Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Come on, man.

The willow is too close to the house.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

This blog will pay for itself.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

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It’s kind of funny that even though Steve follows me in the AM, he ignores me in the afternoon but at around sundown, comes sauntering out and making his presence known. Tunch mostly kept the same hours as me, but then again, he never thought he was a cat. He thought he was a person.

Steve, on the other hand, is making me realize that I just now have my first “cat” cat, despite the dozen years with fatboy. Thankfully Tunch’s training included lessons on flexibility to the lord and master’s immediate wishes, so I am coping ok and haven’t been cut too bad.

But sweet jeebus, Steve has charisma.

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  1. 1.

    Culture of Truth

    He is a cat. Lesser beings, including humans such as yourself are here to serve him.

  2. 2.

    TaMara (BHF)

    Thank you. It’s my birthday and your notes about Steve were a nice nightcap before I turn in for the night.

    It was a nice day. I ignored the politics, but stuck around for a Steve update. Has he climbed to the top of the Mt.Everest of cat trees yet?

  4. 4.

    max

    It’s kind of funny that even though Steve follows me in the AM, he ignores me in the afternoon but at around sundown, comes sauntering out and making his presence known.

    He’s a smart cat. He’s takin’ a kitty siesta!

    The Freaks Come Out at Night

    What you should do is blow off the TV, stick Steve into a gym bag and go to Denny’s!

    max
    [‘You can get the Two Moon over My Hammy and split it with the cat.’]

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Brought in from the Newsmax (bleech!) link on the page:

    Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday gave two television networks less than two weeks to pull major projects on the life of Hillary Clinton.

    If they don’t, Priebus says he will work to stop both NBC and CNN from airing Republican primary debates before the 2016 election.

    Oh, we’re terrified, Rinse. Does the big bad lady scare you, little man?

  6. 6.

    Klare

    Our dog knows he is a person. He is nicer than most people and smarter than a lot of us. Our cat loves being a cat. He loves twining our ankles (dangerous on the staircase), lolling, stretching, blinking sleepy-eyed, relaxing so beautifully that it makes me lay down with him and try to purr. Nothing slows us down better than these two sweet creatures. The cat keeps intermittent hours, like we do. He likes to be petted only if we are not trying to hustle him off to bed. He knows the difference. He won’t be bribed.

    When I work outside in the garden the cat likes to lay nearby. If I work outside afterdark, into the wee hours, he positions himself between me and the woods. Comical. Like he will fight off the coyotes.

  7. 7.

    karen

    My cat acts like my wife. If I’m up too late and watching TV in the living room, she’ll stalk over and perch on the top of the couch and meows demandingly until I go into the bedroom. If I’m on my laptop in my bed, she gets more aggressive, not only meowing but she’ll bat at my arm…with claws. Cats own you. Period.

  9. 9.

    PurpleGirl

    JGC — has Steve climbed the cat tree yet? Any pictures of him doing so?

    Pictures of Lily and Rosie, please.

  10. 10.

    Suzanne

    One of my cats likes to climb on my boobs and sit there with her face so close to mine that she has almost French kissed me on multiple occasions. No lie. Then she’ll stand up (while still on my boobs), and turn around, trying to rub her ass against my face. If I try to push her off, she’ll use her claws to hang on. To my boobs.

    Still haven’t quite figured out why we wanted to save her life so badly.

  12. 12.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Violet: Ha! I should, because I usually get stuck making my own cake. I think, if I find the time, this week or very soon, I’m doing a potato encrusted fish that is intriguing me.

    We’ll have to see, though, because my week includes two afternoons off to continue birthday celebrations with friends, work, a meeting with new clients and I have to cut together some video for a project I just started. Not to mention I’m expecting notes on the first half of a book I’m working on.

    Cooking has become a luxury. But I’m not complaining.

  14. 14.

    kdaug

    even though Steve kdaug follows me in the AM, he ignores me in the afternoon but at around sundown, comes sauntering out and making his presence known.

    But sweet jeebus, Steve kdaug has charisma.

    Here to serve.

  18. 18.

    Anne Laurie

    @Suzanne:

    Then she’ll stand up (while still on my boobs), and turn around, trying to rub her ass against my face.

    Scienterrific theory is that this is a great honor, as cat wishes to share deeply personal odor-based info with you. And cats know humans have no sense of smell worth noting, so they figure they’d better put that personal information right up our oddly-proportioned honkers.

    I usually find a gentle puff of air on the area satisfies honor for both parties. Of course, I can’t act on whatever they think they’re telling me, but then cats tell eachother that humans are aloof & mysterious creatures — one can never tell whether they’re clueless or just ignoring one out of spite.

  19. 19.

    Origuy

    Rick Perry gave a speech at the RedState conference on Saturday. It didn’t go well.

    Touting Texas, Perry declared, “There are many other states that embrace those conservative values, the approach we’ve taken over the years. I’m in one today – Florida.”

    “We’re in Louisiana,” someone shouted.

  21. 21.

    Yatsuno

    @Origuy:

    He predicted 2016 on the GOP side will come down to a choice between Ted Cruz and Ron Paul.

    Please make this happen wingnuts…

  22. 22.

    James E. Powell

    @Origuy:

    For a Republican, being stupid is not the drawback it would be for a Democrat. It’s gone way beyond a cliche punch line. It’s now so embedded in the national narrative that everyone just assumes that the Republican is an ignorant bigot who occasionally says ignorant or bigoted things. It’s expected.

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    @Origuy:
    A few years ago, prominent New Jersey Democrat Bruce Springsteen was playing a show just outside Detroit. Bruce began the show with a rousing greeting: “Hello, Ohio!” A few songs later, Steve Van Zandt whispered in his ear, “We’re in Michigan.”

    See? Both sides do it!

  24. 24.

    Hill Dweller

    @James E. Powell: Congressional Republicans being nihilists is also a given these days when the wingnuts act up. Unfortunately, the Beltway takes a boys will be boys attitude. Meanwhile, the country burns.

  25. 25.

    AxelFoley

    @Suzanne:

    One of my cats likes to climb on my boobs and sit there with her face so close to mine that she has almost French kissed me on multiple occasions. No lie. Then she’ll stand up (while still on my boobs), and turn around, trying to rub her ass against my face. If I try to push her off, she’ll use her claws to hang on. To my boobs.

    LOL, maybe she was a lesbian in one of her past 9 lives.

  26. 26.

    Klare

    @Anne Laurie: So when my boy cat puts his rear in the air, toward my face, when I am petting him, he is honoring me. Good to know. Cause even though I know they don’t like buckets of eye contact, I really do like his front end better. Phew! Just when you thought you had them pegged.

  28. 28.

    Central Planning

    Our cat now paws and meows (well, more of a quack) outside the bedroom door every morning. I’ll go downstairs, she will eat a little, and then stare at me. Doesn’t move when I open the door.

    My personal alarm clock. :eyeroll:

  29. 29.

    Central Planning

    And FYWP on iPad mini. After clicking “Publish Comment” for my last one, nothing happened. Did a select all/copy/cancel to see if it really published. It did. I suspect the same thing will happen this time.

  32. 32.

    bemused

    Steve sounds like a kitty that must be acknowledged but in a good way which is highly desirable as opposed to our former cat that thought he was boss of every other living creature, beat up on the other sweet kitty when we weren’t home, ate everything not under lock and key, chewed on extension cords and was generally a gigantic pain in the butt. You’re a lucky human.

  33. 33.

    WayneL

    For some reason “Steve” just isn’t working. Human names on cats usually don’t. Fritz the Cat, okay. Bill the Cat, definitely worked, but Opus the Penguin worked even better. Opus the Cat might be an improvement over Steve. Steve simply isn’t a cat’s name.

    Sorry.

  35. 35.

    Mike Jones

    He’s a cat, dude. They have a way of dealing with inferior life forms. :-) Dogs come when you call. Cats’ take a message and they’ll get back to you. Maybe.

  36. 36.

    kindness

    Just so long as Steve isn’t demanding you make a competing counter offer for the Washington Post. Unless of course Steve has deeper kitty pockets than any of us had ever imagined a cat could have.

  37. 37.

    steverino

    @Mike Jones: One incident I found amazing in retrospect: I saw both cats asleep on the bed. I got coffee and book and sat in the living room, and called, “Alice! Want some lap-time?” Alice came walking in and jumped up. Trixie didn’t budge. I figured they both would come, Trixie to see what was going on; she was content where she was.

    In their outdoor-cat time, they would come when called, too. They wouldn’t come to me, but they’d show up.

    FWIW, I think “Steve” is an awesome name.

  38. 38.

    Another Holocene Human

    God, you are making me miss Tunch and I never even met him. He sounds a lot like this fluffy mop of a cat an ex had named Booomper. He thought he was a dog. He used to chase the landlord’s cat cat around (she was female). You could practically see her roll her eyes before extending her claws and putting him in his place once again.

    I can deal with about any kitty behavior except for the “Hey! It’s 3:30AM! Wake up! Wake uuuuuuuup! Just cuz. Cuz.”

  39. 39.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Mike Jones: My kitty will tear the flesh off someone to take a flying leap to run for an opening can or a rattle of kitty treats. I can coax her out of anywhere and anything if noms are on the line.

    She occasionally comes when called but only because she is curious to see if there will be noms.

  40. 40.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Amir Khalid: To be fair, they’re both in the manufacturing belt with similar accents and culture and you probably transfer through the same airports to get there.

    Whereas Florida to Loooousianne is a whole day’s drive unless he thought he was in the fucking panhandle, okay, that’s a fair cop, maybe he did think he was in the fucking panhandle. I take that back.

  41. 41.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Anne Laurie: Heh, I wonder if you would enjoy this story about a talking kitty. Seems up your alley:

    http://ksarchive.com/viewstory.php?sid=5354&warning=1

    “And this is Arwain.” Chapel opened the door of the cage, and out stepped a handsome cat: a ginger tabby with white mitted paws and golden eyes like a lion. Arwain stretched and then noticed the kitten. Immediately he tensed, his tail flicking. A strange cat with blue eyes. What was this?

    Surik stood up on his still sometimes wobbly feet and slowly moved forward to the other cat until they were nose to nose. He carefully reached his own little nose up to Arwain’s and sniffed.

    Arwain began the conversation with a deep but non-threatening growl. What followed was an exchange of chirrups, small meows, tail swishes, ear twinges and so forth.

    The three adults moved slightly away.

    The story gets updated every couple of days. I usually wouldn’t go in for this kind of thing (Honor Harrington’s 6-legged telepathic cat thing just annoys me) but this story is too adorable not to love.

    /giant-nerd-freak-thing-i-know

  43. 43.

    Central Planning

    Our cat follows me around the yard. Perhaps she thinks she is my protection.

  44. 44.

    Lurker

    Alll my cat over-lords/ladies have always hung up a “Do Not Disturb” sign outside of their afternoon nap sites. It’s a “cat” cat thing. They usually emerge around 5:00 p.m. with their eyes barely open, yawning and stretching, and wondering what’s for dinner.

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