Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

So many bastards, so little time.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

This fight is for everything.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

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

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

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

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Apart from [all the facepalms], what’s on the agenda as we start the weekend?


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  1. 1.

    Baud

    PRESS RELEASE

    Baud! 2020! Campaign Enters Into Strategic Partnership With Sierra Leonean Hackers For The 2020 Elections

    The Baud! 2020! Campaign announced today that it had entered into a strategic partnership under which hackers from Sierra Leone will infiltrate the computer systems of Baud!’s priamry and general election opponents in exchange for favors to be named later.

    “With this partnership in place, we take an important step in building a modern, state-of-the-art campaign operation that will use time-honored, sophisticated techniques to ensure that we can compete on an equal footing with our well-financed competitors,” said Candidate Baud!

    Baud! also addressed concerns about the implications of this partnership for American sovereignty and possible violations of fedeal law. “We really don’t know who is responsible for the hacking that will occur pursuant to this agreement,” he said. “It could be the Sierra Leoneans, it could be the Chinese. We just don’t know.”

    Reaffirming his commitment to resolute leadership, Baud! committed to using all the tools at his disposal as president to hold those responsible for interfering in the election fully accountable. To that end, Baud! announced his intention to move past the hacking on Day 1 of his presidency. He also promised to create a joint cybersecurity task force with Sierra Leone to ensure that future strategic planning such as this one are a thing of the past.

  2. 2.

    debbie

    Sure, why not? At this point, what’s one more overly expensive, futile gesture?

    I wish they’d focus on robotic exploration, which has been far more successful for far less money. ROI, dickheads!

  3. 3.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    I guess Pence read War of the Worlds and thought it was a first-hand account.

  6. 6.

    Lurking Canadian

    Do you want to imagine the future Winston? Imagine a boot, stomping on a Martian face, forever.

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    Not surprised Dense Pence touched the clearly labeled Do Not Touch material: reading is hard, you guys!

  10. 10.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Pence: “We will put American boots on the face of Mars”

    boots: Made In China

  13. 13.

    Hungry Joe

    “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a Martian face — forever.”

    — Late again. Damn you, Lurking Canadian!

  22. 22.

    Brachiator

    Apart from [all the facepalms], what’s on the agenda as we start the weekend?

    I didn’t find out until late that Al Franken is appearing at the Alex Theater in Glendale, CA. Unfortunately, that event is sold out. So, apart from that the main thing will be trying to stay cool, since hot weather is predicted.

    I may try to catch an early showing of the new Spiderman movie. Sad that some sullen boys have been waiting for this one because they just could not drag their butts to see the cool Wonder Woman movie. They desperately need a boy hero to relate to.

    I also have been hearing good things about the movie, “Baby Driver.” Anything to beat the heat and get away from the Trumpian news cycle.

  26. 26.

    germy

    There’s got to be a story behind that touch.

    Maybe Pence said “Wow. Do not touch, huh? Pretty serious stuff.”

    And the NASA guy said “You can go ahead and touch it. The sign’s just a formality; when we have it on display at the museum. You can touch it if you want.”

    Pence: “Are you sure?”

    NASA guy: “Yeah, don’t worry about it.”

    I mean, am I supposed to believe Pence just reached out and impulsively groped a critical piece of space flight hardware?

    I’m trying to come up with a reasonable excuse, for my own peace of mind.

  29. 29.

    Brachiator

    Apart from being the newspaper we often love to hate, the latest internal moves by the New York Times are a bad sign for journalism.

    The New York Times is laying off some of its copy editors in an effort to reshape the staff for the online age. Editor Dean Baquet is answering reader questions about this online.

  30. 30.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Major Major Major Major: Never heard of it. Judging by Cross’ appearance and the graphics, it looks like it aired either when I was very young or before I was born. Did it air on big time networks?

  33. 33.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @germy: From the Gizmodo article linked in Brachiator’s comment above:

    Update, 3:58pm: And here’s a statement we just got from NASA:

    The ‘do not touch’ signs are there as a day-to-day reminder, including the one visible on the titanium Forward Bay Cover for the Orion spacecraft. Procedures require the hardware to be cleaned before tiles are bonded to the spacecraft, so touching the surface is okay. Otherwise, the hardware would have had a protective cover over it like the thermal heat shield, which was nearby

    Still, why would you touch something with a sign telling not to? I guess Pence asked, but man is that a bad time to take a picture. His PR team, or whoever handled this should have never released that photo. Unless the photographer was independent

  35. 35.

    Heywood J.

    @Major Major Major Major: Big Mr. Show fan here, underrated fun weirdness. John C. Reilly and Paul Tompkins came out of there as well. I miss that show a lot; HBO is running an Oz marathon tonight, but can’t find room to bring back some Mr. Show or Larry Sanders classics.

  40. 40.

    jl

    I submitted several suggestions for new rotating heads this morning.

    But I saved the really important ones to hone and polish to perfection. These, of course, consisted mostly of insulting jokes about one John G Cole. Now the suggestions page says that it isn’t working.
    Coincidence? I smell another blog ethics scandal.

  43. 43.

    germy

    @Brachiator:

    Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) suggested on Thursday that he spreads false information so that media will write “stupid stories.”

    According to The Associated Press, LePage revealed the tactic while speaking to Newsradio WGAN on Thursday.

    “I just love to sit in my office and make up ways so they’ll write these stupid stories because they are just so stupid, it’s awful,” he said.

    Taking a page from President Donald Trump’s war on the press, LePage called Maine reporters “vile,” “inaccurate” and “useless.”

    “The sooner the print press goes away, the better society will be,” he remarked.

  44. 44.

    Lurking Canadian

    @Brachiator: They could probably cut some serious costs by laying off some of their stable of utterly worthless op-ed writers. I would start with Brooks, but Douthat, Stephens and Dowd are surely also all less important than copy editors.

  47. 47.

    germy

    @Baud:

    They said subscribership was up.

    I found it puzzling. Ever since dolt45, the Times has been boasting about its “increased readership” and yet they’re laying off? They keep bragging about all the new subscribers.

    Does Dean need a second summer home?

  49. 49.

    jl

    @Baud: I’m sure the page will be working when I submit the Baud rotating headers. What brand of beer do you want to plug?

    Edit: Note to self, remember to submit ‘We still have time to mess this up’ With slogans like that this blog will pay for itself. In no time.

  50. 50.

    Brachiator

    One more item before I take off for the weekend. I don’t know if this story had been mentioned here before. I am saddened, infuriated, filled with hate for the craven and stupid over this one. From the Guardian:

    A teenage rape victim in El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder after having a stillbirth, the latest in a long line of failures of justice against pregnant women in the Central American country.

    Evelyn Beatriz Hernandez Cruz, 19, from a small rural community in Cuscatlán, eastern El Salvador, was convicted on the grounds that failing to seek antenatal care amounted to murder.

    Hernandez, a high school student, gave birth into the toilet in April 2016 after falling ill with acute back and stomach pain….

    El Salvador – one of five countries where abortion is illegal in all circumstances – has imprisoned dozens of mainly poor young women for murder after they suffered obstetric complications.

    Abortion was criminalised in El Salvador 20 years ago, after legislators from across the political spectrum voted to strip women of their reproductive rights without any public debate or medical consultation about the consequences. The 1997 reform was passed after a shadowy campaign by a small group of powerful anti-choice groups linked to the Catholic church.

    Hopes had been raised that the ban would be relaxed amid a groundswell of public and medical support for a parliamentary bill proposing to allow abortion in cases of rape or human trafficking; when the foetus is unviable; or to protect the pregnant woman’s health or life.

    But four months after the parliamentary hearings ended, the bill remains in the hands of the legislative committee. The nine cross-party deputies have yet to decide whether the bill should be sent to the legislative assembly for a vote.

  52. 52.

    debbie

    @germy:

    He also accused the press of lying about his leaving Maine during the shutdown, but then they discovered a voicemail message from the governor saying he’d be out of the state for 10 days. What a lunatic.

  54. 54.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Brachiator: That’s fucking disgusting. The El Salvdorians should overthrow those fuckers

  57. 57.

    jl

    @Brachiator: The situation on human rights for women have been a nightmare in El Salvador for years. So, another nightmarish story from that country. Have been so many.

  61. 61.

    different-church-lady

    NBCNews.com: “Trump, Putin Had ‘Very Robust’ Talk on Election Hacking”

    TRUMP: “Vlad, tell me what we can do to make your election hacking more robust.”

  63. 63.

    Gravenstone

    Hey, he just said boots – nothing about having anyone inside of them. Toss a pair into a rover, shouldn’t take up much space.

  64. 64.

    Brachiator

    @Baud:

    They said subscribership was up.

    A few more signs of the coming death of newspapers…

    The LA Times

    A retired veteran editor at the Los Angeles Times who keeps track of these things says that Monday’s print edition of the Times “matches the known all-time low” page count: 32 pages all told. That’s not good. Not too many years ago, the A section alone could be that many pages on a good day. This is a sign, on top of last week’s buyout offer to newsroom employees with more than 15 years at the paper, that times are still tough and perhaps getting tougher at the LA Times. Newsprint is one of the biggest annual costs at a newspaper, and in general papers try to print the fewest pages they can get away with to carry all of the ads they have sold for the day, plus a decent amount of space for the actual product: news.

    The New York Times is responding badly to all kinds of problems

    It turns out that the Los Angeles bureau of the New York Times took a deeper hit than I realized in the recent buyout of veteran employees. I had reported the July exits of entertainment reporter Michael Cieply and photojournalist Monica Almeida. But Cieply, who took the cash then signed on at Deadline Hollywood, writes there that a third member of the LA bureau, biotech business reporter Andrew Pollack, took the buyout offer and reporter Ian Lovett jumped to the Wall Street Journal. Yes, before leaving Lovett executed that one-week experiment in June on a California-themed newsletter for the NYT.

    Cieply says that the Los Angeles bureau is now very thin and that executive editor Dean Baquet vows to rebuild the staff here — but maybe not right away. As we reported last month, the bureau chief, Adam Nagourney, is planning a book leave starting in 2018 to write about the New York Times itself.

    Papers are losing key people and eliminating important positions as they desperately try to stay afloat.

    Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch is trying to increase his media empire in the UK and Australia.

  66. 66.

    Gravenstone

    @West of the Rockies (been a while): To be fair, that “clean room” was anything but once they let the goobers in their street clothes through the door. Betting it was a show piece. Still doesn’t absolve Dense of giving into the temptation. Willing to be he tests out “Wet Paint” signs, too.

  67. 67.

    jl

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    ” You should speak to Mrs. Trump about that. ”

    She tells me that you’ve been doing great work lately. Women are noticing your big hands more and more.

  68. 68.

    Brachiator

    @jl:

    The situation on human rights for women have been a nightmare in El Salvador for years

    I look at this as a precursor of what may happen here as conservatives do everything they can to do away with women’s reproductive rights.

  79. 79.

    ThresherK

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Cross got so much material out of working on those movies it hasn’t tarnished him. They shoulda made him sign an NDA.

    Anyone attached to one of the Beethoven movies, however…

    PS If you haven’t seen The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, you’re missing something.

  82. 82.

    John Revolta

    @Suzanne: Let’s send Dense to Mars and leave him there. Maybe with one of those suicide pills.

    We could put it in a bottle that says “Do Not Swallow”.

  83. 83.

    LosGatosCA

    @p.a.:

    They are leaving Venus alone since it’s the role model for their climate change denialism.

  86. 86.

    JGabriel

    @Lurking Canadian:

    Do you want to imagine the future Winston? Imagine a boot, stomping on a Martian face, forever.

    Mars isn’t even colonized yet, and already the Trump administration vows to end terrorism there.

    Visionaries, I tell you. Visionaries!

  87. 87.

    Mike J

    It seems impossible, but somehow Rooney Mara had never tried pie until she was 31 years old.

    The actress, who is now 32, revealed in a recent interview that she had her first taste of pie while shooting David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story” in 2016. Unfortunately for her, the scene in the movie required her to eat not just a slice, but a whole pie.

  89. 89.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Brachiator:

    Karol Wojtyla and Joe Ratzenberger are two of the most evil cocksuckers on earth.

  90. 90.

    Mike in NC

    Jesus. Anybody remember the nonsense from Gingrich about having a colony on the moon before the end of his second term. Nuts!

  91. 91.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Major Major Major Major: Thanks, the photography group that I’m a member of did a photo shoot at Echo Park yesterday evening. It’s really a great setting for shots of the city. I’ve shot there before but only in the afternoon. Lots of folk were out and about and one guy did a lot of people pics, they turned out really well.

  93. 93.

    Emma

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I love your work. And I have a question: do you carry any sort of portable storage device? Any you can recommend?

    Anyone else please feel free to jump in.

  94. 94.

    TenguPhule

    @germy:

    I mean, am I supposed to believe Pence just reached out and impulsively groped a critical piece of space flight hardware?

    Yes. SATSQ.

  95. 95.

    CZanne

    You know, if NASA used “quotation marks” properly, instead of “subbing” them in for scare-quote “emphasis”, maybe Pence would have behaved like a grown-ass adult. That sign is irritating.

    I don’t expect better of Pence. He’s not a toddler, but he clearly needs remedial kindergarten since Mother has to make ridiculous rules for him. He clearly and obviously regularly fails keeps hands and feet to himself. But NASA? Seriously, I expect better.

    But hey, let’s take him to Los Alamos and put him in a room alone with some of those rods Cheryl showed us recently.

  97. 97.

    TenguPhule

    @Brachiator: Saw it, got depressed by it and declined to bring it up here on the grounds that it would just be yet another downer article.

  101. 101.

    Gravenstone

    @CZanne:

    But hey, let’s take him to Los Alamos and put him in a room alone with some of those rods Cheryl showed us recently.

    True story – early 80s, I’m among several physics and engineering students from my tiny college making a visit to Argonne National Labs. As we’re touring through one of the labs featuring a glovebox, one of the other students walks up to it and starts manipulating the waldoes inside. The staff member was not amused …

  103. 103.

    efgoldman

    @Emma:

    do you carry any sort of portable storage device? Any you can recommend?

    Cargo pants with REALLY BIG pockets

  104. 104.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Frankensteinbeck: No argument from me. Pence is a moron. But is his PR team idiots too? Why the hell would he (or PR) try to make some lame ass meme to counter this? Him photoshoped from the above touching a a porcupine or something. Was the picture taken by WH staff? If so, they’re stupid

  106. 106.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @germy:

    And the NASA guy said “You can go ahead and touch it. That’s why we put “DO NOT TOUCH” in quotation marks, to indicate that it was just notional and we don’t really mean it. You can touch it if you want.”

    ETA: And of course CZanne and others got there first.

  107. 107.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Baud: Baud, you’re doing it wrong. You’re not supposed to tell us up front that you’re in league with hackers and you’re supposed to use White hackers. Duh!! WRONG!!

  114. 114.

    Felanius Kootea

    @Brachiator: To my surprise, I really enjoyed “Baby Driver.” My husband’s pick but for once I didn’t have to shield my eyes through half the movie like with John Wick (I don’t deal well with movie/TV violence and have to be in another room when “Game of Thrones” is on).

  117. 117.

    jl

    @Major Major Major Major: This is Balloon-Juice. Outstanding screw-ups from around the world are just run of the mill ordinary mediocrities here. Get in line with the rest of us for choice positions on the Baud 2020 team.

  121. 121.

    Roger Moore

    @Emma:
    I’ve largely given up on portable storage beyond memory cards. Even on a week-long vacation, I’ll just make sure to have enough cards to save all the pictures I’m going to take. It helps if you’re disciplined about how you use them. I learned a few tricks from Thom Hogan’s site:

    1) Get a good card wallet; it’s much better than trying to keep a bunch of cards in their individual cases
    2) Format all your cards before you start out.
    3) Organize your cards so you can easily tell which are empty and which are full. Thom recommends putting newly formatted ones label side out and full ones label side in. This lets you tell at a glance which are which.

    I tend to make sure I have one card per day of shooting and buy cards that are bigger than I can easily fill in a day. At the beginning of each day, I take out the old card, put it back in the wallet (label side in!), and put a fresh one in the camera. I’m instantly ready for a day of shooting, and I don’t have to worry about accidentally overwriting good pictures. Cards are cheap enough now- especially compared to good cameras and lenses- that cost is never a good reason to run out of space, and they’re small and light enough that lack of physical space is never a good excuse not to carry enough.

  122. 122.

    tobie

    I’ve been out of the loop today but turned on the tv this evening and twice on MSNBC saw people praising Trump’s meeting with Putin to the skies. One was David Ignatius and the other was a retired CBS Moscow reporter named Jonathan Sanders, I think. Who is this guy? He was smug, rude, condescending to the host, and repeatedly sung Tillerson’s and Trump’s praises for turning over a new leaf in our relations with Russia. WTF? Did Vlad order his minions to go on all the cable news broadcasts this evening?

  127. 127.

    TenguPhule

    I welcome our new Disease overlords.

    Dr Brenda Fitzgerald is an obstetrician-gynecologist and has been head of her state’s Department of Public Health since 2011. At 70, she has strong ties to the Republican party. She was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress twice in the 1990s and was a policy adviser to former House speaker Newt Gingrich and the late senator Paul Coverdell.

    Fitzgerald was appointed to the CDC by Tom Price, another doctor who was a Republican congressman from Georgia before he was selected by Trump to head the Department of Health and Human Services. She succeeds Dr Tom Frieden, who resigned as CDC director in January, at the end of the Obama administration.

    Shit is fucked and our disaster response is going to the dogs.

  129. 129.

    lurker dean

    @Emma: not sure what you mean? sd cards are cheap enough and large enough nowadays that common practice seems to be to just carry a few of them. there are specialized hard drives for storing photos (which are handy if you don’t have a computer with you and want to backup the cards), but they’re pricey. i’ve never used one, i just carry a few good quality SD cards :o)
    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Stand-Alone-Data-Storage/ci/3369/N/4000227848

    @efgoldman: LOL!

  131. 131.

    Roger Moore

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    It all depends on what and how much you shoot. I have a D800 and I like to shoot raw, so cards fill up quickly on a busy photo vacation. Still, one 32GB card will do for even a very busy day of photography. I have a wallet with 6 of them, which has been plenty for my recent vacations. If I ever get a camera that takes bigger files, or if I go on serious photo vacations that last longer than about a week, I’ll have to look at getting more.

  133. 133.

    divF

    @jl:

    What brand of beer do you want to plug?

    Baud should be a defender of blue-collar regional brands, such as
    National Bohemian
    Iron City
    Genesee
    (None of the faux-blue-collar PBR for Baud!)

  135. 135.

    Aleta

    Molly McKew @MollyMcKew
    Tillerson also said the two presidents agreed not to meddle in each other’s domestic affairs. This is a huge PR win for Putin. Incalculable.

    Well election hack solved! And no worries now about letting his infrastructure spies back in. But you think this will save you from poisoning?

  139. 139.

    Keith P.

    @Major Major Major Major: Oh, damn, I posted my own link to that link 120 posts later. Bad on me for not noticing someone beat me to it. That’s one of my favorite Mr Show skits (along with Wycked Sceptre and Buddhists vs. Fat Kids’ Camp…EDIT forgot It’s Insane, This Guy’s Taint)

  140. 140.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Keith P.: the entire episode that culminates with The Joke: The Musical is my favorite.

    That and the one with the ad for Bag Hutch.
    “My great great great grandfather founded this company with nothing but one leaky, rickety, hand-built slave ship and a simple motto: people selling people to people. So don’t call me fat!”

  141. 141.

    BC in Illinois

    @divF:

    Baud should be a defender of blue-collar regional brands, such as
    National Bohemian
    Iron City
    Genesee

    National Bo! The beer of my youth!

    “And while we’re about it, we’re proud to say, it’s brewed on the shores . . . of the Chesapeake Bay!”

  144. 144.

    divF

    @BC in Illinois: Indeed.
    When I was growing up in the DC area in the 1960’s, there was a weatherman on WMAL, Louis Allen, who was sponsored by National Beer. He drew his own weather maps as he was giving the weather report, and would occasionally (IIRC) do drawings advertising National Beer.

    (He would open the weather segment by saying “getting ourselves oriented, here’s Washington”, and draw a little circle in the appropriate location on the map.)

  145. 145.

    Emma

    @lurker dean: Yes, that’s what I wondered about. I have a nice travel wallet with space for 10 cards and I use 32gbs so I have plenty. It just makes me paranoid to put too many images in one card without duplication.

  146. 146.

    hueyplong

    @divF: The sight of those three beer names might knock me off the Baud bandwagon. Leaderless, adrift, I hope I don’t fall prey to the siren song of right wing politics in my despair.

  147. 147.

    Roger Moore

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    How do you deal with that many?

    What I usually do is to shoot raw+jpg. Then I look through the jpgs to find the ones that look worth investing more effort in. I find that’s the slowest part of editing, since I can only look through a hundred or so pictures before I need to take a break. For the pictures that are worth further effort, I go back to the raw and process them carefully. It’s not really hard; it just takes some persistence to get through them all.

  148. 148.

    Jeffro

    @BC in Illinois:

    National Bo

    Say what? Who calls it “National Bo”? I’ve always heard “Natty Bo” here. Must be a regional nickname thing.

    (doesn’t really matter – it’s still worse than Schaefer, or dog help me, Schaefer Light)

  149. 149.

    Jeffro

    Quick note: I’m heading up to Philly tomorrow and staying a couple of nights. Already checked out what music clubs I could find and didn’t really see any acts that appealed to me (but then again my knowledge of Center City music joints is pretty limited. Anyone have any recommendations in that regard?

  150. 150.

    Another Scott

    @Roger Moore: Zooks.

    I think I took about 2200 shots on our trip to eastern Canada a few years back. In 2 weeks. And I did almost no post-processing. Even just running them through “I’m Feeling Lucky” in Picasa would be a huge time sink for me. ;-)

    I admire you folks who can do all that digital magic and have a life besides.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  151. 151.

    Roger Moore

    @Another Scott:

    I admire you folks who can do all that digital magic and have a life besides.

    I only do this for one or two trips a year, and it takes longer to go through the pictures than the trip did. Besides, who ever said I have a life?

  153. 153.

    Tazj

    @tobie: I did not see David Ignatius, but I caught the end of the conversation with Jonathon Sanders and it shocked and depressed me. He thought Trump did great today and Tillerson was masterful or something? Sanders thought that Trump and Putin were going to bring an end to the Syrian war. He dismissed Russian’s hacking(not a big deal they’ve been trying this for years, move on) and thought it was proof of Russia’s superiority in math? Disturbing.

    I wasn’t familiar with him, but he has an impressive resume from what I read from doing a quick internet search. He was a CBS reporter in Russia for years and won awards for his story on the terrorist hostage crisis in Beslan.

    Yes, what he said was quite upsetting and certainly not my takeaway form what happened today between Trump and Putin. Hopefully, Sanders and Ignatius are outliers and their opinions won’t carry much weight. Richard Engel was on Maddow shortly after, and him seemed to think Putin came away the big winner today.

  154. 154.

    BC in Illinois

    @Jeffro:
    I won’t defend the taste — no one in my family ever did – – but “National Bo” came from some of the commercials of the ’60s. During the era when the spokesbird on the commercial was one “Chester Peake,” a seagull.

    “And if this oyster could talk, he’d say . . .”
    “I’m a clam!”

  155. 155.

    efgoldman

    @BC in Illinois:

    but “National Bo” came from some of the commercials of the ’60s.

    I believe (but am not sure) that Natty Bo (on the Orioles’ network), Narragansett (the original, not the current curated version. on Red Sox stations) and probably other regional breweries, used crudely animated commercials featuring two young, fresh comedians for voice overs –
    Mike Nichols and Elaine May. All they did was change the tag lines.

  156. 156.

    lurker dean

    @Emma: oh, i see. i know what you mean, i tend to use smaller cards because i don’t like having all images on one sd in case it goes wonky. although knock on wood in 10 years i’ve never had an issue with sandisk cards, purchased from b&h so i know they’re real – there are a lot of fakes out there. and then at night i save the images to a laptop, but ideally don’t erase the sd card, so i have a duplicate. but you need enough sd cards for that, which, for like a week long trip, can be quite a few, esp if you save both raw and jpeg, and maybe shoot some video.

  157. 157.

    lurker dean

    @Roger Moore: lol, totally know the feeling. i try to get to vacation pics quickly to leverage the vacation excitement motivation, but the day-to-day stuff really piles up for me. i’m always impressed by how quickly billinglendale processes.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    @Major Major Major Major: FTR “Natty Boh” was originally brewed in Baltimore, izzat coastal enough, hon? A friend visiting from Newcastle UK (epicenter of ale) some years ago liked it best of all the American beers he sampled. Genny 12-Horse Ale is pretty decent. Never had IC. When I was a kid it used to appear on the billboard across the street from my aunt & uncle’s house in Fairmont WV, alternating months with the long-gone Duquesne. (Any of you Pittsburgh types old enough to remember “Duke”?)

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    Robert Sneddon

    @lurker dean: If you don’t back up your images soon after you take them then eventually you’re going to lose a bunch of images. Professional photographers say one backup is no backup and two backups is a start (but only a start). Offsite backups mean that even a fire won’t cost them their life’s work. Cloud storage is convenient but I wouldn’t trust it as my only offsite backup for work and photos so I keep a couple of spare hard drives in a store room a few kilometres from here and cycle them through my local/cloud backup procedure every few weeks.

    I’ve seen small boxes that will duplicate SD cards, it might be worth investing in one of those. If you’re travelling post the dupes back home every few days via snailmail.

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    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @Lurking Canadian: Given what those jewels in the Gray Lady’s crown are paid, losing them would probably pay for at least three copy editors apiece, maybe four.

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