Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

The willow is too close to the house.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Let there be snark.

I was promised a recession.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

He really is that stupid.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Consistently wrong since 2002

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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  1. 1.

    ruemara

    I’m watching Pretty Woman and wondering how a movie that opens with a hooker seeing another hooker getting found in the dump, finding her strung out roommate in a bar, and selling herself for 3k for a week is a romantic fantasy. Perhaps because she’s so good at dental hygiene?

  2. 2.

    chrome agnomen

    packing to drive from portland to santa fe tomorrow and monday. from there to a job in trinity cty, ca., then back to new england. ahhh, the traveling life.

  3. 3.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    I finished the day with 12 hours in the print shop. On the way home, my car decided to go out on me for the last time. I had that thing for 10 years and almost 100K miles. Now it’s sitting on the front curb, never to run again. I’m really sad.

  4. 4.

    JordanRules

    I remember when I wanted to go into sports journalism. Then I started to hate the media, all of it, and wretch at the business side of sports my friends had to deal with. I’m watching the sideline reporter have to accost the Clemson coach after the game and fight off the hordes to fulfill her assignment and I’m really appreciating my decision.

    ACC poking their chest out at the SEC1 today.

  5. 5.

    Suzanne

    Sitting on my couch after an exhausting day. New dishwasher comes on Monday, and I am going to run it about 12 times on its first day home.

  6. 6.

    jeffreyw

    Trying to decide on a proper answer to a request for a recipe on a Reddit thread. Too lazy to write one out, haven’t posted anything on W4D to refer them to, and I swore the next time someone said “let me google that for ya” I’d kill them and I am too pretty to commit suicide.

  8. 8.

    Corner Stone

    @Suzanne:

    New dishwasher comes on Monday,

    That’s at least a couple days later than you. Oh!!
    But seriously. Do you have a sister? Unmarried, preferably.

  12. 12.

    Corner Stone

    and reading a trashy Clive Cussler novel.

    That’s a little bit weird in that I have been trying to re-read some Jack Higgins novels. And I am having a god damndest hard time chewing through his stupid, repetitively naive prose.
    Which is sad. Because when I was twelve I loved Jack Higgins books.

  15. 15.

    Suffern ACE

    Went to see the Art of Killing. Yeah, it’s probably worth the price of admission. Gangsters and paramilitaries working together to tell their story. I couldn’t tell if they were worried about being villans, or miffed that their roles are covered up when official stories are written.

  16. 16.

    Corner Stone

    @taylormattd: Since when were the W Husks relevant? Bledsoe?

    ETA oh, wait. they still wouldn’t have been relevant even if he had actually played for them instead of some other irrelevant Washington team.

  19. 19.

    srv

    Flyfishing followed by honorary uncle duty watching some Smurf thing with Neal Patrick Harris in it. We decided there needed to be some Smurfs in Space sequel.

    Nice and chilly here in Keystone. Friends in all the right places.

  21. 21.

    Yatsuno

    @taylormattd: You’re being trolled. But it’s okay.

    @efgoldman: It’s better if you have no expectations of them to have any knowledge outside the SEC. It makes the inevitable losing outside the conference that much sweeter.

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    Wait…I got it. Jake Locker! Then it goes all the way back to Warren Moon.
    Now, Warren Moon can not be freakin’ denied. That dude is a regimented badass. Solid.

  23. 23.

    taylormattd

    @Yatsuno: Hey, buddy. I don’t need to hear it from you too! I happen to know you are both a BSU alum *and* a coug!

    :P

    But honestly.

    Bledsoe.

    >:[

  28. 28.

    2liberal

    @efgoldman:

    @Suzanne: I am going to run it about 12 times on its first day home. EF: Then you definitely have too many dishes.

    also too, who is going to deliver and install on Labor day ?

  29. 29.

    Chocko Rocko

    Which Clive Cussler? Have several of his remaindered mass market paperback titles gathering dust and wondering if it’s worth the effort.

  31. 31.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    My alma mater had a division 2 football team while I was there, which was fun to watch, but nothing to get worked up about. They dropped it a few years after I graduated.

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack

    @ruemara:

    I hate that movie for all the stuff you mentioned.

    Plus:

    “Oh, no kissing, please.”

    “Oh, yeah? Well, how about I [redacted, redacted, seriously redacted], then [redacted] you in your no-kissing mouth and then throw your body into the dumpster with your bitch girlfriend? How about that?”

    And the whole thing is even worse because of the Julia Roberts perky thing.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    I’ve started on The Cuckoo’s Calling by “Robert Galbraith”/JK Rowling. Really liking it so far. Curious to see what sort of relationship develops between the private eye Cormoran Strike and his temp secretary. Wasn’t so lucky with Maggie’s Tree by Julie Walters (the actress who played Molly Weasley); that one felt like the story was going more sideways than forwards.

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne

    Getting my bike paraphernalia ready in case G deems it sufficiently not too motherfucking hot to ride from Ventura to Ojai tomorrow. If it is too hot, not a huge deal — we’ll go see The World’s End and wander through some of the thrift stores up there instead.

    But it would be nice to have a chance to earn the onion rings I know we’re going to have at this place.

  38. 38.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    @different-church-lady:
    LOL. My G5 (and G4s, mind you) are still good for many, many things. In all honesty, I’m thrilled with this G5, seeing as I paid only $100 for it through Craigslist.

    No, this car’s had enough. I’ve spent several thousand dollars over the past five years keeping it smogged and running. There are little details that confounded me up until today. It’s time for the car to move on. I’m just sad because it was a good car, even with the money I put into it. The gas mileage was great, it got me everywhere I needed to go, the AC still worked, and it still looks good for a 13-year-old vehicle. Bleh. I just wish it had held out for just a little while longer. I knew it was not going to pass smog in March of ’14, but I had hoped to have some money saved in order to ease the transition. Now i have to scramble to get some $ together.

  39. 39.

    Jane2

    I’m re-watching “Gavin and Stacey” on Netflix. Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon rule and I want to run away to Wales.

  42. 42.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: Dang, I knew there was something I meant to look for at the Barnes &Noble earlier tonight!

    (I liked the Amazon preview, but I’m one of those preverts who prefer to read the last couple pages of a book by an ‘unproven’ writer before buying, especially in hardback.)

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    The ones at Anacapa are much better. BUT beer-battered, so you should probably skip them anyway.

    Ventura is one of our day-trip cities (as in, we go there for day trips pretty often) so we’re looking forward to it. If nothing else, it should be a good 20 degrees cooler than it is here right now.

    ETA: And I may even get a side trip to this place if I play my cards right and G remembers to charge his Kindle so he has something to do while I shop.

  45. 45.

    MikeJ

    @Mnemosyne:

    in case G deems it sufficiently not too motherfucking hot to ride from Ventura to Ojai tomorrow.

    My Mt St Helen’s hike earlier this week got rained out, so yesterday I looked again at the forecast. Today the forecast was 86 and sunny, Monday 73 and Sunny. I’m going with Monday.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    @MikeJ:

    Right now, Weather Underground is predicting a high of 73 in Ventura and a high of 90 in Ojai (basically, the path takes you inland from the ocean to more desert-like conditions). It’s that 90 degrees at the far end that G is worried about, but the plus side is that it’s downhill back to Ventura.

  49. 49.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    @efgoldman: The NCAA decided, for some reason, that otherwise D1 schools shouldn’t be allowed to have a D2 football team; my school, Santa Clara, decided they didn’t want to jump up to 1AA, so just dropped it. Many of the schools they used to play have also dropped their teams as well. Sacramento State and UC Davis are exceptions.

  50. 50.

    ruemara

    @Mnemosyne: Not sure about the heat but World’s End is worth seeing in theatres. Pure Pegg/Winter/Frost goodness.

    That being said, I now know what I’ve done wrong in my life. I forgot to be a dumb but sentimental hooker. What was I thinking? Going to school, putting myself through school, working hard and trying to achieve. Whoring with a heart of gold is where it’s at!

  51. 51.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: Almost every dish in my kitchen is dirty. Pots, pans, plates, bowls, knives….it’s a disaster. My husband and daughter were both pretty suck this week, so nothing was getting clean, and it is just a total disaster.

  53. 53.

    Suzanne

    @2liberal: We bought from a local appliance chain called Spencer’s. Holiday delivery was $15 extra, but I don’t want to waste a PTO day, and I cannot wait until next weekend and keep a grip on my sanity.

  54. 54.

    Chuck Butcher

    I just love it when somebody asks, “what are you doing?” Sitting on my ass with my leg elevated for the 17th day because, “the sun was in my eyes” in a fucking gas station. If I get any more stir crazy I’ll start taking this place seriously and then…
    oh hell, a lot of people have it a hell of a lot worse than my whiny ass self…
    Seriously, I’d better turn on the Xbox and kill something.

  56. 56.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    A Cal dude just got tossed for crushing the N’Western QB as soon as he threw the ball. Fucking Bullshit. Completely fucking shoulder to shoulder hit and now he misses the first half of the next game as well. Lame.

  58. 58.

    captnkurt

    John, nice choice.

    I first heard “Da Da Da (Ich Liebst Dich Nicht, Du Liebst Mich Nicht, Aha Aha Aha) when I went to the horrible (or at least horribly forgettable) Phoebe Cates vehicle, Private School. I loved this song so fricking much I just had to buy Trio’s album.

    Aside from that song, it was perhaps worse than the movie. Some actual song titles included, “Da Da Da”, “Sabine, Sabine”, “Achtung, Achtung”, and “Ja, Ja, Ja” which is not to be confused with “Ya Ya”, which was also on the album.

  59. 59.

    Yatsuno

    @BillinGlendaleCA: When you tackle you’re supposed to aim low, like in the stomach region. Though if you lead with the helmet that’s spearing and is dangerous. Handegg is just kinda violent like that.

  60. 60.

    Splitting Image

    I fired up my Amiga emulator and I’m totally owning the computer at Archon.

    Archon has a special place in my heart because it was one of the first games I bought copied from a friend back in the day, and it never worked on my machine because it didn’t like Kickstart 1.3.

  61. 61.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    A good friend is over from Grants Pass visiting and we are rebuilding the top end (engine) on his 1976 Kawasaki KZ900. We got all of the old parts cleaned, bagged and oiled and then pulled the cylinder block out of the packing. He had it bored by a so-called professional machinist and the guy f’ed it up royally. He didn’t clean the part at all, the cylinders were dry bored/honed and he stopped the stones in the cylinder before pulling the hone out (in two cylinders). On a 1mm bore, you can still see a tiny piece of the old cylinder wall at the top of one cylinder, just above the top ring. This means he did not center the bore but more than likely honed it out to fit. The hone stone drag lines will allow the rings to leak like a sieve in two of the cylinders, which kind of defeats the purpose of the rebuild.

    My friend is pissed off and I don’t blame him a bit. He paid top dollar and this is not anywhere near the top for machine work. Since the work was sent off from another shop, he will be visiting them on Tuesday. He’s a big biker guy and they better be ready to get this straight…lol

    In all of my years of working on engines, this is the worst machine work I have ever seen. I would have been embarrassed to send it to someone and say it was a top notch job.

  62. 62.

    Rex Everything

    imprison her soft hand, and let her rave,
    and feed deep, deep upon her peerless thighs eyes

  65. 65.

    Amir Khalid

    The German lyrics, in English:
    What’s the matter with you, dear, aha?
    Do things always go downhill, aha?
    Only what you understand will work, aha?
    …
    I don’t love you, you don’t love me
    …
    So you think it’s all too late, aha?
    And you think it’s all gone wrong, aha?
    And the sun is sinking fast, aha?
    …
    I don’t love you, you don’t love me

  66. 66.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    He bought it in ’78 and has kept it looking like new since (it only has 23,000 miles on it). He wasn’t aware that one carb was leaking and he washed out a cylinder (0 psi dry/100 psi wet), so a top end rebuild was in order. Bummer that a recommendation from another friend led to this mess. I almost sent him to my machinist but he had already set it up with the shop. Now I wish I would have!

    Mine has 27,000 on a rebored top end and 54,000 on the stock lower end. It runs excellent but I know the day is coming soon where I’ll have to split the case.

    That’s ok though, I like doing this stuff. :)

  67. 67.

    Mary G

    My kitty is home! We heard meowing outside and I rattled the treat bag until she came in. She has dust bunnies hanging off both ears and some whiskers. What a relief.

  68. 68.

    Bill in Section 147

    Tried the Serpent. I couldn’t get through it. Too many granite-jawed, finely-tuned, manly men who enjoy top-of-the-line cigars and scotch and have DC homes and hobbies way above their pay-grade. Then you have a super-sexy, super-athletic, super-intelligent, academic genius who panics, screams like a girl, then suddenly recovers her senses and kicks butt whenever manly man is not around. She can also hold her breath for 10 minutes while swimming like an olympian.

    Even Superman has Kryptonite.

    Disappointed in the Cal game…two tipped passes returned for touchdowns and I had to stop watching.

    Oh and Johnny Manziel had “antics” on the field. Sports pundits are almost as bad as winger-pundits. They glorify the shittiest behavior up to a point until the player starts to out-shine some imaginary rule of decorum then suddenly, “kids today just don’t respect the game.”

    I really do not care for antics, trash-talk, or overly planned celebrations but the networks created the beast. I am starting to suspect that Johnny Football has not been suitably deferential to some sports writer or broadcaster because that really is the biggest sin, “Kid thinks he’s bigger than the game.”

  69. 69.

    Calouste

    @ruemara:

    Slumdog Millionaire was advertised as IIRC “the feel good comedy of the year” despite the lead character’s mother being murdered during a riot which the lead himself barely escaped, the lead’s sweetheart being sold into prostitution, his friend being maimed to become a beggar and the lead’s brother (or was it another friend) committing suicide. And I might have forgotten something.

  72. 72.

    gene108

    @efgoldman:

    Yeah, but Emtman turned out to be a fraud in the pros.

    Fraud?

    From what I remember he basically had some career ending injury in his rookie season and never had a chance to have a career.

  73. 73.

    Death Panel Truck

    @captnkurt: I’d heard while playing live that the drummer played the snare with one hand while eating an apple in the other. This video shows him playing a cymbal. No apple.

  75. 75.

    Tim in SF

    Had a friend over. We watched The new Star Trek movie, which is out on blue ray Tuesday (but out on the torrent stream for a week now).

    I wish that it had been more original. too mich of it felt like a sop to the fans…

  76. 76.

    James E. Powell

    @gene108:

    Emtman actually played a few years with a few teams. He didn’t have one injury, but a series of them. I think it was knees. This happens sometimes to some players. He was not a fraud.

    The recent string of QBs out of USC are frauds.

  78. 78.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Calouste:

    Slumdog Millionaire was advertised as IIRC “the feel good comedy of the year”…

    WHAT?

    I think we live in different universes.It was always advertised as a rags-to-riches, underdog story- in my universe, anyway.

  79. 79.

    Pogonip

    @Bill in Section 147: I enjoy top of the line Scotch, too. Pity I can’t afford it.

    I just finished The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan, about the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s. I recommend every American read it and then try to get your Congresscritter to read it, if you are fortunate enough to have a Congresscritter who can read. The parallels to the upcoming fracking disaster are hard to miss.

  80. 80.

    Glocksman

    @Chocko Rocko:

    Cussler’s books used to be interesting reads, but over the last several years have become too formulaic and predictable for even me* to like.

    Night Probe and Deep Six are OK, and Vixen 03 isn’t bad either, but I wouldn’t waste my time on the new ones.
    Personally I think Cussler jumped the shark when he began inserting himself into the books as a sort of ‘wise helpful stranger’ type.

    *I’ve read and liked The Death Merchant, The Executioner, and The Destroyer series during the Pinnacle Books era, so if I call a book series formulaic and predictable, it’s bad.

  81. 81.

    gogol's wife

    There’s no morning open thread, but I have to put this somewhere or I’ll explode. Day after day I’ve read editorials in the NYTimes about how something needs to be done in Syria, but Obama is ignoring the will of Congress. Obama must consult with Congress about what to do about the outrages in Syria. Something must be done in Syria, but Obama can’t go it alone. Congress must be consulted. So what is the headline on this morning’s Times? “Obama Pulls Lawmakers into Box He Made.”

    ARRGHHHH

  82. 82.

    Central Planning

    @Calouste:

    Slumdog Millionaire was advertised as IIRC “the feel good comedy of the year”

    Have you been reading movie reviews on The Onion?

  83. 83.

    Jamey

    @ruemara: My thoughts exactly. Did the producers understand how fucking twisted the movie was before they released it? I mean, were they actually planning to punk rom-com fans, and things just got out of hand–like how Paul and Mary didn’t set out to be murderers in “Eating Raoul” (an offensive movie that was calculated to offend…)? Or were these guys just old-schoolers who believed whores who don’t seek redemption from a good man deserved whatever fate the streets meted out?

    “Pretty Woman” is easily the most offensive movie I’ve ever seen. I simply cannot understand how it wasn’t shunned by society. Instead, it ends up as the Saturday night tween-TV movie of the week on ABC Family. Also, Julia Roberts is the worst fucking excuse for an actor. She could not act her way out of a traffic ticket.

  84. 84.

    Jamey

    @Glocksman:

    Night Probe and Deep Six are OK, and Vixen 03

    I was recently looking at a collection of pictures of NYC from the 1970s and I could SWEAR that those three titles were on the marquee of a Times Square movie theater …

  86. 86.

    Glocksman

    @Jamey:

    If Cussler was stealing his book titles from 70’s porn movies, then Raise the Titanic just might refer to something other than a British cruise liner. :)

  87. 87.

    captnkurt

    @Death Panel Truck: He did eat an apple the first time, but then they had to do a second take, and as you know, Germans follow the old “an apple a day”, as in ONE apple — rule TO. THE. LETTER. They’re practically Nazis on the subject.

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