Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

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

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

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

You cannot shame the shameless.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Infrastructure week. at last.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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Standing Up By Sitting Down To Eat: Salsa Justice Warriors Unite!

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In response to Marco Gutierrez’s remarks expressing concerns about an invasion of Taco Trucks I decided to strike a blow for Salsa (Verde, also Roja and Crema and guacamole) Justice and went for Mexican food tonight. Never has standing in solidarity, by sitting and eating, tasted so good. Also, the corners of my neighborhood are still clear of taco trucks, so I’m going to keep Balloon Juice set at TacoCon 5 for the time being. So grab your forks my Salsa Justice Warriors and head for the comments – open thread!

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  2. 2.

    Virginia (fka Abo Gato)

    In taco-solidarity as well, I am making chalupas with home made salsa and guacamole. It will be ready soon.

    Nums

  3. 3.

    Tim C.

    TACOCON 5…….. Excuse me Mr. Silverman, but I believe you have just won the internet, where would you like it delivered?

  5. 5.

    Cacti

    FDR promised a chicken in every pot if you did vote for him.

    Trump promises a taco truck on every corner if you DON’T vote for him.

    I choose tacos.

  6. 6.

    nonynony

    I have been promised taco trucks on every corner if Clinton wins. I didn’t even know that was a thing I wanted but now I’m going to be very disappointed if it doesn’t happen.

  9. 9.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yes, yes it does. I normally just get the burrito, but I ordered an a la carte order of tacos just to make a point. And get the picture for the blog post.

  11. 11.

    Cacti

    If the national election was between Tacos and Donald Trump, Tacos would win in a 50-state landslide.

  12. 12.

    germy

    @Cacti:

    FDR promised a chicken in every pot if you did vote for him.

    Trump promises a taco truck on every corner if you DON’T vote for him.

    I want tacos, but I also want pot-infused chicken … baked chicken that gets you baked.

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    @germy: Do you have to sign up for a marijuana infused fowl card? Or is this purely free range (in search of doritos) chicken?

  15. 15.

    Pogonip

    I vote for the taco trucks.

    Debit, are you there? How’s Walter doing at the end of his first week in the place where all the dogs are above average?

  20. 20.

    redshirt

    If I ever have a taco truck on my corner I’ll be freaked out, but not in a Trump way.

    WTF is a taco truck doing up here? If that happens, we’ve truly reached peak taco truck.

  24. 24.

    germy

    @Cacti:

    If the national election was between Tacos and Donald Trump, Tacos would win in a 50-state landslide.

    I would expect Taco to win the debates.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    My shut-in inertia got the better of me today, but I might have to hit District Taco tomorrow. They started as a truck, but they have stealthily metastasized into multiple storefront locations. The reconquista has started!

  36. 36.

    raven

    Our Mexican-American painting company owner brought me gorditos after my surgery last week. The were insane!

  40. 40.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    Sort of on topic: We just discovered (via our daughter) a Mexican-Irish place. We went there for breakfast and I had a full Irish breakfast AND chorizo. Meat-lovers paradise! I was chatting with the owner/cook afterward and he promised me nopales next time I come by if I want them. They aren’t on the menu, but he says he eats them every day.

    Now if I could find somebody who serves mole, I’ll really be happy.

  41. 41.

    raven

    @Adam L Silverman: Not bad, 2 mile walks and I can get back in the water Tuesday. I get the occasional stinger but that’s part of the deal. No opioids for 4 days so I think I dodged that bullet.

    thx

  43. 43.

    scav

    @Cacti: Let’s go for Tacos de Pollo and combine the two campaigns. At least two apiece. Chile Rellenos. Tamales also a must have. But O! I have to walk across the intersection now to get to my most local fixed-location dealer! The far superior this-side same corner dealer went away!

  44. 44.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    @Ceci n’est pas mon nym: (Afraid to edit as that tends to throw me into moderation).

    There’s not a whole lot of Mexican food in Philly, but there are one or two good places. There’s a place called El Rey downtown that has pretty good stuff, including a nice variety of tacos. A little on the fancy-schmancy, overpriced side though.

  46. 46.

    raven

    @redshirt: Honestly I hadn’t heard of it until I was planning the party menu. I’d always used two softened torts. I came across the idea googling fish tacos and tried it. I actually bought 50 hard corn shells from the neighborhood Mexican joint and softened the flours. Add the smoked fish and chipotle slaw and we be jammin.

  48. 48.

    Gravenstone

    This may be a new record. Just unfollowed someone on Facebook less than an hour after finally accepting their friend request (went to HS together). They posted what can only be described as an “ugly American” meme which culminated in “love it or leave it”. Fuck that noise. Ain’t got the time or energy to deal with that shit anymore.

  50. 50.

    RSA

    I can see his point. Where will we be if the taco trucks start crowding out the falafel trucks and the bikini barista trucks? It will be a sad day…

  54. 54.

    dmsilev

    I’d like to express my deep admiration for whoever it was on Twitter that came up with the #GuacTheVote hashtag.

  57. 57.

    scav

    @raven: I know.

    sigh

    Easier when I was back in SB or SF, although I’m sure there are some down near Pilson or Blue Island that come on the properly thick white plates with red rims. And I was too busy having a full carne experience at the place in we found in Las Vegas.

  58. 58.

    Elmo

    Brought home 5lbs of tomatillos and the weekend is all about salsa verde. We are growing our own hot chiles and I bought cilantro at the store.

    Solidarity!

  61. 61.

    Adam L Silverman

    @raven: When I used to be in NM a couple of times a year, I’d always bring several bags back and then freeze them as soon as I got home.

  62. 62.

    Helen

    The appraiser for the purchaser’s bank inspected the apartment this morning. One more task checked of the moving list.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Rand Careaga: Actually they fry their own shells on site. They have one of the formers. I asked for hard tonight, but I could have had soft. Unfortunately, where I’m at now, you can’t get sopapilla tacos. Actually you can’t get sopapilla anything.

  70. 70.

    Felonius Monk

    Homemade Barbacoa burritos tonight. The barbacoa really turned out well. Probably stuff some into a poblano for tomorrow night’s supper.

  71. 71.

    Keith P.

    Adam L. Silverman loves Hispanics!

    I just finished dialysis, so it’s holiday weekend. For the first time in over a year, I’m going into the weekend on a cleaning tear (usually, I wait until Sunday evening and peter out in 1/2 hour). And have been trying to learn Universal Windows…just about have the hang of it (it’s basically a stripped-down WPF, for those in the know). Have been on an absolute tear there as well. Hopefully, I can maintain the momentum through the weekend and not sleep half the day.

  75. 75.

    redshirt

    @Adam L Silverman: When I first moved to NM I was offered chili and I of course thought of Texas chili with meat and veggies and maybe beans (discuss), but instead was served a bowl of green liquid. It was shocking and I felt like I was in a foreign country.

  77. 77.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    man, Dan Rather on TRMS is wetting the bed so bad about the rise of Trump and the collapse of Hillary that he’s gonna be washed out of it

    he just boldly and dramatically predicted that we should not be surprised (!) if it is announced this month (!) that this year’s Clinton Global Initiative meeting would be the last one (!). I think they announced that last week.

    ETA: David Bossie, who helped make Dan Burton a laughing stock and was then fired is “highly effective” (!)

  78. 78.

    debit

    @Pogonip: Walter is doing great. I’m happy to report that he has had zero accidents since his arrival here, which is far better than I expected. He spent about ten minutes tonight luxuriously rolling in the grass of the back yard, then gave a satisfied little snort and wandered over to the back door to be let back in. He’s doing really well on his walks, and I’m going to have to order a harness for him as he’s starting to be strong enough to want to pull. He is just such a sweet and loving guy; really wants to please and behaves himself like a true gentleman. Never countersurfs or trash bin dives, gives the cats an interested wag but doesn’t chase, waits for his food to be mixed like a good boy.

    I just love him to pieces and am making it my goal to get him strong enough so he go up the stairs and sleep in my room with Ellie when it’s bedtime. It really breaks my heart to leave him alone downstairs all night, although I’m sure he’s just fine.

  79. 79.

    Baud

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    he just boldly and dramatically predicted that we should not be surprised (!) if it is announced this month (!) that this year’s Clinton Global Initiative meeting would be the last one (!). I think they announced that last week.

    That’s some mighty fine prognosticating there, Dan.

  80. 80.

    raven

    @debit: He’s ok down there. We built a new addition so we would have room for a king bed so the pups could fit. It took three years and Lil Bit snores so loud and scratches so much that she just can’t be in the rack. They both get 4 cookies before we go to sleep and she does fine on her little bed. Once I get over this surgery I’ll let her back in the bed for her cookies but, right now, I shouldn’t pick her up and put her on the floor.

  86. 86.

    Mnemosyne

    I’m afraid that I’m breaking with Taco Solidarity and having pizza for dinner. I did have a taco bowl for lunch, though — does that count?

    I still haven’t found anyone IRL who thinks having a taco truck on every street would be bad. In fact, most of them want to know exactly when this program will be implemented, and how multi-culti it will be. Do we have to stick strictly with Mexican-style tacos, or can we continue our Angeleno melting pot and keep our Korean BBQ tacos as well?

  87. 87.

    debit

    @raven:

    We built a new addition so we would have room for a king bed so the pups could fit.

    A man after my own heart. Sometimes I come down in the middle of the night and crash on the couch so I can let him know he’s not alone. Like I said, I know he’s okay. My kids joke that they were raised by wolves, but I seem to have become a helicopter pet parent.

  90. 90.

    Baud

    @srv:

    noting that the press covering Clinton’s campaign will now be allowed to travel on the same plane as her.

    Hahahaha. I picture them traveling in the baggage hold.

  91. 91.

    raven

    @debit: When I wake up @ 3 or 4 I usually come out to the couch. After a while the Bohdi will wander in and nose my hand. I scratch his face and ears and then he turns his butt to me for a few. Then he just ambles on back to the rack with his mommy.

  93. 93.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman:

    Spectator I: I think it was “taco trucks on every corner”.

    Mrs. Gregory: Aha, what’s so special about taco trucks?

    Gregory: Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any mobile purveyor of ethnic food.

  95. 95.

    The Ancient Randonnuer

    @piratedan:

    … Hatch IS the chili chile capital of the US of A, so ‘natch its a Hatch

    The peppers we all know and love are chiles.

    ETA: Back in the 90’s a NM state legislator introduced a bill that would have made “Red or green?” the official state question.

  96. 96.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    Huh. My own introduction to Santana came around the same time—summer of ’69. I was going back to the States to start college, flying from Okinawa on a commercial jet filled mostly with GIs returning from Vietnam.

    (As you know but others might not, Uncle Sam was doing such a booming business that DOD contracted with several airlines to run contract flights to and from Vietnam. Any time of the day or night you could go down to the air terminal at Kadena and see the big jets coming and going. All bright primary colors—quite a contrast with the olive-drab B-52s at the other end of the flight line. But I digress.)

    The plane was equipped with an early version of in-flight music with little earbuds, and the “rock” channel was pretty good, I remember. Then I was floored by a song I had never heard: “Treat,” by Santana (starts slow and blasts off at 1:00.)

    I thought, Wow, I need to check these guys out. I bought that first album as soon as I got to school, and then they blew up a few months later after their exposure at Woodstock and “Evil Ways” got on the radio.

  97. 97.

    raven

    @debit: Bohdi was nervous all day! “What are you doing bringing this giant loudmouth here!” The really did ok until his owner came over and petted them both causing a momentary conflagration. Lot of noise with no damage.

  98. 98.

    Adam L Silverman

    @srv: Maybe if they counted the two press conferences, with minority journalist organizations, that she’s done in the past month, they’d get their math right. Can’t imagine why those don’t count…

  99. 99.

    NonyNony

    @Mnemosyne:

    I still haven’t found anyone IRL who thinks having a taco truck on every street would be bad.

    I’m sure that if we go out and find some Trump supporters we could find some people who would think it’s bad.

    Hell I bet if I really wanted to I could get on my Book Of Faces account and find a few family members ranting about how awful taco trucks are and how stoopid lieberals don’t understand mumble mumble something something.

    Although – even the folks in the small towns have food trucks these days. And likely wouldn’t mind a few more.

  101. 101.

    NonyNony

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Maybe if they counted the two press conferences, with minority journalist organizations, that she’s done in the past month, they’d get their math right.

    I’m suddenly starting to understand the ramp up in Clinton Foundation coverage that the Times has been spewing for the past few weeks. They’re feeling insulted and want to make their feelings known.

  103. 103.

    debit

    @raven: I’ll confess that Ellie’s first reaction to Walter was kind of, “Why? Why did you do this? We were so happy!” But now they are best buds.

  105. 105.

    raven

    @Steeplejack: Jingo and Soul Survivor got me the most. I flew commercial from Than Son Nut to Guam and, for some fucking reason, they made us get out and we sat on the goddamn runway for 2 hours waiting for a C-141 to take us the rest of the way. The funny thing about taking off in Nam is that we flew on the deck out toward the Black Virgin Mountain and there were guys in that plane who had just been down in that shit. They were seriously freaked since we were low enough for ground fire to hit us.

  108. 108.

    Jeffro

    Mrs Jeffro and I went for some Thai food tonight to celebrate our 30th, but rest assured there will be some taco nom nom nom-ing this weekend in support of our not-insane presidential candidate and democrats everywhere. Also in support of my belly. Ok primarily in support of my belly.

  115. 115.

    `1

    @raven:

    I was being a “dependent.” My dad was career Air Force—a doctor—and he was running the “dispensary” (really a large clinic) at Kadena A.B. and doing flight-surgeon runs on B-52s and AWACS. I did my last two years of high school over there.

    ETA: My first college roommate lived practically on top of Woodstock but didn’t get to go. His father made him work at the family campground business. Max Yasgur was his milkman! Of course, now he can claim that he was there, along with 13 million other people.

  116. 116.

    Adam L Silverman

    @raven: I’m watching Young Frankenstein. I’m not going to watch Steve Kornacki stammer through getting stepped all over by Hugh Hewitt.

  120. 120.

    Steeplejack

    FYWP! (mangled nym)

    @raven:

    I was being a “dependent.” My dad was career Air Force—a doctor—and he was running the “dispensary” (really a large clinic) at Kadena A.B. and doing flight-surgeon runs on B-52s and AWACS. I did my last two years of high school over there.

    ETA: My first college roommate lived practically on top of Woodstock but didn’t get to go. His father made him work at the family campground business. Max Yasgur was his milkman! Of course, now he can claim that he was there, along with 13 million other people.

  121. 121.

    Lizzy L

    Last night was calabacitas for dinner; today was leftover calabacitas for lunch. No tacos. Sorry. But I would love to have a taco truck on the corner, any corner, in my hood. One of my neighbors makes and occasionally sells pupusas out of her garage — Salvadorean not Mexican, but so good!

    I might drop one of the local taco joints tomorrow or Sunday (holiday weekend,yeah) and celebrate with a lengua corn burrito heaped with grilled onions and sour cream. I love them.

  126. 126.

    Steeplejack

    @`1:

    Okay, this one didn’t really need to be released from moderation.

    ETA: Although I guess now I’ve got a spare nym if I need one.

  132. 132.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    Mama Wartenberg’s German-Irish Taco recipe:

    Pulled pork
    Tons of chili sauce
    Tons of lettuce chopped onions and chopped tomato
    Tons of cheddar and monterey jack cheeses
    Tons of sour cream

    Eat

  136. 136.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: Not a taco. Actually the late night food of the choice in Kitzbühel was the bosna. Do not try to talk to women after eating one. It was strictly for someone going home alone. Otherwise, currywurst.

    @redshirt: Not a compound without a bunker. Deal.

  137. 137.

    PhoenixRising

    @srv:

    The presidential long shot accidentally flew to Cincinnati instead of Columbus, where she had been scheduled to speak at Capital University. The school’s branch of the Green Party confirmed the mixup to The Columbus Dispatch.

    Wow, they sound smart. Swing state with voting rights in the hands of GOP goobers who want to make it harder than is legal (?we’ll see whether SCOTUS agrees with me or the 6th CA on Tuesday) for black people to vote definitely needs 2 speeches in a day from a doctor who’s never been elected to anything and can’t find the right destination city.

    The revolution will not use GPS.
    The revolution didn’t learn its state capitols.
    The revolution will spend some time on I-71

    with apologies to Gil-Scot Heron, from me on behalf of white people

  138. 138.

    Steeplejack

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Srsly.

    Actually, to continue the hippie geezer reminiscences, the first real meal I had when I got back from Okinawa in ’69 was Tex-Mex, at Karim’s in San Antonio. And that was on the morning before I left Okinawa. (International dateline and serious jet lag. Flew from Okinawa to Travis AFB outside San Francisco, then directly from SFO to San Antonio, so I got to Karim’s a few hours before I left Okinawa.)

    Karim’s is no more, alas. It should have been enshrined in the National Register of Awesome Restaurants. But, hey, racism. My dad, a true Tex-Mex aficionado, used to take me there when we lived in Texas before going to Okinawa.

  143. 143.

    `1

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I think there has to be at least one bulkhead-type door that is opened by turning a big steampunk wheel, but I’ll defer to the Corps of Engineers specs on that.

  149. 149.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: I can still visualize the path from The Londoner to the bosna stand after 25 years. OTOH, the schnitzel stands in Bamberg and at Graf taught me how to say “without mayonnaise” in German very quickly.

  151. 151.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: There was a great cart/stand at Hohenfels when we went through JMRC – beat eating TRats. At Clay Kaserne, when I was TDY at USAREUR, there was both a great stand/cart between the HQ building and the parking deck and the Canteen two blocks over from the DFAC.

  154. 154.

    Steeplejack

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Hey, good guys can have bunkers too! Don’t fall for that “Batcave/Fortress of Solitude” rebranding crap.

    This will be covered in my (I hope) forthcoming series Survival Flip on HGTV. It’s still in the pitch stage, but fingers crossed. Pilot episode: “Converting Granddad’s Bomb Shelter into a Prepper’s Dream Space.”

  157. 157.

    seaboogie

    @debit:

    I’m going to have to order a harness for him as he’s starting to be strong enough to want to pull.

    Normally this a sort of annoying aspect of dog-walking, but in this case it makes me so happy to hear it – thanks for the pupdate, debit! I send you a virtual {{{hug}}} for a) adopting Walter and b) keeping us posted.

  161. 161.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Fortunately for us the idiot training lead for our program at TRADOC, when he went over on the pre TDY site visit, despite being a retired O5, was too stupid to let anyone at the brigade know we were coming. He and the knuckleheaded O3 who he took with him only met with the training cadre at Hohenfells. So my team’s ASO got there 24 hours before us, gets to Hohenfells, no one knows who we are or that we’re on the way. We arrive the next day, they’ve got no bunks available to us. All they’ve got is an unheated storage shed that can’t be locked. So no way to secure our gear and I don’t have enough people, let alone anyone with a real weapon, to mount a guard. So we politely declined, went to guest lodging, but they were full up – all the GOs and their aides and staff from Division and Corps. So we went into town and got rooms at a Guesthaus. I sent a sitrep back to the PM and the idiot (and soon to be replaced training director) immediately comes on the net and says we’re not authorized and we won’t be reimbursed. Eventually the PM comes on the net and overruled him. First time I left boot prints on their scalps. Those idiots at the training site – all contracted retirees (and a few PTSD separated guys that hadn’t made it to retirement) – never forgot and made my life a living hell from that point on whenever they had a chance. So for us we had a nice place to stay in town.

  166. 166.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: I preferred Graf. To be completely honest, I preferred weekends off when I could go skiing in Austria during the winter and traveling in general during the rest of the year.

  167. 167.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: I wouldn’t want to live outside Hohenfells, but for three weeks we had it okay at the guesthaus. I did like Wiesbaden when I was there. Baumholder was nice, but tiny.

  168. 168.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: Bamberg. Just to the north. My battalion’s motor pool buildings were Claus von Stauffenberg’s cavalry regimemt’s stables/motor pool in the ’20s.

  170. 170.

    seaboogie

    @Steeplejack:

    My own introduction to Santana came around the same time—summer of ’69.

    My musical introduction to Santana was as a pre-teen in MN, courtesty of my three years older aunt. My actual physical introduction to Santana was in an asian import warehouse where I worked in San Rafael, CA. He came in looking for a Santo statue, and we rolled around the warehouse inspecting our wares together. After a while, I said – as was my custom – “My name is Beth, what is your name?” He turned around to look at me, paused for a minute, and replied “Carlos”. He lives (or did live) in San Rafael, and was abundantly accustomed to all and sundry calling out “Hey, Carlos!” Dude is very chill with his fame and happy in his community. He was kind of surprised to meet someone who didn’t know who he is.

    Different story when I met Sean Penn there.

  172. 172.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: My crew did it with 3-series BMWs. There was a dealer who specialized in that. He made a point of staying friendly with junior officers; I traveled to more than one Oktoberfest with him and his wife providing a champagne brekkie on the train ride down. I brought a VW GTI over.

  173. 173.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Speaking of bunkers, this isn’t going to end well:
    http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/bizarre-ant-colony-discovered-in-an-abandoned-polish-nuclear-weapons-bunker/

    Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
    Scientists describe workers trapped for years in “a hostile environment in total darkness.”

    ANNALEE NEWITZ – 9/2/2016, 12:45 PM
    For the past several years, a group of researchers has been observing a seemingly impossible wood ant colony living in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker in Templewo, Poland, near the German border. Completely isolated from the outside world, these members of the species Formica polyctena have created an ant society unlike anything we’ve seen before.

    The Soviets built the bunker during the Cold War to store nuclear weapons, sinking it below ground and planting trees on top as camouflage. Eventually a massive colony of wood ants took up residence in the soil over the bunker. There was just one problem: the ants built their nest directly over a vertical ventilation pipe. When the metal covering on the pipe finally rusted away, it left a dangerous, open hole. Every year when the nest expands, thousands of worker ants fall down the pipe and cannot climb back out. The survivors have nevertheless carried on for years underground, building a nest from soil and maintaining it in typical wood ant fashion. Except, of course, that this situation is far from normal.

  182. 182.

    Adam L Silverman

    @seaboogie: Actually if you read the whole article that’s the question the researchers studying the colony are still trying to figure out.

  188. 188.

    seaboogie

    @Adam L Silverman: Hmmm…two things:

    The diversity of life on this planet, and the persistence and evolutionary skills required to survive constantly astonish me, and I am pleased to be alive to bear witness to as much as I do.

    Possible to tie an influx of new beings to sustain a moribund situation – and…mebbe immigration? Quite a reach, I know.

  189. 189.

    seaboogie

    @redshirt:

    Cole sucks in almost all regards.

    No. No he does not. Ask Walter. Or Lily or Rosie or Steve. Any other blogs you hang out on? So you have this place, courtesy of one John G Cole. Also, unlike many of us (me included) he owns his shit and gives himself no quarter. So I kindly beseech you, please do not go there again.

  191. 191.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @redshirt: Christ, what a shitty thing to say. One, he provides this site for us to be dipshits. Two, he organizes charitable shit quite often. Three, he has rescued many animals.

    I think that he is wrong on many issues of international politics. I don’t trust his judgment on any international thing. He was wrong as a GOPer, and simply reversing those views is not a consistent political theory.

    That being said, you are wrong. And insultingly so. I am embarassed for you.

  193. 193.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: Actually, I am a bit pissed off. Everyone takes some shots at Cole. But redshirt crossed something for me. Cole provides this forum. He does not have to do it. End.

  194. 194.

    rikyrah

    @srv: The 272 days ago is a PHUCKING LIE.
    She got grilled by the NABJ and NAHJ (Black and Hispanic )journalists within the last month .
    But, because they didn’t waste time with bullshyt email questions, they pretend that it didn’t happen. ????

  198. 198.

    seaboogie

    @Ruckus:

    Most of us can be assholes on occasion even when we try not to.

    My first step:

    “Hello, my nym is seaboogie, and I am an asshole. Well redshirt told me I was, so maybe I was a little bit asshole shy – and maybe just a jerk. Sorry Martin.”

  200. 200.

    Ruckus

    @raven:
    The first time Bud actually slept with me I woke up in the middle of the night with him snuggling my side. Up until then he slept at my feet and wouldn’t get any closer. I’d had him about 4-5 weeks when he just decided that he could sleep with me. From then on he always slept right next to me. Never had a dog that would do that before. Miss that old bastard. Often wonder if he thought the same thing.

  201. 201.

    Tim Wayne

    Looking at that photo, Adam.

    In my family, putting that much crap in your guacamole is a sin. The scantest of additions possible allow the avocado flavor to come through.

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