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How Max is feeling right now

by Tim F|  June 18, 201212:09 pm| 55 Comments

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  1. 1.

    schrodinger's cat

    June 18, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    Why you make goggie cry? Sad goggie is sad and cute.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 18, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    Much better than Joe Arpaio!

    Also, too, I might note that his name does not end in a string of vowels!

  3. 3.

    rikyrah

    June 18, 2012 at 12:15 pm

    now see, that’s a cute animal pic.

    not the scary ones Cole posts.

  4. 4.

    Matthew Reid Krell

    June 18, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    I agree with Max.

  5. 5.

    The Dangerman

    June 18, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”

    or, perhaps:

    “Mitt Romney? Seriously?!”

  6. 6.

    red dog

    June 18, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    Max must have had a long and fun weekend…good dog

  7. 7.

    cmorenc

    June 18, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    Max’s expression means he’s probably thinking:

    “why do I have to lie on this hard floor when there’s that wonderfully comfy-looking couch in the living room? Why does my human bark harshly at me if I get up on the couch? He’s good to me most of the time, why is he so mean about the couch?”

  8. 8.

    Culture of Truth

    June 18, 2012 at 12:23 pm

    “Why did I invest in that Facebook IPO??”

  9. 9.

    Mark S.

    June 18, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    No decision on health care today. Is it just me, or did the SC used to wrap up in late May/early June?

  10. 10.

    Violet

    June 18, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    @Culture of Truth: “The humans told me it was going to be like Pets.com. Why didn’t I listen? Why?”

  11. 11.

    shortstop

    June 18, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    Scalia vainly attempts to inoculate himself against observations on his now-complete lack of principle and probity.

  12. 12.

    Culture of Truth

    June 18, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    @Violet: Fucking stockbroker! They’re all sons of bitches!

  13. 13.

    Hill Dweller

    June 18, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    The wingnuts in the House are blocking the transportation bill, which would create 1.9 million jobs.

  14. 14.

    PIGL

    June 18, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    what willfull little beady eyes,
    for anything of such a size.

  15. 15.

    Culture of Truth

    June 18, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    “wisdom has come late.”

    Just in time for the black President.

  16. 16.

    Violet

    June 18, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Did anyone notice that Ron Paul actually won the Iowa caucuses.

    Rick Santorum narrowly won January’s Iowa caucuses, and future Republican nominee Mitt Romney finished a close second. But when the state’s delegates head to the Republican National Convention in August, most of them will be loyal backers of third-place finisher Ron Paul.

  17. 17.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    June 18, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    @Culture of Truth: So, they’re Max’s brothers-in-law?

  18. 18.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    June 18, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    @Hill Dweller: Needs more gaffes or we won’t report it.

    sincerely,
    DC Press corpse

  19. 19.

    Mark S.

    June 18, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    @shortstop:

    Those two law professors basically call Scalia a hack.

  20. 20.

    JenJen

    June 18, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    Max looks how I feel.

  21. 21.

    Yutsano

    June 18, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    MAXPUPPEH!!

    @shortstop: By demonstrating his complete lack of principles. Tony, u r doing it rong.

  22. 22.

    shortstop

    June 18, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    @Mark S.: And there are plenty more who will insist that he’s still a principled originalist. But it’s getting harder and harder to defend against the charge that he’s now motivated in large degree by politics and spite.

    @Yutsano: I think he thinks that getting this out a few days ahead of the ACA decision is covering his ass. I think he thinks wrong.

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    June 18, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    @shortstop: I wonder if anybody will ask Fat Tony if he now thinks Gonzales v. Raich was improperly decided, based on his new thinking.

    Sadly, I don’t think the press are smart enough to formulate the question.

  24. 24.

    Origuy

    June 18, 2012 at 1:18 pm

    @Violet: Invest in popcorn futures!

  25. 25.

    Yutsano

    June 18, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    @Hill Dweller: Procedure? Booooring!! Needs moar juicy birfer goodness. EXCITE us, people!

  26. 26.

    Mino

    June 18, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    No more Catholics on the Supreme Court.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    June 18, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    @shortstop:

    So that means that, the next time a medical marijuana case comes up, Scalia will say that, since Rickard was wrongly decided, it’s A-OK for someone to grow marijuana in their backyard for their own consumption?

    Man, I crack myself up sometimes.

  28. 28.

    delosgatos

    June 18, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    Emo dog is emo. :)

  29. 29.

    Jebediah

    June 18, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    @shortstop:

    So the fucker now says even his own precedent can go fuck itself?

    I do not care for that man, not one bit.

  30. 30.

    Dork

    June 18, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    Here’s what I think is the money quote:

    Indeed, in his book, Scalia leaves some wiggle room to change his mind back in the future.
    …
    Per the Times, Scalia writes that he “does not swear that the opinions that he joins or writes in the future will comply with what is written here,” in part because “a judge must remain open to persuasion by counsel.”

    Shorter Tony: I needed Wickard to make a Republican argument with a Republican president. I’m needing to reverse that now, since a Democrat is in office. I’ll probably need to re-reverse myself in the future when a Republican re-takes the presidency.

    Honestly, isnt that exactly what he’s telegraphing?

  31. 31.

    shortstop

    June 18, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    @Mnemosyne: You funny. Have some barbecued Fritos, filthy hippie stoner.

  32. 32.

    Jebediah

    June 18, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    Well, of course he will. Haven’t you heard? He’s principled, for Pete’s sake!

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    June 18, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    Puppeh looks like he’s collapsed on a cool floor on a hot day. At least that’s what ours does much of the summer. I hear a startling “thud” and see she’s flopped. It’s preferable to having her crawl on my lap all winter (too big for a lap dog, but she “just don’t care”).

    I didn’t know Erik Loomis and Glennzilla were having a feud. Glenzilla carries on a lot of those, doesn’t he?

    http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/06/my-challenge-to-glenn-greenwald

  34. 34.

    J. Michael Neal

    June 18, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    @shortstop: And still leaves himself room to change his mind back to his first position because “a judge must remain open to persuasion by counsel.”

  35. 35.

    Culture of Truth

    June 18, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    Those who reversed the re-reversal, have been re-reversed.

  36. 36.

    Triassic Sands

    June 18, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    Max is imagining a Romney victory and a GOP majority in both houses. I feel the same way.

    (Either that or he’s thinking about the biggest dog biscuit in the universe.)

  37. 37.

    Jebediah

    June 18, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    Since this is an open thread – I see from Ch. Pierce that Rodney King died over the weekend.

  38. 38.

    Brachiator

    June 18, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    Max is looking how I felt after seeing “Prometheus.”Lovely visuals, but a tv movie level plot that oscillated between stupid and incomprehensible, and largely interchangeable cardboard characters who had little to do aside from being set up for their inevitable fate. I liked the leads, especially Michael Fassender and Noomi Rapace, but they were ultimately failed to lift the movie above being merely tolerable. The summer movie season started well, and I had looked forward to seeing a number of these films, but except for “The Hunger Games” and “The Avengers,” it’s been pretty wan stuff.

  39. 39.

    catclub

    June 18, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: One is reminded of the story of a judge and two lawyers. One lawyer gave the judge $10k bribe, opposing lawyer gave the judge a $15k bribe.

    The judge returns the extra $5k and tells them, “This way I will just decide the case on its merits.”

  40. 40.

    catclub

    June 18, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    @Jebediah: The NPR report was weird to me. He was found drowned in his pool, but then they took a long time to point out that he was a very good swimmer, and a short time to say that no foul play was suspected.

    I guess it must have been clear he had a heart attack/stroke and then drowned. But maybe they could say that.

  41. 41.

    Villago Delenda Est

    June 18, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    @Violet:

    That’s because the Iowa Caucuses in January decide NOTHING but are great horse race fodder for the morons of the MSM.

    The actual delegates who have a say in the nomination process are selected independently of the moronic caucuses, which really are nothing but a straw poll.

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 18, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Aw, puppeh, why so sad?!?

  43. 43.

    cckids

    June 18, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: I don’t think he looks sad. Just . . . focused, as though he is starring in a movie in his mind. Doggy Avengers, maybe. Max obviously is the hero.

  44. 44.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    June 18, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    MAX!! The puppeh’s expression kinda sums up my day.

  45. 45.

    liberal

    June 18, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    @Brachiator:
    Sounds like I liked the movie more than you did, but I completely agree about the plot.

  46. 46.

    Mike E

    June 18, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Max: I am suck of this nonsense.

  47. 47.

    Brachiator

    June 18, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    @liberal:

    Sounds like I liked the movie more than you did, but I completely agree about the plot.

    You had characters saying “I’m a geologist” or “I’m a biologist,” and yet this was utterly irrelevant to anything that happened in the movie and seemed like nothing more than cinematic name tags. I want to blame the screenwriters for such an empty script, but I don’t know what director Ridley Scott was thinking either.

    But I didn’t hate the movie. Individual scenes were interesting, but as a whole it was disjointed and just not satisfying.

  48. 48.

    RareSanity

    June 18, 2012 at 4:14 pm

    @Tim F. (top):

    Tim, as someone that is just starting to get into taking pictures (I can’t call it “photography” yet), can you post your shooting information with your pics (lens type, f-stop, ISO, flash, etc)? I know I would really appreciate it.

    Was that picture taken with a zoom or fixed focal lens?

  49. 49.

    RareSanity

    June 18, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    (response to previous comment)

    Never mind…went back through the archives and found the link to your flickr page.

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    June 18, 2012 at 4:38 pm

    @Brachiator:

    If you like animation, G and I got to see a preview of Brave this weekend, and it was really good. The trailer doesn’t give much away, so there are quite a few surprises but, as G said, it’s pretty cool that they were able to make a movie with lots of action scenes that’s still firmly centered on the relationship between a mother and a daughter.

    ETA: Full disclosure for those who don’t remember, my paycheck is signed by the same rodent that owns Pixar. But despite my bias, Brave is still a terrific film, which is not something I was willing to say about Cars 2.

  51. 51.

    Patricia Kayden

    June 18, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    Now that’s a cute dog photo! It Gets Better, Max. Hang in there.

  52. 52.

    Tim F.

    June 18, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    @RareSanity: Clicking the picture will also take you straight to my Flickr page. The lens here is Panasonic’s excellent 20mm f/1.7 for micro four thirds cameras.

  53. 53.

    RareSanity

    June 18, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    @Tim F.:

    Very nice…

    My wife and son gave me a Canon 600D (Rebel T3i), what I think is a really good entry-level DSLR, for Father’s Day. The “bundle” came with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 and a 55-250mm f/4-5.6. Just ordered a 50mm f/1.8 and can’t wait till it gets here. I’m also thinking about buying an inexpensive, third party E-TTL Speedlite…just to complete my Photography 101 bag.

    I’ll send you some links along the way so you can tell me how you think I’m progressing…

  54. 54.

    Brachiator

    June 18, 2012 at 8:32 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    If you like animation, G and I got to see a preview of Brave this weekend, and it was really good. The trailer doesn’t give much away, so there are quite a few surprises but, as G said, it’s pretty cool that they were able to make a movie with lots of action scenes that’s still firmly centered on the relationship between a mother and a daughter.

    I am looking forward to seeing Brave. I am trying to avoid spoilers, but have seen hints that some of the early reviews are not as glowing as those of some of the better previous Pixar films.

    And I’m still a bit peeved that Emma Thompson is one of the few non Scots voices among the film’s leads. Yeah, she is a great actress and all, but still. Shoulda been All Scotland.

  55. 55.

    Yutsano

    June 18, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    @Brachiator: What, Karen Gillan wasn’t available? Sheesh. She’s even done voicework. Pixar needs moar Whovians.

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