Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Come on, man.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Giving up is unforgivable.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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

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

75% of people clapping liked the show!

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I got a bunch of shit done today. Still gotta call mom, gonna eat first.

  2. 2.

    Schlemizel

    Yeah, actually it is too late to call my mom – all I have to say is never miss an opportunity to let your mom know how much she means to you, say it out loud so she hears you.

    Because no matter how often you say it there will come a day you wish you had said it more.

  3. 3.

    Irish Steel

    Allmusic on Procol Harum:

    “Despite the group’s moderate sales in England and America, they remained among the more popular progressive rock bands, capable of reaching more middle-brow listeners who didn’t have the patience for Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson.”

    I see. So the excruciatingly pompous ELP and King Crimson attract a more patient, high-brow kind of listener. Got it.

  4. 4.

    PsiFighter37

    Back home from LA after a busy but very eventful weekend overall. Great to see the LA Juicers on Friday night!

    Rest of the day – probably something along the lines of exercising, cleaning up a little, and GoT at 9 PM.

  5. 5.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    I just got back from Mom’s. A 140 mile round trip, thank you.
    I gave her a nice outdoor potted gardenia arrangement from the local garden center which looks great. We had tea and talked about the usual stuff; travel, weather, cars, foolish other people, pets, family. Always worth the trip.

  7. 7.

    Irish Steel

    Pushing 70, my mother is too busy at dog agility trials to return my calls.

  8. 8.

    c u n d gulag

    Just having a drink, watching the Yankees, waiting for a pizza to be delivered – a large pie, with all fresh garlic, half-pepperoni, 2 plain, and two with sausage.
    YUM!!!

    From a really, really good local place, not some chain (crap) pizza!

  9. 9.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I don’t want to alarm anyone but arguingwithsanity has been missing since yesterday.

  11. 11.

    Xenos

    This is not a story that my people tell,
    but one that I know, for myself
    –Laurie Anderson

  16. 16.

    Riley's Enabler

    Just got back from Mom’s; made her a brunch around a cream-cheese filled French toast casserole and now I need a nap.

    Or maybe a cleansing, since my half-deaf mom had FoxSpews turned to 11.

    As an aside, my fundie Aunt was claiming that EVIL OBAMACARE will make everyone be vaccinated or else FINES AND TERRIBLENESS. I was unaware of this fact/nonfact so I couldn’t argue. Anyone know of what she was shrieking?

  17. 17.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Irish Steel: Can you just post his personal information so we can make sure he is alright? Do you have his bank account and routing information?

  18. 18.

    lojasmo

    Fell trail running yesterday, so gimping around. I may take a walk in the woods. Trolling Portland Craigslist for a cheap but clean NA Miata. If I find one, I will drive it home from vacation next month.

    Other than that: Wine.

    ETA: Derp, mom and grandmom both passed away in 2010.

  19. 19.

    Calming Influence

    I’ve got one of those late moms, but I never did the whole Mother’s Day thing other than a call usually. I loved doing little surprises; flowers on a random Wednesday, coming home on leave without letting her know before hand, weeding and composting her entire front garden while she and dad were away on vacation. I really thought it meant more than just a corny Hallmark Holiday.

    Then the left all their money to my sister.

  20. 20.

    elmo

    Mom’s been gone since Jan 1991 – age 53, lifetime smoker, lung cancer. I was 24; I envy my older brothers for their extra time with her.
    Dad just died in December (on my birthday) – Father’s Day is going to be exceptionally hard this year.
    So I’m +2 at a quarter to five in the afternoon.

  21. 21.

    Yatsuno

    @lojasmo: Watch the tax rules when you take it back to MN. OR has no sales tax and a lot of states get bitchy if you buy a car in a no sales tax state and register it back home. WA is especially nasty about this.

    @elmo: Hugz. They’ll always be a part of you.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    My mother passed away from a heart attack in October 2004, on the eve of the third of Ramadhan and just hours after meeting my sister’s newly adopted baby boy. I didn’t get her to the ER in time.

    This is a clip of the title song from Ibu (Mother), a 1953 film starring Malaysian legend P. Ramlee. The first line goes, ‘Mother, Mother, you are the queen of my heart’. It’s the Mother’s Day song here in Malaysia.

  23. 23.

    Calming Influence

    @Amir Khalid: That’s a cool 50’s movie clip, but is that woman he was sitting with supposed to be his MOM?!? Did she have him when she was nine?

    ETA: My mom passed away on Good Friday. As good a day to go as any, and I kind of like the randomness of it, not being a specific date. Weird, I guess, thinking that.

  24. 24.

    lojasmo

    @Yatsuno:

    : Watch the tax rules when you take it back to MN. OR has no sales tax and a lot of states get bitchy if you buy a car in a no sales tax state and register it back home. WA is especially nasty about this.

    Yup. They’ll gather the taxes when I register it in Minnesota.

  27. 27.

    Calming Influence

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s been a while since I saw Ibu, but the woman with P. Ramlee (the singer) is his date, not his mother.

    Alright then, I feel more comfortable saying she’s a hottie.

  28. 28.

    wmd

    I had a tradition of bringing manure to my mother for Mother’s Day. I would get a truck load or two of horse manure for my own gardens each spring, and come Mother’s day I’d fill up a couple of trash cans and wheel barrow it around for her gardens.

    We both were amused that I gave her shit for Mother’s Day. Her friends were appalled, but she knew that it would make her vegetables and flowers thrive.

    Tradition ended in 2008 with her death.

  29. 29.

    YellowJournalism

    Looks like someone decided to celebrate Mothers Day by shooting at a parade in New Orleans.

  32. 32.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Calming Influence: I think there was some confusion since I didn’t participate in the pile-on of the new site design or developer lady. She’s a super nice lady and I slept through the changes.

  34. 34.

    Roger Moore

    My kitty just decided to reward me with the first hairball of the season. I was hoping to go through the shedding season without even one.

  35. 35.

    Ruckus

    @wmd:
    My mom probably would have thought that was hilarious. And perfectly normal. Don’t know what her roses would have thought.

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    It’s not too late to call your mom, assuming your mom is not late.

    Yeah, the roaming charges for the latter are really punitive.

    The serif font in the headlines smacks of the Police Gazette.

    Plus, the use of small caps rather than lower case impedes readability.

  37. 37.

    raven

    I bailed on New England. Woke up at 4:30 and it was raining like hell. It dawned on me that I had taken care of what I needed to and the thought of not getting home until midnight tomorrow night was less and less appealing. Killed my FF miles but what the hell.

  38. 38.

    Calming Influence

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    “I think there was some confusion since I didn’t participate in the pile-on of the new site design or developer lady. She’s a super nice lady and I slept through the changes. “

    WTF dude, last night you were the one screaming that we should hunt down the web designer’s whole family! Do you go into some kind of fugue state?

  39. 39.

    cathyx

    I saw this video this morning on Firedoglake. So cute. Those smooshed faces just always look sad, even if they’re not.

  41. 41.

    quannlace

    Gave my Mom a haircut. She’s 90, and not really able to get to a salon, so…..

    She thinks it looks great. I’m not so sure. A bit of tweaking.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    I just discovered that G ate the last piece of chocolate that I had in the house. I’m pretty sure this is grounds for divorce in California, and possibly justifiable homicide.

  44. 44.

    Calming Influence

    “Shooting at Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans leaves a dozen injured”

    Oh really? Another mass shooting in America? I wonder if this is how the Israelis started to feel during the first Intifada.

  45. 45.

    Roger Moore

    @NotMax:

    Plus, the use of small caps rather than lower case impedes readability.

    Good thing it’s only used for headlines, then. It’s very common to use a more striking style for headlines even if it costs some readability, since the headline is not the kind of bulk text where a slight cost of reading speed is really significant.

  48. 48.

    red dog

    My Mom died 40 years ago and I can’t “see” or “hear” her any more. All the images are from photos. Sad. Dad died 10 years ago and he is fading too.

  51. 51.

    gogol's wife

    @wmd:

    A 96-ish-year-old lady at church this morning told me that her favorite present she got was some mulch for her garden. She’s really fierce, and gets mad at people in church who leave trash in the pews. My husband and I have a little joke that she’s a great argument for gun control, because if Thelma got her hands on a Bushmaster, it would be . . . .

  52. 52.

    raven

    @Redshirt: Ya pay’s yer money ya takes your chances. I had a great time but two more days didn’t make sense for me.

  53. 53.

    Anne Laurie

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I just notice that it also seems to apply to the ‘Reply” button. That looks kinda funky.

    Yeah, the new ‘REPLY’ seems kinda… challenging. Like you better make it worth the readers’ time. The old ‘reply’ button was more DFH, inviting you to share.

  54. 54.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @red dog:

    Similar here. My mom died in 1975 at age 58 (her own mother lived another 11 years and died at age 94; my other grandmother made it to age 99). Dad died age 80 in 1995. I miss them all.

  55. 55.

    Roger Moore

    @WereBear:

    I thought California was a mutual property state.

    That’s “community property” not “mutual property”. And, as Mnem says, it doesn’t apply to everything. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to remember chocolate being on the list of exceptions.

  60. 60.

    Ruckus

    @Mnemosyne:
    My understanding was that the only way I could eat the last piece was if I was on my way to purchase more and would return in less than 2 minutes. If the last piece was consumed by the other party I still had only 2 minutes to get to the store and replenish the supply, even if I did not know about the lack of supply. This was a hard and fast rule. Every thing else was negotiable up to and including sex with a third person(OK, OK, that last part was just in my imagination)

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