Friday.
Max goes crazy when I use the Chuckit! to bounce a rubber ball halfway to low Earth orbit. He will normally let it bounce once to position himself, then jump as high as he can to catch it on the apex of the first bounce. This is about the only game he loves enough that he will give up the ball rather than play keep-away or ransom it for a treat.
Chat about whatever.
Wannabe Speechwriter
I found this academic paper from a couple of months back. It’s pretty dense, but apparently the US today is a more unequal society than Tsarist Russia was on the verge of the Revolution-
http://web.williams.edu/Economics/wp/Nafziger_Lindert_RussianInequality.pdf
Villago Delenda Est
OK, let’s try this again (from a few threads back)
Surprise! Eric Cantor is a cowardly shit!
gbear
I am sitting here at work wondering why daylight savings time doesn’t come to an end at about 3:00pm on the third friday of October. I’m dying here…
General Stuck
Max rules!!
Viva La MAX!!
passerby
Dogs are great. Just great.
And so is this capture of Max. Nice shot!
fasteddie9318
@Wannabe Speechwriter:
Winning!
slag
@Villago Delenda Est: House Republicans re-learned, after their foray into debating with Obama in 2009, that their particular method of intellectual inquiry is far too refined for the masses to handle.
Chat Noir
@Villago Delenda Est: Yeah, I saw that over at Wonkette.
Cantor is nothing more than an evil, vile piece of shit.
Villago Delenda Est
@gbear:
One word on why DST ends when it does:
Halloween.
More light for the kiddies to trick or treat in. Not much light, but some. The end of October is in the starting four month “dark times” period, without DST it would be dark around 6PM, especially with cloudy weather, makes for trick or treaters galvanting around in less than ideal visual conditions for drivers, etc.
Nancyboy
My Friday photo. Yum, donuts!
Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)
Changing the ‘nym up a little bit. I figure if I get put in moderation, do it on a throwaway post. Not that most of them don’t fit that bill already, but …
Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)
Yep. Awaiting moderation.
Villago Delenda Est
“Stay on target…”
Yevgraf
I’ve been mulling over some things today – I’m thinking that for conservatives, respecting the troops and fetishizing military service is only best displayed by recklessly throwing them into life threatening action, expecting them to ignore training and morality by having them act like Bill Calley on a particularly brutal PMS day, and shortchanging them on VA benefits whenever they return from long deployments.
My personal dream is a montage of American military fuckups and domestic policy disasters, all set to Greenwood’s “Ah’m Praoud to be ‘Murkin”. Can someone fulfill that for me?
RSA
Is there a physicist on BJ who can analyze the additional leverage provided by a Chuckit! to the human arm?
dmsilev
@RSA:
In theory I certainly could, but after the oh-so-amusing week I’ve had, I’m absolutely sure I’d muck up the calculation.
dyz
@Villago Delenda Est: Copy Red Leader.
Lovely photo of Max.
MikeJ
Name that tune still running at cleek’s.
Kira
I’m usually a lurker, but I thought I’d post here in hopes of getting some response — my roommates and I took in a litter of stray kittens this summer, and we’ve managed to find homes for all of them except one (we’re keeping one, but we already have cats and definitely can’t keep two.)
Anyone in NE Ohio here who wants, or knows someone who’d want, an energetic black shorthaired female cat, about 4.5 – 5mo old, petite and prone to leaping immense distances in a single bound in order to land in your lap and demand attention? She’ll need to be spayed, and she’ll probably be best as an exclusively indoor cat. Pic here; please contact me at my blog if you’re interested!
(It’s an open thread with a pet picture; I figure I can’t be TOO off-topic.)
bemused
@Villago Delenda Est:
I get emails from ThinkProgress and just read that Cantor’s office complained to the U about making the event open to the public when he only wanted to speak to a “select” audience. The U made a statement that the Wharton speaker was always typically open to the public and Cantor’s event was billed that way. Cantor is also a cowardly, lying shit.
JWL
A friendly heads-up: I’ve no way of knowing how tall you are, but it appears Max has grown proficient in The Throat Level Attack Maneuver (to which all dobermans aspire).
Flash forward: “I want to eat. NOW. And don’t give me any more of this “bad dog” crap. Those days are over”.
catclub
If the thrower is also the photographer, I am impressed.
Or maybe both the camera and the chuckit have been dropped repeatedly until the swap from chuckit to camera was mastered.
Amir Khalid
@Kira:
She’s a pretty girl. Looks just like my Bianca. Can’t help you myself because I live too far away (like, on the other side of the planet) but you know how much we loves our kittehs and puppehs around Balloon Juice. I’m sure someone will be more than eager to help.
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir Khalid:
Wait, wait, you have a black cat named Bianca?
It’s either a funny (and a great one!) or you skipped basic vocabulary classes in Romance languages.
freddie
My Dog, “Narra”/Vizsla, loves to catch on the second bounce. Its usually like 3-5 feet in the air, and she just sails, all legs back in aerodynamic mode.
Rescue dog, so some-one else gave her the skills. The Foster parents couldn’t understand why she loved tennis balls!?
“Chuck-It”, best thing ever for “fetch”!
harlana
WOW!
SiubhanDuinne
Tim F., I love that photo! The shadow kind of looks like an aboriginal painting of some strange elongated antipodean animal. Gorgeous shot.
trollhattan
This rates a hearty WTF?
http://www.redding.com/news/2011/oct/20/sheriffs-will-speak-to-farmers-activists/
What in Sam Hell flibbidy floo are elected county sheriffs doing holding rallies with teabaggers and cranky farmers?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@SiubhanDuinne: I think it’s hilarious. If I ever have a white kitteh*, I’ll name her Negra. Just to steal the concept!
Tim – fab photo of the handsome and elegant Maxpuppeh.
*Quite unlikely as Mr. Q is very allergic to kittehs and both our doggies are too, uh, energetic in their interactions for the health of the kittehs.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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Fortunately, there are many here among you who feel that life is but a joke.
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kdaug
@Villago Delenda Est:
“Spool up the FTLs…”
piratedan
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: well that certainly qualifies as an apt categorization of most of your posts
WereBear (itouch)
I’m tucked up in bed fighting a sore throat so I’m on my touch and don’t have a link but I wanted to say that the local shelter should be able to put the darling little black kitty on Petfinder for you.
Especially with such a vivid writeup as you’ve given us here. Good luck!
RSA
@dmsilev:
I’d definitely screw up the math. :-)
Kira
Amir Khalid, WereBear, thank you! I may try seeing if the local shelter or our vet can help us put something on PetFinder; this’s the first time I’ve taken in cats I can’t keep long term, so I don’t know the tricks yet. :)
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
It was deliberate. Although I did have to explain to some people that it wasn’t in honor of Mick Jagger’s ex-wife.
Mnemosyne
@Kira:
If you can afford it, you may want to get her spayed yourself — it’ll be easier to get her adopted out and you won’t have to worry that the new owners will forget later. Most cities have low-cost spay and neuter programs available, or your current vet might be willing to cut you a break.
Speaking of which, your vet’s office probably maintains an adoption book, so you may be able to get her entered in there, too.
chrome agnomen
@Villago Delenda Est:
no reason to hide this shocking news! let it go forth throughout the land in every single thread!