Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

I really should read my own blog.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

He really is that stupid.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Let there be snark.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

People are complicated. Love is not.

In my day, never was longer.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

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  5. 5.

    Emma

    OOOH, I can just hear Tunch whispering in her ear: see? see what they do to you? come over to the dark side….. I won’t let them hurt your dignity again…. promise…

  17. 17.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Yeah John, that is a “what did I do to deserve this?” face, never do it again, poor Lily was abused before, she doesn’t need to be humiliated in public for the sake of cuteness. At least she didn’t eat the hat, which is what Cueball always does whenever I try this on him, first he shakes his head to try and dislodge the beast and then when that fails he scrapes it off with his paws and consumes it, lest I ever try to put it back on his head.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/December202008263.jpg

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    Well, I for one am having Thai food tonight. And there’s not a fucking thing any of you can do about it.

  27. 27.

    CaseyL

    I dunno. I can’t tell if Lily’s eyes are that wide because she’s pleading for rescue or because the antler hat is pulling her facial skin tight. If she gave Cole the “I trusted you and look what you did” look afterwards, that’s a definite sign he done her wrong. If she just sneezed and shook her head, then she didn’t mind so much.

    Also, I have to admit, I laughed.

  33. 33.

    slag

    You do realize that this is the time of year when we’re supposed to be kind, right?

    At least that’s what Hallmark tells me.

  34. 34.

    PanAmerican

    It snowed all day here. I plowed through 350 “Classic Cartoons” between bouts of snow removal. Man… the Fleischer brothers crapped out a ton of animation.

    She looks like Max from the animated Grinch.

  38. 38.

    Mike in NC

    Our cats freak out when we try the cutesy holiday stuff with them wearing antlers, gold and red silk ribbons, etc. You can expect a turd on your pillow in payback.

  42. 42.

    Max

    @Corner Stone: Well played sir.

    My sympathies to any Gators in the BJ Community.

    Urban Meyer is stepping down for health reasons. My brother may kill himself upon hearing this news.

  45. 45.

    Corner Stone

    Urban Meyer for the win!
    Errr, or maybe for the loss?
    He’s stepping down due to health reasons, acc ESPN.

  53. 53.

    jnfr

    Oh poor, poor Lily. Cole, you are a monster!

    Our vet sends the cats a card full of catnip every year, so they spent last evening rolling around on the floor and drooling. Now that’s entertainment!

  54. 54.

    MattR

    @asiangrrlMN: Dead girl or live boy?

    Seriously, my guess is that his blood pressure, cholestorol, etc have been getting worse the past few years and he finally realized he needed to stop procrastinating and do something about it. Hopefully there is no underlying reason other than the stress of the job.

  57. 57.

    Corner Stone

    @Max: Let’s just honeymoon there.
    I am positively giddy about the crazy shit I could get up to at a place called “Phuket”.

  65. 65.

    Arlene Machiavelli

    Not horribly surprising Meyer is leaving Florida. He was never going to replicate the offensive success with his gimmicky system with someone not named Tebow.

  66. 66.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Having no clue what a dilute calico is, I will just say she is pink, and leave it at that. (Having just looked up dilute calico she is, complete with the gold eyes). She is also nuts. Completely and utterly nuts.

  68. 68.

    Corner Stone

    @asiangrrlMN: I know, I had a good friend spend 16 days there once, and another buddy just get back from 2 months in Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam in November.
    I just like to say “Phuket”.

  70. 70.

    Chat Noir

    @Litlebritdifrnt: OMG! Those eyes. What a gorgeous kitty. I type this with a 14 lb. tortoiseshell cat purring on my lap. Cats are magic.

    Edit: to everyone who is posting pet pix. They are all marvelously adorable.

  73. 73.

    Laura W

    I would like Humiliation By Accessories for $500, please.
    In my ongoing efforts to shame Annie into acquiescence and subservience, we have the Christmas 2009 Bow Debacle.
    I think if Christian from Project Runway were here he would certainly call her look totally “FIERCE”.

    The bow came from this box. OMIGOD. This is the second year in a row my BFF has sent me Norman Love chocolates. I grew up a See’s girl, and will always remain a See’s girl at heart, but holy Mother of Christ, when you’re renting a house with granite counter tops you are almost obligated to upgrade to Norm Love. (It’s gone. I finished it last night. Tried to spread it out over 3 nights. Was a true challenge.)

    And finally (‘cuz I only get three links before I go into Mod Hell, right?), today we received six new red/green colored packets of catnip contraband in the US postal service mail from our dealer in NY. Annie’s skin began to crawl in no time. It’s sorta fun sad to watch your cat hallucinate.

  75. 75.

    Chat Noir

    @MattR: Her face in the second picture says, “what did I do to deserve this kind of treatment?”

    Both pictures are beyond cute.

  76. 76.

    MattR

    @MattR: And one more pic here

    EDIT: She shares my lack of photogenicness and dislikes the camera. Everytime she sees it come out she goes and curls up in her bed (which is still a better reaction than when she sees the nail clippers)

  78. 78.

    Laura W

    And now I would like to share my e-Xmas card with you. A few of you have it languishing in your personal email accounts/spam filters (cough cough, Fuckhead, JenJen, Ahab, ZuZu and others who shall remain nameless due to confidentiality agreements…)

    The L-Dub Furs starring in:

    You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out!

  79. 79.

    Anne Laurie

    @toujoursdan:

    Here is my cat Baby…

    … who looks like (s)he just finished eating the rest of the reindeer.

    Mr. Cole, it looks like Lily & SamKitten are separately preparing for a Sad Face of Sadness match… to the death. Of the semi-innocent observers, because we may injure ourselfs larfing, crooel bastrds that we be.

  83. 83.

    donovong

    Dude – that’s just WRONG.

    Look at those eyes. The fear, the betrayal reflcted there. Shame on you, John Cole. Shame on you.

  87. 87.

    Shell

    No, no. A bandanna around the neck is as far as any dog owner should go, ever. Oh, and maybe a ribbon or gift box bow slipped onto the collar on Christmas morning. My dogs would usually rip those to shreds anyway.

  91. 91.

    Shell

    Everything about Cueball is basically “wrong”, he is a force of nature,

    I love that face. He looks like an old ‘hurrumphing!” British colonel.

  93. 93.

    Annie

    I want to see Tunch and Lily taking a picture of John with the ears on and snickering behind the camera….

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Charlie is looking very GQish in the first pose….

    @Max:

    I think “I hate you….” is what he is trying to convey…

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    The cutest cat EVER…………….

  96. 96.

    Yutsano

    Awww she looks sweet. But yeah she has “What are you doing to me daddy?” look on her face. It’s a touch endearing. I could NEVER get away with that on Jack-Jack, mostly because border collies never sit still long enough for something like that to be put on them. Or they think it’s a toy.

    Is it wrong to be drinking a raspberry white mocha and thinking it would be much improved if it had some cranberry in it as well?

  97. 97.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I was +0 then and I’m still +0. I had to work all day today–after closing on Thursday night (the horror!)–and was supposed to go out to a movie with my brother and some friends tonight. He was going to pick me up at 6:00. I slogged home about 5:30, took a shower and redressed, and then–nothing. Bro’ man no show, no call, no nothing. At first I was kind of dozing, glad for the extra time to rest, but then finally I got like WTF and called him. Got voice mail, left him a message saying WTF, hope you weren’t in a flaming car wreck, I guess we’re not on tonight. No word back. So I have stood down from going-out clothes, put on my ratty T-shirt and Lycra running pants and am about to have a drink and see about what to eat for dinner. WTF.

    Good news is the Steep weekend has begun, and I don’t have to go back to the Big Box Bookstore until Tuesday night.

  98. 98.

    Corner Stone

    @Steeplejack: Mmmm…+0 transitions softly into Steepland…
    Welcome my non-brotha.
    But put the lycra down. We’uns ain’t got no tolerance for that shit.

  99. 99.

    Thadeus Horne

    @MattR: They trust us so much. And then we turn around and do something like that to them.
    Second pic says, ” I may never trust you again…..until….until..at least tomorrow morning.
    And they always forgive us.
    Cats? Not so much.

  100. 100.

    Yutsano

    Okay enough playtime gonna go see what happened with the paella at my mom’s house. Have fun y’all.

  103. 103.

    Thadeus Horne

    @Laura W: You made me snort my bourbon out my nose, Laura.
    I heard the same line from my mother when I was a young boy. I never did shoot my eye out, but I did shoot my cousin Ollie in the ball sack. Does that count?

  106. 106.

    HRA

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    I knew there was something famiIiar about Charlie. I was going to adopt a Charlie look alike 2 years ago from a resue. Someone beat me to it. Great pics -keep them coming, please.

    All the pet pics are fabulous.

    As soon as I get to know my new camera -Nikon Coolpix S203- I’ll send some pics of Tiki. Be informed I really have not touched a camera since I was in my HS Camera Club.

  107. 107.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    John, my wife says that if you want to have fun at your pet’s expense, do it the digital way like she did (with your  pets!):

    Round One

    Round Two

    More to follow… :)

  108. 108.

    Violet

    Oh, poor Lily! She’s adorable and looks so sad. “Daddy, why do you hate me?” LOL. Poor little thing. But so, so cute. I hope she got lots of good things for Christmas. Tunchie too.

  111. 111.

    Laura W

    @Thadeus Horne:

    You made me snort my bourbon out my nose, Laura.

    Well then my holiday cheer work here is done. Mission Accomplished!

    And Cousin Ollie’s ball sack shooting counts 3x that of an eye, according to my Red Ryder points chart. Hell, Dick Cheney did not even score that high for the scattered face shot. You win!

  113. 113.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    Standard Disclaimer: This statement of mine:

    John, my wife says that if you want to have fun at your pet’s expense, do it the digital way like she did (with your pets!):

    is in no way advocating that people stick their fingers in their pets. Get your minds out of the gutter!

    Besides that, with my wife here in Oregon and Tunch & Lily in West Virginia, one would need exceptionally long fingers to accomplish this task.

  116. 116.

    Corner Stone

    @Max: Max. Max.
    This Thai food is the straight..umm..good stuff.
    It doesn’t close til 10:00pm CT. You can hop on a plane from OAK to HOU and be here in like 3 hours.
    I’ll order more, get it and keep it in the oven.
    I just had some calimari that is not to be missed.
    Ahhhh!!
    Oh well.

  121. 121.

    Annie

    @asiangrrlMN:

    LOL…If John tried to put the ears on Tunch, the picture we would see is John completely wrapped in bandages…OMG, it would be worth it…Kisses to Raven and Shadow.

  122. 122.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Annie: Yup. It would totally be worth it. Shadow is on my legs right now (his usual position). He tried to kill me last night, though, as I was taking a nap on the couch. I had a pillow over my face (that’s how I sleep) and was asleep when I felt a ka-thunk on my face. Shadow had launched himself off the arm of the couch and landed on the pillow–right on my nose.

  123. 123.

    skippy

    i may be in the minority here, but there is one thing in this world of which i am sure:

    animals. hate. clothes.

    even just goofy hats w/reindeer horns.

    animals. hate. clothes.

    they are much smarter than we are.

  124. 124.

    bystander

    Darling Lili, is an angel from Heaven / Come to see us a little while / Stage door Johnnies wait for her / Our voice encore her / They just adore her style

    Darling Lili, doesn’t dream of the heart / She keeps on breaking with just a smile / But you’d better just forget her / Toddle off and let her be / Leave that darling, darling Lili, to me

    Darling Lili, doesn’t dream of the heart / She keeps on breaking with just a smile / But you’d better just forget her / Toddle off and let her be / Leave that darling, darling Lili, to me

    – Henry Mancini

  125. 125.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @RedKitten:

    My wife loves the Elf Yourself stuff at JibJab and after doing ones of the kids she decided to go to work on Tunch and Lily. She never reads anything here but she pretty much knows everything since I talk to her about some of the crazy shit that hits these pages.

    I bet SamKitten looks really cute dancing and singing… what a talented and accomplished child!

  126. 126.

    Annie

    @asiangrrlMN:

    LOL…Go Shadow. You just have to love the guys. When they want our attention, they want our attention, no matter what we are doing…That is what I love about cats. My boy wakes me now by biting…I never know cats could bite. When he wakes me by biting, the first thing I see are his big, innocent eyes, and the first thing I hear his very loud purr. And, a look that says “Oh, were you sleeping? I didn’t know…Want to play or perhaps feed me?”

  133. 133.

    rikyrah

    I’m going to have to search my pictures , but I found one about a year and a half ago, of this small dog being dressed up.

    what you did, is nothing, compared to what that person did to that poor dog. but I swear, the pic cracks me up every single time I see it.

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