Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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

No one could have predicted…

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

This fight is for everything.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Let’s finish the job.

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

“woke” is the new caravan.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

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  1. 1.

    General Stuck

    I always like to hear George opine about history, and that no one will know how it’s judged cause we’ll all be dead. That just blows my mind every time.

  5. 5.

    YellowJournalism

    Looks like it’s running tonight. Then again, I get it on the Canadian feed. PVR is recording right now.

    ETA: Obama has a kid’s book out? Wha?

  6. 6.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @General Stuck:

    The irony of course is that the deserting coward is the pride of the Yale History Department; his undergraduate degree is in History, and it’s obvious that he didn’t excel in it.

  8. 8.

    jrg

    Was the Bush interview preceded by an emergency broadcast message indicating that the terror alert level is orange? ’cause that would have been awesome.

  9. 9.

    General Stuck

    Sarah Palin has officially changed the modern lexicon, one tweet at a time. While one might expect the New Oxford American Dictionary to refudiate the former Alaska governor’s favorite verb, today they embraced it, announcing “refudiate” as the official 2010 word of the year.

    RIP America – Kilt by Twitter.

  11. 11.

    cmorenc

    @Bnut:

    This is what Fox decided to highlight in Obama’s new kids book.

    Well, Custer got exactly what he deserved for his arrogance, ignorance, and blunt stupidity. His fellow soldiers he dragged into an untenable, easily ambushed position, perhaps not so much. Custer was planning to execute a massacre of the Indians who ambushed him – surprise, surprise, surprise that he blundered his way into them massacring him before he could do the same to them, women and children included.

  17. 17.

    arguingwithsignposts

    BTW, re: GWB – apparently, his presidential coloring book storage house (aka library) is being ceremonialized tomorrow on the campus of SMU. Ari Fleischer was talking to a journalism class today. Didn’t know lying through your teeth was considered “journalism,” but there ya go.

  18. 18.

    MikeJ

    @arguingwithsignposts: I use geobeagle for geocaching, a nook reader app, and google goggles. Beyond that I don’t use many custom apps. The occasional game, but I’m pretty happy with just using the web browser usually.

  19. 19.

    The Dangerman

    @Bnut:

    This is what Fox decided to highlight in Obama’s new kids book.

    I’m not sure which is worse; that FOX decided to run with an article with such an inflammatory title…

    …or the miscreants that posted their comments to that FOX article. There are some truly stupid people out there.

  24. 24.

    The Other Chuck

    I must admit, as neologisms go, I actually rather _like_ “refudiate”. God knows it’s a more clever coinage than any of the rest of Sarah’s brain-dribblings, even if it was likely the result of having no spellchecker.

  26. 26.

    Ross Hershberger

    My wife’s on the way to the video store to rent a disk of Chuck Season 3. I’m not really fond of the show, as the main character strikes me as a complete doofus and an annoyance. Agent Walker, on the other hand I find oddly fascinating.

    I’m listening to David Lindley’s great slide work on Tuna Fish Blues while I wait for the TV disk to arrive.

  27. 27.

    Southern Beale

    I still don’t understand the fascination with “Chuck.” I watch it every week cuz the husband is a big fan but personally I think it’s pretty lame. He loves it though.

    Maybe it’s a nerdy guy thing.

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    Caramba! Michael Vick just lit up the Redskins with an 88-yard touchdown throw on the first play of the game.

  31. 31.

    debit

    Bakers, I need help. I’ve been making a bread with filling (melted butter, chopped onions, spices, poppy seeds). The recipe calls for the filling to be sealed in lengthwise pieces of dough that are then braided, but I’ve been rolling it up like a jelly roll. The problem with either method is a mildly soggy center. I bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes until the outside is a deep golden brown and don’t dare push it much longer. What do you think? Smaller loafs? Longer, slower baking time?

  33. 33.

    Bnut

    @cmorenc: No doubt. I would also point out that many historians don’t even believe Sitting Bull participated in Little Big Horn, but instead took charge of the women,children and supplies in an orderly retreat while Crazy Horse led the warriors.

  34. 34.

    Mark S.

    @Greenhouse Guy:

    I still don’t understand why the fuck this teacher was suspended. She didn’t call anyone the n-word, she just said that another teacher did. Does anyone (especially this superintendent) have a spine anymore?

  37. 37.

    Joseph Nobles

    @Mark S.: She was recorded saying the N-word. Never mind that she was recounting a story about someone else saying it. Never mind that it was a private conversation being recorded by someone pretending to flirt with her at a bar. Never mind that she obviously disapproved of people saying the word. Never mind that a few years earlier she literally threw herself in front of a vehicle to save the lives of students. She was recorded saying the N-word. That’s why she was suspended.

  38. 38.

    debit

    @Southern Beale: I’m thinking about going that route. But when my mom made them when I was a kid, I don’t remember the center being so moist and heavy and she always made the full sized loaf. (Braided it too, which I utterly fail at.) So I thought there might be something I’m just missing. Mom says she just followed the recipe, but it’s been years since she made it.

  39. 39.

    stuckinred

    @Greenhouse Guy: It was a big dust up this afternoon. Some of us, myself included, thought it was great that someone slashed the tires on their van at a funeral protest in Oklahoma. Others felt it was not the way to go.

  40. 40.

    WereBear

    Keith Olbermann is on fire with a kickin’ Special Comment; dissecting the myth of “objectivity and neutrality.”

    I know not everyone likes him. But I do.

  46. 46.

    The Dangerman

    Redskins defense appears in shock over McNabb’s five year extension. Game over before the first beer was.

  48. 48.

    The Other Chuck

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    I tried to post my favorite android apps, but for the fourth time _today_, FYWP. I recommend asking on a forum with software that isn’t so broken, because I give up here.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    @The Dangerman:

    Redskins defense appears in shock over McNabb’s five year extension. Game over before the first beer was.

    I’m more confused by this outcome than all the political suicide the D’s have been doing lately.
    Really Redskins? Really??

  51. 51.

    Corner Stone

    @Corner Stone: I mean, a 5 YEAR EXTENSION for a 33 yr old QB who your new head coach doesn’t even have enough faith in to run a 2 minute drill against the LIONS?

  52. 52.

    Corner Stone

    Is this an NCAA football game? Looks like we’re going to see the Iggles drop 75 on the Skins.

  53. 53.

    MikeJ

    @Corner Stone: The last time I was a fan of a team who refused a five year contract for an over the hill player it was the Red Sox telling Roger Clemens to fuck off.

  55. 55.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Bnut:

    Sitting Bull in Obama’s book:

    Since I was raised in Oklahoma, I was taught the history of Sitting Bull. Respectfully. Including his time in Fort Smith.

    But it wasn’t until I had grown up and left OK that I realized what a total Jerk the Custer was. And he had dreams of becoming president of the US.

    I know that Fox isn’t respected by a lot of people but this is really too much. Anybody who gets up in arms because Custer got his just deserts is really going on a fool’s errand.

  57. 57.

    BruceFromOhio

    Igglez up 28 in less than 15 minutes.
    Washington offense is out front hailing a cab.

    If nothing else, the Philadelphia second string gets some MNF air time.

  60. 60.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Bnut #3:

    I don’t believe I’ve ever actually linked to the Fox Nation website before, so the followng may be an old, tired observation: BUT, doesn’t it seem odd (or would be for anyone except Fox) to say at the top “ALL OPINIONS WELCOME” and then *immediately* proceed to tell you exactly which opinions are and are not welcome!

    ALL OPINIONS WELCOME The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship.

  63. 63.

    RedKitten

    @John Cole: What’d you think of the ep? I thought Richard Chamberlain was a delightful villain. It was too much fun to see Summer Glau and Adam Baldwin growling at each other.

    I wish she’d been allowed to kill off Jeff and Lester, though. I’ve had enough of them.

  64. 64.

    The Dangerman

    Looks like 35-0.

    Apparently, there was an altercation before the game per Yahoo Sports; Eagles may want to put a massive hurt on the Redskins.

    5 year extension for DM is bull (sitting or otherwise).

  65. 65.

    va

    I liked the part where Chuck and Sarah stayed together in spite of the challenge their relationship was facing.

  67. 67.

    Ash Can

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    ALL OPINIONS WELCOME The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship as long as they’re the same as ours.

    Pretty straightforward, really.

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @stuckinred #14: I already had The Garry Owen going through my mind in a friendly, non-aggressive kind of way. Thanks a lot, now it’s Major Earworm for the next several hours.

  70. 70.

    MikeJ

    @Corner Stone: Sorry about that. I was (and am) a fan of the Red Sox. When Clemens contract came up for renewal, he asked for a five year contract. The Sox refused because he was too old to last five years. He moved on to other teams (Toronto and TFY) and he did well. I was of the opinion that the sox should have given him the five year contract.

  72. 72.

    parsimon

    @General Stuck:

    announcing “refudiate” as the official 2010 word of the year

    Oh jesus christ. I can’t even imagine what they’re thinking. It’s one thing to acknowledge something like “google” as a verb, given its widespread use at this point; but “refudiate”? Nobody says this.

  74. 74.

    Corner Stone

    @MikeJ: Being an Astros fan, I enjoyed the time Clemens spent pitching for us.
    Some would argue that the Red Sox turning him down put him on the path to revival, by any means necessary.
    Lord knows I’ve read The Sports Guy enough times to hear his side of it.

  78. 78.

    Anne Laurie

    @arguingwithsignposts:
    __

    Oh jesus christ. I can’t even imagine what they’re thinking.

    Free publicity!
    __
    Seriously, dictionary writers cashing in on inane politicians.

    Bingo.

    Word of the year: Mangled diction from a publicity-hungry idiot — or said idiot’s ghostwrister — representing a year of mangled language from professional idiots and their enablers. Who will give the Smrt Pipple ten million clicks in the smug conviction that their mush-minded idiocy has been… refudiated.

  79. 79.

    parsimon

    @Ash Can:

    Oh my. I misread and thought this was the OED people, who do, I think, come out with lists of noteworthy neologisms from time to time. But this is not that. !! Never mind.

  83. 83.

    Zuzu's Petals

    I’m feeling pretty sad tonight. Just six weeks after saying goodbye to my 19-yr-old Maine Coon, I’ve gotten the word that my 12-yr-old blue cream tortie has oral squamous cell carcinoma. Not much to be done except keep her comfortable for as long as she can be.

    I know it’s irrational, but I feel so guilty for not brushing her teeth more.

  86. 86.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    @RedKitten: OMG — I was trying to watch the train wreck of the Redskins, and you tell me Richard Chamberlain is on Chuck!! After Timothy Dalton, Bruce Boxleitner and Scott Bacula? If next up is Alan Rickman, expect swoons. They may be not young, but they are choice.

  88. 88.

    WereBear

    @debit: Stuff like that is why I’ve sorta given up on episodic television; not to mention they tax my patience by randomly moving them around and randomly choosing to repeat them, or not.

    I am following The Walking Dead thanks to my finally tracking down the Prime Time on Demand part of my cable system. Now I’m freaked. That is good stuff!

  89. 89.

    Zuzu's Petals

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Thanks for the kind thoughts.

    I thought giving them dry food was supposed to do most of the work (she’s on all wet food now), but my new vet told me they should be brushed every day. ‘Course Tigger rarely let me get that close to her mouth, but still …

  90. 90.

    El Cid

    Via the GOS and Think Progress: Arizonans go after another terror mosque with its terror dome, yet it’s actually a Christian church being built by volunteers.

    PHOENIX — People behind a new church in Phoenix are trying to stay ahead of any potential controversy or hate that accompanied the announcement of a proposed mosque near Ground Zero in New York City.
    __
    A new dome-like structure near 19th Avenue along Interstate 10 in Phoenix is the Light of the World church, a nondenominational Christian church hoping to modernize traditional worship services, a church spokesman said
    __
    Since the distinctive dome shape went up, church leaders said they have received phone calls from concerned neighbors who’ve mistaken the building for an Islamic mosque.
    __
    On Wednesday, church officials hung a sign reminding people they’re Christian congregation. “We’re trying to let people know that we’re Christian and our churches are modern,” said Uzieo Martinez.

    “Please Don’t Freak Out Like We’re Muslims, People!”

    The tops of many storage tanks are dome-shaped, therefore they are all terror mosques.

  94. 94.

    parsimon

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    My sympathies, Zuzu’s Petals. I had two aged cats go within 6 months of one another; it’s tough.

    On the teeth-brushing thing: some cats do need teeth-cleaning. The vet did it once a year for one of my roommate’s cats (15 years old) who had an excessive build-up of plaque or something. I’m not sure if you can do it yourself very easily. It’s worth specifically asking the vet to look at that if you have an older cat.

  95. 95.

    Steeplejack

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    I have downloaded only a few so far for my Droid Incredible.

    CardioTrainer is a pretty amazing app for tracking your route, time and distance for walking, running, biking, etc. You can save your workouts to a Web site.

    The app gStrings is a really cool one for tuning your guitar. You can have it play a tone that you tune to, but the awesome part is that it has a mode where it shows you a meter with a needle, listens to your note and shows you graphically whether you’re sharp or flat. Very cool.

    MLB News is dormant right now, but it gave me up-to-the-minute scores and standings during the baseball season.

    RepliGo Reader helped me out when I needed to carry around a huge PDF file and read it on the go.

  96. 96.

    suzanne

    @El Cid: What’s weird is that we have lots of Orthodox churches and, yes, mosques in the Phoenix area… and no one freaks out. I went to school down the street from a mosque for four years and never once saw a single protest.

    But 19th Avenue is on the west side, and the west side sucks.

  98. 98.

    suzanne

    @Zuzu’s Petals: My Scout would sooner fuckin’ sprout wings and fly than let me brush her teeth. Good God. I didn’t know that was a thing for cats.

    You and your kitteh are in my thoughts.

  99. 99.

    Mnemosyne

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    I’m so sorry. It seems to be pretty common in elderly cats, so I don’t really think there was much you could have done to prevent it. Just keep her comfortable for as long as you can and let her go when it’s time.

  100. 100.

    map106

    @The Other Chuck:
    Okay, this is something you youngsters can help me out with (since I’m one of those white boomers you all think are the bane of the Democratic Party, all of whom you want to die off). Did none of your English teachers teach you that most adjectives’ comparative and superlative forms are made by adding -er and
    -est respectively? The comparative form of clever is “cleverer”, not “more clever”. Rather ironic that you’re talking about a neologism, and you don’t know this.

    Or is this one of these ancient rules of grammar that we’ve decided to let slide to make it easier for the Twitter age?

    This and the almost universal confusion with “then” and “than”.

    What’s up with that?

  101. 101.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Zuzu’s Petals: My sympathies. Of mine, Monster has perfect teeth after sixteen years with no brushing; Ringling won’t let me brush her teeth, and had some extractions recently; Dirk will let me approach him, but I spend the whole time fighting his tongue as he tries to eat the seafood flavored toothpaste. He goes in for a cleaning and extraction on Thursday.

    Eddie had major oral surgery, including six extractions, back in May. So, he may have cancer, but his teeth are taken care of. For those who have followed this saga, he’s still doing very well. Thanks to the steroids I’m giving him, he’s eating everything in sight and I had to start limiting how much he can have. The two front toes he has left are so swollen that his claws are coming out at a 45 degree angle, and he can’t retract them. That bothers him a lot. He keeps tugging on them with his teeth, and digging them into the bedsheets and pulling. I haven’t had the heart to tell him that it’s never going to work. Other than that, he’s doing just fine. I’m considering the possibility that, in keeping with his whole medical history, he might not be very good at the dying part of “dying of cancer.”

  102. 102.

    Steeplejack

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    [. . .] but my new vet told me they should be brushed every day.

    This sounds crazy to me. How did they ever survive in the wild without someone to brush their teeth? I have never brushed my cats’ teeth, and the last two lived to 18 and 21, respectively, with no tooth problems at all. Yes, I know it’s anecdata, but still . . .

    But you have all my sympathy on your loss. Enjoy your remaining time with the 12-year-old.

  103. 103.

    Zuzu's Petals

    Thanks all.

    I would occasionally try to get in there with a kitty toothbrush or rubber finger brush thingy, but whew, it was like trying to wrestle a banshee…and I had the scratches to prove it.

    My other cat had the full-bore cleaning with anesthesia and everything, not sure if I ever did it for Tigger…though I’ve only had her for four years.

  104. 104.

    Ross Hershberger

    So we just finished watching 2 Chucks from S3: The paris one and the Dubai one. Pretty good TV, and way above the S3 average. I like it best when he isn’t falling down at Agent Walker’s feet and acting like a love sick middle school kid.

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Does it do alternate tunings too?

    It will do any tuning. It tunes one note at a time. You choose which note you want to hear or see on the meter, you tune that string, then you change the selected note for the next string. Whatever tuning you want.

  106. 106.

    suzanne

    So tomorrow is 34 weeks. I’m getting so damn sick of being fat, I can barely stand it. Fortunately, I’m getting over this strep throat. And I have an appointment with an ENT on Thursday, so I am hopeful these nosebleeds will stop. I am so sick of snot.

  107. 107.

    Zuzu's Petals

    @J. Michael Neal:

    I’m going to be giving my kitty Prednisone, which is supposed to have some chemo-like effects and may actually slow things down. Sounds like it’s worth a try.

  109. 109.

    Mnemosyne

    @J. Michael Neal:

    I’m considering the possibility that, in keeping with his whole medical history, he might not be very good at the dying part of “dying of cancer.”

    After Boris was poisoned by the fucking Chinese rice gluten in Natural Balance’s food, we seriously thought we were going to have to put him to sleep within a day or two of diagnosis. But we just had to do a couple of simple procedures (like giving him subcutaneous fluid at home every day) and he bounced back enough that one of the vets said, “How is your cat with the magical regenerating kidneys?”

    We got an extra three months with him that we didn’t expect and though it was frustrating at times to have a seriously ill cat, it was worth it.

    (I do feel guilty, though, because we think what happened is that he caught a virus from my brother’s cat who we were babysitting and his body couldn’t fight it off. Between that and the stress of having a strange cat in the house, he just faded away.)

  110. 110.

    parsimon

    @map106:

    Did none of your English teachers teach you that most adjectives’ comparative and superlative forms are made by adding -er and
    -est respectively? The comparative form of clever is “cleverer”, not “more clever”.

    Nice try, but nope. English admits of more felicity of rhythm than that.

    She is clever.
    She is patient.
    She is graceful.

    We do not say that she is patienter, or that she is gracefuller. Rather, we say that she is more patient, more graceful.

  111. 111.

    Ross Hershberger

    If Chuck didn’t have Adam Baldwin I’d never go near it. I think the guy’s hilarious in a thuggish and sullen way. He was great in Firefly.

  117. 117.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Zuzu’s Petals: Prednisolone (which is the spelling on the bottles, though the L is partially swallowed when saying it) is what Eddie’s on. It slows down the spread of a lot of cancers, though, since they have never seen a case of feline cutaneous lymphoma where I go, they’re just guessing that it will help him. There are a couple of things to be aware of:

    1) It dramatically increases their appetite. For cancer patients, this is probably a good thing. You have to be careful, though, because they can gain weight fast, and;

    2) One of its potential side effects is that it can lead to diabetes. For most cancer patients, you’ll be pretty happy if you have to put them to sleep from diabetes, since it means that they lived long enough to get it. So, you should monitor her weight;

    3) It lowers their immune system. Eddie had a bladder infection two weeks ago that really panicked me, thinking it was kidney stones. Be prepared to administer antibiotics.

  121. 121.

    parsimon

    @Ash Can: Which is to say that the comparative of “clever” can go either way, depending on the structure and rhythm of the composed sentence. In The Other Chuck’s comment up at 24, “more clever” was appropriate given the rest of the sentence.

    So there!

  124. 124.

    Zuzu's Petals

    @J. Michael Neal:

    Thanks for the advice. I am hoping it will slow things down, but I just have the feeling it won’t be long enough to worry about the long-term effects.

    Here’s a pic I took of her last week. She loves to follow the sun as it travels around the back yard…no spot is too inconvenient for sunbathing!

    Tigger finds a sunny spot.

    The little shaved part of her arm is where the catheter went in for her dental surgery. Sadly, she already looks thinner.

    PS to asiangrrlMN: Thank you.

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