Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Come on, man.

No one could have predicted…

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Republicans do not trust women.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Petty moves from a petty man.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

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  5. 5.

    Schlemazel

    Had a great day so far, are no arguing about where to go for dinner. Too bad there just are not any decent places to eat in Chicago . . . .

  12. 12.

    Spirula

    Reminds me of the herds I’ve seen on Paines Prairie. Look like young ferals to me. Though they look a bit older than “piglet” stage, maybe the sow was killed?

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    OzarkHillbilly

    @Schlemazel: Find a hole in the wall joint with a funny sounding name and a chunk of meat turning on a spit in the window. Then have a gyro.

  17. 17.

    Schlemazel

    I did come across an interesting idea here – the payout for wrongful death shootings by Chicago cops should come from the police pension fund & not the city. It seems that might break the blue wall of silence.

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    Betty Cracker

    @JPL: We haven’t eaten the beans yet, but I took a taste to adjust seasoning, and they were pretty damn good! I put in two jalapeños instead of one, and that saved it from being too sweet, IMO.

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    Baud

    @Schlemazel: I see that proposal a lot and I understand where it’s coming from, but it seems like liberals ought not to be proposing playing games with pension funds.

    Besides, the union will just ask the City to contribute more if the fund is liable.

  23. 23.

    raven

    From IMDB:

    Haskell Wexler, a cinematographer by trade, practically invented the technique invented we know today as “cinema verite” with this striking drama that plays so much like a documentary, you’d never guess it was fiction without being told. It’s less a story and more a voyeuristic look into the lives of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, in this case reporters who are covering a political convention and other Chicago locals who are just minding their own business when the legendary riots break out at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

    Even more groundbreaking is the approach Wexler takes in framing the film’s final scenes. He had ample warning that there would potentially be some unrest at the convention, so he decided to thrust his cast right into the thick of it, sending them to the foyer and front entrance of the Chicago Convention Center and the crew right along to film the events. No one knew exactly what would happen, making this perhaps the most creative and timely piece of “improvised” drama in the history of filmmaking up to this point.

    Every documentary filmmaker who chooses to make his/her film about actions and events rather than simply a bunch of talking heads owes a debt to Wexler and his creative team on “Medium Cool”.

    \RIP

  24. 24.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Schlemazel: My idea was for police officers to be paid a standard amount, say $15 an hour for a 40 hour week, a bit more for overtime. They also get a monthly bonus award based on hours worked that month. The monthly bonus is paid out of a sinking fund i.e. the bonus depends on what’s in the fund and no more. The bad news for them is that all wrongful death payouts, abuse compensation awards etc. come out of that fund too. More claims, less clams.

  25. 25.

    catclub

    So, Ramadi is about to be fully retaken from Daesh forces. Why is this not big news? I.e. if Daesh is an existential threat to the US and our way of life, isn’t everything about it important? Strange.

  26. 26.

    Baud

    @catclub: Why isn’t it big news that the Republicans won’t authorize military force if ISIS is such a big threat? Because the existential fear is a sham that the media is happy to go along with.

  28. 28.

    schrodinger's cat

    Does BJer have a Prius wagon? Do you like it? There are a couple of wagons and regular Priii that I have shortlisted in my car search. Going for some more test drives tomorrow.

  29. 29.

    Chris

    Hi Everyone-
    Site update question–Has your scrollbar changed? Mine hasnt gone away but the part I have to click to get it to scroll down incrementally has shrunk to a tiny point. If I dont locate my cursor carefully I end up clicking 10-15 comments down instead of just one. Win7/Chrome setup….

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    raven

    @Baud: Right, it’s carried but as far as it being some big earth-shakubng deal, that comes when one of those fuckers on a honda kills a bunch of Iraqi’s.

  40. 40.

    Schlemazel

    @mclaren:
    DUDE! THATS NOT EVEN PIZZA!! – every New Yorker on the site.

    I love deep dish though I have never had it here in its home. What I get in Minneapolis is good enough for me.

    Anyone here ever had Pizza Chena, sometimes known as Easter Pie? It might be the inspiration for deep dish but it has a top crust.

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    @mclaren: Deep dish “pizza” is an abomination and a joke perpetrated against all of humanity.
    It’s delicious but it’s a casserole.

  45. 45.

    henqiguai

    @Schlemazel (#47):

    Anyone here ever had Pizza Chena, sometimes known as Easter Pie? It might be the inspiration for deep dish but it has a top crust.

    Isn’t that called a calzone?

  48. 48.

    Schlemazel

    @raven:
    Oh, Italian beef, that may be lunch tomorrow – thanks for reminding me.

    @raven: you were a broad? So, did you have the surgery? sorry, I love bad jokes

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    debbie

    @catclub:

    It was the lead story on NPR’s Weekend Edition yesterday, and I know they’ve done a few other reports/interviews about ISIS’s increasing tenuous hold on cities in Iraq and in Syria.

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    PurpleGirl

    @OzarkHillbilly: Cops still have pensions.

    In NYC, the uniformed workers have unions and pensions (cope, firefighters, corrections officers, and sanitation workers). Although the cops got a smaller raise than what they wanted from the City this past year. The cop union played a game and went for arbitration, thinking they’d get more that way but the arbitration panel gave them about the same as what the City was offering them. Bloomberg kept putting off the contract/salary talks and left them for DiBlasio.

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    opiejeanne

    @Schlemazel: I saw a comment today claiming that Minneapolis is worse than Mogadishu these days because of (wait for it) Keith Ellison, claiming that his district is gerrymandered and he is something something something ground central for young men running off to join the Terrorists, etc.

  66. 66.

    Howard Beale IV

    @schrodinger’s cat: Do you live where there is snow? I had a gen II Prius-only thing I had to do was to replace the auxillary battery. Prius’s don’t like snow very much-their traction control gets twitchy. The RAV4 hybrid is now out, and it only adds $700 to the base price.

  68. 68.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Howard Beale IV: Yes I do live in snow country, specifically Massachusetts. I asked my friend from upstate NY who has had a Prius for the last 3 year about the snow question. All he said he does is put snow tires in winter and that is enough. Prius is one of the most common cars here in the People’s Republic.

  69. 69.

    Howard Beale IV

    @schrodinger’s cat: If you’re going to flip for a dedicated set of snows then get the Nokian Hakkapiletta’s or if you don’t like changing tires then the WR G3’s will do the job nicely – the stock tires on the Prius suck-at least get the WR G3s (top rated high-performance all-season by Consumer Reports.) I live in the Twin Cities – the Prius is also a fairly common sight around here was well, but the twitchiness of its traction control was eating on my nerves and I needed more room to haul things around and AWD, so I got a RAV4 Limited.

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