Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

In my day, never was longer.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Books are my comfort food!

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

People are weird.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

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Steve was groomed yesterday. Got a mani/pedi, bathed, all the mats I couldn’t get out myself brushed out, blow dried, and just general primped and preened so he’s in full majestic form. And the best part about it is that I can tell he feels so much better:

blissedout

Since I brought him home yesterday, he’s been strutting around the house like a peacock, and I can tell he really appreciates it because he has been surgically attached to my lap letting me know how happy he is. Just gazing on my lovingly, kneading me, giving me the little “love you man” wink that cats do when they are happy, and letting out some deep thankful purring. He’s so soft and smooth, too, since the bath, and it’s just so nice knowing my little buddy feels better and appreciates it. That’s a good feeling, knowing your critters are happy.

BTW- Season 2 of Daredevil is AMAZING.

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  7. 7.

    Big R

    Trying to figure out if my fat, grumpy cat would benefit from professional grooming. Anybody ever seen a jerk cat like to be done up like that? The vet says he has hyperkinesthesia (super-sensitive skin).

  8. 8.

    asiangrrlMN

    Looking good, Sir Willie Whiskertons III, looking REAL good. Who doesn’t love a good mani/pedi??? Way to take care of your animal friends, Cole!

  14. 14.

    gene108

    Got a mani/pedi, bathed, all the mats I couldn’t get out myself brushed out, blow dried

    When I read this sentence, at first, I thought John was talking about himself :-p

  16. 16.

    seaboogie

    Shorter Steve:

    I am Magnificent, and you may bask

    In the reflected beauty of my magnificence…

    Long have I toiled in the land of fur mats and cling-ons,

    And now I am restored to my natural beauty…

    I am The Steve…..

  17. 17.

    Anoniminous

    By my count there are 20 GOP primaries yet to be held with 1,049 delegates to be allocated. Trump needs 559 to get to a first ballot nomination. Should these last 20 primaries split the way the first 20 did Trump may very well not make it to 1,237.

    ETA: dang. Wrong Thread

  18. 18.

    Oregon Rose

    @Big R: My cats always hated being taken in for baths. They were pretty grumpy about nail clipping too, even if we did them at home. OK, so I guess we’ve just had a lot of spoiled and grumpy cats.

  19. 19.

    CaseyL

    Handsome fellow!

    There is nothing so contented looking as a contented kitteh. I love it when they look pleased with themselves and happy with life.

    I brush my kitties, but have never taken them in for professional grooming. They’re medium-hairs rather than true longhairs, and so can take care of that very well using only the tools Mother Goddess Bastet gave them.

  20. 20.

    sacrablue

    I took the semi-feral cat to the vet for the first time today. He is now mat free. He is shaved from his neck to the last two inches of his tail. It’s a lion cut. What a pathetic sight! He’s bee sleeping it off for about 10 hours now. Poor baby.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    @Anoniminous:
    Trump might do well in the primaries if someone gave him a mani-pedi and a bath, and especially if they removed all that matted hair from the top of his head.

  27. 27.

    Death Panel Truck

    @Anoniminous: I hope Trump wins the nomination, because I can then watch with glee (and endless tubs of popcorn) the GOP’s Chernobylesque meltdown at the convention, and Hillary’s winning the biggest Democratic landslide since LB motherfuckin’ J.

  28. 28.

    mel

    Steve is truly a gorgeous kitty!! Maine Coons somehow always manage to look regal and dignified, even at their goofiest or most relaxed moments.

    We lost our sweet Maine Coon 5 years ago; he was nearly 21 years old, and had been with us since he was rescued as a pitifully scrawny teen who was apparently surviving off of leftovers filched from the dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant when the lid would occasionally be left unlocked at night. Several months after we adopted him, I brought home some carry out from the restaurant where he had been found. He came flying down the stairs, went airborne, and landed right in the middle of my plate, sending food, plate, 20 pounds of giant teenaged kitten, and one extremely startled human crashing to the ground. He casually picked up a piece of chicken from my Moo Goo Gai Pan, and started nomming away, eyes squeezed shut, purring up a storm.

    Although he soon figured out that he’d never, ever have an empty tummy again, he would still go bananas for the smell of take-out from that particular restaurant and he always got his own little dish of chicken and rice to enjoy. How I miss him!

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    I’m up way late. Not insomnia, just my circadian rhythm gradually getting out of whack over the last week or so.

    Spring has sprung, with a few glitches. It’s only 36° in my corner of NoVA right now, with the Sunday high predicted to be 42°. Winter’s last gasp, presumably. It’s supposed to get warmer as the week goes on.

    So I’m listening to late-night music that is dangerously close to smooth jazz and looking at recipes on line for beef bourguignon, wondering about doing it in a slow cooker and whether the prep is so involved that it ends up being just as easy to do it in a Dutch oven. The attraction of the slow cooker (presumably) is not having to check that the long simmer time is being maintained at the right temp.

    That is all. Oh, yeah, happy Steve cat is happy. What a magnificent bastard!

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    Yeah, I know, and it was a big fucking production. Looking for something more streamlined—say, 80% of the result with 50% of the effort.

  33. 33.

    gogol's wife

    I love you, Steve.

    Why does it have to snow tonight? When it’s the last day of spring break and we have to get to work in the morning? Why? Why? Why?

  36. 36.

    RSR

    @Steeplejack:

    Modern Beef Burgundy

    WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:
    We wanted our boeuf bourguignon recipe to have tender braised beef napped in a silky, rich sauce with bold red wine flavor but without all the work that the classic recipe requires. We cook the stew in the oven, uncovered in a roasting pan, so that the exposed surfaces of the meat brown as it braises, allowing us to eliminate the time-consuming step of searing it beforehand. Similarly, we used the oven, rather than the stovetop, to render the salt pork and to prepare the traditional mushroom and pearl onion garnish.

  38. 38.

    J R in WV

    We have two dogs and two cats, and have found that treating the dogs really prevents the cats from coming down with a bad case of fleas. We do have an increasing tick problem, and have this winter found ticks on a dog in every months of the calendar year. Even though it has been a pretty traditional winter in terms of cold and precipitation.

    We use two forms of insect prevention of the dogs, and it isn’t cheap, but ti works OK. Mostly the ticks we are removing are nearing death when they get flushed into the septic system.

  40. 40.

    Germy

    Our cat had an ingrown claw on her hind paw. Took her to the vet and they clipped it off. I’m glad I caught it in time, she didn’t need antibiotics. It hadn’t gone into her pad far enough to do any damage.

    But she was pissed off about the car ride, the waiting room, and the vet.

    She’s relieved it’s over now. And so are we.

  44. 44.

    StringOnAStick

    By gods, that cat is gorgeous! He looks a lot like the best kitty we ever had, gone 6 months now and I still cry every day over her loss.

  47. 47.

    Denali

    @Triaassic Sands,

    Henri, the Exisitential Cat, has already gotten despair covered. Google it.

  48. 48.

    polyblog

    Steve is gorgeous. The head shot is fab, but I for 1 would appreciate a full body shot. When you have the time, that is.

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