Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“woke” is the new caravan.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

You cannot shame the shameless.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

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

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

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

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

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

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I promised you a recipe thread and puppy picture for tonight, but I didn’t expect my one and only client today to take all day. So I must delay. Tomorrow is another day!

Ever since John posted about Rescuing Fish from a Flood, this song has been running through my head – I kept hearing “rescuing fish from a flood” to a tune that I suspected was a Squeeze song, but until I starting running through their library (not difficult, I love Squeeze) I wasn’t quite sure which one.  Now you may have my earworm:

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    OMG and OT I am watching a CBS Miami feed and Trump is having all the first responders thank him. omg .. it is sick

  7. 7.

    efgoldman

    More very jarring crossover in L&O (I just notice it more, now).
    Isabel Gillies, actress who played a homicidal maniac cop killer defendant on a season 8 L&O. ended up in a regular role as Kathy, Stabler’s wife (eventually ex) on SVU, 1999-2011

  12. 12.

    No Drought No More

    Ex- House rep Nadler is schooling Chris Hayes as I type. I’m genuinely amazed that Hayes is amazed at what Nadler is telling him..

  13. 13.

    Gin & Tonic

    And I just had Shake Your Groove Thing as musical accompaniment on my visit to the men’s room at this rest stop. Shake it high, shake it low.

  15. 15.

    JPL

    @SiubhanDuinne: Showing up. He went to the hospital to visit the victims and that took fifteen minutes and then went to visit the first responders. He even pointed to Melania to say something but I didn’t understand what she said.

    By visiting tonight he can also golf tomorrow.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    He even pointed to Melania to say something but I didn’t understand what she said.

    I understand she arrived at the airport (in D.C.) separately before the flight to Florida, just like her separate-cars SOTU arrival. Her spox is doing a valiant job of ascribing all these things to “scheduling conflicts,” but she clearly wants to spend minimal time in the same space with him. Whatever it was she said, I’m sure she was thinking something quite different. In street Slovenian.

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    Did you see the nice little gossipy tidbit Steeplejack posted last night?

    ETA: I do feel sorry for Barron, though.

  22. 22.

    Wag

    I’m sure Trump wants to again meet behind the chalet with Stormy Daniels to make his holiday complete.

  23. 23.

    JPL

    I found Melania’s statement and it’s quite lovely. She didn’t thank her husband though

    “Thank you all for what you do and saving our children, that’s the most important to our future, and let’s take care of them because they will go through a lot”

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: She knew what she signed up for.

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I’m not sure, but I think fucking an escort a month after your wife gives birth to your son would indicate the marriage is just in a bit of trouble.

    If only that were short enough to be a tagline.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @Elizabelle: Here’s your welcome back gift:

    Guess this thread will do to throw in my little bit of inside dirt.

    I had lunch yesterday with the media-connected friend I’ve known since J-school. One of my friend’s other friends is currently covering the White House for a major publication. That person says that the relationship between Trump and Melania is now so toxic that White House aides and interns have to perform elaborate “traffic management” so that the two of them don’t even meet accidentally in the halls. Good times.

  34. 34.

    Shana

    @SiubhanDuinne: Someone over at Democratic Underground posted a tweet saying the reporters were ushered off Air Force One because they (Cheeto and Melanoma) were screaming at each other. Haven’t seen it anywhere else so take it with a grain of salt, but fun to think about anyway.

  35. 35.

    MoxieM

    To reach back to an earlier thread about Tillerson not using a vetted translator in Turkey. I live in rural western MA. And, I just saw a job notice for a Turkish translator, in an even more rural nearby town. Well well.

    Here’s the bulk of it:
    “Translator in Turkish – Part Time Position – Qualifications: Verbal and written fluency in Turkish; at least one year of relevant experience preferred; Bachelors Degree preferred; Reports to: Director of Curriculum Job Performance Responsibilities: Assist Turkish-speaking student(s) in content courses and/or translate documents or serve as interpreter, as needed …”

  36. 36.

    Mike J

    Mussels can filter as much as 50 gallons of water per day. Studying what they pick up is a great way to study what’s in the water.

    Did you know that Salmon bay near the railroad bridge has hugely elevated levels of all the bad stuff in coal because cola flies off trains? A few years ago Puget Soundkeeper discovered how bad it gets by putting out mussels and testing them.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    @WaterGirl:

    So a major publication is sitting on that story? You know they would have blasted it all over the news if Hillary and Bill so much as had a silent meal together.

  39. 39.

    NotMax

    Nothing whatsoever wrong with mussels, although also not a dish that entices the taste buds when it’s on the menu. Eight times out of ten they’re prepared okay but nothing to warrant ordering them.

    Except for the heaping bowlsful served at a funky Japanese eatery way downtown in Manhattan, a hop and skip south of Astor Place. Galactically garlicky, spectacularly superb. Doubt the place is there any longer as that was 40 years ago.

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    OT, but I just saw this on Lawyers, Guns and Money:

    A network of sleazy operators, sometimes working in conjunction with National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, Trump’s close friend, would pay off women to prevent their stories from seeing the light of day.

    That seems to fit with the attorney who said he “facilitated” the $130,000 payment to Storny Daniels.

  42. 42.

    Jeffro

    Hmm…FL Gov Rick Scott is calling on the FBI Director to resign over the non-handling of threat complaints made about the FL shooter prior to the shooting. How convenient of him. Say, Rick, there isn’t anything else about the director that’s been bugging you lately, has there?

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Elizabelle:

    From last night’s Russiagate Late Night thread. Nothing really new or different; just some (almost) horse’s-mouth (almost) confirmation:

    147
    Steeplejack (phone)
    February 15, 2018 at 11:11 pm
    Guess this thread will do to throw in my little bit of inside dirt.

    I had lunch yesterday with the media-connected friend I’ve known since J-school. One of my friend’s other friends is currently covering the White House for a major publication. That person says that the relationship between Trump and Melania is now so toxic that White House aides and interns have to perform elaborate “traffic management” so that the two of them don’t even meet accidentally in the halls. Good times.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: The major media outlets appear to be wholly owned subsidiaries of, if not Trump-world, then the Republican Party. It’s not exactly Party over Country, it’s Access over Country. Same difference.

    It’s appalling.

  45. 45.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl: I know any prenup would favor him…but now I’m wondering if there was some sort of infidelity clause that would allow Melania a way out, if/when Chump cheated or if she cheated first…or at least custody of Baron if/when he cheated?

  46. 46.

    efgoldman

    @NotMax:

    Nothing whatsoever wrong with mussels

    I will devour piles of nice fresh (but cooked) scallops or shrimp, but you can have all the clams and mussels

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Shana:

    It is delicious to contemplate. I’m enjoying the hell out of thinking about the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week he’s having.

  49. 49.

    Immanentize

    @Jeffro: I thought that was odd too. The Director is brand spanking new AND the line/field Special Agents are about far away on the org chart as you can get…. Also, why is this an FBI problem, and not a Florida LE issue? Did the Florida Staties maybe also get the same call?

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: I think that would be standard, from what I see on TV. :-)

    But Trump knows he has always been a serial adulterer (if you can call it that when you pay for sex) so I think there’s no way he would ever put that in a prenup, not for himself. Now for he spouse, I’m sure it’s in there a hundred times over.

    OT, saw how much you loved Black Panther. I can’t see it this week, but I plan to try for next week.

  51. 51.

    efgoldman

    @lamh36:

    now I’m wondering if there was some sort of infidelity clause that would allow Melania a way out

    Based on what we’ve seen so far, Orangina doesn’t hire the most creative or competent lawyers

  54. 54.

    efgoldman

    @Immanentize:

    why is this an FBI problem, and not a Florida LE issue? Did the Florida Staties maybe also get the same call?

    Florida leg, playing “that Ni[clang] president ain’t the boss of us” card, passed several laws making penis substitute ownership almost mandatory.

  55. 55.

    p.a.

    @Jeffro: Well if Gov. Nosferatu is that worked up about the non-handling of threats, he can aim higher in the D.C. food chain for sure. Hey Paulie, hey Mitchie, hey Donnie…

  65. 65.

    Jeffro

    Also intriguing: Fox News dot com is ‘reporting’ that the Russians staged anti-Trumpov rallies (i.e., pro-Wilmer events). Nothing at all about how Putin tried to help Trumpov out.

    So there you go: it was all Putin trying to sow discord by…helping Wilmer. That’s all, nothing else to see here folks…

    ETA oh, also two articles on how Obama failed the U.S. by neglecting to see Russia as a threat, and one article on how these indictments “don’t prove collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia”. Oooo-kay…

  66. 66.

    Gravenstone

    So tonight Mueller is also moving against Manafort, specifying the fraudulent basis for several properties he’s trying to use for bail. Speculation is he might actually seek to revoke bond and have Manafort remanded tie custody until trial.

    Fascinating.
    /Spock

  74. 74.

    Bill

    May I ask, as a Squeeze fan, that anyone who has enjoyed, (as I have), Singles-45 and under, their greatest hits album- please go and buy their more recent album Spot The Difference.

    They got utterly boned on Singles, the record label took all the money. Cheekily, they re-recorded the entire album, years later, and released it as Spot The Difference. I think you will enjoy it.

    Also, Glenn Tilbrook’s solo stuff is great. He’s a wonderful guy, from all accounts, playing tiny gigs in little joints all over the place, and staying late into the night to sing songs with his fans and admirers. I’m going to get to one of those shows, one of these days.

  76. 76.

    JPL

    @Immanentize: They received twenty calls. I’m curious what they could do within the framework of the law though. Locally two teens were killed by a person known to authorities because his parents told them he was danger. The local police hands were tied because he had not committed a crime. And then he did.

  77. 77.

    WaterGirl

    @Amir Khalid: I never knew that term was used in that way, so I have no idea if it’s still acceptable. Whoring is shorter than total fucking pig, I’ll give it that. :-)

  79. 79.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh36:

    Sad thing is, I don’t think he cares two hoots about Barron. The only reason he’d fight for custody would be to needle Melania. That poor kid. He’s not even 12 yet. Hope they can shield him from the worst of the fights, but he must know something about his parents’ relationship, and it can’t be happy for him.

  80. 80.

    Jeffro

    @rikyrah: That’s awesome! Hey Manafort, you probably wish you had squealed earlier now that Papadapolous and Gates have gotten better deals, but this is it, pal. Give up what you know and we’ll see what we can do about putting you into witness protection!

    LOL

    And the walls…came crumbling down…

  83. 83.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: Surely they could have a conversation with him and with the adults he was living with. Notify the school? Try to get him some counseling? Something!

  87. 87.

    Immanentize

    @rikyrah: I guess flipping his running buddy in the campaign, Gates, proved valuable. And to think Manafort could have gotten the deal first…. Idiot and idiot attorneys.

  91. 91.

    p.a.

    @Bill: Singles is a great compilation. I had a vinyl where they had to call themselves U K Squeeze because of bands called Squeeze in US & Australia. Saw them as 1st act of Elvis C tour. EC gave them plenty of time on stage.

  94. 94.

    efgoldman

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    A disdain for mussels is positively anti-Belgian

    I am neutral on Belgium.
    Plus, the chocolate way overbalances the mussels
    Belgian wheat also too

  99. 99.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @rikyrah:

    Bobby Three Sticks dropped MORE charges on Manafort tonight!

    Future historians will right books about the tremendous, bigly events of Infrastructure Week.

  101. 101.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: At the time of the murder he was twenty and no longer living at home. His parents kept a gun because they were afraid of him, and he returned to their home and stole the gun. Two teens met behind a local supermarket the day before school started and he happened to see them.
    http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/north-fulton-county/suspect-in-roswell-teens-deaths-expected-in-court/523437205

    He was adopted by his grandparents who did all they could do within the framework of the law including health care.

    His grandparents/parents home, her home and the store are all within walking distance of my house.

  102. 102.

    Shana

    @Bill: I saw one of those shows several years ago where he led the entire audience out onto the street, down to the corner, around the back where there was a loading dock of some sort and did a couple of songs there. A truly wonderful and magical evening.

  103. 103.

    Immanentize

    @Bill: I love Singles. I have the vinyl and the CD. I didn’t know that backstory, so I will by a copy of the “rerelease” too. Thank you!
    All the songs are great — white boy R&B…. But my fave?:
    Black Coffee in Bed.

  104. 104.

    Another Scott

    Dunno if this has been mentioned (no time to keep up with the jackals earlier today): Five Dollar Feminist at Wonkette – Donnie and the Playmates:

    […]

    And here’s one more: One of Donald Trump’s rich buddies swooped in and paid Karen McDougal to keep quiet. Just like Stormy Daniels. Only this time it wasn’t Trump’s personal fixer Michael Cohen. It was David Pecker (LOL, no really!), the CEO of the National Enquirer’s parent company who paid McDougal $150,000 for her story. A MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTION. AND NEVER RAN IT.

    Now, we thought “catch and kill” was what happens when you find your husband has been barebacking multiple porn stars in the same weekend. But no! In publishing, it’s the practice of buying the rights to a story to prevent it getting out, either to bury it, or to use the information for some other purpose.

    Maxine Page, who worked at A.M.I. [National Enquirer’s parent company] on and off from 2002 to 2012, including as an executive editor at one of the company’s Web sites, said that Pecker also used the unpublished stories as “leverage” over some celebrities in order to pressure them to pose for his magazines or feed him stories. Several former employees said that these celebrities included Arnold Schwarzenegger, as reported by the Los Angeles Times, and Tiger Woods. (Schwarzenegger, through an attorney, denied this claim. Woods did not respond to requests for comment.) “Even though they’re just tabloids, just rags, it’s still a cause of concern,” Page said. “In theory, you would think that Trump has all the power in that relationship, but in fact Pecker has the power—he has the power to run these stories. He knows where the bodies are buried.”

    So now some tabloid publisher has leverage over Donald Trump because he’s got the rights to publish this woman’s sad, gross story of having sad, gross sex with a sad, gross old man. Just like Christopher Steele warned us the Russians would “exploit Trump’s personal obsessions and sexual perversions in order to obtain suitable ‘kompromat.’”

    […]

    Yup. There’s no need to imagine that Pecker (and the people holding the Apprentice tapes) are Donnie’s friends. Just imagine what that keeping that story out of the press is worth to Twitler, and thus to Pecker and Vlad and the rest…

    It’s grifters all the way down.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  106. 106.

    Shana

    @SiubhanDuinne: Didn’t Ivana do that when he was making noises about custody of Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric? She dropped the kids off with him for a week or so and he told her to take them back.

  107. 107.

    NotMax

    As it’s open thread –

    Have watched a number of shows and movies from Finland over the past few months and noticed something.

    The front doors of houses open outwards. Dunno if that’s intrinsically Finnish (for whatever reason) or not, but it was a small detail which stood out and haven’t particularly observed as universal in other Nordic fare. One would initially suppose in a country with a significant snowfall season that the configuration would make it more difficult to exit when it comes time to wield the snow shovel.

  109. 109.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl:damn…I just realized that big…damn…well, I did say ‘MOSTLY” spoiler free…but I went ahaed and changed the titile and made sure to put a “***SPOILER ALERT*** tag before and after that…cause ur right…that was kinda big but after seeing the film was fairly insignificant.

    Sorry bout that, otherwise tho…I did try to stay away from any other MAJOR plot points, that was def a spoiler, but not MAJOR.

  110. 110.

    Immanentize

    @p.a.: That’s like The Specials versus The Specials AKA. Saw both. The Selector too. Yes, I was a big ska fan….

  113. 113.

    rikyrah

    ‘Black Panther’ Is Marvel’s First Genuine Masterpiece

    Ryan Coogler’s highly anticipated
    superhero movie is even better and richer than could have been imagined,thanks to a fantastical world that evokes real questions about history

    By K. Austin Collins
    Feb 14, 2018, 11:00am EST

    ……………………..

    That’s not the sole reason Black Panther seems poised to trounce box office records this weekend, to say nothing of its other benchmarks, like exceeding
    the Fandango presales of every other Marvel movie to date, or being one of Twitter’s most talked-about movies of 2017—despite not coming out until 2018. But it helps. If we’re going to have a conversation about what makes Black Panther feel so essential, we may as well start there. We can do the whole song and dance of spelling out the basic reasons for the movie’s importance: what it means for Hollywood that a project of this size, with this budget, and with a nearly all-black cast, can finally seem like a worthwhile risk for a major studio and the timely impact of a movie about a mythical African kingdom, a so-called “shithole country,” to be released at this moment in our political history. The movie is a symbolic solution to issues that, when Black Panther was just a rumor, a dream getting tossed to and fro in a Marvel Studios boardroom, we didn’t think could grow so much more dire.

    …………………….

    On the other hand, it has to work as a movie, too. It has to be a banger. The clapbacks have to be good. The fights have to be great.I’m trying to imagine being Ryan Coogler, the movie’s 31-year-old superstar director, at the start of this project, tasked with a job as monumental as this, burdened by a keen sense of the inherent inability to please everyone, and still having to make the movie. The central triumph of Black Panther, though it’s merely one of many, is
    that the story Coogler and his cowriter, Joe Robert Cole, have devised is even better and richer than could have been imagined—not only because it owes so much to racial questions of the kind the Marvel Universe hasn’t encountered before, but also because we’re 17 movies deep into said universe and well versed in its foibles and missed opportunities.

    Black Panther is a feat in its own right. It is
    very much the Black Panther tale dreamed up by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 1960s, a retelling of the origin story in which Wakanda becomes the sole possessor of vibranium, an indestructible alien element from a fallen meteorite, and over time becomes the most technologically advanced society in the world, in part by cutting itself off from said world, hiding under the cloak of unassuming third-world poverty.

    ……………………

    It’s a complicated plot centered on the question of what Wakanda is
    and—most urgently—what it means, not only to the Wakandans themselves nor even to Africans broadly, but to blacks everywhere. Imagine knowing there was a black utopia, a place at the root of all blackness, self-sufficient and untouched by slavery or colonialism. It’s a fantasy:a reversal of history. “Wakanda itself is a dream state,” says director Ava DuVernay to The New York Times, “a
    place that’s been in the hearts and minds and spirits of black people
    since we were brought here in chains.” The question that envelops Black Panther, in other words, is a question baked, poignantly and also fraughtly, into its script. What Wakanda—a booming black metropolis that mixes technological Afro-futurity with the spiritual and ancestral past—means to the black people within the movie is analogous to what it means to us outside of it.

    https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/2/14/17011910/black-panther-film-review-marvel-ryan-coogler-michael-b-jordan-chadwick-boseman

  118. 118.

    Aleta

    Of all the stories I saw today about the kids and the schools, and “what can we do?” none dared mention this.

    The NRA Foundation gave nearly $2.2 million to schools across the country in 2016. The Broward County Public School district, of which Stoneman Douglas High is a part, has at least four other schools that have received NRA donations, according to the AP.

    According to records obtained by the AP, the school’s JROTC program received $10,827 in “non-cash assistance” from the NRA Foundation, the organization’s fundraising and charitable group, in 2016, when Cruz was part of the team.

    They help sponsor rifle clubs and shooting competitions (in connection with JROTC), which Cruz would go to. I wonder if the “non-cash assistance” goes for equipment? coaches? judges? competition space?

    Lots of places have rifle clubs. But no mention of the NRA latelly.

  119. 119.

    Steve in the ATL

    @efgoldman:

    I will devour piles of nice fresh (but cooked) scallops or shrimp, but you can have all the clams and mussels

    Word to your mother. May she Rest In Peace.

  120. 120.

    Another Scott

    @Shana: IIRC, Donnie insisted his wife(s) give birth and take care of the kids and he didn’t want anything to do with them until they were 18, when he could turn them into “titans of industry” or something.

    I assume he’s treating Barron the same way, or actually worse (since Trump is obviously brain damaged now).

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  121. 121.

    chris

    @NotMax: If there’s six feet of snow you’re stuck inside. If the door opened inward you’re still stuck inside with the door open and all the snow.

  125. 125.

    Doug R

    @WaterGirl:

    the relationship between Trump and Melania is now so toxic that White House aides and interns have to perform elaborate “traffic management” so that the two of them don’t even meet accidentally in the halls. Good times.

    They’re both grown adults. FFS.

  128. 128.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah: Maybe Manafort really believes that Trump will stand by him and will give him a pardon. I predict that isn’t going to work out well for him, which makes me quite happy.

  131. 131.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steve in the ATL: I saw them live during that tour. Walked out of my Corporate Finance evening class to go; I told the professor that I needed to go see Rancid. Left him confused.

  134. 134.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: Sorry, I am apparently totally confused. I thought we were talking about the kid who just killed the people at the school yesterday.

  137. 137.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: Not to worry about me, I don’t know anything about the story or the characters, other than a quick summary someone here was kind enough to provide for me a couple days ago. I just sorta skimmed it to get a feel for the movie. I just wanted to say something before anyone else would read that and be disappointed. I didn’t even notice the title, either!

  139. 139.

    cckids

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I understand she arrived at the airport (in D.C.) separately before the flight to Florida, just like her separate-cars SOTU arrival. Her spox is doing a valiant job of ascribing all these things to “scheduling conflicts,” but she clearly wants to spend minimal time in the same space with him. Whatever it was she said, I’m sure she was thinking something quite different. In street Slovenian.

    I’ve read, (maybe in the WaPo?), that she’s been staying in hotels at least part of the time she’s in DC. As always, imagine the outcry if really ANY other First Lady did that. Even Nancy! Special rules for Trump, always.

  140. 140.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Shana:

    I remember reading that in one of the bios. Also recall seeing that Don Junior went a full year without talking to his father. (Pity he didn’t stick with it; he might be marginally less horrible today. Naaaah, probably not.)

  143. 143.

    efgoldman

    @Immanentize:

    And to think Manafort could have gotten the deal first…. Idiot and idiot attorneys.

    I hope somebody flips on Stone, the ratfucker di tutti ratfuckers

  145. 145.

    Bill

    @Shana: I understand that he’s impossible to dislike. It comes through in the music. I love that earnest and meaningful still draws an audience.

  151. 151.

    Redshift

    @Shana: I was at one of those, too, though in our case he just led us out into the bar/second stage party of the club. Probably because there was just parking lot all around, not streets, so the outdoor atmosphere was lacking. But a very good show all around.

  156. 156.

    efgoldman

    @Aleta:

    They help sponsor rifle clubs and shooting competitions

    I have no problem with clubs and competitions. For one thing, the weapons stay at the club. And as much as we (properly) hate on the NRA, their safety/education arm does good work.

  158. 158.

    Immanentize

    @Mary G: shit they are all great!
    Take Me I’m Yours
    Up the Junction
    Annie Get Your Gun….
    I wore a groove in that groove.

    ETA I forgot what a great guitar solo was in Another Nail ….

  159. 159.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @cckids:

    I’ve read, (maybe in the WaPo?), that she’s been staying in hotels at least part of the time she’s in DC.

    I read the same, not long ago.

    The Secret Service must love this gig!

  160. 160.

    efgoldman

    @Steve in the ATL:

    They help sponsor rifle clubs and shooting competitions

    My mom’s father, brothers, grandfather and uncles were in the wholesale seafood business back to the 19th century. They bought directly off the fleet at 300am and distributed to markets and restaurants. Then vame the depression and A&P supermarkets, which skipped the middleman. Goodbye fish business.
    Family legend: My grandfather, a large and strong man, supposedly grabbed a supersize lobster off the pier and took it home. over his shoulder, on the trolley.

  161. 161.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Mary G: that is their best song, though it troubles me that the title is “another nail IN my heart” but the lyric is “another nail FOR my heart”.

    Sometimes it’s difficult being an OCD pedant.

  162. 162.

    p.a.

    @Immanentize: Formed in 1978 The Beat, in US The English Beat, Down Under The British Beat. Same band. For a while now, 2 bands called The Beat. Ranking Roger fronts one, Dave Wakeling the other. Think they’re amicable; one based in US, the other in UK.

    Also too, let’s not forget One Step Beyond. Guess there were rights issues, the iTunes version I bought is house/techno. But acceptable.

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    Immanentize

    @p.a.: For a short while there were two, definitely not amiable, bands called the Clash. Then, thankfully, Big Audio Dynamite.

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    Gin & Tonic

    From CNN:

    The prosecutors also noted that Manafort has “questioned his ability to maintain the payments on all his mortgages” and that members of his family aren’t “willing to assume the risk” of helping him.

    Hope it all comes down around your ears, motherfucker.

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    Shana

    Slightly OT, but Belle & Sebastian are thinking of having a cruise sometime next year. 4 days leaving from Barcelona. Go to the band’s web site to let them know if you’re interested. We’re seriously considering it. We did go to London last year to see two 20th anniversary shows for Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister at the Royal Albert Hall. Daughters made it on stage the 2nd night during Boy With the Arab Strap.

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    Doug R

    @Aleta:

    Can’t wait. Saw a mention that it’s in IMAX some places. (Not here though. The 3D around here isn’t too great either.)

    Like most blockbusters not Avatar or Jackass or Transformers or X-Men or a cartoon, the 3D is a post conversion. I’m sure it looks pretty good, but I saved a few bucks and saw the colors in fuller saturation.

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    Sm*t Cl*de

    @NotMax:

    Sort of humorous video – how to make Finnish coffee

    Just saying, that is also the recipe for Danish Coffee and Norwegian coffee. Maybe Swedish coffee, who knows with those humourless baskets.

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    MoxieM

    @Mike in NC: Dunno–the job was in Ludlow (more like north of Springfield). At least, it makes me feel good that the school systems here are trying to live up to the rules about accommodating students etc etc.

    My kid (who grew up in a swanky Boston area suburb) had kids with 10 different mother-tongues–out of a class of 22 or 24 or something. I thought it was fantastic! The school had a big International day celebration with food–yum!, and people all had an opportunity to order a flag from their country of origin. They hung along the hallways. It was lovely.

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