Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

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

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

I really should read my own blog.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Everybody saw this coming.

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  5. 5.

    lamh35

    Um yeah, so I’m watching “Street Fighter” the movie from the ’90s with Jean Claude Van Damme. Now all I need is a “Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat” video game. Who can I talk to that make that happen Nintendo, Sony or X-Box!

    Man I used to love Van Damme back in the day, the man’s kick splits were a thing of beauty in his heydey.

  7. 7.

    lamh35

    BTW, That is one beautiful dog and your photos are fantastic.

    I’m in the market for a new personal camera. Since you seem to be the resident photo-hog do you have a suggestion for a good digital camera for a relative novice?

  9. 9.

    passerby

    That photo of Max, just stunning. He looks…dignified…or sophisticated some how.

    The burnt orange eyebrows suggest he may well be from another planet altogether.

  11. 11.

    Jebediah

    Oh, that face! With that grass sticking out of his mouth, he looks dignified and silly and serious all at once – a feat I have seen him pull off many times in the photos you’ve posted.
    A picture of that pup makes any day better.

  13. 13.

    Xenos

    I find it difficult to believe he is not actually a cartoon dog — that is how adorable Max is. What an amazing example of Gould’s Micky Mouse theory of neotany, to breed such a babe from doberman pinschers!

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    Except for my manager, I am literally the only one at my office right now. It is way too fucking quiet. Someone set off a bomb or something. Seriously.

  15. 15.

    Jebediah

    @Yutsano:
    I would love to oblige, but I am also at work and I don’t think I can reach your office from here. Maybe a firecracker under the manager’s chair would liven things up?

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    CaseyL

    “Who’s the handsomeness? Who’s the good-lookin guy? YOU ARE! YES YOU ARE!”

    I so so SO love that you left his ears (and tail,IIRC) natural. That changes the entire dobie “look.”

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    Sometimes I get wistful at the thought that we probably will never have children. And then I do things like I did today where I accidentally locked one of the cats in the closet and went to work, leaving her in there all. day. long., and I realize it’s probably for the best.

  19. 19.

    Jebediah

    @CaseyL:

    I so so SO love that you left his ears (and tail,IIRC) natural. That changes the entire dobie “look.”

    Yes! We have a large-ish (90 lbs.) American Staffordshire (AKA American Pit Bull Terrier) and his ears are natural and it softens his look considerably – it better matches his personality. If a stranger just looks at him, Otto is as likely as not to sidle over and lean his shoulder against their knees to get some petting. (and if that works, his next move is to flop onto his back to get belly rubs.)
    It’s one of the things I hate about cropping ears – it can make very sweet dogs look intimidating, which I think perpetuates stereotypes about some breeds.

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    debbie

    Oh, that face! With that grass sticking out of his mouth, he looks dignified and silly and serious all at once

    The photo looks like some doggy version of “American Gothic.”

  21. 21.

    Joseph Nobles

    @debbie: Oh, I can’t say that about “American Gothic.” Once I heard that the woman in the picture is meant to be the man’s daughter, and noticed the out-turned prongs of the pitchfork, and then saw the curtained upstairs window completing the triangle, I always see the Gothic in that painting. YMMV.

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    Karounie

    The grass blade made me think of Tom Sawyer. Did he get you to do the doggy equivalent of whitewashing any fences that day? (Probably involves throwing and fetching something.)

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