Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

The revolution will be supervised.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

“Alexa, change the president.”

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The willow is too close to the house.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

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So much going on the past couple of days. I feel like I have neglected you all.

At any rate, big night of sport tonight- Pens are on, WVU plays at eight, there is apparently a baseball game of some importance. Also have company coming for dinner- Holly of the aneurysm and our neighbor Kim, and Tammy’s husband is having a guys night in Pittsburgh so he dropped her off, so I will be playing the role of Bosley with a bunch of ladies and five dogs and one LARGE cat.

Menu is a dry rubbed flank steak, new potatoes with herbs, parboiled broccoli, a tomato and green pepper salad, and for dessert I cored a couple apples and made a stuffing of cranberries, granola, brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon and am baking them on fresh slice pineapple.

I’ll have someone else take pictures since my photography sucks.

At any rate, I will start blogging again soon. Just been in a damned funk.

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  2. 2.

    Patricia Kayden

    so I will be playing the role of Bosley with a bunch of ladies and five dogs and one LARGE cat.

    Sounds like fun, actually.

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    At any rate, big night of sport tonight

    I am going to have to call for a ruling because I don’t think we’re allowed to watch and/or enjoy any of those things anymore.

  8. 8.

    Manyakitty

    Sounds like the recipe for a great night! Enjoy!

    Also, too, that nasty funk is tough to shake. Let us know if you figure out a way.

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    Downpuppy

    I think this is the first time since UMass went 1A that UMass, BC & UConn all won on the same day.

  12. 12.

    JMG

    John, you’tr a good cook. Since I am one-handed due to surgery (better today, I can tie my own shoes!) when it comes to cooking because of the wet cast factor, I merely served as the appreciative audience for beef stew with barley, mushrooms and red wine. John, I do not know if you have one of the new electric pressure cookers (Instapot is the brand name, I think), but Alice is working wonders with hers. Pork stew with green chilies and tomatillos, yum!

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    Barbara

    Sounds like a great spread. I am a stay at home kind of girl so I think you are the lucky one.

  18. 18.

    germy

    Women, I will let you in on a male secret. Men know that constantly self-proclaiming male 'feminists' are often predatory sleaze bags. They are intensely disliked by other men because of their manipulative qualities and not, in general, because they are viewed to be sex traitors.— Julian Assange ? (@JulianAssange) October 21, 2017

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    @Manyakitty:

    that nasty funk is tough to shake

    Never…and I mean *NEVER* use the words “funk” and “shake” in the same sentence to Cole.

  20. 20.

    raven

    @germy: There has been some interesting developments with dudes who have felt it necessary to write responses to “me too” posts here. Quite a few fit that description.

  22. 22.

    Barbara

    @germy: The day I take personal advice from Julian Assange will be the day my loved ones will know it’s time for nursing home.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    Just for fun, actual place names in WV:

    Acme, Amigo, Bald Knob, Battleship, Beard, Beartown, Beech Bottom, Big Chimney, Booger Hole, Brohard, Bud, Crumpler, Cucumber, Droop, Hoohoo, Man, Paw Paw, Pinch, Tornado, War, Wood.

  24. 24.

    Ohio Mom

    @Manyakitty: That nasty funk must be going around, I have a touch of it too.

    Mine is a combination of being worn down by everything coming out of Washington, feeling stymied by not knowing what to do next with my 20 y.o. autistic son, and dreading the arrival of the dark and cold of winter.

    I suppose it will pass, eventually. Knowing I have company helps.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    Anybody got an opinion on John Wick: Chapter 2? It’s just starting on HBO, and I would like to justify my subscription by watching a “new” movie “premiere.” I thought the first one was pretty good when I belatedly saw it six months after everyone else.

  27. 27.

    schrodingers_cat

    I have been cooking, yesterday I finally made my Diwali goodies, karanjis (turnovers with a fresh coconut filling) and chivda (kinda like a party mix with nut and pohe’ (beaten rice)). I also roasted japanese eggplant, nade stir fried baby bok choy with fresh shitake mushrooms, then I roasted split okra. Then this morning I made chicken curry, this evening lamb with potatoes Delhi style (Madhur Jaffrey recipe), spicy ground beef from a neighborhood farm store and chole’ (chickpeas).
    Now I am beat.
    Tomorrow I will make tomato sauce for the entire month, tamarind and date chutney and fresh green chutney (more like pesto consistency) with green chilies, cilantro and some mint and ginger and of course fresh coconut. Will also make mango cranberry chutney and yogurt smoothie and lassi.

    ETA: Your dinner sounds delicious, do share the pictures!

  28. 28.

    CaseyL

    @Mike J: What? Where? What was the program?

    John – Sorry to hear you’re in a funk. Hopefully good company and good food will help lift it.

  31. 31.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Feeling tired and lazy and wondering if leftovers will be enough. I think if I go to the grocery store I will succumb to unhealthy temptation

    also, one of the oddities o the trump era is I find myself disappointed there is no new SNL. I don’t think I looked forward to it this much even in the Belushi-Radner-Murray days.

  32. 32.

    Jerzy Russian

    If memory serves, you have three dogs and one LARGE cat. Where did the other two dogs come from?

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @chris:

    Okay, thanks. I’m feeling fairly mindless tonight. Will flip over to check Yankees-Astros as needed. FTFY.

  42. 42.

    ArchTeryx

    @jeffreyw: If it’s in any way accurate to the source material it’d be black as pitch, i.e., make IT look like a fun romp on the playground.

  43. 43.

    Betty Cracker

    Successfully completed day one of my motorcycle safety class. Did not drop the bike or do anything else stupid and/or embarrassing!

    The one thing I kept fucking up: instructor said to shift gears in a straightaway, pass a cone, downshift and then come to an abrupt stop using front and rear brakes. I did all that, but I was covering the front brake, and he told me not to until I completed the downshifting, but I could not get that through my head!

    Oh well. Tomorrow’s another day! We’re watching ALCS. Go Rastros!

  46. 46.

    geg6

    Broiled some salmon, made some organic long grain and wild rice and roasted some carrots in olive oil, sea salt and honey. Very healthy dinner followed by pumpkin pudding cake and vanilla bean frozen custard. Reisling for the chaser. Yum.

    Waiting for John to go to bed so I can watch this week’s Project Runway. Can’t deal with politics today.

  48. 48.

    M. Bouffant

    Please, people. In these trying times It is very important that the World Series be between two American cities, not between the forces of good & the forces of Texas Trumpism in fly-over country. Then the Dodgers can defeat any Trumpian aspects of New York & their Evil Empire

    (I do, however, concur w/ & all any “fuck Mike Francesca” opinions.)

  53. 53.

    Bruuuuce

    It’s good to see that my Yankees are as hated as the utterly detestable Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots. Quality of your enemies, I guess.

    In the most irrelevant sports news of the night, the Detroit Pistons must really bite red rubber moose meat, since they’re losing to the NY Knicks.

  54. 54.

    Mike J

    @M. Bouffant: Houston had a lesbian as a three term mayor, followed up by an African American.

    If they were the Sugarland Astros you could feel righteous in cheering against them. The city of Houston isn’t the mouthbreathing wasteland one would think.

  55. 55.

    Just One More Canuck

    @NotMax: Actual place names in Newfoundland:

    Black Tickle, Chimney Tickle, Leading Tickles, Tickle Cove, Tickle Harbour, Blow Me Down, Come by Chance, Comfort Cove, Conception Bay, Cupids, Dildo, Exploits, Happy Adventure, Happy Valley, Heart’s Content, Heart’s Delight, Heart’s Desire, Little Heart’s Ease, Little Paradise, Man Point, Muddy Hole, Placentia, Tilting,Virgin Cove

  56. 56.

    efgoldman

    @Downpuppy:

    I think this is the first time since UMass went 1A that UMass, BC & UConn all won on the same day

    //www.balloon-juice.com/?aec_page=comment-editor.php&action=editcomment&cid=6600170&pid=221804&_wpnonce=92881b5db9&height=435&width=560
    BC should be better than they are; nobody except immediate family knows or cares about UConn. UMass needs to drop back to 1AA.

  58. 58.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: Resting my fingers on the brake lever. He says you wouldn’t be riding like that on the highway when you have to stop suddenly. But knowing in advance that I have to stop makes it impossible for me not to cover the brake. It’s a dilemma.

  63. 63.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Betty Cracker: according to this story

    Vanity Fair reported that Scott Melker, a Penn classmate, wrote on Facebook, “Donald Jr. was a drunk in college. Every memory I have of him is of him stumbling around on campus falling over or passing out in public, with his arm in a sling from injuring himself while drinking. He absolutely despised his father, and hated the attention that his last name afforded him.”
    Melker also described an alleged incident in which Trump showed up to his son’s dorm room to take him to a Yankees game. Trump Jr. was dressed in a Yankees jersey and when he opened the door to his father, “without saying a word, his father slapped him across the face, knocking him to the floor in front of all of his classmates. He simply said, ‘Put on a suit and meet me outside,’ and closed the door.” A spokesperson for the Trump family told Vanity Fair this story is “completely false.”

  67. 67.

    Gin & Tonic

    Open thread? Happy 100th birthday to John Birks Gillespie. Too bad he’s not around to enjoy it.

  68. 68.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Betty Cracker: @raven: What raven said If you concentrate on keeping a tight grip, you won’t move your fingers to the brake until you consciously relax the hand. Once it becomes second nature, you can relax the hand a bit.

  69. 69.

    hilts

    @M. Bouffant:

    Mike Francesa publicly endorsed Donald Trump because obnoxious blowhards have to stick together. Thankfully, Francesa will stop polluting the airwaves sometime this December.

  74. 74.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Mike J: my default when I have no dog in the fight is, all other things being equal, blue state teams over red state teams. Of course, here things are not equal, because fuck the fucking yankees.

  76. 76.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Just One More Canuck:

    The definitive answer comes from the Newfoundland English Dictionary.
    The word Tickle was first recorded in 1770.

    “A narrow salt-water strait, as in an entrance to a harbour or between islands or other land masses, often difficult or treacherous to navigate because of narrowness, tides, etc; a ‘settlement’ adjoining such a passage;”

  79. 79.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    My sports action of the day was watching the Gophers play their worst game of the season and coming away with a 2-1 win in which the #1 star of the game was the pipe around the Minnesota net, which made four brilliant saves to keep them in the game. The UMD Bulldogs should feel hard done by to have come away from this weekend with zero points despite outplaying Minnesota in 5 of the 6 periods.

  82. 82.

    rikyrah

    Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

    …9 months than this Administration. Over 50 Legislation approvals, massive regulation cuts, energy freedom, pipelines, border security….
    5:02 PM – 21 Oct 2017

    ,…………………………..

    Tommy Vietor‏Verified account @TVietor08
    Replying to @realDonaldTrump

    What is a legislation approval?

    ………………………….

    Jon Favreau‏Verified account @jonfavs
    Replying to @TVietor08 @realDonaldTrump

    How a Bill Becomes a Legislation Approval
    5:05 PM – 21 Oct 2017

    ……………………………
    Eugene Gu, MD‏Verified account @eugenegu
    Replying to @jonfavs @Ganogen_Inc and

    A Legislation Approval is when you get to destroy democracy and have an Attorney General who lies under oath while you go play golf.
    5:09 PM – 21 Oct 2017
    ……………..

    Dan Pfeiffer‏Verified account @danpfeiffer

    Dan Pfeiffer Retweeted Donald J. Trump

    It’s time to panic if the President doesn’t know how a bill becomes a law

  85. 85.

    Just One More Canuck

    @chris: @Gin & Tonic: thanks. A friend of mine is from Newfoundland and after a couple of drinks, his accent gets really thick to the point where he’s almost impossible to understand

  92. 92.

    Ian G.

    Not sportsball, but sports puck, but it was a fun first Islanders game of the season for me, made even better by losses from Washington, Pittsburgh (suck it, Cole) and Columbus.

  95. 95.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Corner Stone:

    You have a very complicated way of looking at baseball. I want the Astros to win cause they’re named after the Jetson’s dog.

    I totally respect that

  99. 99.

    Ohio Mom

    @A Ghost to Most: My kid is taking classes at a community college but is still in a work skills transition program out of our high school. He is doing better in the college than the transition program. But he needs those life, work and social skills, whether he thinks so or not!

    Most of the typical young people I know had rocky twenties, and I try to take comfort in that.

    Anyway, congrats to Ghost Jr. Finishing school and identifying your life’s work are big accomplishments.

  100. 100.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Ohio Mom:

    Most of the typical young people I know hard rocky twenties, and I try to take comfort in that.

    Yeah, like law school. That sucked!

  101. 101.

    Just One More Canuck

    @Duane: Newfoundland winters are notoriously long and brutal. That may have something to do with the names.

    And baseball has a long history of association with cartoons. Dino Flintstone played for the Mets, using the name “Darryl Strawberry”

  106. 106.

    Fair Economist

    @lamh36:

    I’m sitting here watching the first Addams Family movie. Addams Family Values is up afterwards. I know know I’ve said it before, but mahn, this movie was RIDICULOUSLY well cast, wasn’t it!

    Plotwise I thought it was rather thin. But the plot was just an excuse for setpiece jokes in the manner of the comic and as you say the actors were incredible, even the kids. (Didn’t everybody love Wednesday? How can a girl so young act so well?) They made every bit hysterical.

  107. 107.

    No Drought No More

    San Francisco Giants fans who think it through should be at least a little pleased tonight. That’s because the Dodgers will be playing their World Series in Houston instead of Fun City. It’s pure spite, and I don’t pretend otherwise- “it’s spite, and it’s right”. Go Astros…

  109. 109.

    different-church-lady

    @rikyrah:

    It’s time to panic if the President doesn’t know how a bill becomes a law

    No, no, I think it’s really quite a lucky break that this president doesn’t know how a bill becomes law.

  112. 112.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steve in the ATL: I liked law school. I am weird. I liked the long marches in army training for the feeling of the lift off my shoulders when I set down my ruck. It was like floating.

    ETA: And I was good at it.

  119. 119.

    J R in WV

    @NotMax: A good start, here’s some more:

    Hurricane, Odd, Big Ugly, Germany Valley, Swiss, Wife’s ancestors settled in HooHoo Holler, where did you hear of it? Mined out now, Maple Meadow Mining. Between Trap Hill and Lester. Stotesbury, Winding Gulf… Jumping Branch. I’m pretty bad with names, so I’m running out of memory, not funny names. Uncle’s Branch, Left Hand …

    OK, I quit.

  126. 126.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    It’s great that the Yankees made it to game 7 of the AlCS in a rebuiilding year relying an a wealth of young talent. Bright skies ahead. I hope rhe Dodgers beat the stros in agonizing fashion. The Dodgers are Jackie Robinson. Houston fans would rather secede.

  128. 128.

    Corner Stone

    What’s going to be even better is knowing that the fuck the fucking Yankees have zero say in what happens next in the Fall Classic. Go Home and Shut The Fuck Up.
    Not like you have a choice now but to snipe from the sidelines. I mean, your schedule is cleared now, right?

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