Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

In my day, never was longer.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

No one could have predicted…

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

After roe, women are no longer free.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

This blog will pay for itself.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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Alumni weekend here, so the house is full of brothers from other decades. Steve and I spent the afternoon cooking down a marinara from roma tomatoes and making home made pasta, fed about a dozen peeps, and are now heading to the bar.

He also is a mountain man who hikes every day, so he brought with him about a lb of fresh morels and we are going to have rocking omelets with morels and eggs raised a 1/2 mile away with that creamy yolk goodness, some bacon from my buddy down the way, and I will make some waffles with flour and Honey from the Amish.

Little Feat is cranking, my boys are back, and all is good. Homecoming and Alumni weekend are my favorite weekends of the year.

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  1. 1.

    Little Boots

    john cole, I know you don’t like me, but you are awesome. just want to say it. really. I do like you.

  2. 2.

    Captain Goto

    Good shit is all around. Despite the Pens shitting the bed, I have a very fine porter in front of me, and a SLAMMIN’ jazz band closing out the night with “Work Song” by Cannonball Adderley.
    Have a ball, John.

  3. 3.

    Little Boots

    really, just you and me, buddy. well, I do actually like you. You are brave, always have been. I truly admire you.

  6. 6.

    w3ski

    Morels! That does it, I am coming from California to join you for Breakfast. I love those little critters.
    I’d saute them before the omlet but they produce tons of water when sauteed, have a before egg drain time for best use!
    w3ski

  7. 7.

    p.a.

    Homecoming, alumni weekend. The 3am alcohol-fueled blog post this weekend will be a happy one. No rants in the forecast.

  10. 10.

    dance around in your bones

    …so the house is full of brothers from other decades.

    For some reason, that made me think of brother from another planet. Just the phrasing.

    I have no idea what that means, but your effort on behalf of your old frat is impressive. And I want morels, too, gawdammit!

  13. 13.

    Hill Dweller

    Any NBA fans here? Joey Crawford is tossing players out of the game like his life depends on it in the Grizzlies-Clippers game.

  19. 19.

    Fluke bucket

    Well has Israel bombed Syria or are the news channels spewing bullshit again?

  22. 22.

    Anne Laurie

    @dance around in your bones: Brother from Another Planet is — like Slap Shot — one of those infinitely watchable / quotable films. And a great social filter, as far as I’m concerned; people who whine or nitpick about either of them, IMO, just aren’t worth the bother of knowing better.

    (Also too, I loved Joe Morton’s role as a conspiracy theorist/mad scientist in the first seasons of Smallville, and as the — spinoff? — ‘asylum keeper’ in Eureka… )

  23. 23.

    Little Boots

    but everything I say is true.

    I really do like john.

    where the hell is he?

  26. 26.

    Hill Dweller

    @JCJ: During the free throw, Paul came down and gave Gasol a shot to the ribs, which led to the technical. But I suspect Paul had been doing stuff throughout the game.

    Crawford has a quick trigger, but I can’t see him throwing people out of a playoff game unless they crossed the line repeatedly.

  31. 31.

    dance around in your bones

    @Anne Laurie:

    Card Trickster: I have another magic trick for you. Wanna see me make all the white people disappear?

    Subway Public Address Announcer: Fifty-Ninth Street, Columbus Circle; 125th Street next. This an Uptown A Express going to 207. Change for the AA local across the platform, the D, or the upper level, change for the number 1 Broadway trains.

    Card Trickster: See, what’d I tell ya?

    Subway Public Address Announcer: Uptown A, 125th street, next.

    Heh.

    eta: Little Boots, do you know you are sometimes creepy?

  32. 32.

    Little Boots

    sometimes, but seriously, could some of you got game, someimes? I actually like John, I’m not sure about most of you.

  35. 35.

    GxB

    Oh Christ, contrary to the crap weather in the Midwest, it must be spring and someone’s been licking the early toads.

  39. 39.

    specialed5000

    I’m gonna have to listen to some Little Feat. Don’t know much about them except the radio songs, but it seems like JC and I share a taste in Zappa and the Dead and a few other bands he’s mentioned.

  40. 40.

    trollhattan

    @GxB:

    93 today and at least ten CA counties have fires at the moment, our snowpack is 17 percent of normal, so yeah, it’s spring somewhere.

    We’ll take any spare snow/rain/sleet/thick haze you have to spare, thanks. God, I dread July.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    @specialed5000:
    Pretty much anything while Lowell George was alive will make you life a bit better. The live “Waiting for Columbus” album is a mighty fine place to start.

  44. 44.

    lojasmo

    Sounds like fun, John, (except for all the people)

    Little Boots is ALWAYS creepy.

    Lojasmo +2 (bottles of red wine…shared with the Mrs.)

  47. 47.

    trollhattan

    @Little Boots:

    Depends. If “love” as a transitive verb, then creepy, yes. If “love” in the agape sense, than perhaps not.

  48. 48.

    Little Boots

    17? wow. I am surprised.

    and agape, is such a cool word. I love that.

  50. 50.

    NotMax

    @Anne Laurie

    Oooh, quotable movies.

    Gotta mention Putney Swope. $100 absurdism on a $15 budget.

    “Are you for surreal?”

    (Also a movie which uses one of the most hideous American production cars ever: a 1959 Chrysler Imperial limousine.)

  53. 53.

    Little Boots

    you’e right, yutsano. I do push it sometimes. I can’t help myself.

  55. 55.

    Redshift

    @NotMax: Speaking of which, I got sucked into watching the last half-hour or so of Galaxy Quest, which happens pretty much any time it’s on and I pause long enough watch any of it.

    “Whoever wrote this episode should die!” :-)

  56. 56.

    dance around in your bones

    @Little Boots: You repeat yourself, repeat yourself, ad infinitum.

    And always on the same two guys.

    @Redshift: One of my most favorite movies – I will always watch it, no matter where or when it comes on. Plus, Alan Rickman!

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    Oh hey, uck fay.

    WASHINGTON — Israel aircraft bombed a target in Syria, an Obama administration official said late Friday, as U.S. officials said they were considering military options, including carrying out their own airstrikes.

    The strike occurred overnight Thursday into Friday, the official said. It did not appear that a chemical-weapons site was targeted; an official said the strike appeared to have hit a warehouse.

    U.S. officials did not provide details on the target of the Israeli strike. But in late January, Israel carried out airstrikes against SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles, which the Israelis feared were about to be moved to the Hezbollah Shiite militia in Lebanon.

    http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2020918798_airstrikesyriaxml.html

  67. 67.

    Little Boots

    yutsano, it’s okay to actually like me. I’m pretty likable. john does, although he gets pissed about it.

  68. 68.

    YellowJournalism

    Little Boots got into the Ghostbusters 2 happy slime, I see. Now BJ is one entire love-in, and he’s hosting.

  69. 69.

    Little Boots

    little boots likes the booze, but seriously, yellowJ tell me one time I have ever said anything mean about anyone here.

  74. 74.

    Mnemosyne

    We’re getting our carpets professionally cleaned tomorrow, so the morning will be spent trying to trap cats who do NOT like to get in their carriers thankyewverymuch and then trying to pick up as much crap off the floor as possible before the guy gets here.

  77. 77.

    Little Boots

    seriously, it’s just me.

    john will not be happy. and you know things go bad when john is not happy.

    he could flip again.

    but he won’t. probably.

    let’s make fun of john. okay.

    I’m john. I can go any way. politicially, that is. I think.

  85. 85.

    NeoOstrakon

    Dude, you make me miss Morgantown. 91 grad.5 year plan. Delt. Saw the pics of Sunnyside being razed and it nearly broke my heart. Have some college buddies out here in Portland, Workmeister, O’keefe, Foster, Jerome, might just have to call them up now for a beer. Next time you’re at the fishbowl please toast on for me. I wonder if my friend Jack’s record of most cigs smoked at one time still stands? Cheers.

  92. 92.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Amir Khalid: When I first saw the nym ‘little boots’ I thought Caligula. To further prove my geekdom, I’m having great fun looking at Google Earth in 3d with 3d glasses. Ah, what I do for thrills these days.

  93. 93.

    Death Panel Truck

    It’s no wonder you’re such a fat fuck. You eat all the goddamn time. Try going on a goddamn diet. You’ll feel better, and the ladies will flock to you.

    That is, um, if you want them to. But it’s okay if you don’t. ;)

  94. 94.

    hamletta

    There are a handful of software thingies that one can use to manage a church. The one I’m stuck with is horrible, and I want to die.

    It’s a racket: The documentation is non-existent, because they want to sell you webinars and conventions that cost $$$.

    I hate these pious dweebs with the heat of a thousand suns.

    All I want to do is record who showed up and took communion because I am required by the constitution and by-laws of my parish to do so, and it’s a fucking nightmare.

  97. 97.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    Went to bed unusually early–before 11:00–and am now wide awake. I have read the New York Times and am thinking of getting up to watch old Perry Mason episodes. That is all.

  98. 98.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Google Maps in 3d? First, you need 3d glasses(red/blue). Second, you need a video card that will display 3d. One of machines has a nvida(sp?) and it does 3d natively, my other machine(this one) has a amd video card and requires a program to do 3d(tridef is the program). Finally you have to start google earth in directx mode, not openGL. From there I think it’s just tools/options and there’s a 3d tab.

  101. 101.

    raven

    @Baud: Now that is funny.
    “Off your ass
    and on your feet
    out of the shade
    and into the heat”!

  102. 102.

    raven

    @Baud: This was my Drill Sergeant, SFC Dallas A. Pinkney. He was one bad motherfucker and, amazingly, he really gave a shit about us.

    eta That is a picture of him with the ESAEUR Drill team, not some dumb ass boots at Ft Campbell.

  103. 103.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    I heard a bunch of racket about a half hour ago and looked out the window to see our cat Stewie and his buddy Marley the neighbor cat chasing two raccoons down the street. One of the raccoons was making a chirping/grunting noise, which was what got my attention. I got them to leave the raccoons alone and Stewie finally came inside.

    It’s about 70 out now here on the south Oregon coast and the pets were out partying.

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