Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

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

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

We still have time to mess this up!

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Republicans in disarray!

After roe, women are no longer free.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

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  4. 4.

    South of I-10

    We got 5 inches of rain last night, I’m glad it’s not freezing. Careful you don’t bust up your shoulder again.

  7. 7.

    Tim F.

    It was safe until you took Rosie out. Now I’d take my chances with the ice.

    Seriously, I salted every square inch on my property save one, then promptly found that one and fell on my ass. Meanwhile the doberman, who becomes a dainty little prince whenever it rains, for some inexplicable reason loves freezing rain and crusted sidewalks. I think he takes it as a chance to play crack-the-whip with the cursing guy at the other end of the leash.

  9. 9.

    quaint irene

    Christine O’Donnell is officially being investigated for using campaign funds for personal use.
    Downside of that is that this grinning ninnies face was all over the morning news shows.

  10. 10.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    That’s not an ice storm. This is an ice storm… and yes, I lived through this; both my hometown (Kingston) and my contemporary city (Montreal, which where these videos were taken) got pummelled.

    People were banned from downtown Mtl while they knocked the ice off the skyscrapers… think pieces of ice six inches thick and three to four feet across falling from 30 stories up. It was completely insane. I was one of the few people with power, and had eight people staying with me in my one bedroom apartment (bro, sis, their fams, grilf, and a buddy). My mom (in Kingston) ended up being evacuated as it took over two weeks to restore power after the almost complete destruction of the electricity infrastructure in Kingston.

    I can remember going out with the adults and watching the transformers blow up all up and down Laurier… you’d see a flash and a bunch of sparks on the horizon every twenty minutes or so when it really got going on the first night.

  11. 11.

    Dilford

    @R-Jud: Similar to us in SE Iowa – had plenty of lovely snow for Christmas that was still around yesterday and overnight it melted (temp zoomed up to 50).

  13. 13.

    Svensker

    @polyorchnid octopunch:

    My mom (in Kingston) ended up being evacuated as it took over two weeks to restore power after the almost complete destruction of the electricity infrastructure in Kingston.

    We had a favorite bookstore in Kingston, an old house packed with books floor to ceiling, but her pipes froze and then exploded and all the books were pulped. Terrible.

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    Soprano2

    I still have nightmares about the ice storm we had here in January 2007. (shudder) It took out the power to most of the city, metro population about 250,000. It was eerie to drive around the city and see almost no lights and no stoplights. (People could drive because for some reason the ice didn’t stick to the streets). The gas stations that were open started running out of gas – it reminded me of the gas shortages of 1979. Grocery stores looked like they had been ravaged because they had to give away all their produce and refrigerated/frozen products after they lost power. We heat with a wood furnace, which helped some, but we were without power for 13 days, and we live in the middle of the city. Our neighborhood looked like a war zone. On the news they said not to drive over power lines, which made me laugh because I wouldn’t have been able to leave my house if I had followed that instruction! I found out things about my tolerance for electricity deprivation that I’m not proud of, although at least I didn’t call the local utility company and scream at the help like some people I know did. I was lucky, because we have showers at work where there was power, so I had a warm place to get ready for work.

    On the plus side there was free wood everywhere! We got 16 pickup loads of free wood without leaving my neighborhood. That wood lasted us about two years. I hope your ice storm isn’t that bad, John.

  15. 15.

    Calming Influence

    John, I hesitate to give you advice (for about a millisecond) but if you should happen to slip on the ice, try to land on either your ass or your head. I can’t handle another description of you popping your dislocated shoulder back in by slamming it into a tree stump or dropping a cinder block on it or some similarly hillbillyish W.V. home remedy.

  16. 16.

    Calming Influence

    Also Seattle got about 1/8″ of snow last night, which of course threw the city into chaos.

  17. 17.

    JGabriel

    John Cole:

    We had a bunch of freezing rain, and every piece of concrete is coated with ice.

    I’m not entirely sure whether to sympathize or be envious. Ice storms are dangerous as hell, but it looks beautiful when all the branches are encased in a thin layer of ice, like the world has turned into a glittering ice palace from a fairy tale.

    .

  18. 18.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I’m pretty sure an obsession with the weather is a big indicator of the onset of middle age. Admonishing the kids to be careful was the icing on the cake.

  19. 19.

    gbear

    You need to get a pair of these if you want to walk on ice. They just slip on under your shoes. I’ve walked on a frozen waterfall while wearing them. They’re cheap and work great.

  20. 20.

    Violet

    Please be safe! You don’t need another shoulder surgery. The dogs can just toughen up and walk on the ice. They’ll be okay.

    @gbear:
    Those look cool!

  21. 21.

    LikeableInMyOwnWay

    Fox viewership fell … declining 7 percent in primetime and 8 percent among primetime viewers in the 25-54 demographic. And to put things in some perspective, “The O’Reilly Factor” drew an average of 3.2 million viewers a night. That makes him the king of cable news talk, but well behind network news shows. With roughly 1 percent of America watching, his numbers also put him well behind cable competitors such as his show’s spiritual cousin, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Spongebob Squarepants on Nickelodeon, both of which often pull 5 million or more viewers.

    These are ratings results for 2010. Please have DougJ prepare a piece on how Spongebob Squarepants is influencing voters who frequent the Krusty Krab.

    And as always … data please.

    Blub blub blub!

  24. 24.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    @Svensker: It’s still open; you’re talking about Rosie’s place on the corner of Colborne and Clergy, aren’t you? She’s up to a zillion books again….

    You still in the area? I’m back in Kingston again; if you’re around, let me know and we can hook it up and do some liberal drinking.

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