Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

The revolution will be supervised.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

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

Cole is on a roll !

White supremacy is terrorism.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

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  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    John, have you thought of doing a bleg to buy a few light bulbs that are more than 25 watts? I’m in for two 60-watters.

  4. 4.

    Yatsuno

    I see Papa Stevedoe Hemingway has taken to his penthouse hideaway well. He’s conspiring against you in there you know.

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    “…a very comfortable 64 degrees…”

    I understand each of those words separately, but strung together in that order, they make no sense to me.

  6. 6.

    Felonius Monk

    Jeez, Cole —- Turn on the fckng lights will ya. Starting to think you live in West Virginia or something.

  7. 7.

    Anya

    Speaking of winning, this tweet from Sen Warner indicates that Mark Herring is the declared winner.

    Mark Warner ‏@MarkWarner 1m
    A hearty congratulations to VA Attorney General-elect @SenMarkHerring: proof that every single vote must count. #VAAG #fairfaxfinale

  8. 8.

    Schlemizel

    We have a much more humble carpeted box for our kitty but she only uses it in the winter. It gets a lot less use since we installed the heated floors but still gets none in warm weather. Must be a cat thing.

  9. 9.

    khead

    My brother had a subarachnoid hemorrhage this morning at the ripe old age of 51. Luckily, when he didn’t show up for work, his employer called my sis-in-law and she rushed home to find him – or my brother would be dead now. He’s gonna have some holes drilled in his head tomorrow – so he has that going for him.

  10. 10.

    Yatsuno

    @Anya: Wait…no recount? I can’t believe the wingnuts would give up that easily. Was the surge in Fairfax that strong that he just got pushed over beyond the reach of Obershain?

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    Doing laundry in advance of our long weekend/mini-vacation starting on Thursday. But I have a goddamned sore throat that I’m very afraid might be the killer cold that’s going around work.

    But I’ve been looking forward to this trip for months, so we are going if I have anything short of pneumonia. I’ve already told G that if I have to be sick, at least I’ll be comfy at the B&B.

  13. 13.

    Aji

    @Betty Cracker: They make even less sense in light of “It snowed two inches today and the temps dropped . . . .” It’s been getting down into the very low 20s (even teens) here for over a month now. I’m sorry, but I’m not keeping the keeping the indoor temp at 64 before we go to bed. Even the dogs would go on strike.

  16. 16.

    Felonius Monk

    Hey Cole, I love Steve. He looks real cozy in his elevated digs, but I think my gal is cozier.

    BTW, I will put in for a couple of 75 watters if you’ve got the lamps.

  18. 18.

    Suzanne

    Oh my God. Wonders never cease. He looks great in there.

    Can you buy some new occasional tables? PLEASE?! That end table is hurting my soul. It’s just so NAGEL.

  19. 19.

    Yatsuno

    @Suzanne: Confession: I have the design gene, but only for other peoples’ houses. My own I could give two fucks if the furniture matched or the carpeting had nice throw rugs. Hell I barely have a couch and it was mostly a scratching post for my kitteh. Let me loose with another person’s house and I can go to town. I think I’m defective.

  22. 22.

    gogol's wife

    My fat cat Louis has taken to sitting in the cat carrier (which has a nice cat bed in it). He seems confident that he’s not due for a checkup or he wouldn’t go near the thing.

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus

    It is supposed to get down to 18 degrees over night. I have my thermostat set at 60, but the actual temp is about 68 – I think I am benefiting from heat rising from my downstairs neighbor.

  24. 24.

    Percysowner

    Eh, I keep the house at 60 when it starts getting cold and once I adapt I drop it to 58. Lots of robes and blankets and 2 cats and a dog and I’m all cozy.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @mclaren:

    Alas, you asked for citations, which is always a fatal mistake for you. Prepare to get nuked.

    You do realize that you didn’t answer the question, right?

    This was your claim:

    ACA limits admissions to medical shcools

    You need to show me the actual language in the actual law that limits admissions to medical schools, because that’s what your claim is — PPACA by law limits admissions to medical schools.

    Here’s a link to the actual law.  Go to it.  Show us the actual language in the law that does what you claim by part and subtitle. Not someone else’s claims about what it says, but the actual language in the actual law.

  28. 28.

    fleeting expletive

    It’s 11/12/13, as Americans designate the date. Won’t happen again until December 13 next year I suppose. Just a thought.

  29. 29.

    PhoenixRising

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): No, not the pernicious logic ‘May As Well Be Sick On The Beach in Cancun’!

    My child, who was then 8, sobbed into a Mexican trash can: Mama, you said I could be sick just as well here as at home. But at home the throw-up knows where to gooooo….

    And she was right. The poor lil booger.

  30. 30.

    Redshirt

    Is that a cute little pet photo in coaster form on the table?

    Also, there’s this new technology called “Flash” – your polaroid there probably has it.

  31. 31.

    Yatsuno

    @Omnes Omnibus: Especially since she posted that comment in said thread. In her defence, she has been feeling under the weather. Plus it’s not like any of us have ever done that before…

    :: whistles innocently ::

  32. 32.

    trollhattan

    A cat that actually USES the Burj Khitteah. Zounds, will wonders never cease?

    Unfamiliar with the “snow” concept but would settle for rain. Any rain. California is on track for the driest year on record. Actually mowed the lawnweedpatch yesterday and then watered it. Watered the fracking lawn in mid-November (typically don’t have to engage in such nonsense after early October).

  33. 33.

    eemom

    @Yatsuno:

    I have the design gene

    sheeyit…..this like totally reminds me of a Cheers episode that I’m probably the only one here old enough to remember.

  34. 34.

    nineone

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    John, have you thought of doing a bleg to buy a few light bulbs that are more than 25 watts? I’m in for two 60-watters.

    Perhaps a photography class or two as well. Or how ’bout some CGI?

  36. 36.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    60 degrees in the house! Gotta pull the gaspack open and blow out a stuck valve to get the HVAC running but it’s dark and cold outside.

  38. 38.

    Denali

    How come my Ipad throws a fit and shuts down this blog every time I try to view more than 50 comments? Does it want to protect my tender eyes when things get a little out of control here? Why oh why can I not view this blog from the comfort of my Barcalounger?

  47. 47.

    Comrade Mary

    Steve is cute. The way almost all of you think that 64 is cold is also cute. My house is at 17 (62.6 in American) right now, which is t shirt and yoga pants territory.

  50. 50.

    Yatsuno

    @Comrade Mary: I can never understand how people run their house at 21-22. I get uncomfortable over 15 and I’m even better at around 12. My ex from Whitehorse questioned if I could handle the cold up there since he was thinking about moving back there from Vancouver. I just chuckled at him.

  52. 52.

    PsiFighter37

    @Anya: I’m sure Obenshain will file for a recount, but 163 votes seems pretty damn large to overcome. In the tight race in 2005, a recount actually widened McDonnell’s margin – but only by 37 votes.

    A clean sweep sure does taste mighty fine. GOP is shut out of statewide office in VA…perhaps a permanent sign that VA is a purple state with a blue lean?

  54. 54.

    rikyrah

    This is why elections matter.

    WE in Chicago, STILL can’t get Rahm to settle the Burge cases, set up a fund for the victims and for him to call for new trials for all the victims.

    ………………

    Ken Burns: Bill De Blasio Has Agreed To Settle 10-Year-Old Central Park Five Case

    During a visit to HuffPost Live Tuesday to discuss his new initiative “Learn the Address,” documentary filmmaker Ken Burns gave an update on the ten-year-old Central Park Five civil suit and told host Josh Zepps that New York City’s new mayor will finally settle the case.

    Burns’ 2012 documentary “The Central Park Five” tells the story of five juveniles convicted in 1990 of raping a jogger in Central Park. In 2002, the convictions of the five defendants were vacated when another man confessed to the crime. The following year, the Central Park Five filed a civil suit against the City of New York for their wrongful convictions that, after a decade, has yet to be resolved.

    “Bill de Blasio, the mayor-elect, has agreed to settle this case, and though this is justice delayed way too long, and that is justice denied, [they] will not only be exonerated … but they will have justice, they will see some closure, they will be able to be made whole,” Burns said.

    Burns joined HuffPost Live last year before the film’s release with one of the exonerated members of the Central Park Five. Burns said then of New York City’s refusal to settle the 10-year-old case, “the city has put molasses into the system,” and that 10 years later “this is still an open wound that we continue to pick the scab on.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/bill-de-blasio-central-park-five_n_4262203.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

  55. 55.

    schrodinger's cat

    This Sunday I was grilling and it was cold, brrr. I think I was probably wearing half of the L L Bean catalog. Yankee Chickens were eating in my yard, neighbor who owns the chickens was apologetic and she gave me a dozen of the Yankee chicken eggs! I scrambled a couple and I wonder what I should do with the rest of them. Also too, apple tree in the yard has lots of apples, they are pretty delicious, I am wondering what I should do with them also.

  57. 57.

    Poopyman

    @Denali: Mine did that with this very blog on Sunday. I tried the universal fix – shut it down and restart – and that seemed to solve the problem.

    “Seemed” because it solved it for the few moments I used the iPad before moving on with my day, and I haven’t used the iPad since.

  58. 58.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @Betty Cracker:

    I understand each of those words separately, but strung together in that order, they make no sense to me.

    Jumper-wearing season is back, thank all that is holy.

    When the spring comes, John, consider sending Steve to the cat-barber. Long-haired cats and hot summers are not a great mix.

  59. 59.

    hildebrand

    Yep, we are definitely leaning towards keeping this one. We will get him neutered in due season, but first a trip to the vet to check for the regular variety of critters and assorted whatnot.

  60. 60.

    Suzanne

    @2liberal: Yeah, it was hot. Right now, we have the doors open to fill our house with some glorious 70 degree freshness.

    So a kid got kidnapped in front of Spawn the Elder’s elementary school last week.

  64. 64.

    Anya

    @Yatsuno: I am sure wingnusts will not give up that easily. Maybe Dems learned something from the last experience and they want to make it a certainty.

  69. 69.

    Steeplejack

    @Yatsuno:

    Results don’t get certified until November 25, after which there can be a recount and/or (I expect) a lawsuit.

    According to the TV news just now, Herring ended up winning by about 165 votes.

  72. 72.

    CaseyL

    I love it when the weather gets a little chilly: I can drag out all my “fleecies,” the comfortable warm fuzzy things for lounging around in. Like being in PJs all day.

    A “little chilly” for me is 40s-50s during the day. At night? I only go out if I gotta, once the merc drops below 40.

    Except when it snows. Then I go out and make snow angels. I did a face-down snow angel once, just to see what it was like. Every pore in my face snapped shut so hard you could almost hear it. My cats at the time (Jazz and Ariel, of beloved memory) were watching and trying to figure out what Crazy Human Mom was up to now.

  73. 73.

    Bob's Had Enough

    I’ll spring for a Cree 9.5 watt LED. Looks like the light bulbs of last century. Gives 60 watts worth of incandescent light while using only 16% as much electricity.

    $7.97 at Home Depot.

    Pays for itself in less than a year and lasts for years.

    I’ve got a couple and they are friggin’ great!

    (Do it for the planet. And for your bank account.)

  74. 74.

    Suzanne

    @Ash Can: So some total winner out on Phoenix’s west side went nuts and killed his grandmother. Then crossed the city to the east side, went to an elementary school, and carjacked a car with a kid in it (mom was running inside to get the younger kid and the older kid was in the car). Got about two miles away before the police stopped them. Kid is safe. I am freaked out.

    Ironically, they had enclosed all their exterior circulation two years ago, and instituted the policy after Newtown that every visitor to the campus had to go through the office to check in. So this mom didn’t want to deal with the hassle and left her older kid outside.

  75. 75.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I just got back from the vet…again. After almost killing my cat. His diabetes diagnosis seemed to be premature (sure, AFTER I spent $200 on the insulin bottle – yeah, you read that correctly).

    Seems the infection he had was messing with his pancreas. I’ve been testing his glucose, but since it was over 300 all weekend, I thought I’d give his ear a rest this morning (that’s where you lance for blood) and gave him his prescribed dose (since only control freaks like myself test their cats)..6 hours later, he was so low he collapsed on the floor. Tested his blood- scary low. Corn syrup around his gums and rushed to the vet. By the time we got there – 10 whole minutes – he was up, around and yowling at the vet…I’m sure telling him what an idiot I am. The vet told me I did all the right things.

    Someone should probably test my blood pressure. Tomorrow, when I”m more up for it, I’ll put the question to you smart people – any of you have a cat with transient diabetes and how did you handle it? But until then, sleepytime tea and a hot bath for me

    p,s. A Steve interlude is just what I needed.

  76. 76.

    Violet

    @John Cole:

    My colors are all fucked up because I am running f.lux. I have no idea what I am doing.

    You do know that you can disable f.lux for up to an hour if you need to do some color-sensitive work, right? There’s even a convenient little box to click to make it happen. You can just un-check the box when you want f.lux to start again.

  79. 79.

    Ash Can

    @Suzanne: Ack! Thank goodness the kid is safe. And I have no doubt you’re freaked out; I’m sure your whole community is. What a scary ordeal.

  80. 80.

    Suzanne

    @Ash Can: @2liberal: Yeah, it is scary as shit. I know it is a rare thing, but it is so horrible. Mr. Suzanne or I drive Spawn the Elder to school because we live across a major intersection, but next year, she’s going to ride her bike, and this makes me irrationally hesitant.

  81. 81.

    Suffern ACE

    @Yatsuno: I think they need to declare a winner before there can be a recount. I don’t know how long Obersheim has to say “NOT SO FAST!”. The ref has counted out, but the GOP is going to come in with the chair before the bell rings and makes it official.

  83. 83.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suzanne: I have a wingnut, gun nut cousin who lives in Phoenix; she volunteered for Arpaio’s special posse. She apparently lives in a good neighborhood, but constantly complains of the violence and shooting nearby – or at least she did before I hid her on Facebook.

  84. 84.

    Suffern ACE

    @Jebediah, RBG: I know you want to be energy conscious and keep that carbon footprint low, but I’m thinking you’re throwing out eggs and milk a little too often at that temp.

  89. 89.

    piratedan

    @Omnes Omnibus: agreed… and the local Tucson Food Bank is working with the local utility this Thursday, basically Tucson Electric Power is matching any and all cash donations, so we’re gonna be kicking some cash that way since we suspect the food bank can buy it more efficiently than we can.

  90. 90.

    Suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: Phoenix has many neighborhoods like that. It’s one of the weirder things about this city that is not really typical—some very nice, posh neighborhoods are separated by one little street from really scary, sketchy places. I used to live in midtown PHX, and in a pretty nice area. Up-and-coming gentrifying, houses started going for just under a million bucks a couple of years after I moved out. Yet two blocks over…..gunshots and drug deals on a regular basis.

  91. 91.

    ruemara

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Go out and get either oil of oregano pills or extracts. Take them 2x a day along with a few cups of garlic tea with lemon and honey. Freak that virus right out and have a great vacation.

    I love kittens in their comfortable hidey holes. I still have the kittens’ tree but i’m giving it to a friend who has cats that need a place to climb. I hope they have as much fun as Steve and my boys do.

  93. 93.

    John O

    @Betty Cracker:

    64 degrees is cold. And I’m from Chicago, and still live in the ‘hood. It’s in fact impossible for me to get my upstairs-townhouse to 64 in the summer if it’s above, say, 85 degrees.

    Just cranked it down to 65, but that’s just good sleepin’ temperature.

  95. 95.

    Suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oh, I’m sure her paranoia is involved. But it is weird in that way. Everywhere else I’ve lived, the riches stay far, far away from any of the scarier pockets of town. But some of the areas here are very much not like that. It’s a strange city fabric.

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suzanne: Meh, When I lived in Columbus, Ohio, I lived in a very nice neighborhood. Right next a couple of the city’s worst areas. It happens. One deals.

    ETA: I lived in a shitty little place in order to be in a cool neighborhood.

  101. 101.

    reality-based

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    re the killer cold – save yourself a step, get the anitbiotics now. If it’s the same virus I had, what starts out as a virus in the head morphs into all kinds of icky-yellow-greeny stuff in the lungs in about 4 days from the first sore throat.

    Trying to do my part to stem antibiotic overuse, I hacked up crap for a week, finally ordered firmly to the Doctor by my boss – Doc listened to my lungs, sat bolt upright, and exclaimed “Jesus! How long has this been going on?”

    I’m just sayin – this fall’s cold is a bitch!

  104. 104.

    wasabi gasp

    The whole world is all upsides down – just woke after a ten hour sleep. These wee hours of the night are usually about rolling in the curlers and slathering on tranny lube in preps for a tiny hibernation…not a head start on the booze and pills.

    Elli Medeiros – Sophisticated Lady

  105. 105.

    Central Planning

    @2liberal:

    I am sorry for what you are going thru with the worry – it seems like there is just no safe place anymore.

    It might _seem_ like that (my wife leans that way), but that is totally not true. The odds of your child, or really any child, being abducted are ridiculously low.

    I found this info on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children website:

    The U.S. Department of Justice reports
    • 797,500 children younger than 18 were reported missing in a one-year period of time studied resulting in an average of 2,185 children being reported missing each day.
    • 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions.
    • 58,200 children were the victims of nonfamily abductions.
    • 115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. These crimes involve someone the child does not know or a slight acquaintance who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.

    To help put those numbers in perspective, the US Census estimates about 308 million people in the US in 2010, and 23.5% are under 18. That means almost 72.6 million kids.

    Percentage wise, 797,500 missing out of 72.6m is .0025, or one-quarter of one percent.

    For those missing kids – I think that includes runaways, kids who didn’t come home one night and the parents didn’t know where they are, and other things like that.

    I’m not trying to minimize the need to be careful and vigilant with your kids (I have 5), but we all need to be aware of how fast stories like this fly around the world – you can hear about things like this minutes after it happens. Because they are heard frequently, people assume abductions are happening more than they did “when we were kids” (can’t find a cite for that). We should probably be more worried about car accidents, sports accidents, or drug addiction.

    Wow, that turned out to be pretty long.

    I’m off to get ready for a day of celebrating 20 years of marriage – jewelry store, lunch, winery where we got married, and a nice sushi dinner.

  107. 107.

    Jebediah, RBG

    @Suffern ACE:

    but I’m thinking you’re throwing out eggs and milk a little too often at that temp.

    “Throwing out eggs?” I never throw out eggs. That hard shell keeps them from ever going bad. Or so I tell myself when I notice that the date on the carton is not so recent. So far, I have not poisoned myself.

  108. 108.

    Trinity

    We rescued two maine coon mix kittens in September. They now completely run our home. [We love our kitten overlords.] That said, the littlest one nicknamed “General Mischief” is getting a little mane action around her neck as her winter coat comes in. I almost expect her to begin roaring soon. At which time I will, of course, bring treats in supplication.

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