Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

A consequence of cucumbers

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

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

You can’t love your country only when you win.

In after Baud. Damn.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

People are complicated. Love is not.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

In my day, never was longer.

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

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

I was promised a recession.

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  3. 3.

    Corner Stone

    Just seems like this would be the point where Cassidy would normally come in and call Cole a cat lady.

  6. 6.

    Violet

    Since this is a pet thread, might as well re-post the request to vote for Karen in GA’s Iggy in the pet photo contest. You don’t have to sign up or give an email–just click Vote.

    Poor Iggy tested positive for heartworms and the treatment is long. He also has to stay quiet and calm–not so easy for a little dog. They could use a pick me up if he wins. The winner gets a $750 gift card to Publix, which would be nice to offset the costs of the heartworm treatment.

    You can vote from more than one device and it still counts. Vote early and often!

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    @Omnes Omnibus: Personally I think he’s in the clink for domestic violence charges. That’s IMO.
    I just pray that if his kids were actually real he didn’t harm them on his downward spiral.

  12. 12.

    Violet

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yay! Also:

    For every vote received, Publix will donate $1 to Southeastern Guide Dogs, up to $25,000.

    Your vote is also for a good cause in addition to helping out Karen in GA.

    Vote for Iggy.

  16. 16.

    Violet

    @JCJ: @Patricia Kayden: Yay! Thanks! Karen in GA and Iggy thank you too.

    I’d forgotten how much I enjoy poll pimping. Anyone around here remember the Little Bitsy poll spamming we did here? That was for the Charlie’s Angel’s animal rescue. That was fun!

  23. 23.

    TaMara (BHF)

    My favorite stories about Tunch were how, despite his tough looking photographs, he was really just a marshmallow who loved to wrap himself around company and get rubbed all over.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @TaMara (BHF): Yes, he is, but he went a bit “mental” following Cole’s anti-pitbull posts after Tunch’s death. In the end, he launched misogynistic attacks at Betty Cracker anytime she posted anything. Bit of a nutter if you ask me.

  30. 30.

    Violet

    @SWMBO: I’ll remind you but tomorrow is the last day. So if you are east coast and you voted after midnight then you might have already got that vote in.

  31. 31.

    Corner Stone

    @TaMara (BHF): I think you’re thinking of the same guy. Really angry all the time. Called Betty the C-word a few different threads.
    I always thought he was a small wire spring away from snapping the mouse trap on his own neck. My guess is he’s in jail for domestic violence, but that’s just a probable outcome for someone who hated himself as much as he did.

  32. 32.

    sharl

    @Violet: I voted via three different browsers, and didn’t get cyber-scolded, so I assume they all counted. [Can’t remember the vote count I saw after my last vote though…]

  37. 37.

    kdaug

    @NotMax:

    Just curious – is Shawn still ensconced chez Cole?

    That’s an important question – not for reasons you think.

    So, John, is Shawn still around?

  38. 38.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    @Corner Stone:

    I am sorry to hear that. He and I had some good conversations, but that was years ago before things got so busy that I haven’t been around as much or on a regular basis. I must have missed the breakdown.

    Anyone who picks on Betty is not welcome IMO.

  41. 41.

    Mike J

    @Yatsuno: When is the last time we saw the proper authoritahs around here?

    And when are you going to be back on the proper side of the mountains? We should do another meet up.

  42. 42.

    ruemara

    T-minus 12.17 hours til interview. I’m packing now. Maybe this bottle of champers I’ve had since the house and never got to open? I mean, getting them drunk should result in an offer, yes?

  44. 44.

    Yatsuno

    @Mike J: 1) I get her back for the Steve threads every now & again. Gamergate has her pretty fed up with humanity at the moment.

    2)Uncertain. They keep sending me to California for stuff so planning things like the next big chop has been a fecking nightmare. I’ve barely had time to flat hunt! But hopefully some time in December I’ll take a couple days & we can do stuff & stuff.

  47. 47.

    Mike J

    @Yatsuno:

    But hopefully some time in December I’ll take a couple days & we can do stuff & stuff

    Just try to give us a week or two advance notice to round up the usual suspects.

  48. 48.

    kdaug

    Let me rephrase that – I ain’t got no “important questions” about Cole. It’s none of my goddamned business. Share what you want, John.

    kdaug +/- n

  49. 49.

    Yatsuno

    @Mike J: You’ll have at least 2 weeks since it takes me about that long to arrange appointments & such. Plus my last evaluation came in & I’m waiting for the time off award to hit my leave bank. This MIGHT run into January, but you’ll have more notice than the Dallas trip, which is Thursday. Fortunately I don’t have much of a schedule in Texas.

  56. 56.

    Yatsuno

    @Violet: Heh. My work just released an ebola protocol today. No I am NOT kidding. It wouldn’t shock me if I came back & had to go on a 21 day admin leave just to be sure.

  58. 58.

    John M. Burt

    When Tunch died, I took that cartoon of a man proudly putting up posters reading HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CAT? HE’S AWESOME! I pasted in Tunch’s picture and sent it to you, but not before my then-five-year-old saw it. I told him what the cartoon said, and he thought it was immensely funny.
    Indeed, today he still asks me to bring up that cartoon for him.
    [Oh, also: 615 votes.]

  59. 59.

    Baud

    @Yatsuno:

    That sucks. I’m sure you were looking forward to unprotected sex with symptomatic ebola patients. I mean, what else is there to do in Dallas?

  63. 63.

    Kuda Bux

    My husband, who doesn’t read this blog but sees the pics over my shoulder, still yells “TEAM TUNCH” whenever there’s any animal shown here. He will accept no substitutes. That fat bastard inspired love at first sight.

  73. 73.

    mr_gravity

    @poptartacus: Cry as hard as you have ever cried for anything. Wash your face. Then go to the shelter. It’s the best way we can honor their memory.

  74. 74.

    JR in WV

    I just did 758 – dunno how that stands in the whole race…

    Poptarticus, sorry to hear about your puppy, the ONLY bad thing about out fuzzy companions is how short their lives are compared to ours.

    In fall of 2011 I had two senior cats (Rufus and Harvey, who got that name because he was invisible the first 2 months we had him, rescued alley cat from downtown) suffer from kidney failure while Mrs J was in the hospital for 59 days. I talked about the other cats and dogs and just didn’t mention Rufus and Harvey. Shortly after she got home we lost Boomer, calendar star of the BJ world, an 85 pounds of love farm dog. He had a serious bark (hence the name) and scared sneak thieves off more than once.

    I’ll try a diff browser for Iggy in a minute. I have a thing for commenting at the end of threads that have been inactive for several hours (or days) but what the hey, I got my $0.02 in at the end.

  76. 76.

    phoebes-in-santa fe

    Tunch was a wonderful cat, but I’ve grown quite fond of Steve. He’s a worthy successor to Tunch.

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