Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Republicans do not trust women.

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

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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  2. 2.

    Ruckus

    JC, he may just be looking for a comfortable place that looks like a box to relax in.

  3. 3.

    ruemara

    Steve just thinks you’re supposed to have taken him with you. Which is quite fair.

    It looks like my travels have hit a snag. I’m this close to returning comic-con tickets because the ridiculous room hunt is… ridiculous.
    @Major Major Major Major: got a 404 error

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    ComiCon rooms are always insane. If you decide to get a room further out and take Amtrak, they’re doing major track work in Oceanside that’s slowing everything down to a crawl, so make sure you pick a city that’s south of Oceanside.

  7. 7.

    Mel

    @Major Major Major Major: Clicked the link, hoping to see the panel and Mr. Samwise kitty, but instead got a message that your link was “unavailable”, and a background page offering “creepy camping stories” along with a pornhub popup. Yikes! Broken link, methinks. Could you repost? I’d love to see the panel.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    Update on Annie, our kitty with pemphigus (an autoimmune disease that affects skin cells): I’m hanging out in my craft room and she just wandered in here for the first time in months, poking around to see what I’ve changed. Seriously, the steroids are working wonders for her. I know they’re not good for her long-term, but she’s already 10 years old, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  11. 11.

    Mel

    @Major Major Major Major: Got it! Thanks for re-posting the link. Great panel.

    Clearly, Samwise is an excellent assistant and advisor. My quilt in progress receives frequent critiques from Ms. Pixie B., certified member of the International Association of Feline Quality Control Inspectors.

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    No, this is Steve’s way of telling you you should never unpack.

  15. 15.

    Mel

    @Mnemosyne: It’s so wonderful that Annie is feeling better!!! Pemphigus and its similar autoimmune cousins can be so challenging for furry critters and for people (15 years of living the experience), so I was very thankful to see that Annie is responding well to the steroids and feeling like playing and exploring again!! Hugs to Annie from me and my two kitty girls.

  16. 16.

    SectionH

    @ruemara: Um, we’re in SD, and we’ve actually met you (at Karl Strauss on Sorrento Mesa a couple? of years ago). Don’t cancel your ComicCon tix. I have a couple of options for you. AL knows us from forever and can forward your msg so we can email.

    eta: I’m emailing her now

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Nice panel. And great feline cameo. Hitchcockian!

    Pointless clock lore: Until recently, it was traditional—​almost universal—​for clock faces with Roman numerals to use “IIII” instead of “IV.” It was thought to better balance the visual elements on the face.

    No criticism intended. The panel reminded me of some of the tiny perils of the visual arts. Just a few days ago I did a spit-take when watching The Doctor Blake Mysteries and a close-up of a wristwatch clearly showed it to have a quartz movement (“ticking” second hand rather than a smooth sweep)—in the 1950s.

    I said “tiny perils,” but it’s perhaps more a question of artistic decisions—how “realistic” to be. Doctor Blake aspires to a high level. A graphic story, not necessarily so much.

  20. 20.

    Mel

    @Major Major Major Major: The quilt is for my great-nephew. He is such a sweet, compassionate, creative little guy with a wonderful imagination. Loves bright colors, loves stars, spaceships, and trains. I wanted to make him a quilt that he would love as a little guy, but still be able to use and love (and not be embarrassed by!!) when he’s in high school and college. The work in progress is has various modern star blocks that represent the states or countries where his relatives were born, and, all done in very vibrant batiks (greens, yellows, purples, and blues as those are his favorite colors). The back side of the quilt will have a center medallion featuring cartoon trains. The plan is that when he outgrows the cartoon trains, I will replace it with a batik medallion.

    The quilt top is hand-pieced. My great-grandmother taught me to quilt when I was little. She was an astounding person, and an absolute force of nature. She lived well into her 90s, and had marched and protested for women’s suffrage in 1917 – 1920 and was active all her later years in life in supporting Civil Rights and voting rights.

    She was already quite elderly when Roe v. Wade was making its way through the courts. She and some of her friends started working on a huge, intricate art quilt for display at a needle arts convention. The artists had the option of then entering their pieces into an auction where most of the bidders were very wealthy (and many very conservative) regional politicians, tv personalities, and business people. The auction took place right before the Roe v.Wade decision. Grt Granny and friends auctioned their quilt and got a whopper of a price out of it, and then promptly donated the entire amount to our local Planned Parenthood.

    She was my own personal Wonder Woman when I was a child (and the source of my crazy cat lady gene, as an added bonus!).

    I’d be happy to share a pic of the quilt top in progress, and some heirloom family quilts (plus quilt inspector Pixie). Since I’m useless with anything tech related, though, what would be the best way to do so?

  22. 22.

    Steeplejack

    @Mel:

    Send them as photographs attached to an e-mail to one of the front-pagers.

    (See “Quick Links” at the top of the page for e-mail addresses.)

  23. 23.

    Mel

    Not quite Luddite level of tech avoidance, but close!

    Mostly, the barrier would be that I’m not on social media. When I was working in higher ed and counseling/advising, and hubby’s job involved advocating for seniors who had been victims of financial or physical abuse and for women who were escaping from domestic abuse, we kept a very low profile on social media for privacy and safety reasons. And since I became quite ill with a serious autoimmune condition, life has been a rollercoaster of medicines (steroids, chemo, etc etc) side effects and general exhausting yuckiness, so I just never made the jump to social media.

  24. 24.

    Mel

    @Major Major Major Major: @Steeplejack:

    That would work. I can do photo attachments from Ye Olde iPad without my usual fear of inadvertently crashing the internet, frying our router (an embarassing incident involving a Snapple tea, a napping cat, and a Dustbuster), or causing hubby’s computer to short circuit in terror when I approach it. I’m definitely a fountain pen kind of girl in a wired world!

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