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Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

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Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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The day started off with me pouring hot water into coffee grounds in my French press, waiting five minutes and pouring it into my mug. Anyone notice a missing step there?

I am happy to report the day got better, as the Steelers won, WVU basketball won, and now I am watching Marco Polo on Netflix. Still need to watch the latest tv show from Jon Rogers, the Librarians, and will get around to that soon. This makes me laugh every time I see it:

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What is going on down your way?

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  3. 3.

    Suzanne

    So I have kept my cats’ food dish on my kitchen counter for years to keep it away from Luna (the dog). I hate it, because our kitchen isn’t large and I need more counter space, and I don’t like how they leave cat hair and kibble on the counter.

    So I tried an experiment: leave the cat food on the floor, and see if Luna will leave it alone.

    Guess how that turned out.

  5. 5.

    Violet

    I almost hit a cat while driving tonight. Was coming up to a stoplight. I think a streetlight was out because it was really dark. Saw this movement in the street. Hit the brakes and the stupid cat stopped in the middle of the road and just looked at me. Hit the horn and it scampered away. Got my adrenaline going, that’s for sure. Stupid cat.

    I had to go out for throat lozenges because now I seem to have lost my voice from this stupid flu. Sick of it.

  7. 7.

    Violet

    @Suzanne: Is there a table or a shelf or something besides the counter where you could put their food? Or a room the dog can’t get into but the cats can?

  15. 15.

    lamh36

    I had my nephew over at my place all weekend. He just left with him mom, so I’m catching up on some entertainment type news and superficial stuff.

    Like this, woo Lord, I ain’t mad at Lisa Bonet…she sure knows how to pick her men…amirite? I mean from Lenny Kravitz to Jason Mamoa.

    I’m not some big fan of Aquaman, but shoot, Jason Mamoa…may make me rethink the whole Aquaman thing..

    https://twitter.com/chrisalexander_/status/544336379241840640/photo/1

  18. 18.

    lamh36

    @srv: its funny though, no one seems to have an issue with Mamoa as Aquaman, yet people did go gaga over Stormtroopers and Idris as Hemidell, etc…

    It’s amazing what people are outraged by.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    @lamh36:

    I haven’t been to New Orleans since before Katrina, but back in the day, hell, yeah, New Orleans was the best eating town.

    I have to think that now, with foodie culture having overrun the country, there are cities like New York that have more great restaurants just by sheer weight of numbers and population size. But New Orleans might still take the prize for “great eating per capita” or something.

  26. 26.

    burnspbesq

    I started to pull data for a “best albums of 2014” post for another website where I hang out, and was reminded how esoteric and out-there my taste in music has become as I’ve gotten older. The only things on my list that are even close to “mainstream” are Jenny Lewis, Flying Lotus, and Raul Midon. Well, and maybe Mariachi el Bronx. The rest is all classical and jazz, and except for one each of Bach and Mozart, the classical is all 20th and 21st century.

    Got off my lawn, you kids, or I’ll blast you off the lawn with some Szymanowski.

  27. 27.

    Violet

    @Heliopause: You do it because you’re distracted or sleepy or something like that. I’ve almost poured it without pressing it so I can see how it happens. Especially since you pour the hot water and then walk away for several minutes you can think you’ve already pressed it.

    As for why not pour it back in and press it then, maybe the cup already had milk and sugar in it, or maybe you really weren’t paying attention and put milk and sugar in it (if you use those) and honestly never realized anything was wrong until you took a sip and yuck!

  29. 29.

    gene108

    What is going on down your way?

    Shitty sports day.

    NCSU lost. Eagles going to lose.

    And tomorrow’s Monday…

    Sports suck…

  31. 31.

    Suzanne

    @Violet: We have one other spot that we’re going to try, but it’s much less convenient than the kitchen. Feh.

    I kind of lost my shit today about how I seem to be the only person in my household who can see messes. Spawn the Younger found a permanent marker and colored on the coffee table, and found some scissors. And Spawn the Elder and I both stepped on tacks that spilled onto the carpet that no one cleaned up. I was like, “HOW MANY DISASTERS NEED TO FUCKING HAPPEN BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR SHIT AWAY?!”.

    Damn.

  33. 33.

    Heliopause

    @Violet:

    You do it because you’re distracted or sleepy or something like that.

    Oh my sweet Lord Jesus, please. This is like a heroin junkie claiming to have forgotten where to inject. This shit NEVER happens in the real world. And even if it did, just FUCKING RE-PRESS IT. And even if you can’t, well, see below.

    Cole’s playing y’all with the lovable loser card. Not even Louie Gohmert could fuck up a French Press. I’m old, I drink too much, am the complete opposite of “morning person”, wasn’t the sharpest blade in the drawer to begin with, and even I have never managed to fuck this up. And the thing is, even if you did fuck it up from stem to stern, completely, utterly, you’re only five minutes from your cup o’ joe! That’s the whole point of a French Press!

    You’re being played. And shame on you, Cole.

  34. 34.

    ruemara

    I’m looking at the toolbox and wondering if I have a … star shaped torque wrench? I think the instructions said #12, but it was on a video. There are these socket wrenches but nothing particularly star-shaped. Maybe I should just go to bed.

    The other side of things is where should I hit in the states before I head out the states? Debating if I should move up the WC a bit, dip a toe into the South (not exactly a destination I favour but there are so many nice places), then to EC then across the Atlantic. Or I could say stuff it, go to WC to HI, hit Asia and be total rebel.

  35. 35.

    Mnemosyne

    In our ongoing attempts to get Keaton and Charlotte to stop trying to kill each other, I have them on opposite sides of a door with their favorite treats on either side. Keaton is not going for it.

    We did also buy a new cat tower in support of this ongoing effort. Keaton and Annie love it; Charlotte’s not allowed into that room yet. This whole thing sucks, frankly.

  36. 36.

    srv

    John Yoo throws Cheney under the bus:

    WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – As former Vice President Dick Cheney argued on Sunday that the CIA’s aggressive interrogation of terrorism suspects did not amount to torture, the man who provided the legal rationale for the program said that in some cases it had perhaps gone too far.

    Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo said the sleep deprivation, rectal feeding and other harsh treatment outlined in a U.S. Senate report last week could violate anti-torture laws.

    “If these things happened as they’re described in the report … they were not supposed to be done. And the people who did those are at risk legally because they were acting outside their orders,” Yoo said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

  37. 37.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @ruemara:

    It’s a wrench (or screwdriver) that has a five-sided head, rather than a hexagonal head. Hope that helps.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Get a water pistol. When they misbehave, squirt ’em. You’re the boss, not them and it’s your domain (regardless of what cat people state). Lay down the law and set boundaries of behavior.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    We’re not sure. It started over Thanksgiving weekend and got so bad the following weekend that we’ve had to keep them physically separated ever since. If we let them into the same room, they kind of sniff each other and move along, and then five or ten minutes later, everyone is screeching and Charlotte is cornering Keaton with all her hair standing on end. It’s not just playing, because she came close to lashing out at me when I tried to grab her. It’s really weird. Keaton has seen the vet, and Charlotte is going on Wednesday.

  46. 46.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Mnemosyne: Have you tried the old standard of opening a tin of tuna, rubbing the oil all over each of them and then locking them up together in the bathroom?

  48. 48.

    Anne Laurie

    @lamh36:

    its funny though, no one seems to have an issue with Mamoa as Aquaman,

    Well, the Arthur Curry I knew & loved was a blue-eyed blonde, but even semi-comix-geeks sometimes confused him with Namor the Submariner (who I loved even more), and Prince Namor was… not pasty.

    Any word on Mera, Aquaman’s wife? She’s a green-eyed redhead in the comics, so IMO Jessica Chastain would be good…

  49. 49.

    Suzanne

    @Felonius Monk: Is there a way to use a Keurig without using disposable cups every time? Mr. Suzanne and I feel liberal guilt about excessive packaging, and the individual K-cups seem so carbon-intensive.

    Speaking of packaging, it is Spawn the Elder’s birthday this week, and Mr. Suzanne and I were boggling at the amount of packaging used in toys these days. Holy CRAPLOADS.

    @Mnemosyne: Do what I just did at my Zellie, when she vomited on my bedroom carpet: yell, “THIS IS HOW YOU BECOME THE EX-CAT.”

    I’ll let you know how that goes.

    If she’s like everyone else in my house, she’ll be like, “Oh, a mess? That sucks. I guess that won’t be any fun for you to clean up. My sympathies.”

  50. 50.

    Violet

    @Mnemosyne: Sorry you’re still having trouble with your kitties. I hope it gets sorted out eventually.

    I’ve been meaning to ask you–I think you posted a website about preparing for your colonoscopy that had good tips. Do you have that lilnk? Also, I think you mentioned something about going on a low fiber diet several days before worked well? Would welcome any suggestions. Thanks.

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    @srv:

    Yo Mr. Vice President sir,

    If what the CIA did wasn’t a crime, why did they ask DOJ for a declination letter, otherwise known as a get out of jail free card?

  52. 52.

    lamh36

    @Anne Laurie: no idea about the wife.

    the aquaman movie hasn’t even begun filming yet, but I suspect Warner Bros and DC Comics want to do a Justice league movie and may try to introduce the character in some part before doing full film? so far now Mamoa is it..

    ETA: movie scheduled for 2018

  54. 54.

    Violet

    @Suzanne: I think there are refillable K-cups but that sounds like a pain. I think I just heard something recently about how they’re coming out with biodegradeable cups next year, or something like that. Not sure if I heard right–I was on the sofa with the flu so who knows what I really heard.

    As for the mess, can’t you use Christmas and Santa as some leverage this time of year? What good is having to play Santa if you can’t at least use him to get your kids to behave. Threaten them with no Santa and see if that gets the mess cleaned up.

  56. 56.

    Anne Laurie

    @Mnemosyne:

    Keaton has seen the vet, and Charlotte is going on Wednesday.

    I sent you a note via your blog, but no idea if it reached you.

    IIRC, Charlotte is now “in her prime”, while Keaton is becoming an old cat. She’s trying to move up on the hierarchy, as domestic cats will, now that we’ve got them living in houses with us. If they were outdoors, poor K would probably just abandon “his turf” to the new Queen of Quite A Lot, but he can’t do that in your apartment.

    Big clue is that, you said, Charlotte doesn’t pull this stunt when your husband (her favorite person) is in the house. She still considers G superior to her in the rankings & does not want to risk offending him with squabbling among the minions. You — either she already figures she outranks you, or she’s planning to come after you next. :)

    Srsly, talk to your vet about this on Wednesday. If Keaton doesn’t have a treatable condition (like arthritis) where he can “improve” enough to defend himself, Charlotte’s behavior is not going to improve on its own. You may need to put her on kitty tranquilizers, at least for a few weeks/months, until they can negotiate a “new normal”… probably one where he defers to her, which isn’t fair, but neither is getting old.

    Younger/stronger female attacking an older/weaker male is particularly… fraught. I’ve never known the younger cat in such a scenario to actually kill the other one (I’ve known at least two dogs who did that — one was euthanized by her horrified owners & the other one was re-homed), but if Charlotte isn’t “redirected” she may do serious harm to Keaton… or you, when you interfere with her. Animal instincts.

  57. 57.

    Violet

    @Suzanne: Well, you can go Grinch-like and tell them the mess is making you want to cancel Christmas and you just might if they don’t get it cleaned up and keep it clean. To hell with Santa–you’re the one doing the work.

  58. 58.

    Anne Laurie

    @Suzanne: Yeah, well, it’s the guy from That Other Franchise who “traditionally” wears the skimpy little swim trunks. But given what the movies have done with the Bat-suit, no reason a well-built guy like Mamoa can’t pare down the orange & green wetsuit to something a little more revealing!

  59. 59.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Anne Laurie: you say this A-L, but remember the batsuit with nips? I say there’s at least a 30% chance we end up with a costume that includes a budgie smuggler with scrotal detailing.

  60. 60.

    Anne Laurie

    @TheMightyTrowel: And who would complain about such a costume mod?

    (Well, no doubt some Xtianist haterz, plus a handful of more-authentic-than-thou hardcore Aquafans. But it would certainly sell tickets!)

  61. 61.

    ? Martin

    @burnspbesq:

    Dear Sir,

    Thank you for your interest in US policy. To answer your question: ‘Fuck you, that’s why.’

    Exceptionalismally yours,
    Vice President Dick Cheney

  62. 62.

    Felonius Monk

    @Suzanne:

    Is there a way to use a Keurig without using disposable cups every time?

    Absolutely. Keurig makes something called My K-Cup which you can fill with your own coffee — it’s re-usable. Melita makes a similar thing with paper filters. What we found to be the best was inexpensive ones with built in filters — they are really cheap — like $4 for 6 and they work the best and are easiest to clean.

  63. 63.

    ? Martin

    @TheMightyTrowel:

    but remember the batsuit with nips? I say there’s at least a 30% chance we end up with a costume that includes a budgie smuggler with scrotal detailing.

    Boy, I’ve missed a lot around here. I don’t even know where to start unpacking that one.

  65. 65.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Mnemosyne: It sounds like Anne Laurie has a good idea of the dynamics. I highly recommend Bach Rescue Remedy (Whole Foods, any health food store can direct you to it). Rub it on their ears 3-4x a day for 2 or 3 days.

    I’ve had mixed results with Feliway comfort zone spray. But worth of shot if you’re not already using it.

    If Charlotte is challenging you, I’d go all momma cat on her. I learned a lot watching my Missy raise her kittens. Momma cats take no shit from anyone. It’s not aggressive, but it is stern.

    I’ve never had an issue with brushing my cats since I started using the momma cat method LOL.

    But seriously, when my alpha gets all snippy with me, I get physical with her – which usually involves holding her tightly and petting her pretty firmly. She’t not happy, but it gets my point across. I’m the momma kitty and she will respect my position in the household.

    WereBear might disapprove. :-) But it works for me.

  66. 66.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Anne Laurie: I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one AL – while I agree Momoa has a lot going for him in the looks department, I’m not sure anyone can convince me that balls are attractive. ;-)

  68. 68.

    Anne Laurie

    @TheMightyTrowel: Quote, from memory, American essayist Roy Blount on testicles:

    “If they hung from the back of our necks, all men would grow our hair long to hide them.”

  70. 70.

    ? Martin

    @Tree With Water: Forecast yesterday said storm on Wed and another on Sat. The Sat storm won’t hit us and the Wed one seems to have been dialed back. Damn. In the contest between mudslides and dying from dehydration, I gotta go with the mudslides. Sorry hillfolk, we need the rain.

    Got most of my xmas shopping done tonight. The mrs won’t be happy with the Amex bill but the kids work hard and get scant goodies during the year. Trying to figure out what to get my mom. Well-off people are hard to shop for. I would have made her something, but my life is full of busy. I gotta plan better next year.

  73. 73.

    ? Martin

    So what does everyone spike their eggnog with? I grew up with rum, but bourbon seems more common. I’ve got 3L marinating in the refrigerator. Wondering if I should buy a bottle of bourbon and set some up for new years. I let it set up for at least a week before it’s ready to drink so I need to make it soon.

  74. 74.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    @Anne Laurie:

    Well, I hope that’s not what’s going on, because Charlotte will be out on her ear (figuratively) if she keeps it up. G would rather have her go to a new home than let her harass Keaton, and I can’t say he’s wrong. The vet was suggesting kitty Benadryl to calm her down, but we’ll know better after he sees her on Wednesday. We have two Feliway diffusers going, which usually helps.

    As I said before, I suspect he got injured when they were playing last week and that’s what triggered this. He’s much larger than she is, so I’m a little surprised that she thinks she can overpower him, even if he is 3 years older than she is.

  75. 75.

    burnspbesq

    Hard to believe that with two weeks left in the NFL season there are four teams with worse records than the Jets.

  78. 78.

    ? Martin

    @Major Major Major Major: Ok. Since I can’t pass up a good experiment, I’ll fire up some more with bourbon, save a bottle of the gin eggnog (I age it in reserved wine bottles) and do a taste test. I suspect I’ll need use of the bourbon anyway. Work has me at 11.

  80. 80.

    DivF

    @? Martin: we set a bottle of brandy next to the eggnog bowl, which starts as nonalcoholic. I make the joy of cooking “eggnog in quantity” recipe.

  81. 81.

    ruemara

    There are re-usable k-cups and they work fairly well. Grocery Outlet has them 3 for $9 in a pack but they should be every grocery retailer.

    And, Mem, let me ask the behavior students. But I can tell you this may take a lot of active retraining.

  85. 85.

    ? Martin

    @DivF: Daughter and I made the eggnog this year. Half (2 wine bottles worth) are non-alcoholic for the kids, and the other half are rummed up for the grups. This is a recipe I’ve not tried before that’s about a century old. We’ll see how it goes. Some people age theirs for a year – I’ve never gone more than a few weeks (no more than a week for the non-alcoholic stuff since it has nothing to kill bacteria).

    I never realized Joy of Cooking had a nog recipe. Ours is a bit different – quite a bit less sugar, and it’s mostly half/half with some cream. Dozen eggs is the same. You let that set up for 1-52 weeks, and then beat up the whites not quite into soft peaks and mix with a bit more cream and add when the nog has aged (along with some nutmeg). It definitely tastes different after aging – moreso with the alcoholic stuff, which loses some of its edge.

  86. 86.

    jl

    @Heliopause:

    ” You’re being played. And shame on you, Cole. ”

    The supposedly existent ‘John G Cole’ is a semi-mythical folkloric character who is involved in semi-mythical folkloric disasters. The Cole Truth involves a different level of ‘truth’ than we experience in everyday mortal life. Sort of like the TunchForce.

  87. 87.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    We’re already assuming there will be a lot of retraining, unfortunately. I’ll probably be putting Charlotte’s emergency harness on her so I can (literally) keep her on a short leash around Keaton — fun! We’re also toying with the idea of putting her into the largest cat carrier and letting them sniff each other that way. We used to have a large kennel-like cage, but we got rid of it in the move.

    I still think that part of what triggered the whole problem is that we made a big push to get things put away, which means that the territory is constantly changing. But we can’t stop unpacking just to make the cats happy.

  89. 89.

    scav

    Words from my Uncle Partner seem to apply here: “What do you call someone who tells nothing but the truth all the time? Poor Company.”

  91. 91.

    jl

    @Major Major Major Major: Borges wrote some additional stories for foreign language translations. For example, “El Squonk” only exists in the English translation, if I remember correctly.

    “The John G. Cole” appears the West By God Virginny translation. Right before ‘The Road Deer’ and ‘Tunch Orbes’

  92. 92.

    Yatsuno

    @ruemara: Please do come up the Seattle way! We’d love to get together with you especially since they’ve fallen by the wayside in my absence. Speaking of which, unless the new budget fucks it up (and I will be PISSED if it does) the odds of me moving to the Olympia area seem to be increasing vastly. But Hawai’i is still possible.

    @jl: Remember: We are all DougJ. Now and forever, ramen.

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    To each his/her own, but there is no such thing as a good eggnog recipe. The stuff is gag-inducing no matter how prepared. YMMV.

    A Tom and Jerry, as the classic recipe can be made with both bourbon (or brandy) and rum, is at least palatable and not nearly as cloying, particularly if boiling water is substituted for up to half the hot milk.

    Now, hot buttered rum on the other hand…

  96. 96.

    SRW1

    @srv:

    Dick Cheney knows that nothing will happen to him in his remaining days, John Yoo can’t be so sure and figures that just in case some distancing might come in handy.

  100. 100.

    Tree With Water

    Americans who today defend the practice of American torture in essence endorse the affliction of pain, degradation, and humiliation upon a defenseless individual. Those are precisely the afflictions suffered by victims of child molesters. The argument that a distinction somehow exists between the two groupings that serves to justify the practice of torture upon the one, but not the other, is an argument I do not recognize.

    The same sick and twisted impulse that compels child molesters to commit their heinous crimes finds a merely more discreet expression in the sick and twisted rationalizations proffered by the defenders of torture. And lest we forget, those defenders, again by definition, are also proponents. They are sick puppies. They are profoundly corrupted individuals, morally bereft of any sense of what is entailed in living as a human being, and not a monster. They are a cancer in our body politic, each and every single one of them.

  101. 101.

    jl

    @Tree With Water: A good chunk of the Sunday talkies were an open and freely flowing sewer today. First time in years there was a good reason to have McCain on Schief’s GOPer Cavalcade today.

    Chambliss was reduced at the end of his few moments of disgrace to whining that the people were skeeered.

    And courtly ol’ ace pillar of the journalistic community, courtly and gracious crazed ancient hick, Schieff jess didn know wadd a thaaank abou’ it at the eeend o’ the show.

  103. 103.

    Hunter

    Haven’t started Marco Polo, but I’ve been catching up on Haven on Netflix. Originally on SyFy, and very well done — even a couple of episodes that generate adrenalin rushes. Also caught up on The Flash — so far, also well done, better than Arrow — the soap opera hasn’t taken over.

    Other than that, it’s December in Chicago — temperatures ranging from the 20s to the 50s, depending on day of the week, and the sun still vanishes behind the clouds the minute I leave the house.

  104. 104.

    Matt McIrvin

    John needs to do like Steven Wright and make instant coffee so he has the energy to make real coffee.

  105. 105.

    SFAW

    @ruemara: @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    Torx bits, while not indispensable for most persons, are GOOD THINGS to have in your tool box. Torx-head screws are typically used on stuff that’s manufactured in high volume.

    One of the most useful items in my tool box is something that I picked up at Sears a number of years ago, similar to this thing. (Apologies for the Amazon link, but apparently Sears is “out of stock,” and thus no picture. I think they really meant “no longer sold,” but who knows.)

  106. 106.

    SFAW

    @Matt McIrvin:

    John needs to do like Steven Wright and make instant coffee so he has the energy to make real coffee.

    As long as he doesn’t put the instant coffee in the microwave. (I assume you recall what happened when Wright did that.)

  107. 107.

    Mnemosyne

    @Violet:

    Sorry, I was so focused on the cat thing that I missed your question the first time around. It looks as though one of the websites I leaned on has been taken down, but that was the one that suggested making a “nest” in the bathroom you’ll be using with pillows, a throw, yoga mat, your books/Kindle/laptop/etc. so you can be comfortable between bouts. I also found a website called The Great Bowel Movement that had some good tips, especially for how to make the prep liquid more palatable.

    The low-residue diet for a few days beforehand seemed to help — that was raven’s tip. If you Google it, there are a ton of menus and lists of low-residue foods. I wasn’t able to find any Jello that was not red or purple (both forbidden dye colors) so I ended up making my own with Knox gelatin powder and white grape juice and it was fine.

    Since I have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) anyway, I didn’t find the “action” after the prep to be painful. For me, the worst problem was the boredom — you really will be in the bathroom for at least 6 hours and it’s very tedious.

  108. 108.

    Violet

    @Mnemosyne: Thank you for replying! That’s the website I’d failed to bookmark that you’d linked before. Very helpful. I appreciate all the other tips. It does sound really boring sitting around waiting for everything go empty out. Ugh.

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