Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Let me file that under fuck it.

“woke” is the new caravan.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

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

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

The words do not have to be perfect.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

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  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    Alright! Another day that Cole didn’t get eated by a cat, another day we have this wonderful blog! Although I’m sure the community could pony up to pay for the server if he were to get eated by a cat.

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    Bobby Thomson

    I’m not convinced this isn’t a bot. We need puppy pix with today’s newspaper.

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    Ken

    I’ll need to see more than a Barry Manilow embed with no text before I’ll believe it. Steve might have jumped on the keyboard and triggered the post – or maybe he learned to type after eating Cole’s brain. Zombies do that now, why not cats?

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    debit

    I played the video he posted below and Julian went nuts trying to find the “new” cat. I may have done it a few times.

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    Laura

    So Big Kiki spared you . . . . this time.
    Here’s hoping you’ve learned an important lesson about provisioning so this doesn’t happen again.

    That fancy new trunk could probably hold enough fancy specialty slim chow and cans of pumpkin to avoid any future breakfast unpleasantness.

    Just sayin’

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    Kay Eye

    @satby: Never apologize for playing the music you like. Not even Barry Manilow and not even The Carpenters.

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    Baquist

    Steve does not play. You need to be more careful, John…… If he ever could pull off a plot you truly are a goner.

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    germy

    My wife bought me some black and dark blue tee-shirts. As is the fashion with these newer shirts, it’s difficult to tell the front of the shirts from the back, because the brand labels are printed in fine letters on the shirts, rather than on a tag.

    I can now tell immediately which is the front of the shirt, because of the cat claw holes.

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    Nicole

    A little context next time, please? I thought Manilow had died and you were making a comment on the current state of the world with your song choice.

    Also, can I just say that I love that one of Manilow’s signature songs is “I Write the Songs,” a song he did not, in fact, write? Manilow was meta before meta was.

    And I never judge other people’s musical taste because I had both of Asia’s first two albums on LP.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Kay Eye:
    Karen Carpenter’s singing voice was legendary, and the Carpenters’ music is worth listening to for that alone. As a drummer, she also had the chops to impress the jazz legend Buddy Rich, and she could have been a legend on that instrument too; but her brother Richard decided he needed her at the front of the stage, rather than sat at a drum kit at the back.

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    ET

    You know, after reading the comments I got paranoid. You may need to do more to reassure the horde.

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    Nicole

    @Kay Eye: I think the Carpenters are great, actually. There was a really good tribute album out in the early 1990s, If I Were a Carpenter and I remember one of the reviews of it mentioned how it really did remind you what a great producer/arranger Richard Carpenter was- it wasn’t all Karen’s golden throat. Sonic Youth’s cover of “Superstar” on it was AWESOME.

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    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    I think he really needed to go with that little ditty from the end of the Poseidon Adventure.

    “The Morning After” captures the mood appropriately, and Maureen McGovern has a lovely voice.

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    Mnemosyne

    @SWMBO:

    It took me a few minutes to figure out how the exact same line of food from the exact same company could simultaneously be on the “best” and “worst” lists. It’s the heavy metals in fish.

  28. 28.

    MazeDancer

    Highly rec Chewy. com for pet food. They have good selection – including special diet foods – excellent prices, and free shipping that usually arrives the next day. Staying supplied with cat food, treats, and litter is now just easy clicking, not a chore.

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    Baquist

    @SWMBO:
    Thanks for this. Just found out I have to change the little rat’s dog food back to what we used to give him – 5 stars compared to the current kibble’s 3 stars.

  31. 31.

    Miss Bianca

    @MazeDancer: I get my Glycoflex supplements from them and they are great! I may have to check out some of these cleanlabel foods and see if they have them!

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    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    We need proof of life for the pups. Reassure us that Steve didn’t eat them in his deprivation.

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    Laura

    @Amir Khalid: Perfect pitch is amazing and her tone was liquid velvet.@Nicole: we love that recording too! Agree that Richard was a good arranger, but jeez, what a pillburt.

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    Jane2

    @debit: That’s funny – I was in bed when I played it, and poor Izzy the cat thought it was a home invasion.

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    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    @SWMBO: I’ve been using dogfoodadvisor.com. Both show I and Love and You to be excellent, which I found surprising given that I can buy it in a supermarket. Iggy and Muppet like it, though, and it’s easy to find, so I’m not complaining.

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    SenyorDave

    Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl…

    Always thought there was the possibility of a pretty entertaining musical to be made based on that song.

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    Tehanu

    In the 1970s we saw Bette Midler at the Hollywood Bowl. About halfway thru, she took a break, announcing that her music director was going to sing a couple of his very own songs while she was off. I listened to both, then turned to my husband and said, “This guy will never make it in show biz. He has no talent.”

    Of course, it was Barry Manilow — so I was half right! YMMV, I guess.

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