Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

I really should read my own blog.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

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

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

You cannot shame the shameless.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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  3. 3.

    Iowa Old Lady

    Thurston is deceptively adorable.

    We were out of town overnight because we drove to the Quad Cities for a big John Deere award ceremony at which Mr IOL was made a John Deere Innovation Fellow. This is a big deal and I couldn’t be prouder of him.

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    G has discovered that it’s difficult to get an online degree when you have three cats who keep coming over and going, What’cha doin’? How about now? What about now? You don’t look busy, so I’m going to sit in your lap. For two hours.

  8. 8.

    Motivated Seller

    Lily has been living the couch life a little too long. Her nails need a trim.

  11. 11.

    japa21

    @Iowa Old Lady: The big question is how is that going to influence Mr. IOL and direct how he does things. Will John Deere get quid pro quo? What do they want him to do. Corruption is everywhere.

    Kidding aside, that is a big deal and congratulations to Mr. IOL. And I am sure he could not have achieved what he has without you by his side.

  12. 12.

    raven

    My wife tried to get on a standby out of Baltimore but it was full. That sets us up for a 9:30 arrival and a sucky drive back to Athens!

  14. 14.

    Trollhattan

    Speaking of doggies, a moment of remembrance for Maggie, possibly the world’s oldest at thirty years.

    An Australian kelpie called Maggie has passed away this week, and her owner thinks she may just be the world’s oldest dog. Maggie had lived on Brian McLaren’s dairy farm in Woolsthorpe, southern Victoria, since she was just eight weeks old.

    “We got her when she was only a little pup. We believe she was pretty close to 30 years old, if not she was at least 29-and-a-half,” Mr McLaren said.

    According to the Guinness World Records, the oldest age recorded for a dog is 29 years and five months — for another Australian working dog named Bluey. The McLaren family brought Maggie home before their son, who is now 34, had started attending school.

    …Mr McLaren said Maggie passed away peacefully, curled up in her bed, on Sunday night.

    “The best thing about it is the last couple of weeks I was petrified I was going to have to put her down, and that was going to break my heart,” he said. “I’m so pleased she went the way she went.”

    Aw shucks, that’s heart-rending, Maggie sounds like the perfect dog. And yes, I had to look up kelpie.

  15. 15.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @japa21: Deere pays Mr IOL’s salary, so they already get to tell him what to do.

    However, at their behest, he’s spent his professional life doing R&D to reduce emissions and increase fuel economy in diesel engines. At our house, every time EPA issues a new regulation on off-highway equipment, we call it “Job security.”

  17. 17.

    Major Major Major Major

    ? ♫♩Shameless self-promotion ♩♫ new chapter!

    Pearly ended her call and put her phone back into her pocket, unfocused her eyes for a bit, and took in the Bay.

    A bank of fog was blasting over the coastal range at Twin Peaks. It had already swallowed the bottom half of Sutro Tower, giving the impression of a stenopus hispidus—that’s one of those red-and-white striped shrimp, for the non-scientists—hidden just below the cloud cover. It crouched over the city, cleaning the detritus and parasites off the landscape, its tail stuck in the air to catch the attention of passing fish, and… well, the metaphor sort of fell apart with the fish thing, for a few reasons, but mostly because there weren’t any fish that big. Or, you know, the other big issue involving fish at the moment.

    The poor shrimp would be lonely, too. S. hispidus is, unlike most of the residents of San Francisco, monogamous, and there was only one in sight. Perhaps some day they would build another pointless radio tower and finally give it a companion.

  21. 21.

    Trollhattan

    What’s the link limit now? I got disappeared with just two.

    Farewell to the Maggie, possibly the world’s oldest pooch.

    An Australian kelpie called Maggie has passed away this week, and her owner thinks she may just be the world’s oldest dog. Maggie had lived on Brian McLaren’s dairy farm in Woolsthorpe, southern Victoria, since she was just eight weeks old.

    “We got her when she was only a little pup. We believe she was pretty close to 30 years old, if not she was at least 29-and-a-half,” Mr McLaren said.

    According to the Guinness World Records, the oldest age recorded for a dog is 29 years and five months — for another Australian working dog named Bluey. The McLaren family brought Maggie home before their son, who is now 34, had started attending school.

    “When the kids were growing up they’d get off the bus at 4:10pm and if they weren’t, she’d be there barking at 4:15,” Mr McLaren said.

    Maggie worked on the farm rounding up cows until about 12 years ago.

    “She wasn’t pampered but she was well looked after. She always had milk — not too much of it, but she loved her milk — and anything else she’d wanted,” Mr McLaren said. “She loved chasing the motorbike. When she was up and going she would want to run along beside it, so the faster you went, the quicker she would run. She had the greatest life.”

    Mr McLaren said Maggie passed away peacefully, curled up in her bed, on Sunday night.

    “The best thing about it is the last couple of weeks I was petrified I was going to have to put her down, and that was going to break my heart,” he said. “I’m so pleased she went the way she went.”

    Sigh, they still never live long enough. As to what’s kelpie, I had to look.

  23. 23.

    Trollhattan

    What’s the link limit now? I got disappeared with just two. Hmm, not the links, maybe I need to alter the farmer’s name?

    Farewell to the Maggie, possibly the world’s oldest pooch.

    An Australian kelpie called Maggie has passed away this week, and her owner thinks she may just be the world’s oldest dog. Maggie had lived on Brian MacLaren’s dairy farm in Woolsthorpe, southern Victoria, since she was just eight weeks old.

    “We got her when she was only a little pup. We believe she was pretty close to 30 years old, if not she was at least 29-and-a-half,” Mr MacLaren said.

    According to the Guinness World Records, the oldest age recorded for a dog is 29 years and five months — for another Australian working dog named Bluey. The MacLaren family brought Maggie home before their son, who is now 34, had started attending school.

    “When the kids were growing up they’d get off the bus at 4:10pm and if they weren’t, she’d be there barking at 4:15,” Mr MacLaren said.

    Maggie worked on the farm rounding up cows until about 12 years ago.

    “She wasn’t pampered but she was well looked after. She always had milk — not too much of it, but she loved her milk — and anything else she’d wanted,” Mr MacLaren said. “She loved chasing the motorbike. When she was up and going she would want to run along beside it, so the faster you went, the quicker she would run. She had the greatest life.”

    Mr MacLaren said Maggie passed away peacefully, curled up in her bed, on Sunday night.

    “The best thing about it is the last couple of weeks I was petrified I was going to have to put her down, and that was going to break my heart,” he said. “I’m so pleased she went the way she went.”

    –ABC

    Sigh, they still never live long enough. As to what’s kelpie, I had to look.
    ETA link to original article, complete with pic of Maggie.

  26. 26.

    kindness

    Walkies!!!! Happy pups.

    You know what has been frying my ass of late? I am sick of the clickbait that I see so many places regarding this election.

    Example: Huffington Post. God I am loathing this site lately. All too often there will be a headline that doesn’t match an article and really all they seem to want is to generate a fight between Republicans over Trump/Cruz or Democrats over Bernie/Hillary. It’s become apparent they only care about clicks and they would happily sink this country just to get more. I can’t tell which posts are real & which are trolls just to get people to throw shit at each other. Really I was never fond of HuffPo but they suck worse than ever now.

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    Wonder why Cole’s posts are green on the desktop site and purple on the mobile site.

  30. 30.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: I feel bad for her. She hustled to the airport thinking she could get on. I’m going to wait for ATL traffic to settle and go to Bass Pro to poke around. We should be home by 11:30 or so.

  34. 34.

    cmorenc

    Lily looks as if she could gladly wait patiently on the couch all day for you John. Thurston, OTOH has a pleadingly impatient look that hints that if you don’t engage him in some fun activity soon, you may regret whatever fun activity he’s about to think up on his own.

  36. 36.

    Hal

    I’m starting to see all the Hillary stole the election in NY posts on social media. If the polls for next Tuesday hold up, the intertubes should be a blast right up to November.

  41. 41.

    rikyrah

    I’m gonna have to wait to get home, get some dinner, and then enjoy the comments section:

    HARRIET TUBMAN ON THE $20 IS, OFFICIALLY, THE BLACKEST THING THAT WILL EVER HAPPENK

    Damon Young, 4/20/16

    I was going to create of a list of things Blacker than the face of Harriet Tubman — perhaps the fiercest and baddest person to ever plant a foot on American soil — replacing Andrew Jackson’s on the 20.

    …………………………………………

    But I decided not to. Because nothing I could possibly cite or conjure would be Blacker than this woman — this American who lived as a fearless, relentless, and unambiguous challenge of America; her very existence both an indictment of our nation and the fullest and beautifulest paean to the kidnapped Africans living within it — existing on our currency. The same currency she could have been purchased for 170 years ago. The Blackness scale has officially been broken. Obliterated. Decimated.

    And all I know is that I will never break a 20 dollar bill again.

  42. 42.

    dedc79

    Saw an actual Republican acknowledgement of Cleek’s law over at NR’s The Corner today. In a post on the Harriet Tubman $20 bill announcement, a commenter wrote “I have no beef with Harriet Tubman. God bless her. I just object to everything this administration does, period.”

  46. 46.

    jl

    @rikyrah:

    ” And all I know is that I will never break a 20 dollar bill again.”

    Like a commenter said in Money Money Money thread, no reason to have only one face on a denomination.
    How about a series of Fed notes with:
    oner: MLK
    fiver:Frederick Douglass
    tener: Thurgood Marshall
    fifty: WEB duBois
    hundred: Rosa Parks

  52. 52.

    BaldwinBro

    @Iowa Old Lady: Have your husband start looking into the problem of “Sunflowers and Fire” with the combines. I haven’t heard about the “S” series, but watched a few burn to the ground.

  53. 53.

    p.a.

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    How did she accomplish the theft?

    wait for it when we win the general… zombie Acorn, Newer New Black Panthers, Reanimated Chicago Daley Machine, 47%-er Magic, Soshulist Math.

  55. 55.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: She should be thankful you are her husband. If it was my wife I’d say, “Get a room, Honey. You know my bedtime is at 8:30.” On the slightly more serious side, when she travels, she always drives herself to the airport just to avoid situations like this. (my wife really is too good for me). As somebody else said above, at least you won’t be fighting traffic.

  56. 56.

    gene108

    @raven:

    We went with a Kenmore Stackable.

    Stackable won’t fit in my laundry / utility area. Need a stand alone washing machine.

  57. 57.

    p.a.

    @gene108: Consumer Rpts. Happy w my Frigidaire Stack 7+ years, 1 repair. n.b. for any stack system, repairs generally mean unstacking, esp for bottom (washer) unit.

  59. 59.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @BaldwinBro: If it’s not something to do with an experimental engine, you will know far more than he does. We’re all specialists these days.

    ETA: Jeffreyw: That’s hard. Even when you did the right things, it’s hard to lose a dog.

  63. 63.

    ruemara

    Nice down stay on Thurston.
    I’m nursing tendonitis. I suppose that’s a down stay for humans. How long does this take to heal? It’s annoying.

  64. 64.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: We went back an forth on that. There’s a shuttle but she’s have a narrow window and if she missed it she’s have to wait until 10:45. She thought I was a little dopey with not wanting her to park at the airport but she’s been on the road since Sunday and that 1 1/2 drive from Atlanta sucks so me and the woofs will make the run. I’m probably overprotective but, what the hell, my life is pretty easy and this ain’t no big deal.

  66. 66.

    Roger Moore

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    However, at their behest, he’s spent his professional life doing R&D to reduce emissions and increase fuel economy in diesel engines.

    So he’s a stooge of the fossil fuel industry. If he were a proper leftist, he’d be coming up with a way of powering tractors with sunshine, rainbows, and unicorn farts.

  69. 69.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: She really wanted me to pick her up. Sometimes she pines for those days when she didn’t have anyone to “look after her” but she gets over it. We didn’t get married until she was in her 40’s and she was damn independent!

  71. 71.

    A Ghost To Most

    Condolences, jeffreyw. And congratulations to Mr. IOL

    As to the Tubman twenty,excellent. I iz gittin a happy thinking about how much this will piss off my racist brother.

  72. 72.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @Roger Moore: He has on occasion tried to power them with some pretty bizarre stuff, since alternate fuels are in his wheelhouse too. I’ll point out the unicorn possibilities

    @April: Someone else told me that too. It never occurred to me which may say something about our marriage.

  75. 75.

    pea

    oh, human
    i’m inclined to believe
    you
    are
    lily, rosie, thurston, and steve’s
    furry minion.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    One of today’s tweets from LMM:

    HOW THRILLING,
    in today’s @BCEFA fundraising speech,
    to ask for the audience’s “Washingtons, Hamiltons, Franklins & TUBMANS.”
    #LookAround

    ETA: For the uninitiated, BCEFA is Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, one of the major Broadway charities.

  80. 80.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven:

    She really wanted me to pick her up.

    Ahhh, so she is just letting you think you won the argument. ;-)

  84. 84.

    FlyingToaster (Tablet)

    @ruemara: Mine took 8 weeks, with ice and topical analgesics. The joint still aches a bit (at 10 weeks), but I have full range of motion and it doesn’t hurt to walk.

  86. 86.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Mike J: Yeah.

    The officers on New Orleans’ Danziger Bridge that day in 2005 were sentenced back in 2011 to decades in prison. But earlier this year, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed their guilty verdicts to be overturned, paving the way for a new trial on the basis that federal prosecutors anonymously commented on stories about the case online.

    On Wednesday, the former officers struck a deal with prosecutors that allowed them to plead guilty to lesser charges and significantly reduce their time behind bars. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt ruled in favor of the deal’s terms, sentencing defendants to 3 to 12 years.

    (shakes head) Even when prosecutors do their job, they fvck it up. It’s enuf to make one wonder, “Are they doing this on purpose?”

  89. 89.

    Yutsano

    @Mike J: The moral arc is long indeed.

    At the doc’s for the first of two appointments. Second will be more entertaining than the first. Time for more cybernetic hardware.

    I will be in Seattle next month but probably no time for a meet-up. June I will be back for more medical stuff and will have more time.

  92. 92.

    ruemara

    @FlyingToaster (Tablet): I’ll go literally quite spare if I have to rest that long. No. I can only not workout maybe a few days. Blech. Bodies are bizarre. I’m doing bellydance, Zumba, kickboxing, heavy weightlifting and flamenco. I hurt my ankle tendons walking for hours in super flat shoes working a conference. I’ve done less damage roundhouse kicking into the kickbag base. /grump

  93. 93.

    jeffreyw

    Thank you all for the kind thoughts.
    @schrodinger’s cat: I couldn’t really say if any of them miss her. Katie keeps to herself, still, and Jack is blind and nearly deaf. I suspect her odor lingers yet and is a comfort to him.

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