Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

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Watching the Boys From Brazil for some reason- I was flipping through the channels and thought- haven’t seen that in a while, so I think I will fire it up.

For years, I used to fall asleep with the television in my bedroom tuned to C-Span or something dull or an AM radio with people talking because it would knock me right out. Since I moved, I decided to not have a television in my room, so now I just listen to podcasts on my iPad or Netflix documentaries, and I was thinking the other day that I just go to the bed listening to the most awful things. It’s always something like The Killer Speaks, or the Forensic Files, Air Disasters, or most recently, Nazi Hunters. I don’t know why, but I am sucker for those kinds of shows.

At any rate, here is something decidedly not evil. Here is Thurston with me, doing our own version of Koko and her kittens:

kokoandherkitten

He’s such a good boy. He knows who’s a good doggie, yes he does.

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  5. 5.

    jl

    Awwww, soooo cuuuuttttte!

    Whose pudgy widdle hands are doze? Whoooosee pudgy widdle hanndds? Awww…

    Oh, wait, I got slightly confused there for a moment.

    Thnx for petpix. Cute puppy.

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    Squee!

    Lord, please arrange a life on the lowest level of hell for whoever designed modern AutoCorrect, truly. I don’t want squeegee, dammit. Why do I have to change it four times before you consent to add it to the dictionary? And apparently never for cuss words?

  12. 12.

    wasabi gasp

    Been watching The Jinx with fascination, yet I can’t make it through one episode without conking out.

  14. 14.

    Tree With Water

    I have to agree with whoever said the sight of Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck thrashing around on the floor toward the end of Boys From Brazil is as comically preposterous as anything in the history of film. The kid who played the Hitler clone was great, though.

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Wrong hammy Olivier performance.

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen the movie, but the book still holds up as a thriller. Plus it has themes that are still intriguing today like, in light of the Holocaust, how far should Jewish militants go to protect themselves from potential threats? The Holocaust was barely 30 years in the past when the book was written.

  18. 18.

    srv

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): You have to be a real Marathon Man to keep up with the movies.

    I was watching HoC, and the bishop guy in the church was completely unlit and I was wracking my brain trying to identify him by voice. Like these directors are testing me. Not like John Doman is a household name, dammit.

    They’ve really cut down on the director mix this season, Carl Franklin’s episodes were really amazing but he’s not in this season.

  20. 20.

    PurpleGirl

    Squeee!!!

    Oh, that puppeh is so cute.

    ****************************************************************************************

    I tried sleeping on my bed but I just couldn’t fall asleep. I got up to research compression stockings, and it’s been an absolute bust. You know which company might have what I want (but they are sold out right now) — No kidding, Tommy Cooper.

    JC — I like Air Disasters, too. I also watch the shows about World War I, World War II and the Nazis. At least the shows produced partially by the BBC or that French company which did World War I are watchable. The show the History Channel did a show linking WWI and WWII and had comments from Cheney, McCain, a couple of other Rethugs which were of NO value whatsoever. Linking WWI and WWII was good, but leave the lying Rethugs out of the show, please.

  24. 24.

    ruemara

    I really want to nom those little paws. And pet that little tummy. Then nom the ears. Then play tug with him. He’s adorable.

    And I got a new gaming rig doing some sweet ebay stalking. Which is awesome, since the updates to CC and Poser have been killing my laptops for rendering. It’s a beautiful day.

  25. 25.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    Whee! A not off from work. I’m not really complaining, mind you, as I’m not doing much very different from what I would be doing if I were at work. Other than beer. I wouldn’t be drinking beer.

    Only one day off, though. Since I’m not totally burned out I’m volunteering to pick up shifts from the guys who are totally burned out from a month of working seven days a week.

  27. 27.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    There was a run of fantastic matches at the ICC World Cup: Saturday’s Ireland/Zimbabwe fixture was amazing in how it twisted every couple of overs towards the end and Bangladesh pulled out a great win that led to England finding another sport that they invented where they can’t get out of the group stage of the World Cup.

    The last couple of nights, though, not so much. India did pretty much what anyone expected they would to Ireland and now Sri Lanka is blowtorching the Scottish attack. Tomorrow won’t be any better, with South Africa taking on UAE. On Friday, Bangladesh/New Zealand is between two sides that have already qualified for the quarterfinals, but hopefully a pair of second rate sides (England and Afghanistan) can pull off the kind of thriller that their equals Ireland and Zimbabwe managed.

  28. 28.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Mr. Trowel, who is English, aggressively cleaned the entire house Sunday night after the England loss. He said nothing, but the bathroom has never been so sparkly.

  29. 29.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    @TheMightyTrowel: As I was introduced to cricket by Australian friends I probably shouldn’t offer my thoughts in Mr. Trowel’s hearing. Though maybe he’d like to hear my feelings about last year’s Ashes?

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    Boys From Brazil trivia: The director, Franklin J. Schaffner, graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA and made use of the surrounding Pennsylvania Dutch countryside in the film.

    @Mnemosyne

    The Holocaust was barely 30 years in the past when the book was written.

    Book was 1976. Movie was first released in 1978, just a smidgen over 30 years after the end of WW2.

    First political thriller involving cloning (AFAIK) was Joshua, Son of None in 1973, involving a clone of JFK.

  32. 32.

    Bobby B

    “Marge, the boys from Brazil are little Hitlers! It was in that movie whose name I can’t remember!”

  34. 34.

    jl

    Probably off topic even for an open thread, but I read something that deeply disturbed me just now.

    What happened to the fine old tradition of keeping alligators in the White House?.Apparently both John Qunicy Adams (1 alligator) and Hebert Hoover (2) kept them as pets. JQ was a Democratic-Republican and Hoover as GOP, so that makes it bipartisan.

    Just check wiki in JQ, and he must have been our most multi-partisan president, having been a Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, Anti-Masonic and Whig at various times.

    Also a story I thought was a myth is apparently true: JQ would not agree to be interviewed by one of first woman US journalists, so she went out and sat on his clothes while he as on one of his early morning (November!) skinny dips until he talked with her.

    David Brooks is right, we need to go back to the good old days when everyone was stuffy and boring and had moral fibre.

  36. 36.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @jl:

    David Brooks is right, we need to go back to the good old days when everyone was stuffy and boring and had moral fibre.

    I’d like to suggest that Mr. Brooks consume more oatmeal, the world would be a better place.

  37. 37.

    David Koch

    Obama Said to Resist Growing Pressure From All Sides to Arm Ukraine

    WASHINGTON — (NYT) As American intelligence agencies have detected new Russian tanks and artillery crossing the border into Ukraine in recent days, President Obama is coming under increasing pressure from both parties and more officials inside his own government to send arms to the country.

    But the president has signaled privately that despite all the pressure, he remains reluctant to send arms. In part, he has told aides and visitors that arming the Ukrainians would encourage the notion that they could actually defeat the far more powerful Russians, and so it would potentially draw a more forceful response from Moscow.

    Mr. Obama continues to pose questions indicating his doubts. “O.K., what happens if we send in equipment — do we have to send in trainers?” said one person paraphrasing the discussion on the condition of anonymity. “What if it ends up in the hands of thugs? What if Putin escalates?”

  39. 39.

    Bystander

    Giant puppy paddy paws! The best!

    Gregory Peck gives one of the campest, most over the top performances as Mengele. Perhaps the most hilarious scene, in a film bursting with sequences straight off the Carol Burnett Show, is the one in which Peck strangles the ugly Nazi woman who’s screaming, “Doctor…doctor!”

    “I am a Doktorrrrr!”

    Leaves me helpless with laughter.

  40. 40.

    Joy in FL

    Those puppies would be cute no matter what you called them, but every time I think of their names, it is coupled with thoughts of GIlligan’s Island and I laugh or at least smile. Thurston and Lovey– brilliant names.
    When I read “Thurston” and gazed at that pup, it just added 50 tons of lightheartedness to my day.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    “Marathon Man” is also the movie that generated the great story of Method actor Hoffman staying up all night before a scene to try and feel the character’s raggedness after doing he same thing. When he told Olivier what he did and why, Olivier reportedly said, “Why don’t you try ACTING it, dear boy?”

  45. 45.

    Elie

    What a dollbaby! I can just smell his nice little puppy smell and feel his warmth… darling!

  46. 46.

    lgerard

    I recommend listening to old radio shows to fall asleep to

    You can download or stream them from archive.org

    Dragnet, Great Gildersleeve, etc

  47. 47.

    SFAW

    Cute pup and all that, but what’s with the demon eyes? Does it also bark in tongues?

    Although I guess a demon pup is better than demon sheep. Cuter, too.

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