Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

So many bastards, so little time.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Let there be snark.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    Is it time to start drinking properly yet?

    When is it not?

    Unless you use some obscure definition of drinking properly.

  2. 2.

    IrishGirl

    It’s always noon somewhere in the world, so sure! I honestly wish I could have a Mimosa to help with my hangover today….alas I am a worker bee, chained to my computer. Coffee will have to do.

  3. 3.

    Tim, Interrupted

    Is it time to start drinking properly yet?

    Hell, it’s 12:01 in Boston, so bottoms up.

  4. 4.

    catclub

    This reminds me of the guy who was surprised by all the teeth in the ‘cat’ he thought he was getting out of a tree.

    Opossums have a LOT of teeth.

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    Svensker

    I have a picture of an adorable baby racoon peeping out from behind the patio stairs of our new city house in Toronto. Unfortunately his not so cute parents leave the BIGGEST turds in history right in the middle of the patio. I had no idea raccoon poop was so large and so smelly. Not enamored. War will be declared.

  9. 9.

    quaint irene

    Baby possums, cute. Grown ones, not so much. Lots of grey wrinkley skin.

    Oops, didn’t see these were raccoons.

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    @Svensker:

    War will be declared.

    Will battle come down?

    @efgoldman:

    Not to mention how much fun it is to see them climbing up the side of the house and hear them in the attic.

    It could be worse. I have a coworker who had a family of racoons nest in her chimney. This being Southern California, the fireplace was purely decorative, so there was no fire to scare the racoons away. Nobody was crazy enough to go down the chimney to evict the family, so they stayed there, spreading fleas into the house, until the babies got old enough to leave the nest. Then she had a wire cap put on the chimney to keep the problem from repeating and fleabombed the house.

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    Daddy-O

    Cute, yes…but as a former employee of a major metropolitan zoo, I must remind everyone that wild animals make the worst pets. It’s my pet peeve…

    I’m not sure if ‘rare’ is a word I’d use to describe an albino animal of any species. It’s not unique or un-heard-of. It’s a simple mutation, and they would never survive in the wild for very long–especially a nocturnal animal.

    People love to take care of wild animals, but you should let them go before too long anyway, whether they make it out there or not. You can’t save every dog, cat, turtle or American bald eagle you find. They have to make it without our help, and sometimes they can’t.

    Lecture mode/OFF

  16. 16.

    Joseph Nobles

    Did Sarah post this because of the cute albino raccoons or the hot Canadian guy that found them? Yowza.

  17. 17.

    Culture of Truth

    Is it time to start drinking properly yet?

    Sadly the holiday weekend is over.

  18. 18.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    Had to rescue an injured American Coot from our backyard this morning; damn thing slammed itself into the bedroom window and injured a wing. Caught him in a sheet and drove him out to Austin Wildlife Rescue (warning, Flash-heavy page).

    It seems that the phrase “mean old coot” isn’t entirely random; these suckers are mean and will open you up if they get the chance.

  20. 20.

    R-Jud

    It’s 6 pm here. I lost track of the time, so the wine is still breathing before the Mr and I attack that bottle.

    I can’t really bring myself to pay attention to the news these last few weeks. I’ve been poking around here instead. Reading about the Black Death is soothing compared to current events.

  21. 21.

    Studly Pantload, a full-service troll

    All I can say is that if you’re drinking properly, yer doin’ it wrong.

  22. 22.

    Violet

    @efgoldman:
    Racoons are so clever. Once when I was camping, I watched them not only get to a hanging food bag (thought it was safe, obviously not), untie a double knot while it was hanging to get it to drop, then undo the cordlock to get to the food.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    @Violet:
    I think you need a bear can if you want to keep the racoons out effectively. Just hanging the food isn’t going to keep out anything really clever and determined.

  24. 24.

    Culture of Truth

    CHICAGO, May 31 (UPI) — A Chicago area man was struck and fatally injured by a limousine while trying to help ducklings cross a highway near O’Hare International Airport, police said.

    Illinois State Police said Ed Gardner pulled over when he saw a family of ducklings on the Tri-State Tollway. He was attempting to get the ducks off the road when he was hit by the limousine.

    “That’s totally Ed,” said his friend Jim Gollwitzer. “He cared about animals. It was one of his passions in life.”

  26. 26.

    Luci

    Of course it’s time to start drinking. I know everyone else said so also too, but I just thought I’d toss in my two cents worth along with theirs. And, especially so since I had not been thinking about drinking, and now I’m considering it, so I’ll join you in a glass of wine or whatever. :)

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    Since this seems to be the wildlife talk thread … I’m not sure what induced a skunk to let loose under our window this morning, but I assume that someone’s dog got a little too curious. It was not the best part of waking up.

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