Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Republicans don’t trust women.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

This really is a full service blog.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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  2. 2.

    David Hunt

    That comic would be even funnier if I wasn’t absolutely sure that it was going to come true.

  3. 3.

    gogol's wife

    Freaking out about the hurricane. Hoping the tuna fish lasts. Driving my poor husband crazy.

  4. 4.

    gogol's wife

    Oh, and the ad that just popped up for an insurance company showed a destroyed house. Thanks very much.

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    BGinCHI

    Rooftop beers at Gene’s Sausage Palace in Lincoln Square.

    Good luck to all in the path of that hurricane.

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    PurpleGirl

    Last of the preparations will be done tomorrow morning. Then I will hunker down and wait for the storm. If the power doesn’t go out (and it better not, what with the maintenance work they’ve been doing the last year replacing parts and upgrading components), I’ll be able to stay on on-line and/or read and do other stuff.

    ETA: I will try to minimize my power usage but at least I should still have power over the weekend.

    Or I will sleep a lot.

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    lamh32

    How weird is my family? My mom oldest of 10 kids…of the 10 their are 3 sets of twins…2 sets of the twins are born on the same day (TODAY) but years apart!

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    David in NY

    So far, in my 40 years in NYC, the hurricane hype has always exceeded the actual hurricane by a large margin. Now, in Irene’s case, the hype has exceeded all prior hype by a factor of at least two or three. So — is this the real thing? Beats me.

    Anyway, I hope my office window doesn’t break and get water all over the piles of old and new files. Oh well, I’ll take home the one I’m working on.

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    BGinCHI

    @David in NY: According to Pat Robertson’s God Makes Weather & Morality web site, it depends on how many gays and other kinds of fornicators you have there in NYC.

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    Yutsano

    Does doing a whole helluva lotta nothin’ count as weekend plans? Other than worrying about a Dawg who’s in the path of a hurricane.

  12. 12.

    Origuy

    Sixteen hours in a Wilderness First Aid class this weekend. No, if a rattler bites you on the ass, I’m not going to suck out the venom.

  13. 13.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

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    How dare those other Tar Sands Sit-In arrestees get their grift on without Jane Hamsher there to hog the cameras with her bony white ass? And that Bill McKibben – what right does he have to ask for donations at http://www.350.org/donate? Balloonbaggers are always right – grifters gonna grift.
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    Uncle Clarence Thomas

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    @BGinCHI:

    Amazing, Uncle. Irrelevant even in an open thread.

    Right, a certified dummy uttering your words makes it true… for a balloonbagger! Why not use the link I so thoughtfully provided to support 350.org, as I do? It would be a far better use of your meager resources than fighting a battle of wits that you cannot hope to win, or even place or show. Or is saving animal life on Earth simply irrelevant to you? I advise you to change your ways, Barth Gimble in Chicago. Change your ways…
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    Phylllis

    Looks like we might get just a touch of rain from the outermost bands here in Tinytown. Braves & Mets tonight, housework in the morning, then settling in with the newest David McCullough book, The Greater Journey. Here’s hoping Irene turns out to be mostly hype for those in her path.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    @BGinCHI:

    The God Makes Weather & Morality template explains why fundie churches often get leveled by tornadoes as well.

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    BGinCHI

    @Villago Delenda Est: Hate to say it, but I was perversely hoping Irene would take a swipe at SC.

    I have friends in Columbia, but they’re far enough inland. I guess it’s too much to ask that the disasters just hit the self-righteous assholes. That would make life boring I guess.

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    scav

    @BGinCHI: If God did explicable things consistently, would he still be God or would he be an overly intellectual and thus to be vehemently thrice-denied theory?

    Congrats on the beer but rooftop as on top of roof or just upstairs in Gene’s? A) if so, when did that appear and is the beer that good and B) is the Meyers stuff still available? I can’t think the last time I’ve been to Lincoln Square and I can’t think exactly why I stopped going.

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    kideni

    I’m just fretting about my stepbrother’s son who this week had a bad accident while vacationing out in Oregon (hit a sandbar while diving in the ocean) and is now in recovery and rehab. Surgery has helped him regain some movement in his upper body, but he may never recover any feeling below the waist. His parents have been out there with him, but they have to go back to work (in Chicago) next week, so he’ll be alone in rehab for a while, since he can’t fly on a commercial airline until he can lift himself in and out of a wheelchair. He’s 25, and next month he was going to start a job in his field after three years of un- and underemployment.

    Related to that, can any Portlanders weigh in on Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center? That’s where he is, and it looks like that’s a good place for him, but if anyone who’s more familiar with the area has info, I’d appreciate it just for peace of mind.

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    lamh32

    Welp, since Irene led to the postponement of the dedication ceremony of the MLK Memorial Sunday, I figured I’d share Maya Angelou’s poem with yous guys:

    Maya Angelou’s Abundant Hope

    The Martin Luther King Memorial was scheduled to be dedicated on August 28, exactly 48 years after Dr.King’s historic March on Washington. The event on the National Mall has been postponed because of Hurricane Irene, but many of the of the celebrations are going on as planned, including today’s Women Who Dare to Dream luncheon, which honored the women of the Civil Rights movement whose legacy of strength and dignity continues to inspire hope. Dr Maya Angelou shared this poem she had written for Sunday’s dedication at the luncheon, where guests also paid special tribute to Coretta Scott King.


    “Reverend Martin Luther King”
    © 2011 by Maya Angelou

    “The great soul
    Flew from the Creator
    Bearing manna of hope
    For his country
    Starving severely from an absence of compassion.

    Martin Luther King

    The Great Spirit,
    Came from the Creator
    Proffering a sparkling fountain of fair play
    To his country
    Parched and deformed by hate.

    The whole man came forth
    With a brain of gentle wisdom
    To persuade quiet
    Upon the loud misery of the mob.

    A whole man stood out
    With a mellifluous voice
    To bind the joints of cruelty.

    A whole man came
    In the midst of a murderous nightmare
    Surrounded by demons of war
    He dared to dream peace and serenity…”

    Check out the rest of the poem at the link.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    @kideni:

    Thinking good thoughts about your stepbrother’s son, kideni.

    I’m not familiar with PDX area hospitals, though, so someone closer will have to opine on them for you.

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    2liberal

    for me the definitive Steve Jobs book is “West of Eden” which ends before his triumphal return. Some of the Amazon reviews are comical now – saying that Job’s return to Apple would be a catastrophe (this was written in 1999)

    but with all the Jobs-Love around here: he was VERY tough on those around him in the Apple I phase. Tons of broken marriages and worn-out people.

    I found it to be a good read at the time. The author predicted the end of IBM due to the Y2K problem right at the end of the book.

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    Maude

    @kideni:
    If you can call him once a day that would help.
    I am so sorry about this. Tell him to work hard and he’ll get mobile on wheels.

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    PurpleGirl

    @kideni: Oh, that is terrible. I hope that he keeps improving.(What is his field, if I may ask? Maybe he’ll be able to progress to more independent living and work.)

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    BGinCHI

    @scav: It’s indeed the roof top. There is a nice space up there where they have beer on tap (4 or 5, German, some of them hard to find) and a grill where they do, what else, sausages. Small menu but good. Then picnic tables and umbrellas. It’s really nice. Only open Thur-Sat.

    Check it out.

    Always happy to meet up there.

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    kideni

    @Maude: That’s good advice. I’ll definitely call him, and I won’t be the only one: he has an enormous extended family (partly due to the number of divorces and remarriages in his grandparents’ generation) that’s pretty close-knit (and surprisingly cordial, given all the blending). It’s just that we’re all east of the Rockies.

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    kideni

    @PurpleGirl: It sounds like he’s improving day by day. He’s a graphic designer, which actually seems like a profession he actually could continue in with limited mobility.

  39. 39.

    Bruce S

    Fuck the GOP.

    This weekend? One of the grandsons overnight! Best fucking deal in the world. He and I spend a lot of time watching vintage “choo-choos” and funny cats on Youtube. Also – church picnic! I’ma bring my killer German potato salad! Pretty damned high on the “Richter Scale” too! (Although it’s probably not 100% kosher to put “killer” and “German” in the same sentence, despite the “potato salad” denouement.)

    Any more Qs MFs ? I’m a fucking liberal Democrat, totally devoid of “family values,” “basic decency,” etc. etc. etc. kiss my ass, in the eye of certain beholders – but I love this shit!

  40. 40.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    It’s sad how close to reality that cartoon is. I’ve got nothing scheduled for the weekend, except mr. Q and I have our usual Sat night dinner with our 88 year old next door neighbor, who likes to get out “on the town” now and again, so we probably go 3x a month, except in deep winter.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    Since it’s an open thread, I just want to say that yesterday would have been my mom’s 94th birthday and today would have been my dad’s 97th.

    And it was trying to figure out how he wanted to celebrate his 77th b’day, 20 years ago today, that he said he’d rather watch the Atlanta Braves game than go out to dinner. And I said I would watch with him if he would tell me something about baseball so I could follow along.

    Braves beat Expos 14-9. It was, let me reiterate, 1991.

    I’ve never looked back. Magic. Sheer magic. What a game.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh32:

    What an image. “a sparkling fountain of fair play / To his country / Parched and deformed by hate”

    Wow.

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