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Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

People are weird.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    Was luxuriating in bed this morning, only to be jolted awake by McMegan, lecturing from her position as a Libertarian that everyone else lives in a bubble –Manhattan and coastal elites were singled out –which prevents them from envisioning how any of the remaining candidates can possibly be elected.

    Your liberal public radio at work.

  9. 9.

    gelfling545

    My granddaughter has a cat named General Tso ar her father’s house. Of course the other one is named Hubble Telescope so …. At her mother’s she has Sam Adams & James Tiberius. No Fluffy or Tiger for her!

  11. 11.

    cmorenc

    @trollhattan:

    Was luxuriating in bed this morning, only to be jolted awake by McMegan, lecturing from her position as a Libertarian that everyone else lives in a bubble –Manhattan and coastal elites were singled out

    What a great gig to get well-paid for spouting bullshit pulled out of your rear end week after week, like McMegan. Must be a who-you-know instead of what-you-know kind of thing.

  12. 12.

    Troublesome Carp fka Geeno

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Jeezus F’n’ Christ! can that woman do anything right!
    This is why I can’t buy the Bernistas’ conspiracy theories about her. She’s a complete f**k up.

  13. 13.

    Tokyokie

    I’m not sure that my chubby Siamese Marvin would fit in the fry basket. I need to get a Siamese kitten to annoy Marvin as much as he annoys everybody else.

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    Gotta drive a bit. Been in Hoosierland, heading to Bevinland (alas). Also home to Mammoth Cave and miles and miles of pastoral scenes. (With lots of roadkill, alas. Kentucky seems not to budget for cleaning up its highways. Trauma can ensue if one does not look away, quickly. “Name that stiff” gets sad if there is one every mile.)

    Nothing like traveling elsewhere to appreciate the services of the Old Dominion.

    It is a beautiful country, though.

    Also: National Parks Week, peeps. 100th anniversary. Free admittance to NPs all week (although you still pay for services/tours/campground sites, etc.)

    Find a Park to love. April 16-24.

    https://www.nps.gov/findapark/national-park-week.htm

  18. 18.

    Anya

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t think Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a master manipulator or master anything but bs. I just can’t stand her. Unfortunately, she will win the primary. I actually considered donating to her opponent but why bother since she’ll easily win.

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Anya: I don’t know the make up of her district, and I’m sure there are worse Dems in the House, but I just think she’s a lousy media presence, which it seems to me is an important part of her DNC job. She must be a demon fund-raiser

  24. 24.

    J R in WV

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    We had a cat that loved the bathroom sink when it was too warm, sometimes inconvenient, always cute. He would scram if he saw you reach for the faucet knobs, having gotten wet once when someone was in a hurry. One of our smarter cats evah. Long gone now.

  25. 25.

    Anya

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I agree. I cringe everytime I see her representing our side. She also comes off fake and like someone who’s insincere. I don’t know why they replaced Howard Dean. He comes off as a bit autocratic but he was way more effective in the media.

  26. 26.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @Troublesome Carp fka Geeno:
    All too often we attribute ill intentions when simple incompetence is the more obvious and the more likely culprit!

    We were out doing the spring raking. As many of you know our entire street was torn up last summer & everyone had their front lawn mashed & mangled. The neighbor has a yard guy stop by to big on some landscape work, he was on his way to a job with 4 tons of rocks in his trailer. An older woman apparently misjudged the width of her car and hit the trailer with her RF fender. Made one hell of a noise! We ran out to help, the woman is OK but her nice Caddy is toast as is the trailer full of rock. Always exciting around here!

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WereBear:

    When I was a kid, we had a cat named Dinah, after Alice’s cat. All three litters of her kittens were named after Alice in Wonderland terms or characters:

    Jabberwocky and Jub-Jub
    Momerath, Mimsey, and Bandersnatch
    Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision

  28. 28.

    FoxinSocks

    At the end of September, I rescued four kittens and a Mom cat who had been dumped next to a Chinese restaurant. Please spare me the Chinese restaurant jokes! The cooks were actually very concerned for the kittens and had been leaving out chicken for them to eat. Also, the kittens were captured during the Mid-Autumn festival so the owner of the restaurant gave me and my kitty-catching partner a moon cake, which was a great honor.

    Anyways, we ended up naming the kittens Tofu, Wonton, Moo Shu, and Fortune Cookie (the last to be captured). Mom cat, who’s still with me being socialized, was named Ming in honor of the restaurant – Ming’s Asian Bistro.

  29. 29.

    kindness

    I used to have a cat named Chairman Mau. We took it from that refrain in that Little Feat song. Called her Mau. It fit.

  31. 31.

    Keith P.

    @J.: My little black kitty is out on the back porch in the sphinx pose. Wherever she is, there’s one or two male ferals somewhere nearby, as she’s quite the slut (albeit spayed)…a friend of mine says it because male cats forcibly compel females to bring them food, but usually I see them all post-meal where it’s a big lounge scene.

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I think I need to go lie down

    daveweigel ‏@ daveweigel 23m23 minutes ago
    “I do not want my grandchildren to believe in evolution,” says the Trump surrogate at the WYGOP convention.

    Interesting, though, to see this person supporting the most secular Republican candidate since… the first incarnation of Steve Forbes? Or maybe Bob Dole. My old man used to say about Reagan, he was a blank screen people projected their beliefs on to.

  33. 33.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @kindness:

    One of my cats from years ago used to get these tearing-around terrorist fits, as so many cats do. I would tease him about the “Meow-Meow Rebellion” or being part of the “TonTon Ma-CUTE.”

    Best name I ever gave a cat was a big orange marmalade guy, whose name was Pounce de Lion.

  34. 34.

    Mike in NC

    Netflix has a documentary called ‘The Search for General Tso’ which reveals that almost none of the food served in Chinese restaurants in America originated in mainland China. Some from Taiwan, however. Very enlightening.

  35. 35.

    J R in WV

    @WereBear:

    We had Eleanor Roosevelt and Warren G Harding Maine Coon cats, Ellie and Bandit in normal conversation. Very social and outgoing, at a party Ellie wanted to meet everyone.

    We also had Timidthy, who was wary of all.

    Right now we have Spike, she’s really sharp and wants to hold on tight, and Punkin, who was a rescue, tiny when found at 6 months old, she ballooned into a pumpkin, hence the name, but now is more normal in weight much to the vet’s amazement.

  38. 38.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @FoxinSocks: @SiubhanDuinne:
    I love how people name cats., I love good cat names. Pounce De leon is just delicious!
    My favorite was my late, grate, Edward Wellington Mouseripper III (ripper for short)
    The current cat left us by our daughter would have been Madam Bloodfang Du Pompadore (fang or pomps for short) but the kids insisted on muffin, a terrible name for a cat.

  41. 41.

    Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    daveweigel ‏@ daveweigel 23m23 minutes ago
    “I do not want my grandchildren to believe in evolution,” says the Trump surrogate at the WYGOP convention.

    If grandchildren evolved from grandparents, why are there still grandparents?

  42. 42.

    wmd

    A note on bumper sticker frequencies from a Silicon Valley commuter – Recently I saw my first and only Hillary sticker. I started keeping track about a week ago.
    Bernie 15 sightings in a week
    Hillary 1
    Trump 6
    Carson 2 (some people don’t remove stickers obviously)
    No others.
    This and a few dollars will get you a cup of coffee.

  44. 44.

    ? Martin

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Interesting, though, to see this person supporting the most secular Republican candidate since… the first incarnation of Steve Forbes?

    Well, I think Trump is a necessary catalyst for the GOP. The ‘creationism because Jesus’ policy stance is clearly failing (ignore the extinction burst laws in NC and MS – they are far from the mainstream in this country) and Trump is offering to replace it with a ‘creationism because America’ policy stance. The Bible’s durability to shape policy isn’t strong (the west coast is quietly knocking down abortion and sexual orientation restrictions as fast as the Confederacy can put them up, and knocking them down for more people) but we always have nationalism, the great american exceptionalism to retreat to, and I think that’s what these folks are doing. It’s a smart strategy – bang the Bible at the state level where it can still work in limited cases, but retreat to a nationalist demagogue at the federal level that is willing to back the same goal.

  47. 47.

    PurpleGirl

    @MattF: This is an interesting article. I’ll have read it again then research it a bit more. I’ve always thought there was a genetic component to stuttering. (I’ve stuttered my whole life.)

  52. 52.

    ? Martin

    @MattF: Thanks for the link. My son’s friend struggled with stuttering and is heading off to college aspiring to be a speech pathologist. I forwarded it.

  53. 53.

    Major Major Major Major

    @wmd: A friend of mine from grad school did some annoying pro-Bernie thing on Facebook about how he’s never seen any Hillary swag so obviously Bernie is winning. (I’m not annoyed by pro-Bernie stuff, just stupid stuff.) Anywho, I commented that I have some, but I don’t drive or have a yard, and besides, as we say in the ‘biz, bumper stickers don’t vote, and I encouraged him to check out his local office and do some phone banking since Colorado had already caucused.

    He got mad and asked me how it felt to be cashing all those astroturfing checks.

    I said, well, those two and a half million votes had to come from somewhere…

    Then he muttered (insofar as one can mutter by typing) some nonsense about DWS stealing the election and sulked off…

  56. 56.

    PurpleGirl

    @? Martin: A speech pathologist I knew noticed that I was reading a number of books about stuttering and he told me not to think about becoming a pathologist if I thought it would help me with my own stuttering. I’ve had many different types of treatments but the one I found most helpful was the regime developed at Hollins College in Roanoake VA. It’s called The Precision Fluency Shaping Program.

  57. 57.

    tsquared2001

    @Germy: I am SO looking forward to Confirmation. Looking back, I am still torn over which senator I hated more.

    I’d have Hatch as a number one seed, of course, but Specter is a strong second seed while Biden is the dark horse at three. Alan Simpson rounds out the field while Kennedy acted like he never got the tourney invite.

  58. 58.

    ? Martin

    @PurpleGirl: He’s completely overcome his stuttering (as viewed from an observer) – it took a lot of effort. I’m not sure what approach they took, but it was very effective. He wants to give back now.

  63. 63.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @raven: I don’t know, maybe it could be saved?

    @tybee: They had to tow the trailer as the frame got bent. it, however, can probably be saved.

  64. 64.

    raven

    So the new football coach at Georgia asked that 93,000 people show up for the spring game @ 4pm. We may not get that many but, with Ludacris playing the pregame it should be nuts. There are also a number of events downtown including a local “dancing with the stars” and the ever popular “Boybutante Ball” aids fundraiser. I’m staying in the neighborhood but Athens will be nuts!

  66. 66.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @trollhattan:
    gocomics.com has been carrying both Kilban & Kilban Cats for a while now, in case you want a regular fix
    Love to eat them mousies
    Mousies what I love to eat
    Bite they little heads off,
    nibble on they tiny feet

  68. 68.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @trollhattan: and it was in great shape, low mileage and very clean. It was a shame to see but good that nobody got hurt, it could have been so much worse

  70. 70.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @Arclite:
    I understand that cat is tough and stringy but don’t know myself. I do always find it interesting where people draw the line. As recently demonstrated, octopus are very smart, capable of planning and reasoning and showing some sorts of emotions but you’ll never hear people freaking out about people eating them.

  71. 71.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @raven:
    I didn’t look that close but I would expect that it was messed up. If it were newer someone probably could paste it together but I don’t know if there is enough profit in that one.

  72. 72.

    Ruckus

    @raven:
    Notice the passenger door pushed back. I’d bet frame damage. She hit hard enough to tear off the wheel and upright, that’s gunna leave a mark.

  74. 74.

    Ruckus

    @efgoldman:
    Had an acquaintance from Boston who used to buy GM land yachts. They were very cheap and he said he could always find a $50 Chevy V8 to put in when the original motor died. He lost one when the complete under carriage rusted out and the body fell to the ground. It was not a plan with safety in mind.

  77. 77.

    No One You Know

    I’ve had a Peanut Butter, Marple, Blue, Kirby, Deja Vu, and Brunswick. It was not much of a challenge to discover their True Names. ;-)

  78. 78.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): Nice composition. :-) It’s a rough way for her to spend a beautiful day. :-(

    I hope the big trees survive the construction. (Sometimes they don’t like that much of their roots being disturbed.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  79. 79.

    trollhattan

    @Schlemazel (parmesan rancor):
    Cars are pretty good these days giving up their lives to save ours, so long as they’re not completely mismatched. One that old has a value of zip and will be totaled by the insurance co. Could be salvaged, but I sure wouldn’t.

  80. 80.

    MomSense

    I traveled to visit s farm today and saw lots of freshly shorn beauties. Nice to know where the wool comes from that keeps me happy all year.

    Also saw some adorable lambs who were kitten like with their antics. There were some pre-school age children in the barn just giggling and belly laughing at the scene. I also met a German couple who stopped on their way to Acadia. They couldn’t get over how gorgeous the chickens were.

    Then I clambered around on the rocks at the point and saw seagulls (of course) herons, and a bald eagle. It was a perfect morning. Even got a call from college spawn. Now it’s chores for the rest of the day.

  81. 81.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @Ruckus:
    back when TLC was the learning channel & actually educational instead of stupid beyond belief they used to run a Canadian series about survival under extreme circumstances. One episode was a medic taking a pregnant Inuit woman to a hospital by plane. The crashed in the middle of nowhere. The pilot died immediately & the woman a few hours later. After being stuck for a long time he ate the pilot. When rescued he admitted what had happened the the rescue people told him that happened a lot but they never reported it. Some time later the story leaked out & his life was an even worse hell because people ridiculed and shunned him. I don’t understand how people could be that way, would they honestly rather starve to death than eat what is available? I believe it would be difficult but I don’t doubt I would chose that over starvation.

  82. 82.

    bemused

    @tsquared2001:
    I was just reading that Simpson and Sen Danforth are mighty displeased with their portrayals.

    I don’t know if I read this somewhere or dreamed it but were there other women who were harassed by Thomas? I would expect there would be because these guys are typically serial harassers.

  83. 83.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
    Agreed. The two trees we had close to the work came down years ago & I have planted 2 dwarf cherry trees, one of which is very close to the cut edge you can see just at the bottom right. It is starting to bud out so I have hope. The county came by while I was away & offered to build a knee wall instead of grading so the wifey said yes to that as it gives us the best chance of saving them.

  84. 84.

    PurpleGirl

    @Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): Possibly because people see cats as friends and pet/animal companions. I don’t many people see octopus the same way. Also, Americans don’t think of eating horse flesh but many Europeans (especially French) do eat horse and consider it a delicacy. I guess it depends on how you see the animal.

  85. 85.

    Ruckus

    @Schlemazel (parmesan rancor):
    There are a few stories like that, I’d bet there are a lot more untold. Animals have some basic instincts, survival being paramount. We have socialized ourselves to think cannibalism is wrong, even in extreme cases. And I think it may for survival of the species rather than just survival of one or a few. And it is a reason we idolize someone who values other lives over their own.

  86. 86.

    tybee

    @Ruckus:

    i was given a cook book for christmas, “Extreme Cuisine”, discussing various foods that humans eat, with an emphasis on odd things and recipes.

    it has a chapter on herbivores and a recipe at the end of the chapter for each discussed, elk, antelope, horses, sheep etc. then a chapter on pigs, with recipes, one on poisonous foods, with recipes…and one on humans.

    and it has a recipe at the end of the chapter.

  87. 87.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @bemused: I was just reading that Simpson and Sen Danforth are mighty displeased with their portrayals.

    That makes me happy, especially that fraudulent old git Simpson

    There was at least one, maybe two women named in the press and willing to testify. I shall visit Wikipedia to confirm my memory before I type….

    Statements in support of Hill’s allegations[edit]
    Two women, Angela Wright and Rose Jourdain, made statements to Senate staffers in support of Hill. Ultimately, however, Wright and Jourdain were dismissed by the Judiciary Committee without testifying.[36] The reasons why Wright was not called (or chose not to be called) to testify are complex and a matter of some dispute;[37][38] Republican Senators wanted to avoid the prospect of a second woman describing inappropriate behavior by Thomas, while Democratic Senators were concerned about Wright’s credibility and Wright herself was reluctant to testify after seeing the Committee’s treatment of Hill, including Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter stating that he felt Hill’s testimony was perjurious in its entirety.[13][37][38] During the Thomas nomination proceedings, Wright and Hill were the only people who publicly alleged that then-Judge Thomas had made unsolicited sexual advances, and Hill was the only one who testified to that effect.[39]
    Wright, who was one of Thomas’s subordinates at the EEOC until he fired her, told Senate Judiciary Committee staff that Thomas had repeatedly made comments to her much like those he allegedly made to Hill, including pressuring her for dates, asking her the size of her breasts, and frequently commenting on the anatomy of other women.[40] Wright said that after she turned down Thomas for a date, Thomas began to express discontent with her work and eventually fired her. Thomas said that he fired Wright for poor performance and for using a homophobic epithet.
    Rose Jourdain also did not testify but corroborated Wright’s statements, saying Wright had spoken to her about Thomas’s statements at the time they were allegedly made. Jourdain stated that Wright had become “increasingly uneasy” around Thomas because of his constant commentary about her body and looks, and that Wright once came to Jourdain’s office in tears as a result.[13]
    Another former Thomas assistant, Sukari Hardnett, did not accuse Thomas of sexual harassment, but told the Judiciary Committee staff that “if you were young, black, female, reasonably attractive and worked directly for Clarence Thomas, you knew full well you were being inspected and auditioned as a female.”[41]

    It’s not in the wiki article, but as I recall not letting Wright testify was one of the things Biden took a lot of heat for at the time, and in his first presidential run

  89. 89.

    bemused

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Ah yes, I do remember a bit about this now. Guys don’t stop at harassing just one woman. I don’t know how his second wife cannot know he had/has this issue. She has to be in deep denial because she wanted an apology from Hill and iirc, she sounded drunk or impaired when leaving a phone message. I’m a bit fuzzy on this though.

  93. 93.

    bemused senior

    Ok, I found the mildly smoking gun in the 2014 Sanders tax return. Jane’s income (small consulting fee) is from “TLLRWD commission”. This, it turns out, is because she is the alternate representative to the commission overseeing low level nuclear waste disposal under the compact between Vermont, Maine and Texas. The back story of that is here. So not a sign of devil worship but it should be embarrassing to both of them.

  97. 97.

    martian

    @bemused senior: There’s more where that came from. Apparently Sanders has a history of hiring family, and there were some some sketchy (imo) goings on with a contract awarded to a close friend during Jane’s tenure at Burlington. I’m hesitant to air the rumours I’m hearing, ’cause Internet and rumours, but Jane and her daughter working for Sanders in the past is verifiable, and the sketchy Burlington stuff is public even if not much discussed. Nothing I’ve heard is really heinous – besides the financial shenanigans and the morass Jane left her little college in – but it makes me give St. Bernard of Willsee a hard side eye.

  98. 98.

    Ruckus

    @tybee:
    I’m an urban kid. I stopped hunting when I realized that if I caught or shot anything I had to clean and prepare it. (OK along with also having people just miss shooting me. Haven’t been shot at in the supermarket. Yet.)
    If I were trapped somewhere like a plane crash in AK and had an unconventional food source that I had to cut up and eat or die, I probably would when I got hungry enough. And so would most everyone else. Not sure I’d talk about it though.

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