The world is going to hell on a handcart, but at least our top Republican legislators are busy doing what they do best, as Gail Collins, NYTimes, reminds us:
… [I]n the House, the powerful new Republican majority has continued its laserlike focus on jobs by arguing about abortion and failing to pass the bills it votes on.
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“We’re not going to be perfect every day,” said Speaker John Boehner.
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On Wednesday, the House argued about whether it should make the government repossess $179 million from our account at the United Nations despite the State Department’s plan to have the United Nations use it to improve security in NYC.
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This is supposed to be part of the G.O.P. budget-balancing initiative, and on that count it is somewhat like planning to lose 50 pounds by reducing your intake of kale. Mainly, it was an opportunity for Republicans to spend an enjoyable day complaining about international organizations dedicated to world peace.
What’s everybody around here got planned for the evening?
Tara the antisocial social worker
I have a lovely evening planned. My wife and I are celebrating 15 awesome years together, so we’re going out to dinner while the dogs tear up our house and the cats order stuff off the internet.
BGinCHI
When even Gail Collins can nail it like that it just ain’t hard to be a reporter/pundit.
My guess is that Chuck Todd and the other asswipes described this as the GOP House “finding its feet.”
DC, Wired For Republicans.
PurpleGirl
My apartment building has a “library”. Residents give us books and we loan them out to others. No fees, no records, an honor system. There are 3 ladies, besides myself, who sit and watch the room when it is open (Monday morning, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, each day for an hour). I’ll be heading downstairs in a little while. It’s a pleasant hour.
Ash Can
That’s fine. Let them continue to fuck around. It’s when the House Republicans start passing bills that worries me.
David Hunt
It’s reading stuff like this that sometimes makes me regret that I don’t drink…almost. I suspect I’m the type of addictive personality that would turn into an alcoholic.
@Tara the antisocial social worker:
Happy anniversary! I don’t know whether I should be afraid of my cats ordering things off the internet. It might get them to stop prying keys on the keyboard of my laptop.
asiangrrlMN
@PurpleGirl: I like this idea very much.
@Tara the antisocial social worker: Happy anniversary! Maybe the cats will buy a nice prezzie for you.
Me: My moms is in town. No blood has been shed. Yet.
Spaghetti Lee
Mr. Boehner, where are the jobs?
joe from Lowell
Celtics-Lakers, baby.
You know how people always debate what’s the greatest rivalry in football, or baseball, or hockey?
They don’t have that debate in the NBA.
srv
Berkeley, Freight & Salvage.
dmsilev
Since today will be the first day this week that I’ll be able to leave work before about 8:30 PM, I think this evening will be devoted to doing absolutely nothing, or as close to it as I can manage.
dms
jeffreyw
I may just lay back a bit, digest the news.
Captain Goto
Depending on how this project decides to act…either another half-hour or another 2 1/2 hours of overtime.
Captain Goto
@dmsilev: sounds like we’re having similar weeks.
Litlebritdifrnt
As I was saying earlier, I want to know what the GOP’s plan is for all of these additional children they will be creating with their assault on abortion and defunding of family planning? I bet the funds given to planned parenthood will be a drop in the bucket compared to the additional funds paid out in WIC, SNAP and medicaid. Oh and look out for the unemployment rate in 18 years.
BGinCHI
@jeffreyw: I can smell that. And it smells good.
Mark S.
Great line.
Violet
I’m going to class.
suzanne
@PurpleGirl: That is a fabulous idea! One of the great joys in my life is finding something I really like, be it a book, or movie, or whatever, and loaning it out to people, and then getting good recommendations in turn. Good on ya. :)
@Tara the antisocial social worker: Happy anniversary!
It is Thursday, which is the one night a week I watch television. I am also going to make some dinner. And damnit, I am going to put the baby to bed at nine tonight so I can enjoy my husband. Booyeah, dawg.
MikeJ
Republican A: “The UN is useless! They don’t have the authority to tell countries what they can and can’t do and work only by consensus and public shaming. ”
Republican B: “The UN are tyrants! They can tell us what we can and can’t do! We have to do everything they say!”
NobodySpecial
Back to work after 2 days off. However, since I’ve worked 31 of the 33 days before that, I feel like an extra week would be OK, too.
asiangrrlMN
@suzanne: Enjoy as ENJOY? You go, girl!
@jeffreyw: Want. It. Now.
@Violet: Anything interesting?
GregB
Are the GOP at least working of a fetus jobs bill?
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: The Illini are visiting that pit ya’ll call an arena up there!
Zifnab
@BGinCHI:
They can’t run cover forever.
Not enough people read the Kaplan Daily and too many people watch the Daily Show. Once everyone gets an eyeful of the GOP Fail Parade, folks that continue to defend it are just going to get heaped in with the losers running the show.
Phyllis
Headed out to a quick meeting, then home in my jammies to read. Finishing up Taibbi’s ‘Griftopia’, then on to James Swansons’ latest, ‘Bloody Crimes’.
JPL
@Litlebritdifrnt: The Republicans are certainly not concerned about creating a better future. They are only concerned with fetuses.
Thanks for writing about this again.
stuckinred
Hey where’s my pal Michael?
JPL
@GregB:
What are they to lazy to find their own jobs? SATSQ
Roger Moore
@asiangrrlMN:
I’m sorry to hear that. At least it’s not your dad, right?
Roger Moore
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I’m sure that their plan to deal with that is to cancel WIC, SNAP, and medicaid. See, the problem is all gone!
Graeme
Has everyone seen this BBC documentary on the rise of the neocons & the islamic radicals?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-FyuuWlWQ
It’s called The Power of Nightmares. Well done.
Tattoosydney
What, no post today about how Conor Friedersdorf is a
deuschdoocheself entitled pompous little dickhead?Origuy
Trying to find a car. My 2001 CR-V with 270,000 miles is on its last legs.
nestor
Flyers vs ‘Canes. Almost forgot.
mr. whipple
@GregB:
The GOP doesn’t care about jobs. But they are gonna pass Tax Cuts for Fetuses.
morzer
I intend to read some Japanese, work on improving my knowledge of math, and write a short short. I find happiness in these things.
Stop snickering in the corner, Asiangrrl.
freelancer
@Tattoosydney:
Okay, that’s pretty funny. Conor’s a young, upstart, self-described conservative living in L.A. Why am I not surprised that he’s in L.A.? (apologies to ABL and any other SoCal Juicers, but you especially, have to
goknow what I’m talking about.)EDIT: I can’t type for shit today
bemused
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I never have been able to figure out why they are so bent on doubling, tripling, quadrupling the segment of our population that they have utter contempt for and believe are costing them all their hard earned tax dollars.
Conservative conundrum #7,348.
hilts
CPAC Civil War: Ron Paul Supporters Scream “War Criminal” At Dick Cheney
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cpac-civil-war-ron-paul-supporters-scream-war-criminal-at-dick-cheney
ppcli
@mr. whipple:
Whaddya mean they don’t care about jobs. They passed the “Repeal the Job-Killing health care bill”, and now they’re working on the “Overturn the Job-Killing Roe-v-Wade” Constitutional amendment, and the “Ban the Job-Killing Gay Marriage” bill. Then they’ll go to work fighting the Job-Killing War on Christmas.
jrosen
Celtics-Lakers. The world is going to hell on a roller coaster and I no longer give a flying or any other kind of F.
Roger Moore
@bemused:
Cause and effect is a Liberal plot.
morzer
@ppcli:
And let us not forget the Job-Saving America Wipes Its Ass On The Poor Bill. That’s up soon.
hilts
Mittens Rewrites Himself
h/t http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/115412-mitt-rewrites-himself
bemused
@Roger Moore:
Along with irony, look before you leap and be careful what you wish for, also.
asiangrrlMN
@Roger Moore: You got that right.
@morzer: I’m not snickering; I’m chortling.
@Tattoosydney: Dickheads, dickheads, roly-poly dickheads. Dickheads, dickheads, eat them up, YUM!
Jeanne ringland
gonna order a pizza for the two of us, make a big salad to go with, and sketch out the Casanunda costume for my better half.
Linda Featheringill
@morzer:
How long is a short short?
My daughter cooked up the idea of posting a 365-word story on a separate blog for a whole year, resulting in 365 of those 365-word stories. She started January 1 and is chugging along. Some of them are rather interesting.
morzer
@Linda Featheringill:
Shorter than a long short *smiles*. How is medical transcription going?
JAHILL10
Am absolutely floored at the Mubarak non-resignation speech. I am going to curl up with a bowl of popcorn, watch “Shaolin Soccer” and pretend everything will be alright in the end.
piratedan
I don’t understand the hullaballoo over jobs and what the Congress is and isn’t doing because as we read this blog the rich and wealthy are creating jobs as we speak. In a previous thread we find that they are spending money on jobs. They are hiring lawyers and advertising media types to go out and smear grass roots organizations like FreedomWorks and labor unions. See…there is the economy in action right there and I can only imgine the amounts of minions that are being employed to carry out the wishes of their Galtian Overlords. So all you have to do is swallow any residual ethical imprinting you may have picked up and away you go, you can be employed as a goon for our betters.
morzer
@piratedan:
They have minions, you say? Do they have catamites as well?
Anne Laurie
@morzer: Catamites are easier to find for the Galtians, because there’s only so much a catamite has to swallow.
MikeJ
@hilts: Good ol’ multiple choice Mitt. All of the above!
Davis X. Machina
@Roger Moore: Hume/Palin (or Palin/Hume) 2012!
Judas Escargot
@hilts:
Hey, gotta rebrand if you couldn’t make the sale last time.
IMO, he’s still the GOPs best bet to beat Obama in the 2012 general election, low-information independents seem to love him. But he can’t make it through the primaries (Mormon, ran as a moderate in 1994 and 2002).
It’s ironic how he throws so much red meat to the teabaggers. They’re the ones keeping him from the Presidency.
morzer
@MikeJ:
Mitt Romney, proudly eating at both of the salad bars in Applebee’s.
Palantir info
“What’s everybody around here got planned for the evening?”
Wondering if anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area will pay any attention to the $1 Billion stealth company in liberal little Palo Alto that is helping the USCoC lie to the public. You’d think the news might cover stuff like this.
Sko Hayes
I’m not eating any effing kale, that’s for sure. Blech.
Gail Collins nails it again.
Keith
What’s really funny about what the GOP is going through is that right around the time of the election, when it was apparent that they’d take the House (at a minimum), folks like Eric Cantor were on various shows very explicitly saying, “We screwed up and were kicked out of office, so this is our 2nd chance, and we cannot screw this up.” And yet the whole time, we figured that old habits died hard, and they’d try to go back to satisfying the guys who give them honorariums (social conservatives) instead of the ones they give lip service to having brought them there (the Tea Partiers). And apparently, they figured the TPers wouldn’t get pissed off, but they probably should have waited a bit more than immediately to start going back to the old social wedge issues.
burnspbesq
@srv:
Who’s playing?
burnspbesq
If I get home before 10, I’m watching the very last episode of “Friday Night Lights.” if not, I’m going straight to bed.
LarsThorwald
Anybody else have this weird sense that things are about to really, honestly, not platitudinally, but fundamentally change?
With Wikileaks and Anonymous and Tunisia and Egypt and everything else, it feels like Act I of V for Vendetta.
burnspbesq
@Origuy:
Jetta diesel. I love mine.
geg6
@morzer:
FTW. Where would you like your internets delivered?
gbear
My big young cat had her yearly exam at the vet this evening and I took my little old cat along to get weighed. The big cat got a really good bill of health (a little tarter on her back teeth being the only problem), but my little old cat dropped a full pound in less than six months. She down to 4lbs 11 oz. She’s also 17 years old. I’m feeling like a bad owner tonight because I don’t want to run lots of expensive tests on a cat that doesn’t seem to be in discomfort. She’s still OK getting up and down the stairs and her use of the catbox hasn’t changed. She was a tiny cat to begin with but she really is down to skin and bone though.
Today is also the 8 year anniversary of a mild heart attack. I feel like celebrating with a bacon cheeseburger and fries from the Shamrock Bar and Grille up the street. Work has sucked this week and I’m sick of everything tonight. Time to go see if the cats have settled down from the long vet visit…
burnspbesq
@LarsThorwald:
Anonymous has a date with a Federal grand jury. Some of its members are about to find out that there is a downside to pissing off the United States of America.
Davis X. Machina
@LarsThorwald: I’ve had it every two or three years since Nixon was in the White House….now I just lie down till it passes.
Revolutions are over-rated.
morzer
If anyone was wondering why the GOP like southern-fried Christianity so much:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/danielschultz/4228/afa:_native_americans_lost_their_land_for_not_being_christians/
It’s heart-warming to see such love and charity towards others, isn’t it?
BTW, this site has some really interesting stuff, even if religion isn’t your bag, so to speak:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/
Southern Beale
Best line I’ve read about crackpot GOP budget priorities yet.
Gex
Well today I got a referral for am attorney to cover my ass in my parents’ divorce. The back story there is that they both individually used me to cheat their creditors or each other without regard for any consequences that may befall me. Fun!
Better yet, my partner is finally in therapy to deal with some really terrible childhood issues (really, as bad as they can get). It is very intense and very sad. More fun!
I just tell myself that this will all pass eventually and I just have to endure.
Although reading politics on BJ isn’t exactly mood lifting.
burnspbesq
@Roger Moore:
“I’m sure that their plan to deal with that is to cancel WIC, SNAP, and medicaid. See, the problem is all gone!”
You must have been listening to NPR this morning. That is indeed the plan.
morzer
@geg6:
Well, Mr Brooks and I are going to discuss ethnically diverse characters and their primal scent… so I guess the Central Park Zoo Elite Premium Coffeehouse is the best place.
morzer
@Southern Beale:
It’s the Kaley Barbour Budgetary Health Plan.
Amanda in the South Bay
@Palantir info:
Your problem is thinking of Palo Alto as liberal. The bottom line is that Silicon Valley is solely concerned about the bottom line.
Barb (formerly Gex)
Well today I got a referral for am attorney to cover my ass in my parents’ divorce. The back story there is that they both individually used me to cheat their creditors or each other without regard for any consequences that may befall me. Fun!
Better yet, my partner is finally in therapy to deal with some really terrible childhood issues (really, as bad as they can get). It is very intense and very sad. More fun!
I just tell myself that this will all pass eventually and I just have to endure.
Although reading politics on BJ isn’t exactly mood lifting.
ETA: Mods, tried to post this earlier from a different machine which had the wrong handle cached. I can’t delete it, but it doesn’t need to come out of mod. Thanks. Oh and FYWP
KG
@joe from Lowell: thoughts on the Bynum-Anthony rumor? As a Laker fan, I thought I liked the idea, then I saw that Bill Plaschke favors it and I was shaken to the core, forced to reconsider my entire existence.
Also, dammit Lakers, get after ’em! (wow, nice block by Bynum)
cckids
I’m off to drop the middle son at fencing & take the daughter to sell more. girl scout.cookies. Its been 10 days and I am so tired of them already.
The cookies, not the kids. Mostly.
kdaug
Cooking traditional Irish corned-beef ‘n cabbage, with champs on the side and sourdough bread.
freelancer
@morzer:
You hang out with a Serial Killer?
Poster is begging for a Driftglass Photoshop.
Anne Laurie
@gbear:
If she’s 17 years old, you’re demonstrably not a bad owner. And at that age, if she’s still getting around, eating & eliminating as usual, the tests are probably more stress than whatever information you gain might benefit. Elderly mammals of all species have trouble eating & absorbing enough calories to keep their weight up, it’s why Ensure is such a popular product. Did your vet mention anything about supplementary feeding for the old girl?
Our 19-year-old was dropping weight like that — we started giving her canned chicken to complement her dry food. She’s still boney, but feels less ‘fragile’ and her coat texture’s improved. Since she’s an ex-feral, every trip out of the house involves considerable stress (as in, live-trapping her) so we don’t want to inflict that on her when the medical condition comes down to “She’s old”.
morzer
@freelancer:
My serial killer wears a purple tie and slaughters logic in the NYT on a regular basis.
KG
oh wow, PPP poll out showing that Graham losing to Joe Wilson in a primary 43-41 (Graham beats Sanford handily and would lose to a “more conservative candidate”). And 25% of Republicans in South Carolina think the Republican Party is too liberal.
A second fun poll, South Dakota Republicans would vote for Thune (no surprise) but if he doesn’t run, then for Palin. But in a general against Obama, Palin would lose South Dakota.
Litlebritdifrnt
@kdaug:
Hate to bust your bubble but there is nothing Irish about Corned Beef and Cabbage, it is an American invention.
morzer
@KG:
25% of the Republicans in South Carolina have gills and green tentacles. You’d think the rest of the population might have noticed by now!
mr. whipple
Shhhhhhhh.
morzer
@Anne Laurie:
I would worry about possible hepatic lipidosis developing if weight loss continues. Vets have a variety of enriched formula foods that might be beneficial. I might also be inclined to think about thyroid issues.
burnspbesq
At CPAC today, the Paulistas disrupted a speech by Cheney with shouts of “war criminal.”
What was that about those folks being useless and clueless?
mr. whipple
@morzer:
I was thinking thyroid, too, as we had one old cat that developed that. It was easy to fix with a daily pill.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Anne Laurie:
Ditto, I noticed a serious weight drop in one of my cats just a couple of months prior to his passing (he was always sickly though, even as a kitten) his Mom and his Grandmom survive him. That your kitty reached the grand old age of 17 is a testament to your wonderful parenting skills.
Anne Laurie
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Hey, it’s become an Irish-American tradition since the 1860s, when the new immigrant serving girls learnt the recipe from their German-American employers. Of course it’s an eyeblink to you jaded Yurpeans, but 150 years is quite a long-standing ‘tradition’ on this side of the water!
freelancer
@morzer:
Fucking “manly men” and their fucking pastel ties…
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
You don’t need to listen to the news to know that the Republican plan to control spending on social programs is to cancel them. You just need some experience watching the Republicans in action.
Svensker
@morzer:
Are catamites the ones that come down from the ceiling, or grow up from the floor? I can never remember.
Svensker
@LarsThorwald:
Yes. Yes, it is.
morzer
@Svensker:
I thought catamites were those furry creatures that roamed the Appalachian mountains. Or am I confusing them with Sanfords?
Svensker
@gbear:
Hope everything is OK with little old kitty. Hugs! And congrats on 8 years — do NOT celebrate with cheeseburger and fries. How about some nice strawberries and chocolate instead?
Litlebritdifrnt
@Anne Laurie:
The very thought that any Irish immigrant who was escaping the potato famine could afford beef, in any form is silly. If you want a truly Irish dish to celebrate St. Paddy’s day then go with Irish Stew, it uses a cheaper meat (mutton) but is is far superior in every way to corned beef and cabbage.
The delicious flavor of the slow cooked mutton, potatoes, onions and carrots is bliss. I went to an “Irish Pub” in the NC Mountains and they serve it in a bread bowl. Heaven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_stew
freelancer
LGF has a caption contest, but I’m not a commenter there.
“What are Prince and Fire Marshall Bill doing at CPAC?! The list of non-celeb celebs gets weirder every year.”
gbear
@Anne Laurie: Thanks Anne Laurie. For years she’s been on a diet of Prescription Diet KD with a capsule of Cosequin mixed in. When we got home she skipped her own food and ate some of the big cat’s Pro Plan. She drinks LOTS of water. I’m hoping I can avoid having to feed her horrid tasting medicines every day.
edit: now the big cat is in the kitchen eating the old cat’s food. sigh.
Omnes Omnibus
@Svensker: Isn’t it another word for cougar?
geg6
As I have gotten so far ahead in re-reading Nixonland that I have stop or be too confused during the next book thread, I am going to get a start on The Hunger Games trilogy that my sister lent me with high praise. I know it’s a YA series, but I loved the Harry Potter books, too. I’m ready for a fun read what with the whole world seeming to be going into the shitter and all.
Svensker
@morzer:
You’re thinking of the cat o’nine tails, which is something Sanfords like.
kdaug
@LarsThorwald:
Been feeling that vibe for about a year now…
Joel
Trouble Every Day… or perhaps Perfect Day is more fitting?
Mark S.
@KG:
Considering Bynum’s been healthy for about twenty minutes in his entire career, I’d think that would be a great trade for the Lakers.
Jerry Sloan resigns as Jazz coach. A smart team would try to get him, like say the Lakers if Zen Master finally retires.
Ailuridae
@geg6:
The Hunger Games is quite good. And this is coming from someone who tends to think that Science Fiction is pretty problematic.
Suffern ACE
@kdaug: For the better? I’m thinking its about to get much, much worse.
Joel
Reggie Miller is goddamned awful. That is all.
morzer
@Svensker:
No, no.. catamounts, Ma’am, catamounts. And of course, we haven’t even got into cataphracts….
mr. whipple
@gbear:
Sounds like it may be thyroid.
morzer
@gbear:
When you mention drinking lots of water, combined with weight-loss, you make me think that the problem may be with her kidneys. I say this as one who lost an 18 year old cat to lymphoma (she survived an operation for 4+ years), but kidney issues were the first thing the vet thought of in similar circumstances.
Tattoosydney
@freelancer:
I was thinking:
Mnemosyne (iPod Touch)
I survived an entire day in the company of my in-laws. Now we’re trying to figure out if we really want to go out in sub-zero temperatures to find some dinner.
Southern Beale
@morzer:
LOL
kdaug
@Suffern ACE: Oh no, mate, not for the better. Confluence of events, most largely out of our control (oligarchies, peak oil, Middle-East uprisings, bankrupt “superpowers”, et.al.)
Interesting times, and all that…
Tattoosydney
@morzer:
Gesundheit.
freelancer
@Mnemosyne (iPod Touch):
Good luck and good eating.
Anne Laurie
@Litlebritdifrnt:
That’s the Brit talking, innite? Ah, the English and their sheep lust!…
I do love Irish stew, but I also love corned beef. Beef is not particularly more expensive than mutton here in the USA, and besides, splashing out a little extra was kind of the point when those innocent Irish immigrants celebrated making it over here to the land where the streets, if not paved with gold, could at least be laboriously paved for wages. (Of course St. Patrick’s Day is very much an American holiday anyways, no more “Irish” than Columbus Day is “Italian”, it’s all about how good we did over here after how bad we had it over there.)
OC
i’ll be on a flight from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis. it’s so frakkin’ cold in Minny I might have to fend off polar bears in the parking ramp. Good times!!!
Gin & Tonic
@joe from Lowell: You live in Lowell and have the temerity to suggest there is any debate about the greatest rivalry in baseball? Feh!
FoxinSocks
@geg6
I’m a huge fan of the Hunger Games series, but be warned, it’s not a light, fun read. It’s heavy stuff that lays bare the horrors of war and shows how good people can be transformed into monsters. It’s a fabulous trilogy, especially the first book, but I wouldn’t exactly call it uplifting.
aimai
@morzer:
Points for using Cataphract in a sentence! Big feature in the amazing “Masters of Rome” series by McCollough. To think I’d lived fifty years without knowing what a big deal Cataphracts were.
aimai
Dennis SGMM
@kdaug:
I tend to be overly pessimistic. That said, in my 62 years as an American I’ve never felt this pessimistic about the country. It seems as though the last thirty years of class warfare have finally paid off for the haves. If I thought it would do any good I’d drink.
Gozer
I’ve got a wicked sinus headache so I’m not accompanying my wife to the gym…and she’s giving me the stink-eye for it.
In addition I can has as many cheezeburgers as I want without gaining weight. That gets me many stink-eyes as well.
morzer
@Anne Laurie:
Anne Laurie, sheep-lust is the Welsh passion, just as the Scots pursue the naked haggis up hill and down dale, kilts flying in the breeze. You really shouldn’t let your anti-English agenda come so nakedly into the open, you know.
P.S. The English passion is beef. Roast beef of old England etc etc.
stuckinred
@Dennis SGMM: Even in 1968?
shortstop
@Mnemosyne (iPod Touch): You must be in Chicago! And no, you don’t want to do that. I just got in from a volunteer gig and it is colder than hell out there. I’m considering skipping dinner, climbing under the duvet and dragging my husband and dog under with me. Or perhaps luring them with bits of hot dogs.
morzer
@aimai:
Don’t make me start talking about Late Roman armoured cavalry to you, girl. It gets me all hot and bothered and I have to go and lie down.
burnspbesq
@Mnemosyne (iPod Touch):
Sabatino’s on Irving Park Road is worth going out in the cold for if you like old-school Italian food and ultra-kitschy decor.
shortstop
@morzer: I was going to click on aimai’s comment to see what this was in response to, but somehow I think that would mar the perfect beauty of it. Sometimes you just have to keep walking.
Dennis SGMM
@stuckinred:
1968 was a stinker all right. To me, the difference back then was that peop0le stood up to the powers that be. Now the deck seems to be so completely stacked that all of the protesting in the world wouldn’t change a thing – or even get reported.
Calouste
@shortstop:
I’ve been made to believe that that is not much of an achievement.
Anne Laurie
@gbear: Ah. The failing-kidneys issue does complicate the ‘more calories’ thing, so asking the vet about supplements is probably a good idea.
We’re in a similar place with our 8-year-old Kishkan, who is on daily hydration for her failing kidneys — lately she’s decided she won’t eat either of the prescription wet foods, but she will eat Fancy Feast chicken. Since she is incapable of understanding the scientific logic of “Yes, the prescription stuff is bland and tasteless, but if you would only choke it down, we can keep pumping fluids under your skin for some few extra months, yay long-term survival!”, the Spousal Unit is… stretching the concept of ‘mixing brands’, shall we say.
Part of the heartbreak to living with companion animals is that there’s always a delicate balance between what makes them happy and what we big-brained forethoughtful heads-of-household know is best for their health…
Which reminds me: Congratulations on your own Survival Anniversary, and many more to come!
shortstop
@burnspbesq: Don’t do it, Mnem! Their marinara is ketchup-based. Order in some nice Thai and build a fire. Even if your in-laws don’t have a fireplace.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Anne Laurie:
“In Ireland today, the serving of corned beef is geared toward tourist consumption and most Ireland Irish do not identify the ingredient with native cuisine.”
People would be better served to seek out true Irish cuisine, as well as true English cuisine, and true Scottish cuisine as opposed to the silly imposters that are thrust upon people these days. A real, true Cornish Pasty (an Oggie)is a thing of beauty and a true delight on the palate. It sometimes grieves me that an entire nation has been deprived of such a gem due to their dependence on Cheeseburgers. I honestly think an “Oggie Wagon” would take off over here. If I ever win the lottery that is what I would do with the money.
shortstop
@Calouste: I was just too tired to think of anything sparkly. Got anything? I need some help; we have months to go before spring.
kdaug
@Anne Laurie:
Yup. Probably more accurate to say traditional Irish-American corned beef n’ cabbage.
On a lighter note. Always been fascinated by the Scotch/Irish influence in bluegrass music. Even more striking is how well the merging of Scotch/Irish/Appalachian and African music is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeNU600stLA, et.al).
burnspbesq
@shortstop:
“Their marinara is ketchup-based. ”
A scurrilous slander. It’s thick because it’s made with actual tomatoes.
shortstop
@Litlebritdifrnt: If you sold pasties of both sorts (Cornish and Bada Bing Club), you could occupy a unique niche and appeal to Yanks’ natural prurience.
shortstop
@burnspbesq: Tomatoes that have been through the Heinz bottling plant. Their food is nasty, dude. Go to Tufano’s on Vernon Park if you gotta have the old-school stuff. At least their chef owns a spice rack.
morzer
@shortstop:
I blame Total War: Rome and Medieval II Total War. They corrupted me, honest.
geg6
Fox in Socks@122:
Be assured that I know what the books are about, but I usually read non-fiction (history and biography are my preference). I guess I mean an easier read and since it’s aimed at YAs, I am sure that it is not relentlessly bleak. The Harry Potter books had many of the same lessons and underlying messages about the dark side of humankind but were still exciting, had great characters, and left one with a cautious hope courtesy of a group of “little” people who were determined that the better side of man can triumph. These books may be more bleak than the Potter books, but they aren’t as bleak as tge Nixonland reality in which we live. YAs aren’t ready for that reality yet, so I think I’ll enjoy the books and consider them a light read.
KG
@Mark S.: yeah, I know the health concerns, I’m just not keen on giving up size like that and making Gasol the full time center.
Phil says he’s done this year. Rumors around town is that Brian Shaw has the inside track.
Litlebritdifrnt
@shortstop:
LOL When I first moved here and started working as a paralegal for an attorney, there was an appointment made for my boss the appointment note said “problem with pasties” my pure English heart could not imagine how anyone could have a problem with pasties, I mean what is there not to love about potatoes, onions and beef wrapped in pastry. I learned very quickly that “paysties” and “pasties” are two very different things.
debit
@gbear: Our old guy, Max is 21 and still going strong(ish) but needs some help staying regular so he gets wet food mixed with water and metamucil and IV fluids a couple times a week. He feels very fragile to me, like his skin is paper tissue thin, and he has no body or muscled tone. He sleeps most of the time, but every once in a while tears around the house like a lunatic. He also terrorizes Chloe for daring to be a dog.
@ thread: I just finished another 12 hour day. My plan: not kill anyone, eat something, have a drink, cuddle the dog. I really hate this time of year.
burnspbesq
@shortstop:
I actually prefer Volare, but I didn’t want recommend that Mnem go all the way downtown.
suzanne
@Mnemosyne (iPod Touch):
Good job. Now go have a drink.
shortstop
@burnspbesq: Well, Sabatino’s is a million miles from nowhere unless you know that she’s staying on the northwest side. Yes, very predictable menu at Volare but they cook it competently.
She’s very quiet. I think she’s gone. Join me in hoping that the cold hasn’t felled her. She’d be found by a stunned Streets and San worker in the morning, a Mnemopsicle on the sidewalk.
Ruckus
@srv:
That sounds like a great place to spend an evening.
Barb (formerly Gex)
I guess the new plan is to worry a whole bunch tonight. Through some digging I found out I’m supposed to be in court on 2/18, but neither of my parents bothered to tell me. I’m still working on an attorney.
Isn’t it amazing how, when the suckitude comes, it all comes at once?
Still, in remarkably high spirits considering the situation.
asiangrrlMN
@Barb (formerly Gex): Oh, good lord. I just read this. Man. I don’t even know what to say. Glad you’re in good spirits, and good luck in court.
Wile E. Quixote
@freelancer:
I was thinking:
Amanda in the South Bay
@Wile E. Quixote:
*sighs at shit she finds massively offensive*
Svensker
@morzer:
Odd. We were just talking about cataphracts the other day, in connection with the Persians. But then that brings us back to catamites… Or Republicans.
hilts
Clap On, Clap Off
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/02/office-of-the-director-of-national-intelligence-clarifies-remarks-on-muslim-brotherhood.html
morzer
@Svensker:
You just want me to get all hot and bothered again, dontcha?
hilts
@KG:
This is a moot point because Palin is too lazy and gutless to run for president. At heart, Palin is a coward and a quitter who simply wants to make a lot of money. She doesn’t have the discipline to mount a presidential campaign.
morzer
@hilts:
Oh if only we could send Tapper to do in-depth reporting on the Ikhwan al-Muslimun. I mean, sure,he doesn’t know the language or the culture, but that’s never stopped him discussing US politics.
Wile E. Quixote
@hilts:
The Director of National Intelligence said that the Muslim brotherhood was a largely secular organization? Well no fucking wonder that all of our “intelligence” agencies were caught with their pants down, their thumbs up their asses and their dicks in their hands by the current situation in Egypt.
In other news today Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that he was “shocked, simply shocked” to find out that the all girl “band” in the 1986 Robert Palmer video “Addicted to Love” were models who didn’t know how to play the instruments they were holding and that the music was actually dubbed in. “How could this be?” asked Clapper. “Those women just oozed musical talent. That drummer was laying down licks like Keith Moon in his prime, and that bassist, who could forget her? She was just like Bootsy Collins, if Bootsy Collins was white, female and borderline anorexic.” Clapper went on to say that finally he has the answer to a question which has occupied him for years, namely why these women didn’t become the next Beatles.
jazzgurl
@Tattoo – God yes, that Conor freidersdorf from the Atlantic is a pompous little git.Oh how I miss Andrew Sullivan. The Dish, unfortunately, has not been the same without him. Hr should be back on Monday.
P.S Why oh why does every American feel they know so much about Egypt. Window watching and spouting forth, as if you think you know, does not a cultural national make!
sweetgreensnowpea
i read gail collins for the same reason i read you, anne laurie:
i love her heart.