Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

He really is that stupid.

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

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

“woke” is the new caravan.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

Let there be snark.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    DVR alert: Two Whit Stillman films about to start: Metropolitan and then Barcelona.

  4. 4.

    magurakurin

    When is Betty going to post up GG’s latest piece? I’ve got popcorn ready. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth over at GOS. Not as interesting as the dust ups here though, because they all pretty much take the same side. Lot’s of “atta boys” and “I give up on humanity” with a healthy sprinkling of “Obama =Bush” on top of a little red “I’ll never vote again.”

  6. 6.

    Tree With Water

    If push came to shove, you would eat that dog.

    As it would eat you, if push came to shove.

    Therefore, we shall invade the Soviet Union on June 22nd.

  7. 7.

    Suzanne

    I am sitting in the auditorium at Camelback High School, waiting for the AZ gubernatorial debate to begin. Mr. Suzanne and I am excited to be in the audience, and we submitted questions that I hope will be asked. The R candidate is the former CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, and is a raging, RAGING teabagging asshole. The D is a former member of the Board of Regents. The debate is focusing on education, so hopefully we are on friendly territory.

  12. 12.

    shelley

    CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, and is a raging, RAGING teabagging asshole.

    Usually those types own pizza chains.

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    @Karen in GA:
    They’re not the same anymore without that rhythm section. Like everyone said, the album Pete and Roger released on 2006 should have been titled Who’s Left.

  17. 17.

    Southern Beale

    @Suzanne:

    The R candidate is the former CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, and is a raging, RAGING teabagging asshole.

    Why is it so many of those people get into businesses where they can pay crap wages and operate out of strip malls where their customers are soccer moms?

  20. 20.

    lamh36

    @hollyrpeete 58s
    “If anyone out there has a mother & she’s not perfect, please call her & say you love her anyway…”Robert Downey Jr. tribute to late mom?

  22. 22.

    dance around in your bones

    Ok, I’ll prolly start a fight here….but I see that Gone With The Wind is playing tomorrow on TCM.

    I was a precocious reader, and I think I read GWTW at least 10 times before I was 20. For me, it was a love story; I couldn’t figure out why Scarlett didn’t know she loved Rhett and not that wimpy Ashley.

    My husband used to laugh at me when i would cry at the end of Gone With The Wind – he’d say “you think it will turn out different this time?”

    But I always did. I wanted Scarlett to love Rhett.

    Ok, Flame away!

  23. 23.

    Ruckus

    @Southern Beale:
    I think you answered your own question.
    They do this because they can pay crap wages and feel the sale will be easy, to people who won’t question anything about the business. When you decide to open/purchase a business there are many questions to ask. I never asked can I pay crap wages and screw my customers but others may have those foremost in mind.

  24. 24.

    lamh36

    Finally catching up to NCIS: New Orleans.

    To be honest, they had me at Scott Bakula. I’ve loved Scott Bakula since Quantum Leap!

    They also had me at NCIS. I admit, I love me some NCIS

  25. 25.

    Pogonip

    I had an exhausting Saturday so I have been sitting around with my feet up today playing IPad solitaire. I had to stop to charge the thing up, I am already beginning to feel withdrawal symptoms. Mark my words, one day a skeleton will be found sprawled in a reclining chair with an IPad In its bony fingers. But it will not be my skeleton, and it will not be this day–if only because I must knock off and get to bed early to prepare for the exhausting ordeal of getting to work tomorrow. The PTB installed a wonderful new security system that, at best, half works; I wouldn’t be surprised if they bought it at the Beavercreek Walmart. Massive delays in gaining admission to our inner sanctum are expected tomorrow, up to 2 hours. Pray for us. Christians, tomorrow is Michaelmas and we will probably need all the help we can get. Everybody else, pray your usual prayer for the SNAFU’d. Maybe you atheists can invoke the mighty powers of P.D. What’s His Name, or just think supportive thoughts.

  28. 28.

    ? Martin

    And in tonight’s episode of ‘Responsible Gun Owner’:

    A Pennsylvania man fired two bullets at his neighbor’s home on Friday and later told police that was the only way he knew how to unload a gun, according to the Bucks County Courier Times

  29. 29.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @dance around in your bones:

    Me too, FWIW. And saw the movie about a hundred times. I can’t read or watch it now without being aware of the racism and support of the KKK, but to me as a young teen it was ALL about Scarlett and Rhett and Ashley.

  30. 30.

    BD of MN

    Brewed today. Was originally going to make a Baltic Porter since normal weather should be in the 50’s, but the 80 degrees today meant a change of plans (Baltic Porter traditionally uses a lager yeast and needs cooler fermentation temps…) So I’ll end up with a 8% ABV Robust Porter instead… Not complaining about the weather, or the beer results, or the Vikings Victory, or the Gophers Victory, or anything… It was a very nice weekend all the way around…

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    We’re going to drop our application for a new apartment off tonight. It’s freaking us out a little, but … fireplace! Washer/dryer! Secure bike parking! An extra room!

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne

    @dance around in your bones:

    Every film major has a wildly popular film they’ve never seen, and mine is GWTW. Even though I love to read romance novels, it just never appealed to me, probably because Clark Gable never really appealed to me (what can I say, I would take Basil Rathbone way before Gable).

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away.

  40. 40.

    Richard Fox

    @dance around in your bones: I just went to see GWTW today on the big screen, it is playing for two days around the country so I decided why not. Packed theatre no less, and just extraordinary to see it in correct aspect ratio. It holds up remarkably well, though the racial component really is odd to watch from a 21st century perspective- no question. But in the final analysis I really couldn’t take my eyes off Vivien Leigh. She was an actress for the ages. Gable was no slouch either. The thing moved, and the pacing / editing especially in the first half was quite remarkable. I was entertained.!

  42. 42.

    dance around in your bones

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Really, Siubhan – that’s what is was for me! I didn’t even notice the racism ( I grew up in New Mexico, I don’t think I never even saw a black person in my childhood – it was three things – Anglos, Mexicans and Indians . That was fucked up enough).

    I just wanted Scarlett to realize she loved Rhett. Tara, Pshaw!

  43. 43.

    Anne Laurie

    @Southern Beale:

    Why is it so many of those people get into businesses where they can pay crap wages and operate out of strip malls where their customers are soccer moms?

    Their ice cream is nasty, too — oversweet and chemical-flavored. Tried it once when they first showed up in our area, haven’t been back since.

    Assume their natural customer base is suburbanites raised on HFCS and artificial flavoring. Goddess knows my palate is not super discriminating, but I have some standards!

  46. 46.

    dance around in your bones

    @Richard Fox: The movie came out before I was born, but I saw it on the big screen (what did they call it? Cinerama?) after reading the book numerous times.

    It’s a great movie, if you can put aside the tenor of the times. I mean, history is what it is – we can’t put our ‘modern’ values on it. And history – of any country – often sucks balls. Especially for the indigenous people. And so it goes, and so it goes.

  47. 47.

    Anne Laurie

    @dance around in your bones: I read GWTW when I was in middle school, and I could not understand why Scarlett didn’t dump both those luzers and just set up her own business with Prissy! I knew, intellectually, why ‘everybody’ loved the romance, but I was just starting to read Jane Austen, and I liked Austen’s take much better…

    That was when I read The Clansman, too — a yellowed copy from the 1920s I found in my grandparents’ summer cottage basement, IIRC. I may be the last person to read it outside of an academic requirement. My liberal English-teacher mother was scandalized, but I told her it wasn’t written well enough to persuade anyone with an IQ high enough to finish it.

  48. 48.

    PurpleGirl

    WRT Gone With the Wind: I’ve read the book only once, don’t think I could re-read it. I’ve seen the movie twice on the big screen; once as a child when my sister took me and the second time at a release somewhere in the 1970s (I think) with a movie buff friend. My sister had a major crush on Clark Gable, which I could kinda see but he was never my cup of tea. (I preferred him in Run Silent Run Deep.)

    ETA: You lose a lot if watching it on TV, it really does require a LARGE screen. And the music is very memorable, sweeping movements perfectly fitting the scenery and landscapes.

  49. 49.

    Anne Laurie

    @lamh36: Some reviewer — at Vulture, IIRC — called it “action Denzel porn”. I’ll watch anything with Mr. Washington in it, but since the Spousal Unit doesn’t care for lovingly filmed violence-for-its-own-sake, his Equalizer I’ll probably wait to watch on Netflix.

  50. 50.

    dance around in your bones

    @Anne Laurie:

    Most of the books that I read in my childhood came from my parental units’ college bookshelves. I was not forbidden to read anything – I read all of Salinger and Fitzgerald and Hemingway and etc before I was ten years old. Also Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (basically for the romance parts!!!!) I love Russian literature. I read War and Peace about 6 times (the last few times skipping the War parts) and also D.H.Lawrence and ….well, I could go on, but I won’t.

    I’m a reader, still. I think I have about 600 books on my Kindle.

  51. 51.

    mai naem

    @Anne Laurie: It didn’t used to be like that. I used to go the the original Cold Stone in Tempe. It’s moved within the strip center but still there. I even got, I believe, the very first ice cream cake they ever made, for my parents anniversary party. The cofounder wasn’t all that confident about her cake decorating skills and really didn’t do a great job with the decorating, but it tasted good. I used to take all our out of town visitors to Cold Stone. I think when they got bought out by Doug Douchebag’s company, they changed their ice cream. Haven’t been there in several years. The last couple of times I went, the Sweet Cream flavor I had always ordered tasted super sweet(not usual) and the texture was icky. Anyhow, the daughter of the original owners(also LDS RWNJs who gave $10k to anti-gay marriage props) was convicted of DUI and manslaughter and got away with a 3 yr sentence.

  52. 52.

    PurpleGirl

    @lamh36: I want to see the movie. I was a big fan of the Edward Woodward TV series. I also really liked the secondary characters. But I haven’t seen it yet.

  53. 53.

    lamh36

    @Anne Laurie: It’s so interesting that Denzel Washington has become an “action” star of a sort in his older years. He’s been doing it for awhile now, but unlike Liam Neeson, Denzel seems to at the least have a more varied filmography in his new genre

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    We’re watching Austin Powers on basic cable. Goddamn I forgot how funny it is.

    “That was a pre-emptive ‘shh.’ I have a whole bag of ‘shh’ here with your name on it.”

  56. 56.

    Mnemosyne

    “I had the group liquidated, you little shit. They were insolent.”

    “I hate you! I hate you! I wish I’d never been artificially created in a lab!”

  57. 57.

    NotMax

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    Had never seen Metropolitan, and now know why.

    Poor man’s John Cassevetes crossed with stereotypical angst of beautiful young urban (but not urbane) adults and a wan dash of Woody Allen when he was in top form (but lacking the wit or irony).

    Not a single character in the film whom I cared about.

  59. 59.

    dance around in your bones

    @NotMax: I hear you, brother.

    I had it on in the background and it never caught my interest. I just don’t care about any of the characters.

    I started watching it thinking it was a Woody Allen film – the type face and etc. I’d rather watch a movie by him ( despite the you know what) than just about anybody.

    Ok! Here comes Barcelona! Let’s see…..

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @NotMax: Tastes differ. It came out on video at a time when I was stationed for about a year in little backwater in Germany. There were few intellectual outlets around – Bamberg had been different (both the town and the people in my battalion) – and the movie was something that connected me to the concept of good conversation. Also, I like the Nick Smith character.

    ETA: I think Stillman is poking fun at a way of life, but in a gentle way. It is silly, yes, but harmlessly so.

  61. 61.

    Suzanne

    @Anne Laurie: Cold Stone Creamery used to be better. It started here, and it was amazing when it was a small local chain. Quality went down when they scaled up.

    The Republican, DUCEY, is a steaming pile of shit.

  64. 64.

    raven

    Back from a funeral and little family gathering. The compared to the African-American funeral we went to last month this Presbyterian thing was a pretty dour affair. Guess it’s not surprise.

  65. 65.

    dance around in your bones

    “I didn’t mean the word promiscuous pejoratively”

    “Ok, I’m a prick.”

    Snort O.o

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @dance around in your bones: “You are far weirder than someone merely into S&M. At least they have a tradition. We have some idea what S&M is about. There’s movies and books about it. But so far as I know, there is nothing to explain the way you are.”

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I am! Had such a lovely time, including lunch and Amherst strollings with you. I’m already thinking of coming back next spring, in which case I will spend more time and really take in the Dickenson-Frost-Alcott history!

  73. 73.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):

    A very cool person! I am impressed. I remember reading about her in the early ’70s, during the second great feminist wave. She should be much better known than she is. I guess you are also in some degree of cousinship to Buckminster Fuller, yes?

  78. 78.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Suzanne: Maybe so, but the “mix-in” concept was invented up here, at Steve’s Ice Cream in Somerville, Mass, so anything else will always be but a pale imitation to a New Englander of a certain age.

  79. 79.

    dance around in your bones

    @Mnemosyne: Oh Gawd – Do I have to listen to Barcelona rather than Jim Carroll?

    I have a personal interest in this shit,. But I have Barcelona on in the background, and I will listen for the tell.

  80. 80.

    mai naem

    @Suzanne: One of these days. So what was the debate like? To me it sounded like Douchey did a better job. I hope I’m wrong. Fred wasn’t facing the right camera most of the time. Douchey seemed to be better prepped as far as pulling the “I know Joe Johnson, the principal at ABC school…” And the hecklers didn’t help. Also too, Troy Hayden was as much of a douchebag as Douchey himself. I hope Fred learns from this debate.

  81. 81.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Gin & Tonic: I don’t like the whole “mix-in” concept. The one time I went into a Cold Stone Creamery, i went in just wanting an ice cream cone. You know, ice cream and a cone. I was unfamiliar with the concept of the place. They were assholes. I felt like doing the Five Easy Pieces toast thing. Instead, I just left.

  83. 83.

    Suzanne

    @Gin & Tonic: I will trust you on that. Cold Stone was here before I moved here, so I don’t know when they opened the original location on McClintock and Southern, or where they got the idea. But for good ice cream, I go to Churn or for gelato, to Gelato 64.

    There is a local gelato place called The Gelato Spot, which of course became known as The G-Spot.

  90. 90.

    dance around in your bones

    Duplicate! Duplicate! [email protected]!!!!

    Anyway Omnes, for various reasons, today has been an Jim Carroll day. We used to live on an old farm, and we would put the (huge) stereo speakers facing out to the ocean and crank the tunes big volume.

    I even remember military helicopters flying over when we were getting a naked tan, and waving to the boys. They waved back rather enthusiastically…..This was in San Diego.

  91. 91.

    mai naem

    @Gin & Tonic: There was a Steve’s in Tucson near the U of A. I think Steve’s got bought out or merged or something. I vaguely remember the store disappearing overnight. Also, there was another place called Marble Slab which I believe was also a franchise but their flavors and mix-ins were more limited than Steves and Cold Stones.

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @dance around in your bones: Mountain resort. English girl. Fountain. Booze. I was pretty. What do you think happened? We ducked under water to avoid the Austrian cops.

    @SiubhanDuinne: Thank you. But the connection to her also connects to Abigail Adams. Ancestry is complicated.

  97. 97.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @karen: I sent you a little as well. I’m sorry you’re having a rough time and I hope everything works out better for you and your furry friend soon. Hang in there.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  98. 98.

    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Ok, i had an English guy who put on my bra and panties, but he still doesn’t remember it to this day, We were rather tipsy.

    He used to call me at the farm and demand that I say I loved him – I told him I was married and I couldn’t speak those words.

    I’ve had a few funny/loving companions in my travels :)

  99. 99.

    suzanne

    @mai naem: Both Mr. Suzanne and I thought Douchey came off looking very polished, but he said a couple of things that were embarrassing and the audience laughed at him. The dude said something like “thought leaders, such as George Will and Louis C.K.”. The audience totally thought that was ridiculous, and Ducey came off badly in that exchange. And we didn’t like how Ducey kept trying to name-drop in lieu of having actual insights. We both thought that DuVal should have talked more about his experience as a Regent. We also both thought that DuVal was trying to come off elder statesman-like and didn’t try too hard to attack Ducey or to punch holes in his argument. However, DuVal did open up with how Ducey didn’t want to sent the $300 or so million back to the schools, and how he didn’t really explain why. The protestors were obnoxious as hell. One was sitting right behind us, and they were loud and I thought made Ducey look more sympathetic. As much as I hate Russell Pearce and I support their cause, they didn’t help themselves.

    Afterward, both candidates had tables with signs available, and DuVal’s signs got taken very quickly.

  101. 101.

    suzanne

    @mai naem: I don’t remember a Steve’s by the UA. I was there from 1998-2002, so maybe it closed by then? I think I ate my weight in eegee’s during those years.

    I’m going down to Too-stoned next week to see SOCIAL DISTORTION at the Rialto. Very excited. Will get eegee’s on the way home.

  104. 104.

    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Social D is one of my top 5-10 favorite bands of all time. Mike Ness is so freaking great. I love how he comes off so tough and punk rock, but he’s singing about FEELINGS!!! and LOVE!!!

    Social D are awesome. This will be my fourth time seeing them.

  105. 105.

    Mnemosyne

    @dance around in your bones:

    Since the line has already gone by, I’ll say it:

    “How can you say that Americans are not more violent than other people? All of those shootings in America?”

    “Oh, shootings, yes. But that doesn’t mean Americans are more violent than other people. We’re just better shots.”

  106. 106.

    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I haven’t heard from (no nym) for years, but I’ve seen him in the magazines. He was an Oriental carpet expert for Sotherby’s for some years.

    I also had a thing for a war photographer in AFG who still lives there – I see him on the TV machine once in a ahile, He’s married and has two kids now ,so I don’t try to get in touch. Gads I loved that boy. English, tambien. I had a notebook where I wrote down all the English swearwords I could. Funny, that’s almost always the first words you learn in a language,

  107. 107.

    dance around in your bones

    Ok, I’m so damn racy that I’m in ‘moderation’ as FYWP says. Frack it.

    Hey, late at night I tell the truth!

  109. 109.

    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I love every Social D album, and I think Cheating at Solitaire is really, really great. I think “Don’t Drag Me Down” is my favorite Social D song.

    Whenever you look up Social D songs on YouTube, the comments usually read as follows: “Man, this song got me through some tough shit.” “Me too.” There’s something to be said for music that gives people strength and sustenance.

  110. 110.

    dance around in your bones

    Still awaiting moderation, Fuck that shit – Social Distortion led me to Nirvana anId Kurt. You know, I’d been out of the country for a few years when Nevermind came out – I saw it in the record stores (remember them, girls and boys?) and from the naked baby on the cover I just assumed it was some NewAge bullshit.

    Boy, was I surprised when I finally listened to it.

  112. 112.

    dance around in your bones

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Darlin’, I said I assumed they were New Age from the LP cover photo.

    What does ‘Pixies with Top Forty Access’ mean? I still think Nirvana were great and they should have let Kurt take all the junk he needed so he wouldn’t have shot his head off. The guy was hurting, you can see it in his photos etc.

  113. 113.

    dance around in your bones

    Does MTV do ‘Unplugged’ anymore? Those are some of my favorite sessions.

    I remember when MTV first came on the air, and it wasn’t frickin reality quote unquote like nowadays. They actually played music! Can you imagine that?!

  115. 115.

    Anne Laurie

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):

    But the connection to her also connects to Abigail Adams.

    Now you’ve made me jealous. Miss Nabby Smith has been one of my heroes, no lie, since I was five-going-on-six, first visiting the Boston area, and deciding I’d live there (here) someday!

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