Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Books are my comfort food!

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

This really is a full service blog.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Peg Bundy is un-goddamn-believably good. As is Ron Perlman (sp?).

    You mean Katy Sagal, who also played Peg Bundy, and is the voice of Leela on Futurama.

    And yes, she is a terrific actor, very much under appreciated.

  8. 8.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    In threads past, I’ve mentioned my hobby of fooling around with my Apple G4 machines. I’ve posted from those machines every so often. Tonight, I finished the job and can rest easy having taken them as close to the goal as I possibly could given that I’m doing it on the cheap.

    G4 #1: Dual 1.0 GHz processors, 2 GB of RAM (max), 1.75 TB of space through 4 drives. Apple Cinema Display and Apple Pro Speakers.

    G4 #2: 400 MHz, 768 MB of RAM, 2 TB of space through 6 drives.

    I have a G4 Dual 1.25 GHz Mac that has been moved to backup status. It has 1.5 GB of RAM and a single 80 GB hard drive.

    I built these Macs myself and I’m very happy with that. I once preferred the all-in-one iMacs, but after fretting about giving away a dead iMac with its hard drive still inside, I decided to pull it out myself. To that point, I hated having to open the machine at all. It snowballed from there and I’ve spent the past several months patiently tracking down items through Craigslist and eBay. Now I’m done and I’m happy.

  10. 10.

    sinned34

    I’m lamenting the fact that I’ve been spending the second week of my two week summer vacation convalescing from a cold, the weather has been mixed with cloud and rain following seven weeks of gorgeous hot weather. Also, my last keg of beer ran dry on Saturday night.

    Worst. Vacation. Ever.

  11. 11.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    @J.Ty:

    The Dual 1.25 I mentioned gave me that when I first bought it. The Mac was filthy with dust and I had to use brushes and canned air before bringing it in the house.

    After that, I put it on my workbench, connected my spare ADC Apple monitor and turned it on. Kernel panic from here to eternity, until I took out the PCI cards that the previous owner had installed. It booted OK after that.

    Then I erased everything and started over with a fresh install of 10.4 Tiger. For my money, Tiger still is the best and smoothest running OSX variant I’ve seen. All of my Macs at one time or another have ran it without any issues.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Over at Powder Blue Satan, Atrios links to Buzzfeed reporting on the NRA’s top secret database of gun owners.

    One of the things this database could be used to do is market more deadly toys to the children.

    Final paragraph pretty much sums up the hysteria of these wingtard “privacy” concerns:

    “It’s probably partially true that people don’t know the information is being collected,” said Feldman, “but but even if they don’t know it, they probably won’t care because the NRA is not part of the government.”

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Over at Powder Blue Satan, Atrios links to Buzzfeed reporting on the NRA’s top secret database of gun owners.

    Gee, it would be a real shame if some government agency subpoenaed the thing, or government hackers managed to steal a copy. Hella ironic, also, too.

  15. 15.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Roger Moore:

    DING DING DING DING DING!

    Their own mythology (see the original Red Dawn where the Sandanista/Cuban/Latino commie guy directs the troops to look for some specific form number for all the registered weapons in town) tells you that the EXISTENCE of such a database, in anyone’s hands, is an existential threat to your freedumb!

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    Came across this on BBC’s site. It seems to me that the BBC is making rather more of this than there really is — 2 to 4 Muslims out of every 1,000 Latino Americans doesn’t sound like all that many to me. I was under the impression that the Catholic Church loses far more Latino American members to Protestant denominations.

  18. 18.

    Keith P

    Good show, but it’s the prototypical example of one of my biggest pet peeves of modern anti-hero shows – total seriousness. Everyone on that show – everyone – is in the most dour of moods. I have never, ever seen anyone smile at that show or otherwise show any kind of emotion other than gloom. Just doesn’t come off as realistic that way.

  20. 20.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    @The prophet Nostradumbass:

    They currently make the aluminum Mac Pro. It’s the same tower on the outside that the G5 introduced. The innards are all different and are Intel powered, but the new Mac Pro that’s due sometime in the near future is a black cylinder with grotesque power:

    http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

    (A side note: my company recently took delivery of a pallet of aluminum Mac Pros. I had a chance to see it before the IT people carted it away. It was mind blowing to see 12 Mac Pros on a pallet waiting for processing. Macgasm, I had it, lol.)

    I’d upgrade just for that, but I’m happy with what I have.

  22. 22.

    Suzanne

    I am lying on bed after failing to force myself to study tonight. I realize that I am the only one putting this pressure on myself, but I hate not achieving.

    Cheated on my diet the last two days. Stressed and without a dishwasher.

    Awesome haboob tonight.

  23. 23.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    @? Martin:
    LOL. I’ve always wanted one of those, but I would have no space or purpose for it. The Dual 1.25 I relegated to backup status was gathering dust even though it had 2 TB of drives inside. I rarely turned it on. A Cube, even with the fantastic design, would be more of the same.

    Besides, I may bend a wrench here and there, but upgrading a Cube is serious business. I’d be at a loss to do that.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    Way, way, way beyond my violence tolerance threshold. Too bad, as do often (but not always) like Perlman’s acting.

    If it hasn’t already been done, someone ought to cobble together tribute lyrics about it to the tune of “Sheik of Araby,” as “Sons of Anarchy” scans perfectly for that tune.

  25. 25.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Keith P: I hadn’t thought of it, but now that you mention it, that may be the reason i stopped watching at teh end of IIRC S3. But I think the other anti-hero shows— Mad Men, BB, the Sopranos– have lots of humor.

  27. 27.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    I found myself with a crack-like addiction to “Bar Rescue” this Sunday. Who’d a thunk it?

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    @Keith P

    Same reason I gave up on Longmire after the pilot. No interest in continuing watching when everyone on the screen is determinedly, relentlessly grim.

    Was also looking forward to sweeping vistas of Wyoming scenery, but the show chose not to film there, so long shots were notably absent.

  30. 30.

    Yatsuno

    @Amir Khalid: And of course none of them could have been exposed to Islam in their home countries of course. Oh no, they had to run to America and get these horrible religious perversions. Humans change their faith structure as they see fit and as they learn more about the universe.

    (And yes, there have been Muslims in Mexico for centuries.)

  32. 32.

    Joey Maloney

    @Roger Moore:

    Gee, it would be a real shame if some government agency subpoenaed the thing, or government hackers managed to steal a copy. Hella ironic, also, too.

    Sounds like a job for Anonymous.

    I love the writing/acting in SoA but I watch it like a little girl at a horror movie. The plots are just so awful, one terrible thing after another.

    Also, too, remember Seventh Heaven? It shares something with that show: the primary plot driver is information control.

    Somebody knows something that someone else doesn’t, someone tries to keep someone else from finding out something, someone tells a stupid lie on the spur of the moment and then can’t/won’t come clean, someone is telling different things to two others to play them off against each other – etc. etc. For some reason I find it really hard to watch when the main hook is waiting for a house of cards to finally come crashing down.

  33. 33.

    wasabi gasp

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual: Why the PowerPC love? Also, how practical is it to use one of those G4s today?

    I was just looking at my long silent G4 the other day and considering to update it and bring it back to life for some sort of task. But, while resurrecting an old Mac is an activity that I once would have enjoyed, nowadays I’m not so sure if I’m up for butting into incompatibility walls on the way to usefulness.

    I’ve gone through a bunch of Macs over the years. Tinkering and trying to do something with the older ones used to be fun, sometimes frustrating. Most enjoyable, but ultimately useless, was installing Debian on a nubus 8100.

  34. 34.

    Viva BisVegas

    @NotMax:

    No interest in continuing watching when everyone on the screen is determinedly, relentlessly grim.

    It’s strange that the Walt Longmire of the books is a very droll character, with a wit drier than a Wyoming prairie in drought.

    Most of the other characters in the show are also very different to their literary counterparts.

  35. 35.

    Wally Ballou

    Listening to a great baseball game. Indians-Angels tied 1-1 going into the 14th.

    Oh, and there’s a kitty sitting next to me.

  37. 37.

    Narcissus

    @Joey Maloney: Three’s Company is the progenitor of this model.

    Also since BJ watches so much TV, if anyone cares Farscape (the best tv sci-fi ever) is back in syndication on the new channel Pivot.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    @Narcissus

    The progenitor? Hardly. The trope is a hoary one in TV, film, radio and literature.

    Three’s Company, for example, was an American remake of a British series that had already ended its own long run on TV (plus a feature film) before the first U.S. episode aired..

  39. 39.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @NotMax:

    Three’s Company, for example, was an American remake of a British series

    The British series was called Man About the House. It had a spinoff called George and Mildred, which was about a middle aged couple named the Ropers.

    So not only was the original copied, so was the spin-off.

    In my formative years I fancied Sally Thomsett something rotten.

  42. 42.

    RobertB

    I went through all 5 seasons of SoA in about a month. Kind of like dumbed-down Shakespeare, which works just fine for dumbed-down RobertB.

  43. 43.

    KCinDC

    I stopped “Sons of Anarchy” after season 3. The whole trip to Ireland seemed like shark jumping, and of course a baby often means the ruination of a series. Does it get better again?

  44. 44.

    debbie

    @KCinDC:

    I’ve binge-viewed SoA this summer. I’m now on the last episode of the 4th season. While I think the second season has been the sharpest, what follows after Ireland is indeed better. I caught myself thinking of Hamlet while watching it last night.

    But I agree, sometimes the violence is a bit much for me.

  48. 48.

    Larv

    @gussie:

    I just netflixed the first season of Longmire. I thought it was entertaining, but I have to agree that Walt’s not a very likeable character. I mean, yeah, we get it – you’re tortured and grieving. But christ, could you lighten up about it? Anybody watch season 2? Does this improve at all?

    Also agree with KCinDC re SOA. Stopped watching after season 3; the whole Ireland thing was silly. If it really gets better, I may try season 4.

  49. 49.

    Chris

    @KCinDC:

    Second the question. I watched Season 2 on Hulu, then gave up on Season 3 when they started airing it a month after its TV airdate and then, three episodes in, stopped airing it altogether for another month or so.

  50. 50.

    Jim Pharo

    “Peg Bundy” is beloved by tv people. Ken Levine’s blog often touches on just how impressive an actress she is…

    And if you’re not reading “By Ken Levine,” you’re missing out…

  51. 51.

    Watership

    The wife has the crush on Jax. But, she says it’s only because he looks just like me at 20. Look at that … she’s trying to make me feel good.

    I’ve tried and tried to stay with it, but I think I gave up somewhere in late season 2 or maybe early season 3. Why are their promos for the upcoming season so much better than the actual show?

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