Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

This really is a full service blog.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Everybody saw this coming.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Mary

    I presume your full Saturday of cleaning, mowing, email clearance and Tunch humiliation has nothing to do with your tiredness, of course.

    Me, I’m feeling more wiped after 2 hours of bike maintenance than several hours of cycling. I definitely need to get a bike repair stand, too.

  5. 5.

    burnspbesq

    The kid was confirmed yesterday.

    I’ve done my job; now his relationship to God and the Catholic Church is whatever he chooses.

  6. 6.

    tamiedjr

    I did a tiny bit of yard work yesterday and am feeling it, so I can imagine you’re a little sore and tired.

    I can smell the bacon from here.

  10. 10.

    demkat620

    @burnspbesq: I refused to do that.

    They both had communion. If they choose to be confirmed it will be as adults.

    My grandfather was an Episcopalian. I will probably start looking at them. I can’t stomach the church anymore.

  12. 12.

    Redshirt

    Or it could be mono.

    Anyone here had mono? Can that be admitted in polite company? I was always jealous of others who got it in high school, long, long ago, since it seemed like it was a great way to sit on the couch and watch tv for a couple of weeks.

    I’ve since heard it can be quite unpleasant and not necessarily something one would want to experience. But I’m afraid I can’t easily give up my old romantic notions of Mono and weeks of Beverly Hillbillies/Little House on the Prairie/Three’s Company megamarathons.

  13. 13.

    debit

    I’m moving slowly because I forgot to turn the heat back on last night and you can only go so fast while wrapped in a blanket. I also have cats (and a dog) camped out on me.

    @Comrade Mary: Since I already have one of these for storage I can make do for minor repairs and adjustments, but it’s really not as good as an actual stand. I also need more tools.

    It’s funny, I switched to biking as a less expensive alternative to horses, but still find myself spending money every time I turn around. Eh. At least the bikes don’t poop.

  14. 14.

    Rey

    I’m wiped out because my allergies/sinus have completely kicked my butt this past week. This is the worst allergy season I have experienced in my 40 plus years on this earth. Can I blame Al Gore or something?

  15. 15.

    b-psycho

    Considering I was up until 230 drinking & chatting, I’m actually up too damn early today. No hangover, nowhere I need to be, I’m even completely refreshed from the little sleep I DID get.

  16. 16.

    Skepticat

    @Redshirt: I developed mono–or something very like it–in my late fifites for no reason anyone could ascertain. However, shortly thereafter, despite fatigue and generally feeling blah, I indulged in some strenuous physical work and my spleen ruptured. Even thinking about it makes me miss my health insurance more than usual.

  18. 18.

    Violet

    @Chyron HR:
    Okay, that is funny.

    Moving very slowly around here too. A friend was in from out of town last night and we went out and had way too much food and drink. The Chimay went down very easily, especially paired with the moules frites.

  19. 19.

    chrome agnomen

    the mega rich aren’t complaining this morning, and they work so much harder…

  21. 21.

    SGEW

    @Redshirt:

    Anyone here had mono?

    “I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.” (cf.)

    This comes startlingly close to an accurate description of my freshman year of high school.

  22. 22.

    Comrade Mary

    @debit:

    Since I already have one of these for storage I can make do for minor repairs and adjustments, but it’s really not as good as an actual stand. I also need more tools.
    __
    It’s funny, I switched to biking as a less expensive alternative to horses, but still find myself spending money every time I turn around. Eh. At least the bikes don’t poop.

    I have a similar double decker device, and as the top level is too high for short me, I used the lower level yesterday. Hips, back and legs still aren’t too happy today, so yeah, real stand soon.

    You’re doing your bit to confirm my theory that women on bikes often have horses in their history. I didn’t ride for more than a couple of years (a series of local stables closed or were prohibitively awkward and expensive to get to), but I remember the poop, too. Actually, I found that swabbing/flossing the gunk out of my chainring, jockey wheels and cassette yesterday was a lot like picking shit out of hooves — vaguely disgusting but extremely satisfying.

  23. 23.

    rootless-e

    if we lived in a world without the rich
    how would Dave Brooks know
    whose ass to kiss
    how would politicians
    get paid
    how would
    Don Trump
    ever get laid

  25. 25.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @SGEW: I thought I had mono once, it got so bad I was seeing double.

    It turns out I had stereo.

    Or maybe it was Sterno. That was it.

  26. 26.

    SIA

    John, you’re probably moving slow because you just moved.

    I think moving is just after death, divorce, job loss on the stress level scale. I’m always surprised when my body/brain react to things that emotionally I’m fine with. (Plus, you tidied up WVA yesterday).

    @Redshirt:

    But I’m afraid I can’t easily give up my old romantic notions of Mono and weeks of Beverly Hillbillies/Little House on the Prairie/Three’s Company megamarathons

    That sentence wins the Assymetry Prize.

  27. 27.

    S. cerevisiae

    Mmmm bacon. I just had some crispy thick sliced with eggs and toast with crabapple jelly.

    And the Twins are going to rock this year.

  28. 28.

    demo woman

    @Redshirt: Think progress has a video of Lieberman on Fox News

    This is a fascinating moment maybe for all these reasons, acknowledging that the fact that Justice Stevens became the leader of the liberal wing of the Supreme Court, that President Obama may nominate someone in fact who makes the Court slightly less liberal, at least for a while.

    I’m repulsed that I voted for this guy, even though Gore was on top of the ticket.

  29. 29.

    Linda Featheringill

    My! I was feeling guilty about sleeping in until 9-ish but you guys have made me feel better. There seems to be a lot of sluggishness going around.

    Probably the whole planet was zapped with an alien ray-gun [ray-cannon?] and they are going to invade pronto.

    These particular aliens actually like to eat humans and consider them a delicacy. They plan to harvest a few individuals from all over the world and plant a news item that the rapture has begun.

    Yes. I definitely feel better.

    [Good morning to all the fur balls out there.]

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    @chrome agnomen:

    It would have been immeasurably better if that had been the new stadium at the Meadowlands, and it had happened during the Virginia – Carolina lacrosse game yesterday.

    And congrats to the BC Eagles. The ACC wins the national championships in both basketball and hockey.

  31. 31.

    WereBear

    A friend came over yesterday evening and we killed a big bottle of Sangria watching lacrosse; Syracuse(yay!)/Princeton.

    Princeton got seriously emasculated. The cats played mind games with our friend. Fun all around.

  32. 32.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Redshirt:

    Mono and weeks of Beverly Hillbillies/Little House on the Prairie/Three’s Company megamarathons.

    That’s as close to a description of Hell on Earth as I could hope to find.

    Just goes to show you, one person’s idea of Hell is another’s Heaven ;)

    If I arrive in Heaven and anyone says “Ceement pond” I’m heading straight for the other place, no matter what they call it.

  33. 33.

    Phyllis

    Had bacon and eggs yesterday for breakfast. Fixed the SO cinnamon rolls with homemade cream cheese frosting for Sunday breakfast. I need to get moving, because I’m headed out about one-ish for a work trip. Should get in to our destination in time to see the outcome of The Masters. Phil Mickelson’s round yesterday was a joy to watch.

  34. 34.

    mai naem

    OT, right now I hate my job. Granted it’s not some soul sucking hard physical job but I hate it and there’s no way I am quitting with the job market out there. I detest the owner of the company who is a slimeball of the highest order. Just a minor example – he took the donations of the employees for the Susan Komen cancer fund and turned into a donation from the company so that it’s a tax writeoff for him not the employees – and yes we could have all done it individually but who the hell reports $5-20 in charity donations on their taxes. And off to work I go to the job I hate.

  37. 37.

    R-Jud

    Was up all night dealing with day 3 of Baby’s First Stomach Virus. Rather than go to bed I waited until sunrise, did my long run, and slept from 9:30-2.

    18 miles and lots of hills means I can go for broke with Sunday dinner. Roast chicken, roast potatoes, and apple pie for afters. Poor Bean is only interested in toast.

  39. 39.

    HRA

    So many possibilities for your lack of vim, vigor and vitality that I don’t know where to start, JC. I got worn out reading what you accomplished yesterday.

  41. 41.

    Cat Lady

    I’ve never ever ever been bothered by allergies, but my nose is running non-stop and ITCHY. All the rain here in NE made everything pop at once, and all those springs of saying ha ha sucks to be you to my husband is now biting me in the butt.

    I have to blame someone, and since Al Gore is still fat, I’ll blame him.

  42. 42.

    Comrade Mary

    @jeffreyw: Ooh, nice frittata! (I always lose count of the Ts in that word). I’m just making up an onion/asparagus/cheddar one, although I just realized I should have brought out the feta instead.

  44. 44.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    I’ve been fighting a virus all week. One day I’m fine, next I’m all achy. 2 aspirin every 4 hours keeps the pain at bay, so I think I’m going to try and ride again today.

    I’m feeling guilty, since my bike gets hardly any maintenance. Of course, I don’t ride as long as Comrade Mary, so maybe that’s why. Yeah, that’s it. It’s not that I neglect my bike.

    Edit: Oh, bacon! I knew I forgot something when I was shopping!

  45. 45.

    debit

    @Comrade Mary: Heh. I found grooming to be terribly satisfying, but yeah, except for the time I had my horses in a show stable (they lived better than I did), picking out their feet was usually pretty disgusting.

    I wasn’t aware there’s a correlation between women who bike and women who ride/rode horses. I guess it makes sense; I like the speed and the sense of adventure (who knows where I’m going to go today, or how far) but I do miss the sense of partnership I had with my horse. On the other hand, my bike won’t spook and teleport ten feet backwards and wind up facing the opposite direction whenever we come across a duck.

  46. 46.

    bemused

    @b-psycho:
    Heh. It all depends on how much drinking was involved. You could still be riding on alcohol euphoria that hasn’t yet dissipated from your bod. If that’s the case, you better take advantage of feeling great before the slump hits.

  47. 47.

    SIA

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: Just got done with that – yuk. I would think I was over it till I got up to try to do something. If it’s the same thing I had, a shorter ride might be in order. The only thing that worked for me was Ibuprofen. Lasted about 8-9 days. Hope you’re over it soon.

  48. 48.

    WereBear

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: I’m still feeling like I’m not over it. And this is after I spent last weekend lying in bed, popping ibuprofen, and watching seasons 2-5 of Columbo on DVD.

    I mean, aside from essential body maintenance, that’s all I had the energy for.

    May you recover soon.

  49. 49.

    rootless-e

    Imagine having to discuss nuclear disarmament with Joe Lieberman and pretend to care about his “ideas”.

    ew.

  50. 50.

    jeffreyw

    @Comrade Mary: Thank you for the nice comment. It was an adventure for sure. I wish I still had some of the fresh goat cheese, it came down to either the parmesan or swiss so I went with the stuff I could grate over it.

  51. 51.

    Uloborus

    Mono is actually nasty. Very nasty. You can get a really light case and just be tired for a week or two, but that can happen with any disease. You can also be bedridden for a month – or die. And most people have had mono, but like viruses in general there’s good odds it wasn’t diagnosed at the time. You know, you have a week or two where you’re sick as a dog. You call it a ‘flu’ and move on.

  53. 53.

    Uloborus

    Sweet biscuits and gravy. I just read ‘Up From Slavery’, an article (http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/06/up-from-slavery/1) someone pointed to in an earlier thread. I want to strangle this man for his historical cherry-picking, and he’s the REASONABLE libertarian pointing out that other libertarians are ignoring the facts?!

    I’m glad that he recognizes that it’s not liberty if only white males have it, but are these idiots seriously trying to claim that THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS was a golden era? The utter failure of free market capitalism in that era is the reason why we have the government regulatory system libertarians complain about. It puts the recent financial meltdown to shame.

    Ahem. I’m sorry, I rarely lose my temper, but jiminy crickets, willful blindness in someone who’s obviously smart enough to see the facts staring him in the face drives me crazy.

  54. 54.

    bemused

    We watched some of Animal Planet’s cat breed marathon yesterday. One Angora cat was 38# & climbing even tho his owners didn’t think they overfed him & most vets didn’t find anything unusual to cause the weight gain. Turns out that the recommended portions on pet food bags are too high. What a surprise! This huge cat was put on a maximum of 1/2 C food a day & had lost 2# in a short time.
    I had to laugh at the pluses & minuses descriptions of cat breeds when they said that Persians were very friendly & good family cats. I’m sure most are but I know one that is a pissy little shit that comes to hang around your legs looking up at you exactly like he wants you to pet him. When you do, that is his opportunity to immediately scratch you. His sister in another family is much the same. Bad DNA line?

  55. 55.

    debit

    @bemused: When our 18 pound fatty went in for bladder stones and was put on a special diet, the vet tech said, “Okay, give him a cup of food a day.” I said, aghast, “I give the 14 pound dog a cup of food a day and she doesn’t even finish it.”

  60. 60.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    I’m moving slow to day, which makes no sense, because I was in bed by 10:15.

    You’re moving so slow that today has become two words.

  61. 61.

    frankdawg

    I was up early today but put off reading the real world stuff like BJ & GOS.

    I want to try to maintain a happy mood. My younger son, who struggled with ADD and learning disabilities and ended up graduating from an alternative high school is to be honored this afternoon for academic excellence at his university. He plans to go to law school.

    I am so proud of him and so happy for him that not even that dreadful BS, whining about the colored fella running his favorite political charity, is going to spoil this day.

    P.S. maybe its mono but “It is not a tumor” (too obscure?)

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