Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

He really is that stupid.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

This fight is for everything.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

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  3. 3.

    Violet

    I’m supposed to be cooking dinner, but I had a truly horrific day. Got sent for an x-ray, unexpectedly. No big deal there, but the x-ray technician was incredibly rude. She asked me terribly invasive questions, wouldn’t believe my answers to her questions, continued to pry into things that were clearly outside of her scope of practice and need to know and were not related to the x-ray procedure. Then tried to use the “I’m just doing my job” excuse when I got frustrated by her refusal to believe what I was saying.

    I finally just said, “Fine, do what you have to do” and she continued to try to explain to me that she just was just doing her job. I said, “I know, just do what you have to do” and she went on and on for another five minutes. It was like she had some need to MAKE me understand her situation. I understood it alright, but I also have been to plenty of doctors and medical professionals and know that there is a line of medical ethics and she crossed it BIG TIME.

    By the time she finally decided she couldn’t convince me of her right to ask me incredibly invasive questions (and not just about me, but about family members), she left to get the radiologist to sign off on some paperwork and she SWORE at me under her breath as she left the room. Talk about unprofessional.

    Her questions were so invasive that after she left I just lost it and started crying. When she comes back she looks at me and says, “Are you okay?” NO, I’M NOT FUCKING OKAY! You just badgered me about incredibly personal issues that you have no right to be discussing with me and that were not pertinent to the x-ray procedure and NOW you are worried if I’m “okay”? Give me a break.

    I’ve been pretty much non-functional the whole rest of the day. Oh, sure I’m doing a few things, but between being in pain (the reason for the x-ray) and this woman’s completely unprofessional demeanor, it was a really crappy day.

    Happy Valentine’s Day.

  4. 4.

    JGabriel

    @R-Jud:

    My spousal unit and I were just in the garage, working on my snatch.

    TMI!

    I can handle 105 lbs now!

    Holy cow. What is that in inches?

    .

  5. 5.

    Cain

    Speaking of Castle, Nathan Fillion just retweeted about a dog rescue situation:

    cesarmillan Cesar Millan
    by NathanFillion
    I’ve been informed that 150 English bulldogs are being dumped at the Lancaster Shelter today. If you can adopt/foster even ONE, pls rescue.

  9. 9.

    PurpleGirl

    @R-Jud: I thought you were making a reference to Rocky Horror Picture Show; btw the video did explain a line in one of the songs that I’ve never fully understood. The kitty video — I made the mistake of clicking on the link and the playing the video. I’ll have put on something classical to get it out of my brain.

    @Violet: You have my sympathy. I hope the rest of your evening is better and you can relax and be calm now.

  10. 10.

    stuckinred

    We tried to watch “Damages” based on Cole’s post. We got as far as the dog with the slashed throat. . .geezzze.

  11. 11.

    R-Jud

    @PurpleGirl:

    The kitty video—I made the mistake of clicking on the link and the playing the video. I’ll have put on something classical to get it out of my brain.

    Yeah, I’ve been listening to Telemann all day. No dice. I think the last time I sang that silly little song, I was ten. I don’t get it at all.

    I may have to go to guns.

  14. 14.

    Cain

    @Violet:

    ’m supposed to be cooking dinner, but I had a truly horrific day. Got sent for an x-ray, unexpectedly. No big deal there, but the x-ray technician was incredibly rude. She asked me terribly invasive questions, wouldn’t believe my answers to her questions, continued to pry into things that were clearly outside of her scope of practice and need to know and were not related to the x-ray procedure. Then tried to use the “I’m just doing my job” excuse when I got frustrated by her refusal to believe what I was saying.

    You should have just told her that you would be happy to answer the questions but to the doctor.

    cain

  15. 15.

    Violet

    @PurpleGirl:
    Thanks. I hope so too.

    @Dexwood:
    No, I didn’t. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. I did fill out a comment card. I think the front desk employees were almost afraid of me as I was filling out the comment card. My face was like thunder, I’m sure. I’m pretty sure they could see the tear stains running down my face, too.

    This is the second bad experience I’ve had at this particular imaging place. They take my insurance, so…

  17. 17.

    You Don't Say

    @Violet: I had an MRI once and I was very nervous because I am clausterphobic and the technician was so rude to me. I don’t know of anything (that didn’t involve loved ones or jobs) that has ever upset me so much. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.

  18. 18.

    Violet

    @Cain:
    I didn’t know there was even a doctor there. My doctor sent me to this imaging place, so my doctor wasn’t around. I know they are required to ask certain questions, and I’d already answered the questions in the form I filled out, and initially when she came in the room. Then she kept going with more and more personal questions, even including family members who weren’t present, etc. It was astonishing.

  19. 19.

    You Don't Say

    Anyone see the smarmy performance by Breitbart at CPAC? God, I hope Sherrod has a good case against that smug asshole.

  20. 20.

    wobbly

    Clancy Brothers did “Wild Mountain Thyme” way better, on their
    “The Boys Won’t Leave the Girls Alone” album.

    Jeez, I can’t believe the brothers are all dead and gone, and Tommy Makem too.

    Pete Seeger soldiers on, but it’s only a matter of time.

  24. 24.

    JGabriel

    Last night, several of us committed to posting videos tonight.

    This seems as good a place as any to start, since it’s an open thread. And I’m setting a theme for tonight: Broaden Your Fuckin’ Horizons, Goddamn It!

    Everyone always complaining about how they don’t know anything about the music the kidz are listening to these days. Well …

    There have been a number of critics polls in the last two months. I’ll post links to three polls in the next post (so I don’t break the three link limit in this one). Find one, pick out a band that finished in one of the polls, and post a link to one of their songs. Just for tonight, let’s skip all the nostalgia for the last century, and try to find some good songs from this one.

    I’ll start: White Sky — Vampire Weekend

    Broaden your fuckin’ horizons, goddamn it!

    .

  28. 28.

    General Stuck

    Am getting tired of paying monthy to XM for a bunch of cable news shows and music stations I don’t really like.

    Going to try a shortwave Fm radio, I think, one of the Grundig’s under 100 bucks, that are supposed to pull in FM stations very well. And messing around listening to shortwave might be kind of fun. Anyone owned one of these out there?

  32. 32.

    Alison

    This happy single person will be watching the doggie show tonight. Talk about loooooove awwwww :P

    Also since there is finally an open thread – I emailed this to Mr Kain since he posted about it before, but wanted to drop it here too – Shawna Forde was convicted of first degree murder for killing Brisenia Flores and her father, and attempted first degree murder for trying to kill Brisenia’s mother

    http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/minuteman_vigilante_shawna_forde_convicted_for_brisenia_flores_murder.html

    Huzzah huzzah. And little notice of it anywhere. Sob.

  34. 34.

    Linkmeister

    @General Stuck: I’ve owned shortwave pocket receivers, although not Grundig’s. It’s the gold standard for the things, though.

    S/W is a lot of fun, but it’s not something you can necessarily tune in and forget. It fades in and out, stations jump to different frequencies at certain times, and it’s generally a fair bit of work.

  36. 36.

    Mary G

    @Violet: Ugh. And swearing at you? That is waaaaaay out of line. Shades of Nurse Ratched.

    It never ceases to amaze me when somebody gets a little medical knowledge and proceed to decide that they KNOW EVERYTHING and are now GOD OF MEDICINE. I’ve had lab techs, X-ray techs, physical therapists and nurses tell me my doctor’s advice is wrong and if I have the medicine, treatment or surgery they are prescribing, I will be healed.

    When you aren’t feeling well and if you had to remove garments and wear the blue gown that shows your rear end, it can really get to you.

    The best revenge is to wait until you calm down and then send a letter of complaint to your insurance, with a copy to some local media figure. The only thing that will hurt the facility more than being under contract for measly payment with an insurance provider is not being under contract and losing the measly payments entirely. And I once won a battle with an HMO over an MRI by copying my email complaint to Al Martinez, who at the time wrote a column for the LA Times. All he did was email me back “Go get em, Mary!” but I got what I wanted right away.

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    Steve Martin’s catering rider when touring:

    Banjo-plucking funny guy Steve Martin sticks to healthy options. His rider outlines a buffet, which includes a platter of cold cuts; six-packs of canned beverages (“for Steve to compare his abs to”); twelve coconuts, hollowed and split in two (“for the musicians’ bras”); one whole roasted chicken (“for Steve to use as a dancing puppet”); one packet of Lipitor; and a tray of iceberg salad (Steve notes: “iceberg must come from Scandinavia, Canadian, or Russian Arctic. Artists do not like the taste of Antarctic icebergs”).

    http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/56140780.html

  40. 40.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Linkmeister: Regrettably, the major international broadcasters have reduced their schedules on SW, year over year, especially to North America, since we all have internet now….or so the thinking goes.

    BBC World Service, for example, the mainstay of my youth and early adult years, stopped its North American Service in 2001. You can still pick up BBC WS beamed to other areas off the back of an array, or long-path…

    An earlier version of Grundig’s G4000 is my mainstay.

  42. 42.

    piratedan

    it’ll be an exciting evening of American Pickers followed up by a dishes interlude and then some Castle tonight. The much better half can park her keester on the couch, curl up with a cat or a dog or one of each and try and let the day melt away.

    Also an Open thread shout out to the BBC show MI-5/Spooks, if you get a chance, catch it!

  43. 43.

    General Stuck

    @Linkmeister:

    Thanks, I figured that with shortwave. Am mostly going to get one for getting weak FM stations that the Grundig is supposedly famous for, I hope. Though living in bumfuck NM, may limit that some. Maybe I can hook it up to my unused sat tv dish. It will be fun to mess around with, like you say.

  57. 57.

    JGabriel

    @R-Jud: Cool. I hadn’t heard of Hot Chip before, but I like that tune. Which of course is the point: Broaden your fuckin’ horizons, god damn it, people!

    .

  58. 58.

    Cat Lady

    @JGabriel:

    Oldest daughter went to McGill with Win Butler. He was in an anthropology class with her – the band had just started. She can’t really see or hear the band objectively, but I can – they’re really good.

  62. 62.

    BruceFromOhio

    @R-Jud: My spousal unit and I were just in the garage, working on my snatch.

    Years ago, the word ‘snatch’ had a significantly different meaning. Yes, I clicked on the links, both of them, and now the fracking cats are haunting every keystroke.

    On a different phase of the universe, I now have a new respect for Peyton Manning. The only thing about Manning The Elder I sought in this life was seeing him sacked as many times as possible in any given quarter of NFL play. Now, with the owner of the Carolina Panthers showing the true colors of the NFL owners posse, I shall be heartily cheering him on through the players strike.

    I hope all NFL owners (save the Packers) take note – you make money because they play.

  63. 63.

    R-Jud

    @Cat Lady: Arcade Fire’s live shows are amazing. Spiritual, almost. We’ve been twice and would gladly go again.

    @JGabriel:

    I hadn’t heard of Hot Chip before

    They pal around with LCD Soundsystem. Or did, now that the latter is closing up shop.

    @Martin: Oh, I agree.

  64. 64.

    MikeJ

    @BruceFromOhio:

    A league source denied that there was any contentious discussion between the team owner and anyone from the union’s side.

    A good reporter would have then asked, “Are you calling Peyton Manning a liar?”

  65. 65.

    MikeJ

    @MikeJ: Ahhhhh. I understand now:

    In the case of Manning, who is not a player representative or member of the NFLPA’s executive board, his opinion carries great weight throughout the NFL.

    So since Manning isn’t an official union rep, it wasn’t a lie. Again, a good reporter would not have let the misleading statement stand.

  66. 66.

    BruceFromOhio

    @MikeJ: All I have to say is Fuck. The. Owners. Between Jerry Jordan and Major Asshole of Carolina, I hope they lose their fucking shirts, their publicly funded stadiums, and their fucking parking spots, all at once. Yes, I know, a zillion poor motherfuckers get their paychecks because the boys strap on, tape up, and rock the house. I get it.

    But to have even one of these lily-white dickheads in the loge boxers calling the shots makes me want to puke my fucking guts out.

    I hope the players strike for two seasons, then maybe I can finally buy that football team I always wanted.

  67. 67.

    frosty

    @General Stuck: I owned a Grundig YB-400 (?) a few years back. A good radio. I was a shortwave nut many many years ago and found it somewhat disappointing this time around. The hams area still out there with Morse Code, though.

    I don’t know if they pull in FM in stereo. I don’t recall two speakers on mine.

  68. 68.

    Jeanne ringland

    We’re taking our daughter out for dinner tonight. She got a bouquet from her boyfriend today but he’s unavailable tonight (he took her out for Valentine’s Day this weekend).
    McCormick & Schmick’s tonight. Yum!

  69. 69.

    frosty

    @General Stuck: The real key to pulling in distant or difficult stations is the antenna. See if your rig lets you attach an external antenna. The higher you can rig it, the better.

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack

    @R-Jud:

    I thought Fleet Foxes’ sound was “different” in an interesting way. Will be looking for their next album myself.

  73. 73.

    General Stuck

    NEW female singing artist

    Ingrid Michaelson – Maybe

    Very Cool video too, and I just adore the female singing voice.

  74. 74.

    Svensker

    @Violet:

    So sorry. Don’t let her ruin your day — she shouldn’t have that much power. Right? Right! Hope the pain gets better FAST.

    Big hugs.

  75. 75.

    Jeanne ringland

    @Violet: That just sucks.

    I had one at Kaiser in Anaheim a couple of years ago, and after from all the yuckiness that preceeded it, the MRI itself was almost enjoyable. The tech was great, a funny gentleman who had me giggling before we started.

  76. 76.

    General Stuck

    @frosty:

    That’s the main reason I posted this, if someone might know about the ability to attach say a coaxial cord from my dish dish. Or some other type of connectivity to an antenna. I will likely just call Eton, or Grundig and ask first, as it wasn’t mentioned on their website.

  86. 86.

    General Stuck

    @frosty:

    Thanks Frosty. I guess maybe they all have that then. Kind of thought they did, but the manual really sucked. The G8 is kind of weird, you have to buy the AC adapter separate, and ear plugs, but it is cheaper and has better reviews

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