Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Bark louder, little dog.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Second rate reporter says what?

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

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I built a fire pit today.

Looks like we could use a non-sports open thread. I just realized the Tony Awards were on – they just started here, so I don’t know if they are tape-delayed or if is the official start. Anyway, I’m recording it – I’ll watch the performances later.

What’s on your agenda tonight?

Open thread.

ETA: Trollhattan’s puppeh, because, aaawww, that’s why.

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    How do you get a good air draw in that pit?

    ETA, linky no work. You Steeplejack.

  4. 4.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: Today is my mom’s 67th birthday.

    Spawn the Elder, in true anxious and angsty-teen fashion, is in love with “Dear Evan Hansen” and hopes it wins the Best Musical Tony award tonight.

  7. 7.

    Doug R

    Heard that “Come From Away” a musical based on travelers stranded in Newfoundland right after 9/11 is up for what, 5 Tonys?

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    I will not note it’s halftime at FIFA US-Mexico men’s soccer, as some would consider that “sports”; hopefully not like some consider golf “sport.” Because that’s just wrong. I know someone named Tony; he’s Swiss.

  9. 9.

    zhena gogolia

    Needz moar Hamilton.

    Who was the guy who introduced the Come From Away production number?

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    Spent a good chunk of the morning and basically all afternoon fixing the language on a manuscript that I’m a coauthor on. Russian-English is a very special variant of English…

    I think my favorite was finding the phrase “blow the graph inside out” in close proximity with “the curve thrusting vertically upwards”. I don’t believe that scientific writing should be bloodless, but I also believe that a distinction should be made between “not bloodless” and “engorged and throbbing”.

  17. 17.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @schrodingers_cat: Well, there seems to be an entire corner of my yard dedicated to three types of sage – that will probably be happily offered to the gods. (Although I am thinking of putting some of each in containers – to keep under control – and drying for my very own smudge sticks).

  18. 18.

    James Powell

    I may be coming to this late, but my twitter feed is telling me that Senator Feinstein is calling for an investigation into whether Lynch ordered Comey to give Clinton’s emails a break.

    I have never liked Senator Feinstein. I’ve always seen her as the west coast version of Holy Joe in that she is a corporate Democrat, pro-war, and an insufferably reliable critic of Democrats. So I’ve never liked her but I’ve never hated her. This, though, this is just. too. much.

  19. 19.

    dmsilev

    @schrodingers_cat: The thought has occurred. It would be an interesting experiment to rewrite a paper following the style of the most over-the-top bodice-ripper you can imagine, just to see what the editors and/or referees would say. Only, I’m pretty sure they’d say “reject, and stop wasting our time”.

  20. 20.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    In honor of Tony night, I have to sell two of my Hamilton tickets. I hate to be a greedy scalper, but the fact is it I could use some help with tuition, fees and supplies for school in August, so there it is.

    So, does anyone want to see the matinee performance of Hamilton on Broadway on Wednesday, July 12th?

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    Nice that James Earl Jones will be handed a Lifetime Achievement award.

    Living acting legend.

  24. 24.

    Aleta

    Looks so nice!
    Are those smooth rounded rocks (piled at the near end, and on the sides) river rocks? This may be just for the rocks in my area, but I’ve been told that river rocks shouldn’t be heated by a fire or on a stove. (They may crack or might explode.) Yours aren’t in the fire though.

  26. 26.

    normal liberal

    @Doug R:
    I think seven, including the director who just won.
    I’m just a simple midwestern girl, but is this not the weirdest premise ever for a musical? Makes Hamilton seem obvious.

  27. 27.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @dmsilev: When I spent a good deal of time editing the English of non-native speakers one of my favorites from an Italian was “it all depends on your point of you”.

    Made a certain sense, as they often do.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    @zhena goglia

    PBS carries (used to, at least) the award presentations not scheduled for the CBS telecast. May be available on the PBS site.

    Because of the time difference, won’t air here for hours yet. Shall be checking it out then.

    Saw Mr. Jones on stage a few years ago and he’s just as mesmerizing as one would expect.

  29. 29.

    geg6

    Awwww, trollhattan’s puppeh looks like Koda when she was a puppeh. So adorable. Chocolate Labs are the bestest!?

  34. 34.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Omnes Omnibus: I think the proper form is “Was that really necessary?”

    And, no.

    Someone mentioned umlauts and a bartender, but I was too lazy to go back and reply to the right place. If there even was one.

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    Seeded rye just taken out of the bread machine.

    Having a Pavlovian response from the aroma.

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    As it’s an official open thread, came across this item (many be old news to you cell phone owners) and think it neat-o, in a nouveau retro kind of way.

  42. 42.

    zhena gogolia

    @NotMax:

    I just gave up. Everything’s too noisy. I’ll catch Miranda tomorrow on YouTube, I guess. Pierre, Natasha looks horrible. It’s like a bad Fiddler on the Roof.

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    @zhena goglia

    I watch it for the play excerpts. Other than that, the mute button is right at hand.

    It’s like a bad Fiddler on the Roof.”Adam Sandler redefines Tevye for a new generation.”

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Bill E Pilgrim: Yes, and “Becket” protrays Becket as a Saxon rather than a member of the Norman ascendancy. And, mon dieu, what Dumas did with the history of the real D’Artagnan.

  47. 47.

    jharp

    Those are some nice rocks.

    What I try to do is add a rock to my garden from every place I visit in my travels.

  48. 48.

    schrodingers_cat

    @TaMara (HFG): If that altar/fire pit was square shaped you could host a traditional Hindu wedding in your back yard! Where the bride and groom circle the sacrificial altar 7 times, making 7 vows to each other in front of gods (represented by the fire), brahmins (officiating the wedding) and their loved ones (friends and family present).

  49. 49.

    Gin & Tonic

    @jharp: My wife likes to pick up rocks and shells (mostly rocks) when we’re on the beach. One time we mailed a box of rocks home. I’m not joking.

  50. 50.

    satby

    @jharp: I do that too, though they’re small rocks. Only I know what they are, but I enjoy the flash of memory when I come across them as I putter around.
    Yes, I admit it: I’m a putterer.

  53. 53.

    MoxieM

    @trollhattan: Darned gorgeous dog of any persuasion. (I’d have thought Vizsla from the face, but I’d have been wrong!) My cousins always had German Wirehaired Pointers, (great doggos) yet they always named the dog Bruni…over and over. Multiples of Bruni. I never quite got when people do that.

    (ETA I gorge on pix of the lovely Danes when they are offered. I am between Newfies, and crave my Giant Dog Fix like a cigarette.)

  55. 55.

    Gin & Tonic

    Proof the universe is cruel and unjust. At this point my neighborhood has been almost completely defoliated by gypsy moth caterpillars. They do not, however, eat poison ivy.

  57. 57.

    Corner Stone

    Harris county, in which Houston resides, is larger than the state of Rhode Island.

  58. 58.

    Major Major Major Major

    To whoever recommended Horizon Zero Dawn in yesterday’s M4-wants-a-video-game thread, wow! Thanks! Got it on sale, and damn!

    I did the intro and first couple quests, looks great. Then the sun got too bright behind the tv, as happens in a west-facing room, so I went over to the shady computer area and made a digital watercolor.

    Successful solo afternoon!

  59. 59.

    NotMax

    @Gin & Tonic

    When lived in the Poconos, during years when they were prolific one could walk through the woods and quite clearly (and not softly by any means) hear them munching.

  62. 62.

    Suzanne

    @MoxieM:

    My cousins always had German Wirehaired Pointers, (great doggos) yet they always named the dog Bruni…over and over. Multiples of Bruni. I never quite got when people do that.

    My grandparents did that. They had multiple Heidis (Keeshonds) and then multiple Kotzies (Siberian Huskies). I asked why they did it, and they said because they would mess up and call the new dog by the old dog’s name out of habit, and the dog would get confused, so this kept it simpler. Considering how many times the children in the family accidentally got called the dogs’ names, I have zero doubt that this would have been much worse with the dogs.

  69. 69.

    NoraLenderbee

    @Suzanne: @efgoldman: Happy birthday to parents both here and gone.
    My grandmothers would both be 117 this month. My dad would be 91, and his sister (last of the family) just turned . . . 86? 87? A whole family of Geminis. And my great-nephew turns one. And the seasons, they go round and round . . .

  72. 72.

    O. Felix Culpa

    Speaking of drama, WaPo reports that the D.C. and Maryland attorneys general will sue Trump for violating the emoluments clause​.

  74. 74.

    J R in WV

    Well, the puppeh is great. Worth commenting on. Well worth commenting on! Thanks.

    Fire pit’s OK, take a picture when you have a fire some evening.

    As a rock collector, I have shipped multiple boxes of crystals and fossils home from all over the nation. Now I have too big a shitload of collectible rock, minerals, crystals, and fossils. I even built another building – shop/garage for the overflow.

    Remember, Trump is just President of the Electoral College, NOT the President of the people of the USA!!! He persists on a mere technicality!!

    I stole that from Vicente Fox, former president of the proud nation of Mexico! Steal from the best, as famous artists and writers have often said.

  77. 77.

    efgoldman

    @jharp:

    Some awesome rock collecting. Agates.

    When I was a kid in the 50s, my dad was stationed in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. It had been a semi-precious stone mining and processing center. Everybody picked up agate and amethyst geodes and loose quartz right from the side of the road.

  82. 82.

    efgoldman

    @NotMax:

    The smoot’s a hoot

    The bridge actually has the Smoots marked off with bronze markers.
    The bridge has been under reconstruction for several years (decaying infrastructure, especially underneath). The state has promised to retain/restore the markers.

  85. 85.

    efgoldman

    @Major Major Major Major:

    her interviews so far are Putin and Alex Jones…?

    Erin what’s her name this week. All I remember is she was one of the first to win a lawsuit because someone posted nudes of her on the intartoobz.

  86. 86.

    jharp

    @efgoldman:

    I would have liked that a lot.

    My big thing for the past few decades is walking the plowed fields of the Great Lakes states finding native American flint pieces. And I have have found some really cool shit.

    Some pieces that are estimated to be 5 to 7 thousand years old. Would love to meet up withe the dudes that lost them.

  88. 88.

    opiejeanne

    @jharp: That’s pretty cool, finding those things. I’ve found obsidian arrowheads in the Eastern Sierras, mostly unfinished or broken.

    I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to meet the dudes who lost those flints. In fact, I’m pretty sure that any ancestors/random people from just 100 years ago would be shocked by the way we dress and talk and live, and would strongly disapprove.

  89. 89.

    Tom Q

    @zhena gogolia: Only just seeing this, but in case it’s nagging at you: it was Ron Duguay, who played for the NY Rangers back in the 80s, and had a small bit of a career as an actor after. The fact he’s Canadian is the only reason I can think of for them dredging him up for this (to introduce the Canada-set show).

  91. 91.

    opiejeanne

    @Major Major Major Major: I think the ones from 5000 years back would be hostile as heck if we appeared in their environment. If they were transported to ours they’d just melt down from the shock, after killing a couple of us.

  92. 92.

    opiejeanne

    @Major Major Major Major: I was a member of a blog years ago that was about people who lived in Camden County, MO about 100 years ago. One of the old biddies opined that she’d be proud to meet any one of her ancestors, after I’d mentioned the possibility that some of our family might not have been very nice. I knew enough family gossip about this 80 year old fossil’s family that it made me laugh out loud when I read her retort. I did not tell her what I knew about her beloved aunt who had married my grandfather’s brother, but she was a hussy.

  93. 93.

    seaboogie

    @Major Major Major Major: I’m still fizzing and popping over the Jones interview. I’m just super pissed off at the mere fact that it happened, because of Sandy Hook. She treats it all as a game for the furtherance of her career, and NBC absolutely owns this too.

    If Walter Cronkite were alive today, he’d take off his glasses, pause for a moment, and then punch Kelly and Noah Oppenheimer in the throat.

  94. 94.

    Bruuuuce

    @MoxieM:

    I gorge on pix of the lovely Danes when they are offered.

    Here you go, then. The Service Dog Project, run at a farm in Massachusetts, breeds and trains Danes as service dogs. They maintain several livecams, and it’s always fun to watch the pups. Here’s one of the cams, from which the others are easily accessible.

    Enjoy!

  96. 96.

    Major Major Major Major

    @opiejeanne: I think if somebody was transported forward they’d basically just have some sort of existential crisis followed by, more or less, a hard moral reboot. It would all depend on the context of their transportation, though. If it was just walking through a doorway and then pop!, hmm, I don’t know.

  97. 97.

    Eljai

    I love Bette Midler, but Patty LuPone was robbed. Just catching the delayed broadcast of the Tonys on the west coast.

  98. 98.

    divF

    @Corner Stone:
    Big deal. Los Angeles County is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
    ETA: and has a larger population than 42 states.

  99. 99.

    seaboogie

    @Cheryl Rofer: Her hot blonde *whaddya mean..?.* schtick makes me want to slap her. I miss Mike Wallace. It’s no longer journalism, just clicks and celebrity, and whatever they have to do on that platform to keep the cameras on and the money coming. I am truly sickened in this moment.

  101. 101.

    divF

    @Major Major Major Major: I would say Hollywood, except for the following from G.B. Shaw:

    Let six hundred and seventy fools loose in the street; and three policemen can scatter them. But huddle them together in a certain house in Westminster; and let them go through certain ceremonies and call themselves certain names until at last they get the courage to kill; and your six hundred and seventy fools become a government.

    (BTW: the current size of the House of Commons is 650).

  102. 102.

    ruemara

    I am sick of watching the little darlings dance. There’s nothing more annoying than syncing up chunked video data except doing that after a full day of cooking, cleaning, etc. and still needing to put in your 3 or 4 hours of work.

  104. 104.

    zhena gogolia

    @Tom Q:

    Thank you! I thought he must be a rock star, but couldn’t track him with any rock stars I was aware of.

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