Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

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

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

When we show up, we win.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Stand up, dammit!

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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I mentioned I have had company for the past couple of days, and today we made some pretty delicious ribs. Rubbed em down yesterday, let ’em sit for 24 hours in the fridge, then slow cooked them on the barbecue with applewood chips and an occasional spritz of apple juice. That’s what is left from two racks. I also made homemade coleslaw, a tomato/onion/cuke salad, and the kicker was we made a bunch of deviled eggs, which I just adore. These came out really well.

What are you all up to?

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  2. 2.

    imonlylurking

    Listening to my new favorite song from a group called Valravn. The singer sounds like angry Bjork. I’m absolutely hypnotized.

  4. 4.

    RedKitten

    No ribs, (those look amazing, by the way), but we did have a beef rib roast tonight, and it turned out beautifully. Other than that, am just combating queasiness, and awaiting the weekend so that SamKitten and I can hit the beach.

    This is kind of cool — it’s nice seeing doctors standing up for their patients against a political party who is trying to cut care.

    Oh, and our scientists are speaking out against the government as well. I love this quote from a Simon Fraser University prof:

    “Evidence is the way that adults navigate reality. To deny evidence is to live in a fairy world … when countries engage in fantasy it’s called state propaganda,”

  6. 6.

    Bnut

    Playing the hardest game I have ever tried, outside QWOP: the Day Z mod for Arma II. Average life expectancy is 30 minutes. Most realistic zombie world ever though.

  7. 7.

    wonkie

    So I’ going to jump right in here and ask you all who live in driving distance of Puget Sound to consider giving a home to an old deaf dog who has had a hard life.

    She’s a fifteen pound cairn mix with apricot and cream colored fur. Someday she will be beautiful.

    Right now she is recovering from the effects of neglect: horrible matts, large bald scappy hairless patches.

    She’s very quiet and undemanding, house broken, sleeps a lot, doesn’t bark. She like being petted butr does not seek attention.

    I don’t know how old she is, but she is not young. She has a cataract. Her appetite is good. She likes going for little walks. Really, I don’t thik she would be much troulbe to anyone.

    Please let me know at LKoerber889ataoldotcom

  9. 9.

    MikeJ

    If the crackpot who was suing Rachel Maddow couldn’t make it to DC for hearings, why on earth did he file his case there?

  11. 11.

    Brachiator

    That’s what is left from two racks. I also made homemade coleslaw, a tomato/onion/cuke salad, and the kicker was we made a bunch of deviled eggs, which I just adore. These came out really well.

    Sounds great, and those ribs look delicious.

    Now, I’m hungry. Think I will order some Thai BBQ chicken.

  12. 12.

    MikeJ

    @Bnut: Ooo, I’ll have to get that. Regular Arma II is the best/hardest fp war game. Zombies sounds great.

  14. 14.

    General Stuck

    Romney now, and Romney in 1994 telling the truth on “Blind Truth”

    House wingnuts being insane as in doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.

    Obamacare Repeal Vote Coming in House For 31st Time


    And the Obama/Biden team of bad cop/bad cop     steam rolls on. DEmocrats bringing bazookas to a POTUS election gunfight? It ain’t natural, but I loves it.

    It’s a newly intense back-and-forth as President Barack Obama’s campaign team tries to cast his Republican opponent as a secretive rich guy who keeps his money in offshore accounts and refuses to release more of his tax returns. The coordinated push, which includes stinging criticism from Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, web videos and television advertisements, comes as the Democrats grasp for ways to gain an advantage in a closely contested election and overcome a steady stream of lackluster economic news.

    Getting personal, Biden declared Tuesday that Romney was “making a lie of the old adage, like father, like son” by not meeting the standards his father,

    In a speech to Hispanic leaders in Las Vegas, Biden said of Romney: “He wants you to show your papers, but he won’t show us his.”

    Bada Bing!!

  15. 15.

    jl

    I’m sitting here hungry waiting for dinner, staring at some mighty fine looking ribs that I cannot get at.

    That is what I am doing, right this instant.

    Why does Cole want to know?

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @BGinCHI:

    ‘No, no!’ said the Queen. ‘Sentence first – verdict afterwards.’

    BTW I went with the Cannondale Quick. I am loving it so far. Once the heat broke on Saturday, I did a 10 miler and then I’ve managed 12 everyday since.

  17. 17.

    PeakVT

    Beer tonight. Repairing floor tiles tomorrow. The nicer of the big box HW stores was kind enough to cut an old one for me.

  19. 19.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    My wife is upstairs playing her violin and I’m finally finishing up the wiring for our entertainment/instrument/computer systems after rearranging the living room to her liking. I’m taking a break now but I will have it finished tonight.

    For some reason we’re both enjoying what we are doing right now but I’m just weird like that. :)

    @BGinCHI:

    My pony tail would say that Maddow kicks ass and that dude sucks it, but then that’s a librul pony tail for ya.

  20. 20.

    BGinCHI

    @Omnes Omnibus: Good work, mate. That’s a good start.

    By next summer we’re going to get you out for an 80 or 90 miler with some climbs.

    Don’t worry, we drink a lot afterwards.

  25. 25.

    THE

    So the God particle walks into a Catholic church.

    And the priest looks down at it and says:

    “Higgs Boson. We don’t serve your kind in here.”

    The Higgs boson replies:

    “Chill dude, without me you couldn’t have Mass”.

  27. 27.

    dead existentialist

    I’m envying you, Cole, for having meat in your diet. I can’t convince myself to budget the stuff, so I had rice, broccoli, and a tomato for dinner tonight. Followed, of course, by inexpensive but tasty scotch.

    When the Republican Farm Bill passes, I might be able to afford to buy a baby or two from a former SNAP beneficiary. I hear they make a modestly tasty meal.

  28. 28.

    khead

    What are you all up to?

    Going through pics.

    This is the SweetPea Lily.

    Why is it the SweetPea Lily? Well, once upon a time, there used to be a whole bunch of lilies in that flower bed – until we let SweetPea live on our porch. While SweetPea lived on our porch, she treated the flower bed like her own personal toilet.

    That lily is all that survived.

  31. 31.

    MikeBoyScout

    Grilled rockfish, grilled WA taters, peppers, and green salad.

    Oh, copious amounts of vino.

  32. 32.

    Cris (without an H)

    The one time I tried to slow cook ribs on the charcoal grill, the coals burned out too early and the meat didn’t cook. So now I’m afraid. Can I ask you?

    1. Do you use a certain kind of charcoal? I thought all charcoal was the same, but once I bought “competition” briquettes, and they seem to burn down faster than the regular old Kingsford ones.
    2. Do you have to add fuel (more briquettes) at any point in the process?
    3. Do you leave the vents open or close them?

  34. 34.

    General Stuck

    The group responsible for the upkeep of murdered Florida teen Trayvon Martin’s memorial site is angry after the city of Sanford took the memorial down on Monday, MyFoxOrlando.com reported.

    then

    According to the report, part of the reason the memorial was removed was due to complaints from residents of the Retreat at Twin Lakes, who say it is a daily reminder of the nationwide controversy.

    Controversy?. How about a 17 year old black youth gunned down for existing in their city. Remember that assholes.

  36. 36.

    TaMara (BHF)

    EDIT: Meant to start out by saying, yum those ribs look amazing.

    We’ll I’m glad someone is cooking. I’ve been so busy I’ve barely been able to make quick meals. It feels like finals week here. Between trying to transition my old job so someone can do the parts of it I’ll no longer doing and starting my own business, things are going at lightening speed. Not complaining, thrilled my new business is going so well…but I kind of miss cooking.

    Guess I’ll have to come up with something really good for Thursday’s recipe thread, huh.

  42. 42.

    TheMightyTrowel

    Just back in Oz today. Coping with jet lag and trying to motivate myself to get to the store for some food. Nothing that tasty though.

  44. 44.

    dead existentialist

    @Cris (without an H):Clan McGregor. Watered down it almost tastes like the defunct Muirhead’s. @NotMax:FTW! @jl:This explains a lot of your comments. Protip: Kerosene is not an alcoholic beverage no matter what you kinfolk told you. And paint chips are not technically edible.

  45. 45.

    presquevu

    No pics, but did an amazing piece of teres major (least tender of group of most tender cuts of beef, from the shoulder), marinated in sweet soy, bottled mojo marinade, balsamic vinegar, garlic, and Chinese spicy pot sauce.

    Something about the Szechuan peppercorn in the spicy pot sauce just kicks.

    Surprisingly good as a side was the leftover pasta in red gravy reheated on the flat side plated on the panini press, sort of like a lasagna meets potato pancake sorta fing.

  46. 46.

    BIll

    “That’s what is left from two racks.”

    Did your company consist of a single Girl Scout?

    Why are there ribs left over? Are they not delicious enough?

    Leftover Ribs.

    Amateurs.

  47. 47.

    Redshift

    Courtesy of Better World Club, another round of blatant ideologically-driven lying from Chris Christie.

    Christie had NJ withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, claiming “our analysis of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or RGGI reveals that this program is not effective in reducing greenhouse gases and is unlikely to be in the future.”

    Not long afterward, “in June 2012, managers announced that over the past three years CO2 emissions have been reduced by 23%.”

  50. 50.

    Ann

    Okay, I can’t stand it. Please invite me the next time you prepare this meal, and I promise I’ll bring my family’s killer summer dish: scraped (not creamed, mind you) corn.

  51. 51.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    I hope your vacation weather is better than ours was a couple of weeks ago. We’re taking another week off in mid-August in the hope that the weather will be more motorcycle-riding friendly. NOAA said that the weather today would be sunny and 75 and again they were wrong. We got the sunny, after 6 P.M., and we never even got close to 75 but we were close to 60 though!

    I got a call from the doc’s office today to let me know that my appointment was moved to Thursday as the doc has a family emergency of some sort to deal with. I also have an appointment with another doc on Friday to look in to the other real serious problem that was uncovered when this all blew up on me. Some good news is that I stopped coughing up fresh blood two days ago and am coughing up less of the old stuff. What’s weird is that I’ve had no problem with my breathing so it’s been real difficult telling myself to take it easy. I feel fine but I know that’s not reality so I’ve been camping out and chafing at the bit to get back into action.

    A lot of people here in town have come out of the woodwork to let me know that they are thinking of me, which has been really nice for myself and my family to hear right now. All we can do now is wait for the doc visits and find out what course of action we can take to tackle this. More to come soon and thanks for the thoughts.

    Now enjoy that vacation! :)

    @General Stuck:

    That’s just disgusting to hear that they want to erase any reminder that their neighborhood watch guy killed an innocent kid. Reality is too harsh for them to deal with so they ask the authorities to get rid of it for them.

    What a bunch of assholes.

  52. 52.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Linda Featheringill: I took on a side job late last year, just some Quickbooks work, I’m pretty proficient at it because of other stuff I’ve done. Come to find out, it’s incredibly stress-free work, so when the opportunity came up to pick up a few more clients, it seemed like a good way to ease out of my old job. Suddenly I have a bunch of clients and I’m going to be able to do this for the majority of my income while doing a very few hours at my old job – which has become very stressful.

    All this will allow me to write more and also work on another project that I’ve been toying with over the last several years but didn’t have the time to explore.

    Of course this all means the cooking blog has taken a back seat – but if anyone needs a recipe there’s three years worth in the searchable archives. Woot! And I’m always around for questions and requests.

  53. 53.

    Smiling Mortician

    I was push-polled this evening, courtesy of a polling outfit I’ve never heard of that was clearly funded by the GOP. I had fun with the guy — a nice-enough sort, I thought, probably a college kid getting minimum wage. But for most of his “Would you be more or less likely to vote for Jay Inslee if you knew that he [BIG LIE GOES HERE]” questions I had to explain (nicely) that his facts were wrong. He was taken aback at first but then I swear he started to enjoy it. After a while he was saying things like “Really? He didn’t vote to increase federal income tax in 1990?” And I’m all like, “No, dude, he wasn’t even in Congress then. You can look it up on Wikipedia.” Got him to laugh a couple of times at the end. When I hung up I got a round of applause from the spouse and spawn.

    No barbecued ribs, though. Damn.

  55. 55.

    Joseph Nobles

    @TaMara (BHF): I’ve got a question. I’m looking for recipe software for my personal use. The main thing I use it for is getting nutrional info per serving, and I need to be able to adjust the recipe for each cooking. Like, say, that gorgeous pork shoulder that I pulled. I’d like to go back into the recipe and say, hey, I got a pound of fat off the pork after it cooked, so I don’t want that throwing off my per-serving stats. Got any suggestions? :D

  57. 57.

    thalarctos

    @wonkie: Hi, wonkie–

    I’m in no position to take a dog, and I’m sorry about that. Have you considered asking AL or one of the other front-pagers to make a pet bleg? You would reach more people than you will in the comments.

    I’ll put the word out on my Facebook account, too. I hope that the dog finds a good forever home.

  59. 59.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Joseph Nobles:That’s a good question. I haven’t tested anything like that out, so I don’t have an answer, but let’s ask it Thursday in the recipe thread, I bet someone here will have an answer.

    I’m with you, I always struggle when I’m looking for accurate calorie/nutritional information. It’s also one of the reason why I’ve never included it with my recipes. But someone has got to have solved that problem by now….

  62. 62.

    rammalammadingdong

    In the hospital. Had the right knee replaced last Friday, getting the left one replaced tomorrow morning. I have until midnight to eat. Maybe some ribs….

  63. 63.

    mainmati

    Your barbecue recipe is similar to mine. I do an apple spritzer too but it is an apple cider vinegar spritzer; I think it adds a little je ne sais quoi but it may be my cooking hallucinating. Everything else looked good. Deviled eggs are naughty but you can vary the recipe so creatively in many directions and everyone loves them.

  64. 64.

    eclare

    Are you kidding? Yall didn’t eat 3 slabs? I’m on a team for the bbq championship in May and our budget for meat was 2K. Oh yeah, from Memphis.

  65. 65.

    jl

    @JoyceH:

    ” I wish I lived close enough to John Cole that I could drop by, round about dinner time. ”

    You can make a good case that, with this post, Cole is kind of asking for it.

    Once you break down the door, be quick about it so you only have to fight the pets for it, not Cole.

  67. 67.

    delosgatos

    Made these quick-pickles last weekend, they’re delicious:

    sunset.com/food-wine/techniques/summer-canning-recipes-00400000046976/page6.html

    Ready in an hour, even better 6-18 hours later. I used persian cucumbers, and regular yellow onion instead of red, and white wine vinegar instead of champagne vinegar, and torn dill sprigs instead of crushed coriander seed. And I used baking sugar, which has such a fine consistency it melts like buttah.

    Absolutely justifies buying a decent mandoline, if you don’t have one already. I used the serrated side of the cutting blade this time, and it was excellent.

  68. 68.

    delosgatos

    @jl:

    Once you break down the door, be quick about it so you only have to fight the pets for it, not ColeCole for it, not Tunch.

    FTFY. :)

  70. 70.

    danielx

    Dry rubbed ribs…the best way. To tell the truth, laboring over a grill for four to six hours holds no appeal right now even though it’s only hitting the lower 90s during the day. Plus which it’s so dry that even a spark in my back yard would send the neighborhood up in flames…fireworks banned, open fires banned, lawn watering banned. It’s time to cook inside, and at the moment I’m thinking chicken with a tomato cream arabiatta sauce over penne pasta with salad and bruschetta.

    At least I’ve been able to keep the basil and rosemary going, which is more than the farmers can say about the corn crop. Took my daughter to her horse riding session this evening which is way out in the toolies – look out to the trees on the horizon – and the corn crop is toast. A lot of pickup trucks won’t be getting replaced this year. Although the state’s #1 cash crop is doing fine from what I’ve read in the papers….

  72. 72.

    jl

    Below is an odd story I just noticed. The GOP strategy to groom and recapture the youth vote is to reach out to a bunch of un and underemployed youth disgruntled with Obamanomics, introduce them to a bunch of sleazy donors and bundlers, and hit them up for money?

    Sounds like an underpants gnome thing to me. But maybe I misunderstood the plan.

    How Republicans plan to win over the youth vote
    By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News Political Reporter

    ‘ The Action fund will support these new GOP candidates and independently bolster their campaigns. Meanwhile, MavPAC will build its own base of young, new donors and fundraising bundlers, whom they plan to connect with the new recruits. The two groups will share data based on the information they gather from new supporters. They plan to spend $5 million this election cycle on the joint project.
    … snip …
    Now, they [GOP operatives] say, many of those same voters have graduated from college, are struggling to find work and are disappointed. Republicans plan to capitalize off that frustration.
    … snip …
    Said YG Action Fund spokesman Brad Dayspring: “There’s an opportunity to capture the imagination of those voters.” ‘

    news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-plan-win-over-youth-vote-195607913.html

    Edit: I am no spring chicken, but the plan does not seem inspriing to me. Bundlers, political operatives, schmoozy networking and ‘introductions’, mailing lists, campaign cash… Maybe if I were a still a kid, I would see the sex appeal and excitement there.

  76. 76.

    MattR

    @Arclite: You forget that the only reason those executives are forced to do wrong is all the pesky regulations currently in place.

  77. 77.

    danielx

    @Yutsano:

    I’m always careful, but I’ll bear it in mind. Hell, maybe just go with the arabiatta and let the cream wait for another occasion.

    @jl:

    Hey, Republicans are all about being “hip” these days in order to attract the “youth vote”…whateverthefuck that is, like people under the age of thirty aren’t as fragmented as the rest of society. I heard tell they had a voter registration booth set up at Bonnaroo, but the Young Republican thing didn’t go over well with the Dirty Fucking Hippies, probably because Young Republicans tend to be roaring, screaming assholes.

    Plus there was that whole issue over finding people coherent enough to sign anything. Young people these days, I tell ya…and in yet another complete injustice, I didn’t get to go to Bonnaroo. It just ain’t fair.

  78. 78.

    jl

    @danielx:

    ” Plus there was that whole issue over finding people coherent enough to sign anything. ”

    That could be either them dang toked up kids at Bonnaroo, or the GOP staffers.

  79. 79.

    Yutsano

    @danielx: Arrabiatta is angry in Italian. It’s supposed to have a bite to it that is rather pleasant. Does your recipe use wine or vinegar?

  80. 80.

    danielx

    @Yutsano:

    Just a skosh of cayenne, actually. A literal pinch, as opposed to an eight of a teaspoon or something. And a half cup of red wine.

  82. 82.

    jl

    @Arclite:

    ” Many Wall Street executives say wrongdoing is necessary: survey ”

    If lovin’ you is wrong
    I don’t want to be right
    If being right means
    Bein without you
    I’d rather live wrong than right

    Poors, hobos and lessers
    Say, it’s a shame
    It’s a downright disgrace
    But long as I got
    You by my side
    I don’t care what those people say

    My friends tell me it’s no future
    In lovin’ a bunkerd stash
    If I can’t see you when I want
    I’ll have to see you when I dash

    If lovin’ you is wrong
    I don’t want to be right
    If lovin’ you is so wrong, baby
    I don’t want to be right

    Am I wrong to fall
    So deeply in love with you
    Knowing you have a
    Conflicted int’rest and insider tradin’
    Emcumbering us two

  85. 85.

    Kristine

    A friend and I went to see Natalie Merchant at Ravinia. I’d never seen her in concert before. A good show.

    It’s after midnight now. In about 7 hours, I will take King to the vet’s for an all-day test to check for Cushing’s Syndrome. Not the greatest disease to have, but he’s 11 yo and oldsters develop things like this. If the test is negative, the next step is probably an ultrasound to see what’s going on with his gut. He just came off antibiotics for a bladder infection, which is a rare thing for a boy dog. Liver enzymes are high.

    This came out of left field. I just want him to be okay.

  87. 87.

    trollhattan

    @Cris (without an H):

    One method I’ve found to work: Start them on my ceramic kettle, first directly over the flame to brown (but watch it, because as the fat renders and drips it can catch fire) then into an open foil tray and slow cook for an hour or so. I use lump mesquite charcoal and wet lump wood, either mesquite or hickory, and keep the temp under 300. Then I cover the tray and move it to the gas BBQ or oven to finish. This keeps them from drying out. You can tell when they’re done when the bones have pulled away from the meat.

    My favorite butcher pulls the membrane off for me–otherwise I have to do it myself. I use pliers, but the butcher uses some kind of hook. Yarr, they’re pirates.

  89. 89.

    James E. Powell

    I just finished A Storm of Swords, the third book in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. I read the first three books without a break and I’m wondering if I need to put this story aside for a while, or if I should just keep plowing through to the end.

  91. 91.

    RadioOne

    Cucumbers don’t get enough love in salads. They’re neutral, watery, and perfect with fat based dressings. Add in some sweet, with onions and tomatoes, and you have a great salad.

  92. 92.

    NotMax

    Sometimes I get the impression that I’m the last person living who parboils ribs for 5 minutes or so before seasoning or marinating and cooking them.

    Melts off excess fats, makes the meat super-tender, and practically eliminates the chance of pink meat near the bone when they are grilled or oven-cooked.

  99. 99.

    amk

    I read redstate erickkk’s rant on mittbot in Nov 2011, by happenstance today.

    Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee. And his general election campaign will be an utter disaster for conservatives as he takes the GOP down with him and burns up what it means to be a conservative in the process.

    So Mitt Romney will be the nominee. Conservatives will not rally together with the least of the bad alternatives and Romney, like John McCain before him, will run up the middle to the nomination. But, just like McCain, Romney will not beat Barack Obama.

    Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is a man devoid of any principles other than getting himself elected. As much as the American public does not like Barack Obama, they loath a man so fueled with ambition that he will say or do anything to get himself elected. Mitt Romney is that man.

    There is no issue I can find on which Mitt Romney has not taken both sides. He is neither liberal nor conservative. He is simply unprincipled. The man has no core beliefs other than in himself.

    Along the way, he’ll drop lots of coin to grease the skids for himself. Mitt Romney is the silly putty of politicians — press on him real hard and he’ll take on whatever image you press into him until the next group starts pressing.

    Wonder how that nutjob feels about mehmney now.

    Wait a minute, is caz, erickkk in drag ?

  100. 100.

    jl

    @amk:

    ” Mitt Romney is the silly putty of politicians ”

    Then he should bounce back, quite robustly, from his near permanent polling lag behding Obama. We will see.

    Does Mitt bounce? That is question.

    On the other hand, he is easy for the GOP reactionaries to roll. OK, so one poitn in favor of Mitt is silly putty, at least for the wingnuts.

  101. 101.

    bemused

    @Mark S.:

    The Kimberlin saga is a reeking stew of crazy from beginning to end, er present. No one could navigate this cuckoo nest but wingnuts. The fact that they can immerse themselves in it and it makes some kind of bizarre sense to them is a scary look into their tangled web of thought processes.

    I can’t read about this any more than I have but it is amusing to watch them all go tooth and nail on each other.

  102. 102.

    hep kitty

    I just can’t figure out the thing with the Kardashians.

    NObody I know doesn’t hate them. Every time I read an article or post about them, esp. Kim, all the comments are very hostile and everybody claims they don’t watch the show and that the Kardashians just all-around suck.

    So I can’t figure out how they are making all this money. I guess they are getting paid for being the people everybody loves to hate.

  105. 105.

    Joseph Nobles

    @ImJohnGalt: I downloaded the trial last night. It’s very very very nice. That just may be the answer. Thanks!

    @James E. Powell: Four and Five take place concurrently, sort of. The story got so freaking huge that GRRM decided to publish half the storylines in Four and then followed up five years later with the rest of them in Five. And Three was a long haul, besides.

    Jon Snow, Dany, and Tyrion’s storylines are all in Five, Dances With Dragons. Arya is split between the two books, and everyone else is in Four. So if those four are your touchstones the way they were mine, Four will be a long haul, indeed.

  106. 106.

    russell

    cole, do you have some kind of job? or do you just cook, drink, and walk your dogs?

    seriously, you got some kind of sweet gig going on man.

  108. 108.

    schrodinger's cat

    They look delicious, but are not going to be helpful in the quest to maintain a girlish figure.

  109. 109.

    Ben Cisco

    @hep kitty: They get paid because people put stupid articles about them in stupid publications (checkout-line fodder and digital alike) that stupid people read/click on.

    In other words, it’s BECAUSE of the stupid.

  110. 110.

    James E. Powell

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Thanks for that. That’s an odd way to do it, but I’m sure he had his reasons.

    What I am thinking is that if I don’t continue, it may be a while before I come back to the story. And I wonder how much I will still have in my head.

    What do you say, is the fourth book worth the long haul?

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    Joseph Auclair

    So, not a vegetarian.

    How are you on animal rights?

    Fur coats?

    Alligator shoes?

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