Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

I really should read my own blog.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

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

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Let there be snark.

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

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Bark louder, little dog.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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A bunch of things highlighted to write about, but this is the general mood in the house right now:

I’m having a late lunch of fried green tomatoes and scrambled eggs and then settling in for the game.

BTW- I’m rooting for Spain. I think they have a very pretty playstyle that is fun to watch. The other reason I am rooting for them is because I think that von Bommel for the Dutch is just a goon with the mentality of a hooligan. Cheap SOB who just runs around fouling everyone and inexplicably gets away with it. The rugby pitch is over there, jackass.

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  2. 2.

    licensed to kill time

    Kittehs always make themselves look so cozy.

    edit:btw, I am still getting big empty gaps on the front page btwn posts. 3rd day in a row. Wha happen? Win XP FF 3.6.6

  4. 4.

    Phyllis

    Braves & the stinkin’ Mets have already started. Prolly not the game you mean, though.

  7. 7.

    Leeds man

    I think that von Bommel for the Dutch is just a goon with the mentality of a hooligan

    Don’t forget the smelling salts.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @licensed to kill time: I’m getting those big gaps between posts on the BlackBerry. FWIW.

  10. 10.

    licensed to kill time

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    As far as I can tell, it started on Friday afternoon. The site was fine all day until a new post was added around 4pm ET and all of a sudden the gaps appeared. Comrade Mary mentioned it at the time, too. I tried loading BJ in Opera to see if it persisted there, and it does.

    And that’s as much as I know!

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    Just getting ready to go to my brother’s house for World Cup cookout, Wii golf, etc. Will be my first occasion to issue a Nelson Muntz “Ha&#150ha!” to his Brazilian friend since his team was excused from further participation.

    I’m still pulling for the Netherlands today, goons or not, although I like Spain, too, and think it will be a tremendous game.

  13. 13.

    QuaintIrene

    A lazy summer sunday afternoon, indeed. I’m trying to get up the energy to go tie up my tomato plants and some general weeding. Damn, we could use rain. Yesterday was supposed to be a wet, wet day but we got nary a drop.

  14. 14.

    Wordsmith

    @Wordsmith:

    Since I do this all the time anyway….

    BTW- I’m rooting for Spain. I think they have a very pretty playstyle that is fun to watch

    Ohhh….THAT game. Spain it is….besides I doubt an octopus would have any reason to lie.

  16. 16.

    Steeplejack

    @licensed to kill time:

    Have not seen it myself–also using Win XP, Firefox 3.6.6. I think it may have to do with how your specific browser environment is set up (allowing cookies, scripts, etc.). Have no clue how to fix it, unfortunately. I would start by disallowing scripts from third parties (advertisements, ad aggregators, etc.) and work up from there.

  17. 17.

    Phyllis

    @stuckinred: It’ll come back to haunt them. Much like the row of Detroit fans who were sitting in front of us two weeks ago who were calling him ‘grandpa’ and a has-been when he came to the plate. Until he whacked a three run homer off the first pitch of their ace. I made them go buy me & the SO beers.

  18. 18.

    Dee Loralei

    John Rogers just put up a post for this weeks episode questions.Tonight show is about big pharma, and he quotes your Pfizer schpeil yesterday to explain why they did it. So yay you and Leverage. Can’t wait to watch.

    ETA:Yes, the show was written months before you wrote your thing, but Holy Zeitgeist Batman! Kinda reminds me of the episode where the team land the plane on a causway bridge the same week the incredible Hudson River landing happened.

  19. 19.

    burnspbesq

    I see that Cole has succumbed to the great heresy, i.e., the belief that football is not a contact sport.

  20. 20.

    suzanne

    I went and opened up a Flickr account to see if I can actually show y’all a picture of the new puppeh, because I was so patently incompetent yesterday. We still need a name, so any suggestions would be mighty helpful!

  22. 22.

    burnspbesq

    @stuckinred:

    Make fun of Chipper? Happy to oblige.

    Laaaaaa-reeeeee! Laaaaaaaa-reeeeee!

    Fuck Chipper. What the world needs now is a latter-day General Sherman to march through Georgia and leave nothing standing in Fulton County.

    You fucks are dead. Beltran will be back in two weeks, and we’re getting Oswalt at the deadline. It’s our year. I didn’t believe it when the season started, but it’s going to happen.

  25. 25.

    licensed to kill time

    @Steeplejack:

    Well, I already use AdblockPlus and NoScript (and always have) and nothing was changed on my settings that day. It was something that changed on the site, I think, because it happened right after the Baby Ruth post went up on Friday.

    In any case, it’s a minor annoyance but I keep mentioning it in the hopes that some savvy WP expert can fix it. Ha ha. FYWP.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @suzanne: Well, that puppeh was definitely worth the wait! What a cutie!

    ::smile::

  28. 28.

    suzanne

    @Wordsmith, @Dee Loralei: Awww, thanks. :) She’s still a bit nervous, since we just adopted her from the Humane Society yesterday, but is very affectionate. We’ve had one accident in the house so far, but she’s adjusting to the crate very nicely.

    The doggie-shaped hole in my heart is filling up nicely. :)

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    @stuckinred:

    Lock yourself in a room for 24 hours, unitl the acid wears off and takes with it the hallucination that the Braves are going to do anything this year.

  32. 32.

    fordpowers

    The rugby pitch is over there, jackass.

    Hah. You know what they say..
    Rugby is hooligan’s game played by gentlemen. Foote is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans.

  35. 35.

    demo woman

    Tunch looks quite cozy under the chest. Wasn’t that the chest that you bought at the garage sale? The finish is great.

  37. 37.

    SIA

    @suzanne: The new puppy is a young lady? (gorgeous!) Mandy, Mickey, Chaka, Coco, Molly. I don’t know why. (we have a girl pup named Mickey, she came with the name and oddly enough it was my mother’s nickname when she was young).
    Congratulations – beautiful dog!

  38. 38.

    MikeJ

    @suzanne: Is that a lab? If so, I would suggest names like Genetics, Computer, Crime, Chemistry.

    Genetics could be shortened to Gene and still work. Chemistry could have the nickname “Chem”, pronounced “Kim.”

  39. 39.

    Josie

    @suzanne: She is so cute and happy looking. I like SIA’s suggestion of Coco. Picture yourself calling her or try calling some names out loud to see how they sound. Some names just roll off the tongue easier.

  40. 40.

    Platonicspoof

    @licensed to kill time:

    I am still getting big empty gaps on the front page btwn posts.

    I’m guessing your (and the other commenters’) adblocking program(s) are blocking a Tide ad.
    I blocked one Tide link a week ago, but a couple times since then I’ve seen a Tide ad between posts.
    If anyone is really curious, maybe you can check your list of blocked sites (if that’s possible) for a Tide link, unblock it, and see what appears in the white area gaps.

  44. 44.

    Chat Noir

    @suzanne: Adorable! What a beauty. Is she a black lab? Look forward to lots of puppy stories and pictures.

    About 20+ years ago, I babysat a black lab named Ebony who would chase a Frisbee until she dropped.

    And she would get “mad” at me if I didn’t take her in the car on errands. One time she knocked over the trash container in the kitchen and dragged trash into the living room. When I got home, she looked at me as if to say, “well, if you took me with you, I wouldn’t need to do bad things like that.” I didn’t get mad at her because I knew she just wanted to ride in the car and be with me. After that, I put the trash container in the walk-in pantry if I wasn’t able to take her with me.

    She was a wonderful dog. Lots of snorgles to your new baby.

  45. 45.

    licensed to kill time

    @Platonicspoof:

    I turned off Adblocker and ‘temporarily allowed all this site’ on NoScript and I still see the big gaps. OMG this site looks SO different with all the ads, I turned it right back on! I’m just going to live with the gaps, I guess. Maybe they will go away as mysteriously as they arrived, haha.

  46. 46.

    Michael

    Only a total fag (and not in the way that denigrates gay people) would feel compelled to take a firearm to the beach, or shopping or to a restaurant.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-open-carry-20100711,0,684001.story

    “Just because somebody is carrying a gun doesn’t mean that they’re a criminal,” said Scott Brownlie, a 25-year-old firefighter who stood outside Peet’s Coffee & Tea with an unloaded Colt M-4 Carbine slung across his back. “If a lot of people were allowed to carry more … there would be a lot less crime.”

  47. 47.

    suzanne

    Awww, thanks for the ideas, everyone. I’m running them by my husband and we’ll make some sort of decision this week.

    Humane Society thinks she’s half Lab, half Pit, so we don’t really know how big she’s going to get. She’s got the Pit face and tail, Lab body and ears. Her name at the Humane Society was “Lisa”, which neither of us like. But we’re a bit bent. We both suggested naming her “Pol Pot” at the exact same time. Really just so we could say “POL! POT! POL! POT! POLPOT!”

  49. 49.

    WaterGirl

    @suzanne: So cute! Did you happen to see the list of names I put up yesterday, from when I was naming my new girl kitty?

  57. 57.

    Anne Laurie

    @suzanne: Sophie. Big boisterous girls deserve cute feminine names, for PR purposes if nothing else. I suspect that was the shelter’s reasoning behind “Lisa” — Dog-inexperienced people are less liable to get all paranoid about a “Sophie” or a “Coco” than a “Midnight” or “Bear”.

  59. 59.

    asiangrrlMN

    @suzanne: She is adorable! The name Rita came to mind for whatever reason. Whatever you name her, keep us updated.

    Cole: TUNNNNNNNCH! There’s my little baby! Awwww, he looks so cute and cuddly as he’s snoozing under the dresser. Ahem. Right. As you were.

  60. 60.

    Comrade Mary

    @licensed to kill time: Did you keep scrolling down? I set NoScript to temporarily allow all. I still got a big gap near the top, but further down the page I got some Zoosk ads from Google, and an ad for Liverpool university. No Tide ads for me, though.

    So what we have here is not a glitch, but white space as a placeholder for some ads we don’t usually see.

    (Hope they’re paying you the big bucks for the big ads, John.)

  61. 61.

    licensed to kill time

    @Comrade Mary:

    Yep, I did. The only ad I got in the middle of the page was for a “Drug Free America” which I think might be interesting, if all drugs were free. Then there were ads on the sidebars, but still had two empty open spaces in the middle.

    FWIW, I have gone to this site on Opera as well and get the white spaces there, too, and I have no adblockers set on Opera. It’s muy myterioso.

  62. 62.

    suzanne

    @Anne Laurie: Yeah, we really like the name Sophie. We like it so much that we might use it for the baby that’s on the way. Heh.

    Naming pets is far easier than naming children.

  69. 69.

    rikyrah

    fried green tomatoes and scrambled eggs?

    never had it.

    I do love fried green tomatoes and grits.

  70. 70.

    Beeb

    Angela. Old farts like me will know you named her after Angela Davis. Everyone else will just think it’s sweet.

  73. 73.

    CynDee

    @jeffreyw: Not sure what you’re going through, but sure you don’t deserve it. Courage, dear.

    Loved the shrimp pic. Yummm.

  76. 76.

    HRA

    Adorable puppy! Cleo is my vote. I like all the other names here, too. May you all have many years of happiness.

  77. 77.

    trueblood

    @fordpowers: yeah, and whenever the hooligans show up they ruin the game. What I hated most about rugby during my college years was the number of ex-(American) football goons who would join my team (or competing teams) and never learn how to play properly, or wear their toe-cleats and blades to practice.

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