Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Books are my comfort food!

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

When I was faster i was always behind.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

How stupid are these people?

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

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    billgerat

    @efgoldman: If we did that the US would have the most dynamic economy in the world.

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    David Koch

    “We just can’t communicate the words this morning when we heard from the President,” said Bob Bergdahl, who has grown a long beard.

    “Today, we are ecstatic!” the couple said. “We were so joyful and relieved when President Obama called us today to give us the news that Bowe is finally coming home! We cannot wait to wrap our arms around our only son,” the parents said.

    “His mother was crying when she answered the phone — and just very excited,” said, Sherry Horton, a friend and former roommate of Bergdahl.

    After the couple’s brief remarks, they thanked Obama, and Jani Bergdahl and Obama exchanged a hug and a kiss.

    Tears of joy: Idaho hometown of Bowe Bergdahl prepares homecoming (incl dramatic photos)

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    JPL

    @Poopyman: Soon I’ll be of medicare age, if Medicare is still available in another two months.

    June first sounds like a nice day to be born, btw. Enjoy.

  11. 11.

    geg6

    My beauteous old pup Otis is farting the stinkiest farts and there’s no way to get away from it because he’s attached at my hip.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    We used to have a saying/joke in my family that if the first digit of your age was bigger than the second digit, you’d say “I just turned whatever.” (“Turned,” right?) So if you were, say, 42, you’d say “I just turned 24.”

    I am about to turn 27. Uh huh.

  16. 16.

    Schlemizel

    Kentucky was up 7-0 on Baylor in the 6th inning. It became very clear that the UK pitcher (who has thrown over 1000 pitches in the last couple of weeks alone) was out of gas & everything she threw was getting tattooed. What is it about softball coaches that makes them unable to see this? It happenes way too often as they ride one pitcher into the ground. It is now 7-7 with Baylor coming to the plate in the 8th. Should be over soon.

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    Yutsano

    I’m the Answer this year. And will get the second replacement part come January. And possibly back in the Seattle area come the next Administration. Plans. I haz them.

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    jibeaux

    Halftime for the spurs-thunder game.

    Looooove those photos. Those parents are over the moon, I’m so happy for them.

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    WaterGirl

    @scav: I just watched the video of the father at your link. Somebody should front-page this video and everyone should take the 15 minutes to watch it.

    I am blown away by the two fathers this week who may just help this country have two conversations that we desperately need to have.

    This father talks about his son, and the similarities of the son’s situation to those who are at Gitmo, and about the schizophrenia of what is said about these wars and he reality of them, and whether they are moral wars.

    The other father just might help us really start the conversation about guns that is really needed.

    My admiration for both of these men is immeasurable. In the midst of two terrible tragedies, I have hope. Or at least the hope of hope, if that makes any sense.

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @efgoldman: Given that I graduated from law school just over 18 years ago, that is rather unlikely. I was, however, still 21 when I got my BA.

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    Ajabu

    @Poopyman:
    Fucking baby. In two months I’ll be 74. And I retire the day I fall over. Talk about poor planning…
    Happy Birthday, little fella.

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    Mnemosyne

    I admit, I laughed out loud at the Let’s Move! video. It doesn’t hurt that I’ve developed a little crush on Richard Sherman. I will be watching his future career with considerable interest.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    I am so glad you made the explicit connection between these two fathers and their powerful statements, albeit under very different circumstances. I don’t in any way want to cheapen either of their experiences or public utterances, but we are coming up on Father’s (or is it Fathers’?) Day in the next few weeks — an excellent, if obvious, opportunity for the media to highlight guns and war as being diametrically opposed to what we believe about fatherhood.

    Nah, I don’t think it’ll happen either. But one can dream.

  26. 26.

    raven

    Just back from a genuine pig pickin and bluegrass/old time party. Groups of 5-10 pickers all over the farm, lot’s of good food and better folks.

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    Yutsano

    @Mnemosyne: A friend and I were discussing The Rant the other day. I kind of warmed her over to it when I pointed out he was actually in control the whole time. He never swore. But we both agreed you can take the Richard out of Compton…

    (There is no way of making that point sound good. So I’ll just let it go.)

    Oh: MY OLD NYM IS WORKING AGAIN!!!

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: I don’t think the media will help, but we can’t sit here helplessly waiting for the media to become what the media used to be, and should be again.

    We have to pick up the conversation ourselves and make it happen somehow. These men are an inspiration.

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    Mnemosyne

    @Yutsano:

    Your nym is not working right — I tried to reply and it vanished into the depths of FYWP. D’oh!

    Anyway, I was saying that they do a little parody of The Rant in that video with Mrs. Obama as the interviewer. Also, you can tell they filmed the spot the same day that the team went there for their congratulations, because they’re all in suits and ties.

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    Mnemosyne

    Also, for the knitters/crocheters, Afghans for Afghans is doing a June Baby Shower campaign asking for hats and knitted socks for newborns — due date is July 3rd, but they prefer people to send things as they finish rather than sending it all at the end. Crocheted hats are okay, but not crocheted socks — sorry!

    I was able to use it as an excuse to buy yarn I didn’t really need (because you can only send wool or other animal yarns) and I’ve already cast on for my first sock in this (I have Peacock, Bright Red, and Yellow, which is more of a yellow-orange).

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @ Yuts: My comment to you disappeared. Just sayin’.

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    WaterGirl

    @Yatsuno: I had never heard of Richard Sherman before The Rant, but I really like him. And yes, he’s hot. And dresses well. I am willing to share him with you. Virtually speaking, of course.

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    WaterGirl

    Yutsano, I tried to edit my test comment above – changing Yatsuno to Yutsano, and when I did that, WP told me my comment was now SPAM. That should be a clue, anyway.

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    Mnemosyne

    @Yatsuno:

    There are rumors he may try to get into California politics after his career is over. Hopefully he’s taking care of his brain.

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    Tommy

    I’d prefer to talk to about Sherman and this thing called cooking and eating. I so liked the dude before. Like him way more now.

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Baud: Ahem, a virgin on the internet? Did this person also ask you to help him/her liberate some money that was stuck in Nigeria?

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    Tommy

    Can folks try this just for a few minutes. Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.

    youtube.com/watch?v=VaIbvmcpSEk

    We’re talking food. In the last three months four of my family members have been in the hospital. One now as we speak. They are frankly obese. I used to weight a hundred pounds more then I do now. I fight weight. I want soda and fast food all the time. I refuse to use it.

    Jamie is my man. I get you to watch this and IMHO it is clear why our kids are fat.

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Baud: Well played.

    @Tommy: Actually, you are talking food. The rest of us are just being silly on an open thread.

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @efgoldman: In a previous job, my minions mocked my typing speed. The virgin/internet thing was a slow hanging curveball. I am surprised that we were the only ones to take a swing at it.

    @Tommy:

    I might being silly. Just a pet peeve of mine.

    Not quite sure what you are trying to say.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    DVR or watch it now alert: Princess Tam Tam is about to start on TCM. It stars Josephine Baker, for Gawd’s sake.

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    Randy P

    @efgoldman: Years ago, I once ran into a hilarious spam-the-spammers website by a guy who would correspond with Nigerian spammers using these ridiculous English caricature personalities (e.g. things like Lady Penelope Snodgrass-Weedwhacker) and lead them on in the most outrageous ways. Alas, I lost track of it and have never been able to locate it again.

    Does this ring a bell with anyone? And if so, do you know a URL?

  54. 54.

    Tommy

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Let me be clear. Like a third of our population in this nation is fucking fat. They should eat better. I think that was kind of clear in what I said and linked to, but if not, let me say this again I am fucking sick and tired of our nation being a bunch of fat people. You got it now?

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    jurassicpork

    Yeah. The Red Sox just won their sixth in a row. After dropping ten in a row, it’s either feast or famine with those assholes.

    On the home front: After years of resisting hipness, I finally joined Kindlemojo. This is my first book promotion or pimping or whatever you want to call it, one for my liberal, hippie, irreverent, granola-crunching novel, American Zen. Please pass the word and stay tuned for others in the near future.

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    schrodinger's cat

    Second last day in India. I am beyond tired physically and spent emotionally. I still have to pack and am bracing myself for a meeting with the one whose name must not be said.

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Tommy: I took a typing class during summer school in the ’80s. Typing is not natural to me. Also, my best writing process involves handwriting a first draft and then using the typing it in process to do a first revision.

    @Tommy: Dude, you left words out when you were typing. Don’t get pissy with me.

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    duck-billed placelot

    I am very concerned that the White House cannot create a video with reasonable mic-ing throughout. Did…did they have an intern do this? Please hire a professional, White House, I’m begging you.

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    Mike in NC

    @Poopyman: In three weeks I turn 60 and will start to collect a nice military pension and related medical benefits. A good thing since I’ve spent a year applying for a lot of jobs where I was always told that I was overqualified (meaning over age 50).

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    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Poopyman: The years that are divisible by 20 have been the toughest for me. 40 was worse than 30. 60 was infinitely worse than 50.

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @schrodinger’s cat: I have several nice pens, but I have never gone fountain. I have an army habit of always carrying a pen (unless I am in athletic gear or at home with my pockets emptied); fountain pens, perhaps irrationally, create a fear of leaks in my mind.

    Also too, I don’t really do math/physics, but in school I took notes in pen to avoid smudging. A first draft usually gets typed in/modified quickly enough that smudging is not a problem.

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    Roger Moore

    @NotMax:

    Have had several teachers mention to me that cursive is dying out in schools.

    Print is easier to read, and I’ve been told that cursive doesn’t have any real speed advantage with modern pens. I’d personally prefer we teach kids to type than to write cursive, since it seems more practical. Teaching cursive makes about as much sense as teaching English schoolchildren how to figure prices in shillings and pence.

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    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Tommy: For me, touch typing class was summer school. Me, my brother, my best friend, and a dozen really cute girls.

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    Gravenstone

    @NotMax: Learned cursive in 3rd grade. Abandoned it by 6th grade because my Nigerian pen pal complained my writing was illegible. And this was 40 years ago. Of course, by now my printing has morphed to the point of being nearly illegible, too.

  78. 78.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Tommy:

    but that would bore everybody here if I said more

    Yes, it would, but that’s never stopped you before.

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    Tommy

    @efgoldman: LOL. The class I took that was the thinking. I’d be a sectary. I never took the “short hand” class. Built my first computer with my father in like 1982 and never looked back. I can type maybe 100+ words a minute. Never had to :).

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Roger Moore: I did think it was a rather obvious response to the original comment. I mean, it was just hanging there.

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    NotMax

    Two-finger typist, but once I get up to speed, can knock out around 120 words per minute.

    Remember still the pleasure it was to get my first electric typewriter, when still in high school.

    For some strange reason, type more slowly on a computer keyboard than on a typewriter. I think it may be due to the different sensitivities of the keys, and that there are noticeable variations of sensitivity among the individual keys on the computer keyboard.

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    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @WaterGirl: I have shots that I am willing/would like to take at Tommy, but this wasn’t one of them.

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    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Yeah, I was thinking back to the thread where you guys went back and forth, where I got the impression that you guys don’t really click. But it seemed harsh that you would say that if you meant it.

    I completely get, however, that sometimes you just have to say something because it’s just begging to be said, and whether you mean it is irrelevant.

  94. 94.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @WaterGirl: We don’t click. I, for example, have a problem with what I see as his claiming military cred based on his dad’s career. OTOH, this particular thing was a shot I would have taken at anyone. Even you, and I like you.

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    Anne Laurie

    @efgoldman:

    Hell, my first real job we had a steno pool. Who knew that 35-40 years down the road we’d all have these things on our desks?

    Back in the 60s, girls were not allowed to be dyslexic, but I stubbornly showed all the symptoms — including terrible terrible handwriting. Not helped by the fact that, as of third grade, our parochial school required us to use fountain pens… permitting cartridge pens was the only concession to modern progress.

    When I was in sixth grade (so, 1967/68) we had to write a “predict what you’ll be doing in twenty years” essay. I said that I’d be a professional writer with a robot editor that would read my handwriting and improve my spelling.

    Sister Augustine told my parents they might consider getting me psychological help, because “she should know better than to fantasize like that, at her age”. And yet, here we all are!

  98. 98.

    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Yeah, I get it. Also, thanks for your last sentence; it made me smile.

    And now I’m off to bed. Don’t know how it got this late all of a sudden. I’m sure that catching up on season finales on Tivo had nothing to do with it.

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