Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

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

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

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  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    which apparently takes eleventy fucking years to do.

    So then, very similar to page-loading time here recently.

  3. 3.

    jl

    History indicates that I am a clumsy accident prone walking disaster area. But Cole manages to stay a few steps ahead of me. Maybe that is why I like this blog.

  4. 4.

    cmorenc

    Did you try simply shutting down and restarting the system (i.e.not just a soft restart) before resorting to system restore? The top row (numbers, symbols) on my daughter’s laptop KB began misbehaving – producing random letter output, and before going to system restore or replacing the KB (which BTW is much cheaper and simpler on a desktop than a laptop) – I tried doing a complete (hard) shutdown of the system, and that cured whatever random glitch was causing the misbehavior on the KB.

    YMMV whether this will work in your case – but it’s worth a try.

  7. 7.

    cmorenc

    @Amir Khalid:

    Did you try plugging in a spare keyboard?

    I concur that is also an option you should try – I had a desktop KB go bad on me (it would intermittently freeze and refuse to communicate with the motherboard) – and swapping in a replacement (which has worked flawlessly for weeks now) proved the flaw was with the KB.

  8. 8.

    lamh36

    Could always be worse.

    Just started watching this damn Anderson Cooper Katrina special on CNN right now and I’m already misty-eyed!!!

  9. 9.

    JPL

    Rachel is doing a recap of the failures of Katrina. Michael Brown wrote a whiny recap on the failures in Politico and didn’t include himself in those failures. In fact the worse thing during that time, to him, was that he was blamed. Not any mention of the deaths or those trapped for days without food and water.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    Why don’t you buy a new computer with the money you’re saving on your WordPress programmer?

  11. 11.

    JPL

    @lamh36: I can stream MSNBC International but not haven’t found a way to stream CNN. Having an antenna does have limitations.

  12. 12.

    Halcyon

    Try replacing/reinstalling the driver, especially if it’s some sort of gaming keyboard with extra keys or something?

  13. 13.

    lamh36

    @JPL: yeah…I chose to watch the Cooper doc rather than Rachel…I already heard it all about the failure during Katrina, so I have no need or want to hear it again.

  15. 15.

    Bobby Thomson

    At least the site doesn’t load anyway. You picked the right week to stop sniffing glue typing.

  18. 18.

    RSA

    Aren’t computers great? They go wrong in some random way, and a dozen diagnostic techniques can be suggested, each as plausible as the last.

  20. 20.

    Heliopause

    Wow, that sucks. You can’t even type most of the good curse words. Damn that letter C. Hey, at least you can still type tits. Oh, but not Trump. Damn.

  23. 23.

    gnomedad

    That sure sounds like a busted keyboard. Don’t waste time mucking with software until you’ve tried a substitute.

  24. 24.

    lamh36

    I remember seeing the pics/footage of the man’s body seen on top of the car. #Katrina10 #CNN Now we know his name.

  25. 25.

    JPL

    @raven: Nope.. They check your internet provider and whether or not you have service. That only works if you have a cable/uverse tv provider.

  27. 27.

    FlyingToaster

    @SiubhanDuinne: Oddly enough, I haven’t been having any problems.

    Cable, Mac, Firefox, NoScript blocking nothing, Ghostery blocking Doubleclick, Google Adsense, Lockerz Share.

    I block Doubleclick because they’re evil, Google Adsense because it hangs Firefox/Macc, and Lockerz Share because it slows down every damn site it’s on.

  29. 29.

    wasabi gasp

    Kinda like using a flamethrower on a mosquito, except that the flamethrower will probably solve your initial problem.

  31. 31.

    lamh36

    said there was buses…there wasn’t any.
    Left his mother’s body in her wheelchair w/a blanket over her.
    #Katrina10 #CNN

  33. 33.

    RK

    which apparently takes eleventy fucking years to do

    So it’s quicker than this site? Does Hillary Clinton shop for her pant suits at Chairman Mao R Us?

  36. 36.

    Peter

    If it’s any consolation I spent the ENTIRE DAY yesterday trying in vain to get GarageBand to recognize my Mbox so I could record something for a video project. Still no luck.

  37. 37.

    p.a.

    I haven’t had an issue loading the mobile site on my android phone. Amazingly, since it’s usually klunky when no one else has issues.

  38. 38.

    Lee

    I second trying another keyboard. If it is a wireless keyboard, make sure there is nothing causing interference. When I had a wireless keyboard/mouse if my cell got to close to the receiver weird things would happen.

  39. 39.

    PaulW

    for future reference, you might want to check if your local library system employs a tech support person to help patrons with computer issues, or else gets volunteer teens from the high school to come in certain afternoons to help.

    Also, it could have easily been a faulty USB connection or run-down batteries on a wireless keyboard.

  40. 40.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    Going to be in the PNW in September. Hiking and camping a lot, but will be around sea the nights of 9/21 and 10/2, and in PDX 9/30 and 10/1 if anybody is up for a gathering.

    John@top; did you spill the mustard on it?

  42. 42.

    Olivia

    It could be a hardware issue. My 14 month old TOSHIBA laptop keyboard all of a sudden declined to let me use the middle top and second row of keys. It is now functioning as the grandkids minecraft machine using an external keyboard.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):
    Will there be any bits not on fire by then?

    Officially jealous–learned to backpack in the Cascades and Olympics and miss them dearly (and am sick with dread as to what’s happening to my beloved mountains).

  47. 47.

    mtiffany

    Wow, 90+ whole minutes and no machole has showed up to tell us how “x never happens on a Mac/Apple/iDouche product.”

  49. 49.

    BruceFromOhio

    Somehow or another I have done something to my desktop pc

    Well there’s your problem right there. If you were using a Mac, this wouldn’t happen.

    @mtiffany: Ubuntu cannot fail, it can only be failed.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Shooting incident at Savannah State University. Campus on lockdown. I have a friend/former colleague with a son there.

  57. 57.

    encephalopath

    Put the keyboard in the dishwasher on the top rack, no soap. Run it through a cycle, but turn off the drying part because the heat will cook it to oblivion.

    Shake it out and let it sit out for about a week to dry. After a week, plug it in again.

  58. 58.

    Aleta

    Sounds like just keyboard fail. Happened here (Mac though) a few months ago. Climate change (Zone 4-5).

  59. 59.

    Bruce K

    Possible diagnostics:

    – Unplug the keyboard from its current port and plug it into a new port (assuming it’s USB). If it’s a wireless, plug the receiver into a different port.
    – As mentioned above, if you have another keyboard knocking around somewhere, try that, or maybe procure a cheap USB keyboards (pretty sure you can get one for ten bucks, and it’s always better to have a backup and not need it than vice versa).
    – If your keyboard has customization software, try uninstalling it, rebooting, and then reinstalling.

    Losing one row of keys seems consistent with a failure of hardware instead of software. Thankfully, we’re not in the days of the Apple II or the Commodore 64 where the keyboard was an integral part of the computer.

  61. 61.

    qwerty42

    John,
    This sounds more like a hardware failure. I cannot think of any way you could accidentally remap any row of keys. If this is a laptop, don’t even think about repair yourself (if you do, get a pic of the keyboard. get several. )

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