Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

When we show up, we win.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

The lights are all blinking red.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

White supremacy is terrorism.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

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Lacking defenses, the doberman depends on his natural camouflage to protect him from adversaries such as the vacuum cleaner and mops. In the event that hiding does not work the doberman carries with him at all times a brightly-colored noise-making decoy that he will use to detract his enemies while he makes his escape.

Use this thread to discuss these magnificent and fragile creatures, and whatever else comes to mind.

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    Just a heads-up to any in the NYC area that Neil Patrick Harris will be starring in a limited Broadway run of Hedwig and the Angry Inch from April 22 – August 17.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I know that the girls have their fans (they’re both sweeties, yes, even Lily the JRT when she’s asleep) but Max is just awesome.

  3. 3.

    Carnacki

    West Virginia’s legislature’s response to two major incidents of rivers and creeks being polluted by coal-mining chemicals and coal ash slurry spill is to — wait for it — cut corporate taxes and regulations.

    But don’t worry, programs to help hungry and abused children had their funding cut to help make sure the budget is balanced.

    Link

  5. 5.

    Joel

    Hawthorne police use taser on deaf man trying to communicate with sign language. Link goes to Raw Story. The police officers are named:

    Officers Jeffrey Salmon, Jeffrey Tysl, Erica Bristow, and Mark Hultgren allegedly ordered Meister to stop loading the boxes into his car, but Meister could not hear the order. One of the officers then grabbed Meister by the hand, who responded by attempting to use American Sign Language to communicate with the officer.

    The officers interpreted his sudden movements as resistance, so they “struck Meister with fists and feet, and forcibly took him to the ground.” Once he was on the ground, one of the officers allegedly shot him twice with a taser. Another officer then delivered a “drive stun” to Meister’s abdomen.

    Officer Salmon has quite the history:

    A man whose rottweiler was fatally shot by police on a video viewed nearly three million times online has filed a lawsuit against the city of Hawthorne.

    Leon Rosby filed the lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, also naming Hawthorne police officers Christopher Hoffman, Michael Matson and Jeffrey Salmon as defendants. The lawsuit alleges violation of civil rights, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

  6. 6.

    PurpleGirl

    MAX puppeh!!! Great picture of Max. I just want to hug him and skritch behind his ears. I know, like Hugo, Max is a marshmallow inside.

  12. 12.

    Felinious Wench

    I was terrified of Dobermans until Max. Now I truly believe they are more scared of me than I am of them.

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Amir Khalid:

    Yeah, I realized that AFTER the time ran out on corrections.

    Lily is the good one. Rosie is the spawn of Fluffy, Hagrid’s three headed dog.

  18. 18.

    ? Martin

    Trim painting the downstairs, so the Maginot line has been erected. Part of it is to keep the dog fur out of the paint, but really it’s because the corgi will lick the wet paint off the wall. He’ll lick off the crackshot as well. The upside is you only need about an 8″ tall barrier to keep even a motivated corgi at bay. They have roughly the same jumping skill as a top-loading washing machine.

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    Roger Moore

    My cat Jake has apparently learned how to catch hummingbirds on my balcony. It’s not quite as amazing as it might be- there’s a feeder to attract them- but as far as I can tell, his only technique is to wait patiently near the feeder and jump up when one flies directly over him.

  20. 20.

    Violet

    @Cassidy: I’m sure you could find someone to nominate you. There are probably some criteria for the various journalism awards. Do you know if ass itch reports qualify? Have you checked the criteria?

  22. 22.

    PurpleGirl

    @Felinious Wench: I met this guy and he a lot of pets. One of them was Hugo, a Doberman pinscher. Hugo decided he liked me and began to stay around me when I visited. N had to teach me how to handle Hugo. Hugo proved to be marshmallow if he liked you. Big dogs need to be trained and socialized, then they can be great pals. Humans also need to know how to handle big dogs.

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    Josie

    @? Martin: I laughed out loud. Corgis will truly eat anything. I use a hand creme that has lots of cocoa butter in it and Duncan licks my hands every chance he gets. He can jump but only straight up and down. He never jumps over anything.

  27. 27.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @? Martin: Nah, I’ve met top loading washers with a better jump.

    MAXpuppeh! I’ve been missing him. And on the topic of critters, it’s antler shed season. Mr. Q said he saw a line of deer yesterday – a big doe, followed by two bucks that were smaller than the doe, followed by 3 more does. I explained the the big “doe” was a buck after shed, and he asked – surprised – “deer shed their antlers?”

  29. 29.

    MikeJake

    My childhood dog got into a poop eating phase, so the vet suggested we put Tabasco on his turds to dissuade him from eating them. He came to recognize the Tabasco bottle as pain, so my stepdad bought a giant bottle from Sam’s Club and when he brandished it the dog would whine and leave the kitchen.

  31. 31.

    shortstop

    @? Martin: We will be done with the kitchen gut reno by Friday, about eight weeks after we started. I offer belated thanks for your faith in us — I recall you and Betty both gave me bucking-up talks. I’m feeling pretty damn spanky that we pulled it off. It looks gorgeous…shiny, sleek, modern minimalism, just what we’ve always wanted.

  33. 33.

    MomSense

    So this has been a great couple of days here. My dear friends are visiting with their year and a half old labradoodle who is like the cutest muppet you have ever seen. My old lab isn’t up to rough housing with her so she has been lying down on his dog bed with him and cuddling with him. My boys are all home for the holiday and we have been playing music and watching the Olympics.

    We are mostly veggie but one of the farmers at the farmers’ market had some roasting chickens so I made roast chicken with lemon, garlic, caramelized onions and lots of root vegetables for dinner last night and today took the leftovers and made a killer soup–potatoes, carrots, celery, parsnips, garlic, onions, fresh herbs, mushrooms, even a bit of purple cabbage. Not sure I could reproduce it as it is a bit of all the things that were in the frig but it certainly is tasty.

  34. 34.

    ? Martin

    @shortstop: It’s not as hard as people think. Most reno failures are failures to plan, or trying to rush a job into too short a window. 8 weeks is a reasonable period. Really glad its coming out well. You’ll be much prouder of the result than if you hired it out. Be warned, that bathroom will start looking dated – and think of how much resale value you could add…

  36. 36.

    shortstop

    @? Martin: Well, we did hire a good chunk of it out. We don’t trust ourselves with tiling (the backsplash we’re going with is a bit tricky) or floors, and we had help in hanging the upper cabs. But we planned and designed the whole thing, and did plenty of the work, and I’m really proud of that. Eight weeks is not bad considering we both work more than full time.

  39. 39.

    Yatsuno

    MAXPUPPEH!!! Needed that after a crappy morning.

    @MomSense: Fridge clean-outs sometimes make the best meals. You throw away the recipe & just make everything taste good.

  40. 40.

    COB

    Just a great opening set of lines, Tim. A very nice appropriation and application of the trope to the circumstance. Still smiling here.

  41. 41.

    PsiFighter37

    Unhappy, tired, and having a drink. Probably not the best combo, but fuck it.

    I also saw there was a huge piefight about Glenn Greenies earlier, did that ever get resolved one way or another?

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @PsiFighter37:

    I also saw there was a huge piefight about Glenn Greenies earlier, did that ever get resolved one way or another?

    You are one of those outside agitators they warned us about in the 60s!

  43. 43.

    Amir Khalid

    @PsiFighter37:
    You’ve been here long enough. You should know by now that there’s only one huge piefight about Glenn Greenies. It surfaces every so often, and it never gets resolved.

  44. 44.

    jayboat

    Sometimes the headlines write themselves… from TPM:

    McConnell ‘Looks And Fights Like A Turtle,’ Says Texas GOP Primary Ad

  45. 45.

    PsiFighter37

    @Amir Khalid: This is true. I just skimmed the comments earlier to see if anything meaningful happened, which at some point it devolved into some kind of detective mystery about which frontpagers Mr. Cole was peeved at. I kind of lost the thread a bit.

    To be honest, at least it seems to be a bit of a happy balance here. GOS is all over GG like a stripper and a pole, while at LGF they hate him with the fire of a thousand suns. At least keeps it interesting.

  46. 46.

    lamh36

    CNN and Chris Cuomo should be ashamed of that fuckery of an interview. I hope Chris felt the need for a damn soul bath afterwards….Fuckers!!!

    Also too, This is good, cause this woman’s AG M.O. seems to be a habit of overcharging shit and then not winning her damn cases. But hey, white folk still doing good and safe in Florida, so why not keep voting for her.

    @PoliticsNation 51s
    Angela Corey’s under intense scrutiny today after the mistrial in the Michael Dunn murder case. on.msnbc.com/NRt5MH

  47. 47.

    PsiFighter37

    @lamh36: Ratings ploy, $$$ rules the news media today. C’mon, you know this!

    And from what little I caught in the airport, it was indeed shameful. But like governor, like milquetoast MSM reporter. Wonder where Mario went wrong…

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