Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I really should read my own blog.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Everybody saw this coming.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

“Alexa, change the president.”

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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  2. 2.

    Cris

    LOL. Also too, in before deeply concerned pet owners chastise us for endangering our pets’ eyesight with lasers.

  5. 5.

    Catsy

    Some of the most fun a human being can have is exercising an active cat with a laser pointer. A friend of mine is very adept at getting his cat to leap halfway up the wall chasing after it. The cat loves it.

    Yes, keep it on the floor or wall and out of their eyes, but–good times.

  6. 6.

    Omnes Omnibus

    FWIW I don’t think things are going well for FitzWalker in Judge Sumi’s courtroom. Legislative clerks are testifying and basically saying that there is no real conflict between legislative rules and Open Meetings Law. If true, this means that Legislature must obey law. It is clear that they did not follow the 24 hour rule and the 2 hour emergency exception is problematic because 1) it is not clear that a proper 2 hour notice was given and 2) it is unlikely that this was an emergency that justified the exception. Also there are questions about whether the bill has actually passed both houses; if not, there may be no ability to call joint conference committee. All this is from this twitter feed. No, I am not getting a lot of real work done today; why do you ask?

  9. 9.

    Original Lee

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thanks for the update. I’m not getting a lot of work done, either.

    Quasi-serious question: Why are we not hearing much about Mitt Romney for President lately? My impression of the GOP (having been one in my youth) is that they tend to go with the heir apparent and that there’s an unstated pecking order amongst their “presidential timber” politicritters. So if this a true theory, Romney is next because he did almost as well as McCain in 2008, and McCain was the candidate last time because it was “his turn”.

  11. 11.

    Cris

    @Original Lee: GOP common wisdom went out the window with all the rest of the wisdom. It really does seem like we’re seeing a party in crisis, or transition, or at least in disarray.

  12. 12.

    Dave Trowbridge

    That dog looks like it’s asleep, compared to my German Shepherd Dog Oka’s reaction to a laser pointer. He’ll leap six feet (from a down position) across the room onto the point of light, or spin around in a tight circle to chase it.

    But he won’t attack it if it’s on a person or another animal. He just barks until it goes back onto the floor. That was not the result of training, just his own understanding of the game.

  14. 14.

    joes527

    @Omnes Omnibus: What, other than Republican ego which refuses to be corrected, is keeping them from giving 24 hours notice for a meeting and just doing it again?

  15. 15.

    Trentrunner

    I wonder if we’d also all have the yuks over a doberman chomping a girl’s vagina.

    Just askin’.

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @joes527: I have heard some talk that they wouldn’t have the votes to do it again. Pure rumor; no reliable source.

    Interestingly (or not), they are currently questioning about why the Republicans couldn’t have just scheduled the vote for one day later.

  17. 17.

    Punchy

    Curious to know if my greyhounds would fall for this. I’m sure if it was in the shape of a rabbit or squirrel they would.

  18. 18.

    cyntax

    @Trentrunner:

    Of course not–this is an XY chromosome thing.

    Though I think it was a headbutt not a bite, that pretty much wouldn’t be funny regardless.

  21. 21.

    Anoniminous

    The Wisconsin election on 1/5 will be the first evidence of the amount of “Buyer’s Remorse” from the November election. Before the recent foo-foo Prosser (GOP, Nut-Job) was expected to be re-elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Now there’s a chance he’ll be defeated; if people actually get off their fat lazy asses and vote he will be defeated.

    At least according to the polls.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @piratedan: Somehow, I am not sure it would be effective. They already pissed off the judge, so she might just let them pass out.

  24. 24.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I do that to the kids with the kitten, Batman. He has an issue retracting his claws so he gets stuck. Too funny.

  26. 26.

    Dork

    @piratedan: I have a feeling that they wont give up their office(s) should any of them get defeated on a recall election. Something about it not being legit, or tainted, or because shut up, that’s why.

  27. 27.

    Paul in KY

    @Catsy: I have one who’s pretty much figured out it is me doing that & now can’t be bothered to chase it. The other 2 tear around like nuts after it.

  29. 29.

    piratedan

    @Dork: If this keeps up, the entire assembly will have to go to their rooms without dinner…. and wipe that look off your face…. just wait til the Governor gets home!

  30. 30.

    Svensker

    @Trentrunner:

    You’re not supposed to use body part language. Say instead,
    I wonder if we’d also all have the yuks over a doberman chomping a girl’s gloryhole.

    Also, too, the answer is “no” because girls don’t leap like trout when hit in the crotch.

  33. 33.

    Comrade Mary

    @Trentrunner:

    I wonder if we’d also all have the yuks over a doberman chomping a girl’s vagina.

    Nah, the average dog’s snout is way too big to manage that. I could see some vulva molesting being possible, though.

    Vulva. Vagina. They’re different. Seriously.

  35. 35.

    dr. bloor

    @Comrade Mary:

    Vulva. Vagina. They’re different. Seriously.

    Please, not in front of the children or the legislature. If you must, please refer to it as “down there.”

  39. 39.

    Catsy

    @joes527:

    What, other than Republican ego which refuses to be corrected, is keeping them from giving 24 hours notice for a meeting and just doing it again?

    Aside from the possibility that they don’t have the votes, doing so would be an implicit acknowledgment that they didn’t do it right the first time. Not only will Republican egos not allow that, it would hurt them (even more) politically, and possibly legally as well.

  43. 43.

    Paul in KY

    @WereBear: I use a red laser when playing with cats. I also have a green one that will go 2 1/2 miles, tried it with the cats & they all ran off.

  47. 47.

    Comrade Mary

    @maya:

    I believe the proper Talibangelical terminology is; “down at Mary’s place”.

    HEY! That flashing neon sign is only there because I like bright colours, I swear.

  51. 51.

    Svensker

    OT even for an OT — radio surfing in Canukistan and just heard a French Canuck version of “Doo Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Doo” apparently sung by pubescent girls backed by Euro trash. The brain has been seriously damaged. And the ears are bleeding.

  53. 53.

    Cris

    Speaking of animal cruelty, have you seen the current kerfluffle about GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons travelling to Zimbabwe to shoot an elephant? It’s wrapped in lots of nice colonialist rhetoric (he shot the elephant because it was destroying crops! The villagers get to eat the elephant!) but it’s sparking a fierce backlash. Namecheap is offering domain transfers from GoDaddy at a loss, and donating a dollar for each transfer to Save The Elephants. (via Wonkette).

  54. 54.

    Jebediah

    @piratedan:

    holding their collective breath

    They won’t do that – if they hold it too long, they might turn blue, and they are trying to turn Wisconsin red, so that just wouldn’t do.

  55. 55.

    MikeJ

    @geg6: They said they had enough for Hopper last week, but they haven’t released an official count or turned them in.

  57. 57.

    Jim

    I have friends who had 3 cats. They tied a ball on a string to the kitchen light and two cats would sit on chairs and bat the ball back and forth. The third chased the shadow.

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