Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The revolution will be supervised.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Peak wingnut was a lie.

We still have time to mess this up!

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

This blog will pay for itself.

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  1. 1.

    schrodinger's cat

    Where is Tunch? Did Rosie eat him?
    ETA: She looks so adorable here. Is this same dog, you have been complaining to us about?

  2. 2.

    JPL

    Ah. The little angel. Thank you for posting this and I hope that you took the time to read the latest rescue story. There’s always hope and love when it comes to mutts.

  3. 3.

    stuckinred

    It’s probably my imagination but it seems like the pups know when there is fowl weather afoot and burrow even deeper. My lil cocker has been having a hard time on the ice and she does not want to got out at all.

  5. 5.

    JPL

    @stuckinred: I’ve been acting like a cheerleader. Praising for every step my mutt takes. Moxie is only 18 lbs and has long skinny legs and she spread eagle several times on the ice. I shoveled paths for her today but I fear with overnight temps in the teens they will be of little use in the morning. Good luck with your cocker.

  6. 6.

    Gary Farber

    John, Tim, everyone: all Balloon Juicers who might find themselves in the Bay Area, particularly Oakland/Berkeley, or who wish to be, are invited to this gathering, also announced here (and on Facebook.)

    See those two links for announcements with full active links, and formatting:

    The ObWi Bay Area Bloggers Bullsh*t League of Earth = ObBABBLE’s second meeting is announced.

    WHO: This is an open gathering; anyone reading this is invited. In actuality, the main connector is that I can get you to read this. You are invited. You.

    All readers of, and lurkers at Obsidian Wings are especially invited.

    You may know me from: blogs. Science fiction fandom. Publishing. My writing. Anywhere. You are invited.

    You may be a reader of blogs, and that’s all. You are invited.

    You may be a member of the Bay Area science fiction community, or want to be. You are invited.

    You may simply be interested in political discussion, or talk about sf, or tech, or gadgets, or anything smart. You simply may enjoy meeting people who may be congenial and interesting. You are invited.

    If you read this: you are invited. You are encouraged to pass this along to anyone you think interested, and to repost this information as you like; letting me know, though, would be nice.

    WHERE: Crepevine. Specifically.

    5600 College Avenue, Oakland, CA

    5600 College Ave, Oakland, CA 94618
    Ph: (510) 658-2026

    WHEN: Saturday, January 15th, 2010, 1 p.m. until we’re done.

    PURPOSE: Socializing, meeting each other, fun. Flame wars dampened with beverages and cheer.

    QUESTIONS: put comments on this thread at Amygdala or Obsidian Wings, or Facebook; if necessary, email gary underscore farber at yahoo dot com or at the working, new, ObWi kitty email address.

    Name of group still likely to change, as is everything else.

    Frequency to start will be monthly, but subject to further detail and change of location/time; possibilities of every other weekend subgroups may occur, or may not.

    Further notices are intended to be issued at least monthly, at least one week before the next meeting, preferably two weeks. (Ha! I have a rich fantasy life.)

    This is an open gathering: you are encouraged to bring interesting people who might be interested.

    Feel free to copy and repost this message, but if you do so, it’s helpful to say so in public comments, or email gary underscore farber at yahoo dot com, so I’ll have some idea how many more people might show up.

    R.S.V.P encouraged, but not required.

    Gary Farber: Irresponsible Party.

    Co-instigators: Jacob Davies, RAL.

    Pass it on.

    The first meeting had 9 people, including myself, and one person seen only by me. This means 7 people not me.

    This is not a huge and overwhelming gathering. This second meeting may be smaller, now that people have met me. We might have only me and two others. We may have more. Come and find out along with me. Don’t be intimidated. But it’s all up to you. No obligation whatever, obviously.

    This message expires as obsolete no later than Saturday, January 15th, 2010, 1 p.m. PST.

  7. 7.

    stuckinred

    @JPL: Aw. Lil Bit is ok, the ice get’s tween her paws plus she is scared when the crust gives way. Bohdi is a husky mix and he is blazin all over the damn place.

    18 lbs! What is she?

  8. 8.

    beltane

    The snow situation is interesting this year. It looks like everyone else in the country is getting more snow than here in ordinarily very snowy northern Vermont (not that I’m complaining). The guys with their snow machines are hating it, which fills my husband with schadenfreude.

  9. 9.

    David W.

    Love to eat those Ravens
    Ravens are what I love to eat
    bite they little beaks off
    nibble on they tiny feet

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    Minus 20+ wind chills here in da flatlands. After 18 cm of snow yesterday. Muthernaychuh is a beeyotch.

  11. 11.

    jeff

    I can spend an entire weekend reading and watching movies with my cat…neither of us get a lot of cardio exercise, but it’s some damned fine use of time.

  12. 12.

    Left Coast Tom

    It’s snowing outside, and that gets everyone a little down:

    Bite your tongue. Snow is a precious gift from the Snow Goddess, especially when it falls as a dry, highly skiable powder. It is celebrated by all but the heathen.

  13. 13.

    madmommy

    Rosie looks so sweet and innocent. Being a JRT though, I know this is just a temporary thing. My soon-to-be-puppy is frolicking in the snow at mom’s, having a blast. My current dog, when it snowed here a couple years ago, took a few steps into it and then ran for the porch.

  17. 17.

    JPL

    @stuckinred: Terrier mix. Her legs are similar to an Italian Greyhound. I finally got a semi decent picture so I’m going to write a story about her and submit it. She is terrified of cameras.

  18. 18.

    jl

    Thanks for pet pix.

    Except I thought it was going to be a pic of Tunch in the Sno (which would require neither Tunch nor Sno, but just some white space inside a frame).

    But, thanks, If Rosie can calm down, then dammitall, so can I.

  19. 19.

    suzanne

    Rosie looks so pathetic. They’re so cute when they do that.

    I shared this on the other thread, too, but my kittehs are cute. Scout, the black kitty on the left, is about six years old, and having this new kitteh in the house (rescued from my mother’s roof) is absolutely thrilling her. They’re best homies.

  22. 22.

    JPL

    StuckinRed, We haven’t had mailed delivery since Saturday. Tomorrow looks doubtful, also, too.

    @suzanne: I saw the picture earlier and they are best buds. How’s the baby?

  26. 26.

    stuckinred

    @JPL: Same here, no mail. I went out a couple of times and with the front wheel drive Town and Country I was fine. They say that the wind is going to help evaporate stuff even though it’s going to be colder than a well diggers ass in manchuria.

  29. 29.

    Cat Lady

    Another thing I learned today:

    It’s refreshing and productive to have the Obots and firebaggers here pulling shoulder to shoulder against the glibertarian and the “both sides do it” fucktards. See? That’s how to do it. Also, too.

  31. 31.

    jeff

    @Steve L.:

    Having grown up in Pensacola in the 80s and early 90s, I might like to see quite a few more “targets” on that scary map. Christmas morning in the early 80s was marked by explosions from right-wing terrorists; then, a decade later, I learned again that people who disagree with you will shoot and kill you after Paul Hill and Michael Griffin–one of whom I knew–killed political opponents.

    Terrorism was a fact of life growing up where I did, although it didn’t make us terrified all the time….still, it’s amazing how few know about the bombings.

  35. 35.

    Mike Kay

    @Cat Lady: on that note, let me preemptively say I’m disappointed with Obama’s national address from Tucson because [insert reason here].

  37. 37.

    jeff

    @stuckinred:

    Joe and I have a long history. He’s much older than I, but our bands played together a long time ago. I don’t want to discuss Joe other than to say I will not vote for him, and I fervently wish his family well.

  39. 39.

    dan

    My wife has forbidden dogs, and my leather furniture has forbidden cats.

    Do you think my kids (15 and 9) would enjoy guinea pigs?

  40. 40.

    jeff

    @stuckinred:

    Joe and I have a long history. He’s much older than I, but we know one another fairly well. I don’t want to discuss Joe other than to say I will not vote for him, and I fervently wish his family well.

  46. 46.

    Cat Lady

    @Mike Kay:

    Well, for a few minutes there back in the mists of time of earlier today, I believed that Obots and BTD, Oscar Leroy et al could all live together in common purpose against glibertarians, right wing fucktards, and “both sides do it” media whores. Oh well. Obama had to give a speech sometime.

  47. 47.

    Tim

    I love snow too, Cole.

    To me there is nothing more magical than snow falling from the heavens, especially at night.

    As we are set to get ten – eighteen inches here in Boston beginning early tomorrow morning, I should be in heaven the next few days.

    And it’s always fun listening to all the talking heads on the tube whine about it, when you know they luv that it is snowing so they can melodramatically whine about it. :D

  48. 48.

    CaseyL

    I love snow while it’s falling, and for a day, maybe two, afterward. When the snow hangs around longer than that, it wears out its welcome.

    They predicted snow would fall in Seattle tonight. So far, not so much as a flake to be seen. But Metro, thoroughly freaked out by how unprepared it was for the last snowstorm, put chains on all the buses anyway. You know what happens when you ride on a bus when the bus has chains but there’s no snow? The chain rattle and pop against the underside of the bus. Loudly. Very loudly.

    Has anyone besides me noticed that, unless it’s also windy, the ambient air temp is, or at least feels like it is, warmer while snow is falling? And colder once the snow stops falling and is just sitting there? I wonder why that is.

  49. 49.

    CaseyL

    My comment’s in moderation? WTF?

    I swear there’s not a single controversial word, not even a syllable, in my comment. Dammit.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Well, late to the threads, as usual, as evidenced by the one-hour gap between CaseyL’s comment and my explanation.

    Feeling pretty good. Relatively short shift tonight, and when I came out of the store there was about two inches of new powder on the ground. Surprising, because every time the weatherman has predicted snow the last week or so he has been wrong.

    How you be doin’?

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    Hi asiangrrl:

    Caught only the very first minutes of a Frontline on Haiti earthquake.

    Prisoners soon to escape describing it, along the lines of “heard this rumble and then the miracle happened” and another “God heard our prayers.”

    So perspective would seem to be everything.

    I presume they are no longer escaped prisoners, since they were filmed, but …

  56. 56.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Yes, you’re mopey. Seems like everyone is getting snow except the places that are supposed to get it, i.e., MN, VT, etc.

    My friends in Atlanta are snowed in. Need to get off my ass and post the picture of the (black!) feral kitty they have taken in.

    Think I’m out. No energy for night-owl syndrome tonight. Mañana.

  58. 58.

    jayjaybear

    @CaseyL: Snowfall means cloud cover, which means insulation. Warm air (warm, relatively) is prevented from escaping by the cloud cover. A clear winter night is a COLD winter night.

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