Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let there be snark.

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

No one could have predicted…

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

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

I really should read my own blog.

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  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    Obligatory PUPPEH!!

    That two-legged greyhound is all kinds of win. Looks like a happy girl bouncing around despite missing a few pieces.

    Oh and the second song annoyed me. Carmina Burana, on the other hand, is just overplayed. At least that movement is.

  6. 6.

    daryljfontaine

    4:10 Mitt Romney’s dog?

    Carmina Burana was overplayed in movie trailers everywhere during the 80s/90s — it’s been long enough that it’s due for a resurgence, don’t you think?

    D

  8. 8.

    aliasofwestgate

    @Yutsano:

    The O Fortuna movement is far overplayed, especially as it was overdone in the 80s/90s. Though there is one incredible remix of it, called the Apotheosis Remix which is excellent, but hard to find nowadays. Mostly because it was so under the radar at the time it was released as a single. Luckily, my boss at my streaming station has it. :D Give it a listen. I don’t pull it out for my shows very much, but when i do? It’s always a favorite. One of the more surreal bits of my high school years, but memorable as all HELL.

    YAY doggies. Though i love ’em as much as my kitteh.

  9. 9.

    slag

    While I’m in the process of objecting to things, gotta object to the dog pulling the tractor. It concerned me. And the dog v. shark seemed gratuitous. No unnecessary fighting among the animal kingdom, please.

    As for the rest, not bad.

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    @aliasofwestgate: I think I’ve heard segments of that remix on commercials. The whole piece is pretty damn epic and a BITCH to perform in one sitting. Basically, that’s your show, because anything else you would do would kill your performers’ voices. The remix uses one of the most common performances, although I heard a rendering done by the Minneapolis (?) Symphony Chorale that was an amazing interpretation.

  11. 11.

    Ruckus

    Late night dog blogging seems like a good time to catch up with Bud’s progress.
    After almost $500 in blood tests, vet bills and medication his problem seems to be liver function. Or lack of full function actually. But he is doing so much better now that he seems like a new dog.
    I want to thank everyone who responded a few weeks ago to my cries of desperation. One night, before we knew what was going on he scared me pretty bad. He was hogging the entire bed and blocking my feet so I was trying to arouse him a little and get him to move a bit. But he didn’t respond at all so I went to pet him on his side and I could not feel him breathing or his heart beating. In the few seconds it took me to turn on the light and check him out I thought he was gone. But obviously I was wrong. And of course I’m so relieved that I was.

    Must be real bitch to be sick and not be able to tell anyone or describe what hurts.

  12. 12.

    freelancer

    @slag:

    And the dog v. shark seemed gratuitous. No unnecessary fighting among the animal kingdom, please.

    So the other, different dog jumping in the lake and emerging from the water with the flopping fish in its jaws, that wasn’t disconcerting? Sheesh.

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    Seems as good a place as any to put this up, especially since we have Colorado BJers. Plus we can always do SOMETHING to help, even if it’s just buying BJ swag. It HELPS.

  16. 16.

    freelancer

    @tkogrumpy:

    To the contrary, I think we need a FP post about it. Then maybe a second FP post revisiting and rebuking the concerns of the FP post. Finished up with a FP post revising the original outlook of the first FP post. Followed by a FP open thread, and then a perfunctory head-scratching post by Cole tomorrow morning wondering wtf is wrong with all of us, but dictating that the blog stops with him, and he is responsible for everything on the site, even if the readers have captured him.

  19. 19.

    John - A Motley Moose

    I was kind of hesitant about watching this after losing my dog just a few days ago. I’m glad I did. Especially the very end where the husky says, “I love you.” Whenever I left Al alone to go anywhere he would meet me at the door and moan(?) like that husky. Only Al didn’t say “I love you” he quite clearly said “Where were you?” Anyone who heard it was amazed at how much it sound like real words. I wish I had recorded it one of those times.

  20. 20.

    rhwombat

    Yutsano. The second piece of music is Mobius perpetuum by Penguin Cafe, to my mind one of the great pieces to survive the 80’s. Carl Orf was an unrepentant Nazi, which kind of contaminates Carmina Burana, for all of its popularity. Slainte

  21. 21.

    Ruckus

    @John – A Motley Moose:
    Always hard to loose a good friend. Hopefully you’ll be able to find another friend which will help. Help not to get over or replace your old friend but to help realize that each friend is special in their own way. One is not better than the others, just that the next one brings a new and different friendship.

  22. 22.

    amk

    Hey, my dog is great. It can’t do anything of those stunts — not one thing. At best, he gives a weak wag of his tail.

  23. 23.

    peej

    I hope Cole watched that video. I saw at least 3 activities that he can do with Rosie (skateboarding, water skiing, and mountain climbing).

  25. 25.

    harlana

    I did not see a shark. Only two different clips of dog retrieving very large fish. I admit upon first glance, one of them looked like a shark but it was a fish-fish, or is it just me.

    Great video. Although I am a cat person, I love dogs, too. The thing about dogs is you can train them to do all these incredible things. And cats, well you know how that goes. Although I did see a man on the teevee one time who had trained cats to do things like walk a tightrope, etc., and I was amazed cuz I thought it couldn’t be done.

  27. 27.

    JPL

    @bkny: How cute. Duchess the magnificent Golden and my first baby had eleven pups and although they were a lot of work, they were a lot of fun also.

  29. 29.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Anne

    Thanks for the lovely video. I woke up thinking that the human world pretty much sucks but obviously the animal world rocks. It was a real mood lifter.

    [but my opinion of the human world is still not good]

  30. 30.

    Southern Beale

    You know, some of those clips were really disturbing. Why train your dog to climb the stairs on two legs? Kinda reminds me of that book “The Dogs Of Babel.”

  31. 31.

    bkny

    @JPL: that one that sniffed something only to turn in the wrong direction and then rolling around trying to get his balance had me in tears. was that poop or food? lol.

  32. 32.

    soonergrunt

    @freelancer: I saw that and was like “did that dog just attack a FRICKIN SHARK?! HOLY SHIT!” rewind, play, “yeah, he attacked a FRICKIN SHARK!”
    DOGGIE WIN!

  33. 33.

    Kristine

    @Ruckus: I missed the first round about this, but I’m very glad that Bud is feeling better.

    My Mickey had a type of liver condition triggered by an irritated bile duct (cholangiohepatitis). I controlled it with special diet and SAMe supplements.

  35. 35.

    Sko Hayes

    Dogs really are awesome. For the commenter who was wondering why cats aren’t as awesome, one must remember that “Dogs have masters, cats have staff.”

  36. 36.

    MAJeff

    @Yutsano:

    The whole piece is pretty damn epic and a BITCH to perform in one sitting.

    You ain’t kidding. When we did it in college, I was assigned to sing second tenor, and I’m a rather low baritone. I had massive headaches after all three performances.

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    @Kristine:
    We don’t know what caused the liver problem but Bud is on SAMe and we changed his diet. Tried the bland chicken and rice diet, no way would he eat that. First time I ever saw him turn his nose up and walk away from any kind of food.

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