Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

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

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

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

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

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

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The words do not have to be perfect.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

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This boxer dog isn’t finding the Stanley Cup matchup very interesting:

  

I need to get the kiddo to trim the dogs’ claws. I always hated trimming their claws, but the kiddo has an extremely effective method: She uses Cheddar Cheese Goldfish crackers to bribe them. 

As long as Goldfish crackers are on offer, the dogs will flop over on their backs and let the kiddo trim their claws with one of those Pedi-Paws contraptions (essentially a dremel tool with a file attachment). They get one cracker for each claw.

Please feel free to discuss whatever — open thread! 

ETA: So I hear those twisted monsters of fecundity from the TLC channel are attempting a Fox News rehab. Child molestation is bad for the family values grifting business. Fuck them and their entire sick cult.

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  2. 2.

    lamh36

    After reading about the TLC interview, I don’t think this will do what they think it will.

    IDK since this isn’t LIVE, could Megyn Kelly and Faux News been working as a “trojan horse” so to speak. Cause that interview was just…WOW!

    I’m gonna take a shower to even be able to sleep!

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    In the supermarket checkout yesterday there were at least five magazines/tabloids with the odious Duggar clan gracing the cover. Might be the Summer of Duggars unless we have a rash of shark attacks and/or missing pretty blondes.

  5. 5.

    mclaren

    If you’re wondering where all the pro-TPP pro-U.S.-military pro-austerity disinformation on forums like these comes from, here’s your answer.

    Large American corporations and the U.S. military is undoubtedly pay beaucoup bucks to the Internet Research Agency and kindred astroturfers to pollute forums like this with fake support for toxic U.S. policies.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    Betty: you must tell us if you hear of any fallout from the lucky 250 Disney World IT staff employees replaced by H-IBs, whom they had to train (thus proving the fired were competent and the jobs still existed).

    Top story at the NY Times today, maddening, and the mouse is not making out well in the comments section (1400 and counting).

    Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.

    I realize this practice has been common in US business for decades, but it’s good to see the mouse take it on the nose.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    @Elizabelle: I wish a boycott would gain steam. Until people start making companies that screw workers pay for it, they’ll keep on with their rapacious practices. I never go to RatWorld, so I can’t possibly boycott it more.

  15. 15.

    jl

    Thanks for epic and masterfully moody dog flop pic, BC. That dog got sleep down cold, it damn well knows it from A to ZZZZZZZZZZ.

  17. 17.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I saw about a third of frozen on the screen of the seat next to me on a transatlantic flight. some of the animation was pretty cool

    and there’s a song, apparently

  28. 28.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    God @ TheTweetOfGod
    “Jim Bob Duggar: ‘God Has Forgiven Josh’.” No I haven’t. He’s going to hell, just like you.

  30. 30.

    lamh36

    I am noticing the news org twitter acct now leading with some sort of “Duggars admit son Josh molested/touched sisters”

    so there’s a change. so far nothing but the most staunch defenders are still clinging to Christian persecution.

    oh and Fuq Ted Cruz…P.A.B.!!!

  35. 35.

    Valdivia

    @SiubhanDuinne: Eater of hearts I bow in your presence.

    ETA: and though I am late to the party count me as someone who has never seen Frozen, heard the song or even knows what the movie is about.

  36. 36.

    hitchhiker

    Our son was curious about girls! We think looking at girly magazines is a sin, so we made darn sure he wouldn’t be able to do anything ugly like that. What choice did the poor guy have, then, but to try to feel up his sisters while they were sleeping or sitting in his lap?

    He’s all boy, our Josh. Of course we didn’t like it, but we know he meant no real harm.

    DEAR FREAKING FSM. My only consolation is that every time this story goes on the air, another few thousand people decide that this whole Christianity thing is not what it’s been sold as.

  37. 37.

    Elizabelle

    @Betty Cracker: Yeah, same here. Not Disney’s target demographic. But boycotting in heart, and spreading the news of company’s duplicity.

    I wonder if ABC TV will feel any blowback?

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    So I was out grilling (swordfish and mahi-mahi, cherry wood smoke chips) and noticed mud wasp nests under the eaves, so knocked them down with a grillin’ tool. The cells broke open to reveal dozens of paralyzed spiders packed inside,serving as larvae food. If I were a si-fi/horror movie screenwriter I’d be invading your dreams in a very bad, not good way.

    Shudder.

  40. 40.

    trollhattan

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Seriously wrong, in that nature-doesn’t-give-two-shits-about-my-naive-morality sense that reminds me I’m just worm food. Not a spider fan at all, but I felt pity for the little quivering things.

  42. 42.

    mai naem mobile

    NPR did a piece with ProPublica about the Red Cross either wasting or intentionally mismanaging the Haiti money. $500M. God knows how much was flushed down the toilet. Well, not flushed down Haitian toilets being that they don’t have any. I will never donate to the Red Cross.

  46. 46.

    satby

    In other news, I heard from WaterGirl, she’s fine and busy but checks in to see what we’ve been nattering about.
    And Belle the boxer is putting on weight! She seems very attached to her foster mom too.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    @MomSense:
    You know what you have to do: you have to let it go, let it gooooooooo

    Having a now 13YO means I’m quite familiar. There are worse animusicals, believe me.

  51. 51.

    Amir Khalid

    @mai naem mobile:
    You would probably not like me if I mentioned that I’ve heard Let It Go in English, French, German, Malay, Indonesian, and Latin American and Castilian Spanish. Or that I still like it and the movie.

  57. 57.

    mai naem mobile

    @Amir Khalid: yeah, they all need to be doing time esp. when you see that $300 house project. Even taking out money for infrastructure, they should have been easily able to knock $50k houses. Instead they’re teaching them to wash their hands with soap and water.

  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Amir Khalid: But don’t you like Baz Luhrmann’s stuff? Or do I have a confused – if so, I apologize for the slur on your character.

  61. 61.

    Betty Cracker

    @trollhattan: Nature is gross as shit sometimes.

    @satby: Good to hear. Poor Belle was pitifully skinny. I wish I could donate some of my fat boxer’s blubber to her (I am NOT referring to the one pictured above).

  62. 62.

    Amir Khalid

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    The Baz movies I’ve seen are very much a mixed bag — I found Moulin Rouge agreeably goofy, for instance, while The Great Gatsby is a failure.

  63. 63.

    Linnaeus

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I’m from Detroit. :)

    I will say that I’m hamming up my Blackhawks hate just a bit. I have a great deal of respect for how the Blackhawks play hockey. From a hockey qua hockey standpoint, they’re fun to watch. They’re an excellent team.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Amir Khalid: I spent 17 hours of Moulin Rouge just hoping that Nicole Kidman’s character would just die already so the movie could end.

    @Linnaeus: Fuck you, you fucking Red Wings fan!*

    *Nothing personal, you understand.

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Linnaeus: I figured you would. I am still upset by the Chelios trade. OTOH, I am happy about the Probert thing. Bob had his problems, but he could play.

  68. 68.

    Linnaeus

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Oh, Probie was way more than a goon, despite his reputation.

    And when Chelios came to Detroit, I had to set aside my feelings for a while, but then I got quite used to seeing him in a Wings uniform. He still lives in the Detroit area (well, not full time) and people love him there.

    [Fun fact: Chelios’ number in Detroit was 24, which was also Probert’s – Chelios couldn’t wear 7, because the Wings had retired that number.]

  69. 69.

    trollhattan

    @Amir Khalid:
    Sensing a theme here, saw “Great Gatsby” on a flight and the only thing that saved it (in a tiny, incremental way) was the comparison to the even worse “Man of Steel.”

    Long flight. It’s as though somebody plumbed my brain to determine two movies that would drive me nuts while trapped in an aluminum tube. MOS needed trimming by 45 minutes. “Will you never end??!!??”

  70. 70.

    Valdivia

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I spent 17 hours of Moulin Rouge just hoping that Nicole Kidman’s character would just die already so the movie could end

    Though the opera goddesses will strike me dead, this was exactly how I felt during Tristan und Isolde. He started dying in Act II and four hours later all I could think was: how can you not be dead already.

  71. 71.

    burnspbesq

    @mclaren:

    Large American corporations and the U.S. military is undoubtedly pay beaucoup bucks to the Internet Research Agency and kindred astroturfers to pollute forums like this with fake support for toxic U.S. policies.

    I don’t supposed you would care to provide any evidence to support that hypothesis.

  72. 72.

    burnspbesq

    @Tehanu:

    David Ferguson (the Artist Formerly Known as TRex) was live-blogging the Duggar thing over at Salon. Given that there were drinking games proposed, I’m assuming that most of Salon’s readership are now in emergency rooms suffering from alcohol poisoning. Headed over there presently to assess the carnage.

  73. 73.

    Aleta

    @hitchhiker:

    We think looking at girly magazines is a sin, so we made darn sure he wouldn’t be able to do anything ugly like that.

    ha.

    My only consolation is that every time this story goes on the air, another few thousand people decide that this whole Christianity thing is not what it’s been sold as.

    To be honest, the damage control seems directed at that possibility and pretty well-organized by professionals, it seems to me.

  74. 74.

    burnspbesq

    @Valdivia:

    four hours later all I could think was: how can you not be dead already.

    True, but in the interim you got to hear some of the most sublime music ever written.

  75. 75.

    Cacti

    Speaking of the disgusting Duggar cultists…

    Prior to the start of their grift rehabilitation tour, In Touch magazine (ironic, no?) revealed that 15 year old Josh was copping feels on his 5-year old sister.

    That’s the behavior of a pedophile. Not a horny teenage boy. So that defense is pretty much out the window.

  77. 77.

    trollhattan

    @Valdivia:
    Think I was sufficiently mesmerized comparing Nicole Kidman’s legs to the Oklahoma panhandle that I forgot it was a musical. Just sayin’.

  78. 78.

    jayboat

    Dunno if it’s been mentioned but Pamela Geller has been listed as the intended beheading target of the terrahists… this will be fun to watch. Hope it doesn’t take the wind out of the Duggar story- those jackwads still need to be throatjammed with some holy wafers.

  79. 79.

    trollhattan

    @Cacti:
    Wait, what?!? That’s felonious stuff. And also, too, “In Touch” magazine?

    This guy needs a Taliban intervention.

  80. 80.

    Valdivia

    @burnspbesq: I do think his music is sublime. Maybe it was because I was doing the Ring cycle and I was a little Wagnered out after 20+ hours that I kept wishing Tristan dead.

    @trollhattan: no argument here, those are some long legs :)

  81. 81.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Valdivia: As an ex-violinist/violist, I have my classical music pretensions, but opera has always left me cold. And now SD will, indeed, eat my soul. Don’t mourn, organize!

  82. 82.

    Cacti

    @trollhattan:

    Under Arkansas statute, Josh committed multiple counts of second degree sexual assault, a Class B felony punishable by 5-20 years imprisonment and registration as a sex offender.

    Jim Bob took great care to run out the clock on the statute of limitations.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Linnaeus: Probie was far more than a goon. He could play. But when needed, he could out-goon anyone.

    ETA: Confession time: When I was playing rugby, I was an inveterate collar tackler. You got past me on the wing? You weren’t scoring. OTOH, if someone collar tackled me, it was cool -same deal.

  86. 86.

    trollhattan

    @Cacti:
    I reflexively disliked those people but paid them no mind beyond cringing at the grift and how the women/girls seemed to be considered a lower class. Palins sans meth. But now I want the menfolk and mom crushed under a rock and the girls sent to deprogramming.

  87. 87.

    Mike J

    @jayboat:

    Dunno if it’s been mentioned but Pamela Geller has been listed as the intended beheading target of the terrahists

    She was also a inspiration for the terrorist in Sweden. So fuck her.

  89. 89.

    Cacti

    @trollhattan:

    I’m waiting for the day when one of the daughters leaves the cult and writes the tell all memoir about how effed up that family really is.

  90. 90.

    trollhattan

    Oh fvck, I thought spider-eating wasps were bad. We’re going to have to call the Orkin man frealz.

    After three decades with a Burbank mailing address, the California Republican Party is moving its base to downtown Sacramento.

    The state GOP has paid $1.6 million for the fourth floor of an office building one block north of the Capitol at 1001 K St., party Chairman Jim Brulte confirmed Wednesday. The purchase, first reported by the Sacramento Business Journal, follows the sale last year of the state party’s Southern California headquarters.

  92. 92.

    hitchhiker

    @Aleta:

    To be honest, the damage control seems directed at that possibility and pretty well-organized by professionals, it seems to me.

    Yeah, they’re making an effort to provide talking points to their hard core . . . but all the people around the edges who keep hoping there might be something to this whole church thing aren’t going to buy it.

    There’s less and less reason to join a church these days — and this stuff just makes it even harder to consider.

  93. 93.

    divF

    @Elizabelle:
    I won’t see Snow Queen – after Joan Vinge’s SF novel of the same name, a Disney remake of the Hans Christian Andersen story would only annoy me. As for Star Wars, I can wait until it is shows on cable.

  95. 95.

    Valdivia

    @Omnes Omnibus: as someone who played the cello for a bit I totally understand you. I grew up with opera, my father is mad about it, so it sort of grew on me almost by osmosis. But Wagner I came to via Hegel, which is, I know, kind of perverse.

    @trollhattan: I think you’re going to need something stronger than the Orkin man for that.

  96. 96.

    divF

    @Valdivia:

    Though the opera goddesses will strike me dead, this was exactly how I felt during Tristan und Isolde. He started dying in Act II and four hours later all I could think was: how can you not be dead already.

    “Longer than Parsifal, and not as funny”.

  98. 98.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Valdivia: My dad was a bit of a hipster for his time – I know- acorn, tree – he loved the black music coming out of Memphis and such. Actually, he was a mod. I’ve seen photos. My mother is an Elvis girl. My nephew is a budding hipster. It apparently affects many males in my family. We are weak.

  100. 100.

    Valdivia

    @divF: perfect!
    I almost died when I read that my favorite overture by Wagner, Rienzi was also the favorite of the Führer. But then I saw that was debunked and I was glad, I did not want to be cursed by my ancestors.

    ok balloon juice people, I say buenas noches.

    eta: @Omnes Omnibus: lucky you! :)
    thankfully there was more than opera growing up in my house, but nothing mod or very hip. Lots of classical. And much piano. See a theme?

  102. 102.

    opiejeanne

    @Amir Khalid: I liked it too, but then I don’t currently have any small girl-type children in my life so I haven’t heard it a kabillion times, either.

  103. 103.

    lamh36

    @divF: Strictly Ballroom is my first and FAVORITE Baz Luhrmann film ever!

    I even have a soft spot for Australia, but that’s cause I’m a sucker for a romantic epic with a little bit of history attached…plus 3 words: “SHIRTLESS HUGH JACKMAN”!

  104. 104.

    fuckwit

    I can only hope that this Duggar pedopheila scandal does for fundamentalist christianity in the USA what the priest pedophile scandal did for the catholic church in Ireland: utterly destroy it and render it powerless.

  107. 107.

    divF

    @lamh36: Mine and Madame divF’s as well (it doesn’t hurt that we courted by going out dancing together).

    Another Australian musical fave: Gilliam Armstrong’s Starstruck (1982). Also set in Sydney.

  108. 108.

    Suzanne

    I have heard “Let It Go” enough times for all of you. Spawn the Elder is learning to play it on the piano. This is in between making her new trumpet sound like a fart. Um, I mean “practicing”.

  110. 110.

    Timurid

    Quiverfulls are the people Scientologists make fun of when they’re feeling insecure…

  111. 111.

    NotMax

    @Valdivia

    Corollary to “It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings” :

    When Camille does a walk-on and, between phlegmy hacks, shouts “Stop milking it and get it over with!” one knows it’s gone on too long.

  112. 112.

    Calouste

    @fuckwit: In that vein, the Brits didn’t really care much that the News of the World was hacking the phones of celebrities and politicians. But when it came out that the NotW had hacked the phone of a missing 12 year old girl and even wiped voice messages from it because the inbox was full, the paper closed within a week. Funny how humans seem to get upset by the abuse of children. But that’s something psychopaths like Huckabee will never understand.

  113. 113.

    opiejeanne

    @trollhattan: Jim Brulte. Wasn’t he one of the so-called bomb-throwers in the legislature? The guys who voted no on everything no matter what? Curt Pringle was one and he ended up as mayor of Anaheim. Gah!

  116. 116.

    Amir Khalid

    @burnspbesq:
    Since Raheem really really wants to go …
    Let it go, let it go
    Can’t hold it back anymore
    Let it go, let it go
    Turn away, and slam the door!

  117. 117.

    Anne Laurie

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ve always been an adherent of Sekhmet, Goddess of Consequences. Her earliest incarnation was as a solar goddess, specifically representing the power of the Egyptian sun. The source of all life and light, and yet, if you wander out unprepared into the desert, you will die — be you never so young, so innocent, so pious or so valuable.

    (There are some very cool Sekhmet statues at the Metropolitan Museum, and my parents explained to me by the time I was four or five that they were unusually well-preserved because they’d been commissioned by the Pharaoh Hatshepsut… and buried in retaliation after her worthless nephew/stepson Thutmose III took over after her death. Not a big surprise Hatshepsut favored the Goddess of Blood & Power, somehow… )

  118. 118.

    MaryRC

    @lamh36: Yes, I don’t think that interview will have the positive impact that the Duggars obviously hoped it would.

    By the way, we now know the names of two of the Duggar sisters who were Josh’s victims — not through the supermarket gossip rag that broke the story (and redacted their names), but through the Duggars and Fox News. Nice going, Mom and Pop Duggar. Hopefully the proposed follow-up interview with these girls will drive the final nails into this cult’s coffin.

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