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Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

Bark louder, little dog.

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Let there be snark.

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Battle won, war still ongoing.

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A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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The other thing that is super nice about spring here is that there are so few bugs and the temperature is perfect, so I can leave the back door open all day. Tunch has responded by lounging on the back deck all evening:

Of all the animals, I think Tunch loves the fence the most. He was an indoor cat for nine years, now he has this great outdoors to explore. I love watching him saunter around the backyard, thinking he is all stealthy. He sort of moves like a regular stealthy cat, but it just comes off all wrong given his girth. Think Kirstie Alley on DWTS.

My parents are on vacation again down at Isle of Palms in South Carolina. They and some folks they have known for 40 years rented the house for 10 days, and have been down there relaxing, eating, and taking all the collective beasts to the dog parks. I tried to call mom to talk to her tonight, but they were all caught up in a very competitive game of Cranium. I’m betting that was lots of fun- a bunch of 70 year old nascent Alzheimer’s patients doing brain teasers. Two questions could probably provide enough entertainment for a week. I said that to my mother and she told me to go to hell.

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  2. 2.

    CaseyL

    I’m betting that was lots of fun- a bunch of 70 year old nascent Alzheimer’s patients doing brain teasers. Two questions could probably provide enough entertainment for a week. I said that to my mother and she told me to go to hell.

    Between this exchange and the one the other day with your sister, I think I could sell tickets to the next Cole Family Holiday.

    How’s your Dad doing?

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    @Corner Stone: The furminator and the regular brush. I just leave them on the porch in the spring they all shed so god damned much and I have to brush them every morning and night as they lose their winter coats.

  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Spring in Oregon: four inches of snow. With more promised overnight.

    Al Gore is fat, dammit.

  7. 7.

    Punchy

    Cant link (currently DWC….Driving While Commenting), but Yahoo up w/ article on Marine Gary Stein’s looming discharge for bashing Obama. He’s shocked…SHOCKED!….that his actions have consequences. He cant believe the Marines wont give him his 1st Amendy rights to bash his CoC while on duty. Dumbass.

  9. 9.

    Linda Featheringill

    All right, Smartypants. How do you know that those particular people have the early beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease? You a neurologist or something?

    And how do you know that the game they’re playing is worse for your mind than getting drunk and tweeting a bunch of shit?

    And what your mom said. Also, too.

  11. 11.

    debit

    Cole, you watched Dancing with the Stars?! Good god, man, don’t you know we’re at war?

    /sarcastic reference to comments in previous post.

    I have to get up early and am wiped out, so good night, gentle juicers.

  13. 13.

    Mnemosyne

    Tired and a little cranky. I had a sinus headache last night that was verging on a migraine, and it’s still not quite gone. We have an annual special project at work that’s always insane, and yet somehow I block out the pain every year and convince myself that this year it will be different.

    I may — or may not — finally buy a bike this weekend, and it will probably (though not with absolute certainty) be the Trek Cocoa. I still find it funny that I managed to convince WaterGirl to buy one but haven’t gotten around to buying one for myself.

  14. 14.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Punchy:

    Cant link (currently DWC….Driving While Commenting)

    Well at least you are not shaving. I actually saw a guy shaving just off the Capital Beltway on an evening commute on the way home.

  15. 15.

    Hill Dweller

    The twitter machine is telling me there are no state government officials greeting the President when he lands in Oklahoma tonight.

    Both sides!

  17. 17.

    J.W. Hamner

    I’m betting that was lots of fun- a bunch of 70 year old nascent Alzheimer’s patients doing brain teasers. Two questions could probably provide enough entertainment for a week. I said that to my mother and she told me to go to hell.

    I gasped like a Jerry Springer audience member when I read that, so I apparently feel like Alzheimer’s is Not. A. Joking. Matter. Who knew? I’m only 35.

    Got a study in the morning, so it’s off to bed for me.

  21. 21.

    schrodinger's cat

    Hubcat is in India. John, you inspired me, now I am doing my own West Wing Marathon. Half way through the first season already. I saw the series off and on when it was on and during reruns, but never from start to finish. I miss Washington DC. I used to live in MD suburbs of DC.

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    @Bnut: So I googled, and teh interwebs say, “Biscoff Spread is a sweet creamy spread made with Biscoff cookies (57%). ”

    WTF is the other 43%? And I’m seriously considering changing my nym to “57% cookie”.

  25. 25.

    DFS

    Isle of Palms is a hell of a nice place. You couldn’t make me go to Myrtle Beach again with a crowbar, but Isle of Palms is nice and calm, not half as bad with the tourist-trap shit, and you’ve got Charleston right next door. Good choice.

  26. 26.

    beltane

    @Hill Dweller: That’s alright, he’s coming to Vermont next week and just about every state official along with the friends and relatives (even ones they didn’t know they had) of every state official will be there to greet him.

    Bush never visited our state, not even once. He must be scared of Ben and/or Jerry.

  33. 33.

    Gin & Tonic

    @schrodinger’s cat: Well if he was shaving on the way home, it was to spruce up for a hot date. No other reason for a guy to shave after work, so I’d cut some slack.

    I hope it wasn’t with foam and a razor, though – that would be weird.

  37. 37.

    vhh

    Sorry, john, but Tunch is fatter than Al Gore. Someone is gonna call in Animal Welfare for this case of Feline Nutritional Abuse.

  39. 39.

    mainmati

    We have a cat that adopted us, as a tiny kitten, during the riots that attended the forced resignation of Suharto in Indonesia where we were living at the time. Our child named him Panda because he is black and white and like many Indonesian cats he has a truncated tail.

    Anyway, on these (no Winter/now late Spring) days (we live in Silver Spring, MD), he likes to hang out on the barbecue grill on the deck where he can safely survey all of his backyard domain, master eunuch of all the squirrels (doesn’t much like the foxes or even the occasional possums).

  41. 41.

    burnspbesq

    Just in time for next week’s oral argument in the Affordable Care Act cases, there has been a sudden and unexpected outbreak of common sense at the Supreme Court. In a 5-4 decision, the Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel in criminal cases applies to plea negotiations.

    Also, if you want a preview of what the majority opinion upholding the individual,mandate might look like, read this awesome post by Marty Lederman.

    http://balkin.blogspot.com/2012/03/understanding-affordable-care-act.html

  42. 42.

    eemom

    @burnspbesq:

    hey Burnsy! Didja read about my awesome face to face with Justice Kagan?

    [swoon]

    (well, ok, it was face to 150+ faces, but STILL)

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    Missed it, e. Was she awesome?

    Fat Tony is giving a speech at USC Law next month (desecrating my 30-year-reunion year). I think I can find a way to be insanely busy that day.

  46. 46.

    burnspbesq

    @General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero):

    Relax. If they reach the merits (and I don’t think they should; I’m convinced by the Anti-Injunction Act argument laid out in the concurring opinion in the D.C. circuit in the Seven-Sky case), it’s going to be 7-2 to uphold the law.

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    Desert Rat

    You know, if your carpet were just a few shades lighter, I’d think I was looking at a photograph of a beached whale.

  52. 52.

    Cain

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Spring in Oregon: four inches of snow. With more promised overnight.

    That is one fucked up shit I must tell you.. I don’t know how much snow is going to be on the ground tomorrow not too much. I live in an elevated area.

  53. 53.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @opie jeanne:

    Yeah, apparently even Portland is being spared all this Springtime Wonderland weather…southern end of the Willamette Valley, though, is just cool enough for fun fun fun!

    It’s supposed to be in the 50’s by the weekend though, although I expect the commute tomorrow morning to be treacherous.

  58. 58.

    acallidryas

    What sort of self-respecting cat stays insidea fence. My parent’s cat found an escape route and then showed it to the dog.

  60. 60.

    Andree-Anne Desmedt

    To all Tunch detractors,

    The kitty is IMPOSING as required by his position as the King of the Cole Household.

  61. 61.

    Triassic Sands

    Sorry, but when I saw that photo of Tunch all I could think was “Polar bear rug.” He’s a biggun.

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