Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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

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

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

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Second rate reporter says what?

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Good lord, these people are nuts.

We still have time to mess this up!

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

He really is that stupid.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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  1. 1.

    matoko_chan

    mebbe this will motivate you.
    Erikk the Red.

    And to put the idiot icing on the crazy cake, Erickson posted Kagan’s thesis illegally, violating its copyright, and Princeton sent Redstate.com a letter demanding that it be taken down.

  3. 3.

    Larkspur

    Then help me with my problem. I am house-sitting at a fine home, and everything is wonderful except that I have been targeted for attack by one (1) large and relentless robin. I swear to god. He has been slamming his little body into the glass on one of the French doors, repeatedly, for days. I taped up a large placemat on the inside, thinking he didn’t know it was glass, and that would tell him.

    He doesn’t care. Also, he is the bird who has been perching on my driver’s side mirror, and crapping all over the side of my car. Every day I hose it down and park in a slightly different configuration, thinking that I’d simply gotten into his flight path by accident.

    Nope. This robin hates me. I have never been hated by a robin before. I have kept the birdbath scrupulously clean, and he still hates me.

  4. 4.

    mr. whipple

    Beautiful day. Plan is to finish inside work, then go out and plant ~70 pepper plants and some cukes.

  5. 5.

    mr. whipple

    @Larkspur:

    “Nope. This robin hates me. I have never been hated by a robin before. I have kept the birdbath scrupulously clean, and he still hates me.
    ”

    Kill it.

  6. 6.

    New Yorker

    Damn Netflix, I’ve been watching Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” on my computer over the last week, and I get to episode 7 and the audio doesn’t work! I called their customer service and the rep said it could take up to a week to fix it.

    Oh, and the film is fantastic. I remember watching it on PBS with my parents when I was 10 years old, but obviously my attention wasn’t held all that well by still black-and-white photos. I can definitely appreciate it better now.

  7. 7.

    Larkspur

    @mr. whipple: Kill it? Kill it? And risk a battalion of vengeance-seeking robins? Dude, I live near Bodega Bay. It would be a short trip, as the robin flies. The birds here remember.

  9. 9.

    t jasper parnell

    @Larkspur: There is little to do, outside of taping paper over the whole window. My mom’s condo is under constant attack by a female cardinal, whose mate sits on the tree branch and, I think, shouts encouragement.

  10. 10.

    Larkspur

    Okay, now we’re getting some ideas. TunchCam, and turn my monitor toward the window. Thanks!

  11. 11.

    bemused

    @Larkspur:
    It’s spring & Mr. Robin is in a uber-territorial phase. We had the same robin problem a year ago. A recent piece in Mpls Trib recommended putting piece of cardboard on the outside of window. Gee that sounds practical…if it rains you have a soggy, disintegrating piece of cardboard to clean up. I have my doubts that outside vs inside would deter the robin. Even if it did, we would have had to cardboard every window in the house because our determined robin went to all four sides of the house & slammed into every larger window.

  12. 12.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Larkspur: You could try a top hat, but I think you should go right to the junk shot.

    Re: Bodega, ah I was wondering if Larkspur meant that Larkspur. I would say go ask the people out at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory but alas, it is no more for years now.

  13. 13.

    patrick II

    Rolling Stone

    Check out the story by Tim Dickinson regarding Karl Rove’s new shadow RNC. Rove has essentially put together the money part of the Republican political party without actually calling it a political party. Citizens United allows them to collect money, support candidates, and set policy without legal constraints because they are not “the party” and without ethical constraints because its Rove.

    Congratulations are in order for the Supreme Court, esp John Roberts, and the sons and grandsons of robber barrons who can now buy their country back.

  14. 14.

    bemused

    I’m definitely motivated today & am heading out to spend the day doing garden prep work. Finally, here in the frigid north we have sun & it will get into the 70’s. This kind of weather is almost unheard of the opening weekend of fishing. There have been years when it snowed…miserable to be out fishing.
    John, you have already done a ton of chores outside right after the moving work. I got exhausted just reading about it. Chill out with Tunch & watch the birdies. You deserve a break once in awhile.

  15. 15.

    Steeplejack

    Any quick advice on burning CDs? I used to have Roxio, which worked fine, but I don’t now, and I have to burn a mix CD for my Luddite (and impatient) neighbor. Realized this morning that I haven’t burned a CD in a hell of a long time. (Yay, MP3 files!)

    Anyway, I am thinking about giving it a go with Windows Media Player, but I find M.P.’s interface so opaque and difficult in every other respect that I can’t believe this will end well.

  17. 17.

    matoko_chan

    @patrick II:

    who can now buy their country back.

    but they can’t….they can’t buy culture back.
    We won already, when Obama was elected.

    To the right
    To the left
    We will fight to the death
    To the edge of the earth
    It’s a brave new world
    It’s a brave new world
    It’s a brave new world
    I do believe in the light
    Raise your hands up to the sky
    The fight is done
    The war is won
    Lift your hands
    Towards the sun
    Towards the sun
    Towards the sun
    Towards the sun
    The war is won

    This is War……but its all over but the petulant butthurt shouting.

    Dig the Dragon Age version.

  20. 20.

    QuaintIrene

    Had the same problem with catbirds. They are amazingly aggressive and territorial in the Spring. Attacking their reflection in a window, dive-bombing my dogs. One time when I was out gardening, two of them plunked down two feet in front of me and shrieked till I backed into the house. Felt like I was in “The Birds.”

  21. 21.

    TomG

    I’m becoming interested in the Claudia Wright campaign for Utah’s 2nd District (Congress). Aside from a mention at HuffPo, I haven’t seen much. She’s trying to win a primary on June 22nd against a Democrat who sounds pretty much like a Republican who just won’t switch sides till after he’s reelected. I’m a New Yorker, but I’m hoping she’ll win.

  22. 22.

    fucen tarmal

    @t jasper parnell:

    My mom’s condo is under constant attack by a female cardinal, whose mate sits on the tree branch and, I think, shouts encouragement

    whatever sounds come from the male cardinal, translate from dialectic cardinal to american movie wise guy as “don’t look at me pal, i gotta live with her”

  26. 26.

    tesslibrarian

    @Larkspur: We have a robin that does this to our car–try draping something over the car windows when the car is parked (typically a tea towel or old tshirt). It doesn’t look nice, but the bird goes away. You could probably hang an old sheet over the french door.

    I’m overdue planting my tomato garden due to travel and catching a nasty virus this week, so I’ll be pointing where my husband should put them tomorrow or tonight once the temps cool down. I have 11 tomatoes (Arkansas Traveller, Brandywine, Green Zebra, Eva Purple Ball, Matt’s Wild Cherry, Sungold), a red pepper, and five basils (2 sweet, 3 african). Right now, only have rosemary, bay, thyme, parsleys, winter savory, tarragon, oregano, arugula, sage, and chives in the garden. Oh, and the marigolds.

    Next weekend, I’ll plant beans around the tomatoes so they can nourish them through the growing year. If you ever have a chance to grow a Matt’s Wild Cherry, take it–you’ll get more sweet little tomatoes than you can handle and it reseeds itself.

  27. 27.

    Mumphrey

    I just got back from taking our 3 year old daughter to her first swim class. It went better than I had dared hope. I hate swimming, and hate swimming in pools even more than swimming in the sea. I feel disgusting when I have that chlorrine smell on me. Anyway. So I hate swimming, and she’s on a being scared of everything kick, so I was dreading this. And sure enough, she wouldn’t go in the water for the first 10 minutes. After a little while, though, all the other children seemed to be having fun, so she let me take her in. She wouldn’t let me wet her face, but othere than that, it went pretty well. Now it’s time to eat lunch and then take a nap.

    I sowed some watermelon, honeydews and swiss chard yesterday. If I can keep the deer away, it should be a good summer. I could live on swiss chard…

  29. 29.

    Robertdsc-iphone

    @Mumphrey:

    Learning to swim and attending swim classes still remains one of my best childhood memories. Here’s hoping your daughter develops a love for the water.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    @MikeJ:

    Thanks for the tip. I will check it out.

    I used to really enjoy making mix CDs. I had an earlier version of Roxio that (with the right drivers and some tweaking) worked very well. Lost it when my hard drive went south a year ago and never replaced/upgraded. Since then I have been listening to music on my computer or via MP3 files on my semi-smart cell phone. When the neighbor asked if I could make him a CD, I said sure, no problem, without thinking that my fragile ecostructure had changed.

  32. 32.

    kdaug

    @Larkspur: At UT there are a tremendous number of grackles. They crap on everything, make a horrible screeching sound, but are generally benign.

    But I had one friend my freshman year who invariably invoked their wrath. They dive-bombed the poor bastard even while ignoring the other ~50K students walking around. It got so bad he started asking us to tape his class lectures for him (yeah, this was in the days of tape).

    I don’t believe hate is solely a human emotion. The precise criteria in the animal kingdom, though, not so clear on. Seemed like a nice enough guy to me.

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack

    @Mumphrey:

    What Robertdsc-iphone said. I have taught swimming for many years, and it is great to see kids go from stark terror to being comfortable in the water and enjoying themselves. Only thing better is working with adult nonswimmers. I have tremendous respect for people who never learned to swim, are really terrified of the water and yet decide to go for it and learn at a “late” age.

  35. 35.

    Steeplejack

    @Punchy:

    Thanks. You’ll be here all week, right? And should I try the veal? And I will tip my waitress.

  36. 36.

    sukabi

    you can’t be unmotivated… there are dandylions to murder and bird feeders to fill… get crackin’!

  37. 37.

    Lit3Bolt

    Oh John. Don’t be unmotivated. There’s still bottled water and canned beans to buy for the upcoming social apocalypse.

    Or you could write poetry. Dear diary…

  38. 38.

    JohnR

    This looks like a job for Bipolar Bear! but I just can’t seem to get out of bed this week..

  39. 39.

    Sometimes I'm Doctor Science

    John, John, help meeeeeeee. Take Doctor Science out of the spam detector pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

    Meanwhile, Entenmann’s was Buy One-Get One Free this week. Walnut Danish Ring still rules, same as in the 70s.

  42. 42.

    Fergus Wooster

    @jeffreyw:

    Meh. Rainy here too. I’ve got a roasting chicken that’s been brined and scalded, but to be true to my school I need to let it dry until tomorrow.

    In the meantime, I get to wipe my hard drive and re-install Windows for the umpteenth time. Maybe I can find something in the pantry to work with. . .

  43. 43.

    LiberalTarian

    Me too. But, 4 cats and an aging catbox are forcing me out to buy more litter.

    You could always go to http://www.ted.com and find something inspiring. We forget the world isn’t all as fucked up as we think!

  44. 44.

    sukabi

    @matoko_chan: LOL!!! I think the most disturbing part of that post, is that someone at Little Green Footballs is embracing sanity once again… There was a time not so long ago, that the crazy train was permanently based at LGF…

  47. 47.

    Corner Stone

    @Larkspur:

    Nope. This robin hates me. I have never been hated by a robin before.

    I suggest you issue a “capture or kill” order on it. Then task the drones to target as their number one priority.
    It’s clear, at least to me, that if this robin isn’t stopped then soon other robins will know of it’s ideology. And they will not stopped until your car and windows are messy beyond belief.

  50. 50.

    Corner Stone

    It’s raining and thundering here in the Greater Houston Metro Area.
    And I have mucho work to do but am waiting for input from a couple different time zones before I can complete my part.
    So I’ll be here all week, try the veal, don’t forget to tip your waitress, and other things Steeplejack indicated on another thread.

  53. 53.

    Cat Lady

    @Mumphrey:

    At the other end of the daughter spectrum, my sweet beautiful patient kind school teacher daughter recently got engaged, and now….. I’m catching a whiff of bridezilla. Enjoy the swim lessons – wedding planning is like SEAL training. Not for the weak of heart or empty of pocketbook. Also. Too.

  54. 54.

    Leaking Geek

    It is sunny, warm and breezy here in the lower Hudson Valley. Just had a root canal finished on a previous root canal that had become infected a few months ago. Worst pain I have ever experienced. The dentist gave me antibiotics and 750mg Vicoden. First time I ever took it. Knocked me out cold for 6 hours cold. Fuzzy for another four. How the hell does anyone abuse it?

  55. 55.

    Corner Stone

    @Larkspur: I’m curious. What makes you think he hates you?
    Maybe he’s really just very concerned for you. He sees you trapped in a box and he desperately tries to break through in futile attempts to free and rescue you. He sees you using a carbon burning implement of oppression against the environment and he does his very best to point out to you that it is shit. Again and again.
    Maybe he’s the one with the larger point here, and you are the one with the problem.
    I think he loves you, and maybe cares just a little too much.

  59. 59.

    licensed to kill time

    @Leaking Geek:

    750mg Vicoden. First time I ever took it. Knocked me out cold for 6 hours cold. Fuzzy for another four. How the hell does anyone abuse it?

    Honestly? Because they get used to it, and then they start to feel just normal on it, and then they start to get sick if they don’t take it. Then they will do almost anything to not get sick.

    Which is why we should not be shooting junk into that oil pipe. Who knows where it will end up.

  60. 60.

    Corner Stone

    I am magnificently pissed. I have a new Cleveland 64 degree wedge (well, new to me) and it’s lightning here so even the chipping range is closed.
    Sometimes the raw injustice that exists in the world is just too much for me.

  62. 62.

    kdaug

    @Corner Stone: Yeah, in the same way that “Mother Nature” just loves us, and is heating up to gently nudge to change our ways.

    She also cared about the dinosaurs a little too much.

  65. 65.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Just Some Fuckhead #2:

    Another glorious day without Stuck

    I miss Charlie.

  67. 67.

    Annie

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Well damn girl, my genital herpes is gonna come back too but can’t we have a little fun in the meantime??

    Thanks for sharing…Hope Stuck comes back soon. And Charlie…And, your genital herpes….:>)

  68. 68.

    Corner Stone

    @AhabTRuler: Well, no. Then I might be effected. And it would totally spoil my day before I could get a mani-pedi and check into the new 5-star downtown hotel.
    Silly boy.

  69. 69.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I’m sure Charlie has been plotting another escape since the last time he was recaptured.

  70. 70.

    burnspbesq

    Duke 18, Johns Hopkins 5.

    Doesn’t make up for those two championship-game losses, but it’ll do for the moment.

    C’mon, Delaware!

  71. 71.

    Corner Stone

    @kdaug:

    She also cared about the dinosaurs a little too much.

    They refused to listen. Just like Larkspur.
    There’s a Thurberian morality play here somewhere.

  74. 74.

    HRA

    We have 3 very large crows who are defiling our water fountain birdbath daily with dead birds and parts of dead birds. Any suggestions besides killing or shooting them?

    Update on my stalker problem: I had a week of relief though I am not exactly sure if I should feel safe yet.

  75. 75.

    Corner Stone

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    I’m sure Charlie has been plotting another escape since the last time he was recaptured.

    I’ve always believed pictures of Charlie were stolen from another website and reposted.
    How in the hell could someone so immeasurably stupid take care of a living, breathing animal day in and out?
    I’m pretty sure he’s an agoraphobic shut-in, and too scared to leave his apartment.

  76. 76.

    Corner Stone

    @HRA:

    Any suggestions besides killing or shooting them?

    Crows only respond to one method. I’m sorry but 12 gauge is the only thing they understand.

  78. 78.

    Corner Stone

    @AhabTRuler:

    Take it outside and shake it at the sky.

    And, also? There are a lot of kids in my area. Not sure they’re ready for that.

  82. 82.

    burnspbesq

    @Corner Stone:

    I’ve always believed pictures of Charlie were stolen from another website and reposted. How in the hell could someone so immeasurably stupid take care of a living, breathing animal day in and out? I’m pretty sure he’s an agoraphobic shut-in, and too scared to leave his apartment.

    What’s your fucking problem?

  84. 84.

    HeartlandLiberal

    Well, I planted two more semi-dwarf fruit trees this morning. At 64, digging holes and planting trees is hard d*mned work. But I have planted 7 of the 8 I bought a week ago, one more to go. The garden needs thinning in the greens, carrots, radishes, and other row crops, as do the pole beans, which are six inches up and ready to start training on to the teepee and twine, but it started raining just as I finished the second tree. So I guess that will wait till tomorrow.

    Also, life is good because ‘Piley’, as we call our Pileated Woodpecker, has returned to the feeder outside our third story bedroom on the small deck there. We live on a golf course that runs along a wooded ridge, so we have plenty of urban wildlife, everything from deer, to possum, skunks, racoons, coyotes, and even an occassional fox.

    There is not much more beautiful than watching a huge, Pileated Woodpecker from only 5-6 feet away.

    If it makes you feel any sense of empathy if you are feeling a little bummed out, every thing I see in the beauty of nature around me unfortunately anymore is immediately overwhelmed with thoughts of what is going on in the gulf as the latest symbol of how we as a species are simply devastating life on our planet.

    I was thinking about how it only took us a century and a half to sweep from the Appalachians across the plains to the Rockies and beyond, while on the way wiping out 95% of the original forest, all of the passenger pigeons which before us darkened the sky all day as the migrated, and almost wiping out the buffalo. Not to mention the Indians.

    And I try to imagine, if we are that efficient, what will this world be like just another 100 years in the future.

    And I feel sad for the world and the creatures we are subjecting to the greatest die off of species numbers since the asteroid whacked the dinosaurs and triggered the massive die-off 65 million years ago. Remember, the event that got the dinos also wiped out about 70% of all species at the time.

    There. I hope that helped you feel all cheerier.

    Maybe it is just as well I have no grand kids. I can only imagine the dystopian nightmare we are about to leave them to cope with.

  85. 85.

    burnspbesq

    @Corner Stone:

    Your existence and stupidity pull my chain all day, every day.

    Oh, so you ran off Stuck?

    Douchebags Rule! Congratulations.

  86. 86.

    kdaug

    @HeartlandLiberal:
    There’s a reason we ain’t got kids, mate, and it ain’t infertility.

    (OK, there’s several, but I fully expect the last breeding pairs of humans to be living above the Arctic Circle in 200 years.)

    Oh, well, thanks for all the fish!

  87. 87.

    Corner Stone

    @burnspbesq: Count down until you remind us all you’re an attorney in 5…4…3…2…

    Stuck is weak and pathetic, so I get why you identify with him.
    His little GBCW drama queen-ism had nothing to do with me.
    He propagated ideas and ideals he couldn’t backup, and ultimately collapsed under them.
    His desperation to have Cole even acknowledge his existence was palpable. His gambit didn’t work, and so here we are.

  90. 90.

    Nicole

    Watching the Rolex Equestrian championships on NBC while I wait for the Preakness coverage to start- the last part of the cross-country coverage showed a horrific fall- horse rolled right over his rider. I stay glued to the screen, waiting for an update, and then, on a hunch, google and find out the darn thing happened three weeks ago and the rider and horse are both fine.

    I’m starting to wonder if the Preakness has already happened.

  92. 92.

    Corner Stone

    @t jasper parnell: ala Brett in the “Hypocrisy” thread – sucks to be them if they don’t encrypt their shit:

    the information had been recorded as it was sent over unencrypted residential wireless networks as StreetView cars with mounted recording equipment passed by

  95. 95.

    Tsulagi

    @Corner Stone:

    It’s raining and thundering here in the Greater Houston Metro Area.

    It´s another shitty day in paradise here in Xcaret, MX. Been here all week for an SO family reunion celebrating her parents` 40th wedding anniversiary. Been pretty nice. Staying in an all-inclusive including all alcohol. First time in an all-inclusive, last time in an all-inclusive.

    Two days ago went diving. Asked the guy in the dive shop if he´d ever rented two suits for one customer to use, but he didn´t get the joke. On the beach in Playa del Carmen and Xcaret park vendors sell 1.5L Coronas in plastic sacks full of ice. Huge mothers.

    One observation from this morning–If you weigh more than a standard bathroom scale can measure, don´t wear a tanga on a public beach. That should be considered an international crime against humanity. But to be fair, some guys have guts that could shade a Mexican family of four.

    Kind of funny seeing ads in Spanish on BJ.

  96. 96.

    Corner Stone

    @Tsulagi:

    Asked the guy in the dive shop if he´d ever rented two suits for one customer to use, but he didn´t get the joke.

    You didn’t expect him to be part of the tribe did you?

    I had a good friend stay in an all-inclusive in MX one time. He told me he woke up on the 4th morning and his liver spoke to him:
    “If you drink again, I WILL KILL YOU.”

  98. 98.

    licensed to kill time

    @Tsulagi:

    Are you using an all-inclusive computer down there in ol’ Mexico? Because all your apostrophes are actually accent marks. Gives your (very nice) comment a certain international flair.

    I am shocked, just shocked that the dive shop dude didn’t get the double wetsuit joke.

    ¡Salud!

  99. 99.

    Maude

    @t jasper parnell:
    Oh brother. Wouldn’t you just love that? What if you were doing online bankinking?

    Steeplejack, I use Infa recorder. It’s easy to use and does a great job. I burn operating systems. I can’t think of a joke line.
    Did nothing today except go to a garage sale.

  100. 100.

    Mumphrey

    @HRA:

    I read that as “cows” at first. I was wondering what cows were doing dropping dead birds in your birdbath, and why they were wandering around loose to harass people that way. It was almost a letdown to read it again more carefully and see “crows” instead.

  102. 102.

    Corner Stone

    @Maude:

    What if you were doing online bankinking?

    Is that some kind of kinky online sexy banking?

  103. 103.

    Tsulagi

    @licensed to kill time:

    Are you using an all-inclusive computer down there in ol’ Mexico? Because all your apostrophes are actually accent marks.

    You got it. In the resort lobby. SO has had my laptop and Blackberry locked up. Was pissed I even brought them.

    These Spanish ads are really funny. Dating services, and one said click here if you have an ugly male child.

  104. 104.

    licensed to kill time

    @Mumphrey:

    Nope, that was Oxycontin, otherwise known as Hillbilly Heroin. Much stronger and VERY abusable, if that’s a word.

  105. 105.

    Corner Stone

    @russell:

    Shock troops of the migratory songbird jihad!

    This is a winner.

    They hate us for our clean glass freedoms!

  106. 106.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Junior’s of Brooklyn came out with a cheesecake cookbook. Yum…

  107. 107.

    licensed to kill time

    @Tsulagi:

    I went to a surf/adventure resort in Mexico that had no cell phone or internet service. You should have seen the faces of people arriving and trying to text about it, then going “Wha? no bars?” and I don’t mean those kind of bars. It was an all inclusive and we drank the place out of beer in the first 3 days. Imagine the horror until fresh supplies arrived. It far exceeded the horror of no contact with the outside world.

  108. 108.

    Deb Henry

    @TomG: We’re working really hard on Claudia’s campaign Tom. She’s a great candidate. Matheson has always been missing in action, not to mention his voting record, so it will be nice to have him out of office replaced with someone who answers questions from her constituents. Follow her on Facebook to keep up with the campaign! Thanks for your support!

    Deb

  109. 109.

    Mnemosyne

    I am very out of shape, but I still managed to bring 12 pounds of produce back from the farmer’s market on my bike without, you know, dying. So it’s a good day.

    And for the bird lovers, I was able to remember the name of the birds that were watching me knit up at Big Bear: they were Steller’s Jays. I knew right away that they were some species of jay — it’s hard to mistake them, especially when two of them sit in a tree and gossip about you as they try to figure out what weird human thing you’re doing.

  110. 110.

    Larkspur

    I’m going to embrace my inner robin. I’m going to scrape off my car (again) and drape the side mirror (aka The Perch) with an old towel. I’m going to say “Why, hello, lil Robin!” whenever he hits the glass. Sometime after 5:00 pm, I think I will hit the glass every time he hits the glass (i.e., a new drinking game).

    The mystery of Vicodin attraction is complex. My spellcheck always used offer “vacation” as a suggestion about what I really meant. Send me your leftovers and I will conduct an actual study.

    Humming birds do not hate me. And I love them. Those little beasties are awesomely loud when they hover nearby.

  113. 113.

    Steeplejack

    @Maude:

    Thanks for the tip on Infa. Will check it out. Just got in from work about half an hour ago and am trying to get caught up on Balloon Juice and drinking (not necessarily in that order).

    Steep + 1

  114. 114.

    Steeplejack

    @Corner Stone:

    Thanks for the tip. Nero and Roxio are sort of neck and neck in the way that their own users hate them. Just trying to find something quick and not too dirty for a one-off.

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