Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

People are complicated. Love is not.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Cole is on a roll !

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

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

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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I’m just exhausted by it all. The daily (hourly) insults to democracy without end. I know we need to keep our eye on the ball, but I just want to check out for a while.

Anyway, I owe you pics of the kids. Here you go.  Scout is 6 1/2 months old and about 77 lbs – and Bixby is two weeks away from his 4th birthday. He hates having his picture taken, so that’s what’s going on above. He is back to his old self these days and as you can guess I’m relieved. Scout’s hormones have hit and we’ll have to ride that out until at least her first heat.

Meanwhile, there was fun times with Scout this week (from my FB post that day):

Here’s a fresh open thread…

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  1. 1.

    LAO

    A pet open thread, just what I needed. Thanks TaMara. I know that I will regret saying this one day, but I don’t miss the puppy days at all. I mean my dog was cute — but damn, the havoc was horrible.

    PS I can only imagine how exhausting it is deal with a 77lb puppy!

  2. 2.

    Jeffro

    No pet news here, so…how ’bout those Caps last night, hmm? Hmm? ;)

    Also: just picked up a pair of tickets to see Social D later this fall. Always a good time!

  3. 3.

    LAO

    I did not know this — Russia killing stray dogs and cats in preparation for the World Cup.

    One Sochi resident found a neighborhood dog dead with this dart in its side, while others saw men with blowguns hunting kittens & puppies. It turns out Sochi has contracts to catch & kill 3501 stray animals, part of a Russia-wide purge before the World Cup https://t.co/tEqf01WmGS pic.twitter.com/mPRehWd74R— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) May 15, 2018

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    @LAO:
    I can’t even begin to imagine the logic behind culling stray cats and dogs this way.

  10. 10.

    James Powell

    I’m also exhausted. And it isn’t just the daily (hourly) insults to democracy without end. It’s the ~40% of Americans who approve of the daily (hourly) insults to democracy.

    Fortunately, when I get home each day, there are three hounds who are always glad to see me.

  14. 14.

    VeniceRiley

    We dogsat a smush-nosed elderly somethingorother named Bailey this weekend, and she broke into my bathroom and turned all the trash into confetti. At least I didn’t have to wash her. Couldn’t stay mad at her long, since she had to endure repeated humping attempts by the supposedly fixed Chihuahua. Oh, Scrappy. No balls, but he can still get his tiny wood on. His owner was mortified. I just laughed, “If he manages to get it in, she won’t even notice.”

    For distraction, I pointed my roommate in the direction of the Bad Lip Reading youtube channel.

  17. 17.

    Betty Cracker

    My puppy has the most hilarious growl I’ve ever heard. He doesn’t even sound like a dog — more like a baby dragon from Game of Thrones, so I’m calling him my “lap dragon.” I’m also trying to figure out how to make an audio recording of his growls my ringtone!

  18. 18.

    RedDirtGirl

    @LAO: I’m good! I was thinking we should wait to see if Major Major Major Major moves to town, but no reason we couldn’t have more than one!

  21. 21.

    Yutsano

    SCOUTPUPPEH!!!

    So after a fur year lull, I FIALLY got an instructor gig at the IRS again! At least my manager didn’t pull the rug fro under me this time. Been working on that in between appointments, although had to take a break for now.

  22. 22.

    Manyakitty

    @ruemara: Oooh! Lookit a kitteh!

    Also, puppehs! Thank FSM for our critters. I know my cats make me smile every single day.

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    These pardons are such a complete attempt to obstruct justice by signalling his coconspirators.

    Do you think Mueller could use them as evidence? Because these are highly unusual and undermine the rule of law.

  25. 25.

    Yutsano

    FYWP!!! I just want to correct one fucking typo!
    FOUR year lull. But fur is kinda funny now that I think about it.

  26. 26.

    The Moar You Know

    I know that I will regret saying this one day, but I don’t miss the puppy days at all. I mean my dog was cute — but damn, the havoc was horrible.

    @LAO: I got a golden retriever pup about two and a half years ago. He is alpha. He was the runt (adult weight 65 pounds, which is TINY for a male Golden) He was neurotic and OCD. He was (and still is) terrified of cars, but not in a good/useful way. He never wrecked anything in the house, but loves being disobedient. He’s very much like a very smart cat in a dog body. He is gorgeous and can put on the most unbelievable sad face ever, and so gets away with murder.

    He finished turning my hair white and probably lopped another half inch off my hairline. We found a great trainer and got him trained for therapy and rally work (the rally training was a lifesaver) and now everyone just thinks he is wonderful, including me. I would not trade him for anything in the world. But goddamn, he was a rough ride growing up.

  27. 27.

    TenguPhule

    @LAO:

    One Sochi resident found a neighborhood dog dead with this dart in its side, while others saw men with blowguns hunting kittens & puppies. It turns out Sochi has contracts to catch & kill 3501 stray animals, part of a Russia-wide purge before the World Cup

    As if we needed a new reason to hate Russia.

  28. 28.

    The Moar You Know

    Russia killing stray dogs and cats in preparation for the World Cup.

    They did this for the Sochi Olympics as well.

  30. 30.

    catclub

    @Betty Cracker: our cat – the tougher of the two, has a cute little growl when the UPS truck comes by, then runs and hides. Complete scaredy cat to everything outside of me, my wife, and the other cat… and lizards.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    Your last cat must have really loved you if he brought you the mouse heads. My ex’s mom’s cats would bring her the rest of the mouse body after eating the head since it’s apparently the tastiest part.

  34. 34.

    LAO

    @The Moar You Know: I went through a period with Maggie when no pillow was safe in my apartment, especially bed pillows. Since I was unable to crate her at night — the baying was deafening — there were multiple mornings I woke up to a torn up pillow. And, yes, I never woke up since I apparently sleep like the dead. The weird thing about her was, 99% of her bad behavior would be when I was home but inattentive. To this day, I give her a “shower treat” ie something that will keep her busy for at least 10 minutes so I can shower without sacrificing a piece of furniture or my rug or my shoes. Mind you, she has free reign during the day when I’m at work. I think she enjoys seeing shock and horror on my face, like it’s a game to her.

  36. 36.

    Jeffro

    @Elizabelle: Mueller could add them in to his obstruction case (which also won’t go anywhere until we get a new Congress, but still)

    Folks on Twitter making noise about Kaepernick vs NFL and Trumpov’s statements to Jerry Jones about how it would benefit him (DJT) politically. Looking forward to all that free time I’ll have this fall, not watching NFL games.

  37. 37.

    Jay

    “To get a sense of what it means that Fred Fleitz has been chosen as the National Security Council’s chief of staff, you need to understand both the role of Frank Gaffney and his Center for Security Policy in the international neo-Nazi movement and the way that movement is seamlessly connected to and promoted by Vladimir Putin. While I cannot endorse everything Mr. Ahmed alleges and recommend double checking his sources and how he treats them, I do think his A Fourth Reich is rising across Europe — with ties to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is an excellent place to start your journey. It connects a lot of dots that need connecting, and it contains a lot of documentation that you can assess for yourself.”

    http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2018/5/30/1593/38783

  38. 38.

    p.a.

    No pets, but I was out in the yard (Mass:yahd. RI:yod) enjoying the sun telling myself “eh…the weeds will be there tomorrow. Get ’em then.” as a fledging catbird gave it the old college try. Flapping like a hummingbird while perched, then managing several 6-10 foot flights. Landed once in my (aptly named) firethorn bush. Took a while to escape.

  39. 39.

    The Moar You Know

    the grief of children attached to a street dog or people who’d been feeding a few cats

    @Aleta: Truly, that rarely happens. Russia, as does most of Eastern Europe, has a legit problem with feral/street-born dog packs. They are mean and dangerous. Kids run from them and should.

    But the solution is not to just shoot them, although their societies seem just fine with that. America never was ok with shooting Fido in public, and although we have a horrendous problem as well, it plays out in shelters where at least we don’t have to confront our failure to spay or neuter our animals, and it’s getting better, because although it’s not enough, a lot of people here do neuter and spay their animals.

  40. 40.

    TenguPhule

    Companies take first steps to drill for oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

    Just a little reminder of what 2016 cost us.

    Fuck those assholes.

    /Wapo headline.

  41. 41.

    TenguPhule

    Largest federal employee union sues Trump over rollback of union protections

    The American Federation of Government Employees claims that Trump’s executive order violates the First Amendment guarantee of the right to freedom of association and oversteps the president’s constitutional authority.

    Via Wapo.

    Now we get to see if the last remaining pillar of the Republic will hold.

  42. 42.

    Mandalay

    Samantha Bee:

    I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.

    There’s always some fucking idiot ready to run their mouth so that RWNJs can (justifiably) gloat that “both sides do it”.

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    @Jeffro: I think the NFL owners kicked their own asses with that capitulation.

    Use the days instead for voter reg and canvassing!

  44. 44.

    Patricia Kayden

    @LAO: How delightful. Putin routinely kills his human enemies so not surprised at all that he does the same with pets. No wonder Trump loves him so.

  45. 45.

    raven

    I came up from the beach @ 10:30 like I said I would. It was pretty mellow from 7:30 and Had intended to be there close to sunrise but my 5am grocery/gas/bait shop run turned into a hassle. It’s hot down at the water but they take up the rental umbrellas and chairs at 5 so I’ll go back down then. The 2 pompano I caught will be great on the grill for late afternoon dinner and the off to the wild blue yonder for red snapper tomorrow.

  46. 46.

    TenguPhule

    How Donald Trump is weaponising the courts for political ends

    With just over a year in office, Donald Trump has already appointed 21 of America’s 167 current circuit judges and intends to fill an additional 20 or more vacancies by the end of the year. He is far outpacing Barack Obama, whose 21st circuit court nominee was approved 33 months into his presidency amid gridlock in Congress. Seventeen of Trump’s nominees for district courts, most of whom replaced Democratic appointees, have also been approved by the Republican-controlled Senate.

    Dominated by white men, many of whom are under 50, it is the least diverse crop of new judges for a generation and may prove Trump’s most lasting legacy. Last December, for example, an analysis by the progressive organisation Lambda Legal found that nearly one-third of his judicial nominees up to that point had anti-LGBT records, with some openly hostile to gay rights.

  47. 47.

    kindness

    I’m missing reading Charles Pierce’s posts at Esquire. I wonder where he is?

  49. 49.

    TenguPhule

    Baptist church threatens to destroy Christ statue deemed too ‘Catholic’

    A Baptist church in South Carolina plans to remove a hand-carved statue of Jesus Christ because some congregants believe it’s too “Catholic” for their place of worship.

    The hand-carved, two-metre (7ft) statue and accompanying reliefs depicting scenes from Christ’s life have been displayed outside Red Bank Baptist church in Lexington for a decade. But in a letter to the artist, Pastor Jeff Wright said the art would be removed this week.

    “We have discovered that there are people that view the art as Catholic in nature,” Wright wrote in the letter to Delbert Baker Jr. He added that the statue and reliefs brought into question “the theology and core values” of Red Bank Baptist church, but he did not elaborate.

    I can’t believe its not Florida.

  56. 56.

    Elizabelle

    @LAO: I love the pic of Guy and QE2. A greatest hit for me.

    @Bex: “The royal beagle.” LOL. Love it.

    The Kentucky shelter Guy was transported from has a fundraiser out — $27 for a very nice tee shirt that says “duke duchess dog.”

    Website’s got the photo of Guy’s little face, in the limo with the queen. Montgomery County, KY Animal Shelter. From the link:

    The new royal beagle, Guy, found himself at the Montgomery County Animal Shelter in Kentucky before being sent to Canada where he was adopted by Meghan Markle, the new Duchess of Sussex. Now Guy travels with the Queen (we’ve seen his pictures on social media) as royal dogs should. But there are thousands of other dogs and cats in Kentucky’s animal shelters who would also like to have a chance at being loved. Please support this fundraiser on behalf of those animals!

    Read more about this regal beagle here: http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Kentucky-beagle-becomes-royalty-483259551.html

    And here’s a link to a TV story about the royal beagle’s Kentucky roots: http://www.wkyt.com/video?vid=483262321

  57. 57.

    Aleta

    @Mnemosyne: A tale about the gift of rat heads. I stayed home one Christmas, refused a few invitations. I thought I wanted some quiet to grieve my mother’s recent death, but by christmas eve I was extremely low. I’d taken up sitting in the kitchen, in a big wooden chair at the table so I might write, but mostly I just sat there. That evening I’d even started to pity myself for being all alone … and not a single present, sniff. Next morning I got up and there were three rat’s heads under my chair in a neatly spaced row. From Charles aka Charley. Almost an O’Henry story really.

  58. 58.

    Shell

    I’m missing reading Charles Pierce’s posts at Esquire. I wonder where he is?

    I think he’s on vacation.

  59. 59.

    Aleta

    @rikyrah: May the killer and his friend burn in hell with the Tru,ps Pence and Sessions for a thousand years, after dying in prison.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    @TenguPhule:

    The Guardian: “He is far outpacing Barack Obama, whose 21st circuit court nominee was approved 33 months into his presidency amid gridlock in Congress.”

    It wasn’t “gridlock,” it was Republican obstructionism. Fuckers. (GOP and both-siderist writer.)

  63. 63.

    Elizabelle

    @Steeplejack: It’s that kind of stuff that makes me despair. The Guardian should know better, but they’re often purity pony central. (Some of their headlines make me wince.)

  66. 66.

    holaitsmonica

    I love love love her paw reaching out to show possession of Bixby, “MY Bixby!”

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    @schrodingers_cat: Yup. No money from me for The Guardian. They do some excellent articles on climate change, I gotta say.

    And some of their writers’ concerns are a bit peculiar, very honestly. Someone’s got a fetish for publishing stories about body hair.

  69. 69.

    Elizabelle

    @raven: They do some what seems to be very good reporting (ebola, climate change; I didn’t read it, but the Cambridge Analytica stuff), and they also do some very leftwing crap, pushing the envelope, I guess, but making themselves parodies of clueless liberals. I speak of their opinion writers and essayists there, and not all of them. I cannot say if the stories are as outrageous as the headlines, because a ridiculous headline does not get me to click.

    The more leftwing of them apparently have no idea of the U.S. that we actually live in. It’s not that easy.

  72. 72.

    Ruckus

    @Jeffro:
    Even better would be to write to NFL sponsors about why you are no longer interested in the NFL. It will get to the league if enough people do this.

  75. 75.

    SgrAstar

    @raven: me too. Subscribe to the Guardian, NYT, WaPo. All worthy for different reasons. The Guardian « long reads » are exceptional. Also kinda partial to George Monbiot’s pieces….not to mention, The Racoons of the Resistance. YMMV.

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