Here’s an open thread for everyone who went to bed early and simply can not fall asleep.
I feel you. I’d like a hockey-puck sized valium right about now.
Amazing album.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.
An almost top 10,000 blog!
When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.
One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.
Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.
Republicans in disarray!
I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.
It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.
“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.
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patroclus
Are you ready for some treason?! Monday Night Party! All my traitor friends are coming out tonight!
Fordpowers
Can’t sleep b4 1am ever.
Yutsano
Try having a kitten in heat. Then get back to me.
slag
Nature kids, but they don’t have no function.
licensed to kill time
is your mind on the blink?
i wonder if you should get up and fix yourself a drink.
Royston Vasey
Working on NZ time? It’s 6.43pm here!
Anne Laurie
via Kristine:
… maybe it’s how much the puppy-puppet reminds me of our puppy-mill rescue Sydney aka Clown Dog…
suzanne
I just read through the Chris Christie is fat threads and I’m seriously sickened. God.
Liberals, my ass.
licensed to kill time
oh, and who’s Insomina and why does she get her own category?
wilfred
Oh, the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round.
Boehner liked it.
Darkrose
I hurt my back last night, and the doctor gave me the best drugs ever: some kind of muscle relaxant that knocked me out for a full 8 hours. Of course, my sleep schedule is now fucked to hell, but right now, I feel great!
eemom
@suzanne:
well, ain’t that convenient.
Showing up just in time to sigh, shake our head, wag our finger, and clutch our tummy in SICKNESS at those faux-liberals.
Any chance you might take on the actual issues raised about Christie’s physical capacity to serve as President? The parallels to the McCain candidacy? The science of morbid obesity?
Nope. Thought not. You’re just a pure angel of righteousness, aren’t you?
JenJen
Gawd I love Smashing Pumpkins.
licensed to kill time
just went out on my porch to see a golden half-moon slipping through a crack in the sky and slowly fall into the ocean while ethereal phosphorescent waves roll in like blue flames, then wink out. fucking magical.
Exurban Mom
So. Fucking. Tired. Not enough hours in the day to get shit done. Can’t sleep either, wheels in my head won’t stop. This semester is kicking my ass. December can’t get here soon enough.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Whose fault is that? Uh huh.
Sleep. I could get summa dat if I wanted. I just don’t want.
Yutsano
@JenJen: Not for nothing, but the Bengals play the Seahacks on my anniversary spin. We may have to massive smack talk. If my fam doesn’t keep me too busy. :)
@asiangrrlMN: I’m there already. I just am overclothed for no good reason.
suzanne
@eemom:
I am not qualified to make any statement about Christie’s physical capacity to be the President, as I’m not his doctor, or a doctor at all. Nor am I qualified to say anything about the science of morbid obesity. But that isn’t the point.
Christie isn’t fit to be president for a whole lot of reasons (and, amazingly, because everyone wants to talk about his “grotesque fatness”, those reasons have been largely ignored), but I don’t need to slander his appearance in order to express my discontent. The fact that you do speaks volumes about your intellect and your character.
suzanne
@Exurban Mom: What are you studying?
I can’t fuckin’ sleep. I’m going to be a mess tomorrow. GOD.
Short Bus Bully
Night owls FTMFW.
Gentle reader
Second week of insomnia.
Which is bad enough but when coupled with the fact that there is a poorly sleeping infant in the house, it’s just
INSANE.
Drugs and other sleep aides are out because breastfeeding.
Amir Khalid
@Yutsano:
You poor guy. You are about to discover, if you haven’t already, exactly how many tomcats are in the neighborhood. Just how persistent they can be when they’re after puss — er, a female. And then you will get your little girl spayed ASAP.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@asiangrrlMN: Sleep. Just don’t want. I’m with ya there. Except for that stretch between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM which I am Not Allowed To Have.
Morning’s gonna be hell, but there you go.
BSoSR +4
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: Amazingly enough, she hasn’t attracted a single one so far. I keep her sequestered from the universe as much as possible and all the other cats on my floor are fixed. And no random yelping from out the window either.
She is getting fixed. Next week if not sooner.
Lockewasright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1t4dtL86tE
More from my collection.
Lockewasright
http://youtu.be/6tuQ2VmQQGw
Here’s another.
Alright damn it, what is the trick to get a video to embed?
No one of importance
@Lockewasright:
You can’t imbed video or images into WP comments without plugins. Imagine how much crap we’d have to scroll through if images wars broke out – which they would.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Which means you are deep in la-la land by this time.
@Amir Khalid: Don’t coddle him. This isn’t the first time. ::Glares at Yusty, then softens at will get her spayed next week comment::
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Yeah. Wot you said. But, I gotta at least try, I guess. Or something.
WereBear
Pediatric neutering.
There’s no point in waiting around to have kitties “fixed.” I’ve been trying to re-train vets in my little corner of the world for ten years now. If they are over two pounds, they are ready! Science says so.
piratedan
wish I could get a gig as a pundit…. you never have to be right, you can make predictions about everything and people never hold you accountable for accuracy. Great work if you can get it I suppose.
J. Michael Neal
@asiangrrlMN: Fortunately Harry came already snipped.
He’s growing like a weed.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
I just spent a week in LA and my sleep is WORSE than usual and that’s lousy!
JPL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Did the dogs survive while you were gone?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JPL: We’re so silly. We worry like mad even though we pay a very dependable kid to feed and play with them twice a day. On top of that people come by and play with them. I know from working at home that all they do is sleep but I guess we are just nervous parents. It’s actually worse when we are getting ready to leave because they kn ow what a suitcase is and they pay us like violins.
dr. luba
I’m up and at work already, but falling asleep was hard, what with wasp bites on my hands (a bunch of yellow jackets attacked me while I was garening–who knew they’d built a nest under a dead black currant bush?). Those things really hurt when you’re not distracted by other activities. Luckily, I’ve got some Vicodin around from banging up my knees badly two weeks ago (still can’t kneel on the right one without exquisite pain). Oddly, I never get high from it, don’t particularly enjoy it, but it does help me sleep.
I don’t like where this autumn is heading, injury-wise.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Sleep? What’s that? I heard something about it once but it was just a rumor. Those of us who work our asses off to make ends meet have no time for such things.
Up all night doing an emergency laptop repair for a customer who has lots of money and few brains. They love BitTorrenting and I love it when people who are computer illiterate do such things. Needless to say he borked his networking by loading up on ‘goodies’ that he wasn’t aware were packaged in his downloads.
Stupid people are excellent income sources for enterprising individuals like me. :)
dr. luba
@suzanne: IIRC, there was a lot of discussion back in ’08 about McCain’s fitness to be president, medically speaking, particularly as he had Palin as a running mate. Not all of those discussing his health were his doctor, or even doctors at all. It is a reasonable thing to consider in a political candidate.
But is should not be the only issue. Like, say, McCain’s absolute lack of judgement in choosing Palin as his running mate.
(Disclaimer–I have not read the thread you speak of. I don’t approve of fat people being picked on, being one myself. Obesity is not a personal responsibility issue, or a moral one. It is a medical one, and should be approached from that angle only.)
R-Jud
Cole, may I recommend blood thinners? 10.5 mg Warfarin + half a glass of red wine = dead to the world for nine hours.
@dr. luba:
Way ahead of you.
clinched person a/k/a harlana
i’m no more sorry Christie is being ridiculed for his physical appearance than when we used to laugh at Bush for looking like a dazed chimp, because he did.
JPL
@dr. luba: July 4th I disturbed a nest and managed to escape with only ten or so stings. I stripped outside and promptly jumped into a cold shower. A few days later the itching started..ugh.. I didn’t have pain killers but benadryl helped. Good luck.
clinched person a/k/a harlana
it’s kinda like if, given my dx, i was offended by people calling the likes of Bachmann and Palin crazy! or anyone who refers to people as bipolar and crazy, which happens all the time. is being mentally ill painful? yes. does anybody care? no, most people think you can control it but you’re too lazy or stupid or both to get over it. i could be real hurt about that, it is a disability after all, but i have bigger fish to fry.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@dr. luba:
I would have to respectfully disagree with you that all obesity is medically related.
I have some neighbors who are a perfect example of people that have decided that fast food is a daily necessity. So necessary that in the three months they have lived in our neighborhood they have never used their stove or oven to make their own food.
Two of their three kids are obese and the third is on his way there.
Obesity is caused by various factors, some medical, some personal choice and some by financial circumstances. That our food industry is always looking for ways to cut costs by turning substances that we normally wouldn’t eat into something they can profit from at the expense of the consumer. Blaming obesity on one thing, such as medical issues, allows people who are fat by choice to reason away their behavior.
What can I do? It’s a medical problem!
No, that’s an excuse if it’s not a medical problem.
debit
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
My god, who can afford to eat like that?
Samara Morgan
@Cole
i play WoW when i cant sleep.
nothing like painting my face with hordie blood on Tol Barad.
so soothing.
you’d think i’d be horde right?
you might think that, but you’d be wrong.
Odie Hugh Manatee
The hubby’s parents are very rich and they cover what they can’t afford. You should see their garbage can every Sunday. It’s stuffed, overflowing with fast food waste (pizza boxes, styrofoam containers from the local Chinese eatery, McDonalds/Burger King/Taco Bell/KFC wrappers and such).
It’s fast, convenient and whatever they can’t cover the parents will. They are nice people but they are not making good choices in their diet.
And their parents aren’t helping matters. One other note: his parents are ‘very large’ too. I don’t know their diet habits but if their son is an example…
clinched person a/k/a harlana
i would say i was a minority, but i don’t really believe i am because i have seen so many people who needed treatment, in denial, continue to wreck the lives of others, including me, and including loved ones. i want to shake the ones who have resources to get help but don’t or are noncompliant by choice alone. but they’re everywhere and they don’t give a shit who they hurt. those are the people i want to give a good shaking.
Kewalo
I’m another one that woke up out of a good sleep feeling pretty good and it was 2am. Lucky for me Prime Suspect was on PBS and I hadn’t seen it so that kept me occupied for over an hour. But still wide awake so I decided to see what was going on here.
BTW if you aren’t watching the new doc on Prohibition you are missing a great show. The first segment is the history of how they finally got the amendment passed. It sure seems to me that they used the same tactics that we are now seeing in DC. Anybody else see it?