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Balloon Juice is loading r-e-a-l-l-y…. s – l – o – w – l -y for me right now, but then, why should it be more functional than anything else today?
What’s on the agenda as we (thank goddess) look forward to the immanent weekend?
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Balloon Juice is loading r-e-a-l-l-y…. s – l – o – w – l -y for me right now, but then, why should it be more functional than anything else today?
What’s on the agenda as we (thank goddess) look forward to the immanent weekend?
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HinTN
Slow? Moi aussi
Major Major Major Major
I spent all afternoon writing a giant regular expression. I am completely braindead! I can’t wait to get home and color in some ghosts I drew. Spoiler alert: there are ghosts in my horror comic.
Actually I’m non-braindead enough to know that you used the wrong ‘imminent’, AL.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Great. Now we’ll get to listen to hordes of wingnuts tell us how Obama is stealing money to enrich himself, and raising money for terrorists. If we’re really lucky, we’ll be treated to 70 years of Congressional hearings whenever the Republicans have one house. Thanks, Obama…
Baud
Maybe BJ should consider a no ad subscription service.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
44 will always be my President.
Taboola has to go. Seriously.
Elizabelle
BJ is loading fine for me. Of course, I have AdBlocker.
The Obama video is stunning for the lack of white male faces in it. Uh huh.
debbie
It’s the You May Like ads above the comments.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
fucking nihilist dogshit glibturd tuntwuffler
Baud
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): I’m at the point no one has credibility to talk about Hillary Clinton. As far as I’m concerned, she has transcended the Village.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Transcended the Village. That’s a nice thought. I hope so.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
I thought she said, “It Takes a Village”.
Baud
@Elizabelle: We’ll see. My opinions are not always widely shared.
A Ghost to Most
@Major Major Major Major: regular expressions can do that. Indispensable for certain things, though.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I think she meant to say, “Let’s Raze The Village.”
Corner Stone
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): I hope that fucking fuck wakes up on fire one morning.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Maybe that will be in the 2nd printing of “What Happened”.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m a little upset she didn’t title the book WTF Happened?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: She’s not Joe Biden.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Too bad we can’t meld the two somehow.
Major Major Major Major
@A Ghost to Most: If this wasn’t one of those things I wouldn’t have used them. You know the old joke. A young programmer has a problem. They decide to solve it with regular expressions. They soon find that they have two problems.
rikyrah
@Elizabelle:
That is a good thought
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Corner Stone: Worse than even Cillizza. Dana Houle knows what time it is.
WaterGirl
The news of the day has left me spiting mad, so I am going to self-depot from BJ for the evening. Somebody wake me if this has all been just a bad dream.
Raven
Well , I got to my hometown about 4pm. I’ve driven around and seen most of what I wanted to including the house my dad grew up in. There’s supposed to be an informal gathering at tavern but no one is here so I guess it’s the Illini from Tampa!
PhoenixRising
Speaking of weekend and Hillz staying a hero under conditions that may require us to raze a village…
She spoke at Edie Windsor’s funeral today. It was beautiful. Torah, laughter, and talking about octogenerians having sex. This clip starts with “all rise for the gay national anthem”:
https://soundcloud.com/alexsilverman/edie-windsor-goodbye-to-a-pioneer
PhoenixRising
@WaterGirl:
is that a logistics function?
Corner Stone
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): The whole thing makes me want to choke him to death but these two pull quotes:
“The deeper I read into What Happened’s email chapter, the more convinced I became that the press was right to pressure Clinton on the story. She believes what she did was dumb. She believes she owns what she did. She takes responsibility. With all that being true, the press was right to make a racket about it.”
…
“But who fed the press corps’ appetite? Clinton. She stonewalled the press on the emails for five months, and that will make any reporter hungry. “
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: “She shouldn’t have been wearing such a short skirt…”
Corner Stone
@PhoenixRising: Well, she is spiting mad for Pedro’s sake.
MomSense
I miss Obama. I miss having that beautiful family in the White House showing the world Americans at our best.
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: “She answered every question the press had about this for months. But the stonewalling was just too much. The press was right.”
Baud
@Corner Stone:
It’s the same lame defense that the only legitimate journalistic criticism is newsworthiness.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: This.
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major:
Not to mention the slutty makeup and FM pumps.
Baud
@MomSense: This doesn’t come up as often, but I miss a Democratic Congress.
ET
God I miss him. I was watching videos of him on YouTube – the Joe Biden medal surprise, at a couple of schools, when he was having dinners with the raffle winners during the campaign and all I could think of was how I wanted a rational grown-up as president again AND IT HASN’T EVEN BEEN ONE FULL YEAR of him yet.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: If these reporters had gone down and talked to folk in their own fucking IT department, this would have been a non-story. But those folk are weird and have strange piercing and tats.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Corner Stone: He’s like Brendan O’Neill, only without
the accentever having left pretensionssuperficially interesting arguments…actually no, he’s exactly like Brendan O’Neill.You’ll be unsurprised to know he supported Bloomberg 2016 for reasons somehow even pettier than you were probably thinking of. How CNN (or failing that, the FTFNYT) hasn’t picked him up yet boggles the mind.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: @efgoldman: And everybody knows it just drives a man wild when you try to resist him.
dm
Listening to the Hillary interviews lately, I think — what a great commentator she would make. Looking forward to her replacing John McCain on all the talk shows. That’s what happens with
failedpresidential candidates, right? They show up every weekend on the news talk shows?ETA: strike-out “failed”. She won the popular vote, after all.
Corner Stone
@Baud:
I miss waking up on a day ending in Y and not having someone scream at me that I better call my elected officials or 30M Americans are going to die in the next 12 months. I know that’s their point but geez it is freaking exhausting to have to fight all three branches of government every day to keep them from hurting people.
MomSense
@Baud:
Absolutely!
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
You notice she’s still not locked up, right? Boy, it’s a good thing the media spent a year wringing its hands about emails.
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major:
I guess it’s weird, but I thought no meant no before I met mrs efg, when I was in college.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dm:
Strike-out is “[del]…[/del]”.
(Of course replacing brackets with greater-than, less-than’s.)
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@RobertDSC-Mac Mini: Firefox for Android + uBlock Origin. I finally installed both today. Problem solved.
ETA: Annnnd I just realized that you’re using a Mac Mini. Oops.
Baud
@Corner Stone: More exhausting than Clinton Fatigue? Pshaw.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): Annnnd I just realized that you’re using a Mac Mini. Oops.
NotMax
Kind of amused at the tracking data for a package sent to just a hop, skip and jump outside NYC border this Tuesday. Within the span of less than 8 hours today, mostly during the wee post-midnight hours, it arrived at the “Metro NY Distribution Center” then was sent on to the “Nashua NH Distribution Center” and then from there to and arrived at the local post office at its ZIP code destination for final delivery.
Not a rant, not a complaint, not a biggie; simply found the seemingly extra New England leg of its journey a small chuckle.
schrodingers_cat
I don’t want to fucking read one more word about Hillary’s emailz from a villager. They can all DIAF as far as I am concerned.
Bex
“YOU may like” these awful ads, but I hate them. Cheap clickbait that I see on other sites. And I thought Larry King was bad. Tiger Woods? Gimmeafeckingbreak.
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone: Well at least you know that no one is going try to deport you unlike the DACA kids or immigrant army recruits.
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: don’t worry, DeVos is working on fixing that.
Corner Stone
@schrodingers_cat: Nope, they sure ain’t.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@schrodingers_cat: Shafer’s time in the woodchipper should take the longest.
gene108
@Corner Stone:
They must be ravenous for Trump’s tax returns, and disclosure of financial conflicts of interests.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Maybe not, there’s Sen. Graham’s amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that lets the Sec. of DHS strip people of their citizenship.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@gene108: No that’s private, not like Hillary’s emails about planning Chelsea’s wedding or her mother’s funeral.
SiubhanDuinne
I can’t stand how much I miss Barack Obama, President of the United States of America.
So much miss.
japa21
@NotMax: That happened to me recently. It was delivered to the distribution center 10 miles from my house, then suddenly it showed up 100 miles away in Wisconsin, then back to the earlier distribution center than to local office , then delivered.
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Long as there are no clowns, you’re cool.
eemom
imminent. Yr welcome.
efgoldman
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
As noted a thread or two back, probably unconstitutional, and probably subject to filibuster.
Here’s what Wiki says:
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: @japa21: i can think of scenarios where a bulk freight vehicle containing what you ordered might get shuttled here and there over the course of being unloaded, optimized by some algorithm.
SiubhanDuinne
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
But EMAILS !!!
mapaghimagsik
@Baud: no fucking kidding.or at least clickbait I care
about
I mean “what happens to you body when you stop eating sugar”? Sugar gets pissed off.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Well, I have neither, but I would love to get the Chinchillas of the world together in one place and explain it to them.
Provided I could bring Villago along.
Kay
@Corner Stone:
Obviously. Look how they’ve followed up on Trump’s tax returns!
burnspbesq
@Baud</a
Kristen Gillibrand.
Major Major Major Major
@Kay: California just passed a law requiring tax returns in order to be on the ballot. Crickets.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Can also use [strike]…[/strike], replacing square brackets with angle brackets.
TenguPhule
So now the auto-playing ads are back AND We’re stuck with Taboola on the site?
Alain, why do you hate us so?
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
Expecting a federal court challenge to this.
Baud
@TenguPhule: Good.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Hell, I miss a working government not embroiled in a sea of fraud and scandal.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Since this is an open thread… My wife was flicking through the television and stopped on a channel where a guy was at the Frankford Car Show, and I said to here, “That seems like a weird place to have a car show.” And she said, “Germany?” And I said, “No, northeast Philadelphia. Wait, Frankford or Frankfurt? Oh, maybe that makes more sense.”
Sometimes I don’t know what the hell is going on…
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@SiubhanDuinne: Even Chinchilla eventually came around “the October 28th letter was a terrible/stupid idea”…albeit four months after it mattered, and focused on how it was an own goal for Comey. Shafer, to my knowledge, still stands by Comey’s election-cycle actions.
Teddys Person
Feeling a little hopeless today. I think what sent me over the edge was my hairdresser informing me that there is no racism in the country. The MSM is just making it up and BLM is a Soros org just stirring up trouble. Sigh, I’m going to have to find a new hairdresser. To make myself feel better and off set the money I put in my asshole hairdresser’s pocket, I donated to the United We Dream DACA Renewal Fund.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
Come sit by Village and me.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Or Frankfort, Kentucky?
TenguPhule
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
How can it only be sometimes if you’re married?
Kay
No one has ever said they shouldn’t have “pressured” Clinton on the story. People are looking for an admission that it was ridiculous and insane to cover emails and nothing else for 16 months.
Also- the tax returns really are a double standard. They shut up about Trump’s tax returns because he told them to fuck off. They dropped it because he ordered them to drop it.
TenguPhule
@mapaghimagsik:
*Rimshot
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: [strike]…[/strike] is deprecated and may not be in future specifications of HTML.
Kay
I must say I love Nate Silver for periodically reminding them of the truth on the emails. They never dispute his facts, they just get all huffy and flounce away. I swear he has it calendered. Once a month. Forever, hopefully.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@TenguPhule: I know what’s going on a lot more since I’ve been married. Sometimes I can’t believe I made it as long as I did without killing myself some dumb way before I met her…
TenguPhule
@Kay:
Her Emails and Clinton Foundation and Wall Street Speeches.
Oh and she hurt their feelings by calling some of them deplorables.
It actually was a sea of sewage, but the emails just got the most publicity.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: gotta future-proof the BJ comment section!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay: The Clintons released 38 years of tax returns.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Teddys Person: A few months ago, an LGM commenter recounted an anecdote about his father’s barber, who would always rail against miscegenation – shit like, “you don’t see crows and parrots mixing together, do you?” Eventually his dad got fed up with this and one day blurted out, “Frank, you know those are different [species of] birds, right?”…which had apparently never occurred to Frank before.
[insert “Elmo in hell” gif]
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
What happened to the idiot proofing?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Ya never know, FYWP may decided to get rid of deprecated HTML.
Kay
That’s why it’s important to tell your side of the story. They don’t want anyone contradicting the story they want to tell.
Tough shit. She was there and her account is a valuable addition to the record.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: @Baud: it’s also a swipe at Bernie, given that it was introduced by my state senator who feels suchwise.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: the failure mode of HTML is plaintext, so it’ll still be fine.
Baud
@Kay: Agreed. No more silence.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
Worse. They bought the “under audit line” and never fucking followed up on it.
Then he told them they were never going to fucking see them.
And they just bent the knee and took it.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Heh.
Kay
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Well, you can forget that. We’ll never see another politicians tax returns. Why should they? Trump didn’t and they dropped it.
Who knew it was so easy?
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
I wrote him off at that point in the campaign.
Its not that fucking hard a thing to do. Unless you have something to hide.
Major Major Major Major
Hey braintrust! What’s a good contemporary American sci-fi book to read? Taking a break before part 3 of Seveneves and just finished a pile of Scalzi.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
It was not an order, was a USPS parcel I mailed out from my local post office on Maui.
Corner Stone
Having HRC last night and TNC tonight on MSNBC is mind blowing.
Kay
@TenguPhule:
My absolute favorite was when the Trumps appeared with those ridiculous empty file folders and they all played along.
Remember that? Blanket coverage of that bullshit. It worked! He literally couldn’t have done it without them.
TenguPhule
Oh FFS, They’re targeting the National Arctic Wildlife Refuge AGAIN?!
I thought we’d staked this vampire back in the Bush junta.
These are the same bright lights that were trying to sell off the national oil reserve at record low prices.
I fucking hate Republicans.
Corner Stone
Andy Lack, or whatever your name is, pay the fuck attention.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Fuck that shit. If I feel like using [strike]…[/strike] I will use [strike]…[/strike]. Deprecated, schmeprecated.
(Scuse my nastiness. Not directed at you.)
Baud
@TenguPhule: Environmentalist Susan Sarandon will stop them.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
Oh yes, I remember. I believe that was when I finally started coming around to Village’s point of view of just executing the media en masse because trials would be a waste of time. They’re too stupid to live.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: I never knew you were so passionate about HTML.
Mnemosyne
@PhoenixRising:
I know it’s sad for anyone to die but, Jesus, it would be hard to match Edie’s life in terms of dreams fulfilled (save for the disappointment last November).
Corner Stone
@Kay:
Another R politician’s to office above school board. Every D down to the proverbial dog catcher will be *ahem* dogged for full disclosure.
TenguPhule
@Baud: Baud 2020: Rubbing Salt into Open Wounds Since Always!
Major Major Major Major
Vox has a decent article explaining how Hillary’s “coal gaffe” ‘is a microcosm of her twisted treatment by the media’. You and I won’t learn much reading it but it might be worthwhile to share. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/15/16306158/hillary-clinton-hall-of-mirrors
Baud
@TenguPhule: Salt is too generous.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Amen. strike and /strike are what I automatically use. Still not fully retrained to avoid i and /i.
TenguPhule
Wow, Good news on a Friday.
Now if we could just get this to pass into law.
ThresheK
The grammar schooler who played a flute solo at our wedding 19 years ago is going to be a bride tomorrow.
The invitation for me to bring my vintage Guild and amplifier must have got lost in the mail.
Kay
I’m old enough to remember Travelgate. Blanket coverage for months.
The Trumps are direct beneficiaries of White House business every single day and no one says a word.
The standards are lower. He is held to a much lower standard than any prior President in my lifetime. To deny that at this point is to compound the offense by lying to cover for him.
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: then I could definitely imagine that happening. That gets rid of one of the constraints I was worried about on the process in my head.
ETA: then again, I don’t think the USPS probably uses such algorithms
Mnemosyne
@Teddys Person:
If you’re anywhere near Glendale, CA, I have a terrific hairdresser who’s an immigrant from Taiwan. She’s an even better colorist than she is a hairdresser.
efgoldman
@Major Major Major Major:
Clarify, please: Primaries, general election, or both.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@TenguPhule: And/or psychopathic.
@Corner Stone: Plus he looks like an even douchier Aaron Sorkin.
Kay
@TenguPhule:
God, is that in Warren’s wheelhouse or what? IDEAL for her.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
There are no standards at this point.
Every conflict of interest Trump has is being systematically ignored by the Republicans and the media.
We are not a country of laws anymore.
We are a fucking banana republic.
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: both, I think, but don’t quote me https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2017/sep/15/mcguire-bill-requiring-presidential-candidates-rel/
TenguPhule
@Kay:
I could live with a second president from Hawaii. Or a woman president.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: SD’s a rebel.
worn
@Baud: Seriously, this. I wonder if anyone has suggested the idea to John.
Anybody with a couple of brain cells to rub together knows that Taboola links are always bullshit. And that their presence can slow the loading of web pages to a crawl. I gave up visiting TPM several years ago when the site became a hall of mirrors & links to stories that were literally nothing more than a repetition of the headline of the link, each and every one encrusted with gobs of that out traffic crap. When loading a page basically I would immediately hit the ‘x’ button when the page content appeared to keep it from endlessly reloading some mystery element; otherwise my browser would lock up.
But shit, I guess folks are making money off the bullshit.
I read BJ every day and have never run it through an ad blocker, figuring the revenue John receives makes the site possible. But to me, Taboola ads cross some nebulous bullshit line up with which I will not put. Time to reconsider my position on this, I suppose.
ETA: Maybe I can ixnay the divs with yarip…
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
Travelgate happened because the Clintons tried to fire someone who was embezzling money from the US government but Sam Donaldson liked the way the guy did his travel arrangements.
Seriously.
ThresherK
The tween who played a flute solo at our wedding 19 years ago is going to be a bride tomorrow.
The invitation for me to bring my vintage Guild and amplifier must have got lost in the mail.
Kay
Well, all of Ohio Dems were waiting for Richard Cordray to announce his candidacy and he has not done so. I wish he would make a statement one way or the other. I think he’d be a great governor but it’s not really fair to the other people running that he’s holding them up.
gene108
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Clearly hiding something. Why not 40 or 45 or 50?
I hate the Cljntons corrupt stuff. They have never abused power in office. They have been investigated for years and no evidence of abusing their offices had ever been found.
Either they are super villains, who just have not been caught – like the Joker in the 1989 Batman movie, before the ending – or they are reasonably honest politicians.
Teddys Person
@Mnemosyne: Unfortunately not, I’m in the Pacific Northwest.
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: So, there’s a big number of us who want the right to strike?
Kay
@Mnemosyne:
I periodically go back and look at the Clinton Scandals because the double standard is so glaringly obvious that it grounds me.
Anyone denying this at this point is a hack or an idiot. They took Hillary Clintons fingerprints off file folders. Donald Trump and his family appeared with EMPTY file folders and everyone played along. I could go on forever like this. There’s just no comparison.
Much lower standard. Undeniable.
Shana
@Teddys Person: On the other side however, I had my annual well woman exam yesterday during which my doctor asked if anything has changed in the last year. I said “you mean aside from waking up every morning wondering what stupid thing the President* did/said overnight?” He laughed ruefully and said he knows what I mean. We had a nice chat about how worried we are about our government, etc. And then talked about my physical condition, which is doing fine. Cheered me up a bit.
He also said his office got a ton of calls right after the election from women asking about IUDs.
worn
@worn:Yay! yarip to the rescue! No more Taboola!
TenguPhule
@Kay:
Why not both?
Teddys Person
Boy howdy, the press covered the investigations with glee. The results of the investigations, not so much.
ETA: In response to gene108 @ #131
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
:
TenguPhule
Hahahaha! FUCK YOU SESSIONS!!!
More good news.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman: Since when has the law ever stopped Republicans from suing for bullshit?
Shana
@Major Major Major Major: I’m partial to Connie Willis. Doomsday Book, Bellwether, Blackout/All Clear.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I am vast, I contain multitudes, blah blah yada yada ….
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
Oh, and Harry Dean Stanton died earlier this evening, because the Grim Reaper still hasn’t balanced out taking Ailes with him.
Kay
@Mnemosyne:
This is my favorite example for the Obama’s:
Remember those days? When they all searched the Obama home mortgage records? A .26 lower rate! The Washington Post did a thorough expose.
They literally don’t even know what Trump owns, let alone what or who he owes.
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
McMeganized for ya.
Mary G
@Major Major Major Major: Listening to “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers right now and highly recommend it. The first one in the series was “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.” I was kind of meh about it, but this one is really good and I don’t think you need to have read the first one to enjoy it.
TenguPhule
@SiubhanDuinne:
Well played.
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne: @TenguPhule: pink salt is tasty.
@Mary G: I’ve heard similar, now that you mention it!
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
Meanwhile, Trump is selling Florida properties at inflated prices to Russian “investors” who just happen to have ties to Putin, and the story dies after the initial reporting. Just not something worthy of follow-up, because it’s not fucking e-mails.
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
Even worse, its still happening and they’re taking money in overseas and not ONE FUCKING REPORTER can be bothered to chase after the story.
Instead we get sop pieces about fucking pivoting by Trump.
Ohio Mom
@Kay: Sigh…I’d lost track of that. I had hopes pinned on Cordray because I’m not convinced that any of the other candidates are going to capture enough people’s imagination to win the governorship.
Mnemosyne
@TenguPhule:
Oh, I’m pretty sure that there’s one reporter chasing the story. But that’s the point — these stories get written and the MSM doesn’t care. They couldn’t STFU about Hillary’s emails for 18 months, but can’t be bothered to do a follow-up on stories about actual corruption.
NotMax
@Ohio Mom
Do we want Dolt 45 to appoint a CFPB director (and eviscerate the agency) should Cordray leave in order to run?
I vote no.
BruceFromOhio
Drinking, smoking, and generally fucking off as much as possible between getting other shit done before the weekend is over.
ETA: and aging rapidly from watching baseball, oy
J R in WV
@Major Major Major Major:
There’s a new Laundry book by that guy who writes those books… I like them. Cory Doctorow? I forget, I have trouble with names.
Tomorrow we fly home from Colorado via Atlanta..
SgrAstar
@Major Major Major Major: Does it have to be American? Strongly recommend The Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin.
Lurking Canadian
@Major Major Major Major: Recommendation #1: Don’t finish Seveneves. If you are through the first two parts, you’ve read all the good stuff already.
Recommendation #2: I liked Stephenson’s new one (until the end, natch) and I second the recommendation for Stross.
Travels with Charley
Long dead thread but just in case…. vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster bujold