Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

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

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

In my day, never was longer.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

T R E 4 5 O N

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Come on, man.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Republicans do not trust women.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

How stupid are these people?

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  2. 2.

    raven

    Freakin out in the ATL and closing shit down. I hope it doesn’t snow at all and they look like dorks again!

  3. 3.

    JPL

    All of our local schools have closed Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation for the weather. In other news there was a shooting in a Kroger’s. I can attest to the fact that the local grocery stores have been packed today so the shooting had to cause panic. Two ladies are in the hospital but are suppose to be fine.

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    Don’t know what’s going on in ‘Merica, sorry. But I was in a supermarket (in KL) today, and this white dude walked by who bore a striking resemblance to The Blog Lord. About six feet tall, blond, glasses, not slim (ahem), rather casually dressed. Except he didn’t have the scraggly beard, just a vaguely stubbly chin. I know, it probably wasn’t him. But for a moment there …

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    Staying with my mom, who is still in pretty bad shape, but there’s not a damn thing to be done about it at the moment. We’re watching curling on TV. WTF, curling? WTF?

  7. 7.

    Trollhattan

    Apparently, some “Forbes” lady wandered over to the corpse of “Time” to declare her freedom from having to date pesky liberal menfolk.

    I’ve dated guys from a smorgasbord of racial and ethnic backgrounds, but that’s a separate matter. Unlike race, being liberal is a choice, just like being conservative is a choice. No baby pops out a liberal or conservative; it’s a state of mind he adopts later on. He may be conditioned from birth, but there comes a time when he chooses Chomsky over Hayek.

    My political beliefs stem from data analysis, academic pursuits, and travels abroad. Plenty of my close liberal friends who have similar backgrounds come to polar opposite conclusions, and that’s dandy. But it doesn’t mean I want that cognitive processing around me 24/7 in the most intimate of unions. Tolerance does not equal tenderness. Romance is a union of body, mind, and soul, and when we’re out of sync on politics it’s a huge mental obstacle.

    See what she did there? Hayek and Chomsky are concise counterpoints to one another! But hey, she’s been to a smorgasbord.

    H/T (with muttered curses) Wonkette.

    http://ideas.time.com/2014/02/10/why-i-cant-date-a-liberal/#ixzz2sxNXVECu

  10. 10.

    FRANCH

    Looking at the weathers in my neck of the woods, it looks like we got a cold shit sandwich to eat tomorrow night, and then it gradually gets better until March. THANKS OBAMA!

  18. 18.

    Betty Cracker

    @BGinCHI: I bet it would be fun to play it. Chess on ice? I don’t know about that. Shuffleboard on ice seems more like it. But you understand its mysteries better than I do, so I’ll defer to your greater knowledge on the issue.

  19. 19.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    speculation that this is rank opportunism aimed at being Charlie Crist’s running mate, but I don’t care
    Former Florida Rep. Ana Rivas Logan announced her plans to leave the GOP and register as a Democrat, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
    “The GOP of today is not the party I joined,” she said. “It’s not the party of my parents. It’s a party that has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists.”
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/florida-lawmaker-leaves-republican-party

  21. 21.

    BGinCHI

    @Trollhattan: I thought it might be “Be more like my father!” followed by “You can never be like my father!”

    Or maybe I’m just thinking of Maureen Dowd.

  22. 22.

    Hungry Joe

    Mayoral election in San Diego tomorrow — progressive Alvarez vs. conservative, same-old-same-old, developer-backed Faulconer. Walked a precinct yesterday; will do the same tomorrow, doing knock & drag from about 2pm till about 7:30 (polls close at 8:00). Going to be very, very close.

    We all have to put our feet on street. Every time. I do not particularly enjoy precinct-walking; I always hate it for the first 15 minutes, then get into a groove and it’s … well, not fun, but not so bad, either, and I find it enormously gratifying once it’s done. Thing is, it’s necessary. It makes a difference. And it’s something most of us can actually do.

    And if you can’t, for whatever reason, you can volunteer in the campaign offices: data entry, putting polling-place stickers on thousands of door-hangers … they’ll find something for you to do.

    And the precinct-walking experience has revealed a great window of opportunity: door-bell repairman. At least 40% of them don’t work. Now all I have to do is learn how to repair doorbells.

  23. 23.

    Mike in NC

    Attending a funeral in Charlotte, where they are expecting between 2 and 8 inches of snow in the next 48 hours.

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    Suffern ACE

    @BGinCHI: The last 3-4 yards, when they’re sweeping like crazy and the stone starts changing direction and you wonder if it’ll hit or miss it’s resting spot are quite suspensful and instense, if you ask me. One of the more interesting 3 seconds in sports.

  31. 31.

    ? Martin

    The LA story is that yesterday a suspected drunk driver went barreling the wrong way down the 60 freeway at 100MPH, plowed head-on into a pair of SUVs killing 6 people, including her sister. She survived with moderate injuries (I cannot imagine how given the photo). Today we learn she has a previous DUI conviction.

    More trains, please. I’ve managed to successfully get from Times Square to Long Island, and also to Connecticut while blind drunk. Requires several trains, carries risks of getting on wrong train, getting robbed, falling on tracks, among others, but doesn’t carry the risk of killing innocent people.

  32. 32.

    IowaOldLady

    Mr IOL loves curling. He got hooked when we lived in Detroit and got Canadian TV.

    But my dad was Canadian. He curled and so does my brother in MN.

  45. 45.

    Gene108

    I think if we have a female Presidential nominee it has to be someone like Hillary Clinton, whose husband’s accomplishments will not be overshadowed by the lady becoming the first woman President.

    Too many fragile male egos and some elderly conservative women’s egos that could not handle the change of a woman’s career out shining her husband’s career.

  48. 48.

    MomSense

    I took up tai chi recently and true to my type A personality keep pestering my teacher to show me the next postures. Apparently it is not a race or a competition and I am supposed to be patient and take my time. I have hated “be patient” and “take your time” since I was a toddler, thank you very much.

    This is going to be difficult for me.

    @Betty Cracker:

    Sending you a hug, Betty. Have spent many a day (and night) sitting with and caring for family members and it is not easy. The only thing I can say is that those times are so precious to me now. Keeping you and your mom in my thoughts.

  50. 50.

    Chickamin Slam

    Second time trying to post.

    My father and I had coffee with someone from the past. He is 76 and his wife thinks he might be getting Alzheimer’s. So it would be good to get him out of the house for a bit, chat about stuff, even if the conversation gets hard to follow. I had promised his wife I’d do it at some point so today was it.

    He loves his grandkids and wants to visit them in Phoenix. Perhaps after his doctors run a few tests first he might be cleared to fly down there. He will celebrate 50 years of marriage in June.

  51. 51.

    Suffern ACE

    @Howard Beale IV: Wow. Perhaps VW should start a wispering campaign that it will allow Muslim employees break time to pray. Then the legislature will vote to burn the plant down.

  52. 52.

    Gene108

    @Gene108:

    To clarify, Hillary drew a lot of crap in 1992 because she had a career outside of being a political wife. Vaguely remember something about cookie recipes as part of the campaign.

    The freak out to a “political husband”, who subsumes himself and his goals to further his wife’s career will have the same or greater backlash as there was in 1992 to a “political wife” having a career outside of being a prop for hubby’s career.

  53. 53.

    LanceThruster

    Got a bug/spider bite of an unknown source mid-week last week that now looks like half a cherry tomato under the skin. The progression has been toward healing but it’s unlike anything I’ve encountered. The map shows it could have been a brown recluse but the symptoms do not seem to fit. Slow lingering irritation versus overnight crisis. – http://www.badspiderbites.com/necrotic-arachnidism-syndrome/.

    Tell my wife I love her very much (she knows!)

  56. 56.

    Mandalay

    Q. What to these very rich people, often perceived as being assholes, all have in common?…
    Larry Ellison
    Carl Icahn
    Michael Bloomberg
    T. Boone Pickens
    Mark Zuckerberg

    A. They have all taken the pledge “to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy”.

    Of course this doesn’t mean they are not still assholes. But it does mean that they have a good side, and that they are definitely not complete assholes.

    Other famous people on the list (who are not generally perceived as assholes) include Richard Branson, Jon Huntsman, Paul Allen, Ted Turner and David Rockefeller, and of course, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

    Good for them. All of them, Katie.

  57. 57.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Bill in Section 147: Ya gotta love the money these clowns are spending to have these kinds of statements made:

    A worker opposition group called Southern Momentum echoed that position in a statement

    “Further financial incentives — which are absolutely necessary for the expansion of the VW facility here in Chattanooga — simply will not exist if the UAW wins this election,” Maury Nicely, a Chattanooga labor lawyer representing Southern Momentum said.

    Now pray tell-how does some attorney know with 100% certainty that VW needs the largesse of the TN legislature to expand?

  59. 59.

    burnspbesq

    Rivaly week on ESPN2 kicks off with two, shall we say, hotly contested women’s basketball games: Duke-Carolina followed by Tennessee-Vandy.

    I’m still massively irked at NBCSN for pre-empting the EPL to show speed skating on Saturday morning. If it had been biathlon, it would have been OK, but speed skating?

  61. 61.

    Comrade Jake

    @Goblue72: Saw something today over on Sully’s blog – some idiot said “Well the good news is that with a GOP Senate and House they’ll actually have to govern!”

    A) Who is he kidding?
    B) I don’t want those fuckers actually trying to govern. Jesus.

  64. 64.

    Amir Khalid

    @Howard Beale IV:
    I note the unusual shape to this labour dispute. But stopping tax incentives to punish VW for supporting the union could lead to Chattanooga being the ex-site of a VW plant. And that would lead to loss of jobs and revenues in Tennessee. Is that what these Republicans actually want?

  66. 66.

    sparrow

    @? Martin: I was once driving back to Houston from Dallas late, late at night after seeing a concert there (both of us stone sober). I was near dozing off, when I saw headlights in front of us. My friend calmly changed lanes and the guy sailed past us with a relative speed of at least 100 mph before I fully woke up. Never been so retroactively scared for my life, ever. (I did call the cops immediately)

  67. 67.

    Poopyman

    I just took a nap. It’s gonna be hard giving some things up when I get unlaid off, which looks to possibly be sometime in the next couple of weeks.

    And waiting for 5 inches of snow and sleet Wednesday night.

  68. 68.

    Suffern ACE

    @Amir Khalid: It is a right to work state. They don’t want union workers. That is kind of what right to work is about. Incentivizing factory owners in union states to relocate with the promise that the state will do everyting they can short of forming death squads to keep labor from organizing.

    VW is supposed to be thanking the state legislature, but its like they’ve invited in lepers.

  71. 71.

    Trollhattan

    @LanceThruster:

    Ugh. IIUC brown recluse bites become necrotic with time (as noted by your link) and can develop into large open wounds. What I don’t know is whether there’s a treatment beyond antibiotics for secondary infections.

    Any possibiliy of Lyme disease? A red circle can be a symptom.

  74. 74.

    Tone In DC

    @Howard Beale IV:

    Those Tennessee g00pers really want that plant in another state, don’t they?
    There’s some land in Virginia ready for some manufacturing, I’d imagine.

  77. 77.

    Tone In DC

    @Suffern ACE:

    Wow. Perhaps VW should start a wispering campaign that it will allow Muslim employees break time to pray. Then the legislature will vote to burn the plant down.

    No, not burn the plant down.
    The legislature would have NORAD nuke it from orbit.

  79. 79.

    MikeJ

    @Trollhattan:

    Any possibiliy of Lyme disease? A red circle can be a symptom.

    Lyme isn’t one red circle. It’s a rash all over where each spot is a few inches across and looks like a bullseye.

  80. 80.

    Gene108

    @Amir Khalid:

    If it can be blamed on the UAW, I fail to see the problem.

    There is a deep cultural hatred of unions in the South (former Confederacy). There already exists a culture of blaming unions unwillingness to take cuts as a reason factories close.

    In short, if the TN leg screws VW over the UAW, the political fall out should be minimal as people are already primed to blame the UAW for interfering with a good thing.

  81. 81.

    shelly

    Yeah, the winter that’s never gonna fuckin’ end! This Thursday, eight more inches of snow? YeeHah!

  82. 82.

    LanceThruster

    @Trollhattan:

    No red circle, but it’s curious enough that I think I’ll want to pony up my deductible and have it checked out. I saw a little spider that I thought was a baby daddy long legs (so I thought nothing of it) but now that I know more about what to look for in a brown recluse I’m not so sure. I also thought it might be a flea from my kitty with an unusual reaction on my part but this seem different too. One of the other causes of said symptoms was from an ingrown hair (which I’ve had on rare occasions – but again, never to that degree).

    At least I’ll attain electronic immortality by posting my festering boil on the “Show us your spider bite” page.

  86. 86.

    ? Martin

    @LanceThruster: I doubt it’s a spider bite after this long. They usually kick your ass hard within hours – a day a most. If it’s been more like 5 days, sounds like an infection or disease related rather than venom related. Venom acts fast.

  89. 89.

    MomSense

    @Suffern ACE:

    There is competitive tai chi?? Wooo hooo!

    We do “push hands” in class which I really enjoy. I am mostly doing this for health but it is fascinating to learn the applications for the postures.

  90. 90.

    Roxy

    I am looking forward to the women’s ski jump. First time in Olympics that women will be allowed to participate in the ski jump.

    I love watching the curling competition

  91. 91.

    LanceThruster

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I was also thinking the newly adopted rescue kitty might have scratched me. She plays rough. The ‘love’ bites are no longer too hard (I scold her with a mild “genTULL!”) and I back off quickly when she breaks out the claws. There’s a naturally occurring fungus in the dirt around here (though both my cats are exclusively indoors) and I know it helps speed things up when I put triple antibiotic cream on cuts and scrapes.

  92. 92.

    LanceThruster

    @? Martin:

    Thanks. That makes me feel better. I know in our first aid classes on spider bites that the scary famous last words were, “I didn’t think it was anything serious.”

  94. 94.

    burnspbesq

    @drkrick:

    I was referring to last weekend. If your reading skills were up to snuff, the use of the world “still” would have alerted you to the fact that I was referring to past events.

    I am well aware that this coming weekend is an FA Cup weekend, as the club I have supported since boyhood is one of the 16 still alive, and is heavily favored to reach the quarterfinals.

  95. 95.

    Howard Beale IV

    Well, at least we still have a domestic auto manufacturing industry: Toyota announced they’re pulling out of Australia by 2017, and with it, the last auto plant Down Under.

  96. 96.

    Comrade Dread

    On day four of something that isn’t the flu, but has the exact same symptoms. Daughter is well again. Son has what the doctor calls ‘mild pneumonia’ in his right lung, and wife sounds like a walking TB ward.

    So, yeah, fun times for all the Dreads.

  99. 99.

    Pogonip

    I’m starting spring cleaning in the desperate hope the fvcking jet stream will take the hint and shift, to allow an early spring. I figure this has at least as much chance of success as the groundhog method.

    I am carefully timing the high wall washing for when my son the beanpole comes home. Little does he know…

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