Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

So many bastards, so little time.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

It’s possible to be a liberal firebrand without crapping on the party.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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Today, pictures from valued commenter StringOnAStick.

This came in last December, right after Christmas. One of the many, many readers and commenters who sent kind, encouraging words, and who I didn’t reply to, most likely.  I’m sorry to all you wonderful folks, and as I work through the backlog of submissions from that time, I’ll make sure to thank you all again. It really helped me.

 

These 4 photos are from a hike up Mt. Massive in the early summer.  The Pika is a little hard to see but given how hard it is to see a cell phone screen in the bright glare of the sun (and with age-related far sightedness too), I was just aiming in the general direction and hoping I got it right; so, pretty close. The Mountain Goat and her baby were so used to hikers that they didn’t seem concerned at all about the number of people hiking to the summit; they weren’t very far off the trail though there is a bit of zoom in use here to get that photo.  The other two photos are looking towards the SW from the upper trail.

 

God I miss Colorado! I don’t think I’ll be able to make it this year, but wild horses won’t be able to keep me from at least two visits next year. Seeing those two cold lakes teeming with cutthroat trout is making my mouth water, and my arm-a-twitch! I’ve still got all my flies from Colorado, so I’m sure I could match the hatch or throw in a nice terrestrial.

Thank you so much, StringOnAStick, do send us more when you can.

 

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    SiubhanDuinne

    Beautiful photos, SOAS! Love the little pika and the mama and baby mountain goats.

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    Elizabelle

    Love the mountain goat and baby. And pika. And Colorado.

    Happy Memorial Day, all.

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    MomSense

    Wonderful photos! I would love to hike that terrain. Would be such a change from my usual.

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    Starfish

    I don’t think I have ever seen an actual Pika. I have only heard their chirps. Pikas look hard to photograph the same way that prairie dogs are hard to photograph. They blend into their surroundings really well. The only way to deal with this is in post-processing.

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    realbtl

    Very nice. I lived in Colorado 1967-1980 and fell in love with the mountains. Living now in NW Montana is like Colorado 40 years ago; hardly any people though missing the hordes of dope smoking hippies.

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    J R in WV

    Oh, wow!! Just wow! Wonderful opportunity taken advantage of well.

    Love the pictures, thanks for ending them in, I saw a herd of mountain goats in CO once years ago while rock hunting with an old friend, now gone. We were on one side of a box canyon, and they were a stone’s throw away on the other side of the box canyon, so near and so impossibly far away.

    Little babies dancing on a sheer rock wall, like, nothing to it. For them.

    Thanks again!!

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    Miss Bianca

    Yay, PIKAS! I used to hike Lost Lake, off Kebler Pass between Crested Butte and Paonia, and the little pikas squeeing as we came thru’ the skree was always one of the highlights of the trip!

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