Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Fight them, without becoming them!

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

We still have time to mess this up!

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Motown is Joe-Town!

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

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Until then: What’s on the agenda as we (those of us who don’t get a Presidents’ Day holiday) wrap up the weekend?

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  2. 2.

    raven

    Just saw “The Imitation Game” right next to “American Sniper”. Gay dude saved and estimated 14 million people by being smart as shit. No ovation but it wasn’t that kind of film. Go see it.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    And you thought competition in the cell phone market was fierce.

    A senior executive at LG Electronics has reportedly been indicted in South Korea for allegedly vandalizing several Samsung washing machines.

    Jo Seong-jin, head of LG’s Home Appliance and Air Solution Company, has been indicted on charges he and two other employees wilfully sabotaged Samsung-made washing machines at an electronics store in Berlin ahead of a tradeshow in that city last year, according to Reuters. The indictment is the latest skirmish in the long-running feud between the cross-town rival electronics giants.

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    No matter how many times I measure it, the spot where I want to move a bookcase persists in being 1/2 inch too small. Damn it.

    I do get tomorrow off, but it will mostly be spent trying to get my craft room in decent enough shape that I can finally buy the couch I want from Ikea next weekend.

  6. 6.

    gogol's wife

    I’m looking forward to only dealing with near-zero temperatures as we go to work, rather than piles of snow falling all day long into the uncleared parking lot.

  7. 7.

    debit

    Tomorrow I go back into work and let my impending nervous breakdown pick up where it left off on Friday. Really looking forward to it.

  8. 8.

    Bobby B.

    Us deep thinkers know the only event of note today is a new “Bob’s Burgers”. Regular-sized Rudy could be a game changer.

  9. 9.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    I’m making an outline for plotting my post NAMI career path. Would that the charming psychiatrist at the college of medicine who said “we should just put you on the faculty” could get it done! He made the comment as I arrived to present my third resident didactic of this academic year.

    I’m being gently urged to toss my hat in the ring for the City Prosecutor job; I’m well qualified, but I really don’t want something so high profile/stress. The city also needs a senior litigation attorney with 1983 experiences, which I also have, but – city hall.

    What I really need to find out is what the timeline is for the current administrator of specialized dockets (mental health, veterans, drug) plans to change his path – he told me last month we need to stay in touch as that is upcoming. Most of the key players support me for that position when the time comes, so I need to find out what schedules are.

  10. 10.

    JPL

    @raven: I haven’t seen American Sniper but I did want to clap after “The Imitation Game” I really enjoyed it.

    @Baud: Bloomberg has a cost estimate of the props used in the movie..
    link My son and his girl friend both own Audi’s. After reading the link, I think they should sell them.

  11. 11.

    catclub

    @raven: Just remember, the US codebreakers also broke Enigma – or its equivalent -Purple, but we did not have a working model of the cypher machine to work on. The British kept that to themselves at the time. I think this is an even more astonishing accomplishment.

    The brits kept the breaking of Enigma secret and sold Enigma machines to other countries after the war. So they could have unbreakable communication security ;).

  12. 12.

    Pogonip

    I had a Twitter account but could never think of anything to say ( oh, stop laughing).

    I don’t have to go out till Tuesday! Whee!

  17. 17.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @raven: You’re made of sterner stuff than I. I do plan to see Imitation Game however, since the actual story is amazing.

  18. 18.

    Corner Stone

    @Currants:

    Shoveling, DUH. Because tomorrow is a winter Monday in or around Boston.

    This has been one of the most bullshit of winters that I have ever seen in The Greater Houston Metro Area. I think we had one day that dipped below freezing?
    Just complete bullshit.

  19. 19.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    I got my order of “Tiles”, put one in my wallet and one on the Yorkipom.

    ETA: Now I have to figure a way to let me know if I left the wallet at home, though the “Tiles” are useful in finding it.

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I can pay a flat fee of $39 to have them assemble it for me. It doesn’t look that hard — it’s basically screwing a series of boxes together — but for that price, I’ll have them do it for me.

    The downside is that they don’t have the color I want in Burbank and there’s no ETA on when they’ll get it, so I’ll probably have to get it from the Covina store instead, which is a slightly higher delivery fee.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    “You Made Me Love You”
    “Prisoner of Love”
    “Unchained Melody”

    Just for openers. There must be hundreds of legitimate songs whose titles would take on a new, creepy resonance if they were featured in 50 Shades: The Musical.

  24. 24.

    Corner Stone

    I’m never sure why I watch any part of Kingdom of Heaven. Outside of Eva Green, that is. Natch.

  26. 26.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Pogonip: In re: your cattalya question, I have no idea, sorry. I’ve not had much luck with traditional orchids myself anywhere, but the cymbidiums just love hanging out on the porch (east-facing, I guess, but under an overhang.)

  28. 28.

    Currants

    @Corner Stone: :-) for some reason that makes me laugh.

    I love winter AND snow, but having to shovel 18″ before daybreak so I can get in a car does not appeal.

  30. 30.

    Currants

    @Corner Stone: (prob won’t be that bad–depends on how long the wind howls. It’s a very light snow and at this point the snow is waist deep on either side, so blowing loose snow will fill in readily).

  31. 31.

    Corner Stone

    @JPL:

    My son and his girl friend both own Audi’s.

    God. I can not express how badly I lust after a 2008 RS 4 with a six speed manual.
    *whimpers like in the red room of pain*

  32. 32.

    Hildebrand

    After one week on the market, we have received three offers on the house. Two were ridiculously low-ball bids, but they served quite nicely to get the one real offer to offer our asking price. Inspection was yesterday (didn’t hear anything, so I am going on the no-news-is-good-news bit). The second to last hurdle is the appraisal – they offered over our asking price, then asked for us to pay the closing costs – so we are hoping our agent can get the appraiser to hit the right number. Fingers crossed.

    And yes, I know how stupidly lucky we are that this has happened in the first week. Then again, the house is beautiful, I did all of the touch-up work before we even interviewed realtors, we priced it bang on, and we live in Deep South Texas where home values are just now starting to rebound and demand is high.

    Still, it is not a done deal yet, but I am hopeful. My wife has already moved to Metro Detroit for her new job, so I would like this to wrap up expeditiously.

  36. 36.

    Pogonip

    I think there may be physical therapy in my future. I dropped the pill splitter and it rolled under my bed and when I got up from retrieving it I pulled a glute. This means that because of the pinched nerve on the other side I have been walking so funny for so long that everything’s weak and too tight.

    The physical therapy place my insurance co uses is in the middle of a permanent traffic jam. Crap. I’m hoping I can get away with one visit. When I had surgery ten years ago I had to fight thru that mess twice a week for ten weeks.

    I am in the U.S. and I do understand many Americans would kill to have this problem–but if you can’t whine about stupid stuff on the Internet, where CAN you whine about stupid stuff?

  37. 37.

    Svensker

    Monday is “Family Day” in Ontario and some other parts of Canada so everything in our neighborhood is closed. But that’s OK because we’re still not going out — forecast is for it to stay pretty much at around zero F for the whole week (with lows with windchill around -20). Dang. The good news is no more snow on top of the 8 inches or so that’s still hanging around. So frigging cold.

  41. 41.

    raven

    @catclub: I knew that and it doesn’t matter much to me. We would have done the same.

    There was also a American Admiral who wanted nothing to do with code breaking because it wasn’t proper to read other people’s mail.

  42. 42.

    Pogonip

    @Baud: Twist and Shout [or scream]

    Love is a Battlefield

    Love Hurts

    Johnny Get Angry [so far as I know, that was the only song in top 40 history with a kazoo solo]

    He Hit Me And It Felt Like A Kiss

    Under My Thumb

    Whip It

  45. 45.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Pogonip: It’s an hour lecture given to 4th year (in this case) psychiatry residents that’s not part of an established curriculum. The lectures are offered both by faculty and outsiders. As well as by doctors and non doctors.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    @Mike in NC: That’s a great word because “incoherent” does seem to nail the movie release version.
    To this day I have yet to figure out who the F cast Orlando Bloom as son of Godfrey.
    As I have said in the past here, Michael Sheen as the hateful priest has more charisma and depth in his brief scenes than Bloom could ever hope for outside of LoTR.

  51. 51.

    Roger Moore

    @raven:

    We would have done the same.

    A lot of the rumors about the NSA suggest we have done essentially the same thing, and recently. The best known example is the Dual_EC_DBRG, a supposedly secure pseudo-random number generator that is now widely believed to have an NSA backdoor.

  55. 55.

    JPL

    @raven: Thanks for the info.

    I just turned on TV and Palin was on NBC. I missed most of it but I finally figured her out. She speaks in words.
    What I heard was fun funny america. Is anyone watching the SNL thing?

  61. 61.

    Corner Stone

    Is it wrong to be this much non-stalking in love with Tina Fey?

    OooOOooOO…Jim Carey just dosed Brian Williams.

  63. 63.

    Corner Stone

    Speaking of Brian Williams. Let’s please add this fiasco to the long, long list of shit Cole was dead fucking wrong about straight from jump.

  65. 65.

    burnspbesq

    Trying to avoid mentioning to FB friends in snowy parts of the country that it is 79 degrees and brilliantly sunny here today.

  66. 66.

    burnspbesq

    @Corner Stone:

    Is it wrong to be this much non-stalking in love with Tina Fey?

    Yes, you prevert. She’s a Commie. She will destroy your Purity of Essence.

    Thus spake Gen. Jack D. Ripper, and thus it shall be.

  68. 68.

    Minstrel Michael

    I live in the same winter wonderland as Anne Laurie. About 2PM I’d finally dug myself out to the point where I could go out and get some food. I saw one of my neighbors, also shoveling, and we shared some snark about the weather, and I concluded by singing “I’m dreaming of a white President’s Day.”

    In milliseconds I realized that might have been taken as a comment on the current president rather than on the weather. Damn ambiguity; ruins my best jokes.

  72. 72.

    raven

    @Mike in NC: I know a guy here in Athens that lived on Hatteras for 20+ years as a diver repairing props and such. Great guy and he told me living there for all those years meant nothing, he was still an outsider.

  74. 74.

    Zinsky

    @raven: Excellent observation. Gay, non-macho man saves millions using non-violent means, while dim-witted trigger-happy macho dude saves a few dozen fellow mercenaries by slaughtering women and children, among others. The sad part is the vast majority of Americans see the latter as being the greater hero. My wife cried at the end of The Imitation Game, as we have a gay son and she was horrified that he could have been jailed or chemically castrated a mere fifty years ago for being who he is.

  77. 77.

    anderj

    @Raven @Betty: thanks for all the tips Some of which we knew and some of which we will sure check out. We’ll keep you posted.

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