Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

“Alexa, change the president.”

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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

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

So many bastards, so little time.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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Picture of Max.

Max on the hill

Not much to say about the mechanics of this pic. It illustrates what I said before about holding the camera low; in this case I held it real low, almost touching the ground, and used the GH2’s fold-out LCD to compose. I got close to the dog with my 20mm lensCorrection: I used my manual 50mm lens and focused by hand on Max’s eye. The aperture was fairly wide to blur background and I just snapped away until I got a few that I like. The most important part was keeping an eye on the light to find a moment when Max flopped down on a spot on the grass lit softly by late-day light, then I circled around to get a perspective with the light coming from off to one side to emphasize Max’s dimensionality.

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  1. 1.

    Walker

    The current adds I am seeing on this site are for defending against a dividend tax hike. With what looks like a blue collar worker. Since when does a blue collar worker earn enough from dividends to give a damn?

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    trollhattan

    Lord, I wish my dog would tolerate being photographed, much less “pose.” Grumble, grumble. Mister Max, he’s a star and seems to know it. Also, too, photos leaked today of apparent Canon mirrorless system cam. Very bland design, but that’s no surprise from the Toyota of camera makers.

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    muddy

    Here’s my dog Sawyer having fun at the millpond.
    flickr.com/photos/mudpix/7611735192/in/photostream
    We did not see minks this week. Some kids piled up rocks from the shoreand made a little dam to make it deeper, I liked that, the dog not so much. He loves the water but not to swim. I made him come out but he was swimming vertically, which was really inefficient for him. He needs to stop trying to get his back toes down to the bottom.

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