Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I really should read my own blog.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Republicans do not trust women.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

You cannot shame the shameless.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

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

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

This blog will pay for itself.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Dog Blogging / Open Thread

Reader Interactions

89Comments

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne

    I love the mournful look of the pit bull in that last photo, like, “Do you see what I put up with?”

  8. 8.

    pamelabrown53

    @Omnes Omnibus: Nah. 1st pic has to be a baby buffalo? A grizz wouldn’t have such long hair?

    P.S. On second thought, could it be a genetically altered boar? Heh.

  16. 16.

    pamelabrown53

    @Omnes Omnibus: You are right: it appears to have paws instead of hooves. I started googling long-haired dogs and got nada.

    Maybe it is a young bear.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    Could this desire to lead other dogs around mean Max has … political ambitions?

  19. 19.

    Lavocat

    Because – at first glance – it looked as though you had somehow photoshopped (videoshopped?) Gollum into #2, I just had to watch.

    Dogs playing have always reminded me of happy-drunk teenaged boys; just living for the moment and nothing more.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Amir Khalid:

    Could this desire to lead other dogs around mean Max has … political ambitions?

    Better that than breeding an unholy army of bear-bison hybrids for Tunch to command.

  24. 24.

    Yutsano

    MAXPUPPEH!!

    And Newfie definitely needs an appointment with the groomer. But they shed like mad and winter is ending.

  26. 26.

    Winston Smith

    There was an odd little flash of wingnuttery on the Interwebs over the weekend. What amounted to wingnut fanfic about the new Pope was posted to a diocesan web site (Sanford, UK) for about an hour before being taken down.

    The upshot seems to be that the wingnuts are trying to convince everyone that the new Pope is Rush Limbaugh in a Pope hat for some reason. They really, really, really, want to believe this.

    The Telegraph blog was on it.

    P.S. Found this on Free Republic (duh) and Freepers were split as to its legitimacy. One Freeper noted that the fictional journalist claimed to have gone to the same schools as Chris Matthews. Nice catch.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Ha! I was going to reply to the commenters who thought it was a buffalo or a yak or a bear or a musk ox, but soon realized it would put me in moderation because Too Many Links.

    So I’ll just say, Me Too! I thought it was those things too!

  33. 33.

    Dee Loralei

    @Winston Smith: wow. That has to be fake. It was written exactly in wing-nut speak, especially showing the interviewer get all huffy when the Cardinal out-debated him. Sheesh, they so desperately need affirmation of their own fears they fake this type of junk.

  34. 34.

    Gindy51

    O/T 17 year cicadas are coming to a town near you if you live in: CT, MD, NC, NJ, NY, PA, VA
    Just a heads up for any of you who have dogs because they won’t be tugging on leashes, they’ll be eating the damned bugs!
    cicadamania.com/where.html

  35. 35.

    scav

    Newfie-Grizzly cross-breed? Got a bit of that bearish hump in front and that front paw could be moving toward claw.

  39. 39.

    Calming Influence

    I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that was a buffalo/musk ox/smallish griz. Holy crap, that is one burly lookin’ doggie!

    Plus, Max is demonstrating once again that dogs could give a shit how big their adversary is. You could swap out Max with a chihuahua and it would still be a believable picture.

  40. 40.

    TaMara (BHF)

    Max! And I love Newfies, though Sammy could steal my heart in a second.

    But seriously, met my first Newfie when I was a kid, love at first nuzzle. If it wasn’t for the hair…

  42. 42.

    Anoniminous

    I’m In Love:

    And precisely what risk did you [Richard Perle] “manage”? What chance did you take? You gambled with other people’s children in a game you’d helped rig. What cost was exacted from you, sitting your fat ass in a swivel chair at a wingnut intellectual chop-shop while kids are still staggering around the wards without legs and arms, or the cognitive functions to get them through the day? What price did you pay? You have to send out for lunch one day? Show me the butcher’s bill for the Perle household, you vampire son of a bitch.

  45. 45.

    Calming Influence

    @TaMara (BHF): Hey TaMara, I tried your pressure cooker corned beef recipe (pickle juice variation) on Saturday and it was a HUGE success. I left the veggies in the pressure cooker maybe a minute too long, because the cabbage got a little mushy, but the carrots and potatoes came out perfect, and the corned beef was amazing. Thanks!

  46. 46.

    scav

    @Anoniminous: The words “’public editor’ of The New York Times” are now enough to put my teeth on edge. Where and How (the Why is obvious) do they keep digging up these sorry excuses for journalists and people? (sic sic sic)

  48. 48.

    The Moar You Know

    I knew the first pic was a newfie because we used to own one. Well, half a one, anyhow. The other half was lab. He was freaking huge. Goddamn, Barton, RIP and you are missed every damn day.

  50. 50.

    Hill Dweller

    If this has been covered in previous threads, apologies, but I see the wingnuts are going after the President’s daughters because they’re spending their spring break in the Bahamas. (H/T LGF)

  52. 52.

    Anoniminous

    @scav:

    I don’t care anymore. I don’t care if their mommies were mean to them or if they have a mental problem or if they are intellectual whores. I want them to all Go Away and DIAF.

  53. 53.

    Arm The Homeless

    @Southern Beale: I love the tidbits from the Heartland that you bring to my attention, but is there any way you will let me find you a next masthead pic that doesn’t pixilate like the one of the lady on the fainting couch you have now?

  54. 54.

    Ash Can

    @J.: OMG, that Bubala Please vid is hilarious! And those recipes look great, especially the matzo ball one.

  55. 55.

    Arm The Homeless

    BJ IT nerdz: when I click the edit function it refreshes the main page. I assume the edit function is simply there to taunt me and hasn’t been fully integrated with the Meth addicted squirrels in the server quite yet. (Android, JB 4.2.2 with cm10 custom browser)

  56. 56.

    WereBear

    @Winston Smith: The upshot seems to be that the wingnuts are trying to convince everyone that the new Pope is Rush Limbaugh in a Pope hat for some reason. They really, really, really, want to believe this.

    If this isn’t Peak Wingnut, I don’t know what would be.

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WereBear:

    If this isn’t Peak Wingnut, I don’t know what would be.

    You are kidding yourself. Someone will top it. Sorry.

  58. 58.

    Ash Can

    @Hill Dweller: Not only that, but LGF’s latest front-page post relates that the Breitbart site has helpfully disclosed the exact whereabouts of the girls, presumably as a public service to anyone who might want to go there and bid them the time of day…

    Whatever the Secret Service agents are being paid these days, it’s not enough.

  59. 59.

    scav

    @Anoniminous: co-signed, although I’d enjoy personally stomping a bit. ‘Spose I can do it on their still-warm ashes. May their names be a hissing on the wind.

  60. 60.

    Flying Squirrel Girl

    Since this is an open thread, I’ll say this: I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix (her mother was full blooded) and did not know nor have a clue as to what the father might have been. Last year when JC’s sister was fostering a RR mix, he put up a picture and asked what the dog might be and someone in the thread replied Ridgeback/Black Mouth Cur. After doing some research on BMCs, I am convinced that is what I have. And she is the best dog I’ve ever had.

  63. 63.

    Mnemosyne

    @Hill Dweller:

    It’s especially weird to me that wingnuts are all exercised that they went to the Atlantis in a group, because for a “luxury resort,” it’s not actually all that expensive (seriously, $199 a night for an all-inclusive? And they probably got a group discount on top of that).

    I guess it’s just a continuation of how the Obamas aren’t allowed to spend his government salary on, well, anything because THAT’S THE PEEPLES MONEY!1!

  64. 64.

    Hill Dweller

    @Ash Can: The racists wingnuts are stoking resentment of the black people in the WH. They don’t give a shit about the children’s safety. Hell, I bet there are quite a few who would celebrate something happening to them.

  65. 65.

    Arm The Homeless

    @Mnemosyne: The whole shtick until midterms is going to be focused on GUVMINT WASTE OMG1111!1!!!!111

    I am comfortable letting the slow burn of contractors with short paychecks fall into GOP laps, provided that the Dems have some sort of consistent PR strategy to point the blame right back on them. Maybe I am missing some steps in this, YMMV.

  66. 66.

    Violet

    @Mnemosyne: Yeah, I was going to say that too. The Atlantis resort isn’t exactly the most expensive, exclusive resort on the Bahamas. It’s the kind ordinary families go to because there are lots of activities for the kids and it’s not too expensive. The Obamas could have picked a much more expensive place for their daughters if they had wanted.

  67. 67.

    Ash Can

    @Arm The Homeless: In all seriousness, I have to wonder if this is a prosecutable violation of some kind. It’s not as though this is simply a case of the other vacationers at that resort texting their friends back home and saying “Hey, guess who we saw in the lobby this morning.” This is a (supposed) mass communication outlet pinpointing the girls’ location. I should think that, at the least, the odious schmucks at Breitbart would receive a less-than-friendly phone call from the humorless guys in the black suits for their trouble.

  69. 69.

    Hill Dweller

    @Ash Can: Apparently a wingnut at the Atlantis resort took a picture of the Obama children and sent it to The Ghost of Breitbart’s site.

    So that idiot can vacation there, but it’s an outrage if the Obama children do the same.

  70. 70.

    Ash Can

    @Hill Dweller: Whenever I think about this, it just makes me sad. Here we are, looking at what in many ways is the Camelot that the Kennedys, and the nation, never really got to enjoy — a young, smart, glamorous family in the White House who serve as an inspiration to millions around the nation at a time of economic and international difficulty and uncertainty. One of the most brilliant and charismatic presidents in history. A FLOTUS who’s right up there with Jackie in the glamour department and Hillary in the smarts department (and quite possibly surpassing them). A couple of kids who can’t help but be America’s little sweethearts, just like Caroline and John-John were. And so many people in this nation not only not recognizing it, but actively and viciously rejecting it.

    Oh well. I loves me some First Family to pieces, and the haters can all go to hell. History won’t be kind, though, in judging how this nation treated one of its most splendid First Families ever.

  71. 71.

    ricky

    Good Southern Headline at Talking Points Memo

    “Mississippi Legislator Shot Dead in Apparent Suicide”

    Sheriff ain’t returning the AP’s phone calls. Guess not,
    since he’s still trying to figure out how somebody what was already dead when they’s shot can kill their own self.

  72. 72.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @ricky:

    Well, that didn’t stop Allende from committing suicide by shooting himself in the back with automatic weapons fire.

  73. 73.

    West of the Rockies

    @Ash Can: Well, even if it is, the wingers would freak out and scurry to the fainting couch if the Obama’s tried to pursue prosecution; after all, liberals are supposed to be endlessy tolerant, right?

  76. 76.

    Ash Can

    @Villago Delenda Est: That makes me think of the rumors that would come out of Albania from time to time years ago about out-of-favor pols who would commit suicide by shooting themselves 20 times and then throwing themselves out of windows.

  77. 77.

    ? Martin

    @ricky:

    Good Southern Headline at Talking Points Memo

    That’s a deliberate tactic, IMO. In the last several months I’ve seen countless suicides headlined the same way – specifically to highlight that this was yet another gun death. I don’t recall seeing that wording prior to a few months ago.

  80. 80.

    Phoenix_rising

    @The Moar You Know: Us too! Our first dog together was a Newf-retriver cross with a brown coat.

    170 pounds of love and slobber. He would chase the tennis ball in the choppy waters off the dock until I stopped throwing from weakness. Then he slept 23 hours. I owned a light truck at the time and found a car wash that had a gentle warm setting, so each of these play sessions cost me $1.75.

    Although I should have sold tickets to the gathering crowd, as Bails amazed everyone by standing as told in the bed of the truck, waiting for the rinse cycle. He would then shake his entire body and jump off the tailgate and into the cab.

    …Loved that dog. Tried to adopt another Newf, but the rescue said in our desert climes a Dane would be similar but happier in summer, and she’s great too.

  81. 81.

    ranchandsyrup

    For no good reason at all I perused Robert Zimmerman Jr.’s twitter excusathon for his brother Georgie. Short version: teh blahs are evil so it’s OK to shoot them.

  82. 82.

    ruviana

    Really late to this thread but I’m sooo relieved that a lot of people also thought that Max was encountering a buffalo or some other ungulate in that first pic.

  83. 83.

    West of the Rockies

    I see Bachmann is in a bit of ethics trouble… How lovely! Don’t you think she looks tired?

    Hey, it worked for the 9th Doctor with Harriet Jones… maybe it’ll work with Minnesota’s 6th District psycho!

  89. 89.

    Calming Influence

    @TaMara (BHF):

    @Calming Influence: Awww! I think that just made my day. Thanks. Now what should we have this Friday??

    I have a huge weakness for beef burgundy. The recipe I use is a Dutch Oven two day extravaganza of marinating, browning, sautéing, slicing and dicing, etc. While fun, I don’t always have time to do all that. I would love a recipe that approximates a quality Boeuf Bourguignon without quite so much effort?

    Cheers!

Comments are closed.