Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I was promised a recession.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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  3. 3.

    Violet

    Apparently the Republicans are having some get together in New Hampshire this weekend. Saw coverage of it on the news this evening. They showed a clip of Jeb!’s speech, among others. Jeb! looks really schlubby. Even among the clowns in the clown car he looked extra loser-y.

  4. 4.

    MazeDancer

    Just wanted to say that I have enjoyed the unusual “All John Cole” day. As in most of the posts, since 8:39 AM, have been from our blog host. Thanks!

    Not a sports person, but hope you all have fun.

  7. 7.

    Doug r

    Looks like the Calgary coach is going to get fined $50,000 for that melee last night. And the misconduct got revoked I guess that means the player is playing tomorrow night.

  8. 8.

    David Koch

    ¡Jeb! looks like toast. PPP has him 4th in NH, 14 pts behind Walker, at a pathetic 10%. Making it worse, PPP reports that out of 9 candidates only Latino ¡Heb! and scandal plagued Christy are underwater. On the stump, he looks flat, confused, out of touch, and boring. Then you take his positions on amnesty and common core, and he’s toxic to the base.

    Unless his private investigators find some juicy skeletons in Walker’s closet, ¡Jeb!/¡Heb! loses Iowa, NH, SC big. He probably will win Florida and hope he can turn it around, but no one has ever lost the first three primaries and turned it around to win the nomination.

    What makes it funnier is Mittens would be the frontrunner right now, but he chickened out because he bought the Beltway CW that ¡Jeb!/¡Heb! would be unbeatable.

  9. 9.

    Mike J

    The sun is shining, the mountain looks so close you could reach out and touch it, and I just spent 3 hours flying a spinnaker down the lake.

  11. 11.

    khead

    Uh, the cat hunting Texas veterinarian. Has this been discussed here at BJ? What. The. Fuck.

  12. 12.

    Southern Beale

    My beloved Preds blasted the Blackhawks off the ice last night. It was a great game, can’t wait for tomorrow’s game. ‘hawks won’t have Crawford in goal again though and we couldn’t beat Darling in the first game so we’ve got our work cut out for us.

  13. 13.

    Southern Beale

    @khead:

    I saw that. I thought it had to be faked but Snopes confirmed it. Turns out the cat killed wasn’t even feral. One report said it was a FOSTER kitty. Mwah.

    What a horrible person.

  14. 14.

    Southern Beale

    Or it might have been a family pet:

    Some in the rural community about 75 miles northwest of Houston fear the slain cat was a family pet, Tiger, who had gone missing earlier that day.

    “Still no signs of Tiger and his food went untouched again,” reported a Facebook page titled “Justice for Cat Murdered By Kristen Lindsey,” which attracted almost 30,000 followers in recent days. “Please pray,” a moderator of the Web page wrote. “As the hours move forward, hope seems to dwindle more.”

    I don’t know any vet that would kill a feral cat. Capture and neuter it and tag its ear, yes. But just kill it? But IT’S FUCKING TEXAS so what do you expect.

  17. 17.

    max

    @Southern Beale: I don’t know any vet that would kill a feral cat. Capture and neuter it and tag its ear, yes. But just kill it? But IT’S FUCKING TEXAS so what do you expect.

    Except none of the vets (all those Texans) I’ve known would’ve done anything like.

    max
    [‘That particular lady seems to be particularly bent.’]

  18. 18.

    geg6

    The Pens are gonna keep sucking. Don’t know what the problem is.

    In other news, Lovey went on our mile and a half walk around campus today. Her little legs worked overtime trying to keep up with Koda. She is totally passed out from exhaustion. This is the solution to puppies!

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    @Southern Beale:

    What a heinous thing to do. I can’t believe a veterinarian would do such a vicious thing to an animal.

    I’m going to leave some extra food behind the dumpster for my little group of ferals.

  20. 20.

    MomSense

    @geg6:

    Yup. I’m absolutely in the take them for a walk as the solution to just about every puppy problem.

    I’m also a big fan of filling kongs with their food and freezing them. Two meals a day are served in a kong which is good for the teething and keeps them completely occupied for 20 minutes.

  21. 21.

    John Cole +0

    @MazeDancer: I’m not spending all day cleaning up Ginger’s dogshit and potty stains or trying to keep her from getting killed by Rosie after she picked a fight or trying to keep her from killing one of her puppies because she picked a fight. I have time to post.

  23. 23.

    khead

    @Southern Beale:

    Our SweetPea (RIP, with many a pic posted here) was a clipped ear feral and our current kittehs are all rescues. AND my wife and I used to feed a feral colony in our old neighborhood. I try not to get caught up in the Internets outrage of the week, but that woman needs to hunted like the cat.

  24. 24.

    Violet

    @Southern Beale: They interviewed the veterinarian owners of the clinic where she worked (they fired her) and they were heartbroken that anyone could do that, let alone someone who worked for them. I don’t think what she did is in any way representative of the clinic, the town or the state.

    I wonder if this woman had some sort of psychological break. I mean she not only did the terrible thing, she posted a picture on Facebook and apparently said they wouldn’t fire her because she was “so awesome.” It doesn’t sound like normal behavior. If she did have some sort of breakdown, I hope she gets the help she needs.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @Violet:

    There was that weird debate the other night about whether or not it’s “unnatural” to keep your cats indoors all of the time, and to me this is yet another check in the Reasons To Keep Them Inside column. Way too many people have a weird and irrational hatred of cats and I don’t want my cats dying because some asshole hates cats.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @Violet:

    Also, too, while I agree with the general principle that someone shouldn’t lose their profession based on an Internet storm, a veterinarian who thinks it’s okay to shoot a cat with a bow and arrow? Sorry, asshole, but you need to find a new line of work.

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