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Russiagate Racist Open Thread: Such A Joker, That Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

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“Lack of candor”, it’s a term of art… and he’s an artistic little bigot!

Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe’s previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.

One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that…

Two months ago, Sessions was interviewed by Mueller’s team, and the federal inquiry related to his candor during his confirmation process has since been shuttered, according to a lawyer representing Sessions.

“The Special Counsel’s office has informed me that after interviewing the attorney general and conducting additional investigation, the attorney general is not under investigation for false statements or perjury in his confirmation hearing testimony and related written submissions to Congress,” attorney Chuck Cooper told ABC News on Wednesday…

Always remember, children: It’s not a lie if you actually believe it…

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  3. 3.

    Cermet

    If Sessions goes, Mueller would quickly follow; so, for now, Sessions is needed. Sickening but necessary.

  4. 4.

    Mary G

    Somebody on Twitter pointed out that the FBI or DOJ who said Sessions isn’t currently under investigation for lying to Congress chose their words very carefully. Hopefully Mueller has some cards up his sleeves on Bilbo Bigot.

  8. 8.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @Cermet:
    Someone mentioned that Trump would have to go through dozens of people to fire Mueller.

  11. 11.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    Is this shit ever going to end? I’ve seen fucked up, surreal movies that I thought would never end. Most of them, I just gave up and stopped watching. That’s the good thing about movies. You don’t have to see them through to the end if they’re bad enough to not be worth watching. The hitch here is that we are the fucking movie. It’s so fucking tiring.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    @JPL: According to the Austin Stateman

    In the recording, Conditt described the devices he used during the bombings in Central Texas, Manley said. The seven devices include four that exploded in Austin, one that detonated at a FedEx facility in Schertz, one that was retrieved from a FedEx facility in Southeast Austin near the airport, and one that the suspect detonated in his car, killing himself early Wednesday, authorities have said.

    I’m not sure that it will mention the motive.

  18. 18.

    Roger Moore

    @Mary G:
    They’ve also released information (including store video) of him shipping the packages at FedEx. He was actually wearing gloves and an obvious wig in the store, and he shipped them as “Kelly Killmore”. I guess “Erik Killmonger” sounded too black.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    OT. WaPo

    Overall, millennials have moved toward the Democratic column – 53 percent either leaned or identified with the Democratic party in 2014, and 58 percent do so today. But for men overall there been very little movement — and as noted above, there has been a large move towards the Democratic Party among millennial women.

    One thing driving this disparity: What we’re seeing among white millennials. White millennial men are more likely to identify or lean as Republican than they did in 2014. The opposite is true for white millennial women. In 2014, 45 percent were either registered as or leaned Republican, versus 46 percent who could be claimed by the Democrats. By 2017, 31 percent of white female millennials fell into the Republican category, versus 62 percent either fully identifying or leaning Democrat.

    Fascinating.

  26. 26.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    I’m not sure the new Pacific Rim will be as good as the original.

    At least this time, the camera work appears to have improved.

    Half the battles in Pac Rim 1 were obscured by the bad lighting conditions.

  35. 35.

    EBT

    @Chyron HR: This is an actual topic that cropped up. MtG added an expressly trans character to the canon and some folks flipped the hell out. Mostly the same people angry a grand master level or whatever judge was fired for being a huge sex assaulting creep.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    @TenguPhule:

    At least this time, the camera work appears to have improved.

    Half the battles in Pac Rim 1 were obscured by the bad lighting conditions.

    You know that was all CGI, right? The lighting was virtual.

  39. 39.

    Jay Noble

    Midnight Oil “Beds are Burning”, Quigley Down Under, Crocodile Dundee, Walkabout, The Simpsons, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert . . .
    I know I’m missing some better examples but they’re out there

  41. 41.

    TS

    @Mike J: Well the Australian PM believes trump will keep his word on promises – hahahahaha – the rest of the country wants Obama back.
    We have a livable minimum wage which the current RW government is trying to decimate – because rich folks need tax cuts.
    Just had the hottest summer on record – but there is no climate change
    Immigration minister wants to offer white South African farmers easy entrance – because they aren’t treated well by their government.

  43. 43.

    Mnemosyne

    Adam Schiff just sent me a fundraising email with a subject line of, “Are There No Adults Left?”

    As always, the answer to a Cavuto mark is, “No.”

  44. 44.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I know we’re all beyond weary of Trump’s tweets, but I have to say this pair from earlier today knocked me back on my heels a bit:

    I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing…….
    …..They can help solve problems with North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, ISIS, Iran and even the coming Arms Race. Bush tried to get along, but didn’t have the “smarts.” Obama and Clinton tried, but didn’t have the energy or chemistry (remember RESET). PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!

    First, yes, Obama called Putin after his (Putin’s) 2012 reëlection victory, but he deliberately waited five days before placing the call and he explicitly did not congratulate him.

    Second, does anyone on the planet think Trump knows, let alone knows how to spell or use, the word “excoriate”? Who wrote this?

    Third, “even the coming Arms Race” sounds aspirational. He is slavering for an arms race, presumably with NoKo, but who knows with him?

    Finally, that all-caps “PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!” gives me flashback gollywobbles to the rhetoric of Stalin’s USSR. But it’s more his own style — a totally different writing style than the “excoriate” bit. Is he tweeting by committee now? Is there a Trump Twitter Team now?

    “PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!” is weirding me right out.

  45. 45.

    TenguPhule

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    They can help solve problems with North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, ISIS, Iran and even the coming Arms Race.

    Well it was a nice planet while it lasted.

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    @Baud:

    Despite what whiny white men claim, it’s still better to be a white man in this country than any other gender and/or race. That’s why white millennial men are sticking with white male supremacy while everyone else switches away from it.

  52. 52.

    moops

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Second, does anyone on the planet think Trump knows, let alone knows how to spell or use, the word “excoriate”? Who wrote this?

    un-DJT-like vocabulary detected, indeed.

    The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in office, and ranked them on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale and more than two dozen other common tests analyzing English-language difficulty levels. Trump clocked in around mid-fourth grade, the worst since Harry Truman, who spoke at nearly a sixth-grade level.

    Newsweek

    Also keep in mind that Trump’s mental faculties have diminished since this analysis.

  53. 53.

    TenguPhule

    And to continue to the barrage of bad news, Wapo announced they reached a bipartisan deal on the budget crisis.

    Again.

  56. 56.

    Eric S.

    @Baud: when the first one hit cable I was renting my second bedroom to a friend. He watched it one night. He’s a great friend but in retrospect I should have kicked him out immediately.

  57. 57.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Baud:
    So far, that’s going with my observations. It’s not really age. It’s increasing activation and numbers of minorities that are going to have to save us, because my fellow white men are determined to be complete assholes. It’s ridiculous that women, technically a majority, are a minority, but that’s the society we live in. And signs from the last year are they are PISSED. Since Trump’s election, politics has become personal.

  58. 58.

    Jay Noble

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: Born between 1982 and 2000 – if you use 18 years as a generation and measure from 1946, the start of the Baby Boom.
    There is no Generation Y.
    I like to call the kids born after 2000 until now the iGeneration. What most people think of when talking about generations is actually more about when people “Came of age”. So if you slide everyon over 5 years, you get a better idea of what really influenced and was part of that generation – if it was there when you were 5, it was always there.
    The Greatest Generation – 1910-1927
    The Silent Generation – 1928-1945
    Baby Boomers – 1946-1963
    Gen Xer’s – 1964-1981
    Millenials – 1982-1999
    The iGeneration – 2000-2017
    The ???? Generation – 2018-????

  59. 59.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):

    The Summer 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney featured Aboriginal Australian culture prominently in the opening and closing ceremonies, and IIRC with several sidebar features on NBC. I recognize that that kind of coverage can be glib and stereotypical, but I also suspect it introduced millions of viewers to a culture and a people they had never previously heard of nor thought about.

  60. 60.

    dmsilev

    @Mnemosyne: Are you trying to tell us that the filmmakers didn’t actually stage battles between giant robots and giant monsters just off the coast of Hong Kong? My innocence is shattered.

  61. 61.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Jay Noble:

    I like to call the kids born after 2000 until now the iGeneration.

    I both love and despise that name. On the one hand, naming an entire generation after a corporate product line, really? On the other hand, Infinite Jest is a good book.

  62. 62.

    CarolPW

    @TenguPhule:
    “And to think. . . It started out like any other world. Intended, one might almost have been led to believe, to last for a good long time.”
    Kenneth Patchen

    We have been here before, and we somehow managed.

  63. 63.

    Amir Khalid

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    I think Trump believes that to “excoriate” a person means removing them from Korea. Whoever edited that tweet before it went out must have added the word. There may be a committee now that curbs the most intemperate of Trump’s ill-considered eruptions, but they haven’t really succeeded in mitigating their stupidity.

  64. 64.

    NotMax

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Also too, expect that slogan to be emblazoned on banner carried during a military parade.

    “Any similarity to any authoritarian regime, actual or fictional, in this production is purely coincidental.”

  65. 65.

    Another Scott

    @Cermet: As I said a few hours ago…

    One could easily imagine a Good Cop/Bad Cop thing going on with Sessions. E.g. Sen. Mark Warner said there are various “red lines” that Trump better not cross, including doing “anything” to interfere with Mueller’s investigation. We all know that Donnie hates Sessions for one simple reason – that he recused himself in the Russia investigation and lost control of Mueller. So the only reason why he would fire him would be as a stepping stone to getting rid of Mueller.

    Everyone knows that, so Sessions is pretty much guaranteed a job as long as Donnie is afraid of the blowback if he fires him. Warner and the rest of the Democrats would have a tough time demanding his head for anything (no matter how horrible) until Mueller is done. Therefore, since Jeffy is untouchable, why shouldn’t he do all the horrible things that he’s dreamed of all his life?? No consequences!!

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Who doesn’t really think there’s a GC/BC thing here, but who does think that Sessions is safe for the foreseeable future.”)

  66. 66.

    TenguPhule

    @CarolPW:

    We have been here before, and we somehow managed.

    The controllers of the nuclear weapons of all three major powers were tyrannical assholes with no redeeming qualities whatsoever before now?

  70. 70.

    TenguPhule

    @Another Scott:

    We all know that Donnie hates Sessions for one simple reason – that he recused himself in the Russia investigation and lost control of Mueller.

    I think Sessions has begun to realize he faces no official legal consequences from spiking Mueller’s investigation….Provided Trump remains in power.

    I feel he’s gonna go all in on treason.

  71. 71.

    CarolPW

    @TenguPhule: During the missile crisis I hated both Kennedy and Khruschev with a burning passion, because it was all dick swinging just like now. Who are you considering the third major nuclear power?

    ETA: I haven’t thought of the Patchen quote for decades, but it has been appearing in my mind for the last two years.

  73. 73.

    TenguPhule

    @CarolPW:

    During the missile crisis I hated both Kennedy and Khruschev with a burning passion, because it was all dick swinging just like now. Who are you considering the third major nuclear power?

    China.

    This is beyond dick swinging. This is ball smashing.

  76. 76.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Baud: that’s Pew’s new definition, yeah. I think the big divide between myself (1985) and the next generation is going to be about how old you were in 2006-8, when Facebook and Obama and the financial crisis happened.

  77. 77.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @SiubhanDuinne: My theory of how Trump’s tweets are composed is based on a report from a few years ago that he dictates them to an aide, with some discussion. That would account for the occasional extra-credit vocabulary word embedded in Trumpian garbage. Although I do think that the recent one that had something like five errors in it may have come from his own tiny fingers.

    WAR IS PEACE
    FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
    IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

  83. 83.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @debbie:

    Obama would not have called Putin if Putin had interfered in the previous election, BELIEVE ME!

    This I will tell you!

  87. 87.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Baud: This whole division into generations is so arbitrary and it began its life as a marketing tool. I don’t know how useful it is to predict someone’s political orientation.

  88. 88.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    No worries, efgoldman and I are at least 15 years older than most of y’all.

    My server just informed me that today is her 26th birthday and “OMG I AM SO OLD!” I refrained from pointing out that I am nearly treble her age.

  92. 92.

    Mary G

    Saccone has conceded, so Conor Lamb is now the representative of PA18.

    ETA: Zuckerberg has left the bunker and will be on CNN in 15 minutes.

  97. 97.

    chris

    I kinda like the “unleaded generation.” (with handy chart.)

    If anyone is still looking for meaningful ways to define generations, Millennials are the first to grow up when most U.S. kids didn’t have actionable levels of lead in their blood. pic.twitter.com/e02JJAIEl4— James Hamblin (@jameshamblin) March 6, 2018

  100. 100.

    moops

    @TenguPhule: yeah, at this point Sessions might just un-recuse himself, then fire Mueller. Who’s going to stop him? It would make a bunch of people upset, but I’m not sure Sessions cares all that much. The only thing stopping him might be that if Sessions wants to take a post running another agency and needs to be confirmed again.

  101. 101.

    mad citizen

    @Jay Noble: I’ve always hated the generation definitions. I’m 1960, but have never identified with the Baby Booomers. I think if one wasn’t aware of, and could not participate in, the cool music/culture in the 1960s, you can’t be a Baby Boomer. By the time I got around to seeing The Who, Keith Moon was dead. We drove to Chicago one night to get a Chicago Tribune with the form to order Led Zeppelin tickets. Unfortunately the same night John Bonham died.

  104. 104.

    FlyingToaster

    @WereBear: Most of the Republican Women I know (and I grew up with several fucktons of them) are racist, tribalist, xenophobic bitches.

    I used to egg them on in HS by saying the old “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”, or worse, “you do realize that Jesus was a Rabbi?”

  105. 105.

    raven

    Van

    Wild Children

    We were the War Children
    Born 1945
    When all the soldiers came marching home
    Love looks in their eye
    Tennessee Tennessee Williams
    Let your inspiration flow
    Let it be around when we hear the sound
    When the spring time rivers flow when the rivers flow

  107. 107.

    WereBear

    @mad citizen: i agree. How can some being old enough to attend Woodstock on their own share the same coming of age experiences as those who got the Bee Gees and the Hustle?

    Absurd.

  111. 111.

    Steeplejack

    @dmsilev:

    The Retro channel is running a marathon of Japanese monster movies right now. Currently: Son of Godzilla (1967).

  112. 112.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    Age will mean nothing once we’re all bots.

    We’ll be arguing over who remembers when upgrades didn’t take 8 hours and three reboots to complete.

  114. 114.

    NotMax

    @Steeplejack

    Was it you who mentioned liking MeTV? They’ve picked up WKRP in Cincinnati. Begins showing there April 1.

    As with the DVD collection, some music from the original broadcasts will be replaced.

  116. 116.

    Amir Khalid

    Given Jeffbo Three’s outright lying in his own dealings with Congress, it is hypocritical of him to sack Andrew McCabe for exercising due discretion in deciding what to disclose. The American media should be pestering him, Jeffbo, about this at every public appearance. I am, of course, no longer curious that it does not.

  118. 118.

    FlyingToaster

    I’m sitting here waiting for the asymptotic snow to arrive.

    [It was supposed to start at 9am, then 2pm, then 6pm, then 9pm. There seems to be a shield over greater Boston, the snow is going around us on either side and closing in north of us in New Hamster.

  125. 125.

    NotMax

    OT.

    Woo-hoo! Score!

    Dashed out to the supermarket a short bit ago because needed fresh mushrooms for a dish will be preparing tonight. Lots and lots of wear-dated packaged trays marked down almost 60%.

  127. 127.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Brachiator: Which is why Wilmer’s son says we need to pander to white, racist terrorists (photo). [Note: he said that 2 weeks after Charlottesville]

    I wonder where he got that idea from.

  130. 130.

    Brachiator

    @chris:

    Millennials are the first to grow up when most U.S. kids didn’t have actionable levels of lead in their blood.

    Kids born today will be the first generation in decades who will never be ToysRUs kids.

  132. 132.

    japa21

    @germy: I am tired of all this bitching about Illinois’ open primary system. There is no other option in the state, number one. Number two is that there is no concrete reason to conclude that there was sufficient cross voting to make a difference in the specific primary being referred to.

    First, you can only have a closed primary if the state requires party preference be noted at the time a person registers to vote. Illinois does not do that. So fine, some say, just have Illinois require that. Sure that would work with new registrations, but then you are asking all the millions of registered voters to somehow declare their preference for future elections.

    How are you going to do that? About the only way is to have someone go and find every registered voter in person and ask them to declare. Sending out notices is not going to work. They never have and never will.

    You could make them declare the next time they vote in an election, but that would mean going through several election cycles to even think you have a sufficient percentage declared.

    You could start doing things now, but probably the earliest you could have a closed primary is 2030.

    So would those that are bitching about this, come up with a way of doing what you want to see or stop the bitching.

  134. 134.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Fine thanks, how are you?

    :)

    Didn’t check the pedigree. To be used to make mushroom sauce for a faux coq au vin dish I used to make. Gonna try to adapt it for the Instant Pot.

  135. 135.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @TenguPhule:

    I think Sessions has begun to realize he faces no official legal consequences from spiking Mueller’s investigation

    Nothing that I see has changed. Whatever was going on before is still going on. Take some deep breaths. I’m not being snarky when I say that I know this has been nonstop terrifying to you since Trump’s election, but so far almost none of it has materialized. You can panic when something actually happens.

    @TenguPhule:
    China was ruled by Mao for most of the century, and that man was more insane, dangerous, and incompetent than you can imagine. Not in Trump’s stupid sense, but in being so wedded to dogma and his own ego that hundreds of millions died from the environmental, agricultural, social, and economic disasters he created. He was absofuckinglutely nuts. Similarly, Stalin was a violent paranoid, and his successors were merely a slow process of cooling down from that through varying levels of conspiracy-obsessed autocrat who viewed the rest of the world as The Enemy. This is not as new a situation as you’d think.

  136. 136.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @Brachiator:
    Back when I was in HS (4-6 years ago), I was tutoring elementary school kids at an after school program. I was shocked to learn they wanted ipads and phones instead of toys. Even kids in the late 90s and early-to-mid 2000s played with real toys. Or at least I did.

  138. 138.

    raven

    @NotMax: I meant where was the grocery store. I made green curry in the pot. I thought the recipe called for too long on the sweet potato. . . it was.

  142. 142.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Market is just down the street. Would walk there except the bad leg and uphill don’t play well together.

  144. 144.

    TenguPhule

    @Frankensteinbeck: But not all three at the same time. We came closest to that with Nixon and Bush Jr. But my history doesn’t recall this level of malevolence and incompetence from all of the major players simultaniously, we always had at least one (relatively) cool head to prevail.

    Trump’s arms race comment is just setting off all kinds of alarms in me.

  146. 146.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    Something have always been mildly curious about:

    Dashed out to the supermarket a short bit ago because needed fresh mushrooms for a dish will be preparing tonight.

    I ask this entirely non-critically; merely goaded by none-of-my-damn-business curiosity. You, dear NotMax, seem to be deathly allergic to the first-person singular in your comments. I understand a reluctance, if not a full-blown aversion, to beginning an inordinate number of sentences with “I” or “My,” but your routine reluctance to insert the pronouns in question seems to indicate a real repugnance.

    You are welcome to tell me to fuck right off.

  147. 147.

    TenguPhule

    @rikyrah:

    Meeting multiple times with the Russians wasn’t treason?

    That was gateway treason.

    I’m afraid Sessions is headed towards “Burn all your bridges behind you, because that’s the only chance you have to survive” treason.

  148. 148.

    Brachiator

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    The Summer 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney featured Aboriginal Australian culture prominently in the opening and closing ceremonies

    I loved Midnight Oil’s performance of the politically charged “Beds Are Burning” during the closing ceremonies.

  151. 151.

    TenguPhule

    @Frankensteinbeck: Also, Trump’s degradation of common spelling along with his minions at the Whitehouse is driving me insane. As a pedant, seeing this government peppering their press releases with common stupid errors is unforgivable.

  152. 152.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @MomSense:
    Eh, I can see why people would like him, but he was always kind of a whiny dick who put his pride over everything else (though to be fair literally every character in Dragon Ball aside from Future Trunks fucked around with their enemies and let things get worse). He also didn’t start to reform until well into the Buu Saga. Fun fact: Toriyama has admitted in interviews that he gave Begets qualities he hated in people.

    For my part, I always tended to like Gohan best.

  154. 154.

    NotMax

    @SiubhanDuinne

    It’s an affectation emanating from being schooled in journalism back when. Especially averse to starting sentences with I.

    @raven

    Shall neither confirm nor deny.

  157. 157.

    raven

    @NotMax: I’m just trying to get a better grip on where you are. I can’t believe it’s coming up on 6 years since I was there. I’ve lost touch with my buddy on the Big Island, he just stopped communicating.

  158. 158.

    Brachiator

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    I was shocked to learn they wanted ipads and phones instead of toys. Even kids in the late 90s and early-to-mid 2000s played with real toys. Or at least I did.

    Of course you can play video games on these devices, but I take your point. It seems like a definite shift in popular culture.

    Maybe something a bit similar. My college age niece and nephew never played any board games. Not even Monopoly. Not Trivial Pursuit. The entire category of games was dead to them.

  160. 160.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:

    My great-niece was born in 1997.

    .

    .

    She’s in college, and engaged to be married.

    .

    .

    (Any of you whippersnappers — not you, Goku — who pulls any of that “OMG I am SO old!” crap, be advised I will fucking CUT you.)

  161. 161.

    Mike E

    @MomSense: GameCube and Gameboy :-)
    Miss E was into Blue’s Clues and she named her 1st kitten Periwinkle…kitty is still in the bldg btw

  162. 162.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    “Like” is way too strong a word. It is the dismal vehicle for my daily dose of Perry Mason, Peter Gunn and, lately, 77 Sunset Strip. Most of the ’70s-90s stuff has not aged very well, except for The Rockford Files and a few others. But thanks for the heads-up.

  163. 163.

    NotMax

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist

    − − ·  − − −  · − · ·  · · − ·  (space) − · − ·  · − · ·   · − · · − − ·  · − · − · −  (stop)

  169. 169.

    NotMax

    @NotMax

    And … I screwed that up.

    · − · ought to be · − 

    (Wetting noodles now in prep for flagellation.)

  171. 171.

    MomSense

    @Mike E:

    I think I liked blues clues better than my kids and I probably had a bit of a crush on the Kratts’ creatures brothers.

  177. 177.

    Brachiator

    @Baud:

    I’m not sure the new Pacific Rim will be as good as the original.

    The early reviews are mixed. But some suggest that the movie will definitely knock Black Panther off the Number 1 perch this weekend.

    But…was the original any good?

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