Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

This fight is for everything.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

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

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

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

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Open Thread

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Dustin, Quinn. Mazel tov to Dustin and Mrs. Dustin for delivering a healthy baby at 27 weeks, 2:09 EST yesterday! Quinn is curerntly 1 lb 15 oz (870g), and he’s 13.5 inches long (34cm). For more Quinn pics go here.

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Mario Piperni, Mother and Son.

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Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one.

Click on the photos for a link to the photographer’s website. To see all photo threads, click on ‘photo blogging’ at the bottom of the post.

If your computer cannot read our email links at top right, my email is (remove the zeroes): portus0jackson0ii at yahoo dot com.

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Open Thread: Terry Pratchett’s New Book

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Pratchett released Unseen Academicals six weeks ago. If you’re a Pratchett fan, have you read it yet? And if so, what do you think of it?

I liked it, more than I had feared, especially since all I know about Foot-The-Ball I learned from TBoggs and translations of the Japanese manga Whistle. It’s not one of the top five Discworld novels, but it’s still miles ahead of, say, the first two books in the series. The plot construction wasn’t as sinewy and water-tight as we have come to expect. A better acquaintance with British football (Comrade Scrutinizer, for instance, connects the UA to Manchester’s AU, Arsenal United) would certainly improve one’s enjoyment of the usual Prachettian in-jokes and satires. Lord Vetinari talked too much, but then he was supposed to have imbibed at least a dozen strong ales before doing so.

I think Mr. Nutt, Glenda Sugarbean, and especially Pepe are all worthy additions to the Discworld Canon. Your thoughts?

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Wednesday Night Pet Rescue Open Thread

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Here is tonight’s rescue story:

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Bigger dog Onion was abandoned as a pup. He was the last of his siblings to be adopted because he was scared and neurotic after whatever happened to him before he came to Scottsville Veterinary Adoptions, near Rochester, New York (www.petadoption.cc). I saw him during one of the shelter’s adoption days at a big-box store. He was in a crate, terrified, and when I walked in, he looked over his shoulder at me, and I was smitten. He’s been with us for almost 10 years, and has done a really amazing job of stabilizing himself. He’s still terrified of thunderstorms and skateboards–of course, Dogs at Play dog daycare is right next to a skateboard shop–but he climbs trees, barks his fool head off at all parcel delivery people, and basically has a happy life as a dog stereotype.

Little guy spooning him is Tater, who came from a high-kill shelter and Ohio through http://anotherchancepetrescue.org/, also near Rochester, NY. The little guy and the big guy are totally in love, despite little guy’s piercing ‘yip,’ obsession with stealing tennis balls, and near-total breakdown due to an immune response to a silicone-coated microchip. Microchip is gone (insert jokes about saline, rather than silicone, implants here), little guy is recovered, and the humping has begun again.

Separately and together, they are marvelous, funny, sweet creatures, and the folks who do this rescue work in the Rochester area are amazing. We are forever grateful.

Remember, pets are great, but they require a lot of money, care, time, and love.

*** Update ***

I was going through old folders and found this gem:

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Without a pet, you are missing out on the unconditional love they give.

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Twitter Me Timbers

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So I’m finally getting around to figuring out this twitter stuff and have added a bunch of people to my twitter feed. The default page is so unorganized that I got chest pains and had to go re-organize my dvd’s to restore some balance in my life after I tried to visit twitter.com, so I am looking for a program to deal with the chaos. Are there any out there you would recommend? What about as gadgets for Windows Seven or Mac?

My feed is johngcole, btw. Not sure how much I will use it.

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