Does this thing work? Where’s my coffee?
Edit–so who among you won the MegaMillions lottery? I know that I didn’t.
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Does this thing work? Where’s my coffee?
Edit–so who among you won the MegaMillions lottery? I know that I didn’t.
by John Cole| 78 Comments
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Gave Steve a solid brushing, and man was he ever happy. He’s all soft, silky, and blissed out on my lap:
So happy, even, that he extended me a hand of friendship:
Cats rule.
This post is in: Clown Shoes, Serenity Now!
As I was at the Post Office today, I got my mail and saw that a wrong piece of mail was in my box, but it belonged to a neighbor I had just seen walking out. Rather than giving it to the Postmaster to put in the right box, I walked out and went to find them. Because the slightest thing distracts me, as I was walking towards the exit I went back to checking my mail, I opened the door, saw them, yelled, and… completely forgot that the sidewalk abruptly stopped and had a 12″ drop-off.
Long story short, I faceplanted, shot mail through the air, but, because I am an accomplished klutz, I rolled with the FAIL fall and came out with only two skinned knees and a ruined pair of khakis, a skinned elbow and a skinned palm and a bruised and bleeding pinkie finger (I have no idea how, either), and I wrenched the muscles in my good shoulder. I am now as brokedick as my car, which is still in a fucking field because the damned farmer is never home. It’s like my car was rolled into the Bermuda triangle.
At any rate, I hopped right up, did a quick check, assured my neighbor I was ok and that there were no broken bones and it was all cosmetic damage (I’m telling you, I’m a pro at my own personal triage these days), and thought to myself “this is going to suck in about 8 hours.” And it does. Shoulder is throbbing and I had forgotten how much fun it is to shower with strawberries all over your body.
This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Sports
Johnny Weir – Poker Face by frutty87
(h/t commentor Felinious Wench)
Via commentor LAMH36:
The White House delivered a strong message of opposition to Russia’s anti-gay laws Tuesday with the announcement of its delegation to the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics.
The White House delegation will include an openly gay athlete: tennis great Billie Jean King.
It will not include the president, first lady or the vice president, all who headed the previous four Olympic delegations, or a cabinet secretary, only a former one. This marks the first Olympics since the 2000 Sydney Summer Games that a U.S. president, vice president, first lady or former president has not been a member of the delegation for the opening ceremony, which will be Feb. 7 in Sochi…
The Washington Post ran two articles on the upcoming Sochi Olympics last weekend, an editorial:
… Mr. Putin’s actions place him blatantly at odds with Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter, which bans “any form of discrimination” by a host country. But the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which overlooked China’s crackdown on free expression and political dissent prior to the 2008 Summer Games, has declined to take notice — much less to put pressure on Moscow. Instead, IOC officials are pointing to statements by Mr. Putin that gay athletes and spectators will not be discriminated against during the Games.
That assurance is looking increasingly dubious. Mr. Putin’s rhetoric and the anti-gay law he supported have opened the floodgates for gay-bashing in Russia. State television programs regularly broadcast vile propaganda denouncing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement. As Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch recently reported on the opposite page, state television channel Rossiya 1, whose parent is an Olympic broadcasting franchise holder, recently used a secretly made recording of a meeting she had with Russian gay activists to support the claim that “Western, European sodomites are trying to infiltrate Russia and organize a protest movement here, among our Russian perverts.”…
… and a multi-page travel guide to the city, including the following:
“… We’re not used to a man kissing another man,” said [tour guide] Andrei. “Sooner or later, we’ll all follow your footsteps, but it’s not going to be this year or next.”
Sochi is home to two gay clubs, including the Lighthouse, which holds nightly drag shows. Owner Andrei Tanichev, who opened the establishment eight years ago, said that he has planned a special performance for the Olympics, assembling the country’s best “actors” (translation: drag queens). He is also preparing something smashing for the Group of Eight summit in June 2014.
“We are more tolerant than people in other cities,” he said from the comfort of a dimly lit booth at his club. “After some time, Russian people will be more tolerant.”…
This post is in: Excellent Links, Open Threads, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing
From constant commentor Yatsuno (aka Yutsano):
Yatsuno says:
December 17, 2013 at 7:04 pm (Edit)For those interested: I am not dead. Pretty much stoned out of my gourd though.
Explanation here, for those who missed it this morning.
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If that is insufficient for your entertainment needs, genuis snarkster Alex Pareene is doing this year’s Hack list awards in the channeled voices of the recipients. And while all entries so far have been excellent, my personal favorite is #6 — Erick Erickson:
Erick Erickson has gravely betrayed conservatives everywhere.
I wish I could say that I am surprised. I prayed I wouldn’t have to write this, but here we are.
How can it be that Obamacare remains in effect despite Erickson’s so-called opposition? Did he do anything to halt its advance beyond writing ineffectual blog posts “demanding” that Republicans repeal the ACA? Did Erickson take advantage of the stunning political success that was the recent government shutdown to finally write the blog post that could have crippled the liberty-killing advance of Obamacare? No. He did not. This is, as I said, a grave betrayal, and a shocking dereliction of duty…
Erickson should know that conservatives like myself will now devote themselves to doing everything in their power to remove him from his blog, unless and until he starts showing some results, or my bosses tell me to lay off of him…
This post is in: #OWS, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Decline and Fall
Fake Lenin: "The capitalists will sell us posters of the drum circles with which we shall annoy them." http://t.co/dpwCrwmnVw
— billmon (@billmon1) December 17, 2013
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“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
Open Thread: It Can’t Be Irony If They Don’t Know What That Word MeansPost + Comments (109)
by DougJ| 86 Comments
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Everybody get up.