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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Maine Pupdate

by Anne Laurie|  October 3, 201510:00 am| 113 Comments

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korra sept 15 closeup

From faithful commentor MomSense:

I thought I’d send you some photos of Korra from September when she had just turned 10 months old.

Even though she is still chewing and testing, she is becoming one of the great dogs. We have had lots of fun hiking adventures this summer.

These photos are from one of our favorite walks.

Just taking it all in…

korra sept 15 taking it all in

Perfect camo!

korra sept 15 perfect camo

Ready set swim…

korra sept 15 ready set swim

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Apart from enjoying the change of seasons (or trying to avoid drowning, if you’re on the East Coast between Florida and New York), what’s on the agenda for the day?

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  1. 1.

    Elizabelle

    October 3, 2015 at 10:06 am

    Korra Saturday! Awwwright!

    Darling dog. Look out waterfowl. But for this leash …

  2. 2.

    JPL

    October 3, 2015 at 10:12 am

    MomSense, Korra is beautiful, it must be that special diet of plaster board and furniture stuffing.

  3. 3.

    jeffreyw

    October 3, 2015 at 10:15 am

    I’ve had a pork shoulder in the crockpot all night, it needs to cool down, thinking posole later, probably tomorrow. MotMax mentioned a beer/cheese/bacon bread last night, new one to me so I googled a recipe. This one says start to finish in one hour. Right now we’re off to the farmer’s market for cucumbers and such like.

  4. 4.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 3, 2015 at 10:16 am

    Nice pics, pretty doggie and I miss Maine.

  5. 5.

    kindness

    October 3, 2015 at 10:16 am

    Beautiful shots. Why is it that when we download our cameras most the pics are of kids/furry kids? Do reptile lovers take as many pics of their kids? Probably not. Hard to walk a snake.

  6. 6.

    tybee

    October 3, 2015 at 10:21 am

    You might be sad about the Nats, but at least you don’t have this tattoo – The Washington Post

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/10/01/you-might-be-sad-about-the-nats-but-at-least-you-dont-have-this-tattoo/

    that foot belongs to my nephew.

    Last spring, when that pic first made the news in DC, his mom, not knowing about that tattoo before it showed up in the news, called him and her first words to him were: “that had better wash off”.

  7. 7.

    ruemara

    October 3, 2015 at 10:25 am

    Work on film paperwork, what else? Plus job hunt and the roommate is having a birthday today, so either I will bake her a cake (so she doesn’t burn the counters and the food -again) or I will teach her to bake. Then I shall ignore her gaggle of girlfriends invading the common rooms to celebrate.

    Glad she’s having fun, though. Someone should.

  8. 8.

    Tenar Darell

    October 3, 2015 at 10:28 am

    Gym to exercise my worries about my father by wanting to punch things (and not do it by going faster on the elliptical), arranging my The Martian plans for tomorrow, mining the Composition #2 thread a bit more, writing a little probably, watch one of the three movies I’ve rented and downloaded from iTunes (because they’re on a 30 day timer and I paid for them damnit!), more fic, remember to eat, buy some good fall type beer, moan about the fact that I had to turn the heat on last night, resolve to start doing yoga again, I think that’s enough.

  9. 9.

    Elizabelle

    October 3, 2015 at 10:29 am

    @ruemara: when are you doing your film shoot? What’s the topic/story?

  10. 10.

    Mike in NC

    October 3, 2015 at 10:30 am

    Low on cat food and out of litter. Do we dare brave the roads, several of which have been closed due to localized flooding?

    Fortunately electricity hasn’t become an issue…

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    October 3, 2015 at 10:39 am

    MVOR this weekend one county over from me, so I’m going to spend the afternoon and evening with 3-400 of my closest friends..

  12. 12.

    Mike J

    October 3, 2015 at 10:40 am

    Practicing spinnaker sets, gybes, dowses. Maybe taking the genoa into the sail loft to replace the bolt rope. Scrubbing the scum off the rudder. Trying to find another 1/10 of a mph. Over a two hour race, that’s 40 boat lengths. Pick up enough tenths and my last place boat can turn things around. To be fair, nobody on board had ever even practiced racing on that boat, much less actually raced.

  13. 13.

    SteveinSC

    October 3, 2015 at 10:40 am

    BREAKING: Polish priest tells truth about SSA and is ordered to be burned at the stake. “Heretics roasting by an open fire, the Inquisition cuts off your nose…”

  14. 14.

    john fremont

    October 3, 2015 at 10:42 am

    Opened up my Facebook feed this morning and the right wing outrage de jour is that Obama has not yet invited the veteran who took five shots trying to stop the Oregon shooter to the White House because Obama hates the military, doesn’t respect real bravery etc. Geez, the right wing Wurlitzer is a well oiled machine.

  15. 15.

    burnspbesq

    October 3, 2015 at 10:44 am

    Opera and baseball, a quintessentially Noo Yawk fall saturday.

    The first Met live broadcast of the new season is a doozy, Trovatore with Netrebko and Hvorotovsky.

    Day-night doubleheaders for both Mets and Yankees.

  16. 16.

    Mustang Bobby

    October 3, 2015 at 10:47 am

    A small milestone: today marks 23 years of sobriety for me.

  17. 17.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 10:47 am

    I will probably go see “The Martian” today.

    I have not read reviews in detail, but have seen enough snippets that suggest that this is one of the better films of the year, and one of Ridley Scott’s best films ever. One reviewer called it a “terrific thriller,” so it may not just appeal to SF fans.

    However, I am already sick of the inane articles about whether the movie gets the science right! I don’t care, as long as it’s a great story, well told. Did anybody grumble about whether the Harry Potter movies got the magic right?

    But all my plans may be disrupted if Governor Jerry Brown signs a certain tax law conformity bill. Then I will have to scramble to help draft a hasty notification to the tax preparers served by my company. This is insane since there is a filing deadline rapidly approaching.

    @Tenar Darell

    watch one of the three movies I’ve rented and downloaded from iTunes

    Curious. What else have you rented?

  18. 18.

    burnspbesq

    October 3, 2015 at 10:47 am

    @tybee:

    As a lifelong Mets fan, i find that uproariously funny.

  19. 19.

    TaMara (BHF)

    October 3, 2015 at 10:50 am

    She is so beautiful! Glad to see a photo update.

  20. 20.

    Snarkworth

    October 3, 2015 at 10:53 am

    Using a space heater to delay turning on the oil heat (electricity at Chez Snarkworth is free, due to solar).

    Nothing planned except editing the book manuscript (it’s a mystery).

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    October 3, 2015 at 10:53 am

    @Mustang Bobby: Congrats.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    October 3, 2015 at 10:55 am

    The government here has been combating the Haze (it’s earned an initial cap by now, I reckon) by seeding the clouds with brine to make it rain. But there has been no precipitation in the past couple of days. So the smoky pall in the air has been thickening again, with its smell of burning garden waste. And once again buildings a mere couple of kilometers away are hardly visible.

  23. 23.

    OzarkHillbilly

    October 3, 2015 at 10:57 am

    @burnspbesq: As a lifelong Cards fan, so do I. If I did that at least I’d have a chance of being correct. I gotta say tho, I do like the man’s attitude and approach to life.

  24. 24.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 10:57 am

    @Mustang Bobby:

    A small milestone: today marks 23 years of sobriety for me.

    Congratulations to you.

  25. 25.

    shell

    October 3, 2015 at 10:59 am

    Due to puppy exasperation, there was s ome loose talk from Cole a little while ago about giving Thurston away. Hope he never went thru with it.

    Hint: We could use some new pet pics from him.
    **********

    The Martian does look good. But right now Im still a little Ridley Scott-shy. Saw his Exodus on cable the other week, and it was godawful.

  26. 26.

    The Sailor

    October 3, 2015 at 11:01 am

    @Mike J: I need to repack my asymmetric spinnaker. I love these things more & more as I get older.
    I no longer race, I got tired of the assholes, and I was becoming one of them.
    Currently I’m using/welcomed aboard an Ericson 29. It’s a LOT bigger than my O’Day 25.

  27. 27.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 11:07 am

    @shell:

    The Martian does look good. But right now Im still a little Ridley Scott-shy. Saw his Exodus on cable the other week, and it was godawful.

    The crappiness of “Exodus” and the disappointing mess of “Prometheus” makes me more curious about this film, which has been well reviewed by critics who have noted Scott’s previous faults and failures.

  28. 28.

    bystander

    October 3, 2015 at 11:09 am

    I was sorry to hear that Hvorostosky is battling cancer. What a great singer. I think this is his first return to singing. Glad to hear he is up to it.

    The Martian: NYC is plastered with ads that have superimposed over Damon’s face, “Bring Him Home.” So every two blocks I get the earworm of Colm Wilkerson in Les Miz. Thanks, Matt Damon.

    Today’s Up Yours with Richard Somebody: Panel entirely blamed Obama for failure to be the kind of leadery leader we needed on gun control. The repub said he needed to present an entire program that would totally eliminate every aspect of gun violence, not just some background check rule that would not cure the issue entirely.

  29. 29.

    Tenar Darell

    October 3, 2015 at 11:17 am

    @Brachiator: No SF. The Duff because it sounded like a “sorta a Mean Girls for the twenty-teens, , Wild Tales because the summary and clips sounded interesting, and Before We Go because curious (plus I like to support fellow mass-holes).

  30. 30.

    Mike in NC

    October 3, 2015 at 11:20 am

    Neighbors who go to the movies about every week loved “The Martian”, though Ridley Scott has turned out mostly stinkers in recent years. Ripe for retirement at his age.

  31. 31.

    Tenar Darell

    October 3, 2015 at 11:25 am

    I came up with this Thursday evening:

    Reverse Gollum = We hates the dark, wet, cold!

    Reverse [insert a fictional character here] =

  32. 32.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 11:25 am

    This is terrible news:

    Death toll rises in suspected US airstrike on Afghan hospital

    Nine staff dead and up to 37 injured in Médecins Sans Frontières hospital as charity says bombing continued for 30 minutes after it raised alarm

    A US airstrike appears to have hit a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in the Afghan city of Kunduz, killing nine staff members and injuring up to 37 people.

    The charity claimed it had circulated the coordinates of the site to all sides engaged in fighting in the country, adding that the bombing continued for 30 minutes after it had raised the alarm with Afghan and US authorities.

    It’s not just drone strikes that can go awry.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/03/three-medecins-sans-frontieres-staff-killed-in-afghanistan-hospital-bombing

    Just a horrible, horrible, mess.

  33. 33.

    David Koch

    October 3, 2015 at 11:25 am

    @john fremont: Meh. Those are the same fevered minds who think he was born in kenya. They’re irrelevant. The vast majority of real america knows the truth.

  34. 34.

    David Koch

    October 3, 2015 at 11:33 am

    Big games today:

    Bama vs Georgia

    Texas Tech vs Baylor

    Ole Miss vs Florida

    Miss St. vs Texas A&M

  35. 35.

    Chris

    October 3, 2015 at 11:33 am

    Random God-botherer of the day walking up to me at the store and starting to pontificate about his religion: check.

    Thinking of putting up a sign with a Fireflyism: “You’re welcome on my ship, preacher. God ain’t.”

    ETA: except, of course, it’s more the opposite. Jesus annoys me far less than his groupies.

  36. 36.

    Jeffro

    October 3, 2015 at 11:34 am

    Ok, so I had some additional thoughts on this gun safety issue…primarily because my right-wing friends and relatives are oh-so-suddenly concerned about inner-city black-on-black crime and I feel like I’m about to strangle them…

    1) Let’s all agree that inner-city black-on-black crime IS a huge issue (thanks FOX News!)…let’s also agree to track and publish those stats on the nightly news, right beside all the OTHER gun-related deaths that took place that day in the country. Sound ok with you Roger Ailes?

    2) I think I know how to solve the whole, “Do we name the killer in these mass shootings? Do we publish his photo? Isn’t that just making him famous and encouraging copycats?” Here is the answer: go ahead and publish his name…followed by “worthless loser”. Do the same whenever his photo is published. Tell me that won’t help address copycats.

    3) Also, I’ve decided that the best way to tweak wingnuts about the 2nd amendment is to remind them it says they have the right to bear arms…”arms”, as in “two weapons”. Anything beyond that is up to the Feds. They do indeed go nuts.

  37. 37.

    Amir Khalid

    October 3, 2015 at 11:34 am

    I was at Mickey D’s last week. There was a message posted at the place where they have the drinking-straw and tomato ketchup dispensers: The company that holds the national franchise was denying “in the strongest terms” an Internet rumour which claimed that McDonald’s puts lard in its coffee. (Needless to say, McDonald’s is all-halal here, and has loads of Muslim staff and customers.)

    Do you come across weird Internet rumours like that in America?

  38. 38.

    Iowa Old Lady

    October 3, 2015 at 11:35 am

    I just put flannel sheets on the bed. Always a good fall moment.

  39. 39.

    tazj

    October 3, 2015 at 11:37 am

    @Brachiator: Yes, just horrible. I just heard that on the radio before I came back to the house.

    Those are truly beautiful photographs of Korra and nature. What a pretty dog she is.

  40. 40.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 3, 2015 at 11:39 am

    @Chris: Isn’t that what Gandhi said? I love your Christ but not your Christians

  41. 41.

    Tenar Darell

    October 3, 2015 at 11:41 am

    @Iowa Old Lady: Yay! I had the same moment last week I put on my flannel pj pants and my hoodie.

  42. 42.

    David Koch

    October 3, 2015 at 11:42 am

    @MomSense: That’s a real beautiful dawg you got there. ? ?

  43. 43.

    MattF

    October 3, 2015 at 11:44 am

    If you’re a word lover, you might want to support this Wordnik Kickstarter project, whose aim is to add a million words to the dictionary. It’s very close to the funding goal, so contributing could make a difference.

  44. 44.

    Snarkworth

    October 3, 2015 at 11:45 am

    @Iowa Old Lady: Flannel sheets are great, right up to the point where you want to turn over. Too velcro-ish; wakes me up.

  45. 45.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 11:48 am

    @SteveinSC: Same sex adoption? The US has been a weird outlier in being very open to this (perhaps because we have so many children in foster care here), whereas they are throwing down about that in Europe, with even putative liberals being agin’ it. (The Pope came out against it too.)

  46. 46.

    benw

    October 3, 2015 at 11:48 am

    Beautiful doggie!

  47. 47.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 11:49 am

    @john fremont:

    Opened up my Facebook feed this morning and the right wing outrage de jour is that Obama has not yet invited the veteran who took five shots trying to stop the Oregon shooter to the White House because Obama hates the military, doesn’t respect real bravery etc.

    Last night I read that National Review started that shit and supposedly the guy was shot multiple times himself and is presumably in the hospital. Don’t know that for certain but if so, fuck those people.

  48. 48.

    Chris

    October 3, 2015 at 11:49 am

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    It is. I was shamelessly ripping off the old man’s quotes.

    Although I did mean “groupie” rather than “Christian.” You can be a Christian without being a pompous gasbag who assumes everyone in your path wants to hear you preach to them about it. I mean, I like the Rolling Stones, but I don’t walk up to perfect strangers and explain to them how they’re better than the Beatles, and how very wrong you are if you feel otherwise – “fan” need not be a synonym for “asshole.”

  49. 49.

    Iowa Old Lady

    October 3, 2015 at 11:51 am

    @Tenar Darell: I read THE DUFF and liked it. It’s insightful about what life is like as teenaged girl.

  50. 50.

    Josie

    October 3, 2015 at 11:52 am

    MomSense: Korra is such a lovely dog. I can imagine walks with her would be great fun. I was jealous of your gorgeous scenery for a minute until I remembered your descriptions of shoveling snow last winter. I guess each locale has its good and not so good points.

  51. 51.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 11:52 am

    @bystander: Yeah, make straw purchasing an actual crime. Oh noes, then some white guys from the hinterlands will go to prison for acquiring firearms and ammo for “urban” criminals, we can’t have that!!

  52. 52.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 11:55 am

    @Amir Khalid: 1980s in the inner city, there were rumors like that about every chain, whether it was soft drinks or fried chicken. Secret adulterants that would make Black men sterile, or other conspiracies.

  53. 53.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 11:55 am

    Stupid people are easy to fool. You can see grease on the top of McD’s coffee, but it’s coffee oil. Duh.

  54. 54.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 11:56 am

    @tazj: Seconded. The photos are stunning. Especially the one in the water!

  55. 55.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 11:56 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Do you come across weird Internet rumours like that in America?

    All the time.

    And I once had to admonish an employee who posted an Internet rumor on company email. It is odd how often the original emails often reference official government agencies as the accurate “source” of the rumor. Fortunately, this makes it easier to debunk it.

    Not too long ago, there was a rumor that one of the fast food restaurants in the area had been shut down because they were caught using rat meat in their food. Not a rat infestation. The deliberate use of rat meat. But you could drive by, see the place was open, there were absolutely no news stories about the incident, etc.

  56. 56.

    Bobby Thomson

    October 3, 2015 at 11:58 am

    Re: the Martian: sounds incredibly boring. No interest in monologue movies, and Matt Damon isn’t complex enough to carry the whole picture.

  57. 57.

    Diana

    October 3, 2015 at 12:00 pm

    What a beautiful beast!

    anyhow, here’s some more news about “job-killing regulations”

    http://grist.org/business-technology/retired-miners-screwed-over-in-coal-bankruptcy-plan

    I’d feel sorrier for these guys, though, if I wasn’t sure they were voting Republican.

    I get it about all the tribal loyalty, but when your tap water catches fire, you get diagnosed with Black Lung at 55, your health care is cancelled, and your pension has filed for bankruptcy, doesn’t *any* doubt about shrinking the government ever set in?

  58. 58.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    October 3, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    @David Koch: West Virginia-Oklahoma also. Watching Scotland and South Africa playing Rugby on the stream.

  59. 59.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    @Chris: Evangelicals believe they have all kinds of Biblical justification for being total assholes and “witnessing” to the unwary. Though mostly they do it for psychological reasons to stuff down their own doubts. Or to be an asshole, like the hypocrite I knew in college who absolutely plastered her dorm room door with beefcake decoupage but insisted that it was her Christian duty to rebuke her gay male friends. Dick for me but not for thee.

    It’s funny, they would quote a lot of OT but Jews don’t go around evangelizing (well, except for Chabad and other RW movements trying to pick up converts–kiruv–among more liberal or apathetic Jews, usually lying a lot until they’ve gotten the mark to weaken their relationships with family and their former friends and even have them trapped in a “holy” marriage with another cult member … but I digress).

  60. 60.

    scav

    October 3, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    I can still somehow be surprised: Priest alleged to have pulled gun on boy because he was a Dallas Cowboys fan

    This also surprises me.

    ETA: This may very well somehow be a ‘Mercan Trifecta, the very quintessence of ‘Merkanhood.

  61. 61.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    October 3, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Snapple was hard hit with a rumor that the KuKluxKlan put a sterilizing agent in the juice, and itn was based on a small letter k on the bottle. The k meant it was kosher, I think even AL Sharpton got caught up on that.

  62. 62.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    October 3, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Korra is beautiful!

    There’s an open house/reception thing going on at a coffee shop in Gainesville this afternoon — they’re putting on an exhibit of photos from the photography club I belong to, and the print I submitted for consideration has been included in the show. It’s a small thing, but it’s the first time since I got my DSLR a year ago that I’ve submitted something to be judged, so it’s encouraging.

  63. 63.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    @Brachiator: I know it’s orthogonal to your point, but we had a local restaurant that really did get caught with “wild-caught”, no provenance ducks in its freezer. For those who know what they are, they were Muscovy ducks, which congregate around retention ponds in this part of the world. There were a bunch at the retention pond in front of this restaurant (just off the highway interchange), as well as some exotic geese which were clearly being fed by somebody nearby.

  64. 64.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 12:05 pm

    @Tenar Darell:

    The Duff because it sounded like a “sorta a Mean Girls for the twenty-teens, , Wild Tales because the summary and clips sounded interesting, and Before We Go because curious (plus I like to support fellow mass-holes).

    Heard good stuff about The Duff. It just didn’t seem to hit with audiences when it was released.

    I had not heard about Wild Tales. It got a 4/4 review on the roger ebert site and a lot of good references elsewhere. Sounds very interesting.

    http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wild-tales-2015

    I like the cast of Before We Go. But it sounds like a variation of Before Sunrise. Still might check it out.

    So now 3 more movies on my already crowded “want to see” list.

  65. 65.

    ruemara

    October 3, 2015 at 12:06 pm

    @Elizabelle: shoot is 10/23 (birfday weekend, so don’t tell anyone). The story is a reclusive nerdgirl screenwriter is convinced to head out and look for love as a way to get over her first failure to write something in her career-a commercially viable romantic comedy.

    I’m having a lot of anxiety attacks since I’m stepping out with no actual experienced production help, my attempts at raising funds has cost me money as usual and my usual shifty life stuff. Can’t wait to just do it and be done. But I can say I was very pleased once I did the script and the actors I chose have good energy. My fingers are crossed.

  66. 66.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 12:09 pm

    @Mr Stagger Lee: They also said the ships on the bottle were slave ships. They were supposed to be tea ships. Granted, “it’s colonialism, not slave trade” isn’t the best of defenses.

    Maybe this makes me silly, but I still won’t drink Bigelow. Plantation mint? No, fuck you. Also, your tea sucks anyway.

    (I know camellia sinensis is grown on plantations–where there are serious wage and working condition issues to this day.)

  67. 67.

    Amir Khalid

    October 3, 2015 at 12:09 pm

    There used to be this strange notion going around these parts back in the 1960s: that there was a disease, transmitted in pork, that would cause a man’s penis to shrink into his body. There’s no such disease, of course. It was actually a form of mass hysteria, no more than that. But picture, if you will, a panicky man holding his thing out to keep it from disappearing, while beseeching his friends to call a doctor …

  68. 68.

    Another Holocene Human

    October 3, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    @ruemara: we’re pulling for you!

  69. 69.

    Matt McIrvin

    October 3, 2015 at 12:11 pm

    @Amir Khalid: There was the one about how Kentucky Fried Chicken came from genetically engineered mutant chickens with no heads and extra legs and wings, and the one about how McDonald’s beef actually was a vat-grown organism called “Animal 57” (we may yet see that one come true). I also recall hearing one years ago about how their milkshakes contained no dairy ingredients but were “edible plastic”. It’s a whole genre.

  70. 70.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    October 3, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    @Mustang Bobby: Not small at all. Congratulations!

  71. 71.

    Chris

    October 3, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    @Another Holocene Human:

    Evangelicals believe they have all kinds of Biblical justification for being total assholes and “witnessing” to the unwary.

    What I love about them is the adorably earnest stupidity involved in thinking that in a 75% Christian nation, there’s any such thing as “unwary.” They go with the spiel of how there’s this dude called Jesus that you should totally let into your life, as if it’s a suggestion completely out of left field that you’re hearing for the very first time in your life. It’s like watching a child trying to impress the grown-ups with knowledge that he just acquired five minutes ago, but that everybody else in the room is already perfectly aware of.

  72. 72.

    Schlemazel

    October 3, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    Absolutely I come across weird BS, it was happening long before the internet. I associate it with fundie loons because that was who I heard it from pre-internet. McDs uses worms, Kangaroo or dog meat. Proctor and Gamble is a satanist company and the moon and stars logo proves it. People intentionally make LSD tabs with cartoon characters on them to hook children. Those are all pre 1990.

    Lard only knows how these things get started but lots of slow,dull, people spread them.

  73. 73.

    Matt McIrvin

    October 3, 2015 at 12:15 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I remember hearing about that one! It was in an article about mental illnesses that are highly culturally bound (anorexia/bulimia is a classic example in the modern West).

  74. 74.

    PaulW

    October 3, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    Still feeling sick from a head cold/flu thingee, but I need to find time to get some writing done.

    NaNoWriMo is less than a month away and I have projects to finish before then.

    Need to nap, rising…

    Meanwhile, I added the Ritchie reference to the “Stuff Happens” Jeb gaffe article http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2015/10/jeb-just-aint-campaigning-as-smart-one.html

  75. 75.

    Cervantes

    October 3, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Just a horrible, horrible, mess.

    Yes.

    It’s not just drone strikes that can go awry.

    Whence comes this notion that only drone strikes can “go awry”? Did someone actually make this assertion?

  76. 76.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    @Bobby Thomson:

    and Matt Damon isn’t complex enough to carry the whole picture.

    I know! Makes you wonder how those Bourne movies ever made so much money.

    I think he can carry a film quite well (except for a stinker like Elysium)

    No interest in monologue movies

    You didn’t like Castaway?

  77. 77.

    The Golux

    October 3, 2015 at 12:38 pm

    @The Sailor: The combination of Maine and sailing bring back memories of navigating Boothbay Harbor with my father in a 23-foot day sailer (no cabin to speak of). Keeping an eagle eye on the chart is a must in those waters. I remember it fondly, even with my father’s extremely short temper; if he’d been a sea captain, his men would have mutinied before his ship left the harbor.

  78. 78.

    shell

    October 3, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    @Mr Stagger Lee: Remember the old Proctor and Gamble logo (crescent moon with stars) ? Periodically some crackpot Christianist group would claim it was some Satanist symbol and the company would (wearily) have to refute again. I see P&G has recently changed their logo; surprised it took them this long.

    Oof, I see someone beat me to this

  79. 79.

    Chris

    October 3, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    @shell:

    I’m surprised the flag of South Carolina doesn’t get more shit. Palm tree and crescent moon? Obviously an Arab/Muslim icon.

  80. 80.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    @Cervantes:

    Whence comes this notion that only drone strikes can “go awry”? Did someone actually make this assertion?

    You must skip over the more histrionic anti-drone posts here and elsewhere on the Internet.

  81. 81.

    john fremont

    October 3, 2015 at 12:56 pm

    @David Koch: Thanks for the link David. I figured that Obama did something for those men. Now it’s off to the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival here in Denver.

  82. 82.

    Cervantes

    October 3, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    @Brachiator:

    You must skip over the more histrionic anti-drone posts here and elsewhere on the Internet.

    And yet that’s not an answer to the question: Whence comes your notion that only drone strikes can “go awry”?

  83. 83.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    @Schlemazel:

    Absolutely I come across weird BS, it was happening long before the internet. I associate it with fundie loons because that was who I heard it from pre-internet.

    It is not just fundamentalist loons or slow, dull people. Some of the people who most energetically push crackpot stuff are otherwise intelligent folks.

    Part of this is just human nature in communities. And it is not just malicious tales. It is amazing how many old urban legends, which used to be transmitted by word of mouth or chain letters have been transmitted totally intact to the Internet.

    A great example is a Neiman Marcus secret cookie recipe which was previously a Mrs Fields secret $350 recipe, which was previously a Marshall Fields secret cookie recipe, which was previously a Waldorf Astoria secret cookie recipe, ad infinitum, going back more than 70 years.

    http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/cookie.asp

  84. 84.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 3, 2015 at 1:03 pm

    In the theatre watching the countdown to Il Trovatore. Not a huge crowd today, but it’s kind of nasty and cold out.

  85. 85.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    October 3, 2015 at 1:08 pm

    Korra is gorgeous and looks so grown up.

    @tybee: When I got my semicolon tattoo, “you know that won’t be the only one,” was a frequent comment. Including from the tattooed barber at the shop where Mr. Q gets his haircuts.

    Last week, I was finishing cooking when he arrived home from the office. He asked
    “What is that?”
    “What is what?”
    “I didn’t know you were getting another tattoo – what is that one, on your foot?”
    “It’s a piece of spinach I dropped, that apparently landed on my foot.”

  86. 86.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    @Cervantes: You must skip over the more histrionic anti-drone posts here and elsewhere on the Internet.

    And yet that’s not an answer to the question.

    It is actually the best answer to your question.

  87. 87.

    Cervantes

    October 3, 2015 at 1:17 pm

    @Brachiator:

    From which one can infer that no one actually said only drone strikes “go awry.”

    Straw man?

  88. 88.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    Has this photo of the Durham County “Black Republican Committee” table popped up here in Balloon Juice land?

    http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/25/theres-something-off-with-this-photo-of-a-black-republican-committee-image/

    Unintentionally hilarious.

  89. 89.

    Rob

    October 3, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    @Brachiator #32: The strike on the hospital is completely inexcusable.

  90. 90.

    Brachiator

    October 3, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    @Cervantes:

    From which one can infer that no one actually said only drone strikes “go awry.”

    I thought you knew better than that; but you may infer whatever you like.

    Straw man?

    Let it go, man.

  91. 91.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    October 3, 2015 at 1:43 pm

    “Happy” 10K Day! Only 3 to go for the US to reach 10,000 killed this year by gun violence.

    http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

    :-(

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  92. 92.

    jurassicpork

    October 3, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    How stupid is Kevin McCarthy? Let Mike Flannigan count the ways..

  93. 93.

    Amir Khalid

    October 3, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    @Brachiator:
    Maybe they’re related to Rachel Dolezal.

  94. 94.

    Cervantes

    October 3, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    @Rob:

    The strike on the hospital is completely inexcusable.

    You might think so, but let’s see what happens …

  95. 95.

    PurpleGirl

    October 3, 2015 at 2:10 pm

    @Amir Khalid: At my former job I was always emailing back to colleagues an answer from Snopes or other site about internet rumors being wrong or fake or whatever. My boss also asked me about stuff that she got in email. I made the emails to office wide notices. Some people would argue with me and I just kept citing Snopes or whoever and would ask them for proof of the rumor. It was ridiculous how educated people fell for this crap. And I told them so. Before the internet it took longer for these rumors to make the rounds — I’m thinking of the stories that Proctor & Ganble’s logo was a picture of the devil, etc. Internet has made it easier and faster to spread the crap.

  96. 96.

    Cervantes

    October 3, 2015 at 2:11 pm

    @Brachiator:

    You know we can see you, right?

  97. 97.

    Keith G

    October 3, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    @Rob:

    The strike on the hospital is completely inexcusable.

    That is certainly true. It is also predictable and part of the common outcome of the use of force so that the entire citizenry of the state using such force is complicit in such outcomes.

  98. 98.

    SWMBO

    October 3, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I have always had trouble getting spinach off dishes in the dishwasher. I never knew it was trying to tattoo the dishes. Now I know you can get a spinach tattoo on your foot. It must be true, I read it on the internets!

  99. 99.

    PurpleGirl

    October 3, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    @Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: Congratulations on having a photo in the show. (When the Bead Society of Greater NY had its first bead show at the American Crafts Museum, I was so pleased and happy that the Museum shop wanted to buy the necklace I had in the show.)

  100. 100.

    Debbie

    October 3, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    @Mustang Bobby:

    Nothing small about 23 years. Congratulations!

  101. 101.

    Tenar Darell

    October 3, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    @Brachiator: @Bobby Thomson: Ty Burr’s review in the Boston Globe makes me think he gets some help from a stellar cast of thousands.

  102. 102.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    October 3, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    @PurpleGirl: That’s very cool.

  103. 103.

    Tenar Darell

    October 3, 2015 at 3:35 pm

    20-teens: you know you’re getting older when you start needing your glasses at the gym so you can read your phone.

    I am really beginning to think I might need a Twitter account as an outlet for my random thoughts that I’ve been texting and posting.

  104. 104.

    MomSense

    October 3, 2015 at 3:43 pm

    Wow AL you are speedy! What a nice surprise to come home and find the pup on the front page. We did a much less scenic walk today because we found bow hunters on our usual trail this morning.

  105. 105.

    kindness

    October 3, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    I upgraded from OS Yosemite to OS El Capitan last night on the lap top. Some of the graphics do look better. Not any slower. Says it’s supposed to be quicker but I don’t see that yet either. Anyone else tool around in the new system yet? What do you think?

    @MomSense: I’m kinda ambivalent about bow hunting. It takes skill (unless you are sitting up in a tree). But there is no quick kill with arrows. It’s kinda a long and grisley kill. I couldn’t do that to another living thing. Well, OK, I could do it to a fish. Nothing furry though.

  106. 106.

    MomSense

    October 3, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    @kindness:

    I hear ya about bow hunting. I’m ambivalent about all hunting except that I have seen what can happen to the deer population when they don’t allow hunting. I know that I personally could never do it.

  107. 107.

    Cervantes

    October 3, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    @Mustang Bobby:

    Congratulations, and may the path ahead remain brightly lit and joyful.

  108. 108.

    PurpleGirl

    October 3, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    @MomSense: There are a few counties in NYS where you cannot hunt with firearms but you can hunt with bow/arrows. The difference is that these counties, such as Westchester, have large and dense human populations but have large deer populations again. (A boyfriend had a modern hunting bow which looked like a torture device; he explained the rules to me.)

    ETA: The pictures of Korra are very nice. Best wishes for the future with her.

  109. 109.

    rikyrah

    October 3, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    About the Domestic Terrorist from Oregon:

    The Christian thing, IMO, is nothing but a red herring. Outside of the teacher, wasn’t everyone else killed a woman?

    …………………………………

    Survivor: Gunman spared student to take package to police

    11:11 AM, Oct 3, 2015

    ROSEBURG, Ore — As a 26-year-old killer gunned down victims inside a college classroom, he spared one student and gave him a package to deliver to authorities, according to the grandmother of a student who witnessed the deadly rampage in Oregon.

    The grandmother, Janet Willis, said her granddaughter Anastasia Boylan was wounded in the Thursday attack and pretended to be dead as Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer kept firing, killing eight students and a teacher.

    http://www.turnto23.com/news/survivor-gunman-spared-student-to-take-package-to-police

  110. 110.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 3, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Wasn’t that an incredible Trovatore? I’m still reeling from the performances, and teary-eyed from all the Hvorostovsky love.

  111. 111.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 3, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    @Mustang Bobby:

    “Small” milestone, hell, that’s a YOOODGE KLASSY milestone! Good on ya.

  112. 112.

    Matt McIrvin

    October 3, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    @rikyrah: The assholiest people in the atheist/skeptic/rationalist movement are often misogynistic men.

    On top of the people he killed directly, the guy is probably going to get a bunch of atheists killed now. There was enough weird religious glurge surrounding the Columbine killings, and now this guy was actually vocally targeting Christians.

  113. 113.

    JanieM

    October 4, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    The Christian thing, IMO, is nothing but a red herring. Outside of the teacher, wasn’t everyone else killed a woman?

    Five of the nine victims were men.

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