Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

You cannot shame the shameless.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

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

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  4. 4.

    MikeJ

    I was once in a dance club in an abandoned u-bahn station in Frankfurt and it was apparently 70s funk night. The first bit of German I ever got to speak to someone beside at the airport was asking the DJ, “Haben Sie Rufus?”

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    shawn

    I’ve still got about a quarter of a box of Good & Plenty’s left, and my licorice breath is annoying my coworkers.

  10. 10.

    Elie

    I made the best salmon pasta last night from left over salmon, cream, white wine, a little romano (didn’t have parmesan so used just a litte), capers and butter… Its was damned good and Alan and I cleaned our plates. It feels so good to make something good and then to enjoy it without reservation. One of the nice things of life, I think…

  11. 11.

    Kay

    A Lake County judge has determined Indiana’s right-to-work law violates a provision in the state constitution barring the delivery of services “without just compensation.”
    Lake Superior Court Judge John Sedia found that the law wrongly requires unions to represent workers who do not pay dues. Indiana became the 23rd state in the nation to ban the collection of mandatory fees for representation from unions.
    Since then, union lawyers have gone to the courts to try and overturn the law. Sedia issued an order last Thursday declaring the ban on collections and associated criminal penalties unconstitutional.

    But it doesn’t matter, because it will go to the state supreme court.

    that was the best I could do today :)

  13. 13.

    the Conster

    I don’t know why but I peeked at Sully’s place today. OMG, you’d think that guy would have learned something about knee jerk Obama wanking since the debate last year, but, you’d think wrong. He’s back to meep meeping. I can’t really say that’s good, but it’s kind of funny.

  14. 14.

    JCJ

    @MikeJ:

    I cannot ever imagine hearing “Haben Sie Rufus?” For some reason that question has never occurred to me before. I might have try that out next time I travel to Deutschland oder Österreich. Aber ich hab’ Rammstein lieber.

  16. 16.

    hildebrand

    I received a glowing peer review of my teaching today. That is always nice to put in the merit file that is due in two weeks.

  17. 17.

    Villago Delenda Est

    This is the quietest National Wallow Day since the incident itself, 12 years ago.

    I’m enjoying it.

  20. 20.

    IowaOldLady

    A friend of mine just sold a book to a small press. I mean like 5 minutes ago. I’m really happy for her.

  22. 22.

    April

    A longstanding problem was solved with a leash, wirecutters and a whole lot of fried chicken. Happy ending.

  23. 23.

    Hal

    According to some people on Facebook, Nobel Peace Prize winner Barry Obama has been stymied by former KGB tyrant Putin. Facepalm!!! Reminds me of the Dick Cheney more liberal than Obama on gay marriage, or Rand Paul to the left of Obama on drones.

  26. 26.

    Rosalita

    I’ll be spending time on Cape Cod next week with family. It will be awesomely good to be outside and away from the office.

  34. 34.

    burnspbesq

    The US has qualified for the 2014 World Cup, and Mexico is in real danger of not qualifying.

    How real is the danger for Mexico? They are currently in fifth place in the six-team final round of qualifying, ahead of only Jamaica. The top three qualify automatically, while the fourth-place team plays a home-and-home playoff series with New Zealand. The US and Costa Rica have clinched. Honduras is currently in third place.

    Mexico is tied with Panama on points and goal difference, but Panama leads by three on the next tie-breaker, goals scored.

    Mexico and Panama play in Mexico City on October 11. Mexico is 0-1-3 at home. The teams drew in Panama City in June. If that match is drawn, then on the last night of qualifying, Mexico is at Costa Rica, who will surely want to win, while Panama is at home to the United States, which will surely want to give fringe players and newbies experience playing in away qualifiers.

    Mexico is in a heap o’ trouble.

  37. 37.

    cat

    What I dont understand is why wordpress hasn’t implemented a spoilers tag… I had planned on watching the Mexico-US game tonight. :(

  38. 38.

    BruceFromOhio

    My wife is beautiful, my kids are healthy and doing well in school, and my job keeps me entertained long enough to cash the paychecks that let us all live indoors.

    Oh, and World Cup in Brazil, 2014. Man if that doesn’t put a smile on your face, you’re missing the whole point.

    @Betsy: Arkon DougJ !

  39. 39.

    Glidwrith

    Hubby has landed a full time job for the first time in 18 years. All the previous ones have been multiple two or three part-timers (at the same time, of course) with no bennies. We haven’t suffered because I managed to stay employed when he wasn’t (and vise versa), but it’s so wonderful for him.

  40. 40.

    Jebediah

    Saw this at boingboing about the Milgram experiments (where subjects supposedly obedient enough to “deliver” shocks up to a fatal level.) Apparently the experiments were not nearly as rigorous as claimed. I am calling this good news because a bit of evidence of how willing people are to hurt each other might be crap.
    Because this is a thread of good news, please save the mountain of people-suck evidence for another thread…

  43. 43.

    StringOnAStick

    I just went from being a temp RDH who had to drive all over the frickin’ city to work an odd, hard to predict schedule, to an RDH who now has a regular (but part time) job at a local high-level engineering college. I ride my bike to work, and the students give me hope for the future. It may be less money, but it is much, much less stress and the work is easier, plus I love working with college kids!

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    @Amir Khalid:

    I will not live long enough to see Malaysia qualify for Asia’s one spot at the World Cup.

    If Jordan can get within a two-game playoff of qualifying, why not Malaysia?

  47. 47.

    Betsy

    Thank you all so much and congrats on each of your welcome news.

    Let me suggest let’s do this again next week, front-pagers? …. Maybe on Thursday, since that is usually the day of maximal suck for those (few) still in a M-F job?

  48. 48.

    Older

    @Glidwrith: First time in 18 years!! Congrats to the both of you.

    My sweetie has a regular job (as opposed to the occasional kind) for the first time in about seven years. It’s a lousy job and getting worse (they just switched to 12 hour shifts, three a week), but it is regular. And it’s employment. My job is kind of fading away.

    You might have noticed that I claim to be a federal retiree. And so I am, but I had to retire early, and we were already in financial trouble, so I had to get another job. But they have less and less work for me.

    So it’s a life saver.

  49. 49.

    Bob In Portland

    I just got a huge check in the mail today. Huge. I deposited it, went to the Ikea near the airport and bought more scented candles and a clip-on reading light. On the way home I picked up a pair of pants at the cleaners, bought a lotto ticket and a big package of beef jerky.

  51. 51.

    Central Planning

    My oldest was the only one who passed the citizenship test his class took. He could name all the rights in the First Amendment, who the CiC was, etc.

    Disappointing that of 19 questions, everyone else in the class got less than 13 right.

  53. 53.

    ET

    I got a new boy-kitty the other day. Very Siamese though I think there is something else in there. He is 2 and I think I have settled on Bean for a name.

  54. 54.

    Original Lee

    Original Spouse found a really awesome farm that raises grass-fed pork and beef and free-range chickens, and also makes its own cheese. We had what Julia Child would have called a “toothsome little chicken” last night and are trying to decide how to cook the pork tenderloin tomorrow.
    The cheese is excellent and goes well with Honeycrisp apples.

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