Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So many bastards, so little time.

No one could have predicted…

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

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

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Fight them, without becoming them!

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    Grew up here. When I’m not on official travel for my consulting gig, I crash down here. Sorry about the short notice. Apparently the owner of this place doesn’t do much advertising.

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Baud: so this weekend and week I’m teleworking from down here. Where I’ll be in ten days is anyone’s guess. I’ll be very, very happy once I get back on a permanent assignment later this summer!

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne

    The DWP is making me feel guilty for doing laundry on the first really hot day of the year, but I did turn the thermostat to 78 and kept most of the lights off, so hopefully it balanced out.

    Chores today, but tomorrow we’re going to have high tea at the Peninsula for my birthday (which was on Wednesday).

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Part of my daily morning ritual (once I have checked to make sure that all my joints still bend properly) is to do a quick solving of about half a dozen fairly simple games on the iPad — two or three kinds of solitaire, a word game or two, maybe a logic puzzle and a round of sudoku. The specifics vary from one day to the next, but the principles are always the same. Gets my brain cranked up.

    Anyhow, one of the games that comes up in rotation pretty frequently is a fairly lame, very simple thing called 4 Pics 1 Word, and it is exactly what it sounds like — they show you an array of four different (stock) photos which all have something in common, and you have to figure out what that commonality is. But at some time in the recent past, I realised that of all the hundreds of photos on that site, Every. Single. One of them is of white people. There is not an African American to be found, literally. Maybe at a stretch one or two that might arguably be Hispanic. One photo with some Asian folks. Otherwise, every picture with people in it (including close-ups of hands or legs or ears or whatever) are ALL WHITE. It’s got to the point that it’s distracting for me, because instead of wanting to figure out the puzzle I am obsessed with trying to find some indication that there are actually people of color in this world. They keep asking me to rate the app with stars, and I am tempted to do so and give it a low rating because of the total absence of diversity and inclusion.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    Packing Florida, aikido, bar band, Irish pub and race track into one sentence might be some kind of record.

  16. 16.

    Betty Cracker

    @PaulWartenberg2016: So Lil’ Marco muscled Jolly out, and it’s Jolly vs. Crist, huh? Not my district, but I hope the anti-Trump wave takes out Jolly and Lil’ Marco both.

  25. 25.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Poopyman: no. And since the permanent change of station keeps slipping, I’m not saying anything more because it’ll just jinx it!

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    @Baud:
    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Thank you! I didn’t mention it until the bottom of a busy thread that day, so I didn’t give it much publicity.

    And as with your game, I can always tell when I’m reading a non-American knitting magazine, because American ones always have at least one major fashion spread with a woman of color, and usually more than one. British and Australian knitting magazines are a sea of white faces.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    @amygdala:

    Awww — you guys know what I like!

    Though I found out that I may be forced to cede my imaginary relationship to a friend of mine, because she’s been a fan of clipping. since well before Hamilmania struck. If so, I’ll have to go for my alternate imaginary ex-boyfriend, Alex Lacamoire.

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    Oh, hadn’t even thought that the game might be British or Aussie. Still, if they’re marketing it to Americans….

  37. 37.

    rikyrah

    Trump accuses Jeb Bush of plotting against him and appears to slam Cruz

    June 18 at 7:34 PM

    LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump voiced annoyance Saturday at continued resistance to his presumptive presidential nomination from some Republicans as he accused former Florida governor Jeb Bush of trying to undermine his candidacy and appeared to take aim at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.).

    “We are going to beat Hillary. And it would be helpful if the Republicans could help us a little bit,” said Trump. “You know? Okay? Just a little bit.”

    After complaining in general terms about talk of a “revolt” against him, Trump later suggested that Bush was involved in an opposing “movement” and that another well-known Republican was also plotting against him.

    “By the way, Jeb is working on the movement, just so you understand. I love competition like that. I love it,” said Trump. He added: “And the other one should be obvious to you, but we’ll figure that out very easily.”

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @RoonieRoo:

    Was it a raw link? Apparently the new updated and improved BJ requires all links to be embedded via the “link” widget; otherwise, moderation.

  43. 43.

    ThresherK

    @Mnemosyne: You’re a Gemini? So is Spousal ThresherK; we just got back from her (belated) birthday dinner.

    She doesn’t knit or sew, but she is a tea geek of the highest order.

  45. 45.

    amygdala

    @Mnemosyne: May be time to point out to her: “I’m just sayin’, if you really loved me, you would share him.”

    (“Ha!”)

  46. 46.

    rikyrah

    Lawd hammercy!!!
    Truth IS stranger than fiction.
    Nobody would even believe it if this had been the plot of a Law&Order episode

    ………………………………………..

    Saque de Banda ‏@aurabogado

    Ok wait seriously here’s a list of some of what’s alleged to have happened with the Oakland police department:
    1) a cop kills his wife

    2) fellow officers help him cover up the crime, and the dead cop’s wife death is ruled a suicide

    3) that same cop, who people now believe killed his wife, commits actual suicide

    4) the cop leaves behind a suicide note that reveals that him, and some of his fellow officers, had been raping a child trafficking victim

    5) apparently, an investigation begins to reveal that several officers have, in fact, commuted child rape

    6) after the child trafficking victim turns 18, more cops start paying her for sex; some of this happened in the Oakland PD parking lot

    7) as the investigation continues, it’s alleged that the Oakland PD chief’s wife knew about the child trafficking victim rape all along

    8) for this, and possibly additional reasons, Oakland PD chief steps down: whether he knew what his wife knew or not, he’s unfit to lead

    9) the Oakland PD chief’s wife publicly tweets that “it’s bullshit” right after her husband is fired

    9) Oakland’s mayor says the chief stepped down for “personal reasons.” Girl I GUESS if you call knowledge of child rape a personal thing

    10) muck racking reporters break the lid off the story and Oakland’s mayor doubles down, basically saying they’re lying

    11) new chief is sworn in but may or may not be connected to child rape case. For whatever reason, he also steps down after a few days

    13) a new NEW Oakland PD chief is sworn in and the mayor says he’s great and stuff but apparently not because he steps down after two days

    14) meanwhile a new scandal, this time surrounding blatantly racist, kkk and n-word having texts from Oakland PD, has emerged

    15) Oakland’s mayor is somehow still at her job, decides that there just won’t BE a police chief because that’s how rotten the department is

    16) one murder, a cover-up, a suicide, child rape, racist texts, 3 police chiefs in one week; mayor asks the public to trust the process

    more horror in her twitter timeline:

  57. 57.

    Mike J

    @Adam L Silverman: The NYT xword loves the word obi, often cluing it with something similar to that. A belt is a band, akido tells you they want Japanese, three letter word, and if you’ve ever done a Will Shortz edited puzzle, you’ll have it,

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    I can’t be the only one thinking that those chiefs got a couple of hours into the job, got briefed about the extent of the corruption, and noped the hell out of there.

    Oakland has been a nasty cesspool of racist cops for a long time now. I know Bill Bratton hasn’t always been great in NYC, but he did wonders for the LAPD. I wonder if Oakland or the state of California has a big enough truck of money to back up to his door and convince him to take the job on.

  63. 63.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Adam L Silverman: I know. What I couldn’t recall was if obi was in fairly common use or if the people I’ve known who used it instead of belt were just differentiating themselves from the karate belt system. Or being pretentious.

    Most of the catalogs Google turned up use obi, so I would expect it to be the preferred term in a lot of the US.

  66. 66.

    MomSense

    My kids hiked Little Haystack, Lincoln, and Lafayette today. They said it was beautiful and that the trails were crowded. It’s great that so many people were out hiking.

    Of course I asked them if they rapped like Lafayette in his honor.

  68. 68.

    ThresherK

    @Mnemosyne: Hmm. She has more tea than she can possibly drink, even at the rates she takes it. But I’ll mention that to her.

    Should she predecease me*, I will inherit so much tea, so many teapots, and so many teacups I could open my own shop.

    (*The life expectancies for each of us suggest we’re neck and neck on that front, as I am the junior partner of this couple. We joke about “If god forbid you…” or “If god forbid I…” a lot.)

  69. 69.

    The Pale Scot

    Since this is a FL thread,

    Is it me or has beach etiquette decayed everywhere or is this just a FL thing.

    Nobody picks up their trash, indeed they’ll drop it below the the high tide line so it’ll float out to sea. And the families let their kids dig big fukin’ holes in the sand and not fill them in when they leave. So all the inebriates leaving the bars for a nice walk in the beach have the opportunity to break a leg. I go for a swim at Madeira Beach most days and for two weeks I was coming out of the water with a chew tobacco plastic bag that some asshole fishing offshore was throwing overboard.

    I /grew up/lived on beaches in the NE and people who did this kind of the thing would get told off NJ style.

    But the saddest thing is watching people walk along the beach with their face stuck to their phone screens.

    LIke Yo, why’d you bother coming.

  72. 72.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    Middle and youngest did. My youngest was so inspired by Hamilton that he wrote and performed some verse for his Ben Franklin history project.

  73. 73.

    redshirt

    @The Pale Scot: I had a surreal moment in Boston last week where about 15 people were walking toward me in a cross-walk and everyone of them had their face in their phone.

    Makes me want to research accident rates and such since the widespread adoption of mobiles.

  75. 75.

    Mnemosyne

    @MomSense:

    You should see if your library has the recent director’s cut of 1776. It’s not hugely different than the cuts that put “Cool Conservative Men” back in, but it flows much more smoothly and seems better paced.

    Because any kid who likes Franklin is going to love Howard Da Silva in that role. “Not everyone is from Boston, John.”

  79. 79.

    Mnemosyne

    @ThresherK:

    The nice thing about Adagio is that you can buy almost everything in a 2-ounce sample size (and if you can’t, it’s usually because it’s sold out, not that they don’t offer it), so you don’t have to invest in a giant tin of tea you may not like.

    My favorite from them is the Loch Ness Lapsang, though my coworkers complain that it smells like a campfire.

  90. 90.

    seaboogie

    @Baud: Can’t imagine Adam flouncing really, but he does have that frilly apron and tiara for recipe posting.

  91. 91.

    debbie

    @redshirt:
    People at work walk through the halls glued to their screens, not watching where they’re going. I like to wait until they’re just about to run into me, blurt out “Excuse me,” and watch them jump. Damn kids.

  92. 92.

    seaboogie

    @rikyrah: I think you should be a new front pager – you bring a lot of relevant stories and commentary, especially WRT the AA community.

  93. 93.

    seaboogie

    @debbie: @redshirt:

    I use the experience of seeing everyone glued to their screens as a reminder to stay present in the moment and observe the world around me. Plus I keep my phone set to “no data” on cellular to keep me on the straight and narrow – except for right now, of course. ?

  96. 96.

    debbie

    @seaboogie:

    There’s nothing more depressing than a group of kids standing in a circle, facing each other, all with their heads down looking at their phones.

  97. 97.

    redshirt

    @debbie: I was in a book club last month with a 7th grade teacher and she was just despairing that her kids don’t even know how to socialize anymore. It’s all phones and Facebook and gotchya Youtubes etc.

    I listened attentively, while at the same time wondering if this is just another edition of “The Kids Today”, which has been playing for about 20,000 generations, probably.

  99. 99.

    Carl W

    You’re all making fun of my lifestyle… :(

    Let me answer some of your questions.

    Why would you go to the beach and then spend time looking at a cell phone? Because I went with family. I tend to get bored of looking at views in 5 or 10 minutes, and my feet were hurting that evening so I didn’t want to run around. So when the rest of the family was running and playing in the water, I was reading a book on my phone. Rest assured that I did spend some time looking at the view, and a significant amount of time playing in the sand with my niece, even though I also spent some time reading. Maybe the person you saw was in the same situation?

    Also, I’ve spent decades reading books as much as possible (including while walking down the sidewalk, and walking down the hallway at work). The only thing that changed with smartphones was how much more convenient it was. (Thousands of books in my pocket! No more picking books based on thinness (so they’ll fit in my jacket pocket)!) Haven’t run into anything or anybody while reading for about 25 years. (I do make a point of looking up and looking around in crosswalks.)

    Finally, as a fairly anti-social person myself, I don’t have much to say about “kids don’t know how to socialize” except to point out that social media should count as a kind of socializing (it’s right there in the name, after all).

  100. 100.

    Ruckus

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Mom wanted me to be musical. First were trumpet lessons. Then piano. Then accordion. Then reality. I suck at making music. Of any kind. I never tried the rhythm method, figured that I could never get that right either. I can listen to music though.

  104. 104.

    seaboogie

    @redshirt:

    The Buddha’s goal of universal enlightenment has never seemed further away in the age of mobile internet access. People grow less aware every year.

    Maybe they are gooling “universal enlightenment”? Could happen. What I do understand about this phase of human awareness is communication is the thing. Maybe we are still babes in the woods at this point while we fondle our technology like a baby plays with a keyring, and will eventually come to a cosmic understanding in not much more than an instant.

  105. 105.

    redshirt

    @seaboogie: You may be right. Consider when this tech is internalized via implants, so one “thinks” the internet and there it is. All of it, with all the people and their minds.

    Maybe that will bring about some sort of global peace. Probably not.

  106. 106.

    The Pale Scot

    Oh Jeez, I forgot to mention that yesterday there was a guy playing the trombone standing at the water line all evening long.

    I giggled to myself with the thought that graveyards are a popular place for pipers to practice. Wanted to go up and share that with him but he was obviously in a groove so I let him be.

  107. 107.

    redshirt

    @Carl W: First off, I come from the school of “One thing at at time”.

    If you’re walking, walk. If you’re talking, talk. But don’t also walk. Just sit and talk. Don’t do that cell phone walk thing either, the pacing. It’s so obvious.

    As with all things. If you’re eating, eat. Don’t also watch TV or surf. Take each primary experience seriously and engage it fully. As opposed to half assing everything while texting.

    Just text if you want to text. Just don’t be driving while texting.

  109. 109.

    Miss Bianca

    Goodness – not in the area, but sounds like fine craic! How far is that from you? Did you go?

  112. 112.

    Mnemosyne

    @Carl W:

    My separated-at-birth brother! My family was always amazed that I could walk and read at the same time.

    Also, I saw (on Facebook, natch) that the really famous photo of a group of kids in a museum ignoring the art and looking at their phones was actually them following their teacher’s instruction to look at the museum’s multimedia site about the piece of art they had just spent about 15 minutes looking at. So, yeah, there’s more than a little these kids today ignorance going on.

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