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Here is the beautiful and intelligent Daisy:

She’s a complicated beast: the smartest dog I’ve ever known, and yet she has horrible, illiberal habits. I once had to put her in a choke hold and pry a yorkie’s head out of her jaws. Oh well.

We’re eating leftover lasagna and watching “The Young Pope.” My theory is that he (the title character, portrayed by Jude Law) is the devil.

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  4. 4.

    donnah

    Our neighbor had a boxer named Muggs when I was a kid. And the people up the street had one named Vicki, in keeping with their decision to name all of their six children with names starting with “V”. Both Muggs and Vicki were great dogs.

    I watched the first episode of Young Pope and didn’t care enough to see any more.

    Enjoy the Boxers!

  5. 5.

    MomSense

    What a good dog.

    I think I’ve had about enough of politics for tonight. It is probably time to veg with an easy movie.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    Does Patsy know you think she’s deficient in the smarts category?

    Old dogs are absolutely the best. Any dogs, really.

    Thinking and smiling about Walter, RIP.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Ben Wikler‏Verified account @ benwikler 2h2 hours ago
    From what I’m hearing, call volumes against Trumpcare are spiking today. Folks, are you getting through quickly? What are you hearing?

    I gather Lindsey Graham got quite snippy with reporters today, which according to a reporter (MSNBC or NPR, I can’t remember) is quite rare. Mercy!

  14. 14.

    Joseph Nobles

    @Bex: I believe it will be at least 2019 before we get further adventures of the Young Pope. I don’t recall seeing it in recent ads for HBO’s upcoming 2018 shows.

  18. 18.

    raven

    @MomSense: Tonight we get 1966-67, just when I went in. So far there hasn’t been very much I didn’t already know but, on whole, it’s pretty good. There are wing nuts and lefties bitching about “lack of balance” so I guess it must be fairly balanced.

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    @Major Major Major Major: Bingo. I think that might be it.

    @Baud: My guess is that McCain was serious about regular order, and not pulling gimmicks like this on major initiatives. I don’t see him signing on to such a piece of shit, especially after getting the acclaim for his principled stand in defeating the last piece of shit bill yorked up. I don’t know that McCain is gettable.

    I hope that both Graham and Cassidy lose their Senate seats over this.

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Elizabelle: 1) all in on the obliteration of Obama from the historical record (I think the Romans had an official name and legal procedure for this, to erase politicians from the official history; 2) really, really wants trump to give him a war; 3) I think he’ll aways be vulnerable to a primary if he doesn’t keep the rabble roused in So Carolina– who’s more Establishment than John McCain’s sidekick

  42. 42.

    Elizabelle

    @zhena gogolia: He was succinct and complete. Kimmel did great, he told the truth to power. Absolutely no one — other than Graham and Cassidy — is calling him a liar.

    Watching the Vietnam documentary now. Turned it on just as “David Koch” was on the screen, as a funder.

  44. 44.

    Gelfling 545

    Horrible, horrible day. I got word that my nephew, only in his early 30’s, committed suicide. He’s my late brother’s son and his mother’s best beloved. Jesus.

  45. 45.

    NotMax

    @Baud

    Storms and earthquake sucking up all the oxygen. Video footage of actual disaster takes media precedence over coverage of impending disaster.

  48. 48.

    zhena gogolia

    I love Rex Parker’s blog. Where else do you go to find like-minded souls who want to say that it took them longer to figure out the “theme” of the NYT puzzle today than it did to do the puzzle, and when you figured it out it was “meh.”

  50. 50.

    dlwchico

    This is my dog. My co-dog, I share him with my mom. He stays with me during the day and at night he goes and stays with her because she doesn’t want to be alone at night.
    He is also very smart but like Daisy has some bad habits.
    I haven’t had to pry any Yorkies out of his jaws but that’s probably just luck. He did almost get a piece of a guy who delivered Chinese food to our house once.
    https://imgur.com/Gv63QIT

  51. 51.

    James Powell

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I gather Lindsey Graham got quite snippy with reporters today, which according to a reporter (MSNBC or NPR, I can’t remember) is quite rare. Mercy!

    What’s rare is the reporters not fawning all over him and credulously publishing and broadcasting his bullshit.

  53. 53.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud: It’s an NBC product. NBC is corporate to the bone, and Republican enabling.

    Besides, as has been pointed out — natural disasters.

  56. 56.

    James Powell

    @raven:

    There are wing nuts and lefties bitching about “lack of balance” so I guess it must be fairly balanced.

    I reject that metric. It’s the one that the press/media use to justify their “both sides” treatment of everything.

  57. 57.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @zhena gogolia: Ben Wikler‏Verified account @benwikler 15m15 minutes ago
    75,500 retweets and countless news stories. Pretty damn viral. Good work, Twitter—and GREAT work, jimmykimmel

    I just checked and Kimmel’s youtube of this moment has about 750K views in just under 24 hours. Seems like a lot– I have no idea

  58. 58.

    Elizabelle

    @raven: Great soundtrack.

    Incredible use of the Stones’ Play with Fire, which is one of my favorites.

    The 1960s had such amazing music.

  59. 59.

    MoxieM

    @raven: Ooooh I need that. I just adopted a senior rescue Newfie. Poor girl (Annie!) was a backyard breeder in some Godawful neglectful hideous situation, specifics, unknown. Doan wanna know.

    She doesn’t know normal dog stuff, like: how to be loved, or stairs, or “sit”, or, much of anything. Was too scared to eat anything or even say much her first couple days with me. Poor traumatized baby.

    She’s beginning (just the very start) to unwind. they had to clip her down because her coat was so badly matted. All her things hang down, poor old lady. Her age is estimated at 7 or 8. I call her my Teacup Newfie, since she’s only a hair over 100 lbs.

    I’ll be damned but I’ll give her the best 2 or 3 more years a dog can have. I just love oldies.

  61. 61.

    NR

    @SFBayAreaGal: I like Newsome’s last words in that article better than that author’s take.

    “I don’t know about going to future Trump events, but I’m open to having a dialogue,” he said. “This is a beginning, but we have a long way to go. Centuries of racism can’t be healed in two minutes, but that two minutes can provide a spark, and we can use that energy and spark to do something that hasn’t been done before.”

  62. 62.

    TenguPhule

    @p.a.:

    America 2017: where late night talk show hosts do the job highly paid journamalists don’t have the brains or balls to do.

    Where late night talk show hosts tell the truth and the reporters make stupid jokes.

    Bring on the meteors.

  63. 63.

    Mel

    Daisy is a lovely girl!

    I miss my old Collie (gone 5 years this August).

    He had that same wise, knowing, “stern Auntie that loves you but takes no nonsense look” in his eyes.

  68. 68.

    Elizabelle

    @Gelfling 545: Thinking on you. Losing one of my nephews is my biggest fear (that and losing their mom, my sister). Beloved is right.

    I am so sorry. I hope you can be of great comfort to his mom and family.

  73. 73.

    Jeffro

    Chaperoning my teen daughter + 2 friends at Ed something-or-other tonight. Sure hope the guy can sing…

  76. 76.

    hovercraft

    @Joseph Nobles:
    I’m pretty sure it was a limited edition/ an extended mini-series, so I don’t think it’s coming back.
    :(
    Actually according to the google:

    Via The Hollywood Reporter
    MAY 16, 2017

    HBO is piggybacking on the success of The Young Pope.

    The cable network has ordered The New Pope, a new limited series created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. The show, which is a joint production between HBO and Sky, marks Sorrentino’s second limited series with HBO set in the world of the modern papacy.

    There’s no word yet on whether The Young Pope star Jude Law will be back for the new season…..

    Casting for the title role, as well as additional roles, is expected to begin soon. The series will go into production late next year in Italy.

  81. 81.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @MoxieM: You have warmed my heart. What they lack in life span, they make up with all that big love they give. I’m heading out of town or I’d say send me photos so I can front page it. I’m sure Betty, Adam or Anne L would love the chance to showcase her.

  82. 82.

    Gelfling 545

    Thank you for your kind words. His mom has been sedated and put to bed. I’m about to escape into a little Doctor Who which for some reason always soothes me. Tomorrow we start dealing with the practicalities.

  85. 85.

    lamh36

    I’m sitting here watching Wall-E like I’ve never seen it before. Wow it really was an epic commentary on human consumption & the environment..

  86. 86.

    ArchTeryx

    @lamh36: Especially the opening coda. All by itself that should have been an Oscar winning short film. You never, ever would have expected robots to have quite such a depth of…humanity to them.

  88. 88.

    lamh36

    I’ve always said, as attractive as Jude Law is, he has this way of making his pretty facade come off as so evil and sometimes menacing. He’s able to make his prettiness come off as sinister and conniving…like you can see the ugly under that pretty face…where even though he’s easy on the eyes, ya just can’t help but hate him.

    See any of the roles where he plays if not outright villain, just an underling “ugliness” under that pretty face…like Talented Mr Ripley, or Gattaca, or A.I.

  90. 90.

    JPL

    @MoxieM: I named my previous rescue Moxie, and I could never decide if she was the cutest dog ever or the ugliest. I still miss her but truth be known, I miss the pets that I have owned.

  91. 91.

    ArchTeryx

    @MoxieM: Old dogs can learn new tricks…and how to be loved is the bestest new trick of all.

    The horror will never quite be gone from her, but she will, with patience and love, come to accept that you are a source of good things, not horrible ones.

  94. 94.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Tom Brokaw on MSNBC just now: “I like to go on a charter flight as much as anybody….” he means a rented private plane, not a special fare to Europe on a flying greyhound bus

    “if I want to go from DC to Philadelphia I hire a car and a driver and get into the city center…” Jus’ folks, our Tom

    Both-sides Obama over a trip to New York in the first time

    I have really come to hate this motherfucker

  102. 102.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Elizabelle: The Obamas had a “date night” in NYC in ’09, IIRC they went to see Spamalot

    this is somehow, in ways I can’t gather, just like price hiring a private plane to got to Philadelphia, but nothing like trips to Crawford, Kennebunkport. Santa Barbara…

  104. 104.

    Elizabelle

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I know. Fuck ’em.

    Watching Vietnam documentary. I knew “Mogi” was a goner. He’s buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Think I shall have to find him on a future visit to my parents. He’s there too young. 19 in 1966. I would guess a lot of people will be visiting his grave.

  106. 106.

    Another Scott

    Watching the RedSox wallop the Orioles [sp] on TV.

    I want a $65,000 GMC pickup. That’s what I really, really want….

    Suuuurrre.

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Donnie’s not going to bail you guys out, you know…”)

  112. 112.

    dexwood

    Old dogs who trust you, teach you, are worth every dollar (says the guy who handed over another $1200 to a vet today).

  113. 113.

    MoxieM

    @JPL: So funny–I chose my nym after my last rescue Newfie girl, who came into rescue as Roxy, and I didn’t have the heart to change her name after everything else in her life that had changed. She was only 10 mos when she came to me–her lovely foster mom called her foxy Roxy, since she was a feisty handful…she remained a princess with strong opinions all her life until late last winter when we went on our last trip to the vet together. We had nearly 11 years–so lucky. She saved my life in every way that counts. I think her first family dumped her b/c she had lousy conformation–crooked front legs, and yeah, one of them required surgery. And yeah, it cost a fortune (credit cards!). The vet techs and students said she would bang on her cage with the casted leg until somebody came over and gave her suitable adulation. Oh, Roxy! what a piece of work… poor Annie came into rescue without even a name to call her own. Now she’s a princess too.

  122. 122.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Major Major Major Major: definitely drank his own kool-ade at some point, also got scared of… something between the announcement of his anti-Beck rally and turning that idea into The Rally About Nothing.

    @schrodingers_cat: Colbert’s in-character speech at the WH correspondents dinner was both an amazing performance and a should-be historic piece of political/media criticism

  123. 123.

    BruceJ

    @MoxieM:

    And yeah, it cost a fortune (credit cards!).

    We spent a fortune on Cicely, a mutt from the Humane society, first on a very expensive rebuilding of her knee when she blew her ACL, and then on a couple years fighting lymphoma (fuck cancer!) but we had 12 years of the best dog you could hope for; they’re worth every penny in my opinion.

  126. 126.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    speaking of comedians getting political

    Ellen DeGeneres‏Verified account @ TheEllenShow 6h6 hours ago
    When Jimmy says call, I call. So should you. I love you, JimmyKimmel. (202) 224-3121

    She has 73 million followers. That could mean bupkus, or it could mean a lot of phone calls. And I found that tweet in Patton OSwalt’s 4.2m followers feed.

    ETA and whilst clicking around some more

    Brian Stelter‏Verified account @ brianstelter 34m34 minutes ago
    In a couple hours, JimmyKimmel is gonna have a lot to say about Cassidy. I hear “round two” is even fiercer than Tuesday’s round one

  127. 127.

    Patricia Kayden

    @dexwood: Wow!! I’m with Banfield which offers doggy insurance and so far I haven’t had any huge bills. But they’re worth it.

  128. 128.

    NotMax

    This does not bode at all well, even if it turns out to be yet another empty blustering falsehood.

    “I have decided,” President Donald Trump declared Wednesday, announcing he’d reached a verdict on the Iran nuclear deal’s future even before top U.S. and Iranian officials held their highest-level talks of his presidency. Iran’s president, meanwhile, lashed out at “ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric” in response to Trump’s blistering attack at the U.N. Source

  130. 130.

    BruceJ

    @Elizabelle:

    My guess is that McCain was serious about regular order, and not pulling gimmicks like this on major initiatives. I don’t see him signing on to such a piece of shit

    Our scumsucking asshat of a governor dropped the news that he’s in favor of the latest fuckery, and Johnny has said he’ll listen to Governor Ice Cream, so I wouldn’t hold my breath that he will stand firm.

    Fuckheads are gonna strip healthcare from my brother…who works not *quite* full time so his employer (who runs several franchises that rhymes with ‘Fuckdonalds’) can dick their employees over on healthcare.

  131. 131.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Elizabelle: Ugh. Cannot stand Graham. He’s always been such a weasel with his mealymouth criticism of President Obama and warmongering.

    I hope putting his name on such a ridiculously horrendous law is his political deathknell.

  132. 132.

    Betty Cracker

    @Elizabelle: Patsy is the sweetest dog ever, so she has her own area of distinction. ?

    @lamh36: You are so right! He was chilling in the “Road to Perdition,” a criminally underrated movie, IMO.

  133. 133.

    BruceJ

    @NotMax: “I’ll take “Dumbass bloviating” for $500 Alex.”

    The US is only part signatory to the deal. All the US withdrawing would mean that other countries get Iran’s business. Like Russia. Whatta coinkydink!

  134. 134.

    dexwood

    @Patricia Kayden:
    Chronic dental issues in a wonderful old guy. Surgery, again, rising costs of lab tests that his vet complains about, uninsurable when I checked a few years ago. A rescue from a program in a women’s prison.

  135. 135.

    NotMax

    In a more feature-ish vein, the less things change the more they stay the same (as it were).

    Pictures taken today when the Queen met the Governor General of Canada, Julia Payette, show that the study inside Her Majesty’s Scottish home has largely remained the same from a photo taken 40 years ago.

    Although the 91-year-old monarch now has a Sky box, she has the same furniture and accessories inside her home rather than wasting cash on the latest gadgets.

    There is a simple convection heater in the great marble fireplace that sells on the high street for a reported £20.
    [snip]
    A photo taken of the Queen and Price Philip in the library in 1977 shows some of the books have even stayed in the same place for the last 40 years. Source

  137. 137.

    japa21

    @NotMax: He can’t decide a thing on the deal’s future, only our part in the deal. And once he’s gone, and sanity has returned, we can get back into the deal.

  141. 141.

    RobertDSC-iPhone 6

    @NotMax:

    Good for her. Her grace and class is something to behold in the age of the Orange Nazi occupying 1600 Pennsylvania.

  142. 142.

    ellie

    I adopted my brother’s Shar Pei when the dog was 10. My biggest regret is that I didn’t have enough time with him; he died six years later. Oh Ziggy. I miss you.

  143. 143.

    NotMax

    @Mike in NC

    Oh, yes. Am hard pressed to come up with any occasion which has been an exception to his saying stuff such as “I’ll tell you later” or “I’ll provide details [insert time frame]” in which later has not consisted of anything other than thundering silence.

    Thought it important, though, to provide notice of his conviction that he has “decided” beforehand. After Colin Powell and Iraq, somewhat pity whomever the poor schlub is to be sent out publicly with ginned up ‘data.’

  145. 145.

    Sab

    I once watched in horror as my timid rescue lab at the dog park picked up a sweater-wearing dachshund and raced through the park pursued by a panting pack of sociopathic dogs and outraged owners. The dachshund shrieked in terror but survived. My dog was deservedly banished from the dog park, which he hadn’t much liked anyway.

  156. 156.

    Elizabelle

    @Omnes Omnibus: Sweaterdog might been falsely accused.

    Anyhow, I guess we are all setting our bat channels to Jimmy Kimmel tonight. I am quite delighted with his making today such a tough one for the egregious Graham and lying ass Cassidy.

  157. 157.

    dww44

    @Baud: You know, I hadn’t thought about that, but you are on to something. But, bottom line, this repeal effort is all about the money, the Koch money that is, with a smattering of ego thrown in for good measure. I’ve always sorta appreciated Graham’s saner side, but this one has cemented for me that with the GOP it doesn’t matter how nice a person you may be, you are entirely beholden to the big donors.

  159. 159.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Elizabelle: Tomorrow’s call to Ron Johnson will feature “What kind of person wants to doom a child with a congenital issue to a life of crippling debt? Why do you hate children? [pause for obvious answer] Then how can you work for someone who obviously does? You know and I know that you need to do this to fund the tax cut that Ron wants. The fact that you could even consider, let alone support, a bill that kills children in order to fund tax decreases for billionaires is horrific. Are you from Wisconsin? Where? How are you going to be able to face your classmates at your next reunion? You do you that the public hates this bill, right? ”

    ETA: Sweaterdog knows what he did.

  161. 161.

    efgoldman

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Tomorrow’s call to Ron Johnson will feature “What kind of person wants to doom a child with a congenital issue to a life of crippling debt?

    Maybe tow a surplus 105 to in front of his house….

  166. 166.

    dww44

    @raven: My thoughts exactly. My spouse has an email group of military college buddies, most of whom served in Viet Nam (all graduated in 66 or 67) and one of them was quoting some Cobra Pilot who publishes or blogs somewhere nearby talking about how much Burns, as a liberal, trashed those who fought, or some such. I think it’s really balanced and have really appreciated the very early stuff, from the 40’s and 50’s and very early 60’s.

    Most interesting factoid to me thus far: that Ho Chi Minh sent several letters to Truman in the 40’s saying that what he and his fellow Viet Namese wanted were the same things that Americans wanted, like self-determination and sovereignty over their own country. Truman was never shown those letters.

  168. 168.

    Steve in the ATL

    Guys, I’m kinda freaking out right now. I was walking around outside my hotel and I’m pretty sure I smelled these guys smoking marijuana cigarettes! I ran back to my room and bolted the door. Safe for now….

  170. 170.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    ETA Sopan Deb‏Verified account SopanDeb 5m5
    Man. Kimmel teed off on pretty much everybody

    Ed O’KeefeVerified account @ edatpost
    Say a prayer for the Cassidy interns and junior staffers who will have to answer the phones tomorrow. immykimmel

    Simon Maloy‏Verified account @ SimonMaloy 2h2 hours ago
    no

  172. 172.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: As efg would say, “fuckem.” They chose the job. They are larval power assholes. I hope the rest of their month is miserable. Remember, if the ACA is torpedoed, they will show up in pictures cheering and having drinks.

  173. 173.

    Elizabelle

    I hope Graham Cassidy blows up so bad in the Republicans’ face that they don’t even attempt another repeal. We are loaded for bear.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yes. I hope there is some vestigial shame we can reach in these cretins. Make them hurt.

    I think Jimmy Kimmel’s real target might be our deplorable media. They will think twice about taking him on. He will get them to give Democrats and other opponents cover, or at least stop the “both sides” shit. When they come up for air between hurricanes.

  174. 174.

    PhoenixRising

    @Omnes Omnibus: true. My kid picked a sweater dog–13 pounds of trembling aggression–7.5 years ago. He tries to start shit with every mastiff, pibble & Akita we pass on the leash. Dog park banned him before we even got my dog, the Dane. Lola has been a valuable life coach for sweater dog, but there are some things that require psychiatric help, not coaching.

    They tell me he could live 2-6 more years. With no major medical interventions. God forbid.

  176. 176.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m indulging in some sweeping generalizations, but I suspect more than half of the yout’s answering the phones are affluent kids from connected families. That is I believe how Sweet Paulie Blue Eyes got his start in a lifetime of government employment. A good portion, I’m sure, are strivers deluded by either Ayn Rand or the likes of Joel Osteen

    @Elizabelle: My fantasy is that Kimmel brings Cassidy back on to defend himself, and ambushes him with surprise co-guest Andy Slavitt

  177. 177.

    Elizabelle

    @dww44:

    Most interesting factoid to me thus far: that Ho Chi Minh sent several letters to Truman in the 40’s saying that what he and his fellow Viet Namese wanted were the same things that Americans wanted, like self-determination and sovereignty over their own country. Truman was never shown those letters.

    That’s fascinating, and tragic.

  178. 178.

    Jeffro

    @rikyrah: My daughter was shocked, shocked that I could actually enjoy the show, being the almost-geezer that I am. Great time, though – Ed Sheeran’s amazing live.

  179. 179.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @PhoenixRising: My dog was a 35 lb English Cocker who looked curly and fluffy. He picked fights with dogs three times his size every chance he had. Usually, the fights ended with Beau’s jaws clamped around the other dog’s throat and me or my dad pulling him off. Dude had no fear.

  183. 183.

    frosty

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    “What kind of person wants to doom a child with a congenital issue to a life of crippling debt? Why do you hate children?

    This is great, thanks. Toomey’s voicemail in DC and maybe his staffers in Harrisburg are going to hear it. I need to do something besides just telling them I’m opposed and he needs to vote against it.

  185. 185.

    frosty

    @efgoldman:

    Maybe tow a surplus 105 to in front of his house….

    Or maybe an M777 like my son trained on in the Nat’ Guard. How well are those armories secured, anyway?

    ETA: I’ve seen “tow the line” so many times that I flinch at the word now. I had to read it 2 or 3 times to realize it was correct in this case.

  190. 190.

    TriassicSands

    Here is the beautiful and intelligent Daisy

    People might disagree about whether or not boxers are beautiful (I’m neutral on the subject of beauty, but I’ve liked all the boxers I’ve known and I consider that more important than beauty), but I don”t think anyone could argue about the quality of that portrait of Daisy. Wonderful job, BC!

    Corporant rant:
    Is Donald Trump still president? Have we attacked N. Korea yet? My Internet service, which comes unreliably from CenturyLink, is in and out and they needed almost a week from the time I called* to get a repair person to come out and fix their worthless equipment. Every time I’ve done a periodic DSL speed test, I’ve discovered that I’m not getting the speed I’m paying for, which is already pathetic by modern standards, but it’s the fastest available in my area. CenturyLink is terrible and getting worse all the time. Unfortunately, it seems that everyone else is also terrible. My options are limited, but Wave must be spending at least $100K/year on mailings to me — and I’m never going to sign up, so every penny is wasted. I’ve called them to see if they’d remove me from their mailing list and so far I’ve met with no success. So, I guess Wave sucks, too.

    * Actually, it was the second call. The first was two weeks earlier and they scheduled a repair visit for five days later. Only no one ever showed up. That’s CenturyLink in a nutshell. Worthless.

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