A local shortage — our ice maker is busted! I had one tray of huge ice cubes, which I emptied into a plastic bag and smashed to make the crushed ice required for mint juleps.
Luckily, I have a Yeti tumbler, which means one ice tray will be sufficient. Yeti discontinued the NRA discount a while back, and morons posted videos of themselves blowing up $400 coolers.
Anyway, I digress. My money’s on Vino Rosso for the win. Hope he’s a mudder. Safe race to the horsies! Open thread!
Steve in the ATL
Men everywhere celebrate the event that establishes that two minutes is the proper amount of stamina
Omnes Omnibus
I always choose the booze themed horse if there is one.
NotMax
Hearsay is sounding off about Audible.
realbtl
Damn, given the current governor of KY I was hoping that the Derby ran out of ice.
Steve in the ATL
@NotMax: I always choose the app themed horse if there is one
efgoldman
mrs efg sometimes intuits these things. She says pink/purple silks.
Yarrow
My fridge has been sitting in the middle of my kitchen all week. Unplugged, doors open, everything removed. Fun times. After running through diagnostics, cleaning the coils, letting it defrost and drain (ice somewhere the defroster wasn’t reaching, judging from the thuds a few hours after unplugging it) it seems to be running much better. Took the opportunity to clean out things that had been sitting there too long. Cleaned all the shelves and drawers and freezer baskets. Cleaned the fridge inside and out. I’m really tired.
The fridge seems to be running okay. It’s making ice and the thermometer shows the fridge temp in the safe zone. I’m still a bit wary, though. I’ve put some things back into it, but I’m not doing a big shopping trip until I feel more confident.
Steve in the ATL
@realbtl: and he’s actually from Connecticut
Steve in the ATL
@efgoldman: so…Adam Silverman is his usual drag outfit?
SiubhanDuinne
I pulled Free Drop Billy and Solomini in the PERFECTLY LEGAL AND ABOVEBOARD pool in which I partipate. Fortunately 25% of the total take goes to last-place finisher, so I might still recoup my investment.
germy
efgoldman
@Steve in the ATL:
I’m old enough to remember when the race went off a few minutes after five. Gakk. Almost six, they’re not in the fucking gate yet.
JPL
@Steve in the ATL: Do you know anything about the judges running in Fulton county? When I lived in Dallas decades ago, a nice defense atty would give me a list.
also, mint juleps taste yucky.
efgoldman
@efgoldman:
Of which I see none.
germy
Thread:
oatler.
“Aaaand it’s-a Beetle Bomb.”
Steve in the ATL
@JPL: Bobby Wolf was a college classmate and is a friend. He’s a career prosecutor but not an asshole, which is why he will never be the DA.
Ken Hodges is running for court of appeals. Went to law school with him. He was an asshole then. Haven’t seen him much since.
Mary G
You all can thank me later if he comes through:
schrodingers_cat
@germy: We will just curl up and die then, like our progressive betters want us to.
Also too, WTF is a progressive, what is wrong with liberal.
As far as I can see progressive seems to be the code for purity pony politics
jl
But that weird-ass Floridaman Yeti tumbler is still legal in these, our great United States?
Was that thing sold that way, or is that one of Cracker’s surrealistic home brew arts and crafts projects?
Mary G
@germy: I posted about that thread twice yesterday to general ho hums, but it is right on.
Caphilldcne
I feel the need to say Go Caps. Beat the evil Penguins.
schrodingers_cat
@Mary G: He is also pimping that Purdy piece that JGC front-paged last night. I don’t agree with the premise of that piece. Its the usual BS bot nonsense dressed in academic jargon.
ETA: People are not waiting with bated breath for progressive Nirvana. Their agenda is not as exciting as they think it is. They are also woefully short on specifics.
Major Major Major Major
@germy: I do think we should just pack the court as payback for Garland.
germy
@Mary G: It’s an interesting analysis of how the RW has stacked the deck against us, but I remain optimistic we can bounce back. The women’s march, the Parkland students, the MeToo movement, increasing voter registration.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: I agree. We should play to win. Fuck collegiality and bipartisanship.
maeve
Meanwhile Merriam Webster gives instructions for finding your Derby horse name – mine is Uzbek Republic (although I liked the runner up – Ubsequiousness – if you do Twitter the MerriamWebster dictionary is one you should follow!
https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/992806910800822273
schrodingers_cat
@germy: It will work until it doesn’t. It happened in California, it can happen nationwide.
Baud
@germy:
So the circular firing squad thing was a bad idea?
germy
@Baud:
It’s great if only one rifle is loaded.
Mary G
@schrodingers_cat: @germy: I couldn’t even get through the Purdy piece, but I thought Milhiser’s point that Democrats have to go big was spot on. The right wing is going to have obscene amounts of money to chip away at things if the Democrats try the Obama method of meeting them half way again. Just nuke the filibuster and have the ideal bill to restore & improve Obamacare ready to be passed on Jan.1, 2019. Trump will scream, but I bet they can sell it to him as his own idea and get him to sign it, or negotiate it.
Major Major Major Major
@Mary G: the Purdy piece looked pretty bad, I didn’t even click through after reading the excerpt.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: We have an open state legislature seat, there are 8 people running in D primary. And the most airy fairy pie in the sky person of the 8 called themselves “progressive” and was advocating for term limits. They have a few buzzwords they keep repeating again and again even when you grill them on the specifics.
ETA: They are the left version of the Tea party.
clay
It’s a beautiful night in St. Augustine, and I’m here to see The National in concert. Gonna enjoy myself for a couple of hours and forget the shitty state of the world.
Peace, jackals!
Baud
@Mary G:
A lot of people would not consider that going big. That’s our big problem.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I think they are trying to mimic GOP tactics.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: being idiotic has been a successful tactic for the GOP, yes.
@schrodingers_cat: I think ‘progressive’ came into vogue after the Reagan/Gingrich/Limbaugh types were finished turning ‘liberal’ into a dirty word to many Americans. Obviously it goes back quite a ways though.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: Right now, its seems to be embraced by BS supporters who think economic anxiety is the biggest problem we face.
ETA: Most progressive arguments hinge on economics. Progressives are then a subset of liberals. I am for liberal values and not just in econ.
debbie
There were progressives long before Wilmer’s arrival. Just because he’s appropriated the word doesn’t make him one.
Brachiator
@Mary G:
A pretty good idea. This is an area where the Democrats could really galvanize across the board public support, and also counter the Republicans’ inability to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Who knows. However, I want to see the Democrats regain control of Congress, and make Trump have to react to their policy initiatives.
schrodingers_cat
@debbie: There is more to being a liberal than just economic policies.
I am all for bringing back the regulatory regime of the New Deal era for banking and capital markets and deficit spending in a recession. That’s Keynsian economics I wouldn’t necessarily call that progressive.
Corner Stone
@Mary G:
Yeah. Uh, can we all agree this is not the time for that approach?
JPL
@Steve in the ATL: Thanks
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Meaning of terms have changed a lot over time, but I see liberals as working differently within the current system and progressives as working differently in order to change the institutions. But I’m certainly no economist.
debbie
@Mary G:
Please nuke omnibus bills while you’re at it.
Corner Stone
@debbie: He can be pretty annoying, and lately pretty cranky as well. And as it’s the only way to be sure…
Elizabelle
I was happy Justified won, and that all the horsies survived.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
I was too afraid to watch. All that mud looked so slippery.
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: best way I saw it described is conservatives maintain hierarchies, liberals encourage movement within hierarchies, and leftists/progressives flatten hierarchies.
Elizabelle
@debbie: Horses handled it like a breeze. Commentators saying they were running a fast race at the outset. First time I learned the jockeys have layers of goggles that they peel off as they get dirty; the used goggles stay attached but out of the way.
And, with respect to wingnuts shooting up Yetis: let them. They can get food poisoning from spoiled food. Good outcome for all of us.
I have a Yeti Hopper 30 or 40; it’s so watertight professional photogs use it to protect their camera gear while out rafting or just traveling.
You can sometimes find Yetis at a steep discount at Marshall’s stores, although I have not seen any for some time now.
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
Works for me.
Miss Bianca
Well, I was with Betty, I picked Vino Rosso for win, and some combo of Justify and Mendelssohn for place and show. But no more giving the benefit of the doubt to furrin-bred and -raced hosses for me, next year! First Thunder Snow, then Mendelssohn, dead last two years in a row!
Elizabelle
@Major Major Major Major: Flattening hierarchies. OR promoting anarchy. Your choice, purity ponies!
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: They want revolution, BS bros have their “Our Revolution”. Also too, they mainly attack Ds, rarely say anything bad about the Rs.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: Yeah. Not a fan of the Bros either.
rikyrah
@schrodingers_cat:
One big NOPE ? to bipartisanship
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Elizabelle:
You might try TJ Maxx stores as well, since both are divisions of TJX and carry the same merchandise.
Betty Cracker
@jl: The design on the Yeti tumbler is from a restaurant in Brooksville, Florida called Cracker Kitchen. I’m sure it’s obvious why I’m fond of the place. The food is first rate — highly recommended if you’re ever in the neighborhood! :)