Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Everybody saw this coming.

Let there be snark.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    @redshirt: Did you see the answer I gave to your question three posts ago? Just wanted to make sure you know its there.

  6. 6.

    Mnemosyne

    I know “Cutthroat Kitchen” isn’t a real cooking show, but it’s still damn funny, especially when the contestants get into it.

  7. 7.

    seaboogie

    If that wolf had an alarm clock, I guarantee you he’d know exactly where the snooze button is. Maybe a midnight sun phenom, where the wolves are just pooped by the relentless daylight?

  8. 8.

    Adam L Silverman

    @redshirt: No, to your question about firearm advertising. I came on to the site an hour after you asked it and wanted to make sure you knew you had an answer. With link!

  10. 10.

    Adam L Silverman

    As a PSA regarding important stuff: I will have a Bundy Bunch update tomorrow! I was going to do it tonight, but 1) we have to give LAO time to come down from her Bundyjunkie high over it and 2) the site was pretty well filled up already tonight.

  11. 11.

    Mnemosyne

    If you’re at all interested in how Disney’s animated films of the 90s were made and you have WatchTCM, they’re going to be streaming Don Hahn’s documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty on there this weekend (and I think through 7/9, but don’t quote me on that part). If you want an insider’s view of what went right and how it all went wrong thanks to the Eisner/Katzenberg feud, the film is for you.

  13. 13.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: Very good. Also, El Rey Network will be running their Kaijurai Roarth Godzilla 4th of July Marathon. For you foam rubber suit radiated monster fetishists. You know who you are.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    Front page video showing for me is Betty Boothroyd. Again. Cognitive disconnect.

    Lazy wolf shows on comments page.

    (Yes, caches cleared, etc., etc. BJ still the only place I visit that does this dance with videos.)

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Old Dan and Little Anne: When I first played it the other day, both my dogs walked over, looked at it, looked at each other, looked at me, looked back at it as if to say: “that sounds like our language, but we can’t speak the dialect.”

  19. 19.

    glaukopis

    Today was my first day of retirement – felt a little odd, like playing hooky. Caught up on BJ threads, did a little knitting, got a new retiree ID, wandered around the campus bookstore, ambled through the surf in the late afternoon. I could get used to this.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Thanks, but he’s already attempted to answer that, citing YouTube as the culprit. Which doesn’t in any way explain why things are hunky-dory on other sites and blogs.

  24. 24.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: Well done. I don’t know if you know, but what they really wanted was to make a Creeper cartoon based on the character from Batman. For whatever reason WB or DC wouldn’t clear the use of the character, so they made a parody Freakazoid! They did work Jack Ryder and the Creeper into Batman the Animated Series:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC_FgRzUpd0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBedPfn7Dhc
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T8y3Af3dH0

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    El Rey network is the network made for me. G constantly makes fun of me because I’m always saying things like, “Ooh, look! They’re doing a giallo festival on El Rey!”

    There’s a reason he sometimes laments it’s like being married to an 8-year-old.

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    @redshirt: No worries, I had actually seen someone else refer to it earlier today. So it was fresh in the frontal processing unit!

  30. 30.

    Aleta

    In Ontario woods I’ve heard wolves howl back and forth to and from their den, where the cubs and female remained (as it was explained to me). The sound echoes over the distance and is so beautiful.

  32. 32.

    Miss Bianca

    Luna thought the howling wolf was funny. I’ll have to play it for the Office Kitties tomorrow. So far, the things that have gotten the biggest rise out of them have been the talking huskies and Bruno Ganz’s Hitler ranting.

  35. 35.

    FlyingToaster

    @NotMax: It’s going to be an edge-case between FYWP, YouTube’s embed code, and the theme for Balloon Juice. Lots of finger pointing, no fix.

  36. 36.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: I’m looking forward to at least the first two films of the Walken on Sunshine marathon of The Prophecy films. One was the best and still one of my favorite horror(ish) films. Two was good. The rest were okay. But Walken just chews scenery in all of them. I’m also a big fan of the Thursday night kung fu mini marathons of the old Shaw Brothers’ films. And Lucha Underground is the best professional wrestling show I’ve seen in years. And they run all 13 episodes of Constantine every few months. It has become a definite favorite.

  37. 37.

    trollhattan

    @Aleta:
    Have never been that lucky, just the occasional country coyote pack yipping away. Although a few wolves are checking out far NE California so there’s still a chance if the Bundys don’t shoot them all first.

  39. 39.

    Miss Bianca

    @Major Major Major Major: You would be a kitty cuteness maven, M4, so thankee! They have certainly kept me from going out of my mind and throwing my computer out the window as I deal with server meltdown, and that is gospel.

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    @redshirt: about lazy wolves? The next meetup? This week’s board meeting? The next Congressional session? The Labour Party leadership meeting and mixed gender brawl scheduled for tomorrow?

  43. 43.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m still waiting for some TV station somewhere to resurrect “Kung Fu Gorillas”. Or maybe I really did just fall asleep in front of the TV as a kid and dream it.

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: I’m sure. Evylese actually lives in Tampa when she’s not on sight there. The MMA dojo she trains at is there.

  47. 47.

    M. Bouffant

    @glaukopis: Congrats on making it!

    Took me a couple of yrs. to adjust fully & get rid of the lingering feeling that there was something I should be doing or somewhere I should be.

  49. 49.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’m a fan of Italian horror movies, and specifically Mario Bava, who basically invented the slasher movie. G still swears that Spielberg’s War of the Worlds is his tribute to Bava, and as soon as I saw the little blonde girl standing against a sea of red, I knew he was right.

  55. 55.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: I’ve seen a couple when they’ve been broadcast on El Rey. They’re interesting, not sure if I’d have gone out of my way to watch them though.

  56. 56.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: OMG…that might be it!! At least, I am hard pressed to imagine there could be *two* Kung Fu Gorilla movies!

    The part I remember best, besides the guys in gorilla suits kicking the crap out of people, tho’, is the bit where two guys do the standard DEATHLESS DIALOGUE part of cheap horror movies.

    Guy #1: What…in the hell…is…that THING?

    Guy #2 (squinting long and hard): I don’t know, but…it appears to know…Kung Fu!

  58. 58.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Miss Bianca:

    You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it! Is that clear? You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians, no east, no west, no Communists, no Third Worlds. There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and immane, interwoven, interactive, multi-variant, multi-national dominion of dollars; Petrol-dollars, electro-dollars, Yens, Pounds, Rubles and sheckles. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the stucture of the world today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and you will atone. Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

  61. 61.

    Mnemosyne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    That list is pretty much the creme de la creme, so if you don’t like any of them, then Italian horror is not for you.

    Though it is best to see Black Sabbath in the Italian order, not the US order. When AIP distributed it here, they changed the order of the parts, and it doesn’t work as well. It should end with the story about the dead medium.

  65. 65.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: You sound like a man who’s actually watched it! Dare I hope?…after all these years, thinking my friend and I must have been hallucinating before finally falling asleep at our sleepover…that someone else has actually seen this opus? (*sob*)

    Excuse me…I appear to be having a moment, here…

    @NotMax: It may well be, but this would have been back in the 70s during some late night Creetur Feetur…

  67. 67.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Miss Bianca: I think it was part of the ITV 4 Christmas movie marathon in Britain in 1994. That year they ran all these kung fu movies for about 24 hours or so. I’m pretty sure I saw it then. I know I saw Mr. Vampire and several others.

  69. 69.

    RK

    Was Boris Johnson an opportunistic Brexit supporter who didn’t want to manage the fallout or did he withdraw because he didn’t have the support to win, especially after Gove undercut him? Anyone here have an idea which is the case, was there something else at play?

  70. 70.

    NR

    Time for a collective facepalm.

    If Hillary wins, get ready for four years of stuff like this. It’s going to be exhausting defending her for things that weren’t technically illegal, but look really bad and were really stupid of her to do. In this case it’s Bill, but the same principle applies.

    As many problems as I’ve had with Obama, his administration has been remarkably scandal-free. Doesn’t look like that will continue, though, if stuff like this is any indication.

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Still recall one exchange in a redubbed Power Rangeresque clip.

    “On my gosh! They’ve kidnapped Pinky!”

    “Quick, let’s split up and search all of Japan!”

  79. 79.

    RK

    @Adam L Silverman: If this is indeed the case, what does it say about him given others are running? And was it generally understood that Johnson was using Brexit solely to further his ambitions as the hilarious video I just watched suggests?

    @Miss Bianca: Hilarious and really well written video.

  81. 81.

    Aimai

    @Adam L Silverman: I was raised on the shaw brothers films! The closest I get to that thrill recently is watching the Korean costume drama The Slave Hunters. It’s on Amazon prime and it is fabulous!

  82. 82.

    Adam L Silverman

    @RK: He was using it to advance his own interests. I think he has enough self awareness to realize what he’s done, what the ramifications are, and he’s removing himself. The question will be whether he stays in Parliament. The others, specifically Gove, also were during this for personal gain, but my impression is that Gove has no actual conscience at all.

  85. 85.

    ? Martin

    AP reporting that Gingrich and Christie being vetted for VP. Not sure which I want more…

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    @Major Major Major Major

    Steer clear of watching it myself. Violence and gore for the sake of violence and gore doesn’t float my boat.

    Read at least one of the books a long, long time ago. That was more than sufficient to say sayonara to the series.

  89. 89.

    Anne Laurie

    Old man can’t get his beauty sleep, what with the yonkers yowling all the time. Old man needs his rest!

    Reminds me of our oldest (14-1/2) rescue Zevon (who looks quite ‘wolfy’, for a 20lb Papillon). Neurotic 7-year-old omega-trying-to-become-alpha Sydney throws a screaming spazz-out at every noise; 9-year-old alpha bitch Gloria backs him up, if the noise goes on longer than 40 seconds. Zevon raises his head, occasionally gives a token sharp bark or two, and goes back to what he was doing (which is, more often than not, napping).

  91. 91.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @NR: It’s yet another non-scandal Clinton “scandal”. They’ve ALL been like that. Nothing burgers kept going by a vile group of shitstains that make up The Village.

    Wipe them out. ALL of them.

  92. 92.

    RK

    @Adam L Silverman: Your view may be correct but it’s not so clear-cut to me given Gove undermined him and one poll showed him behind, unless, of course, it’s generally assumed that couldn’t possibly be the cause for his withdrawal.

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    NR

    @Mnemosyne: Even David Axelrod said the meeting looks bad. Is he a right-winger now?

    Like I said, we can look forward to four years of this shit if Hillary wins. How exciting.

  95. 95.

    Adam L Silverman

    @RK: I think its a combination. He’s had the “oh shit, what just happened and what do I do know look” on his face ever since last Friday morning. He also got shivved by what he thought was a loyal partner. Put the two together and why bother being left holding the bag. It is also unclear whether he really believed in Brexit as he was using it to his own advantage or that he just wanted to use it for his own advantage and figured Remain would win.

  96. 96.

    Mnemosyne

    @NR:

    Like I said, we can look forward to four years of this shit if Hillary wins. How exciting.

    I’d rather have that than Donald J. Trump deciding to nuke Iran because he’s the fucking president. But some people like to watch the world burn, so you go ahead and vote for that. The Donald is totally gonna Make America Great again, bro!

  97. 97.

    NR

    @Mnemosyne: This shit is really tiresome. “If you don’t like it, vote for Trump!” is the new “If you’re not with us, you’re against us!” I guess.

    I’m voting for Hillary, but I’m still going to criticize her when she does dumb shit. In this case it was Bill, but regardless, it looks really bad. And if the story has legs after the holiday, it’s going to hurt her, no matter how much you want to plug your ears and shout “LA LA LA LA I’M NOT LISTENING!”

  98. 98.

    ruemara

    @NR: So far, there’s only 2 types of people interested in it. Neither of those backed a winner this election cycle. The rest of us are rolling our eyes at what seems nonsensical.

  101. 101.

    RK

    @Adam L Silverman: I did read that Gove was upset with Johnson for not doing what he thought was required of him to strengthen his support and win. If Johnson was proceeding in such a manner that would support the view that he didn’t want the job.

    Thanks for your replies.

  102. 102.

    magurakurin

    @Adam L Silverman: Everyone is looking for the deep thinking and strategy behind what Boris is doing…maybe we should just use Occam’s Razor and admit is nothing more than a moron and hasn’t a clue as to what he is doing. Explains everything, really. Goes for the lot of them, Cameron and Corbyn, too. Incompetents all of them.

  103. 103.

    Aleta

    3rd try at posting this:
    I remember reading about the wolf conservation center where the wolf in the video (Alawa) lives. It was started by a concert pianist, Hélène Grimaud. Here’s an article about her (and Alawa as a pup) from 2011. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/07/her-way-d-t-max

    Grimaud read about the plight of wolves, many species of which had been hunted nearly to extinction, and formed plans to open a center to protect them. She took a class on ethology and started saving her concert earnings, with an eye toward funding the project.

    Grimaud was sitting, cross-legged, on the ground while two eleven-week-old pups—Alawa, pale gray and named for the wolf she met in Florida, and Zephyr, black—raced around. Juvenile wolves do not have the disquieting lope of the adults; they seem like dog puppies, but with more pronounced snouts. In the next enclosure, Atka, a nine-year-old Arctic gray wolf, aimed a long, lamenting howl at the orange moon. “That’s a B-flat,” Grimaud said. Two Mexican wolves, in a nearby enclosure, joined in, several tones higher, glissando-ing down while the red wolves added a frenzied pizzicato.

    Wolves form packs with well-defined jobs, and their members are coöperative and hierarchical, like the players in an orchestra. The animals howl to mark their territory, to scare off enemies, to embolden themselves for the hunt. “They give each other élan, courage, ‘Let’s get down to it,’ “ Grimaud said. But “the nicest function,” she added, “is rejoicing, what biologists call ‘social glue.’ Their howling sends a lot of positive interactive feeling flying around.” It’s not a bad definition of music.

    Grimaud said that she saw herself as a beta in the music world. “The in-between role is one I’ve always liked,” she said; she wants to be “a link, a medium” between the composer and the audience. Most people would consider a concert soloist an alpha; her rhythms set the orchestra on its path, and can cuff it when it strays. Of course, there is another alpha, the conductor, whose every gesture and expression command obedience. Among wolves, the alpha male and the alpha female lead a pack. In the orchestra, they play out what Leonard Bernstein once called “the age-old question”: “In a concerto, who is the boss, the soloist or the conductor?

  104. 104.

    Aleta

    4th try at posting this :
    I remember reading about the wolf conservation center where the wolf in the video (Alawa) lives. It was started by a concert pianist, Hélène Grimaud. Here’s an article about her (and Alawa as a pup) from 2011. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/07/her-way-d-t-max

    Grimaud read about the plight of wolves, many species of which had been hunted nearly to extinction, and formed plans to open a center to protect them. She took a class on ethology and started saving her concert earnings, with an eye toward funding the project.

  105. 105.

    gwangung

    @magurakurin: Strikes me the same for this side of the continent. Clinton’s semi-competent, but the rest are just clowns (particularly on the Republican side). The only competent one in the last few years is Obama.

  106. 106.

    Adam L Silverman

    @RK: @magurakurin: A lot of the reporting on Johnson has made it clear he was born on third base and continued to luck his way towards home. Cameron has always been considered shallow. From the profile of Gove I linked to, he’s a very unique specimen in the British political menagerie so to speak. As for Corbyn, I’ve seen reporting that Tory MPs have asserted that Conservative Party members were encouraged to join Labour in order to vote for Corbyn, so as to screw with and up the Labour Party. It would be interesting to see the party registrations, specifically the percentage of those who changed party to Labour, shortly before the vote. As I’ve indicated many times here: when US political operatives, strategists, tacticians, and campaign specialists aren’t working in the US on a campaign they are now working in Britain, Canada, Israel, Australia, and numerous other countries. Its why you’re starting to see certain trends and policy positions and platform planks begin to look the same, other than the spelling of certain words, in countries where left and right or liberal and conservative or socialist don’t mean the same things as the US or even other countries. This is all the result of this dynamic and this alleged tactic certainly smacks of efforts we’ve seen in the past in the US and why, to be honest, having open primaries is a bad idea. I have no problem with making it convenient for Americans to join a party so they can vote in a primary or running as a delegate or for a party position at any level. I do have a problem by saying anyone should be able to chose the party’s representatives without actually being a member. If we’re going to do that then all elections at every level should be non-partisan. Not that those types of elections, which are often the case at the municipal level, as well as for judges – both retention elections and regular elections of judges (the latter of which I also think is a bad idea) – are ever really non-partisan.

  107. 107.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Aleta: 4th time is the charm. Good thing I decided to check moderation one last time before I go to sleep.

    And with that – good night all!

  108. 108.

    Aleta

    For some reason the rest of the quote I’m trying to post from above (which is in moderation) won’t go in. It’s weird. But I’m gotta sleep now.

  109. 109.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Adam L Silverman: Gove tops my list of people i’d like to see thwacked repeatedly with rotting fish. Best joke of the 2010 election was a mocked up fashion page from a fake tabloid breathlessly declaring that Teresa May’s kitten heels were made from *real kittens*

  113. 113.

    Brachiator

    Tonight’s Rachel Maddow opened with a segment fairly conclusively demonstrating that the Trump Institute real estate program was run by actual con artists. She also referenced a NY Times article. I have largely been away from media and the Internets these past few days. Has this been covered already? Was there an earlier post concerning this?

    The couple who ran this program apparently got a guy who later ran against John McCain to appear in a “free money” infomercial that they were using as a scam. McCain ran a campaign ad showing this guy happily shilling for crooks, with devastating effect.

    The Trump connection is very interesting.

  114. 114.

    Mary G

    @Brachiator: People have been talking about it in the comments today. Trump did an infomercial and let a couple, who have been in trouble with 33 state attorneys general, use his name. American Bridge, a Democrat opposition research firm, found that the study materials were plagiarized from an old book on real estate. The couple has used other names for their scams and lawsuits and prosecutions have gone on for years. Of course, Trump denied any knowledge of that.

  115. 115.

    Brachiator

    @Mary G:

    Of course, Trump denied any knowledge of that.

    Trump is a master businessman whose judgment is great, you know, just really tremendous. And yet he doesn’t have a clue when con artists are working for him.

    And yet, his supporters still love and believe in him. Oh, well.

  116. 116.

    Gvg

    My parents still watch tv news and I spent the night. Last night whichever channel they were watching was explaining the latest Trump is a crooked businessman scandal and using words like everyday a new one etc. very contemptuous and not a horse race at all. Not what I was expecting. Also mentioned his fund raising problems. If that is widespread, he is done. Oh it quoted him asking why he wasn’t doing better…..couldn’t believe he had actually said that as admitting losing seems to go against his usual plan and then played a clip of him saying maybe the plane above was a Mexican attack plane. The guy is nuts and the media is showing it.

  117. 117.

    Elizabelle

    I resemble that wolf today. TGIF!

    Love that desultory little wolf. Not every howl is worth a response. Teh interwebs teaches us that.

  118. 118.

    otmar

    Aw bugger.

    The runoff election for Austria’s president has to be repeated.

    There was too much (non malicious) bending of the rules when the absentee ballots were counted.

    Oh the joy!

  119. 119.

    Brachiator

    Now I’m wondering if Michael Gove sandbagged both David Cameron and Boris Johnson, using the Brexit vote as a convenient cover. From the UK Telegraph.

    Mr Gove’s wife, a columnist for the Daily Mail, has been by his side at crucial moments including the dinner when Boris Johnson was persuaded to join the Leave campaign.

    In recent days she has emerged as the Lady Macbeth of the Tory leadership drama, particularly after the leak of an email she wrote to her husband and his advisers instructing them to obtain “SPECIFIC assurances from Boris OTHERWISE you cannot guarantee your support…do not concede any ground. Be your stubborn best.”

    Some Johnson backers now believe the email was leaked deliberately to sow doubts in MPs’ minds about Mr Johnson’s suitability as a Tory leader. She also allegedly tipped off ITV News to a meeting of Leave campaigners at Boris Johnson’s Oxfordshire home last Sunday.

  121. 121.

    Kay

    According to a source close to Trump’s circle and briefed on the convention plans, all of Trump’s grown children will be speaking at the convention. Though the plans are still in flux, there will be a clear focus on Ivanka, who may have a Wednesday night speaking slot. There are even discussions of having Ivanka introduce Trump when he accepts the nomination on the convention’s final night, instead of the tycoon’s wife, Melania.
    The source said that sons Donald Jr. and Eric will also speak, likely on topics such as the Second Amendment, Benghazi and national security.

    Interesting delegation of duties. Ivanka will “humanize” Trump while the idiot sons get to opine on national security.

  122. 122.

    Kay

    @Brachiator:

    It is interesting. The New York Times focused on this aspect:

    Yet there was an even more fundamental deceit to the business, unreported until now: Extensive portions of the materials that students received after paying their seminar fees, supposedly containing Mr. Trump’s special wisdom, had been plagiarized from an obscure real estate manual published a decade earlier.

    I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to go from that to looking at Trump’s books to see if he actually wrote them, so I assume someone is taking those apart.

    Trump also tells the same stories in speeches he told in the books, except the stories change. It’s a lot like the Ben Carson stories. Carson was a “brand” in inspirational books and on the speaking circuit before he was a candidate. No one questioned his stories until he ran for President.

  124. 124.

    Brachiator

    @Kay:

    I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to go from that to looking at Trump’s books to see if he actually wrote them, so I assume someone is taking those apart.

    I would not expect Trump to have actually written all the books that bear his name; but I would at least expect a ghost writer to have interviewed him. But if the books contain lots of material lifted from other sources, then Trump is a habitual criminal.

  125. 125.

    hedgehog mobile

    Radioactive cat is home. He had the treatment Monday. He’s due for a checkup at the end of July to see how well it worked. We have him in an unused room with a baby gate; he can’t get out but we can see him and give him (limited) scratches. Quarantine lasts two weeks.

  126. 126.

    JimL

    So these two fellers was arguin about who had the laziest dawg. They even bet a dollar on it.

    They went to the first feller’s house. They wasn’t nothin in the front yard ‘cept a nasty lookin pile of fur. “Where’s yer dawg?”, says the second feller. “That’s him layin in the yard”, said the first feller. “Watch this.” And he took a little piece of biscuit outta his pocket and put it down right in front of the dawg. Dawg didn’t even twitch.

    “Hell, he’s dead, not lazy.”

    “No, no, watch this.” and the first feller put the piece of biscuit in the dawg’s jaws and started workin ’em up and down. When he got the biscuit chewed up, he started strokin the dawg’s throat until the biscuit pieces went down. “Now, you can’t get no damn lazier that that”, says the first feller.

    “Well, that’s pretty lazy. But it don’t beat my dawg. C’mon over to my house.”

    Well, as they approached the second feller’s house, they heard this dawg jest a yowlin. Lordy, it was just a makin such a racket, cryin and howlin to beat the band.

    Sure enough, there in the second feller’s front yard was this old blue-tick hound dawg, sittin there in the yard just makin that god-awful racket.

    “Damn, he don’t look that lazy to me.”

    “Well”, said the second feller, “he’s been sitting on that nail for two days.”

  128. 128.

    Mnemosyne

    @NR:

    I’m voting for Hillary, but I’m still going to criticize her when she does dumb shit. In this case it was Bill, but regardless …

    So even though Hillary wasn’t the one who dared to talk to an old friend and her husband in public, you’re still going to blame her for it because she should be controlling all of her husband’s actions like a good wife. Got it.

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