Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

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

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

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

This really is a full service blog.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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

American History and Black History can not be separated.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

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  2. 2.

    Baud

    We forgot to measure the gravity to determine alcohol content.

    Are the folks on Florida that heavy that it alters the Earth’s gravitational field?

  6. 6.

    MomSense

    That label is fantastic. I’m pretending you are not drinking a beer outside because that would be too much to bear right now.

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack

    @Betty Cracker:

    Damn, I was hoping you would work in the Crackerbrau brand name on that label. Or is the Double Dog being released by one of your boutique craft labels?

    ETA: I’m sipping Third Shift Amber Lager, which has become my go-to beer the last few months.

  11. 11.

    skerry

    Youngest daughter just slid off the road and hit a high curb with the car. No one injured – just her pride and the front wheel well. I’m waiting for morning to fully inspect the damage. Sigh.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    I’m back from a two day trip to LA. A double dose of both jet lag and climate whiplash. At least Chicago is just cold, without any snow. Id like to sleep all day tomorrow, but I have to spend all afternoon at work, so not really an option…

  19. 19.

    tom

    If you brewed from a kit, it will usually give you the range for alcohol content the kit is made for. You’ll be tempted but don’t drink it all at once, leave a few for a couple weeks, a month and a couple months out, the flavor will change quite a bit.

  20. 20.

    rikyrah

    WHAT DA PHUQ?

    ………………..

    Muslim-hating man rams Missouri teen with SUV, severing his legs and killing him
    David Ferguson DAVID FERGUSON
    05 DEC 2014 AT 10:55 ET

    A 15-year-old boy died on Thursday night in spite of doctors’ efforts to save his life after he was deliberately struck by a car in a collision that severed both of his legs.

    According to Kansas City, Missouri’s WDAF-TV, the boy was exiting the Somali Center of Kansas City with a friend when a driver in his 30s rammed his car into them both. The driver reportedly targeted the boys because of their Muslim faith.

    The attack took place on Thursday at around 5:30 p.m. as the boys were getting into a parked car.

    “It became pretty clear that this was not an accidental crash, there is a considerable amount of evidence that leads us to believe it was intentional,” said Sergeant Bill Mahoney of the Kansas City Police Department.

    The second boy was not seriously hurt in the impact, but the deceased 15-year-old’s legs were severed at the scene and he reportedly lost a tremendous amount of blood. Paramedics rushed him to Children’s Mercy Hospital where a surgical team labored in vain to save him.

    The suspect reportedly rammed the boys and the second car, then tried to flee the scene, but his vehicle was too badly damaged. Police said that he then tried to run away, but was apprehended.

    The boy’s family and other people involved with the Somali Center told WADF that the suspect has been threatening them for months, even waving a gun at some attendees and telling them he was going to kill them for being Muslim.

    “A month or two ago he came to the Somali mall, two blocks from here. Things got bad, they started arguing and he pulled a gun,” said Abdul Mohamed, a man who knows the victim, to WDAF.

    The victim’s name has not been revealed, but he was reportedly the son of the current head of the Somali Center.

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/muslim-hating-man-rams-missouri-teen-with-suv-severing-his-legs-and-killing-him/#.VN_WEHfTPuq.twitter

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    @Gin & Tonic:
    Have to finish it darn fast, before it freezes.

    Love the Crackerbrau label and blue bottle. Classy. Should be able to measure ABV behaviorally, after a couple or three.

    Making do with Lagunitas IPA while preparing the grill. Sun’s down and still shorts weather. I’m already jonsing for DST.

  22. 22.

    Tree With Water

    That beer looks good enough to drive me back to drinking the stuff. A working man’s martini…

    Give me a congressional declaration of war as our Constitution commands, and don’t insult my intelligence with the pending “gentlemen’s agreement between branches of government” jazz. I just got through reading the following at Salon.com, and post it reminding everyone that Jeb Bush has announced he will not deign speak of the war his traitor brother unleashed:

    “Mohammed Saleh Tauiman was just 13 years old in 2014 when the Guardian newspaper gave him a camera so he could record life under the drones that flew over Marib province, Yemen.

    His father and teenage brother had been killed in a US drone attack in 2011 while they were herding the family’s camels. Afterward, he lived in constant fear of what he called the “death machines” that circled above him in the sky.

    “I see them every day and we are scared of them,” he said to the Guardian. “A lot of the kids in this area wake up from sleeping because of nightmares from them and some now have mental problems. They turned our area into hell and continuous horror, day and night, we even dream of them in our sleep.”

    And then, on Jan. 26, a drone killed Mohammed. The Guardian asked both the CIA and the Pentagon whether they’d identified the 13-year-old boy as an Al Qaeda militant. Neither agency gave a comment.

    It’s just the latest tragedy caused by the controversial US drone campaign…”

  23. 23.

    Mike J

    The Bogart movie on TCM right now is the one where they get the weird thumb/lip thing in Breathless.

  25. 25.

    another Holocene human

    Everybody is getting their homebrew on while I sit home with my digestive disorder drinking overrated cider. /whine

  27. 27.

    trollhattan

    Among the giant collection of stuff I didn’t know, a number of slave-owners decamped for Brazil–avec slaves–when the south fell. And their works are “celebrated” to this day. H/T LGM

    Almost everyone had come to the festa dressed as an American—in jeans and boots, Johnny Cash T-shirts and camouflage. Visitors haggled at a booth stocked with Southern paraphernalia: aprons, quilts, commemorative glasses, a used copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. An amplified voice called the crowds to pull their chairs up to the main stage—an enormous concrete slab with a flag painted across it and the words XXVI FESTA CONFEDERADA emblazoned at its top. The mayor of the nearby town Santa Bárbara d’Oeste surveyed his assembled constituents and welcomed the state representatives in attendance. “It’s the first time I have the honor being here as mayor,” he beamed, leaning over the microphone as descendants in homemade hoop skirts and sewn Confederate grays standing behind him hoisted flags up long, thin wooden poles. “But I’ve been here many times as a spectator, a fan.” The banners of São Paulo, Brazil, Texas, the United States, and the Confederacy flapped languidly in the breeze. “North American immigration has helped build our region, has helped build Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, has helped build the city of Americana,” he proclaimed. “That’s what we celebrate today.”

  30. 30.

    Betty Cracker

    @Baud: FULL WARNING LABEL: May cause irresponsible sports wagering, unwarranted confidence in singing voices, amplification of political opinions and ill-advised feats of strength.

  33. 33.

    cmorenc

    I did something strange, today: I went to a sex party held at a Pentacostal Free Will Baptist Church down in rural eastern North Carolina today (!) Try to top that !

    OK, that actually IS the accurate truth, albeit a slight qualification is in order: one of the women who works in the office at my wife’s medical practice is pregnant, and she invited the staff to join her family and friends for a lunch-time party held today at her church’s community building down where she lives about 45 minutes east of Raleigh. She and her husband had foregone learning the sex of her baby until today, when it was to be revealed to them in a little ceremony whereby the baby’s sex was to be revealed when they jointly bit into a donut. How the Hell is that, you might be wondering (?) Her OB, who had the test results, special-ordered a dozen donuts from Krispy-Kreme in Raleigh, with the creme filling to be blue if the baby’s sex was a boy, and pink if it was to be a girl. As each guest had arrived (and well before the big revelation) they had been asked to either pick up a blue piece of chalk and enter their guess that it was going to be a boy, or pick up a pink piece of chalk and vote “girl”. (In the final tally, boy votes outnumbered girl votes by about 10%). When they bit into the donut, it had pink frosting (girl!) For lunch, a friend had cooked a pig eastern NC barbeque style, serving it both finely diced and more coarsely sliced, with boiled potatoes and green beans and hush puppies and iced tea.

    And that’s what passes for a sex party at a Pentacostal Free Will Baptist Church down in Eastern North Carolina on a Saturday afternoon. No one started speaking in tongues.

  36. 36.

    Baud

    @cmorenc:

    And that’s what passes for a sex party at a Pentacostal Free Will Baptist Church down in Eastern North Carolina on a Saturday afternoon.

    So what day of the week is the orgy?

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    Someone earlier today mentioned Dove dark-chocolate-covered cranberries and wondered if they were a seasonal thing. A while ago I saw a TV ad for same that seems to indicate it’s a new (full-time) product. Me likey.

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    @cmorenc:
    Never leave home again without a film crew trailing you.

    Day-umn, that’s as weird as one of our prepper measles parties.

  39. 39.

    Linnaeus

    Making a bordelaise sauce for my steak tonight, which requires red wine. So, of course, I have to test if it (Two Vines Cabernet Sauvignon) will be satisfactory.

    After two glasses, yes, it will be.

  40. 40.

    lamh36

    Day 2 of a 5 day, 12 hour night shit for me. It’s Carnival time here in NOLA, but I volunteered to work the night shifts, so that the new employee, who’s just moved to NOLA from Michigan, could enjoy her first Mardi Gras. So this makes it the 2nd Mardi Gras since I’ve moved back that I will “miss”. I told my co-worker today, that this is the gonna be the last time I voluntarily work Mardi Gras or any other holiday for which I am not assigned.

    Anyway, it’s 62 degrees, nice and crisp here in NOLA and no rain, perfect parading weather.

    It’s Carnival Time

  43. 43.

    Suzanne

    @Baud: If there were ever orgies at church, I might actually go. Orgies are fun—um, so I hear— and are therefore banned.

  45. 45.

    JPL

    @Linnaeus: You can freeze wine so next time you won’t have to open a new bottle. When I told my son and his significant other that, they mentioned that there is seldom leftover wine.

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack

    The wind is up to 30 mph. Temp 26°, wind chill 9°. And we’ve gotten some snow. Looks like less than an inch—I ain’t going out there to check!—but much more than the bare dusting I was expecting.

  48. 48.

    Howard Beale IV

    @cmorenc:

    No one started speaking in tongues.

    As a general rule, Baptists don’t do glossolalia. Now if this was an Assemblies of God Church, you could damn near guarantee that a parishioner would be speaking in tongues, and the pastor would be translating.

    (Then again, the parishioner could be doing an Ella Fitzgerald jazz number, and no one would be the wiser.)

  54. 54.

    trollhattan

    @lamh36:

    Day 2 of a 5 day, 12 hour night shit for me. It’s Carnival time here in NOLA,

    Just wanted this documented for posterity. I’ve worked a few night shits in my time.

    Also, too, I miss “Treme.”

  55. 55.

    Schlemazel

    @rikyrah: fuq! I was having a pretty good night, saw a great hockey game & had a great time with friends & then I read this & I am just sick to my stomach & wishing for the gaddam meteor again.

  56. 56.

    lamh36

    @Baud: @trollhattan:DAMNIT! LOL. Freudian slip?

    Night SHIFT! SHIFT!

    It’s day 2 and I’m already tired, plus I’ve been sick since Monday with a cold and I don’t do doctors for common colds, just rest, fluids and not much else, but since I have this night shifts to complete, it’s taking longer than usual to get over it.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack

    @lamh36:

    We lived in New Orleans for a few years in the mid-’50s. One of my earliest memories—I must have been three or four—is of riding on my father’s shoulders as he tried to catch trinkets thrown from a float. It was scary because I felt like I was 50 feet off the ground!

    And when I lived in Mobile in the ’70s I got to New Orleans as often as I could. A great eating town. The last time I was there for Mardi Gras was ’74. (Mobile has a pretty good Mardi Gras too, but it doesn’t really compare to New Orleans.)

  60. 60.

    lamh36

    @Steeplejack: Nothing in the US really does. Although, I’d love to see Carnivale’ in Brazil to compare to Mardi Gras.

    BTW, has anyone been to the movies to see Kingsman yet? Or even Fifty Shades of Gray?

    I have absolutely no plans to give my money to 50 shades, I’ll wait for DVD, but soon as I get off this night shift next week, I will be going to see Kingsman.

  62. 62.

    Tenar Darell

    @Steeplejack: To answer question from last night. A couple of the brothers came over in the 1880’s or 90’s and brought everyone else gradually, including they’re parents and their siblings. They all mostly settled in Boston, at first. Most that I know stayed in Massachusetts.

  63. 63.

    Gravenstone

    @trollhattan: I worked nights for 18 years. Actually preferred it. Now, after a few years away, when I had to do so to cover on some high priority projects, my body rebelled. Sucks getting older.

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack

    @lamh36:

    My brother married a Brazilian, so I’m hoping to get down there at some point and maybe check out Carnival. His family is from Fortaleza (northeast coast), not Rio.

  69. 69.

    lamh36

    @Gravenstone: that’s the case with me too. I worked nights all through college and my first job was evenings and some overnights for about 4 years. I haven’t worked nights for about 5 years til last year and this 5 day stretch is the longest in less than 2 years.

    My body is a night owl anyway, when I’m at home, I can stay up until well past 2am and still get up for 830 am to get ready for work at 930am. But at home, I’m in bed, watching tv, reading a book or surfing the net. So when I work the night shift, I have to bring along my laptop, some movies and some snacks just to get by.

  70. 70.

    Origuy

    @Baud:

    Brazil is the only Western Hemisphere nation to end slavery after the U.S.

    Cuba didn’t end it until 1886.

    I read an article, probably in BBC History Magazine about British companies who owned slaves in Brazil and Cuba after the UK had abolished slavery.

  72. 72.

    Baud

    @Origuy:

    Didn’t know that. Brazil appears to have been the last, however.

    1865, December: US abolishes slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; about 40,000 remaining slaves are affected.[65]
    1866: Slavery abolished in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).[66]
    1869, February, 27th: Portugal: King Louis I signs a decree of the government, chaired by the Marquis Sá da Bandeira, abolishing slavery in all Portuguese territories. Accordingly, all slaves in the Portuguese colonies in Africa were set free, resulting in the total termination of slavery across the Portuguese Empire.
    1871: Brazil: Rio Branco Law (Law of Free Birth) declares free the sons and daughters born to slave mothers after 28 September 1871.[67]
    1873: Slavery abolished in the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico: March 22nd.
    1873: Treaty between Britain and Zanzibar and Madagascar to suppress slave trade.[46]
    1874: Britain abolishes slavery in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), following its annexation in 1874.[68]
    1882: Ottoman firman abolishes all forms of slavery, white or black.[69]
    1885: Brazil passes Sexagenarians Law (Saraiva-Cotegipe Act), freeing all slaves over the age of 60, and creating other measures for the gradual abolition of slavery, such as a Manumissions Fund administered by the State.
    1886: Slavery abolished in Cuba.[24]
    1888, 13 May: Brazil enacts the Golden Law, decreeing the total abolition of slavery with immediate effect, without indemnities to slaveowners, but also without providing for any aid to newly freed former slaves.[70]

  78. 78.

    Pogonip

    Re 50 Shades of Crap: was anyone else surprised that there are that many female S & M fans out there? I always had the impression it was more of a man thing; sadists have to seek out hookers, and being a dominatrix pays so well because so few women are willing to do it for free. Now it turns out there are millions of women into submission out there. Who’d have thought?

    I, personally, blame Obama.

  79. 79.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Pogonip: Reading/fantasizing about something and actually doing that thing are often quite different.

    ETA: On a completely unrelated note, I think I want this cabin; I know exactly where I would put it.

  80. 80.

    Pogonip

    Well, there is the “Gor” market–a series of S&M science fiction novels about a planet where the men are extremely sadistic and the women extremely submissive–but I never thought it was that big. My understanding was that the Gor novels were mostly read by teenage boys. I wonder if all along they’ve had these huge closeted female readership as well?

  82. 82.

    raven

    “Several people have been injured by shots fired near a synagogue in Copenhagen, hours after a deadly shooting at a cafe in the city”

    BBC

  83. 83.

    Pogonip

    Mandatory weather mention: going to 5 below tonight. I moved all the plants away from the windows.

    Does anyone here grow gardenias or camellias in the house? If so, are they budding madly during the deep freeze?

  84. 84.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Pogonip: I’ve read books full of case law about the Uniform Commercial Code. I can tell you that the UCC is extremely uninteresting to me.

  89. 89.

    Pogonip

    @Omnes Omnibus: If you read something you don’t have to, you have to have some interest in it. Although I did know a guy who ended up with an encyclopedic knowledge of the FAR because he read it at his desk during slow periods when he got bored. This was in the prehistoric era before funny cat videos were widely accessible.

    How many volumes is the UCC?

  90. 90.

    cmorenc

    @Howard Beale IV:

    @cmorenc:
    No one started speaking in tongues.
    As a general rule, Baptists don’t do glossolalia.

    But this particular church explicitly had the name “Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church”, and the name frankly piqued my interest enough to look up what the heck it meant. Look at item seven of their official statement of beliefs (you’ll have to count mini-paragraphs for yourself). Here’s a short Wikipedia article about the sect, which overlays Pentecostal beliefs on Free Will Baptist doctrine.

    The party today was pretty much free of theology or religious observance, except for a brief blessing said by a lay member immediately before the barbeque lunch.

  93. 93.

    Pogonip

    According to Bowker.com, “50 Shades…” buyers, compared to the typical fiction purchaser, are more likely to be female [duh], to have a significantly higher household income, and to live in the Northeast.

    That explains it. They buy really crappily written books so that if they have to burn them to keep warm they won’t miss them so much.

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Pogonip: This should give you an idea.

    But you are right, obviously those books struck a chord in a large number of people. I am just less surprised than you are; you might be surprised by the number of women who like, for example, to be spanked.*

    *I shan’t explain why this doesn’t surprise me.

  101. 101.

    Glidwrith

    My evening just got interesting: a big black lab pushed his way into my yard from a neighbor’s yard, except they don’t own a dog. No tags or collar, but my son thinks he recognizes the dog. Of course, the putative owners are gone, for who knows how long. We are a kitty household, so it was a three ring circus running out for dog food, collar, leash, relocating cats, food and litter. Not quite what I had in mind for V- day…

  103. 103.

    debbie

    @Pogonip:

    Women spent years looking for their soulmates; then they were searching for their Compass. Maybe they feel they’re running out of choices?

  104. 104.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @schrodinger’s cat: Protestantism is based on the idea that the path to salvation is individual. It is one reason that early Protestants encouraged widespread literacy; individuals needed to be able to read and understand the Bible so that they had a chance at being saved.

  105. 105.

    NotMax

    @cmorenc

    A distinguished professor of religion at college was well known for his standard response whenever someone asked about his faith.

    “I firmly believe with all my heart,” he’d say. “But I may be wrong.”

  106. 106.

    Pogonip

    @schrodinger’s cat: But for discretionary reading, so to speak, you have to have an interest in the subject to read about it. Unless there are a lot of people trying to pass exams in S & M.

    However, we have found the answer. ” Northeast” + ” significantly higher [than average] household income” = bored SWPL. If you’re bored enough you’ll read anything. Although, having sampled the first ten pages of “50 Shades…” I would rather read the FAR.

  107. 107.

    JPL

    @raven: The news is just covering all angles. My sister-in-law lives in the mountains in an all electric home with no way out. She doesn’t pay attention to the weather so I did call and give her a warning. Last year she lost power for two days, so I hope she’s prepared. I tried to convince her to convert her fireplace to wood but she didn’t.

  109. 109.

    Scamp Dog

    @Pogonip: I remember that I read those books, although I remember next to nothing about them. I was, in fact, a teenager then. It sounds like the forgetting is a good thing, the more I’ve read about them recently.

  111. 111.

    Pogonip

    @debbie: Compass? I missed that one. I don’t read chick lit, fictional or non. Except for a guilty pleasure in sleazy true crime, my reading habits are completely out of whack with my demographic. Amazon has yet to figure this out; all the ads on my Kindle are for (you guessed it) chick lit!

  113. 113.

    Pogonip

    @Scamp Dog: There has been at least one murder among Gor fans, I read about it some years ago. Looking for a target, the murderer advertised on Gor fan sites, picked one of the respondents, and killed her when he was done playing with her.

    The books remain perpetually in print.

  114. 114.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    Yeah, great movie. I think I actually saw it in the theater when it first came out. I hung with a group of people in Atlanta that made a point of going to a foreign or indie movie every week. Saw a lot of good movies I wouldn’t have ever seen otherwise.

  115. 115.

    Linnaeus

    @JPL:

    Yeah, there usually isn’t any leftover wine at my house, either. That said, I will keep your tip in mind for the future.

  116. 116.

    Fred Flintrock

    @Tree With Water: Great post! Regarding Jebbie’s comment about “not talking about the past”, as digby noted, do you think Hillary can just brush away all questions about Bill and her time in government with a condescending back of the hand swipe like that arrogant prick? Regarding the drone article – that’s what makes this gee-whiz battlefield techno gear so dangerous and pernicious. It is all so clean and soulless on our side, but on the other side, real lives are being destroyed and innocent survivors scarred forever psychologically.

  118. 118.

    Steeplejack

    Wintry weather is wintry. Temp down to 15° (in NoVA), wind chill –6°. Wind still blowing about 30 mph, and we’ve currently got a high wind warning, a wind chill warning starting at midnight and a “special weather statement” basically saying shit is fucked up and shit. Now predicted to go down to 4° tomorrow night. ¡Caramba!

  123. 123.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steeplejack: The thought would be family vacation place on our land in northern WI. The current cabin on the land is a 20×20 two bedroom with minimal creature comforts. We would use the land more if we had a place in which everyone could be comfy.

    ETA: Fulltime residence-wise, I am a dedicated urbanite.

  124. 124.

    Suzanne

    At the movies, to see NOT Fifty Shades of Grey, though the reviews seem to be universally “Not great, but better than I expected”.

  125. 125.

    lamh36

    @Pogonip: Erotic E-Books are big sellers actually. They range from all subjects matters, including BDSM. I’ve read many myself. Doesn’t mean I’m at all “into it”, just that I like to read well written books.

    In the case of 50 Shades, well written is not what I would call it. Also too, it was obvious based on my prior reading that the author E.L. James had no idea bout the BDSM lifestyle outside of fan fic and so alot of what she labelled BDSM was just plan ole abuse, IMHO

    I’ve read some E-Books that would singe the hairs off your head, in terms of the sex scenes, 50 Shades is like nothing to them

  132. 132.

    Steeplejack

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Also looks like it would scale well: not cavernously empty if only two people were there, not unpleasantly crowded until the head count really gets up there. (Kids could overflow into the great room and the upper “loft space” with sleeping bags for a night or two. Adventure!)

  135. 135.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steeplejack: I am an ENTP. It always helps if I have a detail oriented, completion obsessed person following after me.

    ETA: I am generous about sharing credit.*

    *For a Leo.

  137. 137.

    NotMax

    @Omnes Omnibus

    Strictly personal preference, but not nearly enough closet space. Winter clothing and paraphernalia is bulky and takes up a lot of room. Also kitchen too small* for my tastes (lacking sufficient counter space, plus have never warmed to the whole barstool & island thing).

    Would de-fixture the full bath downstairs and make that into a walk-in closet, remove the walls between kitchen and downstairs bedroom and create a larger combination kitchen/breakfast room space, repurposing the existing closet in that bedroom as a pantry.

    That wall of windows looks dramatic, but cleaning the higher ones likely to be quite a chore.

    As always, YMMV.

    *10 by 12 feet includes the width of the counters, so actual open floor space looks to be minimal.

  138. 138.

    Steeplejack

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I think I am an INFP, although I also seem to remember that I was on the edge of ENFP. Sort of schizo on the introvert/extrovert scale. Get along well with people, but all too happy to be by myself.

  139. 139.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @NotMax: It is the closest thing to what I would I would like that I have found online. I don’t mind the island kitchen. If my family really goes forward with some thing like this we will probably get an architect to design something to our specs. This is a nice starting point.

  140. 140.

    PlanetPundit (used to be Sir Laffs-a-Lot)

    54 degrees would be delightful in MN tonight. Betty should consider doing a special run of Wet Hen Mad Ale at some point.

  142. 142.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steeplejack: The E/I comes in close for me. At times, I draw energy from being with people, but I also can find it wearing. I am doing some work that involves recruiting people to help with tax filing. I just charmed an 8 and 7/8 months woman and a person with a hospitalized mother into continuing to help out. I might be Lucifer.

  145. 145.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    The only thing that tends to switch for me is between P or J, but I think it’s been P the last few times I’ve taken it.

    The coworker I keep having conflicts with has the exact opposite letters from me. We get along 90 percent of the time because we complement each other, but that 10 percent of the time can be pretty intractable.

  146. 146.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): I am a complete P on that scale. If it matters, I think that my dad matches me and my mom is almost our opposite. Their marriage has lasted more than a half century, but they are very different. My guess is that my mom is an ISTJ. OTOH, if anyone offers any criticism of her, either of us will offer to meet you in the Bois.

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    Jado

    @efgoldman:

    Pfft. It was a lone crackpot. He obviously had some sort of mental problem And probably a Democrat to boot. Nothing to do with the general policy of the greater GOP noise machine to dehumanize and degrade an entire faith based on the actions of terrorists.

    Sort of like the terrorist wing of the IRA – just a bunch of non-affiliated crackpots.

    /sarcasm

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