Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Alternative history is always a weak argument. Always.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

We still have time to mess this up!

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Optimism opens the door to great things.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

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

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

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  2. 2.

    MattR

    Is your car running just well enough that you will be suckered into paying another $2500 when something else breaks next year?

  3. 3.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    Keep the bourbon balls away from the fetuses! My Gawd, won’t someone think of the precious pre-born children!

  9. 9.

    Phyllis

    Spent the last two weeks moving. By this time tomorrow, I plan to be in an alcohol-fueled fetal position.

  10. 10.

    Anoniminous

    Lowest average car payment is $380/month. So if you paid less than $4,560 … you’re ahead of the game.

  11. 11.

    arguingwithsignposts

    What I’ve been helping out with over the week away from the news. (shameless blog post pimping)

    If you’re looking to waste some time over the rest of the holiday weekend and maybe find some new music to suit your tastes, there are about 300 albums ranked as favorites for 2010 by The Somebody. I just linked the band web sites. You can also listen along on blip.fm for a song from each album.

    Everybody have a safe one.

  15. 15.

    Cain

    Whoa, you picked up your car during the middle of an ice storm? Are you trying to invite another accident? Good grief. :-)

    Speaking of which, I live on a mountain (or tall hill whatever) in Oregon and getting down was a little hairy. But what is awesome, is all the cars gone into hte ditch? All SUV drivers. Fuckers.. they think they are indestructible but can’t have the sense to be careful. Just because you got all wheel drive doesn’t mean you won’t slip.

    My little civic did the job, baby… Too bad going back up will prove interesting at the end of the day.

    cain

  18. 18.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Anoniminous:

    Lowest average car payment is $380/month. So if you paid less than $4,560 … you’re ahead of the game.

    Wow. With skillz like that, you should run for Business and Economics editor at The Atlantic.

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    Potentially really good basketball game on ESPN2 at 9:00 Eastern. UConn women vs. Stanford. Be there aloha.

  21. 21.

    Carrie

    I had my first ever driving test today and, well, i failed.
    Who knew driving thru a stop sign would be an automatic fail?
    I blame Fuckhead.

  22. 22.

    General Stuck

    @MattR:

    Charlie is a very small dog, weighing but 14 pounds. We are pushing 8 inches right now, and it’s supposed to snow through the night, though updated to get down to 9 degrees tonight. I been in NM 12 years and have never been below 10 degrees, plus a stiff wind. And only down to about 15 a hand full of times. This is as blizzardy as it gets here, and abodes are not built for such temps. Though not Montana grade, where it got 30 below zero and sustained 60 mile an hour wind. Siberian Express if I remember what they call em.

  25. 25.

    MattR

    @General Stuck: 8 inches with more coming qualifies as blizzard. Does Charlie not sink all the way through the snow to the ground because he is so light and fluffy? Is that what was confusing me?

    @General Stuck: I learned that making New Year’s resolutions for healthy living are generally useless right before the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl. So I make Super Bowl resolutions (formerly Pro Bowl resolutions)/

  29. 29.

    General Stuck

    @MattR:

    No he doesn’t sink all the way in, and is pretty close to the ground naturally. It is blowing and drifting also, so my upwards of 8 inches might be a little high at this stage.

  30. 30.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Carrie:

    I had my first ever driving test today and, well, i failed.
    Who knew driving thru a stop sign would be an automatic fail?
    I blame Fuckhead.

    A protip for the next time you take the test: if you really must read the blog while driving, don’t hit the refresh button so frequently.

  32. 32.

    Sentient Puddle

    I know it doesn’t compare in any way, shape or form to the snow in the rest of the country, but goddamnit, it was a nuisance for me today.

    I was flying out of Albuquerque this morning, which looked to be OK because the snow was forecast for the afternoon. Fifteen minutes before my scheduled departure time, I hear somebody say “Oh god, look outside” to the person they’re with. A good bit of sleet, which was ridiculous because there was no sign of anything ten minutes ago. Sleet turns into a healthy snow with a thick fog. This causes the arriving plane to have to circle the airfield in hopes of it clearing up, but soon enough they decide they can’t risk the fuel and head back to Amarillo, where they came from.

    About thirty minutes after the sleet and snow started, it’s clear as daylight outside, and the only sign that it ever snowed was that the ground outside was wet.

    You timed that one just perfect, God.

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    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Sentient Puddle: Good pitching beats good hitting every time, and G-d throws curveballs. Sorry about that anyway.

  35. 35.

    Carrie

    @kdaug:
    It wa gorgeous out today, no snow, no rain.
    Though i admit total blame and yaddy-yaddah, i’m an idiot.
    it seems that a snow plow hit the sign and bent it and it was pointing away from me.
    Silly me, i thought the sign was for someone else.
    I know, stoopid.
    But i take the test again in 28 days…Even if they take me thru the same course and the stop sign is removed, i’m gonna stop and put the parking brake on. Just to prove a point.

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    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Sentient Puddle:
    We get strange weather like that a lot. Once my boss was over at a friend’s house and a rain squall passed right overhead. For 5 minutes it was pouring rain in the front yard of the house, but in the back yard, nothing – dry as a bone. I’ve seen the same thing happen myself, on a slightly larger scale of about 2 blocks.

  38. 38.

    Jager

    It’s our old German Shepard’s 12th birthday today, he celebrated with his first ever ride in the Corvette, top down of course. He is getting two large bags of beef jerky and a very meaty Porterhouse bone as gifts and his baby sister is extremely jealous. If a female GSD can pout, Ava is doing just that.

    We are such assholes for our dogs, I heard Mrs J this morning singing him happy birthday and telling him his mommy (the lovely Dana, long gone I’m sure) and his daddy Ergo (up there in doggy heaven with his many many female companions) would be so proud of him!

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    reality-based

    Ok, well – at the intersection of Lousy Weather Avenue and Automotive Misery Street – still blizzardy here in beautiful North Dakota, went out this afternoon to get cigarettes, gunned the car through a snow ridge left in the middle of the street by a plow – and suddenly, the heater blew only cold air –

    Drove 6 blocks to my local mechanic, discovered I had knocked out the engine block heater. (It’s how we keep our cars starting at 40 below – plug them in, keeps the coolant warm.)

    So being too stupid to stock up on cigarettes BEFORE the blizzard cost me $125.

    God hates smokers, too.

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    Jager

    @reality-based:

    My baby sis lives in Bismarck. She and her hubby spent a couple of weeks in Europe and then T-Giving in NYC, they flew into to a cold and snowy Bismarck a few days later, she told me arriving home was “deeply and profoundly disturbing”.

  44. 44.

    suzanne

    Reading all these threads about blizzards was making me feel cocky as shit. Like, “Ha ha, motherfuckers, I know you think I’m nuts for living in Phoenix, BUT AT LEAST WE DON’T GET SNOWED IN!”

    But it, uh, snowed here today.

    Damn.

  45. 45.

    Tim

    The vibe of this post helps to explain my co-dependent crush on Cole. Even though he loves to accuse others in the blogotubes of being extremely “emo” and what not, the Cole himself is extremely emo (“curled up in a fetal position” as the result of a big repair bill), right along with being obnoxiously butch and manly at other times.

    A combination that appeals to codependent masochist homosexuals (and straight women) such as myself.

    The result: When I read JC’s bipolar posts I have fever…in the morning, and fever…all thru the night. FEVER!

  47. 47.

    freelancer

    @suzanne:

    Yeah, my friend who works at a Toscana resort complex in North Phoenix was just chatting with me.

    “Now I have to go out in the cold!”
    “Give me a break, you giant child. It was 55 here and felt like spring this morning and it dropped 30 degrees in an HOUR. Now it’s supposed to ice storm tonight.”
    “…”
    “Yeah, thought so.”

  49. 49.

    MattR

    So I am watching the Music City Bowl and they were talking about the thick skin that the North Carolina QB has and the things he has had to endure – being booed at a UNC basketball games, getting bashed on facebook and twitter, etc. But the kicker for me was that a 12 year old boy wrote him a letter telling him to quit. I really hope that kid did this on his own without his parents knowing. But I have a feeling that his parents were aware and saw nothing wrong with the message they were sending their child by allowing him to write the letter.

  51. 51.

    Alison

    @MattR: I have basically no interest in the college football/bowl game stuff, but now I’m crazy curious about the background to your comment – why do people have it out for this player?

  52. 52.

    Chuck Butcher

    I have old vehicles and new vehicles, the new ones don’t seem to need attention but I can take apart and re-assemble the old ones myself. And yes, the parts for the old ones are much cheaper and more easily obtained. The counterbalance is that those old ones get really shitty gas mileage compared to the new ones, though they are differently purposed which does bear on that issue.

    My rule is that if it is strictly transportation and it is starting to have regular failures of smaller systems it is time to let it go and let somebody else deal with it. I don’t have a miles break point though 150-180K seems to be the point where smaller systems start to regularly go south and that point shortly presages failure of major systems so throwing money at them just sets you up for the expense of big failures. Then you’re in the position of having thrown money at problems and trying to decide what to do about that cooked engine or tranny or…

    I don’t know how many times the clock has turned over on the ’78 Chev PU/utility bed (3 maybe 4) but it is a 4×4 V8 heavy duty specialized truck that would cost $30+K to replace new to get maybe 20mpg versus 8, and yes be nicer. I don’t have $30+K and if I did would have better uses for it.

    Getting stuck in the position of the car is broke and can’t sell it like that so I have to fix it sucks particularly if it is a “so-what” generic car.

  54. 54.

    Chuck Butcher

    @freelancer:
    Oh hell, yesterday we got a bunch more sloppy snow and today it is well below feezing and tonight sub-zero. What a mess it is around here. They plowed the slush and now the vehicles are parked behind a kind of ice berm thing. I don’t mind snow but this frozen crap gets old quickly.

  55. 55.

    MattR

    @Alison: No particular reason from what I can tell. It sounds like he has been a starter since his freshman year and never improved as much as the fans hoped. I am guessing there is a new hotshot prospect who is sitting on the bench waiting his turn (and who the fans are sure will develop like the current starter never did). There is a saying in football about the backup QB being the most popular player with the fans.

  56. 56.

    pattonbt

    Is it me or is does anyone else think B.O.B. is not the real B.O.B.? There’s just something lacking in his recent posts that don’t seem to fit with his pre-banned persona. A spoof of a troll? A spoof of a spoof? A troll of a troll?

    In any case, his current posts lack that extra dimension of “WTF?!” they used to have. They are now very – boring.

    So B.O.B., if it is you, please pick up your game or go back on/off the meds/sauce/whatever and bring your A-game (minus the blatant racism that got you banned) again.

    And if you are not the real B.O.B. please stop, or take a break and spend some time working on your trolling/spoofing skills and don’t come back until you are at least entertaining.

    Thanks.

  65. 65.

    someofparts

    This reminds me of an hilarious essay I read years ago. Some woman reporter had just spoken with a university administrator about the university policy of paying women faculty less than men in comparable positions. The administrator explained that women were okay with this because they so seldom got to do interesting work that their gratitude for the opportunity made them happy to work for less.

    After the interview, the reporter went to pick up her car. When the smiling mechanic handed her a bill for hundreds more than she had expected, her initial response was to wish she could curl up in a fetal position and cry. But then she remembered the wisdom of the university administrator she had just interviewed. Suddenly she understood that since her mechanic clearly enjoyed his work, he would be happy to accept less pay for doing it. So she wrote him a bad check and drove off in high spirits.

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