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It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.

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

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Not all heroes wear capes.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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  3. 3.

    R-Jud

    I’ve had “Fugue for Tinhorns” from Guys and Dolls stuck in my head for three days. Beats having “Santa Baby” there, I guess.
    ♫Likes mud
    Likes mud
    This “X” means the horse likes mud    ♪♫

  17. 17.

    WaterGIrl

    @jeffreyw: No eating bambi!

    Edit: though I did think your photo selection was very clever. Still, we can’t be eating bambi, we have to think of the children!

  29. 29.

    WaterGIrl

    @jeffreyw: Very yummy looking, but I’ll take the mac & cheese with chili, please. And don’t take too long about it, as I am very hungry.

    Hmmm, as I think about it, all I have eaten today is chex mix. No wonder I’m hungry!

  30. 30.

    WaterGIrl

    @jeffreyw: Very yummy looking, but I’ll take the mac & cheese with chili, please. And don’t take too long about it, as I am very hungry.

    Hmmm, as I think about it, all I have eaten today is chex mix. No wonder I’m hungry!

  33. 33.

    jeffreyw

    @WaterGIrl: Use good cheeses and half & half, use more liquid than you think it needs, touch of dry mustard and just a flake or two of fresh nutmeg, grate half a sweet onion into the mornay sauce.

  34. 34.

    oldster

    Keep what you got
    Until you get what
    You need y’all

    You got to give a lot
    Just to get what
    You need sometimes y’all

    Gimme the bridge now!!!

  36. 36.

    BGinCHI

    @Omnes Omnibus: For Brooks, it’s the aspiration, like driving an Alpha Romeo or dating the Prom Queen/King.

    When you are a Bourgeois sycophant all you can imagine are things you get, not how the hard work of gaining them is really the thing.

    What’s the opposite of Zen?

  38. 38.

    WereBear

    I am currently up to my ears in Italian cold cuts, which I don’t mind, they are my favorites. I had to bring something to a potluck and got a cold cut tray, but it only comes in one size, and there are always leftovers.

    There’s something in it for the cats, too: but not what you might think.

    Found object art, in cat

  40. 40.

    WaterGIrl

    @Omnes Omnibus: Let’s send David Brooks back in a time machine.

    oh, and back to food. (still hungry) I saved the indian pudding recipe you linked to earlier, and I want to make it, but I can’t figure out what the texture would be. With the milk and the eggs I’m thinking creamy, but the idea of cornmeal in pudding completely throws me.

  41. 41.

    KG

    @jeffreyw: whoa, whoa, whoa… you mean there’s a recipe to mac n cheese that isn’t “open box, pour strange orange powder on cooked noddles, add milk, and serve”?

  46. 46.

    Amir Khalid

    This could be of interest to the Juicitariat:

    Has any of the lawyers here been following the Ibrahim vs DHS case? Dr Rahinah Ibrahim, dean of design and architecture at Universiti Putra Malaysia, is suing the DHS because it put her on the no-fly list in 2005, preventing her from going back to Stanford to finish her doctorate in person. Because she’s still on the list, she hasn’t been able to travel to the US for er academic work, although she can travel anywhere else. She couldn’t even travel to the US to testify in this lawsuit.

    Her daughter Raihan Mustafa Kamal, a born-in-the-USA American citizen, has also been unable to return to the US to testify for Professor Rahinah. Raihan has been also prevented by DHS from coming back to America, in violation of her rights as an American.

  48. 48.

    max

    @BGinCHI: What’s the opposite of Zen?

    Fox News.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Why wouldn’t the people in Florence just become humanists rather than dreaming about it?

    Because Thought Leaders are produced via a method of reprocessing spam, not actual ambition and hard work.

    max
    [‘I’d wonder why he left out Egyptians dreaming of building giant stone monuments, but the answer is obvious.’]

  49. 49.

    shelly

    It’s too fucking cold, and it won’t stop snowing. And Winter ain’t even here yet.

    That is all.

  50. 50.

    Dead Ernest

    @BGinCHI:

    What’s the opposite of Zen?

    Everything…

    – EVERYTHING happening all at once.
    – EVERYTHING being desired.
    – desiring EVERYTHING.

    …or, feeling a bit peckish. I believe that would qualify as well.

  51. 51.

    gogol's wife

    @shelly:

    Amen. And they now are unable to forecast weather even as it’s actually happening. This was supposed to be a quick mid-day event. (I have no idea whether you’re anywhere near me, but you’re describing my reality.)

  54. 54.

    Felinious Wench

    Last time I flew, American Airlines had acquired a Musak version of Blurred Lines. I texted my episcopalian priest and told him I had apparently landed in hell and needed him to pray harder.

  56. 56.

    JPL

    Janet Napolitano is going to lead the U.S. Delegation to the winter olympics. Also attending will be Billie Jean King and Brian Botano. Pat Buchanan must be so proud.

  57. 57.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @BGinCHI: Yeah plus, you know, Florentines dream of becoming humanists, and the result is Silvio Berlusconi becoming President of Italy.

    Well eventually. Just saying. Dreaming is tricky stuff.

    Oh and the opposite of zen is “applauding loudly”.

  60. 60.

    handsmile

    @WaterGIrl: , @Omnes Omnibus:

    Indian pudding aficionados!? How cool! I always thought of it as a New England dessert, and I believe you two inhabit the Heartland. I adore it, one of my favorite desserts, though it’s now rare to find it served in restaurants. I’ll come across it occasionally in eateries in Maine (the famous Moody’s Diner on Coastal Route 1 there proudly serves a delicious bowl – but only one night a week), and I’m no longer in Boston (thank God!) where it would sometimes be featured on menus.

    Watergirl: The cornmeal in an Indian pudding gives it a grainy texture and the overall consistency should be porridge-like. I haven’t seen OO’s recipe, but when making it myself, I use dark molasses, am generous with raisins, and add a teaspoon or so of allspice, reducing cinnamon and nutmeg to a rounded half-tsp. I prefer to top it with whipped cream (a drop of rum won’t hurt) rather than vanilla ice cream because that cools the warm pudding (and it must be served steaming) too quickly.

    And now having written that out, my mouth is watering for some. Kitchen duty tomorrow methinks. I apologize if this has only added to your hunger pangs.

  62. 62.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @handsmile: My elements of my family came to Wisconsin from Massachusetts in the 1840s prior to that they were around Salem and then Concord.

  70. 70.

    MomSense

    @handsmile:

    Ok, now I’m going to have to make some bread pudding tomorrow. I think it will be a snow day so a perfect day to drink tea and eat bread pudding.

    We use bourbon and skip the raisins. Otherwise pretty similar–lots of cinnamon, fresh grated nutmeg, and vanilla and we like some crisp bits on the outside. Totally agree about some homemade whipped cream (not sweet!) instead of cold ice cream.

  71. 71.

    WaterGIrl

    @handsmile: Thanks for the tips on the indian pudding recipe! I may try to make that before I leave for christmas next week.

    @MomSense: I LOVE good bread pudding, but I do not have a good recipe for it. (hint, hint) Also, so sorry to hear about the evil sinus infections. Let us know how the chinese herb thing works out if you decide to try it. I am very open minded about non-traditional medicine.

  77. 77.

    Mnemosyne

    @WereBear:

    Amazon doesn’t carry the Amazing Treat Machine anymore — in fact, no one does — and I managed to step on (and crush) the last one I could find. Charlotte and Annie haz a sad.

  79. 79.

    Mnemosyne

    @WaterGIrl:

    I haven’t tried that exact one, but they do have a treat puzzle box. The Amazing Treat Machine were these little cardboard rollers that, if the kitty (or, presumably, small dog) rolled it just right, treats would fall out. Charlotte would walk around pushing it with her forehead.

  81. 81.

    Gravenstone

    @Omnes Omnibus: Okay, how about midway between Kill Donkey* and GB?

    * derived from an old friend who quaffed much Old Milwaukee, or as he called it Old Kill Donkey

  82. 82.

    WaterGIrl

    @Mnemosyne: One of my kitties is crazy for cat amazing. They have to get their little paws in there to pull the treats to where they can get them out.

  85. 85.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    Oh and the opposite of zen is “applauding loudly”.

    Yes, but with how many hands?
    @JPL:

    Janet Napolitano is going to lead the U.S. Delegation to the winter olympics. Also attending will be Billie Jean King and Brian Botano.

    This is great. There aren’t enough middle fingers in the world….

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