Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

When they say they’re pro-life, they don’t mean yours.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

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  1. 1.

    JCT

    Wow, here I am about to tear out all of my hair at work, decide to read BJ over lunch and there is TUNCH.

    All better now.

  2. 2.

    donnah

    He looks so peaceful and sweet. Our big cat goes boneless when she’s relaxing. You can pick her up (maybe) and sling her over your shoulder like a big flannel blanket.

    Congrats on the WVU win, John.

  6. 6.

    schrodinger's cat

    Aww, so sweet! I want to squeeze him and snorgle him! Thanks John. He looks so squishable. Is he a lap kitteh?

  7. 7.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    I can see the Woolly Mammoth on the couch. Is the orange thing Tunch’s tail peeking out from underneath?

  11. 11.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    @Dork:

    The love-nest of a true Man-Man is composed entirely of unwashed Terrible Towels. This is known, khaleesi.

  12. 12.

    schrodinger's cat

    Fat bottomed kittehs make the world go round. I should know since I has one, she is orange tabbeh with Tunchesque dimensions.

  14. 14.

    lacp

    Isn’t it about time to start posting pictures of the trolls and let the pets into the comment threads?

  18. 18.

    Samara Morgan

    Be honest Cole….Tunch is just Behemoth with a bleach job.
    Another instantiation of Bulgakov’s Cat.

  21. 21.

    Punchy

    I think that cat could rape a Jack Russell on live TV and half the posters here would defend it.

  23. 23.

    Chyron HR

    If you look at the photo long enough, he’ll slowly fade away until all that remains is his badonkadonk.

  24. 24.

    jl

    thnx for Tunchpic.

    Cole really needs to explain how he takes these shots.

    I assume he has to buy time on the wide angle Hubble camera.

    What nebula is Tunch emerging from in this one?

    Looks like the Tunch has created some hot spots of star formation near his event horizon. Or, is that gravitational lensing?

  25. 25.

    Mary G

    We haven’t seen Rosie in a long time. Is she still refusing to come out from under the bed? Also, pictures of Lily are needed. She’s come so far from the little shivery doggie with her tail between her legs.

  37. 37.

    amk

    milbank on mittens today

    The grin he wore when he boarded remained throughout the flight — even when he entered and exited the lavatory.

  38. 38.

    jl

    @Emerald: Yes, looks like there are many more. This one is odd. I had decided that the cats were all some kind of doll, but watched to the end.


    http://youtu.be/DidfnH-xI8w

    If those are real cats, Tunch has competition for fat and lazy (er, I meant Rubenesque and relaxed)

  44. 44.

    Cris (without an H)

    @Baud: The sad part is, $450 billion in cuts to the Pentagon doesn’t mean we freed up $450 billion to spread out over other federal agencies. But I’m really pleased to see that somebody is willing to look at the elephant in the room when it comes to budget cuts, even if it’s going to be used against him later.

    (also, too: the military isn’t getting a cut, they’re just getting a smaller raise.)

    Over the next ten years, the growth in the defense budget will slow, but the fact of the matter is this—it will still grow, because we have global responsibilities that demand our leadership. In fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was toward the end of the Bush Administration.

  46. 46.

    The Moar You Know

    I think that cat could rape a Jack Russell on live TV and half the posters here would defend it.

    @Punchy: I would be impressed. Cats are terminally lazy.

    I have seen a rabbit try to mount a very unwilling three-legged cat on multiple occasions, however. Never laughed so hard in my life.

  48. 48.

    R-Jud

    @schrodinger’s cat: She’s huge and she’s grown into a clone of the other cat. If I have recent pictures, I can’t tell– they look that much alike. Doesn’t help that Mr Jud bought them matching collars.

    We need to spay her soon, so we’ve got to figure out which is which fairly quickly.

  49. 49.

    reality-based

    John, a totally OT, silly request – could you add Charles Pierce/Esquire Politics Blog to the Blog Roll? Since BJ first stop every morning, and the eloquent Mr. Pierce is always my second, it would save me – oh – two seconds worth of pointing and clicking.

    oh, and thanks for the Tunch porn. (Typed while I have 14 pounds of Fat Archie lying across my forearms – his favorite way of demanding attention while I am doing useless (to him) things like reading BJ. )

  50. 50.

    Svensker

    @Emerald:

    You haven’t met Shiro, Tunch’s long lost brother who lives on a farm in Japan.

    I love that kitty. I AM that kitty.

  51. 51.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    I am guessing that Tunch’s favorite movies are A Lazin’ In The Sun and Guess Who’s Coming To Be Dinner.

  53. 53.

    jl

    @Paul in KY: The cat that got up at the end doesn’t look drugged. Just looked like it decided to execute one of its two or maybe three daily macro scale motion related activities.

  54. 54.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Svensker: I am a big fan too. There was a photo of Shiro with a cabbage leaf on his head and dark sunglasses, he looked like Tunch in a witness protection program.

  55. 55.

    wobblybits

    Nice photo of Tunch. I currently am working on my dissertation proposal with a pup at each foot. The lil one (3 months old) we found under the car has been with us since Christmas.

  56. 56.

    geg6

    Personally, I’m more partial to doggy p0rn.

    I am just in a total snit here at work. This young admissions counselor who is in charge of adults and transfers has set up orientation today for those students. She set up 2 sessions (3pm and 5:30pm). She blocked my calendar from 2pm on, which would have led to my sitting and twiddling my thumbs for an hour during the second busiest time of year for me, and never gave me an agenda so I’d know the program actually started at 3. And then I found out that only one student is coming to the 3pm session and it’s a veteran to whom I’ve already talked about eight times in the last week. And there are only four more coming at 5:30.

    A whole fucking afternoon wasted on five students, none of whom are actually here yet.

  61. 61.

    geg6

    @Raven:

    Ah, thanks. And I usually love it. But this particular person really gets under my skin. I’ve been doing this job almost as long as she has been alive and she continually tries to tell me how I should be doing my job. Thankfully, her hubby just got the assistant coaching position for women’s basketball at Clarion University here in PA, which is about a 2 hour drive (he used to be our assistant AD). I don’t expect her to be here much longer.

  62. 62.

    Schlemizel

    I would give anything to just have one day where I could be as relaxed as my cats look.

  63. 63.

    Roger Moore

    @Punchy:

    I think that cat could rape a Jack Russell on live TV and half the posters here would defend it.

    I think that cat is too lazy to do the deed, so it’s a moot point. And I think some of the posters here would be willing to defend any cat who hurt a JRT, so I’m not sure if it says anything about Tunch in particular.

  64. 64.

    JGabriel

    This is the funniest thing I’ve read in days, Christians For A Moral America via DKos:

    Next time you’re enjoying a picnic in your local park or using the restroom for its intended purpose, keep your eyes peeled for homosexuals who may just be around the corner sodomizing each other.

    “Homosexuals sodomizing each other around the corner” is the new “Communists under the bed”.

    .

  66. 66.

    Emerald

    @Paul in KY: Nope. Shiro is not drugged.

    This guy in Japan has been posting vids of Shiro and his three other cats for years now. He balances various items on their heads–usually vegetables from the farm. The cats just take it until they move and the veggie falls off, or they just get up and walk away.

    Shiro is the star, and he does shakes the items off his head eventually. He’s just one mellow kitteh.

    And looks exactly like Tunch. (They are Turkish Van cats, I think.)

  67. 67.

    Culture of Truth

    Good cat.

    Speaking of lazing vs killing, it does seem that cats have evolved to be taken care of by their human servants.

  68. 68.

    Valdivia

    I have to add that seeing that picture again I discern the cat-fascinated-by-tail look. And the only thing that keeps him from attacking it is that he is too comfortable. One of my cats is endlessly mystified by his tail, I find it hilarious that every day he seems to discover it anew.

  69. 69.

    BO_Bill

    If there is one thing more calming than white people assisting struggling animals, it is white people over feeding them.

  70. 70.

    28 Percent

    via Pierce: NH Republicans introduce bill which would… well, let me just give you the in-their-own-words version:

    All members of the general court proposing bills and resolutions addressing individual rights or liberties shall include a direct quote from the Magna Carta which sets forth the article from which the individual right or liberty is derived

    Pierce’s response is of the this-is-why-we-love-Pierce variety. The original article offers some of the quotes lawmakers might like to choose from when meeting this charming requirement:

    No widow shall be compelled to marry, so long as she wishes to remain without a husband.”

    “We shall straightway return the son of Llewelin and all the Welsh hostages. . . . We shall act towards Alexander King of the Scots regarding the restoration of his sisters.”

    “If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age.”

    Apparently on that last one a Sir Richard Cordray was put in charge of enforcement. La plus ca change!

  73. 73.

    DanielX

    Once they reach a certain age, relaxing is what they all do best. I’ve noticed that they all have a certain instinct for locating warmth, whether it be natural or artificial. Example: three successive cats in my household have made it plain that the device commonly known as a ‘halogen desk lamp’ is in truth a personal cat sunlamp, and all right thinking humans had just better accept this and get with the program. As in, make room under the lamp or space will be cleared of pens, pencils, coffee cups….

  77. 77.

    greenergood

    @amk: watching people enter and exit the lavatory is stalking behaviour, and just gross – just sayin’

  80. 80.

    01010101

    Boo-coo salt, garlic, and ginger and Kung pao that puppy.

    B-J–sort of Digby…or unfogged…. for frat boys, tho’ with a few more sapphic touches (Miss Parsons aka big mama D. one of the most discreet dykes online).

  92. 92.

    Ben H.

    That’s not “relaxing”. That’s “inertia”. Or maybe “perfect peace”. That fat, lazy bastard doing nothing and enjoying it is so inspiring to me!

  93. 93.

    Mnemosyne

    @Baud:

    I can’t see any major reductions in our defense budget in the near future given how many obligations we have to soldiers who were seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. But I would always rather have defense money go towards better healthcare and benefits for personnel than towards moar better weapons.

  94. 94.

    2liberal

    @Mnemosyne:

    I can’t see any major reductions in our defense budget in the near future given how many obligations we have to soldiers who were seriously injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    if you think they are going to spend anything more than pocket change on medical and comp for these guys you dont understand the defense budget.

  95. 95.

    catclub

    @Mnemosyne: Well, of course there are NOT major reductions. The cuts described are relative to a rapidly (far higher than inflation) increasing expected budget for each succeeding year.

  100. 100.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    I’ve been doing this job almost as long as she has been alive and she continually tries to tell me how I should be doing my job

    Oh Lordy, can I ever identify with that! More than you know.

  102. 102.

    DanielX

    @WereBear: And all these years I’ve thought they were just following their natural tendency to slug-like behavior. NOW I find out it’s evolutionary adaptation.

  107. 107.

    The Tim Channel

    He wasn’t born to hunt and prey, he was born to laze.

    That’s what my wife used to think about our cute little dog Bandit (her little sleeping buddy). One day she’s out walking him and he spots a bird in a bush just within striking distance of his leash. My wife’s opinion of his gentle demeanor was destroyed by the National Geographic moment that occurred at the end of that dog leash.

    Enjoy.

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