John McDonald, Pequot Lakes High School Principal, told WCCO,

    Also in 2007, the group performed in Phelps, Wis., causing an uproar among parents and administrators. “The school district administrator said she didn’t know You Can Run But You Cannot Hide was a Christian group until I told her,” said Paul Guequierre, a reporter for WJFW TV-12. “She showed me the lit from the group and there was no mention that the group was Christian.” Indeed, the group does not mention God, Jesus, Christianity or any religion in the “Principal Packet” that it distributes to school administrators.

    When questioned by the Minnesota Independent about claims that the group doesn’t disclose the religious nature of the assemblies, Dean said, “78 percent of the American people are professing Christians. Are they, in their line of work, to wear ‘I am a Christian’ shirts?” “It sounds like there is a lean toward discrimination in what you are asking,” he added.

    While many have challenged that the group causes schools to run afoul of the separation of church and state, both Bachmann and YCRBYCH deny that the constitutional prohibition exists. In fact, Bachmann urges people to give money to the organization for the stated purpose of bringing Christ into public schools.

    More from the above link. Christ, these guys are assholes.

  36. 36.

    Mr. Prosser

    Have lost all video at your site and other blogs (TBogg for one). All of them are blank. Can anyone tell me what’s wrong?

  39. 39.

    gbear

    Last batch of quotes from the Bachmann story. Too funny/stupid/paranoid to pass on:

    Dean says that the ministry is being targeted by the government because it tells the truth. On his April 11 radio program, he recalled an incident a week earlier which he claimed an employee of the ministry was chased by a helicopter.

    “There was a blue and white helicopter that flew down on top of her van as she was going to this [Wright County] Republican party convention. And then he swooped back down on her again.”

    Bradlee said that helicopters frequently dive-bomb their tour bus with “helicopters flying up to the bus and pulling off.” He said, “What they are trying to do is criminalize the righteous.”

  40. 40.

    Betsy

    @Svensker:
    :) Thanks. It will be ok. It’s just one of those days. I rented a zipcar and will go grocery shopping because I need to get out of the house and stop moping.

  42. 42.

    JK

    @Wile E. Quixote:

    That was indeed a great column by Katha Pollitt. Fuck Roman Polanski. Good or even great art doesn’t entitle anyone to behave like a scumbag. It’s time for Roman Polanski’s perp walk closeup.

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