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Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Bark louder, little dog.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

This really is a full service blog.

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How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

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There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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Breakfast for Dinner, The Punisher, and These Dorks

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Had a great dinner- I made Gordon Ramsey’s scrambled eggs and sausage (from a farmer down the road from me), and Tammy made avocado toast, which I had never had before:

It’s very good!

I am upstairs watching the Punisher in the office with Samantha, and Tams is downstairs with Lily texting me pictures:

Clowns.

The Punisher is very good! The new detective in the show, Amber Rose Revah, is going to be a star and we are going to see her in a bunch of stuff. Mark my words!

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  4. 4.

    Warren Terra

    I’m about two episodes into The Punisher. It’s well made, but they seem to have forgotten to interest the viewer in the main protagonist. He’s an unlikable friendless serial murderer. There is no character who is in any way the audience surrogate, and the only leading character who’s at all sympathetic is Revah’s, stuck in a separate subordinate plotline (so far). So far, the show utterly lacks the charm and the humanity of the other Netflix Marvel shows, even Iron Twit.

  5. 5.

    Big R

    @John Cole: ? No worries and your life is yours and not my soap opera, just knew I hadn’t seen any explanation of who she was.

    Even the lurkers want you to be happy.

  12. 12.

    Mike J

    Before the start of Mean Streets on TCM, Mr used-to-be-on-young-turks warned people about the casual racism and homophobia in the movie and warned that it could be jarring. I’ll bet the average Trump supporter wouldn’t even notice.

  13. 13.

    Mike in NC

    Found a recipe for French toast to try in the morning that includes a dash of maple syrup and dark rum. Yum.

    Will check out “Punisher” this weekend. Jon Bernthal’s a good actor. We also want to take a look at “Shetland”, another British police drama set in those remote islands halfway between Scotland and Norway.

  14. 14.

    dmsilev

    @Warren Terra:

    So far, the show utterly lacks the charm and the humanity of the other Netflix Marvel shows, even Iron Twit.

    That bad? I hope at least the protagonist is at least slightly less idiotic than fist-boy.

  16. 16.

    Elizabelle

    Love the Lily and Tammy photos. Dinner looks good too.

    Hello from Wiesbaden. Lovely foggy day yesterday. Mist over the bright yellow/orange fall leaves that we missed in Virginia this year. Drought muted them.

    And glad to see the return of efgoldman on earlier thread. Good for all of us that he is back.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    @Warren Terra:
    You can understand Frank Castle’s anger but that’s really all there is to him. So it’s impossible to make him likeable or sympathetic, and that’s probably why there has not been a good Punisher movie.

  19. 19.

    TenguPhule

    @Amir Khalid:

    and that’s probably why there has not been a good Punisher movie.

    Depends on your definition of good.

    Sometimes you just want to watch some mindless violence and not have to think for 2 hours.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Mike in NC:

    Shetland is very good. Great acting, great scenery, serviceable plots. The first two seasons are episodic, the third is one long story arc. (The seasons are short, four or six one-hour episodes.)

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    Made it safely to my Led Zeppelin-themed hotel (no, seriously — okay, in practice it’s more “classic rock”). 11 hours on a train and 4,030 words written. That’s pretty good, IMO.

  32. 32.

    Another Scott

    @Mike J: IIRC, Betty or Anne had similar issues with some iPhone shots until she figured out the ways to make FYWP relent.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    More like “Monterey Pop.” I sent a few photos to G and he said it looked like a dorm room. It kind of does, but a classy dorm room at an expensive college. And it smells better than a dorm room.

  44. 44.

    Amir Khalid

    @scav:
    I was under the impression that Christians considered it disrespectful to carry a gun in church. Thou shalt not kill, and all that.

  46. 46.

    Brachiator

    @Warren Terra:

    I’m about two episodes into The Punisher. It’s well made, but they seem to have forgotten to interest the viewer in the main protagonist. He’s an unlikable friendless serial murderer.

    Belatedly, thanks for your great review. Oddly enough, this sounds like it is exactly what some fans of the comic want. They really have a thing for a “don’t give a shit” hero who is all about relentless killing and destruction.

  48. 48.

    Brachiator

    @Amir Khalid:

    I was under the impression that Christians considered it disrespectful to carry a gun in church.

    In the New Right-wing Nutjob Gospel, Jesus does a miracle where he arms the multitudes.

    ETA. Also, a more accurate translation of the commandment would be “Murder not!” instead of “Thou shalt not kill.”

  49. 49.

    jim

    Shetland is good. Viewers might like Hinterland. A little darker than Shetland, takes place in Wales.

  50. 50.

    HeartlandLiberal

    I just watched the first episode of “The Punisher”. My comic collection includes probably all but a few, maybe a half dozen, of ever Punisher comic or book ever published. I am that hardcore a fan.

    I even have to large 4×3 foot or so posters that Marvel published early in the series, one is famed and hangs in my office / study.

    I even have the short mini-series where Marvel tried to flip him into a demonic inhuman character, an utter failure they backed down on, although I refused to buy it when it first came out.

    But this TV show has absolutely nothing that captures the feel and Zeitgeist and spirit of The Punisher comic books, at any point in the various incarnations, versions, and writers / artists.

    One comment above summed it up, this TV show is just an illustration of a serial killer, not a man on a mission to punish criminals, which was what Frank Castle was all about.

    To say I was disappointed is putting it mildly.

  51. 51.

    gene108

    @scav:

    Tellico Plains Police Department Chief Russ Parks said no one else was injured and no charges will be filed.
    “This was an accident. It was not intentional,” Chief Parks told ABC News.
    “It just slipped his mind that he recharged the weapon.”

    From the article.

    Even if I accidentally hit a family member with my car, causing them to require surgery, I would at least expect to get a citation for wreckless driving and not just be let off with a warning.

    I am not sure why we have such a permissive attitude towards accidental shootings.

    On the bright side the gun owner, who accidentally shot his wife will be getting rid of all his guns.

  52. 52.

    gene108

    @HeartlandLiberal:

    But this TV show has absolutely nothing that captures the feel and Zeitgeist and spirit of The Punisher comic books

    It is hard to capture the feeling of needing someone to punish criminals, when crime rates are low, places like Manhattan are safe and very upscale, and the mob is a shadow of its former self.

  53. 53.

    JPL

    @gene108: If “It just slipped his mind that he recharged the weapon.” wouldn’t that be an indication that he shouldn’t have the weapon?

  54. 54.

    p.a.

    Not a comic book guy, but have enjoyed many of the movies (as movies), and saw previews of Black Panther at Ragnarok. Is TNC involved w the movie? Or just the c books?

  55. 55.

    Schlemazel

    @Amir Khalid: Some rules may not apply. One of the greatest gifts the Cosmic Muffin has given all of his deepest believers is the ability to know when He did not mean a rule for that believer in that situation.

  56. 56.

    Schlemazel

    The Tick had my favorite version of the Punisher. He was incapable of much other than unloading vast numbers of bullets from multiple machine guns at once & the only line I remember him ever says was a pitiful “MY MOTHER NEVER LOVED ME!”

  58. 58.

    Schlemazel

    @gene108:
    Well, at 81 with no thumb he might not be as quick on the fast draw any more.

    Seriously though, we worry about talking to the elderly about giving up driving, who ever thinks about talking to them about hanging up the shootin arns?

  59. 59.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @scav:

    Jeez, it was one shot:

    The bullet hit the gun-owner in the right hand before piercing his wife’s abdomen and exiting through her right forearm, ricocheting off the wall and landing by her wheelchair, according to police.

    @gene108:

    Yeah, if I injured someone with my car I would get a ticket at the minimum, plus my car insurance would go up. I bet this guy’s gun insurance is going to skyrocket! Wait, what’s that you say?

    Plus the guy is 81. If a car had been involved, they’d be looking at whether to yank his license. Probably should do the same with his gun license. Wait, what?

  60. 60.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @JPL: @gene108: First rule of gun ownership and handling: The gun is always loaded. Even after you unload it, making absolutely certain that there is not a round in the chamber, the gun is still loaded and you always, always, ALWAYS, treat it as such,

    That rule was drilled into my head from a very young age. There are other rules (never point it at something one does not intend to shoot, never “play around” with a gun, etc etc) but the FIRST rule is that the gun is always loaded.

  61. 61.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @HeartlandLiberal: Oddly enough, I think the only comic guy who was able to get a handle on the slippery moral ambiguity of the Punisher was Frank Miller. Then again, this was during his run on Daredevil when Miller was still a good writer and before he devolved into a loony Ayn Rand fanboy.

  64. 64.

    Schlemazel

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    I don’t read all of Kos so it may still be going on & I am just missing it but there ws a weekly posting of all the accidental shootings for the week. It really is something that should be a regular feature of the Internet. A lot of “I thought it was unloaded” as well as dropped guns, toddlers shooting people and generally bad stuff that was just stupid. The number of deaths and injuries every week was staggering.

  65. 65.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Steeplejack (phone): Yep, and yep. I read a while ago where a NC state legislator was hanging her coat in the cloakroom when her gun fell out of the coat pocket, hit the floor and went off. Fortunately nobody got shot (only a wall) but “It was just an accident.” First off, she forgot it was in the coat pocket? Or was she just going to leave it in the cloakroom? Second of all, way way way back when single action revolvers were the side arm of choice, this problem was common and it became common practice to leave the chamber under the hammer empty. Better engineering has fixed this problem and a firearm should not be able to fire from a fall or hard knock. Or has it? Maybe somebody should sue the manufacturer.

    Wait, what?

  67. 67.

    Schlemazel

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    I have had ammosexuals tell me there is no way a gun can go off if dropped. I showed them examples and of course they called it all fake news. sigh

  68. 68.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Schlemazel: I keep an eye out for that stuff. Used to save it to a file for purposes of arguing with the brain dead NRA’ers. But it got so large and unwieldy I just stopped adding to it, then a computer crash ate it all and I never started it up again. Besides, I never changed any minds, the NRA does all their thinking for them. It’s just easier for them. Now they get to put all their brain power into figuring out whether the Bud Light by the case or the Miller Light by the 30 pack is the better deal..

  72. 72.

    Steeplejack

    @Raven:

    Yeah. I didn’t want to get into a whole “clips/​magazines” technical discussion, but what struck me about that article was how much more powerful even handguns are these days. I think we have a tendency—or at least I do—to hear “old guy’s gun in church” and think of a little .38 revolver like we used to see on old TV shows. But no, even the geezers are packing state-of-the-art Glocks. It’s insane. Like everybody driving to work in a Formula 1 race car.

  73. 73.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Steeplejack: Well, the rounds are the same no matter what kind of gun it is in. A 9 mm Luger is still a 9 mm Luger and while the bullet is the same size as a .38 it is less powerful because it has a smaller casing which holds less powder, and a .38 is less powerful than a .357 magnum for all the same rea…

    Oh wait a minute, you didn’t want to get into a technical discussion, did you? ;-)

  77. 77.

    Scott

    As long as you’re on Netflix, watch the Netflix movie Mudbound which streamed for the first time last night. Really good although a bit depressing,

  79. 79.

    Jeffro

    @NotMax: the one where he was – somehow – turned African-American for a few issues, so that he could partner up with Luke Cage – that one was pretty odd

  80. 80.

    cain

    @scav:

    I guess he help settle the debate about bringing guns to a church. The gun is not a toy to show people no matter how tempting it would be. Shooting your own wife while she was in a wheelchair was probably pretty traumatic and something he’ll have to deal with.

  81. 81.

    cain

    @HeartlandLiberal:

    To say I was disappointed is putting it mildly.

    It might be that he is on a journey and might get there, but right now he’s full of rage, and is going after everyone related to whoever killed his family.

    I have enjoyed it thus far, and it has some great acting in it. I would say give it a chance in the second season. I remember Arrow started off a little too much like a serial killer as well killing wantonly. But the character has settled.

  82. 82.

    No Drought No More

    Avacado toast sounds fantastic, and I’ve never heard of it, either. No doubt there are gourmet stores here in the Bay Area that could get away charging $30 a jar for “avocado jam”, too. The small jars of the stuff, I mean.

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