Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Please don’t feed the bears.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!

He really is that stupid.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

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  1. 1.

    Smiling Mortician

    This is awesome news. I really needed it to be National Puppy Day. Now, if only I had a puppy . . .

  8. 8.

    schrodinger's cat

    Patsy Marie is a cute pup and is cute now that she is all growed up!

    Happy Holi, a day to get high on bhang and play with colors, in other words make an ass of yourself, be a kid once again. Or if you are not in India and want to enjoy vicariously, you do that by watching videos of Holi songs.

    ETA: I have links to 3 of my favorites on my blog.

  9. 9.

    Miss Bianca

    big awww….my Luna the wonder Husky is 4 years old now, and she’s *still* a puppy! Will be till she’s at least 12, if my previous ones are any indication!

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    When I took my pup to have her mani/pedi there was a rescue cat at the shop. They let her out of her crate and she and my pup were ok together, meaning neutral. My dog didn’t try to kill her or chase her.

    Now I want the cat because I have really missed having a cat in my life. She is a smallish black tabby with bright yellow-green eyes.

  15. 15.

    Cacti

    My last puppy stopped being a puppy when he turned 2 in January.

    Now he’s a big galoot of a basset hound.

  23. 23.

    jl

    Cute pic, but the dog looks like it got into a few beers inside the cooler.

    How old is that dog? (though, should it be in people years or dog years, I dunno)

  26. 26.

    TaMara (BHF)

    Bixby will be TWO in June. I’m not sure how that happened. I need to post the photo of him and my niece’s little 6lb puppy. Adorbs.

    And is there anything cuter than a boxer puppy? I think not – Patsy is so cute.

    We have 14 inches of snow, the roads are clear now (it was 72 yesterday, so expected) but they have shut down DIA – no flights in or out, so I’m thinking the wind must be fierce on that side of town.

  27. 27.

    bystander

    Just took our 10 year old pup to the vet and saw Professor Krugman walking down the street toward me. I tried giving him my best smile, but his head was resolutely turned toward observing the brick wall next to him.

  35. 35.

    laura

    I don’t know how to paste a pic, but if I could I’d share Chet the weinie dog- destroyer of worlds and thief of hearts. An emaciated creature running the mean streets of North Sacramento and saved by the good folks at Front Street Shelter. It was love at first sight with me and the slightly used dog. His naughty ways and boundless good cheer assuage the hard times and remind me and my Mr of the necessary NOW.
    Chet Baker, my funny lil valentine.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne

    @jeffreyw:

    Annie looks like a dog who just got swatted on the nose and is deciding whether or not to retaliate. She wouldn’t be the first dog who found out the hard way that cats are pointy.

  45. 45.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @LAO: You’re too kind. I just followed Betty’s instructions.

    I got dust in my eyes seeing those pictures of the “big dogs,” as we called them since they were adults. Especially the portrait of LouLou on her last day.

  48. 48.

    NotMax

    Last dog owned was strictly an impulse acquisition. Ambling past a funky surf shop, noticed a hand printed sign for Free Puppies. Inside, a large box with black lab/?? mix pups. Honed in on the runt of the litter.

    The gargantuan paws ought to have been a giveaway – she topped out later in life at a lean 110 lb.

  50. 50.

    JPL

    @LAO: A year after Miss Moxie died, a son dragged me to an animal rescue. Dogs are normally adopted after two weeks and their was a dog that bore an uncanny resemblance to Moxie except tubby. I went back weeks later and they had a few smaller dogs, under ten pounds. I selected one that was cute as could be, but the other dog was still there. So I asked to bring out the other one, because my intent was come back and adopt him, if he was still there after 8 weeks. The little one would not share me with the other one at all. What a bitch. I took the one that looked like Moxie home. Mr. Finch has been here a few years now and is quite content, as am I. Don’t wait. You will never replace your other dog, but that’s not all bad. IMO

  53. 53.

    LAO

    @JPL: I appreciate your thoughts and Mr Finch was lucky to find you. I actually put my name on a list for a rescue greyhound because I live in Manhattan and they seem to be good apartment dogs. But Turtle was a ridiculous dog, he was with me 15 years and I’ve had other dogs, I’m not sure why it hit me so hard…

  59. 59.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne:

    You know, I *love* “1776”… and have ever since my 7th-grade class performed it during Bi-Centennial year.

    So I guess (she said, steeling herself against expected gusts of “SqueeeYES” and “where have YOU been?”), I guess I’d probably like “Hamilton” too, eh?

  64. 64.

    ruemara

    @MomSense: I say Do It.

    But, make sure your dog won’t get reactive due to resource guarding. But you might see them be great friends.

    I just have office dog, who is not a puppy. No more puppies here since we no longer have vet interns or volunteers. I miss that.

  65. 65.

    burnspbesq

    Puppies are cute so that you don’t kill them when they shit in exactly the same spot in the hall outside your office for the third night in a row.

  69. 69.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Miss Bianca: SqueeeYES!

    Ahem.

    In all honesty, the odds are very, very good that you will find at least one song in Hamilton that pushes your buttons.

    Don’t hesitate because it’s called a rap or hiphop musical. I did because I am frankly tone-deaf when it comes to rap. I can appreciate what they do with language, but the performance itself leaves me cold.

    The rap parts go right past that and fit into my patter song receptors. And I love me some patter songs.

    (But he doesn’t know the territory!)

    Yes, even the introduction of Laurens, LaFayette, and Mulligan.

    (Showtime!)

    It really is a master class in poetry. I’ll stop before I start babbling about the short-e assonance in George Washington’s first song.

    The songs that grabbed me on the first listen-through were “What’d I Miss” and “The Room Where It Happens”. (It helps that I’m also a swing fan.) There’s power ballads, a lullaby, a minuet….

  76. 76.

    bystander

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: For LA Juicers, Betty Buckley is playing Big Edie in an upcoming production of the musical “Grey Gardens”. Rachel York will play Little Edie. They paired Ina production in the Hamptons a couple of summers ago. Should be a lot of fun.

  78. 78.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne:

    Cupcakes?? Well, hell, I’m in!

    In all seriousness, as a political theater geek, it does make me really happy to see America going gaga over a Broadway musical based on a…shall we say…revisionist vision of American history. Somewhere, I like to think, the ghosts of old Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill are grinning away thru’ a cloud of cigar smoke…

  80. 80.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    I’m Bert Brecht and I can clearly see

    How Hamilton’s production style incorporates me!

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