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The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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  5. 5.

    jl

    Getting the kid started on chugging beer upside down? The Duke influence I guess.

    Edit: Thnx for cute pic.

  8. 8.

    efgoldman

    Made me smile, always welcome.
    Not as much as my granddaughter makes me smile, but I’ll take it.
    You can really enjoy the hell out of your kids if you let yourself do it. Leads to better kids AND better adults, too.

  12. 12.

    MomSense

    Just wait until she gets older and brings the beer to your house. That’s when it gets really fun.

  17. 17.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    A proud papa and his cutie! Enjoy being a father; it’s the best.

  18. 18.

    Gator90

    Since this is an open thread, I’m going to exercise my prerogative to be a downer. Chuck Todd tells me 68% of Republicans agree with DJT’s remarks on Charlottesville. As a Jew, what I take from this is that a substantial portion of U.S. citizenry is relatively untroubled by people who would prefer me and my little girls to be dead. For the first time in my life, I have just a hint of a sliver of understanding of what proto-fascist Bibi Netanyahu is talking about when he says Jews have only one home. (And I know Jews are relatively privileged in this country compared to a number of other folks. But still.)

  21. 21.

    Betty Cracker

    What @efgoldman said:

    You can really enjoy the hell out of your kids if you let yourself do it. Leads to better kids AND better adults, too.

    Looks like you’ve got it covered! ?

  22. 22.

    Gator90

    Since this is an open thread, I’m going to exercise my prerogative to be a downer. Chuck Todd tells me 68% of Republicans agree with DJT’s remarks on Charlottesville. As a Jew, what I take from this is that a substantial portion of U.S. citizenry is relatively untroubled by people who would prefer that me and my little girls be dead. For the first time in my life, I have a hint of a sliver of understanding of what proto-fascist Bibi Netanyahu is talking about when he says Jews have only one home. (And I know Jews are relatively privileged in this country compared to a number of other folks. But still.)

  23. 23.

    Gator90

    Since this is an open thread, I’m going to exercise my prerogative to be a downer. Chuck Todd tells me 68% of Republicans agree with DJT’s remarks on Charlottesville. As a Jew, what I take from this is that a substantial portion of U.S. citizenry is relatively untroubled by people who would prefer my little girls to be dead. For the first time in my life, I have a hint of a sliver of understanding of what proto-fascist Bibi Netanyahu is talking about when he says Jews have only one home. (And I know Jews are relatively privileged in this country compared to a number of other folks. but still.)

  24. 24.

    efgoldman

    @Betty Cracker:

    Looks like you’ve got it covered!

    Something that I, and my son in law, had to learn. If you’re a first time father, and you’re not scared shitless of screwing it up, you have no soul. Fortunately for both of us, we married child speakers.

  33. 33.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Major Major Major Major: I see they included Winged Victory in Philly’s 30th Street Station, which I see frequently as I’m in that station several times a week.

    I didn’t see another of my favorites, from Princeton, NJ, a guy sitting on the curb reading a book and eating a sandwich. Once while waiting for my wife I positioned myself a few feet from him in an identical pose. It was meant to be a private joke but before she showed up I looked up and realized I’d become a tourist attraction, as a number of people were snapping pics.

    Edit to Add: hard to link from the phone, but it’s called “Out to Lunch” by Seward Johnson and is in Palmer Square

  34. 34.

    kindness

    Ahh, teaching your daughter how to be a good college student and do a keg stand. What a guy!

  36. 36.

    SFAW

    Yawn. Call me when she’s shotgunning a six-pack in under 30 seconds.

    Be that as it may: beautiful kid! Thanks for the photo!!

  39. 39.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @MomSense: I don’t know if it’s still there, but years ago there was one I loved at Hains Point in Washington DC, called “The Awakening”. It was a giant apparently emerging from the ground, a hand over here, a knee there, his face up there…

    It always had kids climbing on it, which I think was the point.

  41. 41.

    MomSense

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Oh right. I remember that one. He had a sort of nest of a head and beard and big hands poking through the ground.

    The obelisk at Vigeland Park is mind blowing. From a distance you see a sort of textured obelisk but when you get closer to it you realize it’s all carved bodies.

    obelisk

    Now that I think of it, one of my favorite statues at the park is the one of the toddler having a tantrum. I had a toddler in tow the first time I saw it and it was a perfect depiction of the real thing.

  42. 42.

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

    Decided to make a pinhole projector for the solar eclipse. Easy enough to do. I’ll make a little art project out of it. 80% totality so should be worth it.

  45. 45.

    Yarrow

    Cute! I like the person peeking around from behind you just to make sure babygirl is okay. Is that Mrs. Mayhew?

  49. 49.

    David Anderson

    @Yarrow: Mrs. Mayhew took the picture. The woman peeking around is the party host/instigator of good ideas.

    @kindness: it is a parent’s responsibility to get their kids prepared for life and have embarrassing pictures available

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

    @debbie:
    I wanted to get glasses, but I waited too long. That would have involved a lot less work and I would have actually got to look at the eclipse. But whatever. I was pretty upset at first when everything was sold out.

  53. 53.

    Rihilism

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  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    We have a classic family photo of my toddler nephew trying to drink out of a (empty, rinsed) beer bottle that he pulled out of the recycling bin.

  56. 56.

    dww44

    Adorable baby and her rather nice looking Daddy. So as to put you a ease I’m probably older than your Mom and today is my 48th Wedding anniversary. Remember clearly what the weather was like 48 years ago, It was very hot, and the air was heavy and still,even though we were a couple hundred miles inland from the Atlantic. This was the day Camille made landfall in Mississippi. As we were headed to the mountains, that made no impression at the time..

  57. 57.

    Ruckus

    @David Anderson:

    it is a parent’s responsibility to get their kids prepared for life and have embarrassing pictures available

    Mine got it half right. They had a cocktail party when I was 3 and someone found me drinking out of the glasses that people set down. Mom said I was positively drunk. Every since then when I drank I had wiskey. Beer if forced, wine only on occasions. Of course they were too busy to take pictures.
    Alas tis no more. My drinking days are over.

  63. 63.

    Amir Khalid

    @japa21:

    Will he let people know it bothers him? No.

    But he will let people know it bothers him, precisely by insisting very loudly that it does not.

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