Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

The lights are all blinking red.

People are complicated. Love is not.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

In my day, never was longer.

No one could have predicted…

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

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

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

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

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  6. 6.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    Well, since its an open thread, I should mention that I just got offered a job! A junior software engineering position. Its a .Net gig at a small firm, so isn’t the highest paying, but I’m so MOTHERFUCKING EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. 8.

    Anya

    @MoeLarryAndJesus: Some parents enjoy dressing their babies in costumes. I have childhood pictures with me dressed exactly like lil Cole.

    I think from age 2 month to 12 month, all my clothes consisted of bunny, rabbit and dragon costumes. I swear there’s a picture of me wearing a pink poodle costume and I don’t think it was Halloween.

    I am still deciding whether that was child abuse or not.

  15. 15.

    Origuy

    @Amanda in the South Bay: Congratulations!

    I had to interview a new college grad today, and we have another coming in next week. I don’t remember how many years it’s been since I did that. Part of it is the economy is picking up, part is that upper management realized that they couldn’t keep having people retire without some new blood.

  16. 16.

    Yutsano

    @Origuy:

    part is that upper management realized that they couldn’t keep having people retire without some new blood.

    Could I get you to please please please please PLEASE convince upper management of the IRS of this? We have so many holes to fill right now we’re gonna get creamed come next filing season.

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    YellowJournalism

    I’ve dressed both my boys up as the Devil in their first year, and this year I’m forcing my youngest to actually wear the Scooby Doo one he picked out last year and changed his mind about. And he’ll look adorable in it, dammit!

    For embarrassing (although for different reasons) costumes from childhood, nothing beats my mother dressing my sis up as the most fucked-up-looking clown with bright pink hair and not-purposefully scary make-up. In the pics, my sister resembled a female version of Pennywise from “It.”

    ETA: What exactly is wrong with a young infant boy being dressed up as a ladybug, beyond the bullshit gender stereotyping? What? You expect them to borrow some of Cole’s old military gear and make him go as old school GI Joe?

  22. 22.

    Anne Laurie

    Ladybug costumes? Strictly amateur, Cole! The mother of my first serious long-term relationship partner* not only shared the traditional photo of Baby Partner nekkid in the bathtub (with both hands modestly clasped over his infant gentlemanparts, for added hilarity), she made me admire the breast-feeding notebook she’d stored away for just such a situation. Not instructions, just page after page of time-dated “Right. Left. Right. Left.” in different inks & increasingly illegible scrawls.

    If you really want to embarrass your teenaged godson, start planning now, so that eventually you’ll be able to say “I was the one who taught Cole how to use a public urinal”… yes, I know another proud godfather who is saving that anecdote for the now-college-aged kid’s eventual wedding or Noble Prize acceptance ceremony, whichever comes first.

    There’s another kid at a different college who I could legitimately toast “The first time I met X, he was lying half-naked in a hotel room, surrounded by ladies in various states of undress, and screaming in frustration that he couldn’t grab every exposed titty at the same time… “ (Kid was a breastfeeding six-month old at a bridal lingerie shower, but it’s all in the presentation.)

    (*not the Spousal Unit)

  24. 24.

    cckids

    @Anya: I have pics of my little sister dressed as a skunk. Completely adorable.

    I once dressed my then-13 year old son (who uses a wheelchair) as the Cat in the Hat, transforming the wheelchair into the machine that picks up the house. Made the two younger ones (then 1 & 3) dress as Thing One and Thing Two. Yes, they were accessories.

    It was awesome.

  25. 25.

    sherparick

    Very cute.

    Of course, when in 20 years we read that he has gone all Lizzie Borden on you all, we will understand.

  26. 26.

    Uncle Cosmo

    From the age of 3 or 4, my younger nephew was fond of making faces every time I pointed a camera at him, & he got better (i.e., more baroquely bizarre) at it as the years wore on. “Keep it up,” I’d tell him. “I’m saving every one of these & putting it in an album & the night of your senior prom, when you bring your sweetie over to meet the folks, Uncle Cos will be sitting in the living room with a big fat album & say, ‘Siddown over here, hon, let me show you the real guy you’re going out with tonight.'”

    Not sure if the threat had anything to do with it, but he finally abandoned the practice shortly before high school…& prom night passed without incident.

  27. 27.

    Uncle Cosmo

    From the age of 3 or 4, my younger nephew was fond of making faces every time I pointed a camera at him, & he got better (i.e., more baroquely bizarre) at it as the years wore on. “Keep it up,” I’d tell him. “I’m saving every one of these & putting it in an album & the night of your senior prom, when you bring your sweetie over to meet the folks, Uncle Cos will be sitting in the living room with a big fat album & say, ‘Siddown over here, hon, let me show you the real guy you’re going out with tonight.'”

    Not sure if the threat had anything to do with it, but he finally abandoned the practice shortly before high school…& prom night passed without incident.

  28. 28.

    Uncle Cosmo

    From the age of 3 or 4, my younger nephew was fond of making faces every time I pointed a camera at him, & he got better (i.e., more baroquely bizarre) at it as the years wore on. “Keep it up,” I’d tell him. “I’m saving every one of these & putting it in an album & the night of your senior prom, when you bring your sweetie over to meet the folks, Uncle Cos will be sitting in the living room with a big fat album & say, ‘Siddown over here, hon, let me show you the real guy you’re going out with tonight.'”

    Not sure if the threat had anything to do with it, but he finally abandoned the practice shortly before high school…& prom night passed without incident.

  29. 29.

    Uncle Cosmo

    From the age of 3 or 4, my younger nephew was fond of making faces every time I pointed a camera at him, & he got better (i.e., more baroquely bizarre) at it as the years wore on. “Keep it up,” I’d tell him. “I’m saving every one of these & putting it in an album & the night of your senior prom, when you bring your sweetie over to meet the folks, Uncle Cos will be sitting in the living room with a big fat album & say, ‘Siddown over here, hon, let me show you the real guy you’re going out with tonight.'”

    Not sure if the threat had anything to do with it, but he finally abandoned the practice shortly before high school…& prom night passed without incident.

  31. 31.

    Josie

    My middle son was in the habit of taking off his clothes and running around in the buff until he was about 5 years old. We kept dressing him and he kept taking stuff off. I have two pictures of him, one from the front and one from the back, totally naked except for Garfield roller skates and a Zorro hat and mask. When he got married last year and the bride wanted pictures for the slide show, I took pity and only sent the one from the back. It was a big hit with the wedding guests. Luckily for me, he has a sense of humor.

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