Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

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

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Let there be snark.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

No one could have predicted…

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

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  3. 3.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Don’t bring back recent comments. Nothing could be a bigger waste of time with the current community.

  4. 4.

    John Cole

    The recent comments column is gone forever. We discovered that it was the cause of a serious decline in server performance and really slowed down the loading of the page. I am not sure why, but it just killed load times, so we yanked it for good. Sorry.

  6. 6.

    aimai

    I’m roasting tiny new potatoes with an indian spice mixture I made a few days ago and a whole lot of dried coconut. Its my pot luck offering for the ungrateful wretches in my daughter’s middle school play production of Sadako and the 1000 cranes. Great performance but I’m ready to be done with it.

    aimai

  7. 7.

    David Koch

    Big front page story in today’s NYT on the pervasive use of solitary confinement in the California prison system.

    But shockingly Cole and the greater righteous blogosphere are silent, even though this torture is being practiced on a large scale in the largest state in the country.

    Hooooooocoooooooonode!

    If only Bradley Manning was in a Pelican Bay hole, maybe the rest of the victims could receive some incidental, collateral attention.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    @Corner Stone:
    And in addition to bringing back the Recent Comments list, how about putting the newest post at the top of the Recent Posts list? Pretty please?
    __
    I saw Die Hungerspielen today. Liked it. Recommend it. Getting the books.

  11. 11.

    John Cole

    @David Koch: Doing a Rich Lowry impression?

    A.) I haven’t read the piece yet, so I have no reaction whatsoever.

    B.) We’re talking about convicts, and not the accused, right?

    C.) I’m still against solitary as a form of primary incarceration.

    D.) Blow it out your ass.

  13. 13.

    KyCole

    Avoiding the Cards vs. Cats game by staying home with my Netflix. Also might furminate and wash the dogs. Went to the zoo with the grandkids this a.m. This is my exciting life.

  14. 14.

    Corner Stone

    @John Cole: That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I’m a lawyer defending a major record company, and I’m talkin’ about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense!

  15. 15.

    John Cole

    @Amir Khalid: You know why the top post is not at the top of the “recent posts?”

    BECAUSE YOU ARE STARING AT IT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE RECENT POSTS. IT’S RIGHT FUCKING THERE IN YOUR FACE. YOU CAN NOT POSSIBLY MISS IT IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE RECENT POSTS BOX. IT’S THE FUCKING MASSIVE POST RIGHT TO THE LEFT OF THE RECENT POSTS BOX.

    Jesus.

  16. 16.

    urlhix

    Toad in the hole made with amazing lamb sausage and a cucumber/parsley/green onion/feta side salad here. Oh yeah.

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Nothing could be a bigger waste of time with the current community.

    Sadly, this is probably accurate.

    But god dammit, that was the only item I gave a shit about on this shitty fucking blog.

  18. 18.

    Cassidy

    Gonna watch the Three Musketeers and Shark Night, Pam fry some hamburgers, and maybe taste a bottle or two of muscato.

  19. 19.

    slag

    @John Cole: Calm down, Francis. If you click into previous posts, this post is still not at the top of the Recent Posts column. Probably some sort of delay in getting posts there.

    ETA Nope. It looks like it’s not a delay. Amir is right.

  20. 20.

    David Koch

    @John Cole: I understand a big front page story on torture in an obscure publication like the New York Times is easy to miss.

    I’m sure if NYT had a big front page story on Manning in solitary confinment, 99.99999% of the blogopshere would have missed it as well.

    Plus, it’s hard for you to think, unless someone tells you what to think.

    carry on…..

  22. 22.

    JPL

    @John Cole: A little touchy today? I made this and it was okay but a little off..link
    Since I have tons of leftovers, I am going to doctor it up with hot sauce and chicken broth.

  24. 24.

    JPL

    @David Koch: How about a link? I didn’t see it on the front web page and although I can use the search button, it’s just nice to include a link with a rant.

  25. 25.

    hildebrand

    Supper this evening at the Hildebrand household – a grillable evening:

    Ratones
    Wiener sausage (German)
    Hand-ground hamburgers
    Bratwurst
    Assorted veg
    Mushrooms

  26. 26.

    marcopolo

    Attending a 50th Bday party tonight. Getting towards halfway through this year full of them. As I skipped kindergarden and am one of the youngest of the cohort mine won’t roll around till November. The interesting thing has been seeing who wants to celebrate 50 and who does not. Five years ago I would have said, “Hell,no!” Now I am all “Hell, yeah!.” Go figure.

  27. 27.

    Raven

    I’m so jacked about the hoop that I screwed up the marinated chicken breasts on the grill. The black beans and rice were good though.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    By the by. Had one of the 2 greatest steaks I’ve ever had in my life at Chicago Chophouse this last week.
    Dry aged bone in ribeye cooked rare. Just amazing.
    Tonight I’m doing my home version of bone in ribeye with some fresh corn on the cob. With Texas Martinis on the side.

  30. 30.

    Martin

    @John Cole: Um, it’s not there even if you’re 11 posts down. So while Yutsy and I are yammering a few posts back, we don’t know that a new post has gone up or what it’s about. This is particularly embarrassing when the new post is a followon to the one we’re in and the conversation has moved on without us and we can’t tell.

    You always know where the blog is going, because it’s your blog. We can’t tell – that’s why you have navigation and stuff – to help us.

  32. 32.

    Amir Khalid

    @John Cole:

    ECAUSE YOU ARE STARING AT IT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE RECENT POSTS.

    Not necessarily. If I’m a newbie here or an infrequent lurker, and I’m paging through the comment threads, I might not know that there is in fact a post more recent than the one at the top of that list. Sorry if I’m being obtuse, but the top post was in the list before the rebuild. Taking it out was a change that, for me at any rate, took a bit of adjusting to.

  34. 34.

    David Koch

    @John Cole:

    B.) We’re talking about convicts, and not the accused, right?

    Translation: Manning is so cute with his blonde locks and homecoming queen smile, why should I give a shit about hairy Mexicans and inked up skin heads (although some of the negros are compellingly ripped in a dark Mandingo fantasy way)?

  35. 35.

    Narcissus

    Not knowing what you want for dinner isn’t a hot mess. A hot mess is waking up in a bus-shelter wearing somebody else’s underpants.

  37. 37.

    Corner Stone

    @Narcissus:

    A hot mess is waking up in a bus-shelter wearing somebody else’s underpants.

    If that’s the worst of your problems…

  39. 39.

    Alison

    I will never understand the thought process behind the idea that a blogger only cares about topics he blogs about, and thus also does not care about anything he doesn’t blog about. I mean, FFS…there were eleventy million articles in the NYT. Does it follow than John – or any other FPer here – doesn’t care about the subject of all of them because he hasn’t chosen to blog about it?

    That’s just fucking stupid. Gah.

  41. 41.

    piratedan

    @Corner Stone: ha! I can remember the day that we’d feel privileged to have any underpants at all if we were in a hot mess… I tell ya lads, they don’t make hot messes like they used to and if you try to explain to the kids of today, they just don’t understand…..

    h/t to The Four Yorkshireman sketch

  42. 42.

    Violet

    I’m going outsideto start gardening for the day. Had to wait for the heat of the day to pass. Going to put in cucumbers and eggplant and probably foliar feed the tomatoes. A lot of them are setting tomatoes, so it’s time.

  44. 44.

    PurpleGirl

    Tonight is Earth Hour. Turn off your lights and such at 8:30-9:30 p.m. local time. Some 147 countries worldwide are participating and selected cities in non-participating countries. The event was started in Australia to raise awareness of environmental issues.

  46. 46.

    JPL

    @Alison: If a person were really concerned wouldn’t they include a link..

    OT on the OT… My son introduced me to Breaking Bad. There is no way I want to watch all four seasons. Is there a season that I can just skip?

  49. 49.

    Violet

    @Raven:
    It’s probably quite a bit hotter where I am than where you are. Plus we had a lot of rain a day or so ago and it’s really humid. Just not worth fighting until the sun gets lower.

  51. 51.

    Violet

    @Raven:
    We’re supposed to get a cool front sometime early next week and have a few nice days. Can’t wait! This heat is unseasonably early.

  52. 52.

    hildebrand

    @Maude: No taters, precious, this evening. We went with a pure meat and veg meal.

    I must admit though, of all the potato salads, German is head and shoulders above the rest. No question.

  55. 55.

    Anya

    John is either sleep deprived, is low on vitamin d, or iron or is experiencing the male equivalence of PMS. Dude, whatever you do, stay away from twitter tonight.

  58. 58.

    Corner Stone

    @Narcissus:

    It’s no dildo-wetsuit combo but it’ll have to do.

    Sometimes it’s the accoutrements in life that make it worth getting off the bench in the morning.

  59. 59.

    urlhix

    Put ~300 tomato plants in this week. Crazy weather this year.

    And yeah, I’d skip that Breaking Bad episode about catching the fly, but the rest is gold.

  60. 60.

    gogol's wife

    @Keith:

    God I wish my husband liked shad. (I like shad but not the roe.) I miss it this time of year. I suppose I could just make it for myself but that’s no fun.

  61. 61.

    Corner Stone

    @Anya:

    Dude, whatever you do, stay away from twitter tonight.

    Why? A couple drinks and his alter ego CAPS LOCK JESUS will take over.
    And everybody forgives CLJ for his transgressions.

  64. 64.

    Anne Laurie

    @Martin:

    You always know where the blog is going, because it’s your blog.

    HA! (says every front-pager who’s had their posts bumped down within seconds, especially when Cole’s replicating an earlier poster’s link)

  67. 67.

    sharl

    John Cole, are you still a dedicated tea drinker? I just heard something on today’s NPR show ‘The Splendid Table’ from guest and tea merchant/expert Bill Waddington about a category of teas from western China known collectively as dark teas. Apparently these teas rarely make it to the West due to shipping challenges; they’ve traditionally traveled westward to local/regional areas instead.

    One thing that sets them apart from most common teas we know is the presence of live (microbiological) cultures in the tea itself (comparable to yogurt, I assume). One example is called Puerh, sold by Waddington at his online site.

    I couldn’t find any way to listen to just this particular clip by its lonesome; here’s an in-studio YouTube that captured a small part of that segment (2:01; some shaky camera work there).

  68. 68.

    Corner Stone

    Lville doesn’t have anyone who can beat Kentucky off the dribble in the half court offense.

  70. 70.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Making my favorite pasta dish tonight, spinach tagliatelle with a scallion, mushroom and sour cream sauce. Messing around on the computer and following the epic, epic meltdown that is going to go on in Mississippi on April 16 when Orly gets to go up against one of the Obot attorneys.

  72. 72.

    Elizabelle

    Guess I’m rooting for Louisville, since they’re underdogs. Ok. They’re Cardinals. So why are they in orange? Is it this TV?

  73. 73.

    ruemara

    Debating making a moussaka for the man. I get my delicious roasted 100 grams of chicken and shaved cucumber noodle salad and broth. yay. But I did make a what smells like a very tasty black bean burger today. You should probably just hide out in the kitchen for the rest of the night, JC. You’re a touch crankypants.

  77. 77.

    Jade Jordan

    What a country hick breakfast/dinner. Keep eating like that and you will lose your liberal elite status.

  80. 80.

    The Dangerman

    Not a big Pitino/Lousville fan, but I want Kentucky to go down in the worst way. I’ll console Ashley in her grief afterwards.

  84. 84.

    Corner Stone

    Lville is turning the ball over at an historic pace so far. Brutal ball control.

  86. 86.

    RossInDetroit

    I had breakfast – scrambled eggs and French toast – for lunch so I’ll probably have lunch for dinner.

    Sitting around spinning records and waiting for a trailer to show up so the Last Motorcycle can go away. Snif… But it’s going to a friend so I can still visit it. Mrs. inD is already eyeing the bike’s vacated spot for a(nother) Home Office so there’ll be a fight about that…

  88. 88.

    Corner Stone

    @The Dangerman: Kentucky is the present and future of college basketball.
    They changed the eligibility rules a few years ago and just destroyed the NCAA game.
    Kentucky is the inevitable result. North Carolina a couple years back was the harbinger.

  90. 90.

    The Dangerman

    @Raven:

    …love the game is where I am.

    I’m right there, though playing ball in the Superdome is only a small step up from playing ball on the deck of an Aircraft Carrier. Just turned it on and haven’t looked at the stats, but suspect with this low score, the outside shooting numbers are abyssmal.

  91. 91.

    Veritas

    I’m an Indiana fan (of course) but want Lville to go down…plus gotta admire Kentucky’s talent.

  93. 93.

    The Dangerman

    @Corner Stone:

    They changed the eligibility rules a few years ago and just destroyed the NCAA game. Kentucky is the inevitable result.

    Yup; it will destroy the game. Needs to die quickly and not at all quietly.

  94. 94.

    Veritas

    I don’t get playing Final Four games in football stadiums, either. It often leads to low-scoring, awful games. Just use NBA stadiums for fucks sake.

  97. 97.

    hilts

    John,

    When are you going invite Keith Olbermann to be a guest blogger at Balloon Juice?

  99. 99.

    slag

    @Raven: See cleek’s comment in the previous thread.
    __
    Personally, I’m not a pie-er. But in some special circumstances, I could see the value of having comments from certain folks translated into a foreign language for me. So, at least, I could maybe get something out of them. Anyone know how to build a pie filter that translates comments into French? Or Spanish would be good too. Something where I have at least a shot at deducing the content.

  101. 101.

    Corner Stone

    @The Dangerman:

    but suspect with this low score, the outside shooting numbers are abyssmal.

    Both teams have been abysmal with the turnovers and ball control.
    Lville seemed to be markedly worse but lately Kentucky is trying to match their sloppiness.

  103. 103.

    handy

    @slag:

    The only person I’ve ever pie-d here was Matoko Loco if only because she gets on a roll with her incessant obsessive cudlip bullshyte Amir Khalid’s not a muslim posts that threads end up looking like they get hit with a firehose of diarrhea. Much easier to scroll past pithy one-liners about pie.

  105. 105.

    Raven

    @handy: For a person that is a complete right-wing asshole to come in here and chat it up about b-ball like he’s one of the boys is just too much.

  107. 107.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    BTW watched the first ep of the new season of “Whitechapel” this morning (on demand), very creepy, and looks to get creepier in episode two. I almost wish that I had not watched it this morning and waited until next weekend when I could watch both episodes back to back. There is no way I can wait up until 10pm to catch the ep on Wednesday.

  108. 108.

    eemom

    @David Koch:

    Preach it, brotha.

    (I responded in the earlier thread. Glad you reposted and got Cole’s goat.)

    Now AL will be along any minute with some pirated Charlie Pierce column to tell us what awful people we are.

  109. 109.

    The Dangerman

    @Raven:

    Calapari said he doesn’t like one and done.

    In which case, he doesn’t have to milk it for all it’s worth. I bet he could field a decent team without the OAD’s, so he’s the biggest hypocrite ever and an asshole.

    ETA: He’s the asshole because Memphis had a dead solid lock on the game a few years ago and yet Kansas found a way to win.

  110. 110.

    Amir Khalid

    We’re into April Fool’s day here on this side of the International Date Line. Anything happening on that front?

  112. 112.

    Raven

    It’s amazing to me that players still raise their hands after being called for a foul. It hasn’t been a rule for, what, 25 years?

  113. 113.

    sharl

    I wonder if that ‘Recent Comments’ feature – which I liked, FTR- slowed things down because it was set to respond with every new comment. Assuming that was the case, perhaps the routine could be recoded to engage on a ‘per minute’ (or whatever) basis.

    This isn’t a request to bring it back, more of an inquiry to those who know of such things. I haven’t done programming since the 70s – FORTRAN and BASIC represent, yo! – and I assume there has been some evolution in that field over the ensuing years.

  114. 114.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Amir Khalid: this seems appropriate for an april fools’ Sunday

    ThinkProgress ‏ @thinkprogress Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
    5 major Sunday shows this weekend feature 12 white men as guests, no women, no minorities http://thkpr.gs/H7N1zz #icymi

  115. 115.

    The Dangerman

    @Amir Khalid:

    Anything happening on that front?

    I bet Mitt is joking about a plant closing someplace and his jokes about relaxing regulations on food that caused explosive diarrhea are a riot.

  117. 117.

    RossInDetroit

    @slag:

    I like the past Boing Boing practice of Disemvoweling. All of the vowels are removed from the offending post. You can still read it if you concentrate. Bt whn y’r scnnng pst t’s nt s ffnsv. And it makes the poster look like a ninny in the corner wearing the dunce cap.

  119. 119.

    Amir Khalid

    @handy: Curiously, m_c has never fired off an ALL CAPS reply to one of my comments. Well, not so far, that is.

  123. 123.

    Corner Stone

    @Amir Khalid:

    Curiously, m_c has never fired off an ALL CAPS reply to one of my comments. Well, not so far, that is.

    Ahhh, don’t worry bout it. In a couple years Cole will realize he was wrong and put up a post about it.

  125. 125.

    Corner Stone

    @Raven: I just don’t want refs to make a couple quick calls that end up deciding the flow of this game and outcome.

  127. 127.

    Elizabelle

    Going on the record saying I liked the “recent comments” feature.

    Maybe make it update every 3-5 minutes and not be such a hog.

    Oh, and good game. Still kinda close although UKy has always dominated.

  131. 131.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Phylllis: It’s spring time, so I guess McCain is supervising the re-hanging of the tireswing.

    Meet the Press: Rick Santorum, Chuck Schumer
    Face the Nation: Joe Biden, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul
    Fox News Sunday: Rick Santorum, Haley Barbour, Howard Dean
    This Week: Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen
    State of the Union: Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Mike Rogers

    I hope Dean goes right after Scalia’s total ignorance of what’s actually in the bill. I guess if Biden or Schumer are feeling oernery, they might do it. Fox is actually more bipartisan than CNN (Fox-lite)

  132. 132.

    AA+ Bonds

    ‘Recent comments’ is great for the sort of reader who can’t remember anything that hasn’t been on cable news within the last three days

    Although I am sorry for the reduced pageviews y’all will have since my name is no longer directly linked to posts that have, shall we say, ‘come alive’

  133. 133.

    eemom

    I also vote for the Recent Comments feature.

    It was useful, among other things, to see which threads were still active versus dead.

    Plus, with all due respect, it’s really the comment community more than anything else that makes this place what it is. Jussayinzall.

  134. 134.

    Corner Stone

    @Raven: Doesn’t look like it.
    I don’t see how anyone stops Kentucky. Loss to IU by a point and somehow to Vandy at end of season which I have to guess was on purpose somehow.
    This Kentucky team isn’t actually a really good NCAA level team, but more of a semi-pro collection of players who don’t really fit into the NBA yet.

  138. 138.

    Corner Stone

    @AA+ Bonds:

    ‘Recent comments’ is great for the sort of reader who can’t remember anything that hasn’t been on cable news within the last three days

    This doesn’t even make sense.

  139. 139.

    jeffreyw

    @Raven: She fell from a step stool and has been in hospital with a broken pelvis. Last week in an inpatient rehab center. Clean break with few complications so no surgery. They expect that she will make a full recovery. The critters were overjoyed to see her this morning. Didn’t want to worry anyone. We are good.

  142. 142.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Corner Stone: “kerfluffle”? I’m guessing you don’t pay out of pocket for health insurance. Dean’s not my first choice, just seems the most likely of the Dems on that list to be uncivil about our black-robed Vestal Virgins.

  145. 145.

    sharl

    @AA+ Bonds:
    Yeah, this doesn’t make much sense to me either. Also, I don’t get cable. In fact, the TV is unplugged; I got one of those digital video converters, but never hooked it up to the TV that once belonged to grandma.

    Do you watch a lot of television, AA+?

  151. 151.

    Corner Stone

    @MikeJ:

    Recent comments is good for when the trolls hit older threads and want to have the last word.

    What? You mean when the Recent Comments shows most comments on two or three threads, people sneak away to threads on Page 2 or Page 3 to feel like winners?
    That sounds pretty sad MikeJ.

  155. 155.

    jeffreyw

    @Amir Khalid: It will be another month before she can begin putting weight on the leg. Exercises in the meantime to keep the muscles limber. Right now the focus is pain management and learning how to cope with everyday tasks – getting in and out of bed, dressing, stairs. She has a wheel chair and a walker, and is able to get into and out of the car with minimal assistance. It will just take time. She will miss the gardening season, alas.

  159. 159.

    handy

    @eemom:

    Cole’s taking the Dubya approach to bloghosting: Having useful dynamically loaded navigation without it chewing up server resources is hard work!

    Who knows maybe he’ll get off his ass like he did with the socialism thing. Once the snipes reach critical mass he’ll add it back just to shut everyone up!

  160. 160.

    dr. bloor

    @eemom:

    Was there something about John’s declaration that Recent Comments is “gone forever” due to server issues in comment #4 that you thought was ambiguous? Or are you starting a movement to override his veto with a two-thirds majority?

  162. 162.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Oh and may I say that giving your significant other home IVs sucks. DH has pneumonia he is on daily treatments of IV antibiotics, they sent him home with two IV treatments and instructions for me to do it. At about step two of the instructions I noticed an air bubble in the IV, which freaked me the fuck out, cause you know I have seen all those movies where putting an air bubble in the IV kills people. So I called the Doc’s wife (the nurse) and said “OMG, OMG there is an air bubble” she calmed me down from the twenty seven feet above ground level that I was panicking at and walked me through the rest of it. Damn.

  163. 163.

    Keith

    @gogol’s wife: Yeah, it’s hard to like shad roe. When it’s raw, the stuff looks like a pair of mammal lungs. I had some years ago out of a can (and have never found said cans since), and have only ever even seen the fresh stuff in the store once before.

  164. 164.

    Raven

    @jeffreyw: Aw bro, I’m sorry to hear it. My bride broke her leg a couple of years back and it was a struggle because she couldn’t drive to work OR garden. Best to ya’ll.
    eta

    sorry, I posted this before I read your other posts.

  165. 165.

    eemom

    @dr. bloor:

    What I was trying to do was build on the CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions some other folks made about ways he could keep the feature while modifying it so it doesn’t slow down the site.

    I was saying that it’s a good feature and therefore
    — I meant to suggest — perhaps worth considering such constructive comments and revoking its death sentence.

  166. 166.

    Elizabelle

    @Corner Stone:

    Yeah, I liked that you could check if someone replied without having to navigate back.

    Like the concept of a “North Star.” Palin tried to co-opt that term, but she’s more like temporary atmospheric interference. Nothing you would use to find your direction. Lost in a ground fog. Perpetually.

  168. 168.

    Elizabelle

    More on the orange of the Cardinals —

    One of the announcers just said “Syracuse stays in its … whatever zone …”

    Yeah, I’m thinking orange too.

    But I’m not being paid to comment on this tournament ….

  170. 170.

    urlhix

    Look at the crowd, they are in Cardinal Red. The team is wearing orange-red, no question about it.

  171. 171.

    Jay S

    @Elizabelle: & Corner Stone.

    You can do that with the comments rss, and go back as far as you like. Just subscribe using Google reader or your preferred rss reader and you can navigate straight to the comment of your choice. See the sidebar under Meta.

  172. 172.

    Corner Stone

    @Elizabelle:

    Yeah, I liked that you could check if someone replied without having to navigate back.

    For me, when you swing by after a few days away, I don’t really care what the FP’ers are posting about. I just skim who’s adding to the back and forth here.
    And then when I am commenting on a couple threads I can easily see when most people have moved on to other things, or it’s hot and heavy on a thread.
    Just makes sense to have it.

  173. 173.

    Corner Stone

    Lville hasn’t found the handle on the ball all damn game. Just not easily explained how they’re still within 10 points.

  176. 176.

    sharl

    @Jay S: Thanks for the rss suggestion! I just put it in my Bookmarks Toolbar (Firefox), and seems to work great; just waiting to see how frequently it updates…

  179. 179.

    Elizabelle

    Was a good game.

    Don’t know if I’ll watch the OSU game.

    Who’s rooting for who?

  182. 182.

    Corner Stone

    @Elizabelle: I just don’t care for any OSU sports program. I work with a good guy who’s a Kansas alum so that’s ok, but not pumped about either team. Just don’t like OSU.

  184. 184.

    urlhix

    @179, Got it right, for once.

    Have no idea with to expect with this next game, though. As a native Alabamian I hate TOSU with a fierce and deep passion, but Kansas sucks balls, as well, so who knows?

  185. 185.

    Jay S

    @sharl: I haven’t used Firefox for a while and had forgotten about the rss support built in. That should work well for seeing recent comments without leaving the blog for a reader view.

  187. 187.

    sharl

    @Jay S:
    Yes, FF_v11 seems to be working fine.

    After my last comment, I tried a right-click on the icon, and the pop-up menu included “Reload Live Bookmark”. That’s all I need.

    It looks like the rss does reload on its own, but not at a very fast rate. I’m still checking that out though; why be productive, after all?

  188. 188.

    sharl

    @sharl:

    One minor drawback of the rss approach for Recent Comments – a relatively minor one, IMO – at least in Firefox (v11) – is that long titles for the original posts will crowd out the commenter’s name, since the latter comes at the end of the entry in the Live Bookmark drop-down listing. So this feature won’t be as useful for long-titled posts.

    I hope the FPers never pass up the opportunity for a clever title because of this, even if it results in great length; although it’s a thang, it’s not a Big Thang.

  190. 190.

    hildebrand

    Baby-back ribs and brownies on the menu for tomorrow- ala Hildebrand’s nine-year old. She is exceptionally pleased with the rub and the braising liquid – and I must say, I agree.

  192. 192.

    PurpleGirl

    @PurpleGirl: I did Earth Hour. I lit a bunch of candles, and turned off lights, turned off the TV and computer monitor. It was nice sitting in the dark quiet with candle light and having dessert. Feeling very relaxed so I’m off to the bedroom to read now.

  193. 193.

    Jay S

    @Jay S: I fired up firefox and after some reconfiguring got it to do a live bookmark. On my version when you mouse over a truncated comment, it expands the line in flyover text.

  194. 194.

    Corner Stone

    @Raven:

    A good deal of the “slop” came from the push.

    Sounds like a few drunken nights I wish I could forget.
    OH!!

  195. 195.

    sharl

    @Jay S:
    Thanks, I didn’t think to try that. Mousing over individual comment notices in the pop-up* list works for me as well in that same way – the full OP_title-plus-commenter_name combination shows up in the floyover text.

    *actually the list pops downward, to be pedantic (in the 2-dimensional sense)

  196. 196.

    4jkb4ia

    I did read it, John, and ignore him. The first few paragraphs were horrifying but the gist of the story was about how the California prison authorities were trying to take people out of solitary confinement if they were only a gang associate and if it would work or not. Based on that article, you would have to know a lot more about California prisons to write a decent blog post. I am checking to see now if TalkLeft had anything because this is much more their cup of tea.

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