Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Second rate reporter says what?

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Books are my comfort food!

People are complicated. Love is not.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

In my day, never was longer.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

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

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  1. 1.

    Punchy

    The precedent has been set: start a fight, lose said fight, kill yer target, and then claim self-defense. Society lost big-time today

  12. 12.

    Gloryb

    I’ve only commented here once or twice, but I feel like this is a good time to thank all of you. As an African American woman, this is the place I visit to restore my faith in white America.
    And I’ll miss Tunch too. Tears for him, Stuck and Trayvon.

  19. 19.

    gbear

    Two good things that happened saturday: My niece turned 17, and my youngest sister turned 42.

    Last week my older sister turned 60 and next week a younger sister turns 58. Yes, I am sandwiched in between them. My mom must have hated the 50’s.

  22. 22.

    lamh35

    I’m more in the mood set by this song right now: Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit

    I should be gong to sleep right now, but I just can’t seem to go to sleep just now. I literally have been sitting here lying in bed trying to go to sleep, but my mind is too full of …. to settle down I guess.

    I finally had to call my sister to tell her to hug my nephew for me and my cousin to tell her to give my 17 year old godson a hug for me too. When this trial started and when the murder became bigger news, we joked that my nephew and my godson should throw out any hoodies they owned, even though we live in NOLA. Now though, the joke has turned serious.

    Anyway. I’m just go back to bed and try to sleep and not stare blindly at the world eventually my mind will settle. I already have a hard time getting to sleep on normal days, but when I have something on my mind, I have an even harder time.

    Ah…good night BJ and my condolences to John C over the loss of TUNCH.

  24. 24.

    Anya

    I just want to say that I am heartbroken about Tunch, General Stuck and the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman. What a sad, sad day!

    We’re due for some cheerful news.

  27. 27.

    Mike E

    @gbear: Heh. I’m the youngest of five, and I’ll be 50 later this year. Sis was a senior in HS when I was born; you can imagine how she feels about my next birthday…

  28. 28.

    Ruckus

    @Steeplejack:
    I’ve been hanging on all evening long. Till now. This is one of my favorite songs.Simple but says so much.
    These threads about loss and memories have opened up the flood gates. In the last 12 years I’ve lost both my parents, my best friend-my sister, my dog, my business and everything I’ve worked all my life for. I’ve had to start completely over in my 60’s. And now I feel like I lost my own pet. I didn’t realize how much this blog and it’s inhabitants mean to me.

    Forgot to say Thank You. It may not sound like it but I really do mean that.

  36. 36.

    YellowJournalism

    Now the actor who plays Finn on Glee is dead in BC. This night just keeps getting better and better. Watch out for meteors, y’all.

  37. 37.

    mdblanche

    Jesus, this day. I’m flashing back to the phone call I had with my mother the night after the election. This is what I wrote here afterwards:

    Conservatives really aren’t going to take this well. They’ve been slapped down hard. The rest of us have just let teh gayz into their marriages and their Senate, mistreated their beloved job creators as if they were common minority voters, and disrespected their god by making use of the science of statistics. Worst of all, we’ve denied them their one overarching goal of the last four years and returned that “Marxist negro” (direct quote) to the White House. And having been denied that I think they’re going to want to take it out on those of us who voted for him.

    I think they’re going to double down on making life miserable for gays, and non-whites, and women, single women especially, and the young, and the poor, and anyone who lives in a blue state. I think their fear and hate and anger has only grown. I think it only gets uglier now. The post-election optimism I felt has just been wiped out. After being denied by the rest of us I fear they’re ready to destroy the country just to have their revenge. After what we just did, they think it’s a goner anyway.

    All in all, I’d say it’s going as I expected. I do wonder if some of them might still have some capacity for shame. When I called my mother again this week, she said she was hoping to see Zimmerman convicted, and not just because she was afraid of riots.

  38. 38.

    JordanRules

    De-lurking today for obvious reasons. I’m crushed on so many levels.

    John, I don’t even know what to say but wish I could come give you a big hug. I sobbed when I read the news.

    Also, what Gloryb said exactly. Peace and love Juicers.

    Going to finish this red wine and listen to Tupacs “Hold Ya Head”…..how do we keep the music playing indeed. Rest in Power Trayvon.

  42. 42.

    Karen in GA (who really needs a better name)

    I’m a cat person. Part of what made me suddenly “get” dogs is John going on about Lily and Rosie. I finally understood it. Then something clicked recently, and I realized I needed a dog in my life. I’m contacting a shelter tomorrow about a pup they’ve got posted on their website. Not sure how the process works, since it’s a county shelter, but run by a rescue organization. I’m not sure they even have a waiting period. If all goes well, a dog may have a home tomorrow.

    All stemming from John and his love for his pets.

    I should be happier than I am right now, but that’s not going to happen. I’ve never met John or any of his animals — but somehow that doesn’t matter. I think I actually, on some level, miss Tunch. Does that even make sense?

  43. 43.

    SuperHrefna

    @YellowJournalism: oh good lord. That is just too much. How can I help my niece understand that she’s living in a world where murder goes unpunished because of racism and her tween idols die?

  44. 44.

    handy

    Tim Lincecum threw a no-hitter? I’m sure some bitter Cardinals fan will show up and assure us it’s because he’s on steroids and Bruce Bochy is a cheater.

  45. 45.

    Cacti

    Speaking of music…

    Classic rock musician Lester Chambers was assaulted on stage at the Russell City Hayward Blues Festival, after dedicating a song to Trayvon Martin.

    Stay KKKlassy Zimmerman fans.

  50. 50.

    Captain Goto

    Late to the story–I haven’t even lurked here for ages, and I only checked in after I heard the Zimmerman verdict to get the BJ community’s reaction…and then I saw the news about Tunch.

    Jesus, what a horrible goddamn night. John, I’m so, so sorry.

  53. 53.

    max

    @Karen in GA (who really needs a better name): I’m a cat person.

    Heh. I’m neither. I’ve got four…ah, three dachshunds and two cats. I can’t say I like Cicero the cat better than I like Timur the dog, they’re just… different.

    I’m contacting a shelter tomorrow about a pup they’ve got posted on their website. Not sure how the process works, since it’s a county shelter, but run by a rescue organization. I’m not sure they even have a waiting period. If all goes well, a dog may have a home tomorrow.

    County shelters, especially in the South, are up and out places. Animals gets placed quick or gets gone. Rescue groups vary a lot – some are like the Humane Society, some are no-kill, some are very possessive and untrusting, and some are completely insane (‘I have to get an anal probe?!’). I’d expect that a county shelter, even one run by a rescue organization, is more interested in placing animals than sniffing your resume.

    You can go over to Petfinder and locate every adoptable animal with a reasonable or unreasonable distance. I actually found the actual Ren AND Stimpy on there today. I’d take her, but I gotta take Stimpy, too. No room. :/

    max
    [‘Bah.’]

  55. 55.

    Cacti

    @icecube 3h
    The Trayvon Martin verdict doesn’t surprise me. Stanford, FL never wanted Zimmerman arrested. Now he’s free to kill another child.

    Ice Cube ‏@icecube 2h
    I meant Shitford, FL. Sorry I misspelled it.

  59. 59.

    sparky

    I doubt there’ll be riots tomorrow over the Zimmerman acquittal ’cause black people in Amurika have looked on this whole sorted affair as a day in the life.

    Do fries come with that shake?

  63. 63.

    wmd

    Justice is hard to see in the news on this blog and the world today.

    John, be open to the grace that your dogs will be showing you, Lily especially, but Rosie may surprise the hell out of you.

    when you feel overwhelmed by the grief remember to breathe. Peace may not come, but it will help to calm you.

  64. 64.

    PC In Sc

    long time lurker … so sad to read about the bad news. i will remember those affected…

  65. 65.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall: Good to see you here (circumstances notwithstanding). I was recently wondering if you were still posting at these here parts.

    I’m prolly gonna go the dissociative route and listen to some surreal, wall-of-sound shoegazer stuff as I down a double-dose of diphenhydramine with wine while I tool on the ol’ Photoshop (in other words, lose myself in my regular habits). Sad music would just make me cry more, which makes the very stoic, Nordic Mrs. Pantload uncomfortable.

    The Tunch news has pretty much shot out the tires of my night — albeit, nothing like the way Cole’s gonna hurt for a while. I hope his family and friends can be there big time for him, and that he finds comfort in his girls.

    Sucks. Sucks sucks sucks.

  67. 67.

    JenJen

    One of the worst days ever, really. Pit in my stomach, lump in my throat. I still feel like I’m going to throw up from all the horrible events. Music sounds like a good idea.

  71. 71.

    eemom

    I’ll offer Ripple again.

    Dunno, I heard it for the first time while depressed and scrubbing a bathroom floor in 1987, instantly loved it, and loved it ever since.

    “If I knew the way, I would take you home…..”

  72. 72.

    Ruckus

    @Steeplejack:
    I just didn’t want it to sound like I didn’t appreciate the release of all that and what today has brought. Some days you just have to open the wound and let it bleed the tears of life. Shit is what we have, most days just a little but some days….

    I know that most people like the music they heard from about the age of 15 to about 25 or so. It’s such a formative time in life. But it’s not all that is out there. That said the 60s-70s had an awful lot of good music.

  74. 74.

    kelrian

    Today can go right to Hades and stay there, as far as I’m concerned. Saw the news about General Stuck, Tunch, and the Trayvon verdict within a five minute timespan during the Work Shift from Hell. I’m still trying to pull myself together. Tunch. Sweet Jesus.

    Since someone posted Song for a Dancer earlier in the thread, here’s another Jackson Browne song

  77. 77.

    Xenos

    Awful news all around. I knew Stuck was seriously ill, and just hope he had good care and comfort in his last days. I knew Zimmermean was likely to get M3 at worse, but it seriously sucks to see the reaction for even having a trial over the case. And Tunch, god save us all. Poor creature.

    My thoughts are with Cole and all this community, reaching out of the dark and isolation to connect, to mourn. Nothing virtual about it. Peace.

  79. 79.

    Steeplejack

    @Ruckus:

    Everything you said is true. Music and tears both have a cleansing effect.

    Thanks for the Quicksilver. I was thinking about “What About Me” in connection with Stuck earlier. It seems to fit his voice. (I think Raven posted some QMS too.)

    And those of us who care enough
    We have to do something

  80. 80.

    Ruckus

    @Steeplejack:
    Maybe us old farts who weren’t corrupted by the racist assholes we grew up with need to commiserate about what it means to be human. To understand that we really are here for an instant and then gone. To understand that so many humans are more than just deeply flawed but fuck them there are so many that have more humanity than one might think possible. When I was 12 I started to work summers and weekends for my dad. He had an employee, a man about 35 or so who took me under his wing. This man, a huge black man with arms bigger than my legs are now, let alone a 12 yr old was the kindest, gentlest person. A man with every reason to be bitter and mad at the world and he just wasn’t. He taught me that no matter what, being mad at the world just wasn’t worth it. I feel I learned more about being a good adult human from that man in one year than everyone else combined. It took me a number of years to understand what he gave me but I will always be thankful for that man.

  81. 81.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @Ruckus:

    Days like today really pull you up short and make you take stock of things. Or they give you the opportunity, anyway.

    I’m off to bed (finally). Peace to everyone here.

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