Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

T R E 4 5 O N

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

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  2. 2.

    srv

    The Ted Cruz is showing he is a formidable force in Iowa.

    Left & liberal Right are afraid of this brilliant academic, social and political leader. Just like Reagan back in the day.

  3. 3.

    Mustang Bobby

    Caught up on two weeks’ worth of TiVo’d stuff today. Very much liking “The Blacklist.”

    The only problem I have with “The Good Wife” is that it’s on Sunday nights and in the fall in the Eastern Time Zone it gets bumped back because of football games running over (Curse you, “Heidi”!) and I have to remember to reprogram the machine to add an hour or so.

  4. 4.

    Yatsuno

    Chinese food and Oregon spanked the Broonz. Watching for the Dangerman, hopefully he’s indulging in more pleasant pursuits than watching this.

    Go BoSox. Also. Too.

    @Keith P.: No mas burritos before bed for you young man!

  6. 6.

    Keith P.

    @srv: I had this weird Ted Cruz dream last night where he was my best friend. I was racing an F1-go-cart hybrid on the freeway, and he kept driving up in a towncar (or something like it) and hanging with me after my runs. Then it went to a flashback to us in college where Cruz had long hair and a beard, and was played by Jemaine Clement. Really strange, and I have no idea where it came from.

  7. 7.

    Valdivia

    Saw a really good production of Measure for Measure today and now I am ready to collapse after having dinner with some friends who are in town. It’s still kind of cold. Also. Too.

  9. 9.

    some guy

    Rafael Cruz es muy bueno. Who would have thought a Cuban-Canadian sleeper agent could get so far?

  12. 12.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    Playing Batman Arkham Origins. It feels very similar to Arkham City with a touch of the creepy designs that Arkham Asylum was famous for.

    It’s good, though some of the snow lighting looks like the city is draped in oatmeal.

    It’s fascinating to see sections of Arkham City before the prison was built. Utterly fascinating.

  15. 15.

    Mike in NC

    The media horse race has already been set up: maverick underdog Cruz versus establishment hack Clinton in 2016. Be sure to stock up on sedatives.

  18. 18.

    Pogonip

    @Baud: I want a real government shutdown. No air traffic control. No border patrol. No weather service. It would last about 12 hours and from then on any Teabagger who started babbling about how we didn’t need government would be beaten to death by his enraged fellow citizens. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful world to live in?

  19. 19.

    Yatsuno

    @Pogonip: Won’t matter unless Grandma doesn’t get her check. Then the wrath of the olds on the teafolk will be much to behold and they’ll be reduced to a minority party permanently pretty fast.

    @MomSense: I’m delaying going home just so I can watch it with a bunch of BJers in town. I’d KILL to get theatre seats, but from what I understand those sold out in minutes. I love that they’re showing the debut in theatres though.

  20. 20.

    yam

    Upgraded the Macbooks from 10.6.8 to Mavericks and am not hating it too much except for the nonsense about scrolling. It’s a laptop that actually has to work for a living, not a silly toy, so the scrolling was fixed forthwith. Otherwise, it seems nice and solid.

    Also, Gophers over the Huskers. I can die happy now…

  22. 22.

    SectionH

    Updated the other night. It’s not as different as I’d sort of expected. I’ve noticed a few things (positive so far) but haven’t done a lot of exploring. Am so far disappointed that the Dock doesn’t show up on both my laptop screen and the large monitor when I’m using them both – I thought that was a new feature.

    On a completely different note, wondering if I want to drive up to Huntington Beach to watch the Day of the Doctor as a simulcast in 3D, or just wait for later. Mr S isn’t a Whovian. Maybe my DIL would join me. My son likes the new Who well enough, but she’s the real fan.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    Movie alert time.

    TCM – Thursday, Oct. 31, 1:15 a.m. (Eastern time) – The Conversation – Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, directed by Coppola.

  25. 25.

    Hill Dweller

    BBCAmerica is airing Graham Norton’s show right now. Paul McCartney is sitting next to Katy Perry on the couch. Sign of the apocalypse?

  30. 30.

    Nutella

    @Pogonip:

    I want a real government shutdown.

    One of the many things that pissed me off about the shutdown is that they kept the damn airports (with their many, many federal employees) open to make sure that no congressman would be inconvenienced by what congress did.

  31. 31.

    Matt McIrvin

    The main positive change I’ve noticed in Mavericks is that the scrollbars that got ridiculously skinny in Lion (10.7) at least now get a little fatter when you actually mouse over them, so you can actually grab the scroll thumb if you want to.

    Also, Finder windows have tabs, which is a real if minor improvement.

    There are a few application incompatibilities. They moved the Perl library in a manner that breaks Golly, the cellular automaton program (there’s a workaround that involves command-line fiddling).

    The apps that come with the OS have generally gotten a flatter, more stripped-down appearance with less graphical frippery.

    I haven’t played around much with the revised iPhoto or iMovie. I did poke at Garage Band a little, which seems to have a typically streamlined user interface but has not changed much in features. I heard that some podcast-related features were actually taken out.

  33. 33.

    James E. Powell

    @Nutella:

    One of the many things that pissed me off about the shutdown is that they kept the damn airports (with their many, many federal employees) open to make sure that no congressman wealthy campaign donor would be inconvenienced by what congress did.

    FTFY

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    hilts

    Another TCM alert

    Tuesday, Oct 29

    8:00 PM BADLANDS (1973)

    9:45 PM CABARET (1972)

    12:00 AM M-A-S-H (1970)

    2:00 AM CHINATOWN (1974)

  37. 37.

    Matt McIrvin

    …Oh, yeah, and Macs now have Apple Maps. I don’t really see the value proposition relative to Google Maps so far. The satellite view with 3D buildings maybe looks slightly nicer, but a lot of features are missing relative to Google.

  41. 41.

    Pogonip

    Does anybody have fun Halloween plans? Our town’s block party was tonight but it was unseasonably cold and we’re expecting heavy rain Thursday, so Halloween 2013 is shaping up as a washout.

    On a Halloween-y subject, I just read travel writer Gunnar Hansen’s “Chainsaw Confidential.”. Before he was a travel writer, it turns out, Mr. Hansen was the masked chainsaw wielding cannibal who chased poor Marilyn Burns over half of Texas. This is a well-written look at moviemaking in general and at what can happen when artists, however unintentionally, catch lightning in a bottle.

  43. 43.

    magurakurin

    @Mike in NC:

    maverick underdog Cruz versus establishment hack Clinton in 2016.

    Hillary Clinton will wax that pouge motherfucker. He’ll lose Texas. Please make that happen, please.

  46. 46.

    Pogonip

    @hilts: My son has the MASH tv series, which includes the original movie. I don’t think the movie holds up well at all. The TV characters were practical jokers. The characters in the movie were just plain mean.

  49. 49.

    nellcote

    @Mike in NC:

    maggot with the melting face

    OMG that’s it! I’ve been trying to figure out what it is other than punchable but “melting” is perfect.

  50. 50.

    Paddy

    Rare public airing of the worries. My adopted daughter (canine type) Boo is close to 14 as far as we can tell. It’s starting to show, and right now I could just weep anticipating the time. It doesn’t help that my first dog, her predecessor Scooby had a horrid fast death when I was alone, and by the time I got him 5 minutes away to the vet, he was gone. Why THE F*(K do we do this to ourselves?

    She’s scheduled for the vet Monday, but man, we all know it’s downhill from here, and it hurts.

  52. 52.

    James E. Powell

    Rather remarkable ending to the South Carolina @ Missouri game. And I don’t mean just the final play, I mean the whole 4th quarter.

  58. 58.

    RSA

    I upgraded from 10.6.something a couple of nights ago. Mavericks is fine so far, aside from the scrolling direction (which I immediately reversed), disappearing scrollbars (which I turned on again–I like a constant visual indication of where I am in a window), and breaking one of my settings in Safari (for handling PDFs–haven’t figured it out yet).

    @Matt McIrvin:

    The main positive change I’ve noticed in Mavericks is that the scrollbars that got ridiculously skinny in Lion (10.7) at least now get a little fatter when you actually mouse over them, so you can actually grab the scroll thumb if you want to.

    They don’t get fatter if you have scrollbars always visible. That’s an odd usability/consistency bug. Also, if they’re not visible, you need to use two-finger scrolling to see them. That’s another minor problem for new users.

  60. 60.

    Valdivia

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I do too, overuse them and like the Oxford one. But my brain is like molasses right now and only caught after. But at least you guys made me laugh. A lot. :)

    ETA: did I read right you were sick? Are you better?

  61. 61.

    Bob In Portland

    @NotMax: Great film for looking at how San Francisco looked in the early seventies, which is when I arrived there from NJ. I forget the name of the actor, but he’s Gene Hackman’s partner and he’s great.

  63. 63.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yatsuno: Yeah, having a pundit who shares one’s real name is a bit of a bitch. It makes googling one’s self more complicated. At least, he’s not a total fuckwad.

  68. 68.

    Bargal20

    @Bob In Portland: John Cazale…who was never less than great in a film and never acted in a less-than-great film:

    The Godfather
    The Godfather Part II
    The Conversation
    Dog Day Afternoon
    The Deer Hunter

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I am kind of disappointed. TCM is showing Cat People, but it is the good Simone Simon version not the bad Nastassja Kinski version.

  76. 76.

    Hill Dweller

    If anyone is interested, Neil Young’s Bridge School benefit is live streaming here. Queens of the Stone Age and Arcade Fire are still to come tonight.

  79. 79.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Valdivia: Ms Kinski was one of my first celebrity crushes. My high school class was reading Tess of the d’Ubervilles a couple of years after her movie Tess came out. We had an outing to a local theater to see a special showing of it. Intellectually, I know that Hardy’s book is a depressing take on life, but I just don’t see it that way.

  81. 81.

    lamh36

    ok, just a bit of friendly advice for white folk: when deciding on what to wear for Holloween, please stay away from blackface & try not to degrade the memory of an already tragic event…in other words…please don’t go out dressed as Trayvon Martin &/or George Zimmerman!

    Awesomely Luvvie (@Luvvie)
    10/26/13, 10:08 PM
    Find the Instagram or Twitter of the boys dressed as Trayvon and Zimmerman. We know the girl in the middle’s. But THEM. UGHHHH Instagram. Talmbout “jokes.” HA HA HELL!! I’m mad as hell. instagram.com/ktcimeno

    jackasses!

  84. 84.

    Pogonip

    @Omnes Omnibus: Isaw the original Cat People for the first time about 10 years ago. I jumped when the bus coughed!

    Little did anyone know that the real King of the Cat People lurked in West Virginia…

  85. 85.

    PurpleGirl

    @Pogonip: This afternoon was the complex wide Halloween party for the kids, but on Thursday my building is doing trick-or-Treat in the lobby. I’ve signed up to hand out treats. I plan on wearing my Yarn Monster costume.

    (Made for a Halloween party some 20 years ago and have used it periodically since then for other parties or answering the door on Halloween. Although young kids seem to like it, the teens really do like it and are amazed that I made it myself.)

  87. 87.

    MomSense

    @Yatsuno:
    I’d kill to watch it with you BJers as it was all of you who convinced me to start watching the series.

    I found out that my dad was a big fan of the original series but he hasn’t seen the new who. We are planning some marathon watching sessions. He is having surgery next month and will be home recovering so I’m going to go hang out with him and watch the doctor.

    Of course now I’m going to check the movie listings.

  88. 88.

    Jebediah, RBG

    New OS? Hmph. You all go ahead with that. I can’t upgrade until Avid says its compatible with Media Composer. So I’ll just keep watching this sportsball contest on the TV. Probably wouldn’t be watching it but brother in law is over.

  89. 89.

    Suffern ACE

    Trying to figure put who I’m voting for in November in local elections. Yeah, I’m hopeless. I could party, but I’m just a civic minded nerd.

  91. 91.

    Yatsuno

    @MomSense: I definitely recommend going in order. Each of the new Doctors sets up the next very well and they worked a ton on maintaining the continuity from both the old and the new series. But start with Eccleston for sure.

  92. 92.

    different-church-lady

    OK, classic ballgame, calvados cocktail, and home-made tomato sauce with the last of the harvest — it’s a good night.

  93. 93.

    Gravenstone

    @Pogonip:

    I jumped when the bus coughed!

    Our campus showed The Dead Zone one evening. My buddy and I had a few shots before going to see it. During one of the scare scenes (deputy steps out of a door along a darkened corridor) the entire theater jumped up, obscuring the screen, except for my buddy and I. As everyone else was dropping back to their seats, only then did my buddy jump in delayed response. I didn’t even twitch.

  94. 94.

    Jebediah, RBG

    @Paddy:

    She’s scheduled for the vet Monday, but man, we all know it’s downhill from here, and it hurts.

    Yeah, it really does. I sometimes try focusing on the good life I tried to give the pup. Sometimes that helps a little. Very sorry you’re going through this.

  109. 109.

    burnspbesq

    @Matt McIrvin:

    OSX Fuse is broken by Mavericks. This is a problem for me because I use Wuala for sync and backup, and with no Fuse Wuala doesn’t mount.

    Equally bad, it can’t find my Time Machine drive to back up (which is really strange because it had no problem finding it to restore ( I reformatted and did a clean install).

  112. 112.

    ruemara

    @Pogonip: I saw M A SH after being a diehard fan of the series since I was a single digit age kid. All it took was the sheer mental cruelty of the shower prank with Sally Kellerman and I turned it off. They weren’t mean, they were mentally abusive, sociopathic, misogynistic HORRIBLE people. I’ve never made it through the film, thank goddess.

    @Paddy: I’m sorry. And we do this because they love us so perfectly and fill our lives with joy that lasts longer than them.

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @ruemara: The movie is about the horrors of war and how people whose career choice is based around saving lives deal with being a part of it.

  116. 116.

    Ruckus

    @ruemara:
    Like a lot of movies the middle is not the whole story. As Omnes says this is about war, death, human destruction and how people deal with it. A lot of times they use dark humor to cope. The movie showed that and it was one of the good things about it. The old saying that war is hell is wrong. The correct saying is war is war and hell is hell and of the two I’ll pick hell. War brings out the worst and the best of people. Not to show that would have been dishonest. As most war movies up to that time had been. I was in the service during Vietnam when the movie came out. Most army bases would not show it and many navy bases as well. There was quite a controversy on the navy base I was on but they showed it anyway. Probably because it was about the army. The only people in the theater who didn’t like it were lifers. The rest of us saw it for what it was, a brilliant discourse about the cost and stupidity of war. Please try watching the rest of it with two things in mind. First what the movie is really about. Second, notice that women play a vital role in the movie and the pranks are very selective and why they are done at all. People in close quarters in war lose some of the objectivity that we like to see in society. Living in a life and death situation on a day to day basis does that.

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