It’s sad that in a world where a cat and a crow can become best friends, Americans on different sides of the aisle can’t put their differences aside and respect each other’s deeply principled beliefs.
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General Stuck
The republicans get along fine with some gawd fearin’ dems. When it’s Rumpus Night down on C Street.
PeakVT
That reminds me to ask: does anyone have a copy of the pre-rebuild B-J stylesheet, by chance?
dr. bloor
Of course, after the cat reaches out to the crow and they spend some time together, the crow runs a multi-million dollar ad campaign to convince the folks that the cat should be taken to an animal shelter.
Comrade Mary
I see your cat and crow and raise you a cat and fawn.
J.W. Hamner
I think that I might start rooting for the Bears to make the Super Bowl just to see conservatives tie themselves in knots in their efforts to condemn Obama for attending.
The Dangerman
All the other crows are saying this relationship is caw-caw.
Martin
Ah, what would become of the world if our galtian overlords didn’t get the financial compensation they are due?
Average salary of $430K. My god, how would they even manage to get to work if their taxes were raised?
Tax Analyst
My gawd, isn’t that Alan Thicke at the beginning of that video piece? I don’t have the sound on because I’m at work and forgot to bring my headphones today.
BR
@Martin:
Goldman’s profits went down 50% from what I read, but they’re still forking over cash to themselves.
I’m wondering whether it’s that they know the economic ship is going down (with all the 2008 problems just papered over) and they figure they might as well party until the music stops.
Violet
@J.W. Hamner:
Just found out a friend of mine has tickets to the Super Bowl! She’s very excited.
@dr. bloor:
And the cat says, “Let’s compromise” and starts the discussion by insisting it should be a no-kill shelter.
Tax Analyst
It probably wouldn’t be as cozy if the crow spent the entire day flinging crow-shit in the cat’s face. Not that I have any political parties in mind with that analogy.
General Stuck
that video was incredible. I’ve seen a number of strange animal friendships, but a crow feeding a kitten was unreal.
Calouste
@Martin:
$430K is not the average salary at Goldman Sachs. It’s the average bonus.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Not surprised this took place in Massachusetts, Ground Zero for Homodestructomarriage.
Plus, the the kitten is black and white and crow is all black. Clearly it represents Obama palin’ around with Black Panthers.
Tax Analyst
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
You know, I thought I saw Bill Ayers lurking around in the background there, too.
beltane
Crows are the most intelligent species of bird. They have been found to use tools and are supposedly one of the few animals other than humans that consciously teach acquired skills to their young.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
To think that Santorum thought man on dog would be next.
Steeplejack
@Martin:
Would love to see median salary, rather than average, quoted in these articles. After all, if you, Steve Jobs and I met in a bar, everyone at the table would average out to a multi-millionaire, right?
I suspect the median salary for Goldman is much less than the average salary.
gbear
But both species do it!!
MikeJ
I understand that is also possible that the farmer and the cowman may be friends.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@Omnes Omnibus: To think that Santorum
thought^hoped man on dog would be next.Fixelated.
General Stuck
Looking forward to next month for a planned sojourn down to the Boothill of SW NM, along the AZ border. It is only about 80 miles from where I live, but have never been down there. It is supposed to be magical country where Geronimo once roamed the Chiricahua Mountains. Full of wildlife, and the main reason for the trip, 16 different species of Hummingbirds, where there are only 4 where I live now.
Svensker
Well, that video was just sumpin. Too sweet for words.
MikeJ
@General Stuck: There’s not much meat on those, but good luck hunting.
MattR
Very adorable. I dont’ know why it jumped out at me, but I love that in the re-enactment of the call to the vet the woman dials 555, but the next shot is a sign for the vet’s office that has the actual phone number on it.
The Dangerman
You might enjoy a book called “Born To Run” about some ultramarathoners from Mexico; easy and fast read (first book I’ve read cover to cover in a long time). Even though I’m not a runner, I enjoyed it a lot. If you ARE a runner, I think it would be fascinating.
Edit: OK, how did I trip the moderation filter?
Steeplejack
@MikeJ:
Heh. Good one.
(I have decided it is important to promote and encourage non-violent-rhetoric humor on this blog. Hope I don’t hear from HummerPAC about this.)
hamletta
@beltane: I read an article a few months back, at Slate, I think, that covered research on crows. They remember human faces. If you fuck with a crow, he’ll remember who you are and will torment you for as long as he lives.
I guess this video was just the flip side. It was sweet.
Wouldn’t have worked out the same way if the kitten was a calico, though. They’re mighty hunters. I had a calico who brought me all kinds of half-dead wildlife from my urban yard. She even left a bird’s head in my bed.
Damn kitty mafia.
General Stuck
@MikeJ:
teehee, the only shooting will be with a camera.
catclub
@MattR: I noticed that too.
Jim, Once
Vidio’s been around for years … but .. OK.
Restrung
@gbear:
that doesn’t make any sense, but, you’re special.
(not quoting Tracy Morgan in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
Restrung
ahh. I have to boot into some MS OS to get back to watching 30Rock. Ta.
Mike Kay
GOS just denounced the cat as a “sellout”.
FDL called the cat a “puszy”.
Jim, Once
@Jim, Once:
*video. Sorry. Obviously time to go to bed. Later …
wasabi gasp
Crazy bird and retarded cat inspire a nation.
Mark S.
WaPo ran an article entitled Five myths about why the South seceded that concludes, yes, Virginia, the Civil War was about slavery.
This inspired over a thousand comments (until they closed it), the majority from proud Sons of the South.
Jim, Once
@General Stuck:
I want to go with you. Tell me how. Tomorrow …
gwangung
@Steeplejack: If I’m not mistaken, the bonuses are still quite generous for the bottom rung of the staff (fundraisers will talk to ANYONE employed at Goldman Sachs in particular and hedge funds in general–they’re well known as recipients of wealth).
BGinCHI
MSNBC:
Crow addicts cat to welfare.
Fox News:
You know who else is black?
General Stuck
WoW ee!!! Check out Michelle in a red dress. Stunning beauty.
de stijl
Whenever the Subaru ad comes on featuring If I Should Fall From Grace With God as the soundtrack, the world turns a little sideways and twists. It’s just so fucking odd. By no means am I a purist who claims that music and commerce shouldn’t mix. It’s just so fucking odd to hear The Pogues in a TV ad.
Maybe I’ll pitch Little Mascara for a Maybeline spot.
BGinCHI
FYWP
fucen tarmal
to be fair, i have known ravens and crows were nothing more than big pussies that squawk a lot, for years.
asiangrrlMN
@Tax Analyst: Yes. He hasn’t aged well, but he’s still smarter than Kirk (I’m embarrassed I had a crush on him) Cameron.
That video is the sweetest thing. @General Stuck: Hubba hubba.
@MikeJ: You still around? I bet you know what I’m going to ask you!
BGinCHI
@de stijl: I always thought “Gary’s Got a B*oner” would be perfect for a Viagra ad.
handy
@de stijl:
What about the car commercial with Nick Drake? That was a “uh huh?” moment too.
CA Doc
@Mark S. I just crawled out of the comments section to Ezra’s last 2 days of posts about the folly of repealing PPACA. It was Dickensian, to say the least.
Linkmeister
@General Stuck: The Nat’l Monument there has got some hellacious views at the top. I somehow managed to drive out of the NPS site via an unpaved back road (this was October), and that was an experience too.
Martin
@Steeplejack: On salary? Only if you earn 2 million dollars. Steve takes a salary of $1. Always has. Tim Cook draws the largest salary of $800K.
Median salary for Apple would be pretty low. Almost half of their employees are retail. I suspect that $46K number is pretty much on the mark for both mean and median.
arguingwithsignposts
dammit, you BJ front pagers, I have bought the digital version of Nixonland. Kiss my ass, fuckheads! have some (relatively old) kittehs.
asiangrrlMN
@arguingwithsignposts: Awwwww! Lady Smudge and a friend! I love cow kittehs. They are too cute together. I take it all is well with you and the Special Someone?
gwangung
Giffords stands on her feet.
Um. Wow. Just….wow.
de stijl
@handy:
I know this may sound like blasphemy, but I’m rather fond of the Pink Moon VW ad. The visuals are appropriate to the music (albeit pretty maudlin) and the “story” is not grossly at odds with song. Not super happy fun-time happy with the Nick Drake ad, just fairly fond, or at least not grossly offended.
Here’s the ad
The Subaru commercial is about a hockey mom. (And no, not THAT one.
asiangrrlMN
@gwangung: Damn. That’s some great news. Thanks for linking it.
Mark S.
@gwangung:
That’s great!
asiangrrlMN
I saw Lauryn Hill in concert last night. If anyone has tickets, don’t bother showing up until at least two hours after the doors open. My review, Part I, found here at my place. I also crossposted it at ABL’s place.
Yutsano
@gwangung: Hope doth indeed spring eternal. Fantastic.
@asiangrrlMN: I think we can all haz a happy about Giffords’ progress. She’s even blowing her doctors out of the water right now.
Jager
@hamletta:
I am glad crows can remember faces, when we moved into our house the trees at the back of the property were filled with crows, they shit all over my patio, the lawn furniture and drove the dog crazy, plus they never shut up. I didn’t want to kill them, just get them to move on and drive somebody else crazy. We tried everything. I was at the vet one day getting the dog-boy’s eye medicine and asked his bird specialist if she had any ideas. She said crows are smart, get a soft pellet air pistol and shoot the birds from about 75 to 100 ft away. She told me if you hit a couple of them with a pellet in the ass or chest, they get the idea and pass the word to their fellow crows…it worked like magic.
Got to tell you when you hit a crow in the ass with a soft pellet they jump about 5 feet in air, caw like crazy and fly away immediately.
Jebediah
@de stijl:
There’s a lot I can take without hollering, but that would really test me. If I was Preznit Paul would be declared a National Treasure of Songwritery. (If I was Preznit, I bet I could have lunch with Nick Lowe, also.)
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: SEA WEASELS!!
I’m good, about to go postal on some of my co-workers who are too damn lazy to do the work to close out cases. I swear, ten minutes and I was done. And I was the third person to touch that case. Ugh.
That and someone just walked into my condo unannounced. Good thing I’m still dressed and stuff.
gwangung
@asiangrrlMN:
@Mark S.:
@Yutsano:
Now THAT’S the way to top off an evening. Makes me happy…
Mike Kay
@General Stuck: I think the dress is brunt orange.
I mean, the carpet they’re standing on is definitely red and her dress is certainly different.
Yutsano
@gwangung: It’s almost enough to make me want to break into the white rioja. Almost. I think I’ll save that for when my uncle comes to visit on Saturday. He’s bringing his guide puppeh too. HUGE German shepherd named Jefferson. Yeah I’m actually more excited to see the dog. :)
Zuzu's Petals
Okay, I’m breaking in my first-ever iMac after years of PC.
In the space where the video is supposed to be in DougJ’s post, it just says “Missing Plug-In.” The little popup window just repeats that there’s a missing Internet plug-in, and something about the content being “unspecified.”
Could someone please tell me what plug-in I’m supposed to find and uhm, plug in? Oh, and how to do it.
Thankee.
freelancer
@Zuzu’s Petals:
Flash, Shockwave, Adobe, it’s gotta be that.
Yutsano
@freelancer: Usually it will tell you what’s missing, so that seems oddsfish to me.
PS I just ranted on ABL’s thread below. I feel…liberated.
J. Michael Neal
@Yutsano:
They could have hired me, but they didn’t. That’s what they get.
Yes, I am still bitter. I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that the world simply isn’t interested in a 42-year old trying to get started in a new career after being unemployed for five years. I’m scared I’m never going to have a meaningful job again.
freelancer
@Yutsano:
Yeah I don’t have a mac, but if youtube isn’t working, it’s gotta be flash. Personally, I’d install Chrome for Mac instead of Safari and then load the plugins via that browser.
gwangung
@Yutsano: Not necessarily if it’s flash.
The other one to think about is Windows Media. If you go out and install flip4Mac, that oughta do the trick (it’s a good plug in to get anyway)
Zuzu's Petals
@Yutsano:
Okay, here’s exactly what the Safari popup says:
Yutsano
@J. Michael Neal: Have you looked at the VA? I swear they’re hiring all over the damn place. Plus I’ve seen some auditor positions open for the DoD that I bet you’d be more than qualified to do. Hell I am for the GS-5 level and that’s a livable wage. I could see you doing GS-7 with your education there easy.
@freelancer: The nice part about Firefox is if a plug-in is missing it will tell me which one. And even tell me how to get it.
Zuzu's Petals
@freelancer:
Good point. I just went to YouTube and when I tried to play a video, it said:
I can’t believe it didn’t come pre-installed.
Zuzu's Petals
@Yutsano:
I definitely want to install Firefox. Also, I have a guy coming to transfer my PC files and get everything up to speed. So I guess I’ll add the flash thing to the list.
The guy at the Apple Store did the basic setup, but I guess I should have known what to ask for.
Anything else I should ask my own guy to install/transfer etc. ?
freelancer
@Yutsano:
As a White, straight male, your rant is oppressing me. As a freethinker and a Humanist, I gotta say “GO Yuts!”
Yutsano
@freelancer: If you go all, “Halp! I’m being repressed!” on me, I’ll see to it that you never get a job in Arizona. I gots connections down there. :)
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: WTF? I’m guessing it’s not The Dawg. I will check out your rant below.
freelancer
@Yutsano:
Re: AZ
“Come see the violence inherent in the System!”
Yutsano
@freelancer: I’ve come to the conclusion Arizona is its own kind of unique mess, and the best solution for them is to depopulate. Of course we can’t get the old folk to just die off quick and quiet-like, so it will take a bit more strategery to deal with that. Of course the water supply could just get choked off and that would solve pretty much everything.
freelancer
@Yutsano:
Shorter Yuts:
FWIW, I’m inclined to agree with you (this).
PS, I bet this comment could land me a gig at FDL.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Soaked like a Baba Au Rum? Love it. You have such a way with words.
@freelancer: I thought it was going to be his “It’s awesome to be a white guy” bit.
J. Michael Neal
@Yutsano: The problem is that I can’t relocate very well right now. If something goes wrong, it would mean that I’ve given up my Minnesota residency, and thus can’t get health insurance. until 2014.
asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: Pretty funny. But, as you know, he ripped off that last bit from Eddie Izzard. Awesome.
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
Oh I’m aware. What? like a hot dog? More like ten billion hotdogs, sir!
In comedy, there are jokes that are stolen, and then there are shared premises. Bill Cosby owns the bit about the father raising the athlete who goes to practice, goes to HS, goes to college, turns pro, wins the championship, and turns to the TV cameras saying “Hi MOM!”. That’s Cosby’s bit, and Mencia blatantly steals it.
Observing that Americans are prone to hyperbole not just in their lives but in their language isn’t theft, it’s a premise that more than one comic can arrive at. If that were different, then Eddie Izzard would owe his entire section on Easter to Bill Hicks. But they both do different things with it. The same idea can arrive in parallel minds independently.
And with that, I’m off to bed. Night Juicers.
asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: I agree with your last statement as evidence by the Easter example you cite. However, I found the awesome/amazing bits to be very similar. Plus, I think Eddie Izzard is much funnier. And sexier. And has a yummier accent. YMMV.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Heh. You know me. Any excuse to post a recipe. Plus I heart Ina Garten to no end. I mean c’mon she worked for Carter for cryin’ out loud.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: She did? I did not know that! Cool.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Did nuclear energy policy for the White House. Didn’t take much to civil service though, so decided on a whim to buy a specialty foods store in East Hampton called Barefoot Contessa. The rest is history.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: That’s just too freaking cool. I think I’ll retire on that happy note. Night, all.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Moi aussi. Gotta see the doc in the morning along with other exciting adventures. Night y’all.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@J. Michael Neal: Butting in late to say if you’re an auditor our existing soshulust health care programs (Medicare/Medicaid) and their numerous contractors are desperate for auditors.
Steeplejack
@gwangung:
I’m sure the bonuses are exceptional at all levels, but I’m also sure that the compensation of the big dogs at the top skews the average way up.