Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

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

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

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

People are weird.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

He really is that stupid.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

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  6. 6.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Violet: The last three weeks. I swear to you, I went to bed one night and he was a puppeh, awoke the next morning and he was a Great Dane. The funniest thing is, though, he grows in bits and pieces. His tail got really long, then his ears got big, then his legs got long. Now his head is all out of proportion – really big, his ears need to catch up. And his feet are too small (in Great Dane proportions, anyway).

  7. 7.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Omnes Omnibus: Tug is his FAVORITE game ever. We play for 15-20 minutes every morning to expend some of that puppy energy. He’s never aggressive and always careful while playing. Even lets me win occasionally.

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @TaMara (BHF): It is a good game. And all dogs and their people should have fun with it. If you don’t growl at the dog, you ain’t doing it right.

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    ruemara

    Returned from my last holiday outing, the viewing of The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies. Much better film than the haters led me to believe. Although the gold-sickness portion was so hammy it needed a side of cheese, some mustard and rye. Now, I wish my copies of LOTR & The Hobbit were near me, so I could reread everything and cry over fictional characters. Went with my dearest friends, gave away the last of the white chocolate ginger cranberry cookies and the last rasher of spicy candied bacon. That was fun, but I’m looking forward to getting back to work..

  16. 16.

    different-church-lady

    I saw Life of Pi yesterday, and since then I haven’t looked at my cat in the same way I used to…

  17. 17.

    Roger Moore

    @TaMara (BHF):

    And LA had a 4.5 rumble tonight. Anyone out there feel it?

    I didn’t. A 4.5 isn’t that big. You’ll feel it if it’s fairly near by, but any kind of distraction will keep you from noticing it if it’s reasonably far away.

  18. 18.

    BruinKid

    I wonder, when right-wingers on Twitter play the “Dems are the real racists!!” card by citing Robert Byrd, has anyone asked them whether Scalise supporters in Louisiana voted for Obama or McCain/Romney? I mean, playing the Byrd card is so stupid on so many levels.

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    CaseyL

    @TaMara (BHF): He likes bananas? Oh, that’s something I’d love to see. Does he eat them neatly, or reduce them to goo and wind up with banana-froth on his mouth?

    And those uneven growth spurts! Like a silly putty puppeh, when you pull on the corners :)

  20. 20.

    Roger Moore

    @BruinKid:

    I mean, playing the Byrd card is so stupid on so many levels.

    It beats admitting that they’re racists. It’s inherently problematic to deny that the Republican party is the white racists’ party, since it is the white racists’ party. Unfortunately, lots of those white racists are in deep denial, so they want a party that will implement racist policies without making them feel like racists for endorsing it. The easiest way of dealing with the inevitable accusations of racism is to deflect attention, and pointing out anything remotely racist that the other guys have done is the obvious way of doing it.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It is a good game. And all dogs and their people should have fun with it. If you don’t growl at the dog, you ain’t doing it right.

    Well, most dogs can enjoy a good game of Tug. Some — especially those with terrier blood — get overstimulated & forget their manners. And some very submissive dogs find it too threatening, and end up snapping or even biting. (Our neurotic pet-shop rescue Sydney, for instance.)

    I’d never offer to start a game with a strange dog, let’s just say. Even if the pup is offering you the ‘rope’, check with their person that the dog can handle that level of social interaction. It’s like dealing with children — always better to check with the caretaker in advance, rather than have to explain should things go pear-shaped!

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    Anne Laurie

    @CaseyL: One of our three rescues adores bananas, and demands a chunk of one whenever the peel is split. The second one — the food-aggressive girl, who’ll steal stuff like used tea bags & empty plastic bags — wants to like bananas, and also insists on getting a chunk, but the texture kinda freaks her out. The third, paleo-diet fanatic, can’t understand what the excitement is about (but then Sydney doesn’t quite understand dog biscuits, either, because apparently carbs are distasteful).

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    MikeBoyScout

    Losing sucks, but it has been many a year since our Stiller’s have had a losing record.
    In the immortal words of every less than 6 time Super Bowl winning team
    Wait til next year!

    PS. The Ravens are now 1-3 against the Steelers in playoff competition. Congratulations to the ratbirds for getting to 0.25 tonight!

  25. 25.

    HeartlandLiberal

    @TaMara (BHF): Looked at your blog, and loved the pic of the bowl of black eye peas. (The dog was pretty impressive, too. Soulful eyes.)

    We are from Alabama originally (fled back in 1969 after college), but a tradition we have carried with us everywhere to this day is the black eye peas and ham on New Year’s Day. This year we had a late breakfast, and a scheduled 4:30 pitch in for a duplicate bridge club game, so really did not want / need lunch, but we still took the time to prepare a small bowl of the peas and ham at lunch time. Just so necessary to start the New Year right.

    Also, since you blog on food, it appears, let me point out to all you readers that REAL cornbread is Southern cornbread, with NO SUGAR in it, thank you very much.

    I baked a ham earlier this week, and yesterday made a huge pot of ham bone soup with vegetables (carrots, giant Fordhook lima beans, peas, onions, potatoes), and my wife made a large cast iron skillet of cornbread, with corn and onions baked in, which not only adds to the flavor but insures it is moist and delicious.

    I can make a meal out of a huge hunk of that cornbread and some ketchup to dip it in.

    More Alabama traditions you don’t leave behind, even after fifty years, even though you may have fled the bad ones. There were some good ones, too.

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    HeartlandLiberal

    @ruemara: FWIW, having read the LOTR and The Hobbit so many times since the sixties, when I first read them, I am right now starting on the third volume of LOTR, but in a year 2000 excellent German translation. Doing this let me keep my German fresh, and made me slow down just enough to not speed read and miss subtleties. I just found “Der Hobbit, oder Hin und Zuruck” on Amazon, and bought it, same translator same time frame as the LOTR translations, and will read it in German when I finish the last volume of LOTR.

    Rereading it this way has really made it fresh all over again for me.

  27. 27.

    khead

    It was over when Bell took a helmet to the knee last week.

    Bell wouldn’t have helped get a stop on 3rd and 14. Too many 3rd down conversions. If I had Elvis money, I would’ve shot the TV in the second half.

  28. 28.

    JimV

    Speaking of helmets to knees, for those few of us who enjoy amazing throws, catches, and runs (and diving interceptions), but don’t appreciate the “legal” attempts to injure the opposition, much less the constant rule-bending/cheating behavior aimed at that end, it was a game with only a few good moments.

    I suppose one could say it gives those who have the inclination towards violence an outlet so that they don’t indulge in it off the field – except the evidence seems to be that they do, and that the sport as it is currently taught and regulated seems to inculcate that behavior.

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    pete mack

    If your team strategy requires a single WR to be healthy every week, your team is in trouble. WRs take a lot of injuries.
    More to the point, the defense looked way too slow to be superbowl contenders.

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