Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

Books are my comfort food!

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!

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

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The lights are all blinking red.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Four dogs? Are you also taking care of G&G, or do you think Sam + Lily = 4, or are you trading in Tunch for equivalent poundage of a canine pair?

  2. 2.

    rootless-e

    I demand Mr. Whipple apologize and recant his support for Post Modern Marxian-Jihadism.

  3. 3.

    jg

    very bad night for M-A Fluery. Devils losing too. bad night for the home teams. Pens have bad karma since the head-shot hit…

  4. 4.

    beltane

    Oh goody, the ice cream stand near my house opens for the summer tomorrow. That’s what passes for excitement around here.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    So I come home from work today and discover that there is a leak coming from the apartment above us. Now I’m waiting around for the maintenance guy to come take a look, but it looks like we’re going to have the fun of having our wall ripped open so they can do the repair. Oh joy.

  10. 10.

    John Cole

    @SiubhanDuinne: I moved down the street from my folks. Lily goes to doggy day care at their house every day and comes back exhausted. Right now she is passed out on the bed, head on a pillow, body on the comforter. She barely lifted her head to look at me when I went in to shower a bit ago.

    So I will definitely have Sam, Lily, Ginny, and Guesly all together at the park!

  11. 11.

    Comrade Mary

    My tax day isn’t until the 30th. I roughed out my return weeks ago, but I should really go through the damn thing one more time and send it off soon.

    SiubhanDuinne, I suspect all the barky little ones will be going to visit G&G in their lovely backyard, while Tunch stays at home, innocent as a kitten.

    EDIT: Wow, full time doggy day care for Lily? You have the world’s most awesome parents, John.

  12. 12.

    debit

    I already tweeted my plea for people to calmly accept that if they’ve put off filing until now, an extension may be the only answer. I had a client scream at me for 20 minutes today because we could not promise his return would be done before midnight tomorrow. He had 3 months, it’s not my fault he waited until the last minute. Asshole.

  13. 13.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    What really killed me was when the baby moose went to go get his (her?) mother: “Ma, ma, look, a fountain! Come look come look come look!”

  17. 17.

    Comrade Kevin

    Now starts my annual hope that the Sharks will not repeat their well-known tendency to flop in the playoffs.

  20. 20.

    jwb

    @debit: Finished mine earlier today… Well, everything except writing the check and tracking down the cost basis of an LLC. But writing a check is a good thing because it means that we had substantially more income this year.

  21. 21.

    Svensker

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    While we await pix of the four dogs going nuts, here are two adorable baby moose discovering a backyard sprinkler:

    They are having as much fun as human kids do — and there’s one brave one and one “let’s see what he does first” guy. Cute! Mama, however, is not cute. She has been whomped with the ugly stick for sure.

  22. 22.

    debit

    @jwb: That’s very cool, and a great way to look at it. I have a guy who made well over half a million last year and he’s going to bitch tomorrow because he owes 22 grand. Not looking forward to that.

  24. 24.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    @debit: I’m so sorry for that. Sometimes dealing with the public sucks. Every once in awhile we get one of those – usually because their very expensive solar hot water system isn’t giving them hot water – but for the most part, my customers are ok. Been a nice change of pace.

  27. 27.

    debit

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: The funny thing is that I don’t even do taxes. I mean, I work in an accounting office, but I process payroll. But there’s some overlap between my clients and the tax part of the office, and so as their accustomed point of contact, I get the initial contact.

    Most of my clients are wonderful. I have one who bring me homemade treats from her mom. But some can be assholes when they’re unhappy. I just need to get through tomorrow and keep my resume polished. I really don’t want to go through another tax season.

  30. 30.

    jwb

    @debit: If he doesn’t owe a penalty, the guy should be happy that the government basically extended him a $22K loan! (Yes, I know he won’t see it that way…)

    It looks like our income won’t be quite so high this year as last, so now I’ve got to figure out where to set my withholding to avoid penalties but not to lend the government too much money until next April.

  31. 31.

    jake

    Got a call at work today from a friend. He said that I had a “thief” in my apartment…Seems that one lamb chop on a plate on the counter in my kitchen was missing, and eventually found in the living room…

    While my cats know that counters and tables are off limits, apparently one of my kitties had an overwhelming taste for lamb…She apparently jumped onto the counter and carried the above mentioned lamb chop into the living room. When caught, her only respond was to smile and clean her paws…I think a rather large “burp” was forthcoming…

    So much for leftovers for dinner

  32. 32.

    debit

    @jwb: Withholding calculator on irs.gov! It’s awesome. I usually advise people to use it in August; that gives them 4 months to adjust in whatever direction they need to go.

  36. 36.

    Pigs & Spiders

    Out of curiosity, does anybody here still do their taxes the old fashioned way, or are we all doing them online now?

    Cause I watched my girlfriend do hers the old fashioned way last weekend and it was all I could do not to feel smugly superior…

  37. 37.

    mai naem

    @SiubhanDuinne: Glad Princess Sarah was around wherever that cute little moose family was because you know their carcasses would be the next PR prop for Princess Sarah.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    @Svensker:

    If you want an ungulate that stays cute until adulthood, you want a pudu, which is officially the world’s smallest true deer (the moose is the largest). Fully grown, they’re about the same size as Lily.

    I tried to convince G to let me bring one home when we saw them at the zoo, but he has some weird idea that it’s “illegal” somehow to keep an endangered species in our apartment. Feh.

  39. 39.

    jwb

    @Pigs & Spiders: I use Turbo Tax H&B, though a personal copy not an online one. I still don’t like all of that financial info sitting on somebody else’s computer. I’m sure it’s a silly paranoia, but there it is.

  40. 40.

    mai naem

    @Pigs & Spiders: I do it the old fashioned way and I have learned through the hard way that you send it by certified mail because if you don’t the IRS figures it our and pretends you didn’t send it on time and fines you.

  41. 41.

    debit

    @jwb: You’re welcome!

    @mai naem: Heh. I actually have. The thing that makes me laugh is that he’s a wannabe teabagger. One of his businesses is buying then rehabbing houses and reselling them. He made huge money this year because of (wait for it!) the first time home buyer’s credit. And no, he doesn’t see the disconnect.

  44. 44.

    IndyLib

    Yeah, open thread.

    I know there are several N. Virginians here, but anybody live in the Norfolk area?

    I found out today that the US Navy can’t make up it’s damned mind and is now seriously considering shipping us off to the “real merikan” part of the Old Dominion. I could use some info about the area.

  45. 45.

    MikeJ

    @IndyLib: When my dad got transferred away from there I cried and wet my pants, but being six months old I did that for everything.

  46. 46.

    The Truffle

    Already mailed out my check for state tax. Gotta love New York State. They can’t pass a budget on time, but they keep asking for money.

    And people think the FEDS are fucked up.

  49. 49.

    Joe Lisboa

    Just wanted to use John’s real e-state here to stake my claim to founding the following meme: in lieu of the verbal ejaculation “That’s what she said,” I hereby propose we all adopt: “That’s what the Pope said.” And I say this as a lapsed Catholic from birth. Pass it on.

  51. 51.

    ellaesther

    @Mnemosyne: Oh my goodness me. That is something else! Gracious.

    And walking, well my goodness, walking appears to be a real trial when you’re a one day old Pudu — particularly if the zoo has provided wood chips almost as big as the baby!

    (You could totally hide one of those. I’m just sayin’).

  52. 52.

    R-Jud

    Technically, since I live outside the US, I’m okay to file in June. I’ve still had to file a further extension since we’re waiting on paperwork from the embassy to prove I can claim our littlest deduction. My fault for not going down to London sooner.

    I paid them, though. I kind of like writing checks.

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    @debit:

    I already tweeted my plea for people to calmly accept that if they’ve put off filing until now, an extension may be the only answer. I had a client scream at me for 20 minutes today because we could not promise his return would be done before midnight tomorrow.

    When I prepared more returns (as opposed to reviewing them), I would tell clients that if they brought their stuff to me after April 10, they automatically got an extension, no exceptions.

    One client said to me, “But you’ve got until the 15th to get it done.” I replied, “No, you have until the 15th if you do it yourself. I need enough time to make sure I do a complete job, and to allow some wiggle room in case you forgot something.

    One disconnect that I see is all the angry conservatives who insist that Obama raised their taxes, but who refuse to give him credit when they get refunds this year. Must be the Wingnut Tax Fairy.

    @Comrade Kevin:

    I can not imagine that it’s worse than California.

    People in Hawaii aren’t getting refunds until July 1 because of that state’s budget problems.

  54. 54.

    frosty

    @Pigs & Spiders:

    Is downloading TurboTax to your hard drive old fashioned? ‘Cause that’s the way I do it. ‘Cept for the local tax where they have a free site to post your data online.

    OK, OT:

    What was it the guy from Sun Microsystems said? “Privacy? There is no privacy. Get over it.”

    Or going back aways, to the days when we first started networking PCs. The IT (mainframe) chief told me “Once you put a wire in it, it’s mine.”

  55. 55.

    Bnut

    Filed my Alabama return middle of February. Nada. Apparently the money is dispersed from some state EDUCATION fund, and that shit is dry. I start collecting interest in June.

  56. 56.

    Svensker

    @Mnemosyne:

    If you want an ungulate that stays cute until adulthood, you want a pudu, which is officially the world’s smallest true deer

    That little baby is cuuuuuuute. They are remarkably pig-like, aren’t they? There’s gotta be a kid’s book in there, somewhere.

  57. 57.

    Svensker

    @Brachiator:

    One disconnect that I see is all the angry conservatives who insist that Obama raised their taxes, but who refuse to give him credit when they get refunds this year.

    One of them has already told me that the tax return is only for THIS year and O is letting those other tax cuts expire, so it’s really a tax increase plus a gimmick. Also.

    They are churls and mymidons of the great Lord Rush of the Limpballs and cannot be reasoned with.

  58. 58.

    Luthe

    Stephen Colbert has Jake Tapper on to explain why he’s having Politifact fact check. Tapper did admit that he sucks at actively fact-checking while on air. He claims that he doesn’t have research on hand to call bullshit (a claim I call bullshit on, since it’s not that hard to at least do some background reading beforehand). No mentions of BJ, alas.

  61. 61.

    Linkmeister

    Thank you for the moose video. I then had to hunt down the song title via the Google, then had to be sure I had a copy of it in my iTunes Alison Krause collection. Fortunately, I do; from the Alison Krause and Union Station Live album. The crowd recognizes the song from the second bar and goes crazy.

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