Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Not all heroes wear capes.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

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

No one could have predicted…

Fight them, without becoming them!

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

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  2. 2.

    geg6

    Love me some Aretha, anything she wants to sing.

    Just got a new car. Well, not a new car, but new for me. A black 2008 Jetta. I’ll have a car payment for the first time since 2009. Like the car. Hate the payment.

  7. 7.

    Howard Beale IV

    @geg6: I paid off my Prius earlier this year. It’s also reached the age where it’s starter/auxiliary battery (as opposed to the main big-arse traction battery) has decided to play havoc and throw the occasional triangle of death warnings when I start Katsumi (that’s what I named my car, as she was built in Japan.)

    Since I live in the snowbelt I probably would have been better off with an AWD, but I got this car during the Gen II/Gen III transition and it”s fully loaded – the only thing I don’t have is heated seats. And around here i’m surprised at how many Prii I see on the roads.

    (Then again, I work from home. so I don’t need to crawl into the orifice but once a week…. )

  8. 8.

    Corner Stone

    @Violet: In all the wrong places, my dear.

    I actually picked up a pair off ebay about a year ago that I really like. Claim to be antique Scots made in sterling.
    I prefer the two sided style as opposed to the t-bar.
    I haven’t had time to hit any estate sites, so just throwing it out there.

  9. 9.

    Belafon

    Caught “The Five” on Fox arguing that a gun stopped the guy who beheaded the woman in Oklahoma (if it stopped him, how did he behead the woman?) and that maybe we should allow guns in the workplace because of it.

  12. 12.

    Tommy

    @Belafon: IMHO that might have been the ONE situation I’ve read where the COO brought that guy down that makes everybody packing make sense. He did stop the dude. But everybody with a gun, still foreign to me.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    Monday, September 29, 2014
    Bust a meme: President Obama’s approval ratings

    I can understand why Republicans want to spread a false meme that President Obama’s approval numbers are tanking. Their whole goal in the midterms is to nationalize the election and ramp up the Obama derangement syndrome with their base.

    But one has to wonder why some liberals are so intent on doing the same thing. Case in point: Elias Isquith at Salon. He sites polls taken recently in California and New York showing that the President’s approval ratings have dropped in those blue states and then opines:

    Put simply, my guess is that a growing number of liberals have decided that after nearly six years, and with no reason to believe a Democratic congress is on the horizon, Obama’s done nearly all he’ll ever do and the verdict is in. And although Obamacare seems to be a policy success, and Dodd-Frank is reportedly working better than many expected, many liberals have concluded that these balms are not enough to soothe the lingering pain of their unmet expectations.

    Ahhh…the old “disappointed liberal” meme. Its interesting how that one tends to always come up right before an election. These folks are always sure that THIS TIME President Obama has finally crossed the rubicon and lost the support of his liberal “base.” Isquith lays the blame this time on his decision to delay action on immigration and the fact that he’s “acquiesced in the face of the U.S.war machine.” Surely these polls are proof that the President has finally lost liberals.

    But are they? I thought I’d take a look. The first thing I noticed is that both polls he referenced are state polls that also serve the function of polling local elections. As such, the results they report about the drop in presidential approval rating come at the same time that polling firms tend to switch from polling “registered voters” to “likely voters.” Could this explain the results he’s focusing on?

    http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2014/09/bust-meme-president-obamas-approval.html

  14. 14.

    gbear

    I can enjoy the Queen even when she’s singing the Worst Pop Standard Ever:

    Or you could just go listen to her ‘I Never Loved A Man..” and ‘Lady Soul’. There are no worst songs on those two albums.

  16. 16.

    rikyrah

    @geg6:

    I’ll have a car payment for the first time since 2009. Like the car. Hate the payment.

    Car Payment….two words that just give me the blues. It’s why I keep putting money on my old cop car. I’m gonna ride that baby till the wheels come off.

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    Every time I see the MSM play clips of the 60 Minutes interview with Obama where he says the things he does…
    Goodness gracious.

  18. 18.

    Tommy

    @Corner Stone: Keenth Cole used to have these “hot” and “cold” cuff links. The old procein dials. People were like that is the coolest thing, Shot out to anybody in cuff links!

  19. 19.

    gbear

    @geg6:

    Like the car. Hate the payment.

    The very last payment on my car is due next month. I will LOVE my car then. October is also a three-paycheck month because there are five fridays. I already splurged in advance on a new stereo. I’m also finally getting around to refinancing my house so there may not even be a house payement in October.

  20. 20.

    Irony Abounds

    “Worst Pop Standard Ever”? Bite your tongue, or fingers or however you express such blasphemy. It’s simple elegance speaks to the wistfulness that permeates our lives.

  22. 22.

    Mnemosyne

    We took the plunge — we got approved for the apartment we saw on Saturday and are putting down our deposit tomorrow. We both just decided it was time to get out of our rut and do something new.

  24. 24.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Mnemosyne: May it work out well for you.

    My current residence is a 1100+ sq ft 2 br condo whose mortgage + association fee is about what I would pay in rent-so I can’t complain.

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Noisemax strikes again!

    Trump: ‘Inconceivable’ Obama Ignorant of ISIS

    That word, Donald. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    @gbear: My 2008 Cr-V has been paid off for a while now, and this year paid off my 30 yr mortgage in just over 10 yrs.
    We live a simple life. Cuff links are our only extravagance.

  29. 29.

    Schlemazel

    “Over the Rainbow” is all a bout presentation. The best version ever is Judy Garland singing it just a few months before her death. After all the booze & pills, after the depression and rehab she sings the song the way it should be given the words, as a blues song. Really listen to the words, they are full of loss and longing. Leadbelly could have done it.

  30. 30.

    Tommy

    @Mnemosyne: I got my VW Passat in 2001. Wow now I ponder it, that is an old car. Has less than 30,000 miles on it. Never not in a garage with a lot of love. I wanted the V6. Manual. Had to order it from Germany. I did. When it got here I found they shut down part of the engine, power. I got this chip that opened that up.

    I often find people think their cars are fast. My car is kind of fast, just saying :).

  34. 34.

    raven

    Last week friends had a 2003 Mazda pickup (Ford Ranger) that needed a clutch. They just wanted to get rid of it and sold it to me for $100. I bought it, talked to another friend who wanted it and he gave me $300 for it. I tried to give the sellers more and take less from the buyer but neither budged. Now I have enough for 1 1/2 deep sea fishing trips in November!

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    @Villago Delenda Est: I look forward to his attorney asking, “So, his injuries are in large part due to the restraint system in the car he was riding in?”
    WM:”Humph, harumph…Yes!”
    “Ok, so how many other passenger cars have your overworked and without sleep drivers hit that were wearing restraint?”

  38. 38.

    gbear

    @Corner Stone:
    I’m not so frugal. It takes a long time to get stuff paid off, and my weakness is LPs and CDs – I hate downloaded music.
    My new mortgage will be a 15 yr. About the same as I’m paying now, but I’ll be more than doubling the principal in each payment. No way I’ll still be in this house until it’s paid off.

  39. 39.

    Corner Stone

    Speaking of men’s fashion, I hate the whole skinny tie thing. That shit should stay on USA Network or AMC.

  40. 40.

    Tommy

    @Corner Stone: Hey don’t worry about me. I just felt if I was going to have to get dressed up for work I might as well get dressed up. French cuffs and all. Most were from my grandfather, a super smart dressing guy. I didn’t do the bow tie he used to do but with the cuffs, well I did that.

  41. 41.

    Bobby Thomson

    I don’t know that I’d call Rolling in the Deep a “standard,” and lord knows Adele has worse songs.

  42. 42.

    Poopyman

    I’ve still got my old ’03 Jetta with the A4 diesel engine, the one before they added all the pollution control crap. Got 294,000 on it, but mileage has dropped off to 46 mpg. Used to be 52. I’m hoping that’s at least partially because I have the original clutch.

  43. 43.

    Belafon

    @Tommy: 1) It wouldn’t prevent another killing, 2) it would make it easier for wackos to get one where a group of people are, and 3) you’d have untrained people shooting each other. Other than that, I might be convinced.

  46. 46.

    Corner Stone

    What is hilarious to me nowadays is when the airline commercials come on and the people are all excited because they have some special program they belong to where they aren’t paying any fee for the first checked bag.
    Give me a fucking break. That’s some kind of deal? *Not* paying to get your fucking bag in the belly of the plane to the same destination you’re going?

  50. 50.

    Howard Beale IV

    Fucking Butters and Walnuts have their priorities out of whack-here they are worried about ISIS yet they ignore some whack-job who almost succeeded in taking out ZAU-as it is worldwide air travel is going to be screwed for the two to three weeks as it is.

    The worst part is that we have citizens who are slackjawed nanocepalic imbecilic enough to keep electing these idiots.

  52. 52.

    Tommy

    @Omnes Omnibus: I guess that should’nt surprise me. I am a fan with my VW the way some might be able Apple. My VW is cared about in my household like a child. Enough said isn’t it?

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @kc: Jill Scott, Queen Latifah, and Missy Elliott managed to do it.

    @Tommy:

    My VW is cared about in my household like a child.

    Why do you beat your car?

  60. 60.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Corner Stone: I bet if the flight attendants who have to spend ten-fifteen minutes at the beginning of every flight repeating, with mounting exasperation, the same spiel about carryons could vote, they’s charge for that second carry on instead. But I assume they’ve done the math and the fuel savings make it worth all the PITA.

    Last time I flew, each boarding process featured a guy in his twenties throwing a tantrum about being told his carry on was too big.

  62. 62.

    kc

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Years ago, in each of those cases. It seems to get worse every year.

    Maybe I’m being overly pessimistic, after watching Ariana Grande prance around on SNL . . .

  63. 63.

    gbear

    @kc: Actually, Aretha started our with a pretty mediocre career at Columbia Records. They had her doing a lot of standards and she just wasn’t catching fire at all. Once she got away from Columbia to Atlantic, her career took off like a rocket. We may have never heard of her if she’d stayed with Columbia.

  65. 65.

    Tommy

    @kc: Maybe. I”ve listened to Rolling In The Deep here like ten times. Once or twice got up and danced a little around my office. Many bands and performers have been told they can’t do this or that. One of my favorite of the you can’ do this crowd is My Morning Jacket (I am a jam band kind of guy). So they did this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdoOGUsEKg

  68. 68.

    Corner Stone

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Anyone who wants to document the decline of western civilization should sit on an airplane and watch the way people act towards each other when they have a bag stored in the overhead.
    People are at their fucking worst on an airplane. It’s like someone lit a dynamite fuse that’s burning at the tail end of the plane and if you don’t get off “RIGHT NOW” you’ll either die or someone will post an embarrassing pic to Facebook about how you were 6th off the plane. Sixth! Fucking loser.

  69. 69.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Corner Stone: There’s some question as to whether or not it really meets current low-sulfur diesel specs and at the same time won’t harm current diesel cars on the road already. Bio-diesel and E15 are being pushed heavily in certain states, and there’s a lot of pushback not only from consumers but from the auto industry as well. My local gas station got rid of their E85 pump and converted it to pure premium unleaded gasoline-now if that isn’t a signal I don’t know what is.

  70. 70.

    kc

    @Tommy:

    Oh, I’m not sure what you think I meant but I wasn’t criticizing Aretha’s singing AT ALL, or the song, or her cover of the song. I love her singing.

    I was just thinking of how slick young female pop singers are these days.

    Now everyone can just GET OFF MY LAWN!

  71. 71.

    Tommy

    @Corner Stone: You might be right. My grandfather and father taught me to have patience with other people. If I didn’t I might want to kill you. Go on a killing spree. But I just take a deep breath and exhale. On a plane this is key. Deep breaths. Exhale. Deep breaths.

  72. 72.

    Corner Stone

    @efgoldman: But I LOVE the skinny pants.
    Please God. If you ever loved your prodigal son. Please don’t take the skinny pants away.
    And if, in your infinite wisdom, they must go…please, Lord don’t resurrect the high waisted jeans.
    ***SOBS***

  73. 73.

    Mnemosyne

    @kc:

    Lesley Gore and Aretha Franklin are contemporaries — in fact, Gore was popular before Franklin was. So I think you may have some rose-colored headphones on. ;-)

  74. 74.

    Tommy

    @kc: I think I knew you meant that. My dad likes his “oldie” station on Sirus. He was over the other day and I wonder if any of it would get approved today. Tooling around in this car it was pretty amazing stuff.

  77. 77.

    Mike J

    @Howard Beale IV:

    My local gas station got rid of their E85 pump and converted it to pure premium unleaded gasoline-now if that isn’t a signal I don’t know what is.

    Rather than any statement about ethanol, it may be signaling that the profit margin on premium gasoline is astronomical.

  79. 79.

    MomSense

    FSM works in mysterious ways. The Chinese exchange student staying with us loves animals and can’t have a pet where he lives. Our cat is mourning losing his best cat and dog friends in the last two weeks. Exchange student and surviving cat have discovered each other and it is a beautiful love fest. I don’t understand Mandarin but some things are universal. The cat and boy are inseparable. Lots of purring and smiles.

    Also too Disney movies are really good in these situations. Oh and saw a moose tonight. I never see them here so this sighting was really special.. Auspicious!

  82. 82.

    kc

    @Mnemosyne:

    I know . . . I just meant that I think it would be harder for someone like Aretha these days to get past the gatekeepers.

    But, maybe I am wearing rose-colored headphones. :)

  86. 86.

    Jeff Spender

    Hello everyone!

    I’ve been coming by and updating people periodically on my progress in my campaign for State Representative in Michigan (Josh Derke). My letter to Public Advocate has gotten a lot of traction. It was at the top of the Rec List as The Great Orange Satan for a whole day (Eclectablog wrote about it and cross-posted it here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/27/1332788/-Dem-candidate-for-Michigan-s-93rd-House-District-sends-epic-response-to-anti-gay-hate-group).

    I’ve been asked by many people to set up an online donations account, and I have finally done so. I you visit my site at joshderke.ruck.us you can donate through Democracy Engine.

    I also have a facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/jderke2014

    I want to thank everyone in the Balloon-Juice community for the support I’ve gotten when I’ve updated everyone here. I’ve been a Juicer since 2008, when I started to comment sporadically. I mostly read in the background, but I’ve always been a fan.

  87. 87.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Baud: No, but I have compared her diplomatic skills to those of a charging rhino. To her face. She found it funny and true.

  88. 88.

    Jebediah, RBG

    My agenda for the next thirty minutes is to sit here at the corner of Fourth and McCadden, waiting for triple A to come tow my bike and me back home.
    Won’t bumpstart, won’t even jump start.
    By th e way, anybody interested in a good deal on a 1992 Yamaha FZR 600?
    Eta. Fuck, on tje phone they said half an hour. Just got an automated text indicating more like 90 minutrs. Sure hope that is wrong.

  92. 92.

    MomSense

    @efgoldman:

    I live in the wilds of Maine although I have lived in Mass as a kid and a student and a young adult.
    @Omnes Omnibus: I had a farm for a number of years and had a family of moose that used to destroy my garden. They also used to eat all the apples off my trees. I once got so mad that I stormed into the back yard and confronted a bull moose. About 30 seconds into my confrontation I realized that I was in big trouble. Ran back inside at full speed with an 1,800 pound bull on my tail. Give the moose what they want. Much safer that way.

  93. 93.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jebediah, RBG:

    By the way, anybody interested in a good deal on a 1992 Yamaha FZR 600?

    I would like a Triumph Bonneville T100 or a Ducati GT1000. Otherwise, I am not really in the market.

  94. 94.

    beltane

    @kc: Adele got past the gatekeepers and she certainly doesn’t have the standard pop star physical attributes.

  95. 95.

    Schlemazel

    @Corner Stone:
    You can pay USPS or FedEX to overnight your bag to your hotel or other destination for less money than most airlines are now charging. Plus they can actually track your bag and have better insurance. I’m guessing they lose a lot fewer but I don’t have the numbers to prove it.

  97. 97.

    beltane

    @MomSense: Several years ago a moose tore up my strawberry bed for no particularly good reason. For whatever reason though I haven’t been seeing moose as frequently as I used to.

  101. 101.

    Anne Laurie

    @efgoldman: MomSense, IIRC, is in Maine — aka ‘moose country’.

    On the other hand, couple years ago there was a moose filmed wandering around by the NTB right here at the Rte 93 off-ramp — there was some amateur film footage, but it escaped through the maze of office complex parking lots before the news crews got good footage.

  102. 102.

    Tommy

    @rikyrah: Yes and no. When I got it I lived in DC. I never drove. Now I live in a small rural town and I tend to use my mountain bike or this or that for most things. I rarely pull the car out. I can do other things others ways and I try to do that.

  103. 103.

    Schlemazel

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I have told this story before sorry for the re-run

    I was on a flight from Milwaukee to Minneapolis on Superbowl Friday years ago. The Packer fans were on their way to New Orleans. Those morons brought everything they owned onto the plane. Not just carry on bags, but boxes, garbage bags full of stuff, giant foam cheese hats. I seriously expected to see goats and chickens. The overheads were full before the plane was half loaded (As a premier flyer I was settled in early just watching the show). Loud arguments broke out as people found all the space near their seats full. It ended up a lot of carry on stuff had to be checked which took time. We ended up leaving about 40 minutes late which of course meant that people were going to have to run like hell to maybe make their connecting to NO. Naturally they whined the whole flight about not leaving on time.

    Lots of tantrums thrown by people who should have known better.

  104. 104.

    MomSense

    @Tommy: I don’t know that you could run faster. I’m a pretty good sprinter-long legs! Besides, I was very motivated.@beltane: I haven’t seen as many either but I do live in a more densely populated area now. We do have lots of deer, fox, and fishers however.

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    Went to IKEA today with an old Barnes & Noble friend who is back in town this week for a wedding. Takes about 25-30 minutes to drive down there, so we got caught up in the car and while shopping. She was getting some stuff for her parents, and I picked up a few odds and ends, including a memory-foam pillow for side sleepers. Semi-impulse purchase, but it was only about $15 and it could turn out to be a hit. Also got a little Japanese-ish table lamp to go with the floor model I bought a month or so ago. Nice, warm light. And Magnarp. I just like saying “Magnarp.” Still fiddling with where to deploy them to best effect. The former B&N friend is an architect and is coming over for dinner tomorrow, so I’ll get a consult.

    Also, isn’t there some level of back-room collusion where the networks can avoid having The Blacklist, Castle and NCIS: Los Angeles all on at the exact same time?!

  106. 106.

    geg6

    @Tommy:

    2008 Jetta. 2.1??? Not sure. Not the diesel. 60k miles. Leather interior w/heated seats (a great option for me in Western PA). Sun roof. Black with dark gray interior. It’s much faster than I expected. ;-)

  107. 107.

    Svensker

    I can enjoy the Queen even when she’s singing the Worst Pop Standard Ever:

    Really? Rolling in the Deep is pretty good, a real old-fashioned soul sound to it, which is why Aretha can sing it so well (well, she does sing everything pretty well, but still). John Legend did a good version, too:
    http://youtu.be/ejQ08ddAdQU

  108. 108.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Schlemazel: It had been a few years since the team had been to a Super Bowl. The fans were just out of practice. Just imagine how it will be if the Vikes ever get to one again.

  112. 112.

    Steeplejack

    Cairo Santos is a pretty cool athlete’s name (Kansas City kicker, who just put them up 17-0 over New England at the half).

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tommy: And neither one is a first generation GTI (my first car). I haven’t owned any car I liked as much as that one until I got my Saab.

    @efgoldman:

    Does Cutler have thathuge an ego that he can’t drop out?

    No, he just starts making mistakes when he is playing from behind. And then the INTs come.

  114. 114.

    Tommy

    @rikyrah: Another comment. No I don’t drive much with my car. I am anal about it. Years ago I felt like I could say this or that about being a hippie liberal. But did I try. I try.

  117. 117.

    Schlemazel

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    I imagine it would be true for just about any fans. At least they were mostly sober. One of the worst flights I was ever trapped on was between Minneapolis and LA with 150 stinking drunk Wolverine fans headed to the Rose Bowl. An solid hour and a half of screaming “M GO BLUE” before they passed out.

    EDIT: should have noted that Vikes & SB are will not occur as long as the owners know they can rake in the millions without any added effort.

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    LOL. Love their meatballs, but every time I see them now I think about that scandal a year or two ago where they were found to have horsemeat in them. So no.

    When I was down there a month ago another friend and I had a sit-down lunch, and it was really good. I had a little salmon filet and some sort of mixed-vegetables muddle on the side.

  122. 122.

    geg6

    @Tommy:

    True, but it’s more than fast enough for me. Just surprised me how quick it was to pick up speed. I have to watch myself. Thankfully, my commute to work is only 3 miles round trip.

  126. 126.

    Steeplejack

    @Mnemosyne:

    I have the basic Malm (low headboard, birch finish) and like it a lot, especially with the expensive hotel mattress that Bro’ Man talked me into getting to go with it.

  128. 128.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @geg6: I don’t know what you were diving before, but, unless it was another Euro sedan, you will probably find that it is very easy to discover that you are doing 80-90 on the highway while feeling like you are doing the speed limit. The cruise control on my car is vital.

    @Steeplejack: Dear god.

  132. 132.

    Mnemosyne

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    @Steeplejack:

    Twinsies! ;-)

    My main thing is that I want a bedframe that goes all the way down to the floor because I’m tired of having to dig cats out from underneath the exact middle of the bed. And if I’m going to get that kind, I may as well get some storage space out of it, too.

  134. 134.

    geg6

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    American car, an Intrepid, that served me well but sure didn’t hit 70 without my noticing. Can’t say the same about this one. I was cruising home on I-376 at 80 when I realized I was in the Pittsburgh airport corridor where there are notorious speed traps. Thankfully, my usual work commute is only a bit over a mile and a half on a 40mph road.

  135. 135.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @geg6: Just use the cruise control on the highways, and you’ll love the car. European sedans are designed to comfortably run at much higher speed than American cars. 80+ mph speed limits are common on highways that are curvier that most of ours.

    ETA: My way of saying congrats on getting something that I firmly believe you will enjoy. Now, go blast through the PA back roads while blasting punk rock as loud as you can.

  136. 136.

    Steeplejack

    @Mnemosyne:

    The storage bed thing is cool. I just don’t have very much stuff, and I don’t think the housecat has ever even been under the bed, much less camped out there. (When she wants to hide she gets under the comforter or blanket or bedcovering du jour.) I have a couple of tall, bookcase-sized units (but with drawers and clothes cubbyholes), also IKEA, also blond finish, that hold everything that doesn’t go in the bedroom closet. I have thought about getting a dresser and moving one of the tall units to the living room for general storage there, but I’m still sizing things up after doing a major decluttering, cleaning and partial rearranging right before I went to Las Vegas.

  137. 137.

    Corner Stone

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    you will probably find that it is very easy to discover that you are doing 80-90 on the highway while feeling like you are doing the speed limit

    I had the same thing happen on a Suzuki GSXR 750. Except I would be doing 110 or 120 and feel like I was coasting.
    Talk about your libertine impulses. I hit 160+mph a few times.
    Doing 160mph is a lot of fun. Slowing down is not so much fun.

  138. 138.

    Suzanne

    @Mnemosyne: We have the storage bed from West Elm for precisely that reason. Used to have an Ikea Malm, and the West Elm looks like a classier version with drawers.

  139. 139.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Corner Stone: You may have noticed I mention a couple of bikes above. I will not ride anything that does over 120 or so. If I do, I will die. I will compulsively explore the top speed. I am not good enough to go that fast, but, if it is there, I will try it. Best not to get on such a bike. A man has got to know his limitations.

  140. 140.

    jibeaux

    @Corner Stone: Sheesh, they teach that in first year law school. It’s a failure to mitigate damages, but not a defense to liability. You aren’t making yourself more likely to be in a wreck by not wearing a seatbelt.

  143. 143.

    Corner Stone

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You may have noticed I mention a couple of bikes above. I will not ride anything that does over 120 or so. If I do, I will die.

    Had a good friend die in an accident. Riding a Gxr 1000. He was riding a wheelie and probably popping into 3rd gear at about 110mph or so. Some mook pulls out unbeknownst to anyone in a minivan and buddy hits him doing 100+.
    Also had a good friend who was a track racer and had given up street riding forever due to danger. He grabbed a bike from a friend one night and got ran off into a canal by a drunk driver in a vette going the wrong way down Memorial Blvd.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Corner Stone: People are having an appropriate level of freakout on the next thread. I think that Brady will move on to “other interests” very quickly if the Pats don’t do well. Not a slam on Brady. I think he really does have other interests and, if football starts to suck, he will move on. (Rodgers also has outside interests and I don’t expect him to stay in football until he breaks either – I will enjoy what he does while he is with the team.)

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Corner Stone: While riding my good old Honda 350, I had multiple incidents where my awareness and ability to drop two gears and twist the living fuck out of the throttle in an instant are the only reasons I am alive. Many drivers are idiots.

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    Violet

    @Corner Stone: Years ago I was on the freeway in a city. Just driving along. Hear this really loud motorcycle. It comes flying up behind me, passes me by weaving in and out of traffic and exits the freeway at the next exit. While exiting the freeway, the driver of the motorcycle pops a wheelie and stands on his hands on the handlebars–legs straight up to the sky. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes I would not have believed it.

    Once the motorcycle was off the freeway, the driver resumed a normal riding position and that’s the last I saw. Crazy.

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    Mnemosyne

    @Suzanne:

    The West Elm Pivot might be a decent compromise. Plus I like that it’s upholstered because I will bruise the hell out of my legs on a wooden bed.

    @Steeplejack:

    I have lots and lots of stuff, though I’m going to try and get rid of a lot of it before we move. Mostly I hate the idea of having wasted space inside a bedframe, so it would be nice to have the storage version.

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    PurpleGirl

    @Schlemazel: When I visited friends in Florida, I would send my baggage ahead of me. Made it a lot easier to get through the airport, having nothing to lug around.

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    Mnemosyne

    @Violet:

    We still have to give notice at our current place, so we have about a month. We’ll probably want to get the keys to the new place ASAP so we can start moving stuff over.

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    Corner Stone

    @Violet: I had a “friend” who used to ride wheelies up past HPD cars on freeways. He’d put it down right behind them, lift it, then veer past them accelerating.
    He was a domain admin for a string of strip club “real time video” websites. Made a fortune for a few years.

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    Violet

    @Mnemosyne: That’s nice if you can overlap so you can move things at a more leisurely pace.

    @Corner Stone: That’s insane. Motorcycles are so dangerous. A friend had one. Had to be one of the safest drivers I know. Was in a neighborhood full of stop signs. He didn’t have a stop sign–the cross traffic did. Driver didn’t stop and t-boned him in the intersection. I think my friend was going about 5 mph. Other car going maybe 15 mph. Totaled the motorcycle, which was a shame. My friend was fortunately okay. He didn’t buy another one.

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