Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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

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

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

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

How stupid are these people?

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

The revolution will be supervised.

Petty moves from a petty man.

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  6. 6.

    Mnemosyne

    @RoonieRoo:

    I was going to say, was that Thurston’s bark, or did he jump on a squeaky toy?

    Two nights ago, our middle cat Annie (9 years old) decided to run at top speed all around the living room and dining room, jumping on all the furniture. She spent most of yesterday sleeping on the couch, like most middle-aged people would.

  7. 7.

    phoebes from highland park

    “For Fuck’s sake”? Cole, watch your language, those are tender dog ears there.

    And, Cole, where’s the cat?

  10. 10.

    Eric U.

    my daughter took the opportunity yesterday to assure me that the dogs couldn’t understand me when I say stuff like the threat to take the dogs to the pound. Which is good, because I often tell them I’m going to beat them like a rented mule.

  11. 11.

    debit

    Also too, John, you could have smuggled Thurston in with Walter and I would have been totally fine with it.

  17. 17.

    TaMara (HFG)

    That was awesome. We must be having a similar night – except playing here is out of control. I’ve had to break up a few much too rough play sessions because puppy Bailey is much too rough with her biting. But then this happened and I just posted to FB:

    Well falling in love with Bailey is turning out to be pretty easy. She is just a sweet, funny dog.
    Bixby is totally awesome with her. And just now, I was trying to work and she was bugging me – he went to the toy box, grabbed a tug toy and enticed her to play.
    I have no idea if it was to help me out, but totally appreciated the effort. :-D

  28. 28.

    LAO

    @raven: the parade looks awesome and your wife did an amazing job.

    I would love to get my puppy in a costume but in the almost 3 weeks she been with me, she’s chewed through 2 harnesses and 3 leashes, so I figure, next Halloween.

  29. 29.

    raven

    @LAO:My wife made a thing that was supposed to hold the crown on Lil Bits head but it kept falling over her face.

  34. 34.

    barns

    Not a single post about Obama roasting Trump and Republicans today? It was awesome. Google it.

    All we have is the usual fearmongering and horseshit from the likes of wrong way Cole and DougJ.

  37. 37.

    Starfish

    Has the internet not taught you to be ashamed of taking vertical videos with your cellphone?

  38. 38.

    petesh

    If a JRT doesn’t want to play, a JRT does not play. This is simply a fact. We have one JRT and one Beagle/JRT cross, who is younger (7 vs 13) and after two and a half years with us has still not given up on her hopes of playing with the old boy. Who also pretends to be deaf whenever it suits him. And to need a helping hand onto the bed.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne

    I know some writers here have been iffy about buying Scrivener, and I have to say that I’ve been loving it, especially now that I can work on the same files from my laptop and my iPad (though the iOS app is an extra $20). I like that I can write chunks of the story as they occur to me instead of being forced to write in a linear way. And being able to keep research URLs right in the program is cherce when you’re working on a historical novel.

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Hoyer is in getting x-rays. That leaves the Bears with their third string QB as their only option.

  56. 56.

    Miss Bianca

    @LAO: Oh, boy…my Luna does the same thing routinely and she’s almost 5! I’d love to stuff her into a costume for Hallowe’en, but I just don’t see her holding still for it. (altho’ I’d love to try another Husky shark!)

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne

    @Pogonip:

    At base, it’s a word processor, but it lets you do some really cool stuff when it comes to organizing and researching your novel. (It also has a screenplay template and some nonfiction writers use it, too, but it’s aimed mostly at novelists). Basically, my chapters don’t have to be a bunch of separate Word documents or (even worse) one giant Word document that gets easily corrupted and then I lose the whole damn thing.

    You can even export your completed work to an ebook format that can be uploaded directly to Amazon or B&N for sale. Neat stuff.

  64. 64.

    CZanne

    @schrodinger’s cat: we bought an LG 1501 (top load, high efficiency) washer for the old house and had it for about a year before we sold the old house. The new house came with a washer and dryer, which are in the basement, and I didn’t feel like schlepping a washer up and down stairs to swap the ones in the house for the LG. (We don’t hire movers. Especially not for a 2 mile move, and not when we replaced 90% of our furniture due to allergies.)

    As for the LG, I didn’t hate it. But I didn’t love it, either. It was really quiet, except when it wasn’t. I loved that it used a little tune for its alerts instead of a squawk or buzzer. I very much appreciated that it had a troubleshooting app. (It is not an Internet of Things device, though if there’s a Bluetooth enabled one by the time we need to replace what we have, I may be tempted, because I am the sort of absent-minded that can forget a load of wet laundry for 24-48 hours.) If I loaded it correctly, I had no issues with it, but get it out of balance and it freaked the eff out. It did not need service in the year we owned it. It had a steep loading learning curve – big things (sheets and blankets and fabric yardage) should be swirled into the tub rather than dumped. Our woven cotton blankets hold so much water that they were likely to unbalance the tub no matter how careful I was, but we did not have this problem with our quilts. It was very water efficient (which matters, because the CO Front Range is at the top of the water stack, so we depend on snow melt and it’s an arid climate) and it got regular dirty clothes clean, but anything extra dirty really did require a pre-soak. On that last, that’s always true, and the best way to deal with serious grime, but coming from a front-loader, I had gotten out of the habit. The 1501 was also not at all useful for vat dye jobs or wool felting, though those are in my specific playground and may not apply universally. On the very bright side, the thing could spin dry so well that our dryer use dropped by 1/3. Also, our buyer was either dumb as a stump, had serious issues with reading comprehension, or could not be bothered to RTFM, and had major issues figuring out how to use the 1501, despite the instructions being on a factory supplied, handy laminated sheet suction-cupped to the front of the machine. (I do not doubt any of the three qualifiers are true — I saw multiple instances of all three behaviors in the selling process — but if someone needs a highly intuitive machine, the 1501 may not be the right choice.)

    If the machine that had come with this house, I wouldn’t replace it. When the one we have goes to the great scrapyard, I may buy another LG, but it won’t be that model.

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @redshirt: They are currently 3-2 and winning this game. The rest, you said the team isn’t good. I put a marker down for a good team. Next?

  81. 81.

    Patricia Kayden

    @raven: Very sweet. Love the costumes. My dogs will not tolerate any clothing though so they’d have to march in the nude.

    P.S. Hope this doggy parade spreads to more cities.

  82. 82.

    BruceFromOhio

    @schrodinger’s cat: Not familiar with LG appliances, though if the w&d pair is anything like the LG electrronics, they are just fine.

    When we moved to casa de Ohio in 1999, we brought the top-load washer and its dryer mate. I don’t even recall the brand. What we hadn’t researched as part of the purchase process was the cost of water. By some heinous series of bad decisions, our local water utility was purchasing fresh water on fixed contract from a neighboring municipality at exorbitant rates. Our water bill nearly doubled in comparison to our former address. By this time, the TeensFromOhio were not yet teens, but growing in leaps and bounds; there was more to wash and more often. MrsFromOhio proposed a set of Kenmore Elite HE3 front-loaders to replace the adequate-but-aging w&d set we moved in with. I balked at the price, but she insisted in the long run it would be worth it. And she nailed it.

    Just rough back of the napkin guessing, these machines have probably paid for themselves three or four times over in the 16 years we’ve had them. Only one service call in all that time, along with some self-help maintenance fostered by YouTube. They are workhorses, and extremely efficient. I expect the contemporary models are even more so.

    If you’re planning to stay put for awhile, splurge on the good stuff, it is totally worth it, and LG fits that category. (OK, that’s REALLY splurging, however there are less costly models in the LG line)

  83. 83.

    Durin Dal

    The video was too dark for me to make things out, unfortunately. Sound was too low as well. Not a great connection at the moment… :-(

  94. 94.

    dww44

    @schrodinger’s cat: If I had to buy a washer right now, I’d only buy a Speed Queen because it’s old school. uses enough water to clean, and lasts way longer than the HE front loaders and the agitator free top loaders. The best information can be gleaned from the comment thread at the end of this Consumers Report article.

    If one googles”best washing machines” and reads the comments from actual users you’ll probably decide that older washers are better.. That’s what my repairman told me this afternoon after repairing my 14 year old Maytag. Keep the old one running as long as one can. Use the most water possible and wash smallish loads. Extends the life of the washer’s moving parts. With the new computerized washers, the washer tells you what to do, not vice-versa.

  97. 97.

    mskitty

    I have an LG “True Steam” front loader, and I won’t get another. It doesn’t get rid of cat hair, and if anything you’re going to wash will soak up a lot of water, it’s necessary to use the bulky/large cycle, otherwise it gets unbalanced and stops midcycle. It uses so little water that I have occasionally poured a couple of big pitchers in to top it up. Unsatisfactory and expensive.

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