Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

This really is a full service blog.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

The revolution will be supervised.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

People are complicated. Love is not.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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  1. 1.

    StringOnAStick

    Steve looks so much like our kitty, except he’s a beefier male, he’s got incredibly impressive paws, and whiskers our cat would no doubt be jealous about (since she’s kinda femmy-fussy). So glad you two found each other!

  10. 10.

    srv

    Dallas has a wingnut station on FM. Dennis Miller was up emoting about some Duck thing, and what all his gay friends thought about it.

    Then he was talking about some conservative event with a sponser, which he stuggled with: “David JEW-ey-lyers… David JEW-lers… oh, David Jewlers…”

    And then someone talked about how Baldwin had to be hateful eleventy billion times before he got fired, and Duck guy only got one chance.

  17. 17.

    khead

    No, it doesn’t get old. I need to get back to posting and sharing pics of the girls (kittehs). They are growing up pretty quickly.

  20. 20.

    WaterGIrl

    @Yatsuno: Yay for making it to the next step! I’m sure your feistiness will help get you through the next few weeks.

    When I think of rehab, I always think of the movie Regarding Henry, and his PT guy who always said “I gotta get me some of that”.

    If it has to be painful, here’s hoping you get a cool and fun person to work with you, at least.

  21. 21.

    Mike in NC

    Our two damn lazy cats love nothing more than curling up under the Christmas tree. Something about the lights I think.

  27. 27.

    WaterGIrl

    Just wanted to thank whoever it was on BJ last year who recommended Puerto Rican Eggnog.

    I made 2 batches last year, and I was happy to find my notes about the changes I made to the second batch. Here’s my recipe, in case anyone wants to try it.

    Puerto Rican Eggnog – Coquito REVISED

    1 15-ounce cans coconut cream

    8 ounces of heavy cream & some milk instead of the can of sweetened, condensed milk
    2-3 splashes of milk
    1 14-ounce can evaporated milk

    1/2 cup Puerto Rican rum

    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

    1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
    1/8 teaspoon fresh ground nutmeg
 – used about half of that, then added more just before serving

    Mix all ingredients with a whisk or a blender.

    Chill at least an hour (it gets better as it ages, so make a day or two ahead if possible).

    (I made the last batch 24 hours before I brought it to your house, but I tasted right after I made it and it was already pretty good.)

    Drink carefully!

    EDIT: making my first batch of the year on saturday morning so i can bring it to our 5-episodes of Homeland marathon on sunday. It’s only available ON DEMAND until january 5 or 7, so we are going the marathon route with the first 5 episodes of this season on sunday.

  29. 29.

    Hawes

    I just checked into a motel in West By God Virginia, and I’m shocked at all the Subarus out in fields. Is that a thing here?

  30. 30.

    MikeJ

    @WaterGIrl: There is a distinct lack of eggs in your nog.

    I was reading ye olde timey NY Times cookbook from back in the Craig Clairborne era the other day. The eggnog recipe starts with 50 eggs.

  32. 32.

    danielx

    @Hawes:

    I just checked into a motel in West By God Virginia, and I’m shocked at all the Subarus out in fields. Is that a thing here?

    Totally.

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @WaterGIrl:

    I have a recipe for Killer Nog, and part of the recipe includes the advice that you will either need to dole it out in very tiny portions or plan to have your guests stay over, so you may as well haul out the extra blankets and sleeping bags while you’re in the basement getting out the punch bowl.

  35. 35.

    WaterGIrl

    @MikeJ: As I recall when I researched the puerto rican eggnog last year on the google, it said that the puerto rican eggnog originally had no eggs. It also said that some people add eggs, but this was definitely the best eggnog I have ever had, so why complicate it with eggs? :-)

  36. 36.

    Fuzzy

    @WaterGIrl: I know at least twice the rum will be crucial with my crowd. About 30 oz. of cream/milk needs at least 8oz of rum which is less than the 3 to 1 of most cocktails.

  37. 37.

    WaterGIrl

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Well, I’m brining the eggnog, and I’m planning on wearing my jammies. Well, my “lounging outfit”, which is basically jammies. :-) So I think I’m good to go!

    This is seriously good stuff. As I recall, some of the recipes called for 2 cans of cream of coconut, but we agreed that would be too much. I also prefer the cream + a bit of milk to the sweetened condensed milk. It was plenty sweet without the sweetened condensed milk.

    Yum. I seriously can’t wait. I had forgotten all about it until one day last week when it popped into my head.

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    Ol’ Newsmax finally put up a headline that I couldn’t resist clicking through:

    Greenwald: NSA Creates Blackmail Risk for Women Who Get Abortions

    It’s actually even worse than the headline suggests.

  39. 39.

    WaterGIrl

    @Fuzzy: Yeah, I probably reduced the rum and forgot to make note of it. I figure you can always add more, but it’s hard to take it out.

  43. 43.

    Gravenstone

    @max: Marvel should sue Iron Mask for copyright infringement. If that ain’t Doc Doom in bronzed PJs, I don’t know who its supposed to be.

  46. 46.

    Narcissus

    Made it to the rehab unit. Now things get intense for a few weeks.

    Booze? Pills? Cadbury Creme Eggs?

  53. 53.

    lamh36

    A Twitter Message About AIDS, Africa and Race
    By ASHLEY SOUTHALL

    Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!

    — Justine Sacco (@JustineSacco) 20 Dec 13

    A message about race and AIDS in Africa posted on the Twitter account of a public relations executive at an Internet media giant caused an outcry on Twitter and the web on Friday.

    The message, from the account of Justine Sacco, the communications director for InterActiveCorp, better known as IAC, read: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”

    IAC is the corporate parent of more than three dozen companies, including Match.com, The Daily Beast and Dictionary.com. The company, based in New York City, also owns BlackPeopleMeet.com, a dating site for African-Americans.

    “This is an outrageous, offensive comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC,” the company said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an international flight, but this is a very serious matter and we are taking appropriate action.”..

  55. 55.

    FlipYrWhig

    @burnspbesq: I was snarking about that a few threads down. Mostly wondering which side NewsMax was expecting readers to be on: slutty slutty sluts or Obama’s jackbooted Stasi. Or Glenn Greenwald’s.

  58. 58.

    Ash Can

    @lamh36: She’s in for the shock of her life when she lands. Talk about learning the hard way about being an ass on Twitter.

    ETA @ lamh36: Deleted? She must have landed, then.

  60. 60.

    MikeJ

    @lamh36:

    A message about race and AIDS in Africa posted on the Twitter account of a public relations executive

    What the fuck sort of public relations expert makes AIDS jokes unless they’re doing it intentionally to get clicks?

  61. 61.

    lamh36

    @MikeJ: well it backfired big time for her. She tweeted it right before she boarded. The flight has landed, and now the tweet has been deleted. I’m tell ya, she’s gonna be clearing her phone all night from her twitter mentions alone.

    She might just as well turn the phone off and just use another phone.

    ETA: Apparently now the tweet has been deleted and apparently the twitter account has also been deleted

  63. 63.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: Of course, I could. But really why should I? some will call me an obot; some will call a coffee house liberal dudebro; some will drunkenly mutter something about me be a silly person or some such; and mclaren will again suggest that I masturbate to holocaust porn. So, why bother?

  67. 67.

    Suffern ACE

    Hmmmm. There are advantages to Twitter’s character constraint. It forces distillation of complex ideas. Something tells me though that the full length essay from Ms. Sacco would be less interesting. But then she’d remain an anonymous nobody, instead of a unknown nobody everyone has as strong opinion about.

  69. 69.

    James Hare

    You make me miss my big beautiful Maine Coon boy Hagrid. Those damn godless communists in China sent us tainted food that granted that fine cat his final reward. I am not yet over holding a grudge.

  70. 70.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    So I was extremely surprised to find Slate using their contrarian powers against Ronald Reagan with this story:

    The Welfare Queen

    Short version: using Linda Taylor as an example of the failure of the welfare system is like using Al Capone as an example of the failure of the income tax system. And yet she’s the example that Republicans have used for over 30 years to denigrate anyone who receives welfare.

  71. 71.

    WaterGIrl

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    …and mclaren will again suggest that I masturbate to holocaust porn.

    Wow, the things I miss because I skip over certain posters. That must have been a fun night.

  75. 75.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: Was your wedding anniversary – the marriage that ended through someone else’s decision – this week? OTOH Diamonds and Rust is a brilliant song.

    ETA: I know you are gay and in WI so a wedding anniversary isn’t an option. My apologies.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @James Hare:

    That’s what happened to our late great Boris. Dick Van Patten’s “natural” cat food killed our cat.

    @lamh36:

    I heard about this on the radio driving home. The deejay (young and female) was PISSED.

    @WaterGIrl:

    Oh, I got accused of that, too. Also of masturbating to thoughts of Pol Pot. Interesting glimpse into the swamps of that particular brain, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

  84. 84.

    Jane2

    @Yatsuno: Ahhh nothing but pain and resentment! But at the end of the day, blessed, blessed mobility, so worth it.

    As for Main Coons, I just watched the “Too Cute” episode on Netflix tonight that featured MC kitties. Phil and Izzy are now nervous as I’m sighing thinking that two ragdolls are fulfilling, but the addition of a MC kitty would make it *really* fulfilling.

  86. 86.

    Little Boots

    and I will have you know, Mr. Omnes, that thus far, two people have been honored to marry me.

    two.

    Mr.

  89. 89.

    LayedBackGuy

    When are we going to get some Steve Stuff in the store? When is the calender gonna be ready? I’m getting tired of flipping to January, and not having any pet pics, or spaces to write my reminders…

    Damn Hippy/Libruls; you just don’t know how to efficiently capitalize the branding, and take my moneys!

  91. 91.

    Ruckus

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):
    The welfare queen. A very interesting story.
    Once worked as a mental health counselor and had one telephone client, a 14 yr old girl who could make up very complete elaborate stories with names, voices and mannerisms and unless you could recognize her vocal idiosyncrasies you would never know if she was 10, 80 or somewhere in between. I could about 95% of the time figure out it was her in about 2 minutes but couldn’t teach anyone how I did it. Other than her actual age this could have been the same woman. Could fool almost everyone. If she had been a little older and a lot more evil she could have used her talent for conning a lot of money.

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