Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Come on, man.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

This really is a full service blog.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

In my day, never was longer.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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  1. 1.

    Trollhattan

    Dear god. Reminds me of the first time a Brit gal told me she was “completely knocked up.”

    Two peoples separated by a common language.

  2. 2.

    shortstop

    Is that Matthew Crawley? This will annoy two people I know who take Downton Abbey WAY too seriously (both were offended by this). I must forward this to them immediately, since I’m 12, too.

  6. 6.

    shortstop

    @BGinCHI: I went by there the other night and wondered about it. The third baseman is on a soft diet (possibly forever) because of the muscular dystrophy, so we’re not eating out much right now.

  11. 11.

    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @Trollhattan:

    In High School as part of an international student thing I spent a week with kids from various nations. I had a bit of a crush on a red haired Brit girl but was too shy to say anything. As the gathering was breaking up one night she turned to me & said, “Will you come by and knock me up in the morning?” I turn very crimson I am sure & she knew something was wrong but not what. My friend was just mean enough that he made ME explain to her what “Knocked up” meant in America. Not knocking on the door as she knew it to mean. *SIGH* I wonder how she is doing these days.

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    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @shortstop:
    hope the soft diet thing will find a way to pass. I did it for a couple of months after throat cancer & it was much less than the most fun I have ever had in my life. Sending good thoughts to the 5 hole.

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I’ve been avoiding the TeeVee today because when I flipped through MSNBC on the car radio they were re-broadcasting NBC news form 13 yrs ago, so I’m curious: Is anyone indulging in mention the Palins’ throw down at the hoedown? or are they being All Very Serious today?. Link for anyone who’s been productive today.

    Stephen Colbert, a nation turns its snarky eyes to you.

  18. 18.

    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @Mandalay:
    Poor little guy! Hopefully his coat will grow back & he will get into fighting trim soon. My neighbors shave their dog every summer & I swear I can tell he is embarrassed to be seen without his fur. Until I saw it I would have said thats silly but he acts noticeably different after the shave

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    Suffern ACE

    I’m sure he beat off those men through hard work. He wouldn’t have gotten that role if were sitting on his fanny all day.

  22. 22.

    shortstop

    @Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]: Thanks. He does have dysphagia, but we need to figure out how much of it was from having the barium swallow test soon after being in septic shock and without having eaten for five days. He wasn’t at his best that day, plus he was born with a pretty severe cleft palate and we suspect some of it might be due to that. That would actually be good news because it would mean that his muscular impairment might not be that bad yet.

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I freely admit I am freaking WALLOWING in this story. As mentioned in another thread earlier this week, I’ve been in withdrawals since the McDonnell trial ended.

  23. 23.

    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @Trollhattan:
    Oh GAWD! YES! she had exactly that light, lilting accent that makes me want to chew the furniture to get at her! I love my wife more than life itself but there are two girls I wish I could have another lifetime with just to see how it would have worked out. Is that weird? No way I would swap the great thing I have but I wish it was possible to see what the last 45 years would have been like. That must be an old guy thing.

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    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @Hal:
    That is GREAT! Its so easy to forget that these ‘tough guys’ are just kids like we used to be. They had a ceremony the first time my kid came back & I had strict orders about what I could do. but when he was done & we got the hell out of there we let go. I bet this kid did too.

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    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @shortstop:
    aw jay-zeus. just when I want to feel sorry for myself someone comes along & reminds me it could be worse. This is a shitty world, life is so unkind & I have no idea why we exist any more. The amount of pain I have seen & experienced over the last few decades make me sorry I brought kids into the world. I sure hope that this works out somehow to be better than it is now.

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    Mandalay

    Wow!….97% register to vote in the referendum on Scottish independence. Still way too close to determine who is going to win, but the result won’t be due to voter apathy.

    I’m not in favor of compulsory voting, but I’m warming to the idea of compulsory voter registration.

  30. 30.

    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @Major Major Major Major:
    In Germany one summer I asked the girl behind the counter “Wo ist die Toilette?” She turned out to be English but I am not sure how big a part that played but her reply in heavily accented German was, “Wir sind alle aus Schokolade” “We are all out of chocolate”.

    Luckily for me we could communicate in English!

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    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @Mandalay:
    It always makes me sad to see the low turn out in American elections. Even given that my opinion is most people are too stupid to vote! I am envious of places that get 80-90% turn out. It might be a mistake but I believe those people are better informed and more concerned that the average American non-participant.

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    scav

    @BGinCHI: Korean tacos?! I have a shining memory of a Korean meat bulgogi place on Western and Berwyn, is this taco experience better still? One for taco v bulgogi Two for places if you can.

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    Mandalay

    @Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]:

    It always makes me sad to see the low turn out in American elections. Even given that my opinion is most people are too stupid to vote!

    Maybe the Scottish referendum is an exception, where even stupid people can make an informed decision. All they have to do is answer a simple question: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”.

    It’s interesting that although the minimum voting age for that referendum was lowered to 16, you must also reside in Scotland to be able to vote.

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    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]

    @Major Major Major Major:
    That whole trip shook my confidence.
    My grossvater came from Kirchberg & I worked hard to speak with the correct accent. When I arrived in Frankfurt I asked a guy on the street where the main railway station was & he described in perfect German the way. Then, as the light changed & we started walking across the street he added in German accented English “And mind the curb, its steep!”

    Damn, he knew!

  44. 44.

    Roger Moore

    @Mandalay:

    It’s interesting that although the minimum voting age for that referendum was lowered to 16, you must also reside in Scotland to be able to vote.

    It looks very much to me as if the pro-independence people are trying to tip the scales in their favor by playing with the voting rules. That’s my general suspicion whenever somebody wants to change the rules for one time only.

  45. 45.

    Mike J

    @Trollhattan: My brit friend and I were standing in line to get into trendy club. We notice two cute girls standing behind us, and 1) knowing it’s easier to get in if you have girls with you and 2) being on the pull anyway (why else were we going to Fabric?) we start chatting them up. One bums a cig off James. James says he should cut down, but as soon as he wakes up he just needs a fag. Then a cup of tea, then a fag. “Tea and fags, teas and fags. ” He continues for too long about tea and fags.

    Not the best pick up attempt.

  48. 48.

    Hungry Joe

    @p.a.: It’s not just goldens and labs — it’s all dogs. And it’s not that they’re embarrassed: They’re nervous, as I learned from “The Good Soldier Schweik,” Jaroslav Hasek’s great WWI comic romp of a novel. Schweik, a certifiable idiot and proud of it, explains that dogs know that while pooping they are vulnerable to dognappers — Schweik’s profession before being drafted into the Kaiser’s army.

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    Mandalay

    @Roger Moore:

    …by playing with the voting rules

    But those voting rules were openly negotiated between the Scottish and UK governments, and passed into law.

    Now it can be argued that David Cameron was completely outsmarted in the negotiations, and got played like a cheap banjo. But of course each side was trying to outsmart the other.

    If Scotland votes for independence I think historians are going to be very harsh on Cameron. It’s not as bad as Chamberlain in Munich, but the hapless fool got rolled over, and he has already made a ton of promises and concessions to Scotland that he will forced to keep even if the Scots vote against independence.

  55. 55.

    Origuy

    I’m not sure that all of the people who are telling pollsters that they are voting “yes” will end up doing so. I think some people just want to put a scare into Westminster and see how much they can get out of Cameron. Some people are just happy to have a voice in the matter; seeing how unification came about in 1707.

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    Suffern ACE

    @Mandalay: makes sense to me. Scotland doesn’t have a large population of former residents living in exile or in refuge camps. There’s no reason to poll outside its borders, or try to limit voting within those borders to people of Scots descent. It is a referendum on a territory, not an identity.

  59. 59.

    shortstop

    Why is my IP banned from mobile posting? Is this a thing that happened last week and I missed it?

    @Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]: You’re very kind, but it’s all right, really. He feels good and there’s literally nothing he can’t do right now except eat very hard, crunchy or chewy things. Both of us feel this ranks somewhat low in the overall scheme of world suffering. His repeat expansion (this is caused by RNA toxicity) is relatively low, so we’re hopeful that it won’t get much worse than this since severity of symptoms seems to correlate with length of repeats. Having dealt with other serious health issues his whole life — cleft palate, scoliosis — he’s a very tough guy who adapts much better than most of us who’ve suffered little physically.

    We had our 25th wedding anniversary on Tuesday and you better believe I cried from gratitude most of the day. That surgery misadventure this summer (which turns out to have been a not-uncommon hypersensitivity to anesthesia among myotonic dystrophy patients) has had the very significant silver lining of making us take nothing for granted and appreciate everything. In a joyous way, not a sense-of-doom fashion, honestly.

    Now who’s got video of the Palin brawl? SOMEBODY must.

  63. 63.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Origuy: it looks to me as if the poll with Yes leading that got so much publicity was an outlier. News stories so often treat random poll noise as of it indicated some trend.

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