When I took this photo the windows were shuttered, so I think this place took its lithium and is no longer in business.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.
Everything is totally normal and fine!!!
“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”
You cannot love your country only when you win.
So very ready.
We will not go back.
America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.
These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
This really is a full service blog.
Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.
Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.
Everybody saw this coming.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.
jurassicpork
Please pass this along even if you can’t help. But, seriously, we’re in deep shit.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Website is down, too. Twitter and Facebook both stop posting July 12. There is a bio here.
Thought a bipolar friend would get a kick out of this, especially if they did shoes. What I did get was an introduction to the half blazer dress.
Steeplejack
The (incorrect) not-quite-an-accent apostrophe is always a tell.
PsiFighter37
Beautiful Sunday morning here in NYC. Going to wander down towards East Village for brunch, swing up towards Penn Station to grab train tickets to Newark for the next part of summer vacation, and then get outside for a 5-6 mile run.
I am digging August weather so far here – it is way less humid / hot than I am generally used to here. Sounds like the bulk of the really ugly weather was in July when I was in the Pacific NW…glad I avoided that.
Elizabelle
Hilarious photo.
NYTimes had some good articles today:
1) on medical tourism, and on how a hip replacement can cost $13,600 in Belgium (including the roundtrip airfare) and — honestly, who knows?? — somewhere between $60K and $110,000K — in our great US of A, with the greatest healthcare in the world. Except when it’s not.
2) If “Jaws” was made today ….
Take that, summer tentpole movies! (And yeah, if those sharks existed, somebody would want to put them on our southern border …)
PsiFighter37
Also – anyone have recommendations on what to do out in the Grand Canyon area? I’ll be spending 2 days out there – enough to go visit GC and maybe some other nearby parks, but not enough to hike all the way to the bottom. I haven’t been here in 15-20 years, so any ideas would be awesome.
Steeplejack
Awesome weather this morning here in NoVa: sunny and 73° now, going up only to about 80° later. And there’s a bit of a cool breeze. It feels very energizing, more like an early autumn day. The housecat is sporadically zooming around, plinking her claws on the carpet and then getting a look on her face like “WTF is happening to me?!” Good times.
RSA
@Steeplejack:
They must have consulted a French grocer.
Elizabelle
Continuing through the NY Times:
How cool are this NYC couple’s businesses? Pulp fiction paperbacks, vintage vinyl, and a great online presence. The paper and vinyl took a beating during Hurricane Sandy. Some really interesting online links.
And: Missouri has become the “you can’t show me nothing” state. GOP in charge refuses to get the word out about Obamacare.
Missouri. Racing hard to become number 50.
Michael Bersin
Correlation, causality, stupidity, paranoia – part 2
The comments at the Kansas City Star (and in other places) from the right wingnuts are a treasure of crazy and stoopid.
raven
@PsiFighter37: Sedona and Prescott are nice.
MattF
I suppose they rejected ‘Suicidal Couture’ because that would be, like, depressing.
Ruckus
@Elizabelle:
You do know that “Obamacare” is the worst piece of legislation ever written anywhere in the world don’t you? If they had just passed that wonderful ACA in it’s place, everything would be grand.
/wingnut
different-church-lady
@jurassicpork: Fuck pit bulls — we ought to be euthanizing HR managers.
RSA
@Elizabelle:
They’ll be hard pressed to catch up to my state, North Carolina, which is gaining wingnutty momentum along other fronts (reproductive rights, voting rights, education funding). A Web site set up by NC insurance companies includes this line:
We used to care about being distinguishable from South Carolina and other former Confederate states.
Elizabelle
@Ruckus:
What’s funny is that if you describe the plan’s features to even Missourians, without calling it “Obamacare”, it’s very popular.
@RSA: What’s happening in North Carolina is appalling. My condolences on living in such a beautiful state, with such awful political governance.
Art Pope should not be able to buy the influence he has, but he succeeded.
Violet
@PsiFighter37:
The Grand Canyon Skywalk looks really cool. The Hoover Dam is great if you like engineering feats. Also consider a helicopter tour.
Betty Cracker
@PsiFighter37: Have you been to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon? It’s completely different than the South Rim — much less overrun with tourists and desert-like, more woodsy and uncrowded, but with the same breath-taking vistas. If I ever make it back there, I’ll skip the South Rim altogether and go straight to the North Rim. Highly recommended.
Chris
@Elizabelle:
Sounds like a classic Godzilla movie. (The American remake was pilloried for, among many other things, not being ridiculous enough to include stuff like laser breath and flamethrowing eyes).
Elizabelle
@Steeplejack:
She doesn’t need her heated throw, hmmm? (The throw always cracks me up.)
JCT
@PsiFighter37: Agree with Betty re: the North Rim, especially if you want to take some nice photos as many of the South Rim overlooks are crazy crowded. A hike to the bottom takes real preparation and it is still hot enough to get yourself in real trouble, so yeah, would avoid that.
If you don’t mind a bit of a drive (though it depends where you start from on the Grand Canyon) – try Monument Valley.
This is a really nice time to visit AZ because you might luck into some great cloud formations (down here in Southern AZ the sunrises/sunsets have been staggering lately).
Amir Khalid
Some days it’s embarrassing to be a Malaysian. The Beeb has this story about this three-year-old Eid al-Fitri video which — horrors! — has dogs in it and which has offended some local Muslim God-botherers.
My own stand: dogs are God’s creatures, same as cats and sheep and chickens and, um, that other species, wenn du weißt, was das heißt. Dogs deserve the same love and respect from humans as any other animals. There is, as you can see, nothing whatsoever in the video or its quite inoffensive text that insults Islam.
Ruckus
@Elizabelle:
Yes.
The stupid is stacked higher than the empire state building on this one. Along side the racism.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Genuinely funny and witty line. I personally loved it. Consider the obligatory NAMI scold for the humor given, halfheartedly. I laughed loudly and admired the wit myself, but there is this real life NAMI gig.
I had a longer essay about the wrongheadedness of both the store name and the ideas about bipolar disorder (minimizing of serous, of fatal, psych condition that would be unacceptable for say, cancer). But I forgot to check required fields and killed it with the submit button. I can reissue it upon request.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: So the “dogs are impure” thing is more of a cultural stricture than a genuinely religious one? I wondered about that. I read the Koran years ago (for a class in college) and couldn’t recall anything about dogs at all.
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
That’s right. But it’s so deeply ingrained in Muslim cultures around the world that very few Muslims keep dogs, and the rare ones among us who do are regarded with suspicion or worse. (Kittehs are different. The Prophet loved kittehs.)
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
That’s too bad. For the dogs and the people who lose out by not having them.
Elizabelle
@PsiFighter37:
Driving to Prescott AZ, and then to Jerome, AZ, is beyond marvelous. (Or Sedona to Jerome to Prescott, your preference. Not that many miles, but long, high winding roads.)
However, you have to promise to stay sober for it. Jerome is mile high, on a windy road, and unforgiving territory. If you drink in Jerome, stay in Jerome until sober.
If you find yourself in or near Winslow, AZ, get thouself to La Posada Inn and its Turquoise Room restaurant post haste. Bucket list experience, and best coffee evah. Affordable, too. Because it’s in fricking Winslow, AZ.
NickT
@Amir Khalid:
The Prophet, peace be upon him, clearly had excellent taste in pets.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: I read something once about a blind Muslim girl in the US somewhere who had a seeing eye pony rather than a dog — a miniature pony of some sort. I always wondered if they were able to housebreak it.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
I am ashamed that the words “such a fine sight to see” do not appear in your comment.
Steeplejack
@Elizabelle:
When it was hot last month I swapped out the throw for a folded beach towel (less heat retention), but when the A.C. was out for a week she would lie on the bare desktop (slightly cooler, I guess).
Now we’re back to the microfleece throw, but the heating pad has been removed until the return of cold weather.
Chris
@Betty Cracker:
It seems like that’s the case for a lot of supposedly “religious” rules. The Bible has nothing in it suggesting that abortion should be considered murder – and since the penalty for abortion is different from and lighter than the penalty for murder, if anything it seems to argue that a fetus is not a human life or at least not to be treated the same as a born human being. From what you read in the West, though, you could be forgiven for thinking that opposing abortion was the One Commandment.
NickT
@Chris:
My recollection is that the Bible doesn’t even mention abortion. It does mention miscarriages, variously caused, which is not the same thing. That’s why if you ever ask a wingnut to cite a passage that mentions abortion they generally have to default to a poetic passage in the Psalms that mentions God knowing the writer in his mother’s womb.
PurpleGirl
@Amir Khalid: Perhaps you will find this series of photographs concerning a fight between two churches over the fate of dogs interesting. (via Avedon Carol’s Sideshow).
trilliansthoughts.tumblr.com/post/56379573415/two-churches-located-across-the-street-from-each-other
RSA
@Elizabelle:
We do have the former, at least, even if our Republican state government is trying to turn it into a Galt’s Gulch, with extra Christianity.
Elizabelle
@Baud:
That’s what got me to stop, driving across country and wondering what was on the corner in Winslow, AZ.
Said corner is way close to La Posada; remembered an NPR story about its restoration, so parked and wandered in. They even let me bring my dog in to dine (exquisitely well) in the bar.
Have visited La Posada 2-3 times since. A worthy destination.
fuckwit
Hairdressers and grammar, how the fuck do they work?
In New Rochelle, New York, there was a hair place called “Bizarre Haircutters”.
In South San Francsico, CA, there was a hair place called “Crimpers Bizarre”.
Who the hell would want a BIZARRE haircut? Burning Man types?
Guy
Oh my god, McMegan is on my TV. I have always thought GPS is the best of the Sunday talk shows, so can imagine my horror when today’s round table guests were introduced.
Chris
@NickT:
From my memory, it had things about “inducing miscarriage,” and some penalties therein – that’s what I was talking about.
The Sailor
@Elizabelle:
@Baud: Flagstaff, Arizona.
Don’t forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino.
Elizabelle
@The Sailor:
I’ve not yet spent time in Flagstaff, and hear it’s worth hanging out. College town, elevation, what’s not to like?
Love the west. (And the east and north and south. Although still boycotting Florida.)
Yatsuno
@NickT: Abortion is legal in Israel. The reason is that the Talmud mentions over and over again life does not begin until the first breath is drawn. This is why Jews do not (usually) bury stillborn babies, they were never alive.
PsiFighter37
@JCT: @Betty Cracker: Damn, I wish I had asked this question beforehand – otherwise, I would’ve gone north via Zion National Park from Vegas, followed by a drive down to the North Rim. I only have a couple days out here, so taking 4 hours to drive all the way around from Flagstaff to the North Rim seems to be a no-go – the driving itself takes up a ton of time.
@Elizabelle: Jerome is only 90 minutes from Flagstaff – quite doable…may have to consider that. And no worries – zero intention of drinking while I’m out here except for when we’re back in town and settling in for the evening.
Ruckus
@Elizabelle:
I’ve stood on that corner in Winslow. Rather a normal street corner in a small town.
NickT
@Yatsuno:
It’s interesting that Christian doctrine is pretty much all over the shop on this one. Even the Catholic tradition isn’t half as monolithic as the more recent popes would have had you believe.
Ahh says fywp
@Betty Cracker: ADA regulations specify that miniature horses and dogs may be brought on public or common carrier transportation as service animals for this reason. The regs were updated last year, I think.
Ruckus
@PurpleGirl:
I like the signs. Is is amazing how some folks can’t even read their own handbook and understand the rules, let alone follow them.
J R in WV
So, John Cole, where’s the pictures of Steve climbing the world’s largest cat tree?
Curious B-J denizens want to see!!!
We adopted a white lab mix (now named Alice) from the local shelter a couple of weeks ago. Alice is 9 months old, and well socialized as far as people and dogs and cats go, but never met grass and woods and the outdoors until I brought her home. Happy, a golden lab mix, was rescued several years ago, and is pretty scatter-brained, but also pretty well trained and smart in a doggy way.
Friday night we went to town for a night baseball game, and put both dogs outside. It was the first time Alice was left outside without people at night. She tore a lab sized hole in the (new) screen door to get into the house, then discovering that there was a real door on the other side of the screen door.
She still won’t bark, but she has learned to do doggy tai chi, which Happy loves and which will eventually get Alice some muscle tone. Happy is very strong and her musculature shows under the golden coat. Alice has no muscles yet. I expect between the wrestling and running up and down the hills she’s gonna be a farm dog yet.
I think the beauty shop is hysterically funny – I also think the shops named bizarre this-and-that are probably shooting for bazaar – which means shopping district IIRC. But that too is pretty funny.
Bi-Polar, tho, what were they thinking of? No guesses here! ;-)
NickT
@J R in WV:
I suspect that Steve has Cole treed and is prowling around the base of the construction growling softly to himself.
mistermix
Test test
Amir Khalid
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