Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Come on, man.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

You can’t love your country only when you win.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

I was promised a recession.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

The revolution will be supervised.

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Bixby Inspects Harvest

Bixby inspecting yesterday’s plum harvest.

Looks like we could use an open thread. I’m creating and “iris nursery” today – so I can move all the iris until next spring. Once I see what colors and varieties we have, I’ll shift them around the yard and share with others. How are you spending the waning hours of this Sunday?

Because I’m in a sappy mood today:

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  13. 13.

    Iowa Old Lady

    Fun moments in small press publishing: the publisher of my first novel is closing its doors at the end of the month. All rights revert to me, so I think I’ll self-publish that one. In the meantime, my shiny new publisher is forging ahead with the book due out in November, which takes the sting out a little.

  16. 16.

    J R in WV

    Retirement – today is Saturday, because I’m not at work, and I won’t be at work tomorrow.

    We do have to go to town, though, pick up the VW which was serviced last week, get the F-150 on the dealer’s computer to see what that light means. Grocery store, Farmer’s market.
    A busy day. Will be over 90, too, again.

  19. 19.

    germy

    @Major Major Major Major: I think it would only be “bigfooting” if a new post (or tweet) completely obliterated the one before it.

    We are capable here of jumping back and forth between multiple posts.

    Sometimes I’ll keep two or more posts open on different tabs, and jump back and forth reading the comments. An effective way of keeping myself away from my regular responsibilities.

  20. 20.

    germy

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    I don’t know about “successfully” but I’m dodging the icebergs so far.

    You’re not shivering on a floating door like Kate Winslet, so this can be considered a degree of success.

  21. 21.

    redshirt

    @Major Major Major Major: Tweeting is not bigfooting, but rather a sign a bigfoot is immanent.

    30 minutes seems a fair time standard, but it also seems like previous post frequency should be a factor. Say there’s no new posts for 12 hours, and then a new post, and then another new post 45 minutes after that one. Is that a bigfoot?

  22. 22.

    trollhattan

    Even the liberal Fox News wants to see Donnie’s tax returns.

    “As you know, Katrina, presidential candidates have consistently released their tax returns since the 70s,” Neville explained. “And you also know there is no existing law barring people from releasing their tax returns during an audit.”

    “So the question is that everyone wants to know, why won’t Mr. Trump release his tax returns?” the Fox News host wondered. “And can you answer the implications that he’s hiding something?”

    Pierson insisted that lawyers had advised Trump not to release his tax returns while he was being audited.

    “This really has become much of a novelty in presidential campaigns,” the Trump surrogate opined.

    “What has become a novelty?” Neville interrupted.

    “Just simply releasing tax returns,” Pierson stated.

    “It’s been going on since the 1970s,” Neville pointed out. “It’s a tradition, not a novelty. The voters want to know.”

    “It’s a novelty tradition!” Pierson shot back.

    “Excuse me,” Neville quipped. “Okay, since the 70s, it’s now a novelty.”

  24. 24.

    Baud

    Pierson insisted that lawyers had advised Trump not to release his tax returns while he was being audited.

    Hillary’s lawyers should advise people not to vote for Trump.

  26. 26.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    The guy is a pathological liar. No sure if Trump is even being audited. I don’t even believe his FEC filings.

  29. 29.

    trollhattan

    @muddy:
    Heh. Trump is certainly a novelty candidate: a pinata stuffed with whoppee cushions and x-ray specs. “Have a turn, kid, here’s a really big bat.”

  30. 30.

    redshirt

    Trump’s excuse of being audited fits his general campaign perfectly – sure, he’d release his taxes, but he can’t because the oppressive government is auditing him and forbids it.

  31. 31.

    Heidi Good

    I love those plumbs, for baking. They area really hard to find around here in Houston, have to keep scouring grocery stores, and especially the Asian ones, in August and September. And once someone has spotted some, they are soon bought out by excited groups of various other ethnic groups who prefer this plumb for baking cakes and tarts. Good times and eating! (For German speakers it’s pflaumenkuchen or zwetschgenkuchen or datschi.)

  33. 33.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @redshirt: I actually don’t care if he wants to keep his 2015 taxes private for now. But what stops him from releasing his returns back to 1977, the same years Clinton started releasing hers? I think someone on here said there’s a 3-year statute of limitations on IRS audits, so I wouldn’t even care if he released the returns from 1977 to 2012. But I would like to see them.

  34. 34.

    dmsilev

    @muddy: Finally, a “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” that people can legally perform on broadcast TV!

  36. 36.

    Mary G

    @trollhattan: Katrina has got to be a performance artist. Between the bullet necklace, “Captain Khan’s death in Iraq in 2004 and the war in Afghanistan were Obama’s fault,” and now “releasing tax returns is a novelty tradition,” there is no way she’s that stupid, even for a Republican.

  37. 37.

    muddy

    @trollhattan: I’d pay good money to whack that at the fair!

    Btw, our local Field Days this year banned the sales of Treason Flag items and I was happy for that. Ridiculous that people in Vermont would want to buy that crap. We sent more guys per capita to fight for the Union than any other state. Celebrate your real heritage, dimwits.

  39. 39.

    dmsilev

    @Mai.naem.mobile: Supposedly Trump falls into a special category of “high income people with …complicated tax returns” that the IRS audits basically every year. That, I can believe.

  42. 42.

    schrodinger's cat

    @germy: This guy looks like he comes from the Bernie bro faction of Indian politics. While Mr. Modi and his acolytes are awful they are better at retail politics than the likes of Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy who Indian lefties adore. Unfortunately for India, there is no party like the Democratic party that is flawed but effective.

  43. 43.

    muddy

    @dmsilev: Ordinarily people would want to see the more salacious show me, but in this case everyone is praying for the bland paperwork option.

  45. 45.

    redshirt

    @Major Major Major Major: Tweeting is only an indicator of a possible bigfoot by Cole and only Cole, since no other FP’ers show up on the Twitter window to the right.

    My rule of thumb is if Cole is tweeting, that means he’s also working on a BJ post. Usually. Not this time though.

  47. 47.

    nutella

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    She either does not understand how the passage of time works, or she’s a shameless liar. Or both.

    The sad thing is the damn press knows this and keeps talking to her.

  48. 48.

    muddy

    @Jean: I saw that and I decided if I saw any such person at my polling place I would devote the rest of the day to minding his business.

  52. 52.

    lamh36

    there is never NOT a good time to post about Dirty Dancing!

    Like my favorite movie EVER!!!!

    RIP Patrick “Johnny” Swayze!

  53. 53.

    Jeannet

    Tamara, do you know what type of plums those are? They look very much like ones I used to grow that came on mislabeled plants. My trees died from black knot years ago, after about 15 years very heavy bearing. The trees were self fertile, and the fruit had a dark amber flesh and when at peak had a very lush honey flavor. I regret that I did not start seedlings while I had the chance.

  54. 54.

    Lizzy L

    @Iowa Old Lady: Ex-professional tax preparer here: the IRS generally has three years from the date you filed your return OR the date it was due (whichever is later) in which to audit you. However, there are all kinds of special case regulations, especially if the IRS can show that you have under-reported your income, or if you have off-shore income, which can extend that time to six years, ten years, or indefinitely.

  56. 56.

    frosty

    @germy:

    An effective way of keeping myself away from my regular responsibilities.

    Yes, yes it is. My productivity curses the day I found B-J.

  57. 57.

    frosty

    @redshirt: So it appears we have at least one metric to define a Bigfoot. You’ve suggest 45 minutes after a 12 hour gap, which is a 16:1 ratio. I would propose a maximum time, after which the second post is no longer a Bigfoot. Say, 15 minutes? So any post where the preceeding one was less than 15 minutes is a Bigfoot, as is any post where the ratio of time between them is 16:1. Of course, we can discuss the values.

    Why yes, I’m an engineer. What made you ask?

  59. 59.

    Kathleen

    @lamh36: The old Hallmark channel showed it this afternoon which I discovered when I landed on the channel in the final scenes. I can never watch that last dance scene too many times. It always leaves me in tears. It’s still hard to believe how much Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray hated each other.

  67. 67.

    Jay

    Now if you dried the plums out you’d have – dried plums. :-) Seems “prunes” has gone out of favor.

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