Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This blog will pay for itself.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I really should read my own blog.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

This really is a full service blog.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    Mysterious Apocalyptic Message Interrupts TV Broadcasts in California: ‘Violent Times Will Come

    Many Californians’ regularly scheduled broadcasts were interrupted Thursday morning with strange emergency messages warning of extraterrestrial invasions and the beginning of Armageddon. The bizarre warnings aired on TVs in the Orange County area, affecting Cox and Spectrum cable users, according to the Orange County Register.

    (via Adam emailing it to me)

  11. 11.

    Mnemosyne

    @debbie:

    I dunno, everyone in the photo seems to be in long sleeves.

    I always wear long sleeves outdoors because I burn really easily, so I don’t judge.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    On the money saving side, this White House generates more than sufficient manure, so there’s no need to buy any.

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    @Hunter Gathers: To be fair, we only have evidence that she did this once.

    Unless she used the turkey baster method. In which case my respect for her would increase. NOT MUCH…but it would.

  16. 16.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @efgoldman: that’s only because there already is a putting green outside the oval office. Ike had one installed. LBJ hated it.

    And so he walked me over to the French doors that went out to the Rose Garden, and it’s the area where Eisenhower had his putting green. And he looked out, and he looked at me, and he looked down, looked out, looked down. There were pockmarks on the floor where Eisenhower’s golf shoes had hit the floor. And he finally looked at me, and he looked at the floor, and he said, “Look what that son of a bitch did to my floor!” And then he patted me on the back and said, “Have a nice trip.”

  19. 19.

    brettvk

    I think it’s a damn shame that we’ll never know exactly what goes on in that woman’s head. I’d be fascinated to really know what she thinks of her journey, because (and I’m projecting, because that’s all any of us can do) I really don’t think she expected to end up where she is and it probably doesn’t feel real to her.

  21. 21.

    Roger Moore

    @NotMax:

    On the money saving side

    Since when has Trump cared about saving money? He’s probably charging the government a pretty penny for all that fertilizer.

  32. 32.

    Emma

    @Corner Stone: There used to be a poster with instructions about exactly that. IIRC the last instruction was “put your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye.”

  35. 35.

    p.a.

    I can’t track it down at the moment, but I have a US gvt booklet from the early ’60’s with several plans for building combination dry bar/fallout shelters in your basement. N.B. (IIRC), fallout, not blast, shelter. Tip: lots of bricks…

  38. 38.

    lamh36

    So I got my EW Fall TV Preview Guide in the mail.

    I’ll admit, I’m really the MOST excited about the Will & Grace reboot! If ya’ll could see how BIG my smile was watching this behind the scenes TODAY footage!
    Take An Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Look At The New ‘Will & Grace’ Set! …

    Saw an early review of the first 3 eps and I can’t wait

    SPOILER ALERT: don’t read this article if you care about that kind of thing

    Relax! The New ‘Will & Grace’ Is Woke, Anti-Trump, and Still Funny

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    @brettvk:
    Our summer French visitor (a very wise sixteen) quickly notes, “Oooh, she hates him.” It’s even more adorable with the accent and evidently is a widely held European opinion.

  44. 44.

    Jay Noble

    Back in the 80’s we had one of those EBS messages interupt whatever it was we were watching in the dorm. Ya, ya we know “This is only a test”. Hurry it up we’re missing the show! Message ends. but then, just a blank screen. And then up pops a General. Oh Crap!

    Seems he wanted to tell us about some neat upgrade they had just made.

  46. 46.

    KithKanan

    @NotMax: Pretty sure that was in the case of a “dirty bomb” (a conventional explosive packed with radioactive material to spread radioactive contamination) not an actual nuclear bomb attack.

  50. 50.

    TenguPhule

    @Corner Stone:

    How would one “prepare” for a nuclear attack, exactly?

    Food and water for 14 days. A nice big shelter with closed windows

    /No I’m not joking, this is straight from our official government preparation guide.

  51. 51.

    eclare

    @lamh36: Thanks for the Today footage, must see teevee in my house also! And I swear, the actors look like they haven’t aged a day.

  54. 54.

    TenguPhule

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Many Californians’ regularly scheduled broadcasts were interrupted Thursday morning with strange emergency messages warning of extraterrestrial invasions and the beginning of Armageddon.

    So normal California Weirdness or are we now actually living in a B movie?

  58. 58.

    brettvk

    @trollhattan: I’m not so much interested in the quality of her marriage as I am in the trajectory of her career. I mean, the relationship to Trump just squicks me out. But here’s a mildly talented, mildly pretty Eastern European who maneuvered herself into a well-paid position, then got swept into the White House. She didn’t foresee that, I’d bet, and I don’t think she wanted it. It’s a goddamned American saga that we’ll never get to see onscreen.

  61. 61.

    jl

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    ” I don’t think her english is that functional. ”

    More functional than Trump’s. Just don’t piss off people we may need. She may be only one who can figure out what he’s babbling about soon.

    Seriously, I think Trump is seriously senile. Josh Marshall had a tweet about Trump apologizing to a crowd that FLOTUS couldn’t be at some appearance, but she was standing six inches away from him right by his side. Trump is seriously, and I am not kidding, losing it big time.

    And BTW, I did not know you could grow diamond tennis bracelets outside in DC. I’ll quit making fun of he savage and hellish East Coast climate. Guess it has its uses.

  63. 63.

    brettvk

    @lamh36: Not surprising. I never saw the humanitarian in him; to me all his performances sort of seethed below the surface.

    ETA: And ISTR that his first marriage ended in divorce after like 30 years, and I thought at the time, “Gee, Mrs. Lewis, you put up with it this long, why not stick it out?” I was very young then.

  66. 66.

    jl

    @jl:

    ” Just don’t piss off people we may need. She may be only one who can figure out what he’s babbling about soon. ”

    Actually, not certain Trump understands exactly who FLOTUS is now. So, no point. Make as much fun as you want.

  67. 67.

    Jeffro

    Hillz on loving goldfish crackers: “we passed around a bag of ‘flavor blasted’ goldfish and discussed whether it was better than the original. Some of my staff thought yes, which was incorrect.”

    (Swoon)

  71. 71.

    Corner Stone

    Joy is a much better interviewer than Maddow. I hope I’m not over preparing myself for this session. But I hope she digs in and gets HRC to bleed from her eyes or her wherever.

  72. 72.

    The Pale Scot

    @Corner Stone:

    How would one “prepare” for a nuclear attack, exactly?

    A) Drive as fast as possible to the nearest likely target

    B) Bend over and kiss your ass good-bye

    Because you really really don’t want to be around after

    Threads

    Scariest film I ever watched,

  74. 74.

    Corner Stone

    @brettvk:

    But here’s a mildly talented, mildly pretty Eastern European who maneuvered herself into a well-paid position, then got swept into the White House.

    Mildly talented at what?

  77. 77.

    jl

    @Steeplejack: No. I don’t see any awkward phrasing. I see a guy who is out of it regarding who was standing there with him.

    Trump was talking more or less in an appropriate and thoughtful way about the disasters, so maybe doing that really taxed the old guy’s noggin, with all the tremendous required focus. I’ll assume that’s it, until more evidence develops.

  79. 79.

    jl

    @Corner Stone: Mildly talented at being a mildly pretty Eastern European? I’ll go with that.

    @Corner Stone: She’s saying weird BS for a supposedly intelligent person. Maybe she wants to get canned from her new gig. Looks like Fox News critical thinking burrowed down into the marrow of her bones.

  83. 83.

    brettvk

    @Corner Stone: Hey, I’m sitting in the same town I moved to in second grade, contemplating late-life student loan debts. She was born in a town-you’ve-never-heard-of in Slovenia, quit college, and made it to New York and a secure retirement. I forebear to speculate on her talent(s) but she must have at least one.

  85. 85.

    jl

    Four day alt-right free speech festival at UC Berkeley self-clowned itself into an afternoon press conference in San Francisco.
    For awhile I thought they were intentionally sabotaging a reasonably well organized event in order to troll UC Berkeley. But, I can’t imagine they wanted it to self-destruct so completely. So, pure indiscipline and pure dumbacity must have played a big part. And maybe a little sloth, too.

    Yiannopoulos’ Planned ‘Free Speech Week’ Appears To Implode Spectacularly

    ” after student organizers failed to file the proper paperwork to reserve university buildings, and after Yiannopolous apparently neglected to notify some of the scheduled speakers that the event was even happening, the affair has been reduced to a Saturday press conference in San Francisco. ”

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/milo-yiannapoulos-berkeley-free-speech-week-falls-apart

  90. 90.

    TenguPhule

    Train wreck time:

    Trump campaigning in Ala.: ‘Rocket Man should have been handled a long time ago — by Clinton’

    Stupid fucking fucker. Clinton DID handle it until Bush and Republicans in Congress welshed on the deal.

  92. 92.

    jl

    @Baud: Baud 2020! doesn’t necessarily have to feel bad that got no invite. You’re probably one of the ones they forgot about.

    Edit: OTOH, the Trumpster base will believe anything. So, there could be nothing at all, not even a press conference, and dozens of news stories documenting their complete negligence, and it wouldn’t make any difference. They can just lie about it and the base will believe them.

    So, maybe that is their plan. I retract my criticism and congratulate them on their ruthless efficiency.

    Lessons that Baud 2020! campaign could learn, maybe?

  93. 93.

    Mike J

    @jl:

    after student organizers failed to file the proper paperwork to reserve university buildings

    Standard Milo/Trump procedure. Make a lot of noise, don’t do any work to make it happen, say the evil, dumb, lazy, liberals are holding you down.

  95. 95.

    efgoldman

    @jl:

    She’s saying weird BS for a supposedly intelligent person. Maybe she wants to get canned from her new gig.

    Well, her highly-visible, universally-panned, microscopically-rated Sunday night show was dead as soon as NBC stick it in the Sunday football slot, from which it was fated to disappear almost instantly.

  96. 96.

    hitchhiker

    The weirdest thing about this photo is her hair. Who goes out gardening with their long hair loose like that? I have hair about that length right now, and ffs — it gets into your face. Strands blow into your mouth. If you try to push it away while wearing gloves (esp dirty ones from touching dirt in your garden), you’ll regret it.

    I get so bored with all the model-posed photos of Melania and Ivanka, but this one makes me want to follow her around the garden and see what happens in the next frame.

  98. 98.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    I would have shown up. I have some free speech to offer them.

    Baud 2020: “Feel my Constitutional Authorateh!”

  99. 99.

    jl

    @TenguPhule: Maybe Trump is referring to Hillary, you know, when she messed up her presidential term so badly? Why wasn’t she impeached anyway? (Deep State, you just know it).

  100. 100.

    VOR

    @NotMax: Yes, the Dubya administration recommended duct tape and tarps. But in their defense, that was for chemical and biological weapons. Duct tape – what can’t it do?

  103. 103.

    sukabi

    Could this country get any weirder? Almost hoping for that alien invasion.

    Republican coroner stores bodies in truck, is charged with corruption.

    A Republican elected as county coroner in Idaho is facing public corruption charges for grotesque scandal involving dozens of dead bodies.

    Nathan Hess worked at the only funeral home in the mortuary-lacking Valley County, ID. Hess was also the elected county coroner, which created a conflict of interest when Hess has fired from Heikkila Funeral Home.

    “Valley County Coroner Nathan Hess, Heikkila’s previous funeral director, had apparently stopped taking the bodies to the county morgue after he was fired from the funeral home on Nov. 11,” the Idaho Statesman reported.

    “He was keeping the bodies at his home in the coroner’s truck and transporting them to Boise,” said Scott Carver, who took over as Heikkila Funeral Home director on the first of December.

    He was getting $400.00 a piece for the bodies from the House morgue…

  104. 104.

    JPL

    @Cheryl Rofer: I put it on and his speech is disjointed, but he is also pretty low energy. He might be reading from the teleprompter now, but he is still off. He loves the white house, btw

    lol CNN is a tad confused also.

  107. 107.

    efgoldman

    @jl:

    Kelly’s weird self destruction as potentially credible journalist is almost Trumpian

    She gave up any semblance of credibility years ago, with “Santa was white” among other idiocies.

  108. 108.

    Gravenstone

    @TenguPhule: Sorry, in that context it seems rather clear Trump is using “handled” as a euphemism for killed. Fucker is gonna get us into (another) war at this rate.

  109. 109.

    jl

    @efgoldman: I wasn’t talking about credibility with BJ-ers, I was talking about cred with people who watch CW BS on TV. I thought maybe that BS was an act for Fox News. But looks like she is nuts and believes that stuff.

  110. 110.

    efgoldman

    @jl:

    But looks like she is nuts and believes that stuff.

    Not only drank the kool-aid, she went to the store and got cases of it.

  111. 111.

    debbie

    Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor is a lying sack of shit. She makes the other Republican gubernatorial candidates look far better than they are.

  112. 112.

    Corner Stone

    @Gravenstone:

    Fucker is gonna get us into (another) war at this rate.

    At this point, another war is about the best outcome we can hope for. That’s better than exchanging nuclear strikes across 5 or 6 countries.

  115. 115.

    jl

    @efgoldman: Must be nuts. If she though that Fox News nonsense would fly with general population, that would make her really stupid. Anyway, at least one of the two.

    If she had been sane and smart, she could have cynically fit in with the savvy media in-crowd no problem Just don’t put on toxic crazy shows and say toxic crazy stuff.
    As I said, a Trumpain self-destruction in progress.

  116. 116.

    sukabi

    @efgoldman: years of exposure to Ailes droopy jowls, roving hands and floppy moobs have driven her mad… Well that and the constant stream of propaganda they bathe in 24 / 7… It’s the Stanford Experiment without the bars.

  119. 119.

    JPL

    Latest Trump comments, walk out of a football game if someone takes a knee, faith, family and guns. It does seem like he is reading and ad libbing.

  122. 122.

    Corner Stone

    @jl:

    If she had been sane and smart, she could have cynically fit in with the savvy media in-crowd no problem Just don’t put on toxic crazy shows and say toxic crazy stuff.

    MK really is not very bright or very good at her job. She made 70 year old white males remember their days of lust and sexual harassment while on Fox. But in the real world not every eyeball is fixated on her Golden Goddess persona.
    She is a garbage human being.

  123. 123.

    Gravenstone

    Because I need a fucking palate cleanser, the new Black Country Communion album (IV) dropped today. This is a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7FssPpNG2w after a couple of listens through. Song is about the director of the band on the Titanic who played the passengers off before going down with the ship. (metaphors? not me)

    And just because I’m of the mood for more bravery in the face of adversity, another epic about a much lesser known disaster – the crash of the R101.

  124. 124.

    TenguPhule

    Trump is fucking rambling all over the place.

    Rocketman, McCain, kneeling football players, what the fuck.

  125. 125.

    Cacti

    @Corner Stone:

    MK really is not very bright or very good at her job. She made 70 year old white males remember their days of lust and sexual harassment while on Fox. But in the real world not every eyeball is fixated on her Golden Goddess persona.
    She is a garbage human being.

    Megyn Kelly: “Santa is white!”

    Adult: “Santa’s not real.”

  128. 128.

    efgoldman

    @jl:

    If she had been sane and smart, she could have cynically fit in with the savvy media in-crowd no problem

    I don’t know. I bet her agent got her an ironclad contract which pays off whether she succeeds or (most likely) fails.
    She’s crying all the way to the bank.

  133. 133.

    Peale

    @efgoldman: yes. But unlike Santa, who places gifts in a proper setting, the bunny hides them where they might never be found. He gives nothing. Santa wants homemade cookies which smell delicious when they are baking. The Easter bunny wants your home to smell of vinegar.

  134. 134.

    TenguPhule

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Unlike the Easter Bunny, who is real and evil.

    Look, just because a few giant rabbits got out of control that one time and killed a bunch of people doesn’t mean you should condemn them all.

  137. 137.

    WaterGirl

    @Peale: @efgoldman: @Omnes Omnibus: You guys are making me think of the B Kliban books:

    One of my favorites: Robert lived in *Rockford where he ate only the heads off of chocolate bunnies.

    *I don’t believe it was actually Rockford, but I was dating a Robert in Rockford at the time, so for Easter I cut the head off a chocolate bunny, put the wobbly chocolate head on a popsicle stick, and somehow attached the caption to the whole thing. Imagine me trying to explain that to my boyfriend’s parents when meeting then for the first time that weekend for Easter.

    Omnes, apologies if that should have included a trigger warning.

  139. 139.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: That does not sound fun. When I was in grad school, I was working on a project with a fellow student at the dining table when my cocker spaniel came in from outside. We could not figure out where the awful smell was coming from.

    Finally, we discovered a dead bird hanging by its claws from the underside of my cocker spaniel’s chest and tummy area. That was a fun one to untangle. Hopefully your bunny was fresher than the bird was.

  141. 141.

    hitchhiker

    Story on twitter now about the plaid shirt, which is made by a French company and sells for $1,500 or so.

    I don’t care. She’s a model doing some modeling. On the daily, this gig is probably not that different from all those fashion shoots, and at least now she can be sure she won’t have to take all her clothes off at any point in the process.

  142. 142.

    jl

    @TenguPhule: Trump’s base loves them some open-mic-night-at-the-comedy-club politicking.
    Trump is also clearly losing it, but playing to the room is a part of it too.

  143. 143.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: No bugs on the bunny, so pretty fresh. I’m fortunate because my yard backs up to 11 acres. Finch’s catches go over the fence into the great burial ground.

  144. 144.

    efgoldman

    @WaterGirl:

    Robert lived in *Rockford where he ate only the heads off of chocolate bunnies.

    Exactly, That’s how I taught my daughter and granddaughter to do it. What other way is there?

  145. 145.

    singing truth to power

    Trivia (perhaps) about Melania in the garden:

    “Trump wore a Balmain plaid shirt to the event, along with Converse sneakers, CNN’s Kate Bennett reported on Twitter.

    Net-A-Porter is selling the shirt for $1,380, and it perfectly matched Trump’s [red] gardening gloves.”

  148. 148.

    Gretchen

    I’m just glad they didn’t pave Michelle’s garden over and put a popsicle stand on top. That’s Trump’s usual style.

  151. 151.

    lamh36

    @jl: smh…teenagers are IDIOTS…film at 11:00…just nowadays they have social media, so they can’t ever forget how stupid they used to be…smh

  152. 152.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Peale: I can’t say I’ve ever understood the concept of gifts at Easter. I can understand Christmas, based on the story of Christ’s birth and wise men coming from afar bringing gifts. But Easter? Hey, your Lord and savior was tortured and killed to atone for your sins, but then faked them all out and ascended bodily into Heaven. Have a candy bar! WTF?

  154. 154.

    hitchhiker

    @Gin & Tonic:

    The Easter food/candy treats are a vestige of post-Lent celebrations. Lent itself was a 40-day period of abstinence, probably begun somewhere in pre-historical days as a way to make sense of the season when there wasn’t a hell of a lot to eat, between the last of the winter storage and first of the spring crops. It’s nicer to think you’re fasting by choice than to freak out about how you’re starving, eh?

    In Seattle we have an annual Peep Sculpture contest that’s a great reason to read the paper on Easter morning.

    http://www.seattletimes.com/life/meet-the-winners-of-our-2016-peeps-contest/

  156. 156.

    efgoldman

    @Lyrebird:

    ..and the bunny aspect of the spring fling (Easter) is pre-Christian, and all about fertility iirc.

    Every tradition has some kind of Spring fecundity connection, just as they all pause around harvest time.

  159. 159.

    Gin & Tonic

    @hitchhiker: I know all that, and maybe phrased myself wrong. Lately it seems that I see a lot of “Easter shopping” and “gifts” in “Easter baskets.” It’s like a mini-Christmas, and it just a) seems really off, when compared to the ostensible religious significance and b) seems *much* more pronounced than I remember it from when I was younger. Sure, springtime, rebirth, emptying the larder because it’s planting time, yeah, but it’s also the central miracle and doctrinal key of this particular faith, which I thought should be (and as I recall, was) treated with solemnity and awe, and not just another shopping occasion.

  161. 161.

    WaterGirl

    @efgoldman: Fuck is my go to swear word, but I definitely need some additional words – sometimes one word just isn’t enough. “Bastards!” doesn’t count, because that’s my go to when I’m not really upset but just want to say something cathartic. If there are additional words covered in your course, please let me know where to send my registration.

  165. 165.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: Add modifiers to fuck. As in “shit fucking moron.” Also don’t be afraid to re-use versions of fuck. As in “Fuck him. Fuck him up his stupid, fucking ass.”*

    *h/t Corner Stone.

    @WaterGirl: Depends on the size of the bunny, doesn’t it?

  166. 166.

    efgoldman

    @Gin & Tonic:

    it’s also the central miracle and doctrinal key of this particular faith, which I thought should be (and as I recall, was) treated with solemnity and awe

    There is nothing so solemn that Americans can’t commercialize it.

  169. 169.

    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus: I can see it now.

    “How did you get through the Trump years, WaterGirl?”
    “I expanded my vocabulary.”

    As for bunnies, you raise a good question. Apparently I have never eaten a bunny whose head is small enough that I could bite the whole thing off at once. In case you want to send a bunny my way, I always prefer dark chocolate. Milk chocolate is awful, and they shouldn’t even be allowed to call the white stuff “white chocolate”.

  170. 170.

    Citizen Alan

    While I dislike her as a person, there is something about Melania Trump that I find deeply saddening. She reminds me of Susan Alexander from Citizen Kane who wanted nothing more than to be the kept arm-candy of a wealthy man only to be nearly driven mad (and actually driven to a suicide attempt) because of said wealthy man’s obsession with making a common gold digger into something “worthy” of his own greatness.

  173. 173.

    WaterGirl

    @Citizen Alan: No sympathy or empathy from me for Melania. She married a total fucking woman-hating pig for money; she gets everything she deserves. Except to be first lady: she does not deserve that.

  177. 177.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: She also likes the “The Notebook.” At the same time, as a teacher, she challenged the rule that male teachers an an extra stipend because they were the primary bread winners for the family. She was working, my dad was in school, and I existed. She won. She has never had edgy artistic taste, but she actually fought a real fight and won.

  178. 178.

    WaterGirl

    Good for your mom! Did they remove the rule completely or did they make an exception for her particular case?

    My mom also fought some gender-related battles, and won. Not to mention that she took the pill when it first came out, in spite of it being a mortal sin in the catholic church to do so. She told her priest and said he could excommunicate her if he wanted but the rule was wrong and she wasn’t going to live by it. The priest never took action against her. She was a force of nature.

    P.S. I saw The Notebook but I do not remember any of it.

  179. 179.

    Steeplejack

    @Citizen Alan:

    Yeah. I think she signed on for the “rich Manhattan trophy wife” gig and was very happy with that. This whole First Lady thing and being in the public spotlight 24/7 has got to be hell for her.

  181. 181.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: They changed the rule so that any primary earner got the stipend.

    She just casually mentioned it over Labor Day weekend. I asked for details, because I thought it was a thing. She said she really didn’t remember; she just did it. I still think it was a thing.

  185. 185.

    evodevo

    @The Pale Scot: The broadcast of Alas Babylon on Playhouse 90 in 1960 was the first time it hit home for me … I was 13 and just beginning to pay attention to world events.

  186. 186.

    Jay C

    Showing my age, era, I guess: the first image that crossed my mind when I saw that pic of Melania was Eva Gabor in “Green Acres” (though Eva spoke better English):

    “Hallo kiddies! Velcome to Vite House Garden. I LUFF garden! Is remind me of beink beck on de farm ven I vas leetle girl in Slovenia. Only deeference is dis time I don’t haff to pool de plow!!”

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