Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The revolution will be supervised.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

We are aware of all internet traditions.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

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  2. 2.

    Southern Beale

    Greetings, folks! Made it through the MIL’s 80th birthday “ladies luncheon,” am half way the three hour conversation about the weather with the Mormon relatives, and soon get to eat dinner and go home.

    Huzzah.

    How’s YOUR day?

  9. 9.

    Peter

    Haters can hate as much as they want; End of the day, friendship will still be magic.

  10. 10.

    Uriel

    The bronies thing isn’t about porn, so rule 34 doesn’t apply. I’m sure that rule 34 stuff is out there, obviousy- but this in’t it.

    And it has nothing to do with furries, either. That’s just plain mean.

  11. 11.

    Uriel

    The bronies thing isn’t about porn, so rule 34 doesn’t apply. I’m sure that rule 34 stuff is out there, obviousy- but this in’t it.

    And it has nothing to do with furries, either. That’s just plain mean.

  14. 14.

    AAA Bonds

    McCotter, a guitar-playing lawmaker from Detroit’s suburbs who is known for his eccentric sense of humor and independent streak, will make his announcement at an Independence Day festival at Whitmore Lake, about 30 miles outside the Motor City, He is expected to play guitar with his band at the event. The 45-year-old attorney joins a crowded early field of GOP candidates, including former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, pizza magnate Herman Cain, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

  15. 15.

    AAA Bonds

    A REPUBLICAN FROM LIVONIA, SHIT, THIS GUY WILL DEFINITELY BE LOOKING OUT FOR THE LITTLE GUY

  16. 16.

    AAA Bonds

    Fun facts about Livonia, the Detroit suburb that brought us GOP presidential candidate Thad “The Dad” McCotter:

    The racial makeup of the city was 95.45% White, 0.95% African American, 0.22% Native American, 1.94% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.32% from other races, and 1.11% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.72% of the population. 16.3% were of Polish, 15.9% German, 11.2% Irish, 8.6% Italian and 8.5% English ancestry according to Census 2000.

    According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $70,844, and the median income for a family was $83,452.

    The best description of Livonians: “BLACK PEOPLE ARE SCARY”

  17. 17.

    AAA Bonds

    Really, what says “bring this country together” like a Detroit suburb that’s less than 1% black?

    Grand Wizard robes?

  18. 18.

    JPL

    Martin on the previous thread lamented about installing a brick and granite path and how sore he was. I will also lament but mine is about cutting crown molding. I have been to home depot so many times today to buy just one more piece of molding, the clerk mentioned that since it was sold by the foot, I could return all those pieces that didn’t quite fit. At this point I’m willing to pay for someone to install that final piece. It’s only 55 inches long with two inside cuts..no strange angles.. nothing. (Crown molding does have strange angles but..) I thought all the hard work was done..hahahha

  20. 20.

    gbear

    Is it acceptable for me to be white and enjoy that album?

    Is it acceptable for me to be white and really dislike that album? I’m kind of partial to melodies.

  22. 22.

    gbear

    [email protected]:

    I applied for unemployment yesterday. I may be even more fucked because I was on medical leave for three months last winter/spring. I haven’t found out if it screws up my unemployment benefits yet. I’m worried.

  23. 23.

    AAA Bonds

    LOL, that’s a really melodic rap album by a really melodic rap group, gbear, but we’ll get off your lawn if you really want

  24. 24.

    Violet

    Mnemosyne:

    I’ve got relatives in Minnesota who are longtime, staunch Democrats. I emailed one of them yesterday about the shutdown. Her response was not “Stupid Republicans!” as I’d expected, but more “both sides are dug in and I don’t know how they’re going to resolve this.” If my relative is saying that sort of thing, it doesn’t surprise me the prevailing feeling is “both sides are to blame.”

  25. 25.

    JPL

    gbear.. I thought unemployment would be paid in Minnesota. As long as you worked the amount of time you should be fine. Good luck to you. I on the other time applied for social security. I was pretty much a stay at home mom but worked long enough to qualify. Half of my exes would be bigger but I want to draw on his when I’m 66 because the amount would be larger at that point.

    EDIT..Is the governor on TV explaining that state parks are closed because repubs don’t want to tax millionaires?

  26. 26.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    I betray my nerdiness here but I HAVE watched this and thankfully it’s less Rainbow Brite and more Powerpuff Girls (both of which are childhood memories, the former regrettably so). They definitely follow the ideals Pixar does as well: cartoons can be for kids AND actually be enjoyable for adults too, forced to watch or not. Makes me wish for the Cartoon Network of old.

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    gbear

    AAA Bonds @ 23:

    Sorry, I should have changed ‘albun’ to ‘song’, but that 4-bar, two note, one key, unvaried-for-the-whole-song (except for a couple of drop-outs) bass line needs to find another lawn. I’m bugged by songs that run a 4 or 8 bar sample from start to finish no matter who they’re by.

  29. 29.

    Riggsveda

    Oh, Not ABL, I love this new whimsical persona. It returns me to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when I still had the illusion that my daughter was going to turn out the way I wanted her to, instead of the way she wanted to.

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    Martin

    The bronies thing isn’t about porn, so rule 34 doesn’t apply.

    Of course it applies. If rule 34 suggests that there’s porn of My Little Ponies (something, I’ll admit, I’m not brave enough to investigate, but will trust is true) then it’s safe to assume the spectrum between little girl toys and My Little Pony porn is filled in, which is where bronies would live.

  31. 31.

    Martin

    Is the governor on TV explaining that state parks are closed because repubs don’t want to tax millionaires?

    Why should millionaires pay taxes for parks? They’re millionaires! They own their own parks, as John Galt intended.

    Fucking looters expecting to use public lands for the mere cost of tax dollars!

  32. 32.

    gbear

    JPL, the state parks are closed. The park rangers had to go kick everyone out of their campsites on thursday afternoon. Take my word for it when I say that the park rangers are REALLY PISSED.

    Even the DNR’s Commissioner is considered an unessential employee.

  36. 36.

    Violet

    Headline on my Google news:

    Deficit battle shaping up as GOP victory

    Followed by:

    Regardless of any tax concessions President Obama achieves, the end result would favor Republican goals of cutting spending and government services.

    Sigh.

  37. 37.

    Felonious Wench

    I watched Inside Job last night for the first time. Required viewing, period.

    I’m still frothing mad.

  39. 39.

    Egypt Steve

    I’m sure this has been handled but I’ve been away & am curious: what’s with the “Not!”

    If there has to be a change, I vote for “BetcherassI’m”

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    Ugh. Broken down just off the freeway and waiting on AAA and my folks now. Damn serpentine belt.

  41. 41.

    Beth in VA

    Bummer Yutsano, but how cool that the technology exists to add a comment on ABL’s My Little Pony blog post while you’re stuck on the highway!

  45. 45.

    Maude

    Yusanto
    Of course the belt waited to break when you were on the road. They always do that.
    Get home safe.

  47. 47.

    Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937

    Someone gave me a subscription to Wired. That bronies article is why I let it expire. Awesome vid, ABL. A new WPA could help finance these people with too much time on their hands.

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    Lysana

    it’s safe to assume the spectrum between little girl toys and My Little Pony porn is filled in, which is where bronies would live.

    Bingo. It’s also, frankly, where most furries live, but the false reputation of “it’s all about fucking in fursuits” remains. Vanity Fair has a LOT to answer for. As do CSI and the people who think they bother to get any group right in that show. Including forensic experts.

    PS – ABL, that video made my day. They picked their ponies well for the Clan.

  51. 51.

    Cat Lady

    It’s also, frankly, where most furries live, but the false reputation of “it’s all about fucking in fursuits” remains.

    GR33N BALL00NZ.

  53. 53.

    Crza

    This is one of the better and more low-key MLP mashups out there. (Warning: it’s very not safe for work due to profanity that makes that Wu-Tang song sound like MC Hammer.)

  54. 54.

    Yutsano

    Get home safe.

    Mission accomplished. Now relaxing in air conditioning and waiting for my face skin to grow back from all the border collie kisses.

  56. 56.

    jeffreyw

    Phyllis–For this batch I used 1-1/4 cups of flour, 1/2 cup corn meal, 1/4 cup of corn flour (only because I ran out of corn meal), 1 cup of milk, 2 t of baking powder, 1/2 t of salt, 1 egg, 1/4 cup of bacon grease, a scant handful of chopped bell peppers, same of red onion, and crumble the bacon you fried to get the bacon grease. You can add 1/4 cup of sugar, some say that is sacrilege. I used Splenda, myself.
    I fried the bacon in my trusty 9″ cast iron skillet. While the skillet is still hot, pour in the batter atop the bacon grease leftovers. Pop the skillet into a preheated 400 degree oven for about 20 minutes or so-until the top browns to your satisfaction. Serve hot with butter.
    [edit to add:] also scant handful of corn kernels, I used frozen, creamed corn works great, too, use less liquid

  57. 57.

    Yutsano

    You can add 1/4 cup of sugar, some say that is sacrilege.

    I’ve done both, I’m somewhat agnostic for either way although there is a slight texture difference with the sugar. If you’re going to do anything but straight cornbread though you NEVER sweeten.

  58. 58.

    Anne Laurie

    I betray my nerdiness here but I HAVE watched this and thankfully it’s less Rainbow Brite and more Powerpuff Girls

    According to Wired, the show’s ‘rebooter’, Lauren Faust, got her start on Powerpuff Girls.

    Old friends decided to enliven a recent dinner party by revealing their going-off-to-Stanford son’s new “bronie” hobby. Since us old folk first met 30+ years ago as Tolkien fans — after Tolkien stopped being hippy-cool and long before Frodo returned to movie-cool — it made me a little sad to realize that eventually everybody does turn into the parts of our parents we most despised. (Also, if they should turn up mysteriously dead, I think the kid can plead justification :).)

  60. 60.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Yutsano

    A Texas friend turned me on to a heart-attack-inducing fillip to preparing cornbread. You prepare the batter according to your preferences, preheat the oven, and then you heat up a frying pain with a dollop of bacon grease in it. When the bacon grease is just short of the smoke point pour in the cornbread batter and then bake in the frying pan. You get cornbread with a wonderful light brown layer of crunchy crust on the bottom and sides.

    It’s heavenly and I really don’t mind having to take statins.

  61. 61.

    Yutsano

    @ Dennis:

    I am woefully lacking in cast-iron cookware right now, mostly because my tin kitchen already has so much stuff in it I am literally out of room for anything else. I’ve made it a priority that when I get a new residence the kitchen will be somewhat bigger than it is now. The other priority is a yard.

  62. 62.

    MikeJ

    Dennis SGMM @ 61: Is there another way to make cornbread? That’s the way my granny from Arkansas did it, and the only way I was ever taught. If that’s not how you’re doing it, you’re doing it wrong, with one caveat. It wasn’t a recipe for cornbread and I can’t remember what it was, but in it, Thomas Keller said, “if you don’t have any bacon grease on hand, you can always use duck fat.”

  63. 63.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Yutsano

    Hear ya’: there’s always some nifty that you must have. I bought my frying pan and a cast iron Dutch oven forty years ago when I decided to gypsy around the West coast in an old VW transporter. I seasoned them before I took off by cooking down salt pork. It’s amazing what you can cook on a two-burner Coleman stove with a modest kit.

    I managed to hold on to them through the years and I wouldn’t trade them for anything. With patience and proper seasoning cast iron is the original non-stick cookware.

  64. 64.

    Dennis SGMM

    @MikeJ
    Once I learned to make cornbread that way it became the only way.

    “if you don’t have any bacon grease on hand, you can always use duck fat.”

    Oh yeah, if it’s one thing ducks have it’s plenty of fat. One of the other things I brought along in my travels was a nice,cheap Mossberg five shot pump gun. Hunting licences were cheap and food was not so I did have some duck – in season. Thank goodness that someone whose name I can’t remember taught me to stuff them with wild rice. That took out a lot of the greasiness. OTOH, after my wanderjahrs I never took another duck.

  66. 66.

    karen marie

    @jeffreyw: “Green beans”? Really? Maybe it’s bad lighting, but those look like some pretty overcooked, mushy beans to me. Sorry. :(

  68. 68.

    Roger Moore

    @jeffreyw:

    I’ve had something very similar to that recipe, but they added chunks of cream cheese to the batter. That specific recipe is from Hell’s Backbone Grill, who call it “Marry Me Cornbread”, supposedly after the proposals they’ve gotten from people who tried it.

  69. 69.

    Joel

    This is even more well done than Barney singing “Hit ’em Up”.

    To be fair, that was done ten years ago, so the creator (ebaum?) didn’t have the advantages afforded to his modern counterparts.

  71. 71.

    Larkspur

    Open thread? Ooh, permit me to share this: the dogs I am currently staying with are both highly reactive to the kinda distant sound of fireworks. Barkity barkity bark bark bark. I’ve got them in the house, so they are not annoying the entire neighborhood. Then again, I think the entire neighborhood has at least one dog per household, so many of them are probably dealing with non-stop barking too. At least these dogs are just agitated and not frantic and distressed. I knew a dog who had to be sedated. I want to be sedated, but she had to be, on account of the drooling and shivering and potential chewing of her own paws. I don’t usually resort to that myself. Although I hafta say, what with this barking….

  72. 72.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

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    The George W. Bush/Barack Obama Torture Regime – Never Forget.

    (I repeat myself because you people have already forgotten. For obvious reasons.)
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  73. 73.

    Corner Stone

    Uncle Clarence Thomas,
    Some times your sagacity escapes a simple man like myself. Do you mean to suggest that President Obama’s fierce love of los estados unidos has driven him to continue policies began under GWB?
    And if so, isn’t that how it should be? Don’t we deserve to be fiercely protected?

  76. 76.

    Lysana

    a simple man like myself

    Hey, look who admits his simpleness. It fits. You can’t even admit there’s more than one way to spell a slang abbreviation.

    And that’s my moment of petty for the night.

  78. 78.

    Phyllis

    @Roger Moore: I’ll see your Hell’s Backbone Grill and raise you the Hominy Grill* in Charleston SC. Now there’s some cornbread to die for.

    *Y’all will just have to do teh google; can’t get the linky thing to work on this ole laptop. Trust me, it’s worth it.

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