Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

This fight is for everything.

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

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

T R E 4 5 O N

White supremacy is terrorism.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

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  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    Let me translate:

    Lily: “Wait, do I smell corned beef?”

    holyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshit

  9. 9.

    Steve T.

    Your love for Lily is wonderful, but breaks my heart a little. I lost my own beloved one to cancer about two weeks ago. Give Lily a hug for Bluebell.

  10. 10.

    Steeplejack

    “Why you gotta uncover me like that? Wasn’t hurtin’ nuthin’.”

    ETA: [Muttered] “Asshole.”

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    Lily: [Blink, blink, blink] “So, that happened.”

    Nothing ruffles that dog. Mine would have been in an adjacent county.

  14. 14.

    Martin

    @trollhattan: Mine is but a pathetic shadow of the great beast from where he’s bred and couldn’t get up on a bed to save his life. He expects a queen’s servants to lift him over anything larger than a shoe.

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    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    to make it a viral sensation, lily needs to have her paws on an android or iphone.

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    R-Jud

    @Marcellus Shale, Public Dick: An iPad, updating her Pinterest board.

    That is a cute dog. I sort of fell in love with the greyhound our next-door neighbor’s fostering last week. She was very meek and shy but eventually had a sniff of the Bean, who looooooooves dogs, and began to wag like crazy. Talk me down, guys.

  17. 17.

    Steeplejack

    @R-Jud:

    Talk me down, guys.

    Not me. Greyhounds are great dogs, and for some reason they all seem to be good with kids. My brother has had at least one greyhound for the last 10-15 years–all rescues–and there hasn’t been a clunker in the bunch. I think they’re all so grateful to be off the track that the minor vicissitudes of everyday household life don’t faze them at all.

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    SarahT

    OT, and yes, it’s already Ash Weds. here on the East Coast, but happy Mardi Gras to all animals and humans everywhere. But not republicans. Seriously – fuck those fucking shit sacks : I said animals and humans, not pond scum.

  22. 22.

    Chuck Butcher

    Fortunately, Gus never developed a “bed thing.” Even with the king that would’ve been real crowded with him at 150 pounds of a lot of long white hair.

  23. 23.

    Anne Laurie

    @R-Jud: The one drawback to greyhounds is that some — not all — have an overreactive “prey drive” which can lead to problems with the household’s cats or other small animals. Sighthounds are insanely fast reactors, and you will not be swift enough to deter a greyhound with a “kill the bunny” issue. They’re not stalkers, but for some dogs, the impulse that sends them coursing madly after a mechanical rabbit on the track can briefly override their house-manners when something furry darts past them. Sensible rescuers are well aware of this, and a prudent question or two, letting them know you’ve got a young cat already, should not be overlooked.

    I can fully appreciate the temptation, though — all the rescue greyhounds I’ve met have been charmers, and in the fantasy world where I’m not old & lazy & out of shape, I raise long-coated whippets in my rambling but-all-mod-cons-included mansion.

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    R-Jud

    @Anne Laurie: Thank you for this very thorough advice. Mr Jud told me a story that backs this up: he was about ten, walking Mac, the family’s teeny tiny terrier in the park, when a greyhound zipped past him and carried Mac off. He was eventually able to catch up to the thing and retrieve Mac, but Mac hated all greyhounds from that day forward.

    The main sticking point is the elder cat, Quinn. She’s already unhappy about Tully; I think adding a greyhound to the household would just make her worry herself to death.

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    Schlemizel

    @Steve T.:
    Sorry to hear that, hope the memories of the good time carry you through. I know there are no replacements for bluebell but, when the time is right you’ll find a different one that will steal your heart and reduce the loss.

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    Schlemizel

    @Anne Laurie:
    Through a weird series of events I ended up literally rescuing an Afghan Hound and she was a delight to be with. They are much more cat like in many ways. One of them is they see movement & they NEED to give chase.

    You sure are right about their quickness. Sight hounds can turn on a dime, run like the wind and close 10 yards before you even realize they have started off.

    I miss that girl she was a delight.

  31. 31.

    gelfling545

    Snarla D. Dog insists on sleeping under the blanket. Lately she is demanding a pillow, too. When Mewtant the Prodigiously Poly-dactyl leaps on the bed and the blankets, apparently, start growling at him hilarity (and mayhem) ensues.

  32. 32.

    gogol's wife

    My cat Sasha does this all the time. I love to reach in under the comforter and pet her. It kind of freaks her out, but doesn’t disturb her rest.

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    TaMara

    @R-Jud: Can’t do it. I had a greyhound. Wonderful dog. They are much like cats in many ways. Most greyhounds are fostered first and they determine who can handle cats and who sees cats as prey. I never had any issues with my cats, he loved them. Not so thrilled with the Chinchilla – but that’s a longer story.

    There are two buts. One is, see a rabbit, chase a rabbit, you can’t call them back from that. So leash is good idea, though I would let mine run the fields near our house on occasion. Second is, they are like cats. Don’t expect them to fetch, they’re couch potatoes and big lovers.

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    Barbara

    My little dog is a miniature pinscher and she loves to burrow like this too. It’s too cute. Sorry about Bluebell — it’s so hard to lose an animal friend.

  37. 37.

    Felinious Wench

    She always looks like a little ballerina.

    My cat gets under the covers like that when lots of people are at the house. Invariably, someone ends up in our bedroom to have a conversation. I have to warn them not to sit on the lump.

  38. 38.

    CaseyL

    Steve T: Condolences.

    Cole – Many years ago my then-elderly Siamese, Shayna, used to love burrowing under the covers of the waterbed. The warmth and softness were sweet to her arthritic old self. After nearly sitting on her a few times (she was small, too, so it wasn’t obvious she was under there) I, too, got into the habit of lifting up the blankets before sitting on or getting into bed.

    For weeks after she died, the habit persisted: I’d lift the covers out of habit, without really thinking, catch myself doing it – and then cry some more.

    I don’t think Lily looks angry. I think she looks half-asleep, wondering where her “cave” went… before giving you that melting look of love.

  39. 39.

    ADS

    I used to work (live, actually) in a small, private, no-kill cat shelter. We had a giant – almost 30 pounds – white cat, Kathy. She was expert on burrowing into puffy spaces under a blanket so you couldn’t see she was there. Maybe a dozen times, people were convinced Kathy had escaped, only to lift up a blanket and see a massive white cat there.

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    Mnemosyne

    Our late kitty Natasha loved to burrow under the covers, especially when people came by and she wanted to hide from them. She once startled one of our cleaning people, who didn’t expect a cat to be there when he flipped the covers off the bed to change the sheets.

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    Deb T

    Whenever I get up from bed, my young cat, Atticus, stretches across the place where I was sitting or lying. When I come back, he doesn’t move. In fact he makes himself even more comfortable. I’ve learned to be careful moving him. He loved to curl up around my hand to bite & scratch (the bites are play bites, but the scratches — woo hoo).
    Some times the dog beats him to the warm spot. She always looks so guilty when I return. Not entitled like Atticus (misnamed – should have been Diablo or Attila — I have to settle for Bratticus now). All I have to do with Missy, the dog I inherited when Mom passed, is give her a cross look.

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    PurpleGirl

    @Anne Laurie: I didn’t see this happen but when my friends got their first retired racer, they brought her home and she was hanging out in the living room when she saw the cat… the living was a long, narrow room open to a dining area and kitchen in an open floor plan. The dog starts running to the cat, who racers to the three-stairs to the bedroom level. The cat has the light bulb flash on in his head [I’m a cat, I have claws], he drops down on the top step, turns around and swopes his front paw at the dog, hitting her nose. The dog is stunned, moves backward and starts rubbing her noise and backs away into the living room.

    Thereby, a kind of balance of power is established. As each new racer enters the household (to a total of four), somehow they learn about the incident and the detente. However, every so often the cat returns to the top step and just sits there. The racers stand in the hallway, milling around, wanting to get up the stairs to get to the bedroom, but the cat is just staring at them.

  45. 45.

    Billy Beane

    Maybe you should stick to be being wrong about Libya, Drones, Economics, and just politics in general.

    WGAF about your stupid dog!

  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    @Billy Beane: who gives a fuck about lily? thousands of people, maybe more. who gives a fuck about you? not me, certainly not cole. i hope your mom is proud of the ass she raised.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    I love Lily’s adoring look. My girl kitty has just started burrowing in the last couple of weeks, and I find it really endearing.

  52. 52.

    Billy Beane

    @Gus: Yea thanks Gus. Remember that people. Also, look both ways before you cross the street…mkay!

    Such appropriate advice from a blog site run by someone who is the poster child for being clueless about the blindingly obvious.

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