Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Let there be snark.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

I really should read my own blog.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

ha ha ha! Nice try weird people.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

Republicans in disarray!

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  1. 1.

    Beautifulplummage

    I’m a total cat positive/dogs not so much person but I would absolutely welcome those 2 doggies from the last p
    hoto into my home!

  2. 2.

    Yarrow

    Awwwwwwwwwww! They are just adorable. That middle picture with the headgear and the little bird on it. What in the world is that? Where did she get the photos done? Did she take them herself. They’re amazing.

    This year has been so damned draining.

    Yep. And as bad as this year has been it does not begin to compare with the awfulness of 2016 for me. The horror that was 2016 is almost impossible to describe.

  3. 3.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Dog One ain’t takin’ no shit from no fuckers and is simultaneously cute as fuck. Talented pup.

  7. 7.

    Yarrow

    @Omnes Omnibus: Events outside my personal sphere were bad, as you noted. What happened in my personal sphere was a horror show that seemed like it would never end. Outside events did not help.

  8. 8.

    Yarrow

    That last photo just slays me. Reminds me of some kind of Renaissance painting of a burgher and his wife. Except they’re dogs. And they’re sitting in front of an electrical outlet with something plugged in, so obviously not Renaissance.

  20. 20.

    Just the Facts

    Word on the Twitter is that MSNBC has fired Joan Walsh, after 12 years. Joy Reid confirmed it. No reason given.

    But at least they still have Hugh Hewitt.

  24. 24.

    Aleta

    Good news for the environment comes from California today, and from a part of the state very near the hillsides that have suffered the economic and environmental devastation of the recent wildfires. A renowned tract of undeveloped California coastal land totaling more than 24,000 acres, or about 38 square miles, has been purchased by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for permanent preservation, thanks to a $165 million donation by a wealthy tech-industry couple. ( )

    The tract includes hills and canyons, grasslands and brush, 2,000 acres of coastal live-oak stands containing perhaps 1 million trees, a creek, parts of the Santa Ynez mountain range—and a full eight miles of the bluffs and beaches that make up the coastline around Point Conception, west of Santa Barbara. The benefactors are Jack and Laura Dangermond, who founded and still run the Esri mapping company in the small southern California town of Redlands where they both grew up.

    ( ) The land still has the look and the ecological characteristics of the wild. Crucially, it has never been subdivided, converted to malls or mansions, or otherwise commercially developed. With today’s announcement, it never will be—a different outcome than many conservationists feared over the past decade, when the land was owned by a real-estate hedge fund from Boston that has specialized in coastal-development projects.

    “There’s no place like it on this Earth,” a county supervisor named Joni Gray told Ann Herold and Dan Harder of the Los Angeles Times 10 years ago, after the hedge-fund sale. “It’s more beautiful than Yosemite or Yellowstone.” ( )

    Before the arrival of the Spanish and then the Americans, this was the land of the Chumash people, who considered the point a portal through which spirits entered the next world. Point Conception’s positioning has long made it perilous for mariners—and precious to scientists and naturalists. “I like to say it’s where Northern California and Southern California meet,” Michael Sweeney, executive director of The Nature Conservancy in California, told me. “That is why it is a zone of such ecological diversity. You have plants and animals you’d expect to find in the north, along with those you’d expect to find in the south. It is uniquely diverse.”
    ( )
    “On the marine side, it is one of the most valuable places on the California coast, because it’s where the cold currents coming down from the north meet the warm currents from the south,” Jack Dangermond told me in a phone interview. “With this huge mixing, you have a rookery of seals, big whales, all the elements of a hugely diverse marine resource.” A California state marine reserve, established over the past decade, protects fish, sea mammals, and other wildlife in a 22-square-mile area of the waters off Point Conception. “From the seafloor to the ridgetops you have a big protected area, and that is pretty special in the world,” Sweeney said.

    “This is a conservation project of historic significance,” Henry Yang, the chancellor of the University of California at Santa Barbara, told me via email.

    -Atlantic, James Fallows

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Major Major Major Major: damn, I’m jealous. I’ve never been to Portugal, and I find it really appealing. A friend of mine was there not long ago and said everywhere you want to go is somehow uphill from wherever you are

  32. 32.

    Aleta

    @Mnemosyne: If you have it, bourbon + whiskey, then some rum if you can. Fold in some whipped cream, add vanilla ice cream if you like. Raise a few chickens, gather the fresh laid eggs in a basket

    eta That was my mother’s recipe she said she brought from Louisville.

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    If Omnes shows up in this thread, I finally heard about a use for his bottle of vanilla brandy. My aunt uses a hand mixer to blend cheap brandy and ice cream into a punch that she serves at parties. You could probably also mix it together and put it back into the freezer for boozy milkshakes because it would not re-freeze.

  38. 38.

    Sab

    We wus trying to adopt a German Shepherd. We thought we’d got him but somebody else won out. We are sad. The dog is probably happy because he has a new home. But we are still very very sad.

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    See? I knew it would work.

    I’ve never actually had this punch of my aunt’s, but her friends were asking about it on Facebook. I guess I don’t get invited to the parties where she serves it.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Just the Facts: she’s not my favorite, but… too bad, considering some of the people they’re keeping on. At the end of O’Donnell’s show, they announced that the next hour of BriWi would feature Parson Meecham and The Dolphin Lady on the past year. Hard pass. I wonder what Hewitt’s audience is like for that weekend show that runs against, I imagine, the farm report and Rev. Ernest Ainsley’s Hour of Grift.

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    Yarrow

    @Major Major Major Major: Really enjoyed touring Shakespeare’s Globe theater the last time I was there. Also the Tower Bridge. I’d been on the London Eye during the day but that time went at night right before it closed. Very cool experience. No one else was there, it was dark and raining. Got some very cool photos.

    No suggestions for Portugal but some friends went and said salt cod was on all the menus. They tried it and were underwhelmed.

  46. 46.

    Sab

    @Mnemosyne: Late night here is weird.
    I know it’s not late night in California, but in Ohio his it’s late and it’s weird.

    I hope you don’t think I am criticizing your last comment . I am absolutely not.

  52. 52.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @NotMax: the “bowl” Scrooge proposes to Bob Cratchit, I think. Or maybe that’s in one of the movies.

    Oh, sorry: SPOILER ALERT

  55. 55.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    The classic Regent’s Punch is a recipe that was supposedly the favorite of the Prince Regent, later George IV. Cognac, two kinds of rum, and champagne along with oranges and green tea.

    The Jane Austen Centre removed all of the alcohol except for the champagne, which is why I’m not linking their recipe even though they also provide a facsimile of the original recipe.

  56. 56.

    zhena gogolia

    I have had a cough since the night before Thanksgiving. Did a whole course of antibiotics and am now halfway through steroids. No relief. I cannot remember what it is like to sleep at night.

  58. 58.

    zhena gogolia

    @Mnemosyne:

    Thanks. I’m usually someone who goes to sleep right away and wakes up 7 hours later, so this being up all night is not working for me.

  59. 59.

    NotMax

    @zhena gogolia

    There’s a thing going around. Started the coughy thing Nov. 11; as of today much, much, much improved but still not completely gone. General consensus is 6 – 8 weeks before it becomes a memory.

  61. 61.

    zhena gogolia

    @NotMax:

    Oh, God. That’s terrible! But at least it’s somewhat comforting to hear it’s “a thing.” My doctor acts as if he’s totally puzzled by it, which kind of scares me.

  62. 62.

    zhena gogolia

    Okay, I guess I’ll go back to bed and lie there reciting Lermontov to myself. That used to work. Doesn’t any more.

  64. 64.

    Yarrow

    @zhena gogolia: That’s very frustrating. Sorry you can’t seem to get well.

    Last year I was very sick and had an awful cough. My doctor prescribed something he called pearls along with a liquid cough medicine. Prescription, not over the counter. One was an expectorant and one a suppressant.

    I went to see him and had stopped taking the liquid because it made me so woozy I was tripping over things and I was afraid I’d fall and hit my head. He said I could replace the liquid prescription medication with an over the counter one but I HAD to keep taking them. He said every time I coughed it irritated my lungs and actually made the cough last longer. I needed to suppress the cough so the lungs could heal. I’d never had it explained that way to me. I followed his instructions and got the cough under control.

    I don’t know if that might apply in your case but thought I’d toss it out in case it’s helpful.

  67. 67.

    Emma

    @NotMax: wonderful. I have only had it for two and a half weeks!
    My father came home from rehab today. He has some pain– I am not making light of it — but I hope this gets better as it goes, or I am going to need enforced rest in a mental institution. Between my cough and his constant needs I may finally fall asleep on Boxing Day.

  68. 68.

    Betty Cracker

    Weigel tweeted as recently as 8 hours ago, according to my TL. It’s almost 3 AM on this coast.

    I think I’m coming down with something. Was sneezing all evening, and now my throat is sore. Very bad timing!

  72. 72.

    Elizabelle

    Sweaterdogs! I want the little white one in the sweater.

    @NotMax: Thanks for the link to the smoking bishop recipe. Tara has a really good blog; bookmarked it.

    The bishop might help get me through gluhwein withdrawal once I’m back to the US. A lot of the Christmas markets end today, or even yesterday. Christmas Eve is the big deal in Germany. (Berlin’s Christmas market runs until January 31st. Not going there, but in event any Juicers are in the area and think they have missed the markets … maybe not.)

  74. 74.

    Elizabelle

    @Amir Khalid: Yes, I was thinking about that. Lots of beautiful ones, of the lights and festivities. I will share. Alain mentioned he was busy sorting through previous submissions, so I will try to put together some and email them to Betty or Anne or Adam. Have wanted to share them. It’s gorgeous here.

    Today the Wiesbaden and Mainz markets close. Going to visit both of them, and eat dinner at a restaurant in a 16th century monastery (I think that’s the date). Tomorrow: fly to Spain.

    Wiesbaden is the most beautiful market — the petal-like lights above. Mainz had the best merchandise (IMHO). They’ve all been worthwhile, though.

    Fröhliche Weihnachten

  75. 75.

    Ohio Mom

    @zhena gogolia: I am a big proponent of second opinions — could you get in to see a pulmanologist?

    Ohio Dad had a nightmare that woke both of us up. Now that the adrenaline surge is abating, I need to try to get back asleep. See you all later.

  77. 77.

    oldster

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I just came here to ask whether anyone knew what is up with that.

    I read Weigel’s twitter thread pretty often. But I am not enrolled on twitter, so I cannot be a “follower”.

    And I do not intend to join twitter, either.

    But I am worried about what this might mean. Let’s hope it means nothing much, and nothing bad.

  81. 81.

    MoxieM

    My sister may/yes be looking to adopt a new doggo after Christmas when she gets home. She’s experienced with Aussies, BCs, and JRTs, god love her. A good dog mom. I sent her the post link. Fingers crossed.

  87. 87.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Any of yinz who are suffering from a viral URI, be vigilant for a period of improvement followed by what looks like a relapse, & hie thee to an MD. Frequently an opportunistic bacterial infection will sneak in behind the viruses that are vacating the premises & make you miserable again, The good news is that a timely course of antibiotics will knock it out.

    (This used to happen to me every winter, to the point where I begged my PCP to at least note this in my record so that course of antibiotics could be started in timely fashion, She refused on the grounds that “antibiotics are overprescribed.” Easy for her to enable needless weeks of suffering so long as it wasn’t her doing the suffering, I guess. She moved out of the area & is no longer my PCP but I doubt her replacement at the clinic will be any more amenable,)

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    @Uncle Cosmo:
    I have a generic migraine med that is only somewhat helpful in mitigating them. There is a patented med that helps but the VA doesn’t normally carry it, I was told they did then found a generic so booted the original. But more importantly there is another med that is hugely successful but it is an opioid analgesic so they are deathly afraid of overuse and won’t prescribe. Fun times.

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