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The revolution will be supervised.

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Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

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Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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Waaaay down at the near-death end of our man-on-grasshopper thread below, someone asked where all the Sesame Street love might be.

Answer:  Onto the cover of The New Yorker.

Someone else (Different Church Lady, I believe) noted that the art in that post was not exactly the kind of old-mastery stuff y’all have come to expect from Tom Pretentious Art Douche Levenson, so here’s are a couple of possibly appropriately themed pic for those of you hooked on oil paints:

(Below the jump just in case anyone’s at a particularly picky work place.)

Paul_Cézanne_-_Baigneuses_(St.Petersburg,_Hermitage)

and

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Last, a lagniappe:

Just in case you haven’t exhausted your fowl jokes, here’s perhaps the definitive celebration of duck (and drake!) love:

Yup.  It’s Friday.  And did I mention that it is my son’s last day of school (finally!).  Hence these posts.

You’re welcome. Again.

Images:  Paul Cezanne, Bathers, c. 1897.

Pierre-August Renoir, Three Young Women Bathers with Crab, 

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    Maybe it’s just my browser, but the Cezanne isn’t loading; just a big empty square with a ‘missing image’ icon at the center.

  3. 3.

    bill d

    @dmsilev:

    Maybe it’s just my browser, but the Cezanne isn’t loading; just a big empty square with a ‘missing image’ icon at the center.

    He went through a period when he painted like that.

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    Also, too, completely off-topic, but screw George Lucas. He’s having his wedding reception at a park near where I live, and the infrastructure involved apparently requires shutting down the park and surrounding areas for two or three days. I mean, can’t he just have the reception on a sound-stage somewhere and then CGI in all of the background bits in post production?

  7. 7.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @bill d: That needed an alert for those of us who drink coffee throughout most of the day. I hope you’re happy,

  9. 9.

    Citizen_X

    @dmsilev: So, (after that Facebook asshole wedding last month) is that like a Thing for California zillionaires now? Take over a public park for my wedding, because I can?

  12. 12.

    ? Martin

    Huh. Didn’t realize North Carolina was slashing unemployment and has lost their federal funding for long-term unemployed.

    Somehow losing $700M in revenue to the state is going to help the economy there. Interesting economic theory. In other news, California which did not cut benefits now has a lower unemployment rate than North Carolina. But I’m sure as soon as NC manages to ban abortion and make it 5x harder for people to vote, that economy will just roar back to life.

  13. 13.

    Tom Levenson

    @dmsilev: OK, this is odd. I see the Cezanne in my Firefox window, but the same blank square in Safari.

    I’ll try reloading the image in Safari, but if that doesn’t work, I’m not sure what to attempt next. Any thoughts, folks?

  16. 16.

    MomSense

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    No kidding! My attempt to abort an involuntary spit-take caused me to choke on my coffee inhalation. I then had to try and excuse myself while coughing and sputtering to the restroom to deal with the mascara smudges! And my crisp, white jacket is now coffee with cream speckled!

  24. 24.

    Punchy

    Both those girls in the video are from Big Bang Theory, right? The dark haired one was Raj’s girlfriend in a few episodes, and the blonde is Sheldon’s assistant at work, right? If not, god damn are they splitting images of said chicks.

  25. 25.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @the last tradition:
    1. Your second sentence needs to be reworded.
    2. Who is “The Leftist”? I have never heard of him.
    3. Being against gay marriage means your against equality. Being afraid of homosexuals make your a homophobe. Sounding the same as another word make you a homonym.

  26. 26.

    Paul in KY

    @dedc79: You know who the ‘best man’ will be, don’t you?

    Just to piss of all of us Star Wars fanatics…

    ‘Messa so proud to stand with my friend George’

  27. 27.

    SatanicPanic

    @dedc79: He did, but only for the second section, which is the best part. The pre-vows are just terrible and don’t even get me started on the computer animated vow that he’ll be releasing later.

  28. 28.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Punchy: I can’t watch the video at work, but the videos is Garfield and Oats, right? If so, the brunette is on Raising Hope, and the blonde was Sheldon’s assistant for one episode.

  31. 31.

    Roger Moore

    @dmsilev:

    I mean, can’t he just have the reception on a sound-stage somewhere and then CGI in all of the background bits in post production?

    I hope he hired somebody else to direct.

  32. 32.

    dmsilev

    @dedc79: Heh. Wedding itself was a week or so ago, so that’s a done deal. Seems kind of strange to me to have a wedding reception a week later and half a continent away, but I guess the ways of the superrich are weird.

  34. 34.

    Violet

    Chick-fil-A’s president continues getting his company in trouble.

    Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy has entered the gay marriage debate again, almost a year after making comments that created a firestorm of protest for the Atlanta-based company.

    On Wednesday, Cathy tweeted: “Sad day for our nation; founding fathers would be ashamed of our gen. to abandon wisdom of the ages re: cornerstone of strong societies.”

    Then he took the tweet down, and Chick-fil-A released a statement:

    In a statement regarding the tweet, Chick-fil-A said: “Dan Cathy, like everyone in this country, has his own views. However, Chick-fil-A is focused on providing great tasting food and genuine hospitality to everyone.”

    On why the tweet was deleted, the company said, “He (Cathy) realized his views didn’t necessarily represent the views of all customers, restaurant owners and employees and didn’t want to distract them from providing a great restaurant experience.”

    Uh huh. Unless they’re gay, of course.

  36. 36.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Violet:

    On Wednesday, Cathy tweeted: “Sad day for our nation; founding fathers would be ashamed of our gen. to abandon wisdom of the ages re: cornerstone of strong societies.”

    Oh, fuck this guy sideways with a rusty chainsaw. You know he wants it.

  38. 38.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Violet: If people actually like him actually read history, it might be worth pointing out that they would be ashamed of the influence religion seems to be having on political decisions.

  40. 40.

    JGabriel

    TPM:

    Searching for an explanation for the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), televangelist Pat Robertson wondered aloud if Justice Anthony Kennedy may have been influenced by people on his staff who “happen to be gays.” …

    “Jay, let me ask you about Anthony Kennedy,” Robertson said. “Does he have some clerks that happen to be gays?”

  41. 41.

    dmsilev

    @ruemara: There is that. The park itself is used fairly often for wedding parties; it has a field house for receptions and beautiful views of the downtown skyline. As long as they clean up after themselves, I don’t have any objections to the reception per se; it’s just the scale of the thing that rankles.

  42. 42.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent):

    actually read history

    Why should they do that? Everything they need to know was transcribed by sheep herders off stone tablets two millenia ago.

    I’m amazed we have running water and electricity nowadays with these invisible sky buddy worshiping millstones around our necks.

  43. 43.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @JGabriel:

    Pat Robertson, craven coward who used his father’s influence to get out of combat duty in Korea? That Pat Robertson?

  44. 44.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Violet: The people who wrote the Constitution were more likely to think the foundations of a strong society were Indian eradication and hemp.

  45. 45.

    Roger Moore

    @dmsilev:

    Seems kind of strange to me to have a wedding reception a week later and half a continent away, but I guess the ways of the superrich are weird.

    It’s not necessarily something just for the super rich; it might actually make more sense for ordinary folks. I know a couple who had their wedding in Taiwan, where the bride’s parents live, and the reception in Los Angeles (at The Sound of Music sing-along at the Hollywood Bowl) with their friends and coworkers. It was a lot cheaper to move the bride and groom from one place to the other than to try to get all the guests together.

  46. 46.

    Violet

    @JGabriel: Yes, because there’s no way a Supreme Court Justice could make a decision like that unless he was unduly influenced by gay clerks.

  47. 47.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Villago Delenda Est: I tend to think in exactly the opposite direction. Running water and antibiotics are the minimum a self-aware species should have at this point in its evolution. We should actually be colonizing Mars and some of the moons around the outer planets, and debating how big the forest needs to be on the interstellar transport for our first trip to another star system.

  50. 50.

    Violet

    @dmsilev: Two receptions or a delayed reception isn’t that unusual. If folks elope they often have a delayed reception. Or, if one family is from a long distance away, they might have two receptions.

  55. 55.

    Violet

    @Amir Khalid: OT again, but been meaning to ask you about the smoke from the Indonesian fires. Heard on the radio it’s been awful in Singapore and Malaysia. Have you had an ill effects from it? Sounded awful.

  56. 56.

    Yatsuno

    @Omnes Omnibus: You ignore our powers at your peril. And we are legion. We are getting close to the tipping point…world domination here we come!

    (I don’t ask for much, but Japan would be nice.)

    @Amir Khalid: Such poor reporting. Did no one check the condition of the poor mouse? And it serves the asshole right.

  57. 57.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Paul in KY:

    I recall in the period of anticipation of Ep II, the fear that five words would insure, without any doubt, that it would suck:

    Jar-Jar Binks, Jedi Knight

  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yatsuno: What’s weird is that I dress better than the gay guy in my office. It be confusing.

    ETA: I think he is concentrating on the world-wide takeover instead of fashion.

  59. 59.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Yatsuno:

    (I don’t ask for much, but Japan would be nice.)

    I’d like a bit of coastal property called “Australia” please!

  61. 61.

    Suffern ACE

    @Omnes Omnibus: We’re very persuasive. It has something to do with way we wear fitted t-shirts that are bit too tight into our mid-40s, long after most people have given up and gone for the baggy, saggy and unstructured mid-life look.

  64. 64.

    scav

    @Omnes Omnibus: Gayness has become airborn and now longer requires transfer of bodily fluids or body lice? Hand out masks with the wafers and drink alcohol gel as the blood! Worse, I hear the Papist Palace might be infected as well. What will Saint Francis get up to now with all that ••REDACTED•• to the birds. . . . And Dominicans . . . Domini canis No one expects that kind of inquisition!

  71. 71.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Suffern ACE:

    … long after most people have given up and gone for the baggy, saggy and unstructured mid-life look.

    I’ve gone for the whatever-is-on-top-of-the-pile look. It doesn’t work out too badly since I threw out my parachute pants.

    – Can’t touch this.

  72. 72.

    gene108

    As a single guy, fast approaching middle-age, I sure as fucking hell wish people would quit fucking implying we’re all fucking gay because we’re not married and/or have a male roommate.

    The New Yorker cover can go fuck itself.

  75. 75.

    Death Panel Truck

    I for one happen to enjoy the artworks you post, you pretentious art douche.

  77. 77.

    Amir Khalid

    @Violet:
    We’ve had some rain here in the past couple of afternoons, and it’s washed most of the smoke out of the air, as this story describes. But until they put the fires out in Sumatra, there’s still an immediate problem.

  78. 78.

    dmbeaster

    @the last tradition: Wasn’t it the right wing nut jobs who started this obsession over puppets being gay, and allegedly indoctrinating children to accept the evil gay lifestyle? As in both Burt and Ernie and Tinky Winky?

    The cover art is a hilarious send up over that obsession, which is purely right wing nonsense.

  83. 83.

    scav

    @dmbeaster: Don’t look now, there’s possibly Gromit playing for the team too, and He’s a dog so a marriage two-fer.

    Co-opt! Co-opt! Co-opt! Because merely censoring books and removing them from public access isn’t promoting a social agenda.

  85. 85.

    Violet

    @Amir Khalid: Glad it’s improved for the time being. I sympathise. Years ago when Mexico was burning, we had terrible, terrible smoke. Lasted for months. All sorts of health problems. I remember driving northward and eventually getting out of the smoke. Then on the return trip, you could see the smoke on the horizon as you drove southward. Awful.

  91. 91.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Death Panel Truck: I am so sorry you took my comment seriously. I will endeavor to ensure that your personal communications with TL are never sullied by my unclean eyes again.

  96. 96.

    A Ghost To Most

    @the last tradition:

    Better a “Leftist” than a Fascist.

    Fuck off, troll. Unless this is shark, in which case, well-played, sir; you got me.

    Eta: apparently not shark; foadiaf, fascist.

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tom Levenson: ‘S’all good. Temporary misunderstandings only.

    ETA: And butt out, you fascist. As well as other bad things that could be typed.

  100. 100.

    A Ghost To Most

    @Amir Khalid:

    If I believed in karma, that would confirm it; if reincarnation did exist, I would hope for him to come back as a rodent.

  101. 101.

    burnspbesq

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Remember how bad it was before smartphones and tablets, when we actually had to pay attention to that shit, instead of barely keeping one eye on it so that you don’t miss the attendance code?

  102. 102.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Death Panel Truck:

    I’m working but going for a ride this evening on mine (Yamaha) and then my wife and I are going on a ride/picnic tomorrow afternoon.

    Have fun and be safe!

  104. 104.

    scav

    @A Ghost To Most: Sharks are ones we can marry and jump, snarks are traditionally hunted (maybe we just don’t know what to do with them when caught) but I’m not sure what exact status a fuck (you) with auto-correct might result in. Interesting. We could already all be in an enormous gay group mixed marriage with WP.

  106. 106.

    I am not a kook

    @A Ghost To Most: The Wheel of Karma was spinning really fast that day. No need to wait for retribution in the next life, just get it over with right away.

  107. 107.

    Death Panel Truck

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: When I bought my bike, a friend of mine begged me to buy a V-Star 950. She has one and she loves it. I would have but I couldn’t afford it, so I went with a Boulevard M50 instead (Suzuki knocked a thousand bucks off the MSRP, so I couldn’t resist.) It’s been a great bike, but I’m thinking about trading it in for a C90. Bigger engine and more comfortable for the ol’ ball and chain. :)

    ETA: I bought a new mesh jacket the other day, and I’m going to try it out. It’s going to be 100 degrees here in eastern Washington today.

  111. 111.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @burnspbesq: I am happy that this thing is a webinar and I am doing it at home. I was able to repair a bike tire while watching and still participate in the online discussion so it was obvious that I wasn’t just reading blogs or something.

  114. 114.

    Roger Moore

    @scav:

    snarks are traditionally hunted (maybe we just don’t know what to do with them when caught)

    Just make sure you don’t get a boojum by mistake. Unless you’re a troll, in which case you should be looking for boojums as much as possible.

  120. 120.

    moderateindy

    @Punchy: Those two girls Kate Micucci (and yes she knows exactly how absurd her last name is) and Riki Lindhome, make up Garfunkel and Oates. They are really brilliant comedians. If anybody wants to see a ridiculously funny video about the hypocrisy of right wing evangelical teens go to youtube and enter “God’s loophole” NSFW but amazing. Also, women in thier 30’s in particular will get a kick out of the tune 29 & 31. And yes Punchy, they have both been on Big Bang. Kate Micucci, was also on Scrubs, as the Ukelele playing love interest of the Lawyer Ted, and was on Raising Hope.

  121. 121.

    moderateindy

    Sure you people think there’s nothing wrong with overturning DOMA, but just wait, soon there will be people wanting to legalize polygamy. God would not want that. such things aren’t accepted in the Bible. Nobody in the Bible ever had more than one wife.
    I say screw the gays……wait that didn’t come out right. See it’s all a plot to confuse you. It’s very insidious. The gays know how much I enjoy touching my own Pen1s, and they use that to make me think that maybe I would like to touch other pen1ses as well. Soon I will stop wanting to see Jessica Alba naked, and will want to see Johnny Depp without clothes. I can feel the changes happening already. I have this overwhelming urge to drink sparkling water (Heather’s anyone?) All because those perverts can get married, how will our country ever survive?

  122. 122.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Death Panel Truck:

    I restored an old ’80 Yamaha XS850SG Special and have been flogging it for the last eight years now. Full Windjammer IV fairing and all of the other goodies make it a great road bike. I used to ride in light gear (back in the 80’s) but pretty much stick to full gear now. I have ballistic nylon gear and it is a system that has a removable liner and full ventilation. I’ve ridden in 100 degree heat with it and as long as you are in motion it’s fine. Stops are good for a bit too but not for long.

    I keep moving. :)

  123. 123.

    Tone in DC

    @? Martin:

    LULz.

    I recall several weeks ago, when one of the southern commenters mentioned this, a Carolinian response to the worst recession in 70 plus years.

    Maybe their governor oughta take a nice, head clearing, long hike along the Appalachian Trail.

  125. 125.

    LanceThruster

    I remember a joke from awhile back where one of the reasons some fought so hard against gay rights is that they didn’t want to have to face being rejected by both sexes.

  130. 130.

    JGabriel

    @dmsilev

    … the Cezanne isn’t loading; just a big empty square with a ‘missing image’ icon at the center.

    It is empty because it is my heart.

  132. 132.

    Amir Khalid

    Oh, about that Garfunkel & Oates video: I couldn’t imagine a sweeter, more wistful ballad about conjugal relationships with domesticated waterfowl.

  135. 135.

    PurpleGirl

    I think that at the very end of the Sex with Ducks video, the duck should have been smoking. (BTW, I love the song/video; I just think that having the duck smoking would have been funny.)

  137. 137.

    Mnemosyne

    @dmsilev:

    Seems kind of strange to me to have a wedding reception a week later and half a continent away, but I guess the ways of the superrich are weird.

    Meh, we did that — had our (small) wedding in California and had a second reception in Illinois about a month later. That was because both of our families live in Illinois but both of us have lived in California for over 20 years, so it was going to be hard to have both friends and family at the same wedding.

    Plus it saved a lot of arguments between me and my mom — I had my party the way I wanted it in California and she had her party the way she wanted it in Illinois and we were both happy.

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