Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So very ready.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

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

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

All hail the time of the bunny!

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

No one could have predicted…

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

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

So many bastards, so little time.

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

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

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    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Good call on the favorite version, she says while waving to you.

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    Keith P.

    F’n Jehovah’s Witness couple just rang my doorbell (woke me up from a nap). I know they don’t celebrate holidays, but I do, so why today?

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    Origuy

    As I’ve mentioned before, one of the sources of my nym is my involvement in the sport of orienteering, navigation with map and compass. The Junior World Orienteering Championships starts today, in Telemark, Norway. The US team is the strongest and best trained it’s ever been and two of the kids from my club are members. Here they are at the JWOC opening ceremonies. The Scandinavians and other Europeans are still expected to dominate the competition, though. They have a lot better training and support network. If you’d like to throw a few bucks at the team, the link is in my nym.
    Oh, and since there are a few Canadians on the blog, here’s your team. We North Americans have to stick together.

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    Tree With Water

    @Hunter Gathers: It is close, but my vote remains on the Hendrix version. In fact, if Marvin had recreated “the bomb’s bursting in air” sound effects like Jimi did, he’d probably get my vote. I remember thinking when the Hendrix version was unveiled, “I didm’t know a guitar could make sounds like that”. Of course there was a good reason for that, one of which serves to explain why Hendrix was “discovered” in London.

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    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    I’m trying to get my craft room ready for the professional organizer to help me sort it out next weekend, but Charlotte insists on helping. As every cat owner knows, the cat version of “helping” with boxes is to stand on them, jump in any open ones, jump on top of the exact box you were about to move, etc. Cats!

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    Tree With Water

    “..In 1865, at the end of the civil war, the Confederate poet Abram Ryan addressed the battle flag. He wrote:

    Furl that banner, softly, slowly!
    Treat it gently – it is holy –
    For it droops above the dead.
    Touch it not – unfold it never,
    Let it droop there, furled forever…”.

    So concludes a fantastic 4 star article about Mississippi posted today at the Manchester Guardian:

    theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/04/progressive-american-south-flag-klansman-next-door#img-1

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    Another Holocene Human

    This fucking stoned guy just came up to me complaining that his phone was dead and the intercity bus for ten after had left at ten til. He wanted information and my charger. Maybe this makes me a bad person but he annoyed me so damn much I just told him no. Too fucking stoned to discern for example that my work uniform was not in fact the uniform of the company from which he had bought a ticket. Am I wrong to think ‘serves him right’?

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    Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™

    Cool.

    back in the good graces.

    Speaking of dogs, as this thread is clearly dead, I did some dog sitting this weekend. Two dogs.

    Kitty, a brindly pit/hound mix who is adorable, and Chase, a Jack Russell.

    Handed Kitty off earlier this evening and headed to deal with Chase. He is closing in on two years of age and cant get enough of the sprayer attached to the hose, (I am guilty of turning this fascination with the water spray into something resembling a crack or meth addiction.) In any event, during my visit earlier in the day to play and allow for the unloading of no longer necessary baggage, his excitement trumped the release of his bowels, evidence of which appeared under my stocking foot when I hit the living room rug on my way to the porch.

    Fortunately a fairly solid movement, and my initial thought was that I had stepped on a toy, and thank dog I have soft feet (or a soft footfall.) I only noted the mine field when I got back from my smoke. Took care of that business and to sleep we went.

    Woke up three hours later to make a deposit of my own, and let the boy outside, so he might similarly evacuate. After a bit, I heard him barking, which at three in the morning does not make a good neighbor. So I let him in and immediately cyphered that he had been within proximity of a skunk.

    Picture if you will the kill charts from the cold war years, he might not heave been in the instant death zone, but certainly in the collateral damage zone. As a result, I have not been able to return to slumber, and he has been sequestered as I am simply not going to deal with that, nor sleep with that.

    This ‘job’ was a favor, and in fact, a favor that for me removed a number of fourth opportunities, including the possibility of asking a comely lass what she might be doing after work, which was nullified by the fact that I had to take care of the little dude.

    In any event, it may be time to re-negotiate the contract. While I don’t come around every day, I am this dog’s alpha, when i do show up, about three times a week, which I am not entirely sure is a good thing. In Kitty’s world, I am in third place, though kitty’s mom figures that we are in a tie for second. In other words when Kitty’s parents return, they receive the greeting that I do when I visit Chase’s parents. I am the only one he pays attention to, so much so that the going gag is “I wonder where my heal monitor is.” never more than 18 inches behind.

    And now three hours of sleep missed, four days away from home leave me wondering when I can get the fuck out of here. Will need to check the texts.

    Anyway, thanks to the noone that reads this for alllowing me to dump my purse on this dead thread.

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