Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Second rate reporter says what?

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

No one could have predicted…

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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I know some of you get sick and tired of my Lily stories, but you all can pound sand. About five mins ago I was getting read for bed, took off the bathrobe, removed the slippers, and was walking to the bathroom to brush the fangs before bed, and Lily jumped up from her perch on the bed and asked for a kiss. So I bent down, tried to give her a kiss, and apparently I had built up a static charge walking across the carpet in my socks, and Lily got blasted on the nose. She then just freaked out. Ran around the bed, threw herself on her back and burrowed into the comforter, and lay there with her paws running in the air while she was on her back.

It was seriously the most adorable thing ever.

I LOVE THAT DOG.

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  4. 4.

    gbear

    @The Fat Kate Middleton: Wow! Me too! I just listened to his ‘Where’d You Hide The Body’ CD.

    Can’t Make It Here Any More is a great song.

    This is the time of year where it gets difficult to pet the cats without zapping them. Then they get upset because they think you’re doing it to them on purpose.

  5. 5.

    Oltrol

    Good God! It’s definitely more enjoyable, and worthy than flogging the Ol’dead Congress X10 shenanigans.

  6. 6.

    JBL

    As a non-pet owner and reader-but-not-commenter-usually I’d like to note that the Lily posts are among my absolute favorite on this blog.

  8. 8.

    Lynn Dee

    Quote: “I know some of you get sick and tired of my Lily stories, but you all can pound sand.”

    Lol! Great line. Love the switcheroo in tone halfway through. :D

  9. 9.

    Ash Can

    Whoever said they were tired of your Lily stories?? (Aside from the usual trolls, and who gives a fuck about them?) Keep the Lily (and Tunch and RosIe et al.) storIes comIng!

  14. 14.

    The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    Lily, Tunch & Rosie are why I come here. Okay, well maybe not the ONLY reason, but they’re a damned big part of it.

  16. 16.

    Suzanne

    Tired of Lily stories? Uh, you know that’s why we come here, right? It certainly isn’t for the blog owner’s sparkling personality….

  18. 18.

    Or something like that.Suffern Ace

    @James E. Powell: I now know two people who like cats, but hate kittens and find them not merely “not cute” but actually vile. I will poll them about dog stories.

  21. 21.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @gbear: It’s also funny that Robert Earl Keen is more known as a performer of James McMurtry songs than JM is, i.e., Levelland.

  22. 22.

    Or something like that.Suffern Ace

    @Violet: I asked a few surface questions, but decided not to probe because I honestly didn’t think it wise to go places where I might not like ending up and be unable to leave.

  24. 24.

    Roger Moore

    @Violet:

    How in the world can someone hate kittens?

    I can imagine someone who likes cats because they’re laid back and hates kittens because they have too much energy and are too demanding of attention. They can easily be major agents of entropy, which really pisses people off.

  28. 28.

    Violet

    @Roger Moore: I can understand not liking that kittens are energetic and take your time and energy. But finding them “vile”? WTF? Not wanting one in your house and hating them are two very different things.

  29. 29.

    MikeJ

    I’m tired of John Boehner stories, although I would like to hear about you giving him a massive electrical shock.

  31. 31.

    jacy

    @MikeJ:

    Give Boehner a massive electrical shock and the fumes that no doubt emanate from his pores would likely cause him to spontaneously combust. Not that that would be a bad thing.

  41. 41.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @The Fat Kate Middleton:
    Damn. I don’t know whether to thank you or curse you. After the service I was a machinist. I saw it go away and there wasn’t a damned thing I could do (And I did try) to stop it.
    I saw the bridges to something like a middle class life burned by pols of both parties.

    In my ambivalence I offer you Bob Dylan “Hollis Brown.”

    I am glad now to be so old that I don’t have to watch this amazingly sad circus for much longer.

  42. 42.

    BGinCHI

    I’m a freshman at a large midwestern university. Much to my surprise, here is what happened when I was house sitting for my Romance Languages professor:

    “About five mins ago I was getting read for bed, took off the bathrobe, removed the slippers, and was walking to the bathroom to brush the fangs before bed….”

  44. 44.

    Redshift

    Grrr. I’m having to deal with the selfish and self-centered wife of my selfish and self-centered brother-in-law, who has turned my acceptance of a request for a favor into… well, let’s just say no good deed goes unpunished.

    Having successfully restrained myself from sending the response her email is begging for, I am now trying to calm down enough to go to sleep.

    Grrr…

  47. 47.

    Thursday

    *sigh*

    Took mine for a walk in the woods before going to work; three hours later she walked up to me, gave me a sad-eyed look, and vomited over five pounds of deer skin onto the floor.

    Somehow, it’s not quite as adorable as your story…

  48. 48.

    Violet

    @Redshift: Don’t let her win by affecting your sleep and health. Shake your head with wonder that someone has chosen to spend their life with her, thank your lucky stars that person isn’t you, and give yourself the gift of a good night’s sleep. You deserve it.

  49. 49.

    sharl

    @MikeJ: My favorite bit at that link is in the final sentence (the part bolded below):

    Taitz appeared to be upset after the hearing as supporters filed past her to thank her for pursuing the case, some calling her a “hero,” and others saying the judge’s decision was evidence of socialism.

    Hahaha, shine on, you crazy diamond Birther Teahadists!

  50. 50.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Earlier today I got one of the weirdest political spams I have ever seen, about Dianne Feinstein, titled “Sen. Dianne Goldman Feinstein Is A Loaded Gun Out to Destroy America”. Really bizarre, the first paragraph contained this:

    Feinstein’s first major attempt at gun control occurred when she ordained a citywide handgun ban as mayor of San Diego, Calif., in 1984, where an attempt at recall failed.

    San Diego? HA HA HA HA!

    The content of the email was apparently copied, verbatim, from some wingnut website.

  52. 52.

    Redshift

    @Violet: Thanks. I think I’ve gotten it out of my system, mostly. I wrote an overly long comment about the exact situation, then decided it was too much detail to post publicly and deleted it, but just writing it out seemed to help.

    It reminds me vaguely of a former friend of mine who recently got divorced. The Ms. and I decided that even though it was how we really felt, it probably wasn’t appropriate to say, “I’m sorry you’re getting divorced because you are both horrible people, and it’s better for you to be together so neither of you is inflicted on anyone else.”

    This couple isn’t that bad, but I won’t miss them when we see less of them.

  53. 53.

    piratedan

    still recovering from a holiday of life changing proportions here… son #1 left the nest and moved in with his fiance and good on them for doing so. Still a challenge because he hasn’t picked up all of his stuff so we’re still kind of watching that shoe drop in slow motion. Then son #2, through no fault of his own, brought his grades up to earn a new set of wheels (which we could actually afford to buy, damn you dual incomes!) which has made him deliriously happy even though he’s still working on his license. Intend to use it as a huge leverage source throughout the end of his teenage years because that’s what parents do. So the double whammy of one moving on and the other making the first steps into adulthood… makes me feel old.

    btw, anyone want a pair of purebred shelties that are skittish and bark anytime the doorbell is rung or knocked upon?

  55. 55.

    YellowJournalism

    I wonder what the perfect apology dog treat would be for “I shocked you up your nose”?

  60. 60.

    ranchandsyrup

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Mike Ness still has it. I think social d’s drummer used to be in suicidal tendencies. Never saw DK but would have loved to. Saw black flag. Used to catch 7 seconds shows quite a bit.

    There is a pennywise tour I’m gonna catch in march excited for that.

  61. 61.

    MacKenna

    I know some of you get sick and tired of my Lily stories,

    Who?

    I wish you would post more stories of Lily, Tunch and the Rose!

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @some guy:

    The story about Tom Delay is the one I was complaining about in an earlier thread when I said that some Facebook friends were posting supposedly “breaking news” stories that turned out to be two years old. I clicked on that and it turned out to be a January 2011 article. He is still out on bail and appealing the sentence as far as I can determine. Check the link of whatever you saw and have another look at the date. I’d love to be wrong about this. Wonder why it has suddenly popped up as a meme.

  63. 63.

    Patricia Kayden

    “I know some of you get sick and tired of my Lily stories”

    Names? We’ll beat them down for you.

  65. 65.

    Schlemizel

    @PurpleGirl:

    I don’t think its too hard for them but they know that google LIES!

    They google stuff like “where was Obama born” and “Define: soc” – well you know the word that may not be spoken here – and they get answers that do not match what they KNOW to be true. So google can’t be trusted!

  69. 69.

    magurakurin

    So, Elizabeth Warren is now Senator Warren. A good thing to be sure. And the usual suspects are beaming with joy, as they should, but it’s funny to me how those same folks were all telling me that Obama caving on Warren’s appointment to the Consumer Protection Bureau was the worst cave evah. Oh what a spineless dick Obama was then…

    But consumer advocate and one-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader called bypassing Warren “an act of political cowardliness by President Obama.” “Elizabeth Warren apparently is just too good, too smart, too able to arouse the just concerns of millions of American families over the need to put the law-and-order wood to the corporate criminals, defrauders and reckless speculators,” Nader said.

    link

    Yes, Ralph we hear you. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth by many.

    Robert Scheer let us know how it was an insight into the inner workings of the mind of that worthless sell out in the Whitehouse

    Obama’s refusal to take the fight to Senate Republicans by nominating Warren should be taken as the vital measure of the man. This gutless decision comes after the president populated his administration with the very people who created the financial meltdown.

    Yes, what a gutless coward.

    bobswern at the GOS got in his digs (as did hosts of others)
    and extolled us to stop making lame excuses about Obama’s failure.

    The list could go on and on.

    But, hey, bygones, eh?

    Maybe someday they will be right about something.

  71. 71.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    This is interesting:

    Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was wounded in a deadly mass shooting at an event in her Arizona district two years ago, will meet privately on Friday with the families of victims of last month’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.

    According to the same report she met with NYC Mayor Bloomberg. Maybe I’m reading too much into this but she would be the perfect spokesperson for new gun control legislation.

  72. 72.

    WereBear

    I am still astonished that someone could find kittens vile.

    Beanheaded entropy distruptors and pains in the rear; absolutely. But geez… kittens.

    How can anyone not feel the tug of those goofball faces?

  74. 74.

    Elizabelle

    @Linda Featheringill:

    I will take your word for it (re Krauthammer).

    Not taking him along with my morning coffee.

    @The Ancient Randonneur:

    Gabby Gifford would be an excellent advocate for gun safety.

    I hope it’s a coalition, though, with loved ones and survivors of Newtown, Aurora (the Dark Knight theatre shootings), Columbine, those who got shot (or lost family/friends) retail.

  77. 77.

    Mary G

    I get upset there aren’t MORE Lily stories, and MANY MORE Lily, Rosie and Tunch pictures.

  78. 78.

    BlueDWarrior

    what is with the constant Republican bleating about Obama not having any personal relationships or not putting together proposals for the Spending cuts that they [as Republicans] want so goddamn badly.

    Why is it that they and their hangers-on in the MSM want Democrats (especially Dem presidents) to do Republican jobs for them?

    My possible answer: the Republicans are gutless cowards and wont propose any real Spending cuts, just vague assertions that spending needs to be cut; or if they do pass spending cuts, they will pass them in such a way to where they don’t affect Seniors now (who vote heavily Republican)

  82. 82.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WereBear: I am allergic to the little bastards. And the grownup ones too. I don’t find them vile, but I certainly don’t want to spend time with them.

  83. 83.

    Cassidy

    @WereBear: I love kittens, but you can’t just eat one. Next thing you know, a whole litter is missing, the neighbor’s kid is crying “where’s Mr. Fluffyzoodle” and you’ve got a terrible case of indigestion.

  84. 84.

    Chyron HR

    @magurakurin:

    Those people are full of shit, sure, but I don’t see the contradiction. I think we have a couple of them on this site who sincerely claimed that electing Warren to the Senate would, in fact, stick it to the N-word.

  87. 87.

    handsmile

    @Raven:

    Tremendous news! I was watching “Morning Joe” specifically to hear from Frank when he made this declaration of interest in serving as the “placeholder” Senator from Massachusetts.

    Said his change of mind was due to to his belief of the enormous importance of the next two or three months for US fiscal affairs.

    Would be very surprised if Deval Patrick did not accept this offer (I have to think he was already alerted to it).

    To imagine Barney Frank and Elizabeth Warren serving as Massachusetts Senators in the weeks ahead is a great way to begin a day.

    (The story is already headlining at TPM and I’m sure it will be a front-thread here later today.)

  88. 88.

    Joy in FL

    It is not possible for me to read too many Lily or Tunch or Rosie or any other pet posts. Or see photos.

    Keep them coming

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