Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

“But what about the lurkers?”

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

In my day, never was longer.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

This blog will pay for itself.

So many bastards, so little time.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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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.

  23. 23.

    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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