Time to sit on the porch for an hour with the dog and unwind:
As good as it looks, it tastes better.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Republicans in disarray!
I was promised a recession.
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.
In my day, never was longer.
Let there be snark.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.
American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.
Tick tock motherfuckers!
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
And we’re all out of bubblegum.
MikeJ
Reposted from the pansy thread:
Is there a plugin here that handles markdown? (punctuation in place of html) If so, please, please, please, nuke it. It’s more trouble than it’s worth. The guy, fred fnord, who screwed up the next thread, appears to have screwed up some others because he feels it necessary to add a sig line even though his name is right above his comment. There was another commenter here with asterisks in his name that fucked everything up on every comment too.
Whether intentional or not, it’s annoying. Lose the buggy markdown, save yourself some headaches.
srv
Going to make a Capirinha right now.
Gen. McChrystal:
Army General or Emo Patrick Bateman? Discuss.
John Cole
@MikeJ: I have no idea what the problem is. Send me a screenshot.
SIA
Just cooked pork chops, corn on the cob and new potatoes for dinner and am now sitting on the screened porch watching the rain.
As long as I totally ignore the news, I’m pretty content.
BTW what are you drinking? Looks refreshing.
Violet
@John Cole:
It’s the usual problem with the dash. Someone uses a dash by itself before something, like their name at the end of a post, and it turns itself into a strikethrough and then messes up the entire rest of the thread for anyone using IE. I’m on Firefox, so it doesn’t mess up the rest of the thread for me, but I can see the strikethrough effect on fred’s name at the end of the previous thread.
Violet
Is that a mojito? I’m craving a mojito. Alas, I don’t have the makings for one. I haz a sad.
MikeJ
@Violet: I’m on ffx 3.6 and the problem is fixed now, but it was the one where the submit area disappears, so there’s nothing left underneath the last comment.
Asterisk I think turns on bold, so you get a different runaway.
Just Some Fuckhead
Whoa, how many pesticides does that thing have in it??
Violet
@MikeJ:
Yep, I had that happen too. The whole page gets effed up. I guess John edited it so that the dash is gone from fred’s post?
I try to make an effort not to use dashes, although I think they’re okay attached to works. It’s when they’re stand alone items that they mess everything up. Or maybe when they start paragraphs or sentences?
MikeJ
@John Cole:
Check out:
https://balloon-juice.com/2010/05/26/smedley-butler-rides-again/
Screenshot:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_jjuzPKR1lcM/TAWbOqZk_yI/AAAAAAAAA-M/djK6mZ47wJQ/s640/bjscreen.jpg
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
@Just Some Fuckhead: Heh. I saw that article today too and still went and got a spinach salad for lunch…
Comrade Dread
Mmmmmm…. mojitos…. glaaaaaaaah…
I’m gonna have to get me one of those.
shortstop
shortstop don’t do the alcohol, but loves her some limeade with mint sprigs in the summertime when the living is fine (and the herb plants are newly purchased and not even in the windowboxes yet). Thanks for the reminder!
Violet
@MikeJ:
That’s what it looks like for me too, on FF 3.6.3. Pretty sure it’s the fault of the dash. Fred started the line with a dash before his name, probably “dash space name” and it turns the dash into a strikethrough and then trashes the thread.
Anne Laurie
@John Cole: I snunk into Fred Fnord’s comment on the earlier thread and deleted the hyphen in front of his (completely unnecessary) ‘signature’ at the end. Since I’m on FireFox, only that word was striked-thru (Fred typed a single hyphen followed immediately by his name, no space) but I know that on other browers this creates the Strike-Thru That Never Ends.
The simplest solution would be for Fred Fnord to stop using the effin’ pointless hyphen, but I have no control over that.
Tom Levenson
That pic causes severe mental distress. I think I’m going to have another glass of some not-terrible Spanish monastrell to waft away vapors thus induced.
MTmofo
For the past few days when I visit here, all paragraphs become a single line so I have page to the right (a lot) to read what’s posted. IE user, out of the box settings.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
Just cleaning out my junk mail folder and I see that I have an urgent message from the Central Bank of Nigeria. It seems fishy, but they did say it was urgent…
QuaintIrene
Damn, for you and John, I wish I could send some of my garden abundance. This is an older variety of mint I acquired from my grandmother. Very pungent. Some years I was afraid it was dying back. Not this spring. It’s suddenly popping up everywhere with a vengence! Anybody want any plants? Email your address and I’ll send some. There’s only so much I can dry and I hate to relegate the extra to the compost.
Maybe I’ll pot some up, put them on a bench on the front sidewalk with a sign, “Help yourself. But word of warning. Put them in a container pot, not in the ground.”
Anne Laurie
@Violet:
Two dashes together, with a space on either end, works just fine — like this.
It’s only the single-dash that treyfs the whole ensuing thread.
P.S. to all commentors: I typed word, space, dash, dash, space, word and it got turned into a single long dash with no problem. If you are using hyphens, please use this format, for the sake of your fellow BJ posters.
beltane
Bernie Sanders spoke at my son’s high school this afternoon. Son came home and told me all the kids except for two cheered when Bernie said that taxes should be raised on the rich.
Bernie’s primary challenger was a no-show at this event.
MikeJ
@Anne Laurie:
And if you could convince him to stop, you could not stop someone with bad intent for doing it on purpose.
While the markdown handling is as buggy as it is, it’s a DOS vector.
Cat Lady
My IE with Vista (ugh) on the laptop has the script running through the margins in one looooong string. Refreshing 4 or 5 times corrals it randomly, then the next time it’s running out of bounds again. It started yesterday and it’s frustrating as hell.
I blame that douchebag Netanyahu.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Gordon, The Big Express Engine:
You can ignore it. My mom already took care of it.
Violet
@Anne Laurie:
You wrote this:
and then this:
In the first paragraph I quoted, did you type: “single, space, dash, dash, space the word ‘dash'”? Or did you type “single, dash, ‘the word dash'”?
In your first example of “fine, long dash, like” in the first paragraph of the above referenced post, the dash is much longer than the one in the “single dash dash” one.
Sheesh, this is confusing.
Edit: I haven’t noticed any strikethrough problems when someone uses a dash/hyphen to separate two words, when the dash/hyphen touches both words. It seems to be a problem when the dash is unattached on one side. Maybe both?
Anne Laurie
@QuaintIrene:
Email me (address at the top of the right-hand column, under Contact) and I’ll paypal you postage. Just don’t tell my Spousal Unit, he hates mint flavoring so much that he gives even mint plants short shrift.
MikeJ
On a non-techey note, I’m having a martini and some Vashon Island produced cheese, a Camembert from Kurtwood farms, to whom I would link if their site didn’t redirect to a apple mobile me error page.
Damn you shitty web sites! You keep sucking me back in!
robertdsc
Needs moar Tunch.
Violet
@QuaintIrene:
Thank you for the offer. I can’t accept anything at the moment due to an upcoming move. I’m trying to get rid of stuff! The larger problem is that I don’t have the rum to make the mojito. I’ve got mint, although I’m sure it’s not as wonderful as the mint you’ve got. That sounds heavenly.
Liz
Did we find out what happened last week when Cole drank mojitos???? I need to go find out.
Anne Laurie
@Violet: You are correct. On this website, as it currently stands…
We can use a single dash between two words, no spaces, like so: single-use
or
We can use a space, a dash, another dash, a space, to get the “long” hyphen between words, like — this
But a single hyphen with a space on either side, or both sides, will RUIN THE THREAD for everybody.
Violet
@Anne Laurie:
Thanks for the clarification! I’m very fond of the hyphen to segment out separate thoughts within sentences, but since the Hyphen Problems have started, I’ve made efforts not to use them. I’ve found myself rephrasing to say what I’m trying to say. It’s been a challenge at times. So it’s not all bad. It’s only bad when someone effs up the thread.
asiangrrlMN
@Anne Laurie: Yep. I only use hyphens when they are attached at both ends. I have notice that the other option is infinite nesting of the comments (Google Chrome).
Cole, that mojito looks tasty. Have another one for me.
LikeableInMyOwnWay
There is nothing on earth better than a good mojito.
Period.
bemused
Damn, that drink looks good even it was rainy & never got much warmer than 59 deg here today. I’m drooling.
John, can you share your recipe?
John Cole
@bemused: fresh lime, freh spearmint from the herb garden, throw it in a glass and mull it, add some sugar (I use organic because I never used sugar and don’t mind about the price), 2-3 ounces of rum, stir vigorously, add ice and top off with club soda.
Some people cook down sugar and water to make a syrup, but I don’t bother.
blahblahgurgleblegblah
Man I want one of those. After a shitty day at the office, spending too much time bitching here on BJ about the Israelis and their fuckheadedness toward their own client-state, I’m ready for a stiff fucking drink.
Why can’t you make one for all of your readers? I mean, don’t we matter? It’s like you don’t love us, John.
bemused
@John Cole:
Thanks. We don’t have rum in the house right now so what brand(s) should I buy?
Steeplejack
@Anne Laurie:
I regular type
word, hyphen, hyphen, wordand get a regular dash, no problem.I am unwilling to experiment on a live thread, but I think the problem lies with an “unattended” hyphen, such as the one Fred Fnord uses, i.e.,
space, hyphen, word.CaseyL
@blahblahgurgleblegblah: Hold out for an invitation to the housewarming, like the rest of us.
Steeplejack
@bemused:
Ahem, rum expert here. (Arrgh!) Mount Gay Eclipse and Barbancourt are very good. (I think the Barbancourt three-star is actually better than the five-star.) If you want a really dark rum with some of the positive qualities of motor oil, Gosling’s Black Seal it is.
Captain Morgan and Ron [anything] are crap.
P.S. The above is based on widely available rums, not that double-secret bottle of 200-year-old stuff you got on that one trip to Jamaica that time. I’ll go ahead and stipulate that that’s the best rum evah and you absolutely rule.
goatchowder
Wow, I can smell that just by looking at it. Enjoy.
blahblahgurgleblegblah
@Steeplejack:
That ‘one trip to Jamaica that time’ I wasn’t too interested in rum. I found – cough! – other pursuits. Cough! Cough! Cough!
bemused
@Steeplejack:
Since I don’t expect to visit Jamaica any time soon, I’ll go with your other suggestions.
Anne Laurie
@Violet:
Thank gods for that, because taking away my hyphens would… well, I’d abuse the semi-colon even more than I do already. I can totally sympathise with your plight!
Perfect Tommy
WTF:
Martin
@Perfect Tommy: All the remaining efforts are containment, not cap efforts. They’re good containment efforts if they work, but the only way to cap it is via relief well.
What they’ve worried about is that there is evidence that the casing below the seafloor is damaged and if they cap at the top, the buildup of pressure would just cause a blowout under the BOP, and then they’re just fucked.
The good news is that relief well #2 is back underway. I think Obama needs to mandate relief well #3 get started.
RedKitten
Damn, that mojito DOES look good. Mind you, the last time I got stinking, stupidly drunk was on mojitos. I later found myself on my bathroom floor, with my head resting on my bathroom scales. My husband asked me how much my head weighed.
I said, “A lot. Now fuck off.”
flukebucket
I only read this blog on Firefox. It seems to almost always be fucked up on Explorer.
I can read it on my Blackberry anytime and no problems either.
So the simple fix for me is to just not use Explorer.
That way I do not even know the threads are fucked up until somebody chimes in and says, “hey, who fucked up the thread?”
Gravenstone
On a nice note to end my evening, I’m watching a pair of rabbits play grab ass all over my front yard, including stops to romp through the shrubbery along the foundation (and right under the windows). Occasionally country living has its benefits.
flukebucket
Can somebody tell me why relief wells are not a natural part of a well drilling operation? Why are they not mandatory since obviously they are the only sure way to stop blow outs?
It just seems to me it would be better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
trollhattan
Patriot spotting. Seen today on publicly funded and maintained Highway 50 in lubrul California: shiny Chebby 2500 pickum-up (major lift kit of course) with window sticker of Calvin peeing on “O’bama” and CA vanity plates reading “NRA GUY.”
In eight years of 43’s presidency, I’m trying to recall once seeing the equivalent on some DFH mobile. Okay, maybe the “A village is missing its idiot” one. I don’t know why this particular cretin got to me, but get to me he did. Grrr.
RedKitten
@Gravenstone:
True. And then you sometimes see something bigger.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gravenstone #50: How lovely! One of my forever-favourite memories is of watching three rabbits dancing on the front lawn under the light of a full moon, years ago now. I may have mentioned that before, as I have a kind of memory of BoB informing me that the Seven Liberal Arts did not recognise dancing rabbits, or something like that — but I ignored him and now he’s not here any more.
Rabbits romping and cavorting. Bliss.
Perfect Tommy
@Martin: So basically we are at the point where Wolf Blitzer says to the dirty faced leader standing in front of the latest catastrophe: “[Title], is it safe to say that this is no longer a rescue effort and is now a recovery effort?”
thomas Levenson
@John Cole: The great thing about mojitos is the practice getting the drink right (a) extends the learning curve and (b) tastes fine even when it doesn’t quite make perfection
thomas Levenson
@John Cole: The great thing about mojitos is the practice getting the drink right (a) extends the learning curve and (b) tastes fine even when it doesn’t quite make perfection
Steeplejack
All this talk of rum has got me feeling the pain of not actually having any in the house tonight. Damn. But my Braves are mauling the Phillies and after a six-game winning streak are a half-game ahead in the division. Seems like old times.
JL
John Cole, my ass.
You’re Martha Stewart, and we’ve all been punked.
Lit3Bolt
Mojito this, mojito that. John, why don’t you drink whiskey like every other barrel chested good ole southern boy. You can try some Kentucky bourbons, or George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey (ok, I’m biased). But they make delicious Manhattans. Get some bitters and Vermouth, yo.
Hippie Killer
I was going to challenge you to a mojito throwdown, but it looks like we both make ours the exact same way — assuming that when you say “2 or 3 ounces,” what you really mean “3 and a half. ” At least after you get going.
That’s what I thought.
beholder
You don’t like it.
You don’t like it cause the white man losing his power. Yes I said the white man is losing his power. Everywhere you look it happening.
Here a lesbian running the city. Here a meskin own the airwaves. Here a Muslim, a brother, here the landlord a quiet Chinese but he don’t bow and scrape. You used to buck your teeth and squint and he remembers. Now you pay the man.
For you the only black man worth mention is Bill Cosby or Famous Amos. That what they teach you in the schools. But you do not have the power to stop Louis Farrakhan.
You locked up H Rap Brown, Huey Newton, the only place you keep a black woman on her knees.
You keep the monkey on the junkie back, locked up tight and messed up so when he come out he ties up again, maybe this time be the last.
You deny the Tea Party a white supremacist organization. But I don’t see any black faces in that crowd.
You say that your Miss America not barred to any color, but when the real beauty win you claim it was rigged against the whites. Oh you losing your looks too baby.
And you don’t like it.
That’s why you keep a list and laws. That’s why you lie about it, distort the figures on murder, kidnapping, rape, the crimes that white people refuse to do. Assaults, smugglers, drop houses, home invasions, drugs and welfare recipients. These are the small pox blankets poisoning the minds of America.
And who care about something – anything! — other than that a socialist.
Presidents elected while black deserve the black ball. No matter he cleaning house after the white man’s watch, the house that the black men built.
This is America.
What’s not to like and cheer about?
We got illegals in our schools getting learned on the white man’s dime and why is that they always a white man on the dime, nickel, quarter or dollar in the country of freedom and equality. E pluribus unum.
Out of many, one.
Yeah, we know who the money is. We know who the many and who the one.
We got madmen trying to take the Indians out of Cleveland and the Redskins out of Washington. We even got our Fightin’ Whities trying to fake us out.
Rights are there for the white man, promises for everybody else. Promise of reparations promise of reservations, promises never to do it again.
And like every promise ever made by the ones writing those rights who it went to? Who get the benefits? Who turn those words into profit?
Now those laws are turning. This nation is rising up and sinking under your feet. It’s got a rotted core. It’s an earthquake, tsunami, storm and rage that rend the bedrock of your temple. The alabaster pillars going to drop.
The great white father turning to dust.
No more entertainers, no more football players, no more basketball, no more waiters and dishwashers, no more cleaners with your white shirts, nobody to hate cause they part of America too. Look around you.
They running it!
–An immigrant poem by beholder
Sheila
Here is something that I read in Discover magazine in an article about the current state of androids. Please keep in mind that I have great respect for much of what is out in the Internet (including this site) and think it is a highly useful tool for information and connection, but as we all know, there is enough truth in this to make it very funny, despite the fact that it is rather tortuously written:
“I’d argue that the revolution of the last 20 years has quenched our robo-fear, not so much by giving us a taste for change as by taking the gleam off that spark of humanity we used to be so proud of. What is Man? people used to wonder. Is consciousness divine in origin? Or is it a mere accident of nature that we alone, of all the matter in this Great Universe, adrift upon this marbled speck, have the power to dignify and ennoble our condition by understanding it, or at least attempting to?
“Then along came the Internet, and now we know what Man is. He enjoys porn and photographs of cats on top of things. He spells definitely with an a, for the most part, and the possessive of its with an apostrophe. On questions of great import or questions of scant import, he chooses sides based on what, and whom, choosing that particular side makes him feel like, and he argues passionately for his cause, all the more so after facts emerge to prove him a fool, a liar, and a hypocrite. If a joke or a turn of phrase amuses him, he repeats it, as if he thought of it, to others who then do the same. If something scares him, he acts bored and sarcastic.”
Bruno Maddox
charlequin
Holy shit, it is mojito season, isn’t it.
I’d better get me some rum. My mints from last year are up and burgeoning in the garden already….
Derek
@John Cole:
The reason for the syrup is that using regular sugar, it might not all get dissolved, especially because sugar doesn’t dissolve well in alcohol. Undissolved sugar makes your drink all grainy. Not that it’s impossible to make the drink without simple syrup, it just makes it much easier and more consistent.