Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This blog will pay for itself.

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

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

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

We will not go back.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

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

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Giving up is unforgivable.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

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

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  3. 3.

    funluvn

    No snow here in Raleigh. Snow is a four letter word in these parts, and you can tell when we get an inch and the city closes down for three days.

    Sorry about that Groundhog, John…

  4. 4.

    J.W. Hamner

    I’m going to probably regret saying this… and it won’t make you feel any better… but up here in the Northeast I feel like we got robbed. You took all our snow!

  8. 8.

    daryljfontaine

    Got custody of the dog this week. Little dog + new snow = AWESOME, kind of like Stuck’s pics of Charlie. He went diving through an eight-inch drift because there were two dogs across the street he really wanted to play with. Unfortunately for him he was still on the leash — no hurt, but no play either.

    D

  11. 11.

    Mnemosyne

    Every picture like this that I see reminds me why I got the hell out of northern Illinois and moved to sunny California the instant I could after high school. No. Thank. You.

  13. 13.

    Anne Laurie

    Cole, I hope you showed that photo to Lily. Let her whine about cold paws when she’s caked up like this poor little dude!

  15. 15.

    licensed to kill time

    That poor puppy looks uncomfortable and embarrassed.

    I took my born ‘n raised in SoCal doggie to the East Coast one winter. She a) fell into a frozen swimming pool and about had a heart attack in the frigid water and b) during a long walk in the snow she sat down and simply refused to walk any further. We were a mile away from the house – I looked at her and said “You don’t seriously expect me to carry you, do you?” (German Shep mix, big)

    She dinna like the snow.

    ETA: This is no reflection on JC’s kind portage of Lily…

  16. 16.

    mcc

    So in the bay area the last couple weeks, it’s rained, like… at least three or four times.

    One day my socks got kinda damp :(

  18. 18.

    Cat Lady

    I’ve got to get out of here. Not much snow now right outside Boston, but it’s been relentlessly cold and gray and brown and moldy, and everything is dirty and bare and ugly and frozen or damp. I’ve barely avoided falling about 5 different times in 5 different places due to the just-at-freezing temps. The roads have turned into slalom courses. Too many houses have left their sad wilted brown wreaths up, and trash is sticking out of the dirty frozen slush banks. The cats are driving. me. crazy. March is going to be worse.

  19. 19.

    slag

    I’m all for the bitching about the shoulder thing because that thing is unequivocally bad. This snow thing…zero sympathy.

  20. 20.

    eastriver

    @mcc:

    That’s nice. The homeless will stay dry.

    (Shouldn’t you be down at Telegraph and Dwight lighting shit on fire? Bad hippie.)

  21. 21.

    kdaug

    Don’t sweat it, folks. If past is prologue, in about 4 months it’ll be 110 in Austin with a drought, and we’ll be dreaming of snow.

    But then, I won’t be coming on to bitch about the heat…

  22. 22.

    Tom Hilton

    I feel your pain: I spent an hour yesterday morning digging our car out of the snow.

    Of course, that was a few hundred miles from home, where we were on vacation (up near Sequoia National Park). Living in a place where you go to the snow (instead of the other way around) is definitely the right idea.

  24. 24.

    Ana Gama

    That photo reminds me of a stray who found me one snowy cold night when I was 19. She hopped into my car while I was loading some stuff into the back seat. Didn’t have the heart to put her out because she was snow-encrusted, and it was obvious that she had been out on her own for a couple of days.

    I took her over to a friend’s house, gave her a warm bath, and some food. And then attempted to sneak her into my parents’ house at 2:00AM. Next thing I knew, my dad was bellowing, “Get this damn dog outta my bed!”

    She became our pet “Toots” for the next 12 years.

  26. 26.

    ET

    Here in DC I was wimpering because we were supposed to get a few inches of what is hitting farther north. Thankfully I didn’t have to resort to copious amounts Kleenex because it passed DC proper with a handfull of flakes at about 5pm yesterday and a 5-6 handfulls a min. ago.

    And for those who want to kill the groundhog if he sees his shadow and goes underground we get more winter. What happens if he dies? Perpetual winter?

    Oh and before I forget, that poor dog.

  28. 28.

    geg6

    Ohhh, poor puppeh! So cute!

    John, are you getting slammed like Uniontown and Somerset are here? The mountainous areas of WPA are just so screwed and I feel bad for them (and you if you’re getting what they are).

    Here, further north and west of Pittsburgh, we’ve only gotten enough to make it melt as it hits the pavement and then blow across the resulting frozen pavement in the ridiculous winds we’re having, making driving…well, let’s call it interesting. It was about 23 degrees this morning but the wind made it feel like 0. After two days at home with the stomach flu/virus, I was so happy to get out of the house. But now I can’t wait to just get home and curl up under my Snuggie. And no, you may not laugh at my Snuggie. Snuggies may well be the greatest invention in the last 5 years, IMHO.

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    PurpleGirl

    The terrace on the top floor of the building across the yard (with no overhang) from my building looks like it comes from Doctor Zhivago — with snow windswept, covering everything there. The snow on the air conditioner unit sweeps up and joins snow on the building’s roof.

    It’s sort of stopped snowing in NYC — light shower of snow and wind making drifts right now.

  30. 30.

    daryljfontaine

    @Mnemosyne: Sadly along with primary custody of the dog, my wife took the digital camera with her when she moved out in November. And my cell phone is complete ASS at taking pics.

    I’m pretty sure we have an older digital camera somewhere, but that will have to wait until I make it through the boxes of stuff to sort for keep/eBay/storage.

    D

  31. 31.

    PurpleGirl

    @geg6: Coats & Clarke (Red Heart Yarns) has a pattern to crochet a snuggie. I downloaded it and will probably make one for next year. (I have too many projects started now to start something that large.)

  32. 32.

    geg6

    @ET:

    And for those who want to kill the groundhog if he sees his shadow and goes underground we get more winter.

    That damn groundhog doesn’t even live underground. He lives in the center of town in Punxsutawney, right outside of the charming old hotel. In a park set aside just for him. In a heated house. He is often fed food from the hotel kitchen. He has a whole goddam volunteer staff to take care of his every need. That fucking rodent lives better than many humans I do. I’d shoot that little fat bastard in about a second, given half a chance. And this year, he better be watching his back. I know how to get to Punxsutawney and I know where he lives.

  33. 33.

    Bruce (formerly Steve S.)

    Our record-breaking warm winter continues unabated here in the great Pacific Northwest, and this past summer we had the single hottest day ever recorded. I’d laugh about all this, but I honestly believe that the personal experiences of federal lawmakers in a snowy winter will influence how they approach climate change legislation, irrational as that may be.

  34. 34.

    geg6

    @PurpleGirl:

    Oooooo, you’ll love it.

    A knitted one, huh? Cool. I’d love that, too. Does it have pockets like mine? You must have pockets in it. Love me the pockets.

  36. 36.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    It’s sunny and 55 here. Gonna walk in the desert a few miles away, and soak up some warm sunrays.

  37. 37.

    Chat Noir

    @Ana Gama: Great story! I love the ones like that with a happy ending.

    We got about 6 inches on Monday and it’s been snowy and windy all day today in SE lower Michigan. The Wheaten Terror is big time stinky from the snow; tomorrow, tho, bath and grooming. He’s going on big road trip next week to see grandma in St. Louis so hopefully he’ll stay clean for a day.

  38. 38.

    Ana Gama

    @geg6:

    Snuggies may well be the greatest invention in the last 5 years, IMHO.

    I just don’t get the Snuggy. It’s it just like wearing a big loose robe backwards?

  40. 40.

    burnspbesq

    @Cat Lady:

    Hop the next plane to Hong Kong. Yesterday it was 77 degrees and 86 percent humidity. Just like New Jersey in May. Paradise!

  41. 41.

    geg6

    @Ana Gama:

    It’s it just like wearing a big loose robe backwards?

    Sorta. I’d have to characterize it as more of a combination of a soft and fuzzy throw, a bathrobe with nice roomy sleeves and pockets, and a hospital gown in that it is open in the back.

    When it’s snowing buckets, the wind is howling outside my windows, and I’m sitting in my recliner watching the tube, rather than turning up the furnace, I put on my Snuggie.

    I heart my Snuggie.

  43. 43.

    burnspbesq

    Overcast and about 60 in SoCal. Supposed to start raining in a few hours, and intensify overnight. Folks below hills that got burned last year are being evacuated for fear of mudslides.

    I swear, the day I get the kid settled into a dormitory somewhere for his freshman year of college, the house goes on the market. I’ll take blizzards and hurricanes over earthquakes and fire all day, every day. At least you get 12 hours notice to evacuate.

  45. 45.

    Yutsano

    @RedKitten: You know they say Canada would be one of the main beneficiaries of uncontrolled global warming. The whole lengthening of the growing season on the Prairies and all that. Of course everyone else would be pretty much fucked but them’s the breaks eh?

  46. 46.

    Blue Raven

    @Yutsano:

    You know they say Canada would be one of the main beneficiaries of uncontrolled global warming.

    Alberta, breadbasket of what’s left of the world.

    Just doesn’t have a good ring to it, though, does it?

  48. 48.

    RedKitten

    @Yutsano: Depends on what part of Canada you’re in. The Prairies would probably do fine.

    I live in Atlantic Canada, and my house is on a river. I’d be fucked six ways from Sunday.

  49. 49.

    asiangrrlMN

    Fuck you all who have snow. Yes, I’m livid over the lack of new snow here in MN. Come on! I live in fucking Minnesota. Where is MY snow?

    @jeffreyw: Tease. And, love your dogs in the snow series.

  50. 50.

    Jim Once

    @asiangrrlMN:
    Just south of you, we have NEVER seen so much snow. They’re predicting worse floods this spring here than the one that destroyed my hometown in ’08. There’s been no winter thaw to reduce the snowpack, snowpack totals in north Iowa are fifty percent more than past records . . . you get the picture. I can’t imagine how Cedar Rapids will survive if this happens again.

  51. 51.

    ChrisS

    Syracuse, NY … prior to yesterday’s snow storm of ~16 inches, we had a season total of 89.5″, which pegs our typical season to date average. Last season, our total to this point was ~146″ .

    Greetings from the snowiest metropolitan area in the US.

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