Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

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

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

“woke” is the new caravan.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

The lights are all blinking red.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

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My mother stayed at an Econolodge on her way to see my sister in Connecticut, and they had rubber ducks on the counter for you to take with you and to take a picture with it somewhere and post it to their facebook page and potentially win a gift certificate or free night’s stay. And so, here is my brother’s Wire-Haired Pointing Griffon (gundogs used in among other things, duck hunting) with a rubber duck balanced on his nose:

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I bet I have looked at these pictures 20 times today and laughed every time. You really have to know Boghan’s personality to know why this is so funny.

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  1. 1.

    raven

    Raven used to sit still while I put a milkbone on his nose. When I’d take my hand away he’d jerk his head and catch it on the fly!
    He also did these cool flips for a cookie, it got the point that he’d do it even if you didn’t offer one to him. He’d just flip and hope!

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    Dog humiliation for a free stay at an Econolodge?

    We may have a war crime on our hands here, people.

  6. 6.

    ruemara

    I put my last kitty on the plane this morning. Then they called me back to say they overbooked and he has to sit in his cage for 3 more hours, then 7 more hours for his flight to NYC. This doggie better get a treat if he wins them an econolodge gift cert. Pets who put up with their humans deserve a lot of treats.

  8. 8.

    Yatsuno

    Is gundogs a breeding category now? I tend to prefer the more pedestrian hunting dog, but not everyone hunts with guns. I mean, isn’t that ubermale Paul Ryan a bowhunter?

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Isn’t Boghan the one who had all that great cocked-ear action going on when he was a puppy?

    Cute dog. I get the irony of a Griffon being a duck-hunting dog balancing a rubber ducky on its nose.

    There is a woman in Atlanta who owns a Lab. Dog never retrieves anything: tennis ball, stick, frisbee, all “Meh whatevs” in dog talk. She calls him her “Labrador Observer.”

  11. 11.

    Kay (not the front-pager)

    I’m glad dogs don’t have live ammunition in their eyes. If they did, someone would be dead after that second picture.

  13. 13.

    Yatsuno

    @SiubhanDuinne: My Lab Kasha didn’t get the concept of fetch. She would go and get the ball and bring it back ONCE. If you threw it again she’d look at you funny, cause she got that thing for you,why did you throw it again? She was a good goggie.

  14. 14.

    KG

    @raven: my sister has a corgi, she is an “office dog” at the family business. Harley (the dog) learned very early on that if she picked up a loose paper clip or whatnot she would get a treat for bringing it to my mom. I’ve seen that dog walk around the office looking for scraps of paper then running to my mom and doing that throat clearing pseudo-growl to get a treat. It’s pretty amazing, actually

  17. 17.

    Jebediah, RBG

    @Yatsuno:
    Daisy did likewise except for the give it back part. You would throw the ball, she would run and grab it, and then proudly parade around with the ball – she had won the game, which was now over.

  18. 18.

    Josie

    @Yatsuno:
    Duncan the corgi loves to “fetch” as many times as I am willing to throw. He is, however, really unwilling to “release.”
    For him, fetching is just a prelude to tug of war, and I have to be super determined to get the object back in order to throw it again. Those little short legs hold a lot of power.

  19. 19.

    Eric U.

    my dog would go get the ball and then bring it back so he could fight for it. He got over that, now I tell him I don’t want it and he drops it for another round. But usually after the second throw he just keeps the ball and tries to chew it to pieces.

    @Josie: funny, that’s what our dog likes best, tug of war.

  20. 20.

    Violet

    @raven: I trained the dogs I had as a kid to sit with a milkbone on their noses until I told them they could have it. They were so good! They’d sit there for quite some time waiting for the signal.

  21. 21.

    ? Martin

    @Josie: Our corgi is the same way. It took a good year for him to be willing to reliably ‘give’ the ball after a fetch. His preference is large balls like soccer and basketballs – he’ll chase them around the yard until he corners it enough to be able to puncture and eat it.

  22. 22.

    Rosalita

    Devon lives here in CT? or another sister? you’ve probably told us, but getting older sucks…

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Yatsuno: It’s like she totally got the concept that insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.

  26. 26.

    Yatsuno

    @Josie: Corgis are cattle dogs by origin. That makes them actually tough little dynamos that Lizzie happens to think are cute. But it’s why Pembrokes don’t have tails.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Violet: I can’t remember all the names and breeds (or lack thereof). Thought it was Boghan but I could very well be wrong.

  31. 31.

    Violet

    OT–I’m trying to decide what health insurance plan to get. Boy is it a challenge given the changes due to the ACA. And NO ONE can answer my questions. FUCK all the idiot Republicans who think you can be a “educated consumer” and figure out all this complex medical crap. No one can tell me even something simple, like does the pharm out of pocket maximum count toward the annual out of pocket maximum. I’ve received two different answers to that question so far–one yes, one no. So which is it? Do co-pays count towards it? Same answers–completely opposite answers from different people. The “out-of-pocket maximum” seems in no way to be a hard maximum. There’s really no way to figure out what you might have to spend.

  34. 34.

    Baud

    @Violet:

    I think the out-of-pocket maximum is one of the items that was delayed for a year. That might be why you’re getting two different answers.

  37. 37.

    ? Martin

    @raven: This is why we don’t have our corgi go upstairs. Short legs and long body means he gets high centered on pretty much everything, and doesn’t then have the legs to get out of trouble.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    @Violet:

    Spandan C did a detailed post about the options at thepeoplesview.net a week or two ago. He works for an insurance company and is really good about answering questions in the comments. Also, too Richard Mayhew. Perhaps you could email him?

  47. 47.

    NotMax

    Was a dog at a summer camp used to work at who loved playing fetch.

    However, before fully grown she was neither fast nor skilled enough to get to the ball/Frisbee/stick before other dogs who were also around. So she came up with a workaround, namely to only fetch something which the other dogs had no interest in.

    That something? Rocks.

    Forever after, when she decided it was time to play she would trot up to you and gently deposit what she had determined was a good fetching stone on top of your shoe.

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    NPR screwed up its reporting on the SAC Capital plea agreement, big time. Hard to tell whether it’s error or fuckery.

  55. 55.

    burnspbesq

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    ATC. Got the amount of the fines and restitution wrong by a third (its 1.8, not 1.2) and understated the newsworthiness of a corporate defendant actually getting nailed (historically in white-collar cases the individuals get nailed and the organization skates).

    Just once, I’d like to see NPR empty both barrels at the demographic of its contributors.

  57. 57.

    Elizabelle

    I stayed at an Econolodge in Beckley, WV recently, and they were wonderful.

    Owners had pics of rescue dogs available to good homes in the lobby, and hotel was dog friendly.

    Made me wish I was traipsing through Beckley again soon.

    Lovely folks running a clean and safe hotel.

  59. 59.

    Violet

    @Baud: I think it varies by plan, but the problem is, the people who are supposed to know the answers don’t seem to know. It’s so difficult to find out.

  60. 60.

    Violet

    @MomSense: Thanks for the tip. I wasn’t familiar with him or that website. I’ll check it out. As I said above, I think the particulars vary by plan. It should be fairly easy to figure out what the plan says and does, but it isn’t. The insurance companies don’t have an incentive to help you–they just want your money–so they don’t go out of their way to explain the intricacies.

    One thing I’ve figured out is that the out-of-pocket maximum is NOT a maximum. Other things can still cost you money.

  61. 61.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @burnspbesq:

    Just once, I’d like to see NPR empty both barrels at the demographic of its contributors.

    Well, don’t hold your breath. You might turn blue.

  63. 63.

    Yatsuno

    @burnspbesq: Interesting. I wonder why we got news about the Bulger trial and not this today. Maybe they just limited that to the CI news part or something.

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