Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Giving up is unforgivable.

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

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

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

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

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

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

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

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

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

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

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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  3. 3.

    seaboogie

    John – these flowers are beautiful, and so glad that you have ABC in your life as another photographer, among so many other reasons that she shares your life. If you are doing your own photography, consider another angle, from right close in or under – have fun and play….

    Try it without the flash.

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    khead

    I guess Anne pulled her thread making fun of Douthat, so I will post here.

    We are hosting my wife’s goddaughter for the week. Jersey Shore (Wildwood) tomorrow. So glad it has (kinda) cooled off.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    Flowers are beautiful, John. I would love to see pictures of your dad’s garden.

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    Aleta

    There’s a couple of old houses gone rickety that I think have a little patch of gladiolas in the ragged weeds in front. Can they be surviving after so long? They’re kind of special standing out there in front of an abandoned place.

    Also, gladioluses sounds musical

  11. 11.

    Yarrow

    I’ve been busy all evening. What’s this about McCain having surgery and the healthcare vote being delayed?

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    Just make sure that none of your crew tries to take a nibble — they can be toxic for both cats and dogs, though it’s the actual bulb that’s most dangerous.

    I’m going to repeat my whine up here that I would like our local hotel bar a lot more if there wasn’t always some asshole wearing a perfume I’m allergic to there. I had to come home and use my inhaler after we got drinks there.

  17. 17.

    Yarrow

    @Mnemosyne: I sympathize. There are some perfumes and some household cleaners that give me a headache within minutes. I don’t have to use an inhaler for it so I guess I’m lucky my reaction isn’t as bad as it could be. It’s not fun, though.

  18. 18.

    eclare

    @Yarrow: I used to work with a woman who smoked and doused herself with perfume to cover the smell of the smoke. I would have rather smelled smoke. I finally told her boss that, and somehow he got the message across delicately.

  21. 21.

    Jilli Brown

    Good news folks, wapo is reporting…trumps approval has dropped to 36%, 48% “disapprove strongly” (a milestone Obama never reached.) Disapproval +5, up to 58%.

  22. 22.

    CZanne

    @TaMara (HFG): Do you have a local recommendation for either top soil or pavers/bricks/rock? We don’t have a lot of garden to deal with, but enough that I need to disestablish some builder bushes and ground cover, and replace with a paved surface and elevated beds, plus a pair of trees and a big espalier.

  23. 23.

    Yarrow

    I really need to take some pictures of his garden and share them. Maybe I will ask ABC to do that since she is such a far superior photographer.

    Please do this, John! I’d love to see them. Maybe they could be the basis of a Sunday morning garden chat post.

  24. 24.

    Mom Says I'm Handsome

    @CZanne: Stepping out on a limb here, but if you’re asking the Menu Lady about local contractors, and she’s on the Front Range somewhere, and I’m a Denverite, I recommend to you Pioneer Sand for yardscaping supplies.

    Also too, fuck the Coward Cory Gardner, our pathetic weasel of a senator. Tick tock, senator…

  27. 27.

    seaboogie

    @J R in WV: @Aleta: Sorry late back to the thread….pinks mostly, but I imagine that there were others, because there was such a profusion. We had massive quantities of rhododendron also, in all of the available colors. What my memory retains is the succulency and profusion of the blooms, and the green of the leaves…

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    Kay

    Oh, that brings back memories. I had forgotten about glads. You don’t see them as much anymore. I used to plant them in rows for cut flowers but I got away from it – I don’t know why. They’re probably too formal for the garden I have now and I have so many spring bulbs for cut flowers I don’t bother with summer bulbs.

    I don’t think there’s any flower with the variety of good colors as gladiola. It’s fun to choose because it’s hard to go wrong.

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    Olivia

    They are beautiful flowers and my mother in law grew hundreds of them every year. She always encouraged me to grow them but as beautiful and colorful as they are, and as much as I love flowers, I just never did.
    My strongest memory of glads is that when I was a kid, they were the only flower for funerals in our little town, summer or winter. There would be dozens of white molded paper pulp buckets of them in various colors all around the deceased. It’s hard to shake some memory associations.

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    stinger

    @Aleta: Aleta, what zone are you in? Where I live, Z5, gladiolus bulbs have to be dug up and overwintered indoors. Not sure how far south they survive in the ground all winter–probably where the ground never freezes. Post a pic and maybe we can identify what they are!

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    WaterGirl

    @Olivia: I wasn’t going to say anything, but since you did I will chime in. That is exactly it for me. They are lovely flowers, but gladiolas = funeral to me. I was catholic and wondered if that was a catholic thing.

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    Olivia

    @WaterGirl: I was Catholic too but I don’t think that was a factor. I have seen photos from the 30s and 40s of my husband’s Lutheran great grandparents in their coffins surrounded by glads I think it is more that they last a long time because of the flowers start opening from the bottom. They had to be shipped from somewhere to this tiny Minnesota town all year long and they were probably the only flower they could depend on.

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    TaMara (HFG)

    @CZanne: I hope you see this…I’ll also post it in a thread I’m doing later today. Pioneer Sand would be my choice. They have a bunch of locations – I’m considering a big load of compost soil from them late August to try and amend my very, very depleted soil.

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