Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

We still have time to mess this up!

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

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Which for some reason reminded me… oh yeah:

So my gutters need to be cleaned, because they are horribly clogged to the point that when it rains, it pours over the side and has started to dig a little hole in the ground from the waterfall that has been created. In addition to that, I am worried the constant water will damage the wood. So, little homemaker that I am, I decided to clean the gutters…

At least they didn’t have to call out the fire department for you, Cole.

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  5. 5.

    raven

    Oh yea, I don’t suppose the football haters that were distraught at Harbaugh’s 8 million dollar salary will feel better :

    Michigan interim athletic director Jim Hackett confirmed that Harbaugh signed a seven-year deal worth $5 million per year — the same salary he received with the Niners.

  6. 6.

    raven

    Perhaps the most dog-bites-man headline of this last weekend of regular season NFL play came atop stories on Jim Harbaugh’s move from the San Francisco 49ers to the University of Michigan. Nearly all of those stories, before and after the news became official, mentioned Harbaugh’s expected salary: $8,000,000/year, a sum that would make him the highest paid coach in the history of college football, though the latest reports suggest that even that staggering figure is low.

  7. 7.

    lamh36

    Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington may just be my favorite actors of all times.

    They are my top 2 actors, with Denzel coming at top.

    #KennedyCenterHonors

  9. 9.

    lamh36

    Lord, don’t hate me, but I hate acapella groups, yet I loved Pitch Perfect!

    Weird?

    #KennedyCenterHonors

  10. 10.

    Schlemazel

    @raven:
    And thats not counting the millions he will get from the Uniform people & the shoe people and the free car from a local dealership and, and, and. But heaven forfend someone give the a kid on the team a drink of water for free, or that the kid should control his image when it is sold by dear old U or the NCAA.

  12. 12.

    lamh36

    Shit. that darn kid was dancing his darn shoes off.

    Go ahead Tapping Kid!

    This is actually a really touching tribute to Tom Hanks!

    #KennedyCenterHonors

  14. 14.

    jl

    @raven: All I know is that that York is an even bigger schmuck. Glad Michigan has the money to spare, the place must be just loaded with cash, huh? (if it doesn’t, I don’t want to know and don’t want to think about it).

  15. 15.

    lamh36

    I tell ya what, I will definitley be SHOCKED AS HELL if Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson calls it quits.

    It’ll be like Tipper and Al Gore all over again!

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @MomSense: One of my very best friends was a member of Princeton’s Nassoons. His classic featured song was Girl from Ipanema. In his defense, he also was/is a huge Elvis Costello fan.

  17. 17.

    lamh36

    BTW, the lil bit with Colbert and Letterman was too funny.

    Letterman came on to introduce the Tom Hanks segment and Colbert followed Letterman out and stood next to Dave.

    Dave quipped…”Not yet…”

  18. 18.

    jl

    Also glad that the story in the clip was that a local fire dept rescued a dog.

    For a sec I thought Cole got stuck up on the roof again, and the dog rescued Cole.

  22. 22.

    raven

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yep, sure did. I knew it didn’t matter if it was 5, 8 or “though the latest reports suggest that even that staggering figure is low.” Gives everyone something to whine about.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @jl: Going back to the Cole story linked in the OP, I am another one who made it only 10 minutes into Cliffhanger – albeit for a different reason. Anyone who has ever done any climbing should want that movie beheaded and buried with a stake of holly driven through its heart.

    @raven: It always gives me a chance to push the D-III model.

  25. 25.

    Schlemazel

    @raven:
    Yeah, I guess when I see the well off doing better and better while insuring that the means of producing their great wealth remain poor & dependant it gets under my skin. Sorry.

  28. 28.

    danielx

    At least they didn’t have to call out the fire department for you, Cole.

    Hey, the year isn’t over yet, and if there is one thing in which I have complete faith it’s Cole’s ability to maim himself while carrying out ordinary household cleaning and home maintenance tasks.

  32. 32.

    lamh36

    Every break for #KennedyCenterHonors has included a trailer for “Oscar-buzzy’ films. Methinks the producers think Academy voters watching.

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @raven: I really do think that in D-III schools sports are done right. I blew out an ankle in during a rugby game m during my senior year. I was able to talk a professor into giving me extra time to complete a paper. It wasn’t because I was an athlete; it was because I had fucked up my ankle and was taking painkillers. If I had done it walking a dog, I would have had the same response.

    ETA: My alma mater managed a three win football season this year. And no one other than players and girl/boyfriends really cares.

  35. 35.

    Mike in NC

    Around these parts we have what are called fox squirrels, or banded squirrels, they mostly have black bodies and tails but faces sort of like tiny pandas: white with black ears and noses. Saw one the other day in a neighbor’s yard eating spilled seeds from a bird feeder. It was roughly the size of a small cat.

  36. 36.

    lamh36

    Love Meryl Strep…she seems like she’d be cool to hang with….her and Emma Thompson seem real chill…

    #KennedyCenterHonors

  41. 41.

    Mike in NC

    During the three years I lived in Newport, RI, I’d periodically enjoy taking trips to the historic cities of Fall River and New Bedford, MA and tool around the shops.

    BTW: Reading good stuff about the upcoming movie “In the Heart of the Sea” about Nantucket whalers, as directed by Ron Howard.

  45. 45.

    lamh36

    Mahn Lady Gaga is so flaky, but when she gets down to it, she really does have a great voice and plays the piano beautifully.

    She so weird though.

  46. 46.

    Keith P

    That vid reminds me of the time I woke up at about 4am. My pit bull wasn’t in the bed, so I looked around and hit skunk stench in my hallway. Got stronger in my guest bedroom and found a hole in the window screen. Dog saw a skunk outside, he tore through the screen, got sprayed and ran inside to rub it off all over my carpet before going back outside to run around the neighborhood.
    I found him a block away just jogging around, stinking to high heaven.
    I was later told there are two kinds of pit bulls – those that learn not to attack skunks after the first one, and those that don’t. I had the latter kind.

  52. 52.

    lamh36

    @Gin & Tonic: yes I have. I found myself watching her “Lil Monsters” tour or something on HBO filmed LIVE at one of her concerts and when she was just at the piano and singing she was impeccable.

    As I said, she’s just so flaky and the fashions are soo peculiar that it sometimes over shadows her really good singing chops.

  55. 55.

    lamh36

    Alright, this was one of the better Kennedy Center Honors telecasts I’ve seen. Eclectic mix of honorees and pretty good performances.

  56. 56.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @lamh36:

    As I said, she’s just so flaky and the fashions are soo peculiar that it sometimes over shadows her really good singing chops.

    You really are entering “Get off my lawn” territory, aren’t you? Give her a break. It is hard to push farther than Madonna did without skull fucking a kitten on stage.

  58. 58.

    Mike in NC

    @lamh36: Denzel Washington is just six months older than me, and a serious badass movie star. So I think that entitles me to claim serious badass nobody status. Anybody got a problem with that?

  59. 59.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @schrodinger’s cat: So do I. Her musical choices are not mine, but I can see what she is trying to do. I won’t buy her stuff, but I will offer defenses of her artistic integrity. I assume she is ever so grateful.

  62. 62.

    brettvk

    @Keith P: My bff had a dog named Deckers a few decades ago, adopted from a buddy who’d lived in town. When the dog first encountered a skunk on my friend’s farm, he got sprayed, ate it anyway, and was never deterred thereafter. Deckers dug a den for himself in the crawl space under the bedroom, and summer nights were made hideous by his fragrance after these hunts. After a few seasons he’d decimated the local population.

  63. 63.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @jl: I have been claiming that I caused the fall of the Iron Curtain for years. I got to a front-line unit in Germany in January of 1989 and, once the word percolated up to the Kremlin (it took a few months, I am sure), the Soviet Union decided to let go and even disband.

    Prove it isn’t true.

  66. 66.

    Mike in NC

    @lamh36: To this very day, you can walk into VFW joints all over the country and find drunken Vietnam vets (mostly guys who spent their tour behind a desk in an air-conditioned office) blaming Hanoi Jane on costing them from “winning the war”. Most of them are Tea Party knuckleheads.

  70. 70.

    jl

    @Omnes Omnibus: You’re a lawyer. Reductio. Case closed.

    OK, I got no more time this idle chit chat.

    The 49er genius squad is interviewing the fired Jet’s coach Rex Ryan for the job. I assume that is a feint of some kind. Or, if not, could those in the know tell how bad that would be?

    At least he isn’t long term unemployed.

  71. 71.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @lamh36: Christina Aguilera does the same thing. Just sing it. No need to over-sing. Mariah Carey is the world class asshole in this. Just sing the notes that are there.

  72. 72.

    lamh36

    @Omnes Omnibus: Agreed, a pure voice does it for me everytime.

    I mean, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Alicia Keyes, etc…playing an instrument and singing without all these crazy vocalizations.

    The voice is the key.

  74. 74.

    lamh36

    @Omnes Omnibus: LOL. I know, but she really does have the talent to be able to let that go and with 3 hit albums under her belt, (and 2 with Tony Bennett I think), it’s time for her to showcase it and stop hiding behind the get ups (I also follow a fashion blog…she’s exhausting with the get ups, BTW).

  76. 76.

    lamh36

    Does anyone know off-hand who decides on the Kennedy Center Honorees each year?

    I know I could google it, but meh..why should I

  77. 77.

    lamh36

    Ok, not for nothing, but I just saw another commercial for this new movie with Blackhat… don’t know bout ya’ll, but I ain’t never imagine a hacker looking like Chris Hemsworth

    But I guess that’s my own stereotypical shortcoming…

  78. 78.

    Mike in NC

    @lamh36: The very definition of Schadenfreude: Lord Mitt and Lady Anne Romney go through an ugly divorce, costing half his inherited fortune.

  79. 79.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @lamh36: Artsy people are artsy. I grew up with them – family friends. Chicago painters (Imagists and the the Hairy Who) and Playboy photographers in the late 60s and early 70s. As a small child, they were some damned interesting looking people – most of whom were willing to talk seriously with a five or six year old kid. After my experiences as a kid, I will always give an artist the benefit of the doubt. Unless the artist is a Republican.

  82. 82.

    Mike in NC

    @Omnes Omnibus: The Cold War only ended when the damn commies agreed to play shitty Ronald Reagan movies on their new capitalist cable TV networks, like “Bedtime For Bonzo”.

  85. 85.

    lamh36

    ‏Good night BJ

    @AFP 2m2 minutes ago
    #BREAKING: US transfers five Guantanamo detainees to Kazakhstan: officials

  86. 86.

    Tree With Water

    I wonder who in management that reporter pissed off to warrant that resume’ builder of a report? “Where’s Hall”? “He went home maybe an hour ago”. “Well, get his ass back here. There’s a dog on a roof and I want him on it”. “Hell, Suse and Bill and Elaine are all..”. “I said I want Hall, goddamnit”!

    The same thing happened to that Air Force General who was handed what was billed as the final government report on UFO’s. His Air Force Academy buddies must have had a good laugh about his being dealt that job.

    T-Bogg ran a photo of one of his bassets laying on the precipice of his very steep roof a few years ago without its parachute. Dog made it back in OK, though.

  87. 87.

    Mike in NC

    @lamh36: I do not. We attended several plays and movie debuts at the Kennedy Center back in the day. Now we rely on steaming Netflix or the bargain bin at WalMart.

  89. 89.

    NotMax

    @Mike in NC

    Saw Pearl Bailey in the revival of Hello, Dolly! there (also back in the day). Was able to score only SRO tickets, but didn’t mind it one teensy bit.

    After the show, she came out and did a solo performance of her own for what must have been an additional 40 minutes.

  98. 98.

    Betty Cracker

    My husband was watching “Vikings” and fell asleep hours ago, and I was too lazy to turn off the TV, so now I’m watching it. If this show is historically accurate, the Vikings were every bit as horrible as ISIS. Maybe in 1300 years, the hinterlands of Iraq and Syria will be known for sleek furniture design and good governance.

  100. 100.

    Nutella

    @Violet:

    The climbing parts were totally ridiculous.

    Yeah, but not as totally ridiculous as Stallone’s acting. Oh. My. GOD. That was bad.

  102. 102.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    I realize that only other people who live in temperate zones will sympathize with me, but it is frickin’ freezing here tonight. It’s about 50 degrees at the moment, but it’s predicted to get into the high 30s overnight. Every store I went to was sold out of space heaters, so I had to break out the down comforter.

    Hey, if I liked the cold, I would have stayed in the Midwest.

  104. 104.

    Anne Laurie

    @Betty Cracker:

    If this show is historically accurate, the Vikings were every bit as horrible as ISIS. Maybe in 1300 years, the hinterlands of Iraq and Syria will be known for sleek furniture design and good governance.

    The secret is, “formerly horrible” societies do best when they convince their worst sociopaths to go piddle in other empire’s genetic pools. The Viking berserkers ended up contributing to the Redhead Myth all up and down the North Atlantic, and also along the Volga. The Nasty Dutchmen of the 1500s left their imprint in Northern Ireland & South Africa. The last violent Romans ended up in the Baltics. Hungarians, or their neighbors, still whisper about the Golden Horde…

  107. 107.

    Tommy

    @Betty Cracker: I don’t know if it is remotely historically accurate. But one of the most violent TV shows I am aware of. I have to admit I got into watching it. What got at me was the teaching of children to kill. I am nothing close to a historian, but I think this is a thing often done. Be a warrior. My father was a warrior and he taught me peace and non-violence was a better idea.

  112. 112.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Driving home from Chincoteague Island in a bit. Did some hiking in the nature reserve yesterday. Cold but fun.

  116. 116.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    I’m still awake, playing with my Hackintosh. Thought I broke it trying to get the new touchscreen to work. Didn’t break it, but the touch doesn’t work.

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I don’t recall the deets, but there’s some configuration setting where you have to tell it not only touch screen installed but activate/use touch screen.

  118. 118.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Steeplejack (phone): Best I could find on teh Google is there’s an old driver that might work, or a $100 driver that supposedly works. It sorta works, just have to tap twice to select anything. I’ve got it set as a USB Tablet in VirtualBox.

  120. 120.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: Never been there, though driven by. A couple of girls in my dorm were regulars there(groupies, not performers). Knew all the guy in Van Halen(pretty sure in the biblical sense).

  121. 121.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    If the $100 one is Touch-Base, I think they have a trial version that gives you 100 clicks before you have to reboot. Could at least see how well it works.

  122. 122.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Steeplejack (phone): Yah, that’s the one. Being the Hackintosh is just for fun, wouldn’t even consider $100 options. Actually double clicking on stuff is working not awfully.

    Tapping, not clicking.

  126. 126.

    Emily68

    One of Tbogg’s basset hounds got out on the roof one time during its puppy-hood. but they talked him back in. No need for the fire department.

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