Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

This really is a full service blog.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Republicans in disarray!

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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

Infrastructure week. at last.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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Hello all.

Thanks to the adorable Tommy for getting me back on board, and for responding calmly when confronted by a confused 92 year old muttering to herself and demanding the keys to the blog in between swigs from a hipflask.

The blog looks great and I can’t imagine the work that has gone on in the background to make that happen and, frankly, if there weren’t some hiccups you fuckers would be sad because you missed out on the chance to piss and moan about it for months.

Point out problems and issues to the developers all you want – I think the Categories (or tags, or whatever the hell they are, should go at the bottom of the post where they have always been – but be nice to the people who are fixing this free blog so you can access it better and in a more attractive way, for free.

What did I miss while I was away?

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  2. 2.

    Tommy Young

    Interesting music selection. I listen to all kinds of music but I tend to go back to ambient, jam bands, and jazz in kind of that order. But upgraded from Pandora to Spotify a few months ago and wow is that an amazing service. Got playlists, done by Spotify or users of all kinds of music I normally wouldn’t listen to and I have to say enjoying myself a ton.

    Don’t laugh, but Spotify based on my listen habits turned me onto Adele a few weeks ago. I of course had heard of her, but thought she was like a Taylor Swift or Katy Perry type of singer, which is about as far away from music I’d ever listen to I can’t even put it to words.

    That women has a voice from the gods IMHO. Powerful. I went to Wikipedia to read up on her and she had this great quote. Asked how she wanted her voice to be remembered she said when performing in a small pub she wants the audience to feel like they are in a wind tunnel her voice is so powerful. If that isn’t a kick-ass answer to that question, I don’t know what is.

    Oh and her #1 musical influence is Etta James (you can never go wrong with her!). She bought the record in a discount bin, while her single mother was making her perform like a Spice Girl to make money because she couldn’t believe how beautiful James looked on the album cover with her flowing dress, hat, and scarf. She got home and said she cried when she heard her sing. She’d never heard any music like that before. For three years, every night for hours she played it and tried to replicate the sound.

    Yes I have kind of fallen in love with the lady ….

  4. 4.

    Sarah, Proud and Tall

    @Tommy Young:

    Yes I have kind of fallen in love with the lady …

    I was lucky enough to discover the third video clip I have posted above about two weeks after it first screened, so I have been a fan since the start. It was the same extraordinary voice even then.

  6. 6.

    Peale

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall: I figured you go with BoyAhoy.

    Let’s see. I’ve been saving up my odder Internet music selections waiting for your return. But you chose to set a classy scheme, so I’ll wait.

  10. 10.

    Yatsuno

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall: Hello dear! Well wishes on your recently passed Day of Revolution and all that. Just so you know I haven’t assimilated all of mankind yet, but things keep coming up and such. You know how it is.

    I shall alert proper authoritahs to your presence. And I do owe you an e-mail when I am a hair more alert. Xanaflex is a wonderful muscle relaxer but it does promote sleep quite well, so I’m afraid it will have to be attended to on the morrow.

  11. 11.

    seaboogie

    Sarah – so great to have you back! Not so very long ago I responded to a Cole post that had to do with a situation involving his shorts – I just knew from personal experience what was coming – and his “boys” getting unloosed while he inadvertently flashed some hapless soul with his junk.

    I recounted a similar tale about my husband doing the same at a brunch with his elderly parents and aunt, and was compared to you in my telling of the tale. That was a huge, ostrich-like plume in my cap, that was, and I felt very peacocky for a bit.

  15. 15.

    jl

    OK, I see, SPaT is one of those ‘taglines at the bottom of the post’ type peope, aka reprobate scum.

    We are enemies for the rest of eternity. Let it be so.

    SPaT, you are of the devil, spawn of Satan! (though, we all kind of guessed that was true long ago… but, more evidence if any were needed).

  17. 17.

    asiangrrlMN

    Welcome back, Miss Sarah! It’s been a while since we’ve crossed paths. I hope you’re doing well and that you haven’t had to crack any heads lately. Cheers!

    @Yatsuno: Thanks for the heads up, Yutsy!

  18. 18.

    seaboogie

    @Nate Dawg:

    So is Sarah, Proud and Tall a real (distinct) person or a character/alias?

    I am going with the latter, and also one of my “elevator people” – someone I wouldn’t mind being stuck in an elevator with. And I have been. Stuck. In an elevator. With an interesting and rather crusty old gal.

    If Sarah has her tunes* with her, I think we’d tell the good folks from OTIS to take their sweet time getting to us.

    *ETA, and her hipflask – that would be a fine little party!

  19. 19.

    Anne Laurie

    Always a good day when you come to the party, Ms. Sarah!

    The blog looks great and I can’t imagine the work that has gone on in the background to make that happen and, frankly, if there weren’t some hiccups you fuckers would be sad because you missed out on the chance to piss and moan about it for months.

    I have this theory: It’s not a coincidence that so many of the Juicetariat Regulars have in common a history of “social dysfunctionality” — substance abuse, mental health, ADD / OCD / autism spectrum, all our personal & familial neurodiversity issues. (Starting, of course, with the Blogmaster.) There’s a standing joke that alcoholics & their co-dependents can recognize each other by a mark on our foreheads invisible to ‘the normals’; I think it’s more a vocabulary, a habit of phrasing, the way we carry ourselves in the world.

    And this is our little internet bar. It may look dark & sordid & unwelcoming to outsiders, but those who grew up in a world of drunks & crazies are drawn to that ambience.

    Much as we generate / enjoy chaos, though, we hate change. Keeping it together is challenging enough that even (supposed) improvements are liable to tip us out of balance, and nothing in our past histories are liable to have encouraged us in the belief that change can be an improvement. But the Bar Blog Master has his own problems with change, he hasn’t the resources to baby his customers like this was some kind of godsdamned kindergarten you miserable fvckers, so he (out of training / ingrained habit) preemptively yells at us to stop whining or by god HE WILL GIVE US SOMETHING TO WHINE ABOUT!!!…

    Which is, alas, familiar behavior — reassuring, in its dysfunctional fashion. Cole yells, we shriek, he threatens us, we shriek louder. It’s alarming to bystanders, but at least it’s a form of social interaction we can cope with, because we’ve been practicing it all our miserable lives.

  28. 28.

    Yutsano

    @NotMax: HA! There’s a bit of resonance loss in the plastic horns (it’s hard to describe but it’s there, efgoldman will know what I’m talking about) but for students learning and even intermediate players who need an inexpensive horn that’s FANTASTIC! How do we get those stateside? There are schools that would LOVE those!

    EDIT: and must get to sleep. 5 AM is gonna hit and hit hard.

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    who are fixing this free blog so you can access it better and in a more attractive way, for free

    Cat’s out of the bag now. Fundraiser scratch went for Doritos and blow.

    And ponies.

    :)

  32. 32.

    seaboogie

    @NotMax:

    Cat’s out of the bag now. Fundraiser scratch went for Doritos and blow.

    And ponies.

    If you are going to bring Doritos and ponies into the expenditure column, I think it’s weed, not blow.

  34. 34.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall: I’m doing all right myself. Normal (in this context) can be a very good thing. Glad to see you’re as feisty as ever!

    @Ruckus: This is a stealth posting, all ninja-like. New drapes can really perk up a joint. I have a new couch and coffee table myself!

  36. 36.

    Anne Laurie

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall:

    I just come for the arguments.

    One of us! One of us!

    Hand to goddess, the last time a dozen or so of us got together in Cambridge, Tom L mentioned that he was… fascinated, I think was his word… with the verbal shorthands & in-jokes that pop up so swiftly in all the best comment threads here. I tried explaining my theory, and he said that, well, it didn’t come so naturally to him. I assured him he’d become quite fluent for someone who didn’t grow up in the mindset, and the poor man looked genuinely alarmed.

  38. 38.

    BGinCHI

    @Anne Laurie: I’ll have the usual.

    Now that I’m 6-9 hours ahead of all of you, it’s lonely waking up and being (almost) the only one around here.

    I feel like an insomniac in a really large family who walks around the house being quiet while everyone is asleep.

  39. 39.

    BGinCHI

    @asiangrrlMN: Been a long time since I’ve seen (seen?) you around here. Hope all is well.

    Site redesign is like a new, brighter porch light for the stray moths.

  41. 41.

    Anne Laurie

    @BGinCHI:

    I feel like an insomniac in a really large family who walks around the house being quiet while everyone is asleep.

    The unaccustomed quiet can be kind of nice, too, though!

  43. 43.

    Donut

    Just popping in to say that I think the people who invented the concept of daylight savings time are assholes and I hope they are rotting in hell. I know I know I know, the problem of the privileged person, but for me it twice a year it’s living hell for at least a month after the time switch. Sleeping patterns get all fucked up and then I start waking up earlier and falling asleep later every day, and I end up sleeping two or three hours at a clip instead of restful sleep. I have to get to total exhaustion and then I crash hard. I fucking hate it.

    Thanks. Have a great day.

  49. 49.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Anne Laurie: I’m on the spectrum/diagnosed social learning disorder and I have no problem with the format changes. Go hunt for another theory.

    ps: survivor of family abuse as well

  50. 50.

    Satby

    @Another Holocene Human: yeah, sorry AL but how does that theory apply to the many IT people who were making suggestions (misinterpreted as complaints) based on their expertise? I never had problems with the format change itself (never had comment numbers on my Kindle). It was the unreadable aspects and the poor planning.

  51. 51.

    Anne Laurie

    @Satby:

    yeah, sorry AL but how does that theory apply to the many IT people who were making suggestions (misinterpreted as complaints) based on their expertise?

    I didn’t intend to explain every comment about the redesign — just the operatic atmosphere where every suggestion was greeted with suspicion and/or snark. “We”, as a community, have some ingrained not-always-optimal habits — it was predicted by more than one reader that the Blogmaster would decree the roll-out before the designers were 100% happy, that the commentors would scream like scalded weasels about every glitch, and that Cole would call us bad names IN ALL CAPS. The sensible comments got lost, occasionally, between the set pieces.

    If this blog were a dog park, many of us would be wearing yellow ribbons on our collars… and that still wouldn’t stop every unfortunate encounter, because some of us wouldn’t pay attention to the warning!

  53. 53.

    Keith G

    Still chatting about redesign complaints?

    Can we move on to something more satisfying?

    How about Eddy Snowden?

  54. 54.

    Josie

    @Anne Laurie: This is a penetrating explanation of much that happens on this blog and actually deserving of a front page post. It may explain one reason why so many of us are so attached to the blog. I have never read another one where I felt so at home and comfortable. Part of it, of course, is the politics, animals, cooking and gardening, but part may be the atmosphere you describe. I would love to see you enlarge on this.

  55. 55.

    rikyrah

    I don’t think it’s rocket science.
    1. Asians can see the dogwhistles of hate lobbed at Blacks, Latinos and Muslims. They aren’t delusional enough to go ‘ well, they don’t like THEM, but they like ME.’
    2. Asians respect and want good PUBLIC schools. Look up any highly rated public school system in your area. Check the demographics. Dollars to donuts, Asians will be represented in the demographics at higher percentages than their national numbers. They aren’t interested in tearing down good public schools in order to feed the GOP Charter School Scam Machine.
    3. Asians believe in the American Social Safety net.

    ………………………………………………………………………………..

    Why Asian Americans don’t vote Republican
    By Cecilia Hyunjung Mo November 2

    During the recent No Labels-hosted Problem Solver Convention in New Hampshire, things got a little uncomfortable.

    When Joseph Choe, an Asian American college student, stood up to ask a question about South Korea, Donald Trump cut him off and wondered aloud: “Are you from South Korea?”

    Choe responded, “I’m not. I was born in Texas, raised in Colorado.” His answer prompted laughter from the audience, and nothing more than a shrug from the GOP presidential candidate.

    Media outlets like NPR and the Huffington Post mocked this interaction as a “Where are you from?” moment.

    A fellow conference attendee who walked by Choe subsequently joked, “You’re gonna have to show him your birth certificate, man!

    Although Trump probably did not intend to offend, this interaction likely reminded Choe and other Asian American voters that being Asian often translates to being perceived by fellow Americans as a foreigner.

    However innocuous Trump’s question may seem, this is exactly the sort of exchange that could, in part, be pushing Asian Americans – the highest-income, most-educated, and fastest-growing segment of the United States – toward the Democratic Party by landslide margins.

    In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama won 73 percent of the Asian American vote. That exceeded his support among traditional Democratic Party constituencies like Hispanics (71 percent) and women (55 percent).

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/02/why-asian-americans-dont-vote-republican/

  56. 56.

    dww44

    I guess that the look of this place is not gonna change, which makes me quite sad. I know one is supposed to adapt, but I genuinely hate the new look.. The huge ad that causes the Blog id line to move down a third of the page, the listing of recent posts, totally unnecessary, and the pervasive use of white space that is not only not eye-friendly (and f.lux is not my friend) all result in less readable info being on my monitor and results in way too much scrolling. Perhaps it’s better for those on mobile devices, none of which I own..

    Heretofore, BJ has been at the top of my reading list, but like other site redesigns at other blogs, now not so much. I’m finding that I’m not accessing the site nearly as much. Only to see if any positive changes for me personally have been implemented. I’m sure this place won’t miss me at all, but I will surely miss BJ in its previous version.

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @rikyrah:

    Also, many Japanese-Americans have parents or grandparents who were interned during WWII. George Takei talks about his internment experience quite often. And other Asian-Americans are under no illusion that they’re immune from similar treatment if something goes horribly awry.

    IIRC, the only Asian-American ethnic group that still votes Republican fairly reliably are Vietnamese-Americans, having to do with their refugee experience after that war (and complicated ethnic solidarity reasons in California). Everyone else is solidly Democrat now.

  59. 59.

    pb

    Dang, that music was amazing! A great counter to all the depressing political stuff lately. THANK YOU!

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