Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

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

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Come on, man.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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Late Night Yapper Open Thread: Corgis Have Knees (But O’Reilly Has No Clue)

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That poor dog. Maybe she just doesn’t like cameras, but she looks so miserable. And like her knees hurt.

(Anatomically, of course, that’s ‘taking an elbow’, but yeah it’s the canine equivalent to show respect.)

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  2. 2.

    jl

    O’Reilly is a master at setting himself up.
    Has he figured out his dog is taking a knee in that pic of his?

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    What is it with conservatives and their weird sadistic attitudes towards their dogs? I think it was Tim LaHaye who bragged that he successfully beat the family’s dachshund into submission.

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    “Knees go down, knees go up. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the knees go down.”

  8. 8.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Mnemosyne:
    I believe it’s baked into the ethos. Hand in hand with the bigotry, they are abusive personalities, believe in tough love (IE, you can only really help by causing pain), and they’re mean shits. Conservative thought is rife with the kind of logic abusers use, so of course they not only commonly abuse animals, they often can’t tell when they shouldn’t brag about it.

  9. 9.

    jl

    @Mnemosyne: I think that was some family values theocrat preacher. Dachshund was dilatory on learning how to take a dump in a people toilet and then one day he decided that the damn dog looked at him impertinently so he beat the crap out of it with a belt.

    Edit: James Dobson? He still around?

    Edit2: if he is not still around, he might be in some obscure Buddhist hell run by dachshunds. That is chilling to contemplate.

  10. 10.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    You throw a stick, dog brings it back… you can’t explain that.

    Ah, #7 beat me to it.

  14. 14.

    Major Major Major Major

    I learned the other day that bird knees don’t bend backwards; what you see that looks like knees bending backwards is, more correctly, their ankles, bending like ours do. Their knees are all stuffed up in their bodies.

  18. 18.

    Suzanne

    @Frankensteinbeck: Conservatives really like authority. Both having it and submitting to it. The idea of interdependence is foreign to them. I have no doubt that abuse of animals (and children, and women, and minorities, and on and on) all stems from this worldview.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne

    I’m trying to figure out the best way to be cheap and not have to pay $15 a day for parking at a conference I’m going to in a couple of weeks, but I have this stupid sprained knee.

    Metro gave me a free month of bikeshare and I want to exploit it in Pasadena, but … sprained knee. Damn it. I see my doctor on Friday to see what she recommends.

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

    @jl:

    [. . .] if he is not still around, he might be in some obscure Buddhist hell run by dachshunds. That is chilling to contemplate.

    Chilling but just.

  22. 22.

    Barbara

    My beagle would howl at any high pitched singing and never stood up unless there was food or a little critter within range of her astonishing sense of smell. In which case she would run. Dogs don’t spend a lot of time standing at attention, not willingly.

  25. 25.

    mike in dc

    Trump torpedoed his own “disrespecting the troops” shtick. You can’t claim kneeling for the anthem disrespects the troops, then turn around and be a callous prick when trying to console the widow of a fallen soldier. Well, maybe Trump supporters can manage that cognitive dissonance, but most people can figure that out.

  28. 28.

    FlyingToaster

    FYWP (which is eating my comments and not posting them, and telling me I’m posting a duplicate comment)

  29. 29.

    Mike J

    Republicans in disarray

    But Gillespie’s campaign did not let Morgan help plan or speak at the rally — over the objections of another GOP candidate who employs Morgan, state Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, who is running for lieutenant governor and wanted him to introduce her.

    Morgan’s wife was so offended that she refused to drive John Whitbeck, chair of the Republican Party of Virginia, to the airport for his return trip, according to three Republicans familiar with the matter. And in an area of the state that Gillespie needs to turn out in force to overcome Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Nov. 7, activists took to social media to vent their outrage.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/trump-strategist-quits-gillespie-campaign-for-va-governor-sources-say/2017/10/18/02cb5a5e-b409-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f1545541c1ad

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    @Mnemosyne: There’s not vast amounts of public transit in Pasadena, but there are a few local bus lines that do loops through the city. Park somewhere convenient (and cheaper) and take the bus to wherever your conference is?

  31. 31.

    dmsilev

    @Suzanne:

    Like fucking magnets?

    Short answer: Because quantum.

    (you don’t want me to give the long answer. It would be very very long and rather boring)

  36. 36.

    Redshift

    @mike in dc: He said he had proof that it never happened, so that’s probably good enough for them. Even though no one insists “I have proof” without showing it unless they’re lying. And also because the soldier and his family and the congresswoman are black.

  37. 37.

    jl

    @dmsilev: I request instruction on the relationship between knees magnets and quantum. You can give it in short bits suitable for anonymous comments on a full service blog. No math.

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    @dmsilev:

    It’s at the Westin. I can park at one of the Paseo Colorado garages for only $9 and then walk about half a mile. Or I could park at the lot near Vromans for $5. Both places are close to bikeshare racks. The problem is the Westin — there isn’t a rack particularly close to it. There’s one on the far side of City Hall, one at the library on Walnut, and one across from Fuller on Walnut.

    But, again, sprained knee, so I may end up having to minimize walking and just park at the Westin.

  40. 40.

    Steeplejack

    So I guess we’ve moved upstairs here. Okay, gotta blow a bit.

    If I can get through the next 10 hours or so I think I’m home free. My atrophied social skills have been tested to the limit the last couple of weeks.

    I had an old friend in town from Sunday the 8th until Thursday the 12th, and my aged mother arrived late on Monday the 9th for a visit. She stayed at Sighthound Hall, and I didn’t get fully engaged until the 11th, but I’ve been doing a lot of the heavy lifting since then because she and Bro’ Man have been getting on each other’s nerves more and more. Because their personalities are exactly the same!—which is obvious to just about everyone except them. They take “pushing your buttons” to Olympic heights with each other. Like Trump and Little Rocket Man.

    So she’s leaving early tomorrow morning. I’m going to Sighthound Hall at 6:30, and we’ll take a cab to National, because I’m going to shepherd her in a wheelchair to the departure gate. (She’s still pretty mobile at age 87 but not up to extended walking.) Once that’s done, I’ll take a cab back to Sighthound Hall, collect the doughty Kia and return to my modest rooms in Threadkill Lane for an indefinite period of restorative solitude with the housecat. I have done more socializing the last two weeks—and a lot of that was perilous family “socializing”—than I did in the prior six months. Exhausting. Might celebrate with a fancy lunch before I get in the sensory-deprivation tank.

    That said, I actually get along really well with my mother. My relationship with her has improved a lot in recent years, I think because for a while I did a practice of thinking of her not as my mother but as a woman named (let’s say) Audrey that I happened to know and had some history with. That helped a lot. Big decrease in reactions to buttons being pushed. And I’m much more able to respond to her many good parts and not get caught up in family baggage, etc. My social fatigue is more about having to be “on” every day for the last two weeks, when my previous daily routine was more like “Do I really need to get dressed?” and “What time are my stories on?”

  43. 43.

    dmsilev

    @Mnemosyne: Not stressing the bad knee is probably worth the few dollars extra in parking, so I think just driving to the Westin and parking there makes a lot of sense.

  44. 44.

    danielx

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I once saw a proposal for a playlist for fifty worst pop songs….I couldn’t get far with it. It would start with American Pie, then Tie A Yellow Ribbon, then anything by the Archies, following which any sentient being would throw the musical device out the nearest window.

  45. 45.

    Corner Stone

    @Steeplejack: Stop beating yourself up. There is nothing better in the world, *nothing*, than waking up and telling yourself you have absolutely nothing to do that day.

  47. 47.

    dmsilev

    @Mnemosyne: Well, hopefully your knee will be better soon (or at least better enough for biking).

    Also, another thought: I believe Pasadena Transit route 40 runs down Walnut and stops near or at the Westin, so you could eyeball that route map and see if it’s near any cheap(er) lots. I can’t be of much help there; I live close enough to that area that I would just walk if I’m headed in that direction.

  49. 49.

    danielx

    @Steeplejack:

    All families are dysfunctional, it’s just a question of degree. That being said, your restorative therapy sounds like heaven for introverts, under which category heading i fall. Just having time when you don’t have to talk to humans is a blessing. Cat/Cats just the icing on the cake

  50. 50.

    Felonius Monk

    Maybe that corgi can do humanity a solid by giving a knee to the O’Rielly nuts. Nice doggie.

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    @Corner Stone:

    Did I sound like I was beating myself up? Hmm, not my intention. I was feeling more like: “We pushed the Jerries back—this time. Smoke if you got ’em.”

    There is nothing better in the world [. . .] than waking up and telling yourself you have absolutely nothing to do that day.

    That’s definitely true, and I strive to enjoy it. I still have some nagging, mostly subconscious thoughts that I should be doing something, probably because my slow-motion “retirement” has been more like that Florida plane landing in the thread downstairs than a nice, crisp “Good job, old-timer! Here’s a gold watch. Now get lost!” Consulting/​self-employment has a lot more gray areas.

  53. 53.

    bemused senior

    My corgi-chihuahua mix, who is very corgi in shape and behavior, either stands with his legs slightly splayed or lies down. The leg splayed posture is usually in preparation for his cattle herding behavior. I’d like to think he’d stand that way as the anthem was played, and then nip the hell out of the legs of anyone who didn’t kneel. He has strong opinions.

  59. 59.

    Suzanne

    @Ruckus: I hate Goop with the hot fire of a hundred suns. I also think she’s a total butterface.

    Not as much as I hate Donnie Two-Scoops. But closer than you might think.

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    I give up. FYWP is spiking comments because of its dislike of random YouTube links. Maybe a sign from Ceiling Cat that I should pack it in and go to bed.

    Why, yes, I do need to get up in three and a half hours.

    ETA: And I see that someone has rescued my comments from moderation. Thank you, anonymous front-pager!

  64. 64.

    frosty

    @Steeplejack:

    Might celebrate with a fancy lunch before I get in the sensory-deprivation tank.

    Oh man, I hear ya. We have dear (extrovert) friends we visit now and again, and on the way home I said something to my wife and she asked what I was talking about. I said “Just trying to make conversation.” She said, “Don’t.”

  68. 68.

    Anne Laurie

    @bemused senior:

    The leg splayed posture is usually in preparation for his cattle herding behavior.

    Yup, cattle — unlike sheep — need to be nipped to get them moving, and when they’re nipped they kick backwards. That’s supposed to be why corgis (and Swedish Valhunds, and Australian Cattle Dogs) have short legs — when they lean back after nipping (as many still do!) the cow hoof misses their hard little heads. Also, why they have such hard little heads! :)

  69. 69.

    Beautifulplummage

    @Mnemosyne: any way to get a short-term parking pass for use of ADA parking? Even if no money is saved you might have less walking.

  70. 70.

    Major Major Major Major

    So it turns out that at work we aren’t legally allowed to work on The Big Project until next Thursday at least, and that may be what’s been going on. I’m working from home tomorrow so I guess I’ll just draw.

    That’s my me update. It’s been a bewildering month.

    ETA: Anybody want to alpha test that fiction-writing-organization app I’ve been making?

  74. 74.

    Anne Laurie

    @Suzanne:

    I also think she’s a total butterface.

    Gywneth Paltrow, age 24, made a perfect Emma Woodhouse: spoilt young flower of the English Uppah Claaas, glowing with the health & self-assurance of someone who inherited generations of The Best. Many people, including a lot of film people who should’ve known better, mistook this glow for actual acting ability.

    When the histories are written, IMO, her career will be understood as a long tragic descent from this early success. She’s still trying to be 20-year-old Emma Woodhouse, ingenue, freshly ripe with infinite possibilities. But she’s pushing fifty, and every year it’s less of a comedy and more of a farce!

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Major Major Major Major:

    It’s a known phenomenon that FYWP balks at random Youtube links, but I’ve never been able to discover any pattern. What’s interesting to me is that if you use the YouTube “share” function to shorten the link address it doesn’t help. Go figure.

  79. 79.

    Amir Khalid

    My multi-effects pedal has arrived! Yay. But the 9V adapter has a Chinese plug (il est fabriqué en Chine, naturellement), not a Malaysian one; its plug won’t fit in a Malaysian power point. Boo. Anyone here have a pack of four AA batteries to spare?

  81. 81.

    Mnemosyne

    @Beautifulplummage:

    any way to get a short-term parking pass for use of ADA parking? Even if no money is saved you might have less walking.

    By next weekend, it shouldn’t be necessary as long as I wear a knee brace. The parking garage is right underneath the hotel where the conference is, so it will be a short walk. I’m just annoyed that I have a Free Thing I wanted to do and now I can’t because I sprained my knee. Gah.

  84. 84.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: Well, Blythe Danner had to work for her roles, and to keep working to adapt to new ones; she had the good fortune not to “peak” in her first Big Star Film. I honestly get the feeling G-Paltrow made some kind of (conscious?) decision, once Emma was such a success, to never stop being the exact same person/actress she was in that film. Quite possibly she could have been a “real” actress — and not just A Star — if she hadn’t decided to put herself into a kind of emotional bell jar, forever miming the 24-year-old she’d been so well-rewarded for being.

    Of course she’s hardly the first actress or actor to do this, but at least Norma Desmond was supposed to have been successful as a grown woman, not as a post-teenage Fresh Young Thing.

  85. 85.

    owlface

    Hey, so, been real busy with cancer treatments. I’m on my second to last week of radiation treatment. There’s excellent news: I have an extremely high chance to survive with no recurrence. 70% minimum, my oncologist (one of them) says. I had a perfect response to chemo, clear margins for the double mastectomy, and now radiation is for insurance. But I needed all of those things to come out well in order to survive this at all. And they did, so, thanks, that ‘wish upon a star’ gif on Tumblr.

    The less good news is I’m not sure how I’m going to have health insurance from now on. I imagine I cost the current guys half a million or so. The state of our country absolutely terrifies the shit out of me and I don’t know if my future will be decent in any way. I’m receiving bad vibes on all wavelengths, and for this reason I’ve taken (and am taking) a bit of a break from news and political sites. I thought I’d update. Hope everybody is doing well.

  87. 87.

    sm*t cl*de

    @Anne Laurie:

    why corgis (and Swedish Valhunds, and Australian Cattle Dogs) have short legs

    Corgis have short legs because they are basically border collies but with a mutation in the FGF4 gene, which means chondrodysplasic dwarfism. Like dachshunds and bassets and umpteen other breeds. Aren’t you glad you didn’t ask me?
    But yeah, Welsh farmers prolly selected for the mutation because stumpy little close-to-the-ground corgis get kicked in the head less often than full-height doggos.

    ACDs have full-length legs.

  88. 88.

    Amir Khalid

    @Anne Laurie:
    I’m a bit mystified. Gwyneth has been through her share of life experiences. She’s been married and divorced, she has kids. She runs a business. How does she not know how to play a forty-something woman?

  89. 89.

    opiejeanne

    @Amir Khalid: Doesn’t want to play a 44 yo woman, doesn’t want to be 44 just yet.

    Butterface is code for “but her face!” Meaning attractive body and personality, but her face!

  90. 90.

    Mel

    @owlface: Glad to hear that the treatments are going well, but so very sorry that you have to deal with all this additional worry on top of the struggles that come with fighting for your health. Taking a sanity break is important ; I just about hit my breaking point this week, too: trying to pay for chemo copays, money worries, and Mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

    It’s okay, and sometimes essential to step away from media things for a short period of time to try to try and lessen the stress snd give your mind as much of a breather as can be managed in this world.

  91. 91.

    opiejeanne

    @owlface: I’m glad you have such good news about your treatment, and I hope you can figure out your health insurance.

    Taking time away from the awfulness is a good idea. I need a day or two off pretty often these days and I’m fairly healthy, so I can imagine you might need more time off. Take care of yourself.

  93. 93.

    Anne Laurie

    @owlface: Sorry to hear you’re going through all this; will keep you in my thoughts for a positive outcome — not least on the insurance front.

    Don’t blame you for avoiding the political stuff; fortunately the intertoobz are full of pet videos, gardening advice, and old comedies for more positive energy!

  94. 94.

    Anne Laurie

    @sm*t cl*de:

    ACDs have full-length legs.

    They don’t have the achondroplastic gene, but American ACDs have been bred to be pretty darn stumpy…

  96. 96.

    Annamal

    woooo, nz almost certainly has a new prime minister and she is *awesome*.
    Also the green party sounds like they have a seat at the table (our greens are incredibly politically savvy and sort of the opposite of the US Greens).

    Yayyyyyyy!

  99. 99.

    Ohio Mom

    Late to this dead thread but are we to believe the totally shabby house in the photo belongs to Bill, who is surely a multimillionaire? Did I miss the point and this is a parody?

  101. 101.

    Miss Bianca

    @Anne Laurie: wow, i think you’ve hit the proverbial nail on the head with this comment! You’re absolutely right, that;s her only really good film role, and to think it wasbecause all she had to do was “act naturally”!

  102. 102.

    Ruckus

    @Miss Bianca:
    The even funnier part of the GP issue is that Goop is the name of a product to remove sticky crap from surfaces. She’s got a organization that supplies crap and yet is named after a product for removing crap.
    @owlface:
    Best of luck with all the treatments. Breast cancer can be a nasty business. Mom lived over 40 yrs after hers, made it to within days of 95. May you have this kind of results. Too many women that I know of have suffered from it.
    And as I haven’t said it today, FUCK Fucking cancer.

  103. 103.

    amygdala

    @owlface: Fingers crossed the rest of radiotherapy goes smoothly and for remission. It’s fine (and smart!) to take a break from the madness and focus on getting well. Lots of smart, committed people are fighting hard for so that folks can keep their coverage.

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