Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

Celebrate the fucking wins.

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

The willow is too close to the house.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

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

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The revolution will be supervised.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

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  3. 3.

    PurpleGirl

    Awww, how cute. Are those cardboard tubes for them gnaw on or to play with and climb through them? How long will you have them?

  4. 4.

    jeffreyw

    Going to try turkey leg confit before I use all my duck fat making gravy. The turkey is in the fridge waiting for the salt and garlic to do magic. No idea what to make to go with…

  5. 5.

    Tree With Water

    “Never fly if they’re beating the brush around you. That’s why rabbits survive. They refuse to fly”.

    John Lennon

  6. 6.

    Betty Cracker

    @PurpleGirl: The tubes are for them to crawl through. They belong to a friend of my daughter’s, and we’ll have them until New Year’s Eve. They are super quiet (a nice contrast to my daughter’s hedgehog, who runs all night on his exercise wheel), but occasionally one will stamp its foot and startle everyone.

  7. 7.

    Mike J

    @jeffreyw: I always confit when I have a turkey. It’s nice because you’re taking a lot of mass off the turkey and makes cooking the rest easier. One oven tied up for 12 hours the day before the turkey, but eases the crush on the day.

  8. 8.

    lamh

    Lord help me, but I’m watching a Who’s The Boss marathon on Logo TV And I tell ya what, I’m loving the hell out of it.

    Lord the 80s fashion. Remember Angela and her big ass glasses and those 80s power suits with the shoulder pads…lol.

    And talk about chemistry between the two leads, love it all. I need to check for the complete series on DVD.

    I really do love Tony and Angela…lol

    http://youtu.be/irdJkIu9JBo

  10. 10.

    burnspbesq

    Gonna go be one of those people who makes the Saturday before Christmas the second biggest day of the year in retail. Ugh.

    Yo, Raven, a band that I am confident you will love is playing in Athens on 1/23/15. The New Orleans Suspects @ the Melting Point.

  11. 11.

    burnspbesq

    I love the California DMV. Kids’ licenses expire at midnight on their 21st birthday, so that they can be cut off at midnight before they get really stupid on their first night of legal drinking.

    Yes, they could always renew early, but how many 20-year-olds do you know who are that proactive?

  15. 15.

    bemused

    Are the dogs eyeing up the bunnies for dinner?

    Our kitties have a new rope scratching post having destroyed the old one. They are giddy with excitement.

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Somebody doesn’t know what a gaffe is, or what Stephen Colbert did

    One of the hosts of the Fox News show “The Five” said on Friday night that comedian Stephen Colbert owes his success to conservative news network.
    But as the website Mediaite pointed out, co-host Greg Gutfeld used the moment to take a sly shot at Colbert, whose fake conservative newsman persona has been modeled after some of the overstuffed personalities at Fox.
    “He should write an eight-figure check to Fox News,” Gutfeld said, “because all of our gaffes made that man’s career.”

    Even if Gutfeld was joking, he’s a moron. I know Stewart references the Five, and Samantha Bee’s take-down was by the best thing she’s ever done, but seems to me Colbert focused on Papa Bear, sometimes the chubby guy whose name is escaping me. Hannity.

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    Just Some Fuckhead

    Are you going to eat them for Christmas? When I was nine, we spent a summer raising rabbits, for food as it horrifyingly turned out. We refused to eat our pets so my folks got rid of all the rabbits.

  19. 19.

    bemused

    A friend stopped by with a gift of her homemade Juustoa, Finnish squeaky cheese. Had some at lunch with some sea salt. Yum.

  20. 20.

    max

    My bunny guests:

    BUHNIES!

    What are you up to today?

    Saying BUH-NIES! a lot, apparently. Christmas is done so there’s naught left but cooking and I am not starting that until Wednesday.

    max
    [‘BUH! NIES!’]

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    @Just Some Fuckhead:
    The rabbits are pets of a friend of Betty’s daughter. My guess is that if the friend were to learn that they’d been stewed and eaten, she would not be pleased.

  23. 23.

    satby

    I’m this second eating some of the pumpkin flan I made yesterday, because pumpkin and flan! And eggnog, which I used instead of milk. Nummmm!

  24. 24.

    Tommy

    A number of years ago I started to work for myself. To be honest, I was sick of working with and for asshats. I wanted to work with a better group of people. Too be blunt for the first 20 years of my business life I had put my skills to the use of “evil” means. My job was to promote the “military industrial complex” (LITERALLY)! I didn’t want to do that anymore. It paid really well, but you have to sleep at night.

    Well it took some time but I found clients I want to work for and with. People who are better then myself.

    I was on a conference call with a client yesterday, about to launch his e-Commerce site. He tells me he has to leave. He says “yeah I got something important to do.” I say these “final details are important Steve.” He says, “not as important as what I need to do.”

    I was dumbfounded …..

    Later I get the below email that he sent out to his 10,000 person mailing list:

    Things happen for a reason. I believe that. What that reason is … is the tough part figuring out. Two years ago, I was on NPRs Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal. As a big fan of the show, I was honored to be asked to talk about small business. I got calls from long lost friends, college buddies, and one from a gentleman named Frank, who happened to hear the show from his hometown of Toledo. Frank must have like what he heard on the radio show because he contacted me and wanted to buy $100.00 worth of merchandise to help my small business. Whatta guy!

    I told Frank, I had a better idea. Let’s leverage his $100.00 and I will make it worth at least 3 times that amount, so that we can buy gifts for my daughter Arleigh’s kindergarten class. I let Frank know that these kids came from one of the poorest districts in the state. I also let him know that I would dress up as Santa to hand out our goodies. That first Christmas giveaway-2012 was an incredible success. I don’t know who enjoyed it more- The kids or your humble narrator. Last year, our angel Frank, upped his ante. We at The North Pole raised the bar too, adding my wife Debbie, exuberant elf, Ms. Magic to the event. True to form, our friend Frank came through again for the 3rd year in a row. As you can see, the kids had a great time and loved their gifts.

    I have to tell you something…There is nothing like being Santa. You are an almighty force to these kids. I felt like I could walk on water and my feet didn’t touch the ground either. Bucket lists are popular now. Dressing up as Santa should be on everyone’s bucket list. I will put this out there too. If anyone wants to borrow my Santa outfit to brighten the lives of others, as long as it is available, you can borrow it for no charge.

    One recommendation: Try and adjust the beard/mustache a little better than me so that you don’t look like The Werewolf meets Santa.

    Thanks to Kai Ryssdal, the gang at Marketplace, Debbie, Arleigh, and Frank for putting smiles on a lot of faces.
    HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

    Oh I finish with two things. The first he is Jewish. The second, I want to be him.

  26. 26.

    Betty Cracker

    @lamh: OMG, haven’t seen that show since it was current!

    @bemused: The bunnies are living under lock and key in my office. But the dogs do press their noses to the crack under the door and take a long whiff every now and then. They’d love to have the bunnies over for dinner!

    @Just Some Fuckhead: My dad once let us raise a calf, which we named Ferdinand. Then one day we came home and Ferdinand had been transformed into roasts, steaks, ground beef, etc. Dad used to say, “Eat your Ferdburgers!” and my sister and I would cry and run away from the dinner table.

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    schrodinger's cat

    I need some help for the sea-food gumbo I am making. I am scouring the intertoobz for recipes. I can find recipes that are calorie bombs and start with 1 cup of oil or recipes at the other extreme. How much roux do I need for a big pot of gumbo? I have shrimp, craw fish and mussels and I did not get andouille sausage so I bought some hot chorizo instead.
    BTW what kind of rice does one use in a gumbo?

  33. 33.

    raven

    @schrodinger’s cat: For a big pot I’d use a cup of flour and a cup of oil for the roux. Get it to the color you want, at least peanut butter, then add celery, green pepper and onion to arrest the cooking. Add spoonful’s of roux one-at-a-time to the stock. Uncle Ben’s converted (or the store brand of converted at Sam’s that is way cheaper). Converted white rice is way better on the glycemic scale than regular. Don’t add the seafood until the very last minute, add it to a hot gumbo and get it off the heat.

  36. 36.

    raven

    Parboiled rice has double the fiber than you’d get from cooked white rice. It has a low glycemic score of 38, compared with a high 89 for white rice, notes Harvard Health Publications. A low glycemic score indicates that the carbohydrates in parboiled rice do not cause a large spike in blood sugar. [emphasis added]

  37. 37.

    Helen

    @lamh: The first comment on that story

    “No Irish child was ever named Fulmoth. Smolenyak was paid a handsome fee by Obama’s handlers to cook up a Kearney reference and to do this she changed Carney to Kearney with the assistance of some useful idiots in Moneygal County Offaly who placed early bets on the candidate. Look at the evidence on this webpage and believe the evidence. Obama would say he was Chinese if it brought him more votes in 2008”

    Sigh.

  39. 39.

    lamh

    @Betty Cracker: I haven’t watched the show in years either. I may have caught it on TVLand or some random surfing station, but never really back to back all marathon-like.

    It’s always funny to hear the laugh track and “live studio audience” catcall reactions to things…lol

  46. 46.

    dmsilev

    @Helen: At this point, I’m surprised nobody has accused Obama of going back in time and becoming his own father. Throw in a sex change and a second time-jaunt and he could _also_ be his own mother.

  47. 47.

    schrodinger's cat

    @raven: Thanks. I have long grain rice from Carolina and basmati rice too.
    BTW Timothy Egan has an off the charts condescending piece in the NYT about how Obama has recaptured his verve after the midterm defeats and got over his “listlesslenss”. I sometime think that “even the liberal xyz” type pundits do more damage than the outright nutcases.

  49. 49.

    lamh

    So first, I saute or if I’m trying to cut back on oil, I bake, all my ingredients and put them aside.

    When I make gumbo, I make a roux (there are commercially made roux mixes btw), then add water and ingredients and boil. stirring repeatedly and seasoning to taste.

    sprinkle in a little gumbo file and cook so more.

  50. 50.

    raven

    @schrodinger’s cat: I have to chuckle about the opinions about gumbo and rice. Years ago I was making jambalaya for 1,000 vets and their families at a Memorial Day campout. I was using three 20 gallon cast iron pots and lp burners. I messed up and blew myself up when one of the burners went out. There were a couple of coon-asses that jumped in to help finish and their stories about how cajuns never agreed on how to cook was legendary.

  52. 52.

    opiejeanne

    @Just Some Fuckhead: they make excellent house pets. They use a litter box just like a cat and they are affectionate. Some of them will chew on things a bit, so we usually confined our two to the kitchen. Both were altered so there was no hanky lanky. The first one like to jump into my husbands lap while he read the paper and ate breakfast. they are neither cat nor dog, they are Other.

  53. 53.

    lamh

    @efgoldman: oh ya know I have. I had about 3 people point it out to me yesterday…lol.

    I’ve been discussing it all morning with some people on twiiter too.

    I’m actually a member of a group called “we want Idris for Bond”. But I’m actually not sold on Idris as Bond. Aside from the white people butt hurt over it, I think Idris would be smart to attempt his own spy franchise. One to maybe rival Bond.

    He already has the built in audience with the ladies. Also too, if they have enough pretty ladies in it and kick ass actions, then a spy franchise with Idris Elba wold be awesome

  56. 56.

    shelley

    Finally finished trimming the tree (many lights issues.) And finished a batch of apple-cranberry jam. Many food gifts this year.

  57. 57.

    lamh

    @raven: I would never use a commercially made roux, but it never ceased to amaze me when I lived in Texas how some people had NO IDEA how to make a good roux. So I just got in the habit of telling them to find a ready-made roux mix. It just seemed easy for some of them.

  58. 58.

    max

    @dmsilev: Throw in a sex change and a second time-jaunt and he could _also_ be his own mother.

    A STITCH IN TIME REDUCES THE DEFICIT BY NINE BILLION

    max
    [‘A grand bargain of a time travel, if you will.’]

  63. 63.

    jeffreyw

    @schrodinger’s cat: Katie did great at the vet yesterday all nice and calm, unlike Bitsy who shook off sedation and a towel trying to bite and scratch at everything. Seven pounds of terror-kitteh! Homer takes his sedation like a pro. He is quite amusing when trying to walk it off, though.
    Recipe!?! Don’t need no steenking recipes for gumbo!

  64. 64.

    lamh

    @ABC6NEWS 38m38 minutes ago
    On the busiest shopping day of the year, thousands protest at the #MOA #BlackLivesMatter http://bit.ly/1vbLIJQ

    @anniewood28 49m49 minutes ago
    “This protest is not authorized” -MOA loudspeaker. Everyone sits down. #blacklivesmatterminneapolis #nojusticenopeace

  65. 65.

    jibeaux

    My dad called because my mom wanted him to put in a roast at 375, and he didn’t know whether to turn it to “bake” or “broil”, and he couldn’t get her on the phone. So, yeah, I kept my childhood home from burning down.

  70. 70.

    NotMax

    @schrodinger’s cat

    Chiming in late, but if you can get the roux to a brick reddish hue, even better. (Tip: adding cold liquid to hot roux = no lumps in sauce.)

    Personal choice would be to serve the gumbo over rice in a bowl rather than putting the rice in the gumbo pot.

    Also, as it simmers, oil and fat will rise to the top where you can skim it off repeatedly as the stuff cooks.

  72. 72.

    NotMax

    Back in college, friend and his roommate kept one rabbit in their dorm room.

    Unless the cage door was securely latched, each time I visited the thing would hop over and proceed to hump my ankle.

    They insisted it never, ever happened with anyone else.

  73. 73.

    opiejeanne

    @NotMax: people who have pet rabbits should have them altered. For females it means they will not die of uterine cancer around age 3, and for both genders it keeps them from becoming aggressive.

  74. 74.

    Tommy

    @opiejeanne: The lady behind me has a lot of rabbits. Rabbits. I often look out at them. My cat is with me. I tell said cat, down. Crickets are hard for you. Don’t think you will run to down an animal your size. Doesn’t mean I still don’t love you …..

  76. 76.

    opiejeanne

    @Tommy: our cat got along with our girl rabbit. They played and chased each other. The male rabbit was bigger and the cat was intimidated by him. He was a big boy. The cat was small and a female.

  80. 80.

    Tree With Water

    Two rabbits, minding their own business:

    “Oh, shit”.

    “What’s wrong”.

    “Here comes that asshole Lenny again”.

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