Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

The willow is too close to the house.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Not all heroes wear capes.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

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  1. 1.

    Botsplainer

    Poor dog. It must be humiliated.

    Excited about the deep dive portion of my advanced scuba certification today. Eight am is the time. doing something below 100′. Did a wreck of a DC3 and navigation yesterday, passed through a really nice, tight canyon with lots of overhang as well. I think we do a drift dive a little later in the morning.

  10. 10.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: We take our girls to the Pet Pawlor. They do a really good job and the girls get bow ties, bandanas, etc.

  11. 11.

    Nicole

    It looks like someone photoshopped one dog’s head onto another dog’s body. I love this picture!

  13. 13.

    BruceFromOhio

    Indignities? Oh, hell, yeah.

    From 50 Sheds of Grey:

    ‘You make my panties so wet!’ she squirmed. ‘Don’t blame me’ I said ‘You should’ve taken them off the line before I turned on the sprinkler’
    –

    Frantically I tore off her dress, bra and knickers. My heart was racing but I just managed to close the wardrobe door before she got home.
    –

    She stared up, bound and naked. ‘I think I’m ready for the ball gag’ she whimpered. ‘Alright’ I said ‘Why was Cinderella no good at soccer?’

  15. 15.

    Mustang Bobby

    Adorable doggie. And remember, the difference between a good haircut and a bad one is two weeks.

    The first thing Sam would do after coming back from the groomers was roll in the yard.

  18. 18.

    donnah

    A friend of mine had her Old English sheepdog shaved for summer, but her usual groomer was on vacation and the substitute botched the job. She shaved him so closely that my friend couldn’t let him stay outside long for fear of sunburn. He was humiliated, too, and wouldn’t go for walks for a while. You could see his pink skin!

  21. 21.

    Baud

    Dogs are the least vain people in the world. If Bosco is upset, it’s probably because he doesn’t like the smell of the shampoo.

  22. 22.

    Betty Cracker

    @Aimai: Right there with you! Looks like my newly 16-year-old will graduate a year early, so this coming school year will be her last in high school, if she completes all her online courses on time, which she seems highly motivated to do.

    Also, I’m taking her to get her solo driver license Friday. Jesus! How did this happen? It seems like a year ago — three, tops! — when we escorted her to her first day of kindergarten!

  24. 24.

    OzarkHillbilly

    OT: I am shocked, shocked I tell you!

    Hobby Lobby alleged to have fired pregnant employee who requested time off to give birth

    I once told my boss (the owner) I was going to need some time off every now and again over the next few weeks to help take care of my Alzheimered father while my mother was recovering from open heart surgery. I got my layoff check the next day. As I was walking off the job site my foreman said, “Don’t worry, you’ll be back in a couple of weeks.”

    “No, I won’t.” I replied. Most miserable fwck I ever worked for.

  27. 27.

    MomSense

    Some of the things the trainer put me through at the gym certainly felt like indignities.

    Bosco, don’t listen to Raven. You are adorable.

  28. 28.

    Cervantes

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    “No, I won’t.” I replied. Most miserable fwck I ever worked for.

    See Mickey Z’s (Michael Zezima’s) The Murdering of My Years:

    Work in the early twenty-first century is a bruise on the heart of every American. With the rare exception of people fortunate enough to have a job they are fulfilled by and enjoy, time spent at work is an unpleasant (often debilitating and unhealthy) trade-off to obtain basic necessities such as food and housing. Work, like the proverbial death and taxes, is not a choice. Most workers experience a range of feelings about their jobs, from deep-seated resentment to sadness and a sense of injustice to moments of rare joy. Work is a fifty year fugue from which people occasionally awake, wondering where their lives went; time spent working is a series of murdered years.

  29. 29.

    Betty Cracker

    @Cervantes:

    “Where they hung the jerk that invented work…”

    Lyrics from Big Rock Candy Mountain, American folk song

  30. 30.

    Elizabelle

    Bosco, Bosco.

    We had a poodle of kinda the same shade, and late in life, you would think Charlie was put together from vacuum bag lint. That is what his photos resemble.

    Why not finish the cut, with Bosco’s head and face, and let him grow back for the fall?

    My parents always kept their miniature poodles in puppy cuts. No topiary for us.

    Smart, smart dogs, but the last one (the smartest) bit my nephews so frequently and enthusiastically that the word “poodle” brings a fear face.

  32. 32.

    Betty Cracker

    @Cervantes: It was one of the first tunes I learned to play (badly) on the ukulele. I can totally imagine paddling around lakes of whisky and stew in a big canoe!

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @satby: He was commenting at Booman Tribune last week. I haven’t spent much time at BooMan’s this week, so I don’t know if that’s still the case.

  39. 39.

    rikyrah

    Democrats ask: Where’s FLOTUS?
    By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE | 7/29/14 6:56 PM EDT Updated: 7/30/14 8:03 AM EDT

    First lady Michelle Obama is the most popular member of the Obama administration, and Democrats say she’s the one they want to see more of in the midterms.

    She’s a woman and an African-American, with a direct appeal to two groups that the Democrats need to turn out in major numbers in November. She can bring the Obama brand without the baggage of President Barack Obama himself. She can go to states where he can’t. She’s a fresh draw for donors and voters.

    So where is she? Democrats want an answer — they desperately need the help, and especially the cash.

    http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/2014-elections-democrats-michelle-obama-109518.html#ixzz38xk9NEzI

  40. 40.

    DanR2

    @Elizabelle: Agree. I don’t really understand why a groomer would cut a dog like this unless it was full of mats and heading to the shelter.

    Finish it up with a longer clip on Bosco’s head. Scissor shape the face and he’ll be cute and happy the entire time he grows back out.

  41. 41.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    No-kill cat shelter in Pittsboro NC in danger of closing.

    They’re in a battle with a RWNJ neighbor and couldn’t do their annual spring fundraisers. The vet bills are piling up, and they are having trouble meeting payroll. They put out an urgent beg for donations on their FB page this morning. As usual, it wouldn’t take much from each person if we could get enough people donating. Any help, financial or publicity, would be appreciated.

  42. 42.

    Ruviana

    My kitteh (aka Momcat, mom of other kittehs in my household) has a skin condition that makes her tend to chew and overgroom. She got a clip on the back end to relieve itching and remove a lot of matts and now goes by the moniker “Poodle-Butt.”

  43. 43.

    shelley

    We’ve been having an unusually cool summer this year. (Late July in New Jersey is usually a hell-hole of heat and humidity.) But my dog will still wake up in the wee hours panting. I tell her ‘if you’re that hot, get out of your fluffy bean-bag bed and stretch out.” She looks at me like ‘lay on the floor? Are you mad?’ And curls back up in her bed.

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    I managed to catch my co-worker’s cold, but I can’t stay home because I’m getting a group of managers ready to go to China and there’s still a shitload to do. Ugh.

  46. 46.

    Dog On Porch

    Indignant? I doubt it. Leastwise my late, great, feral cat– never one to be trifled with– never squawked about being soaked down in cool water on scorching days.

    You want to see an indignant dog? Give him a mohawk and a spiked collar.

  48. 48.

    Bob In Portland

    Four Tochka missiles were fired by the Ukies at Saur Moglia where a number of Ukrainian soldiers are trapped in the “Southern Cauldron”. A Tochka missile carries a payload of something like 500 kilos.

    None of them hit their targets.

    The war goes on.

    By the way, has Ukraine revealed the air controller tapes or their radar yet? Has the US released its satellite pictures of the airliner getting shot down? Heck, what’s the hurry?

    Does anyone not think that all the accusations against Russia is an orchestrated attempt by the US to demonize Russia and Putin?

  49. 49.

    Cervantes

    @Bob In Portland:

    Does anyone not think that all the accusations against Russia is an orchestrated attempt by the US to demonize Russia and Putin?

    Suppose both sides are engaged in propaganda campaigns … would that surprise you?

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