Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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

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

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

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

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  1. 1.

    Nicole

    Whatever. I like you and I like this blog and THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. SO PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT.

    Also, I didn’t read the other thread. I’m going to go do that now.

  3. 3.

    TenguPhule

    We are your penance for your earlier years of being a Republican, John.

    Your eternal penance.

  7. 7.

    Brachiator

    Cole, you funny guy.

    It’s amazing how eager some Republicans are to follow Trump’s lead and make nice with Putin. Are Putin’s pockets really that deep?

    From a USA Today story about Rand Paul delivering a letter to the Russian leader.

    “I was honored to deliver a letter from President Trump to President Vladimir Putin’s administration,” the Kentucky Republican announced on Twitter. “The letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in various areas including countering terrorism, enhancing legislative dialogue and resuming cultural exchanges.”

  8. 8.

    nwerner

    I haven’t seen such bluster and acrimony since the Moraz vs. Wakeman debate of 1993.

  9. 9.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    Ehh, looks next enough to me. I do know about these amazing pointless arguments though. My favorites were the ones I sometimes heard between my wife’s mother and grandmother about what color something was. One would say something somebody was wearing was pink and the other would say it was peach, and, Lord, they’d just go at it, back and forth, like they were debating in Congress. I really never understood that, but it was fun as hell to watch, since I had no dog in any of those desperate fights.

  10. 10.

    Miss Bianca

    @batguano:

    People just don’t have proper respect for jalapeno strips & fish tacos

    Man, that sounds like a great combo to me!

    Now, off to read the other thread to discover what we’ve done *this time* to to merit the BlogFather’s disapproval…//

  12. 12.

    Mary G

    Kansas.com explains that Kris Kobach feels no need to recuse himself from the recount of his own primary race for governor.

    Colyer has the right to request that Kobach’s office initiate a recount if he still trails after counties tabulate provisional ballots and mail-in ballots postmarked by the deadline.

    The governor also would also have to file a bond with Kobach’s office to cover the cost of a recount, at a price set by Kobach. If a candidate wins following a recount, no action would be taken on the bond.

    Mark Johnson, a Kansas City attorney with experience in election law, said Kobach’s role in setting the cost is the primary reason why he should recuse himself. He said Kobach should cede this authority to a deputy.

    “Secretary Kobach should not decide that. That is a conflict, in my opinion. To that extent, the secretary is directly involved in the recount process. … He could set the bond so high that no one could afford that,” said Johnson, who was a member of the team that defeated Kobach in federal court earlier this year in a case that overturned a Kansas voting restriction.

    There is nothing whatsoever that causes Republicans to feel shame, example ten zillion.

  13. 13.

    Josie

    Strangely enough, John Cole, that’s pretty much the attitude my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter displayed a while ago when everyone was paying more attention to the baby than to her.

  14. 14.

    Mai Naem mobile

    YOU BETTER TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW COLE!
    Is that Steve BTW? That is awesome if it is.

  15. 15.

    grumbles

    I’m pleased to see John is back in form. He was being a little earnest there for a bit – I was starting to think he actually gave a damn for a minute there.

  16. 16.

    Roger Moore

    @Brachiator:

    It’s amazing how eager some Republicans are to follow Trump’s lead and make nice with Putin. Are Putin’s pockets really that deep?

    I think they’re hoping for some help in their next reelection campaign.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    Cole, did you edit that photo to make it look like we are getting the middle finger? Made me laugh, and I am impressed with your skills.

    Please let the record show that I did not engage in the piling on from the last thread, no matter how deserved.

  20. 20.

    jimmiraybob

    The scientist in me says that you blew it. The casual direction giver in me says spot on.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    My mom has been gone for 33 years. Enjoy your little spat, Cole, we all know how much you love your mom.

  26. 26.

    low-tech cyclist

    I would like to state that you all suck and I never liked any of you.

    That’s OK, we don’t like you either and you suck even more. But with Betty and Anne and Tom and David and Cheryl and Adam and this really Major dude and whoever else is on the front page these days, we can’t resist hanging around here anyway, providing a supply of anthropes for you to be misanthropic to. So it all works out.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    Totally OT, I had my first session with the new physical therapist yesterday. (The other one wasn’t very good, I could do his exercises in my sleep and I wasn’t getting any better.) I’m really struggling with the exercises from the new person, so I finally have hope again that I will be able to walk normally again.

    My balance after the broken ankle is laughably bad – truly unbelievably bad. Pathetic. Apparently that’s quite normal, and no matter how much I mentioned it, he didn’t address it. If it wasn’t my ankle – literally – then it wasn’t his problem. It’s been quite discouraging. 10 years of PT experience – that guy should have come with a warning label.

  31. 31.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    O.K., Chris Hayes is talking about how three random dudes who belong to Deadbeat Donnie’s shitty club have been running the V.A. for the last year and a half. I don’t even know what to say about this. It’s some random doctor, some random lawyer and some random movie company owner who sit around at this golf club and have V.A. people head down to Florida to answer to them. The congressmen on the committees that oversee the V.A. didn’t know about this. I guess the only thing we don’t yet know is what these three guys were getting out of this and how much it’s been worth to them.

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    @Raven: I wondered about that, too. They would have to be double-gigantic jalapeños, and even then they are the wrong shape. Cole probably asked for jalapeños and they just gave him whatever peppers they had in the kitchen.

  40. 40.

    Ruviana

    @Brachiator: Perhaps, but this would prompt an argument from the women and bemused silence from the men. Or something like, “It’s all white. Don’t worry about it.”

  42. 42.

    kindness

    I wanna teach my cats how to do that. Getting them to learn photoshop might be tough though.

    Well played, John. Well played.

  43. 43.

    low-tech cyclist

    @Ruviana:

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): In one of the classes I teach we talk about cultural and gendered perceptions of colors. The male students are always entertained by the arguments that break out among the female students as to whether a color is lavender, periwinkle, or lilac.

    Of course we are. We guys only have to know the names of, and be able to distinguish, a very limited number of colors.

    How many? Fourteen, plus the colors of the teams we root for.

    The three that exist for you even if you’re color-blind (black, white, grey)
    The six primary and secondary colors (red, yellow, blue, orange, green, and purple)
    The colors of money (gold, silver, copper)
    The oddballs (brown, pink)

    That’s it. We might well know what turquoise or maroon look like, but we don’t have to. Let alone crap like fuchsia (thank goodness for spell-check) or ecru. Thank goodness.

  44. 44.

    germy

    Just got back from a screening of “The Spy Who Dumped Me” and Edward Snowden (at least an actor portraying him, filmed in low light from the back) plays a tiny role.

  46. 46.

    Roger Moore

    @Shana:

    well to be fair most of them are probably color blind

    I don’t think this is about color blindness; I think it really is about cultural factors. Men can have very good color perception (for example, I aced this color perception test) but not know or care about the names for colors they can easily distinguish. Women are encouraged to care more about color, particularly as it relates to fashion, and to learn names for all the slightly different shades. If the men are bemused by women arguing about what to call a color, it may be because they don’t think it’s worth arguing about, not because they can’t perceive the difference.

  48. 48.

    Roger Moore

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    I guess the only thing we don’t yet know is what these three guys were getting out of this and how much it’s been worth to them.

    The thing we really don’t know is what other parts of the government have been treated the same way. If Trump lets his customers at Mar-a-Loco run the VA, it’s a good bet he lets them run other branches of the government he doesn’t care about, too.

  50. 50.

    satby

    Atten jackals near St. Louis: my rescue got an adoption application on our little deaf kitten today from someone down that way. If it’s one of you, or someone you know, please let me know, thanks!

  51. 51.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    @Roger Moore: Also, they would fight about all kinds of other random, meaningless–to me at least–shit. The colors seemed to get them the most heated, but they’d fight about whether we’d had chicken for dinner last week on Wednesday or Thursday evening. They were as invested in this as they would have been if they’d been debating whether to take the country to war. I’d just sit back and watch.

  55. 55.

    NotMax

    Quick drive to the bank and back. Gas prices in the neighborhood now up to $4.12 for regular, $4.42 for hi-test.

  57. 57.

    Brachiator

    @Ruviana: Recently in Southern California, men calling in to talk radio argued endlessly about the proper shade of blue of LA Charger uniforms (they were usurping Dodger Blue). It’s more context and gender than gender alone.

    ETA. There were women calling in too, but the callers (as opposed to all listeners) skew heavily male.

  61. 61.

    Roger Moore

    @germy:
    IIRC, it turns out mantis shrimp don’t have particularly good color perception. We get our color perception by looking at differences in response between color receptors with different spectral sensitivities. If something gives a stronger response in the red cone than the adjacent green cone and weakest in the blue cone, we perceive it as orange. The most current thinking is that the mantis shrimp have a bunch of color receptors so they can skip the comparison step. That lets them respond to different colors very rapidly- they can skip a bunch of neural processing steps- but means their color perception isn’t that great. That speed is really important because they’re predators who rely on rapid reactions when hunting.

  64. 64.

    zhena gogolia

    I just bailed on Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy and went back and read that thread. It is a classic, on a par with the faxed credenzas.

  65. 65.

    Raven

    West Virginia House Panel Votes To Impeach Entire Supreme Court

    “West Virginia’s House Judiciary Committee has adopted articles of impeachment against all four justices on the state’s Supreme Court of Appeals, accusing the judges of a range of crimes and throwing the court’s immediate future into disarray.”

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    Seems like as good a place as any to repeat something from early this a.m.

    Snapped a pic of the awning of an apartment house in Mom’s neighborhood, the name of which always evokes a small grin when I pass by. (Site where have uploaded the pic rotates it 90 degrees; sorry ’bout that.)

    Imagining the scene: (takes long drag from bong) “Dude, you gotta get an apartment there!”

    :)

  68. 68.

    jl

    “I would like to state that you all suck and I never liked any of you.”
    We knew that.
    But a general condemnation from Cole is rare these days, so I checked out the previous post.
    I guess I’ll leave well-enough alone, other than to say Cole’s mom is right.

    Thanks for stock photo petpix Cole. Good thing most cat’s can’d do that, otherwise they would not be fit for a full-service family blog.

  69. 69.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Ruviana: Hey, get off my back. I have color deficiency (a mild color blindness); I can see the 14 important color (my team’s colors are green and gold so I am good to go), but I sometimes perceive shades differently. If something is on the blue-green spectrum, I may perceive it as more green than blue whereas 99% of people would see it the other way. I tend not to be adventurous with color in my clothing choices.

  70. 70.

    Brachiator

    @Roger Moore: Fun test. Got a perfect score. I took a couple of art classes in college that dealt with shade and color, so I guess I remembered what I had learned.

  71. 71.

    jl

    Can’t edit my comment, so please correct the typos in your heads.
    Speaking of cats, on my ‘puter, the edit screen has turned into an inaccessible Cheshire Cat sort of thing. I’d complain, but so far I’ve enjoyed looking at if fade in and out, hide behind things and then jump out in front and do its various tricks.

    Edit: OK, open in a new window works. I guess I missed some instructions on it.

  78. 78.

    Another Scott

    In other news, Reuters:

    U.S. senator says Russians have penetrated Florida election systems: Tampa Bay Times
    Reuters Staff

    (Reuters) – Russian operatives have penetrated some of Florida’s election systems and could delete registered voters ahead of the November elections if the systems are not adequately protected, Florida U.S. Senator Bill Nelson told the Tampa Bay Times on Wednesday.

    “They have already penetrated certain counties in the state and they now have free rein to move about,” Nelson told the newspaper, which posted an audio recording of the interview on its website.

    Democrat Nelson and Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida wrote a letter last month to the state’s 67 county election supervisors about potential threats, the newspaper said. But that letter lacked the specificity Nelson has laid out, according to the Times.

    “We were requested by the chairman and vice chairman of the (Senate) Intelligence Committee to let supervisors of election in Florida know that the Russians are in their records,” Nelson told the newspaper.

    […]

    Vlad and his minions aren’t giving up. We can’t either.

    89 days to go…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  79. 79.

    Amir Khalid

    A propos of nothing at all, Tori Amos is a musical genius.
    I spent a few minutes last night re-doing the set-up on Lady that I’d paid good money for at the music store. I should have stopped the fat little toad at the store when he cleaned the maple fretboard with lemon oil, which you ONLY PUT ON AN UNFINISHED ROSEWOOD FRETBOARD. I should have said something when he forgot to set a radius on the string bed to match the fretboard’s radius of curvature, which a guy should know to do if he’s really been setting up guitars for ten bloody years. I should have said something about him setting the treble side of the pickups almost flush with the pickguard while the bass side was half a centimetre higher, or about the rattling noise from the G string. All of which I had to fix myself. Harrumph.

  80. 80.

    geg6

    Anybody watching Rachel? The tape of Nunes speaking at a closed fund raiser for Cathy McMorris Rogers is something else.

  83. 83.

    Pogonip

    @Omnes Omnibus: My brother’s red/green color blind. I have had several eye doctors tell me this only manifests in the male but I think Mom was at least somewhat color blind because she would wear the weirdest color combinations.

  86. 86.

    germy

    In b&w film, red photographs black.

    Which is why Harpo switched to a light blonde wig for the movies. On stage (and on one late-career color film) his wig was red.

  89. 89.

    Amir Khalid

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    It might not necessarily be you. Different cultures divide the colours up differently, so that the green/blue can be placed differently in different countries. If you’ve ever been in Japan, you’ll notice (or not) that the green in their traffic lights is a bluer shade than it is in other countries.

  90. 90.

    MobileForkbeard

    @lamh36: If Mueller wont clear the president, it’s because the President is GUILTY. This should be hung around the neck of every republican.

  92. 92.

    Platonailedit

    My colleague @jolingkent at NBC Nightly News has been asking @jack for an interview for, no joke, five years.

    He's going on Hannity today.

    This is getting ridiculous.

    — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 8, 2018

    ugh, still fucked up login.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    @NotMax: I filled up today and it was $37. It hasn’t been that high in a few years. Trump is an excellent negotiator!

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Amir Khalid: No, this first manifested when I was a child and my mom told me to wear my green hat. And I insisted no such hat existed. When she handed it to me, I said “That’s my blue hat.” And so to the doctor we went. No cultural differences. It is my perception.

    Hey, I got the almost cat-like night vision as a compensation.

  98. 98.

    germy

    I’ve been DMing with @jack about his bizarre need to verify white supremacists on his platform for the last 8 months or so, and after all the exchanges, I’ve reached a conclusion: the dude simply does not seem to give a fuck.
    — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) July 3, 2018

  100. 100.

    Mary G

    @Roger Moore: I thought I had good color vision, but I got an 8 on the test and it says my green/blue vision is lousy. Apparently the reddish one was good. I also took a bunch of college art courses and have been complimented on my ability with color. I have decided to blame my monitor.

  101. 101.

    Alain the site fixer

    FYI folks, I know about the edit comment issues, especially on the mobile site. I’ll take a look again in the morning with some fresh inspiration. I’d hoped to solve the comment box issues that remain first, but today has been all about estate stuff – financial, legal, inventory. accounting, etc. Lots of great, good, groovy stuff. I just wish I had a good hill to dump some garbage over (joking!).

    Have a good evening to all, try the (fake meat!) burgers – I will be experimenting Thursday lunch!

  102. 102.

    Amir Khalid

    @WaterGirl:
    They do say that if Donald had just sat on the seed money his dad Fred gave him, he’d be a for-reals billionaire today, with a bigger shitload of actual money than he has ever claimed, and not in hock to the Russians.

  110. 110.

    Jim Parish

    I teach a course in advanced geometry every fall. A few years ago, I was telling them about a certain configuration of circles. The circles fell into two groups in a natural way, and so, in the slide displaying the configuration, I made one set red and the other green for maximum contrast.

    Unknown to me, one of my students was red-green colorblind.

    Fortunately, the two sets could also be distinguished by position, so he got the gist of the discussion.

  112. 112.

    Brachiator

    RE: Colors. I think a couple of times I had a 64 count box of Crayola Crayons and would use as many different colors as I could, and blend them to get even more.

    Burnt Umber, muthafuckas…

  117. 117.

    Alain the site fixer

    @TenguPhule: Ugh. Thank you, I’ll rebuild the cache.

    Final note, On the Road will be back, we’re just doing a lot of changes and I have only so much time to work on things. I miss it and know many do, too. I’ll post about that soon, but now I’ve got to go pull enchiladas from the oven and put out the trash and recycling.

  118. 118.

    Jeffro

    Two things:

    1) Had lunch with a friend today, discussing mostly non-political things, and at the end we were talking about the off-the-looking-glass, through-the-map nature of these past two years. Friend goes, “You know, I’m almost there thinking that the Russians actually changed the voting, you know, hacked the voter tallies and everything”. And I felt this rush of IT. DOESN’T. MATTER – the man was unfit when he went after the Khans, when he confessed to sexual assault on tape, when he’s been nothing but a racist his whole life. And there’s been enough Russia material out there for two years now…it’s clear that some of us *cough* have been right all along.

    But I was like, “yeah, that could be it, certainly they did everything else for him…I guess the big deal now is to get out and vote in November, eh?” Fortunately, he agreed. Just weird that anyone left of Genghis Khan could even think that the weirdest, worst-case scenarios with Trumpov & Co are “almost there” for consideration – just consider the worst, period, and you’ll be right more often than not.

    2) I just got started reading Ben Rhodes’ book The World As It Is tonight (after blitzing through The Last Policeman these past two days…fascinating to see such a close-in take on PBO. Will probably offer more thoughts on the book and the Obama years in a week or two once I’m done.

  124. 124.

    Ruckus

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
    Probably not getting all that much out of it other than they get to fuck with people they don’t know and think are stupid because they couldn’t figure out a way to avoid military service. And also they get to show how much they don’t know about everything. (That may not be a plus for them….) We’d like to think there’s more to it than that, but I’d bet there isn’t.

  125. 125.

    Jeffro

    @germy: “Jack” went on Hannity tonight to defend himself…despite having been asked to go on NBC News for the past year or so

    He knows who…or rather, whose allies…pay his bills

  129. 129.

    Ruckus

    @NotMax:
    Unocal station on my way home, in Pasadena, regular is $4.69. About a mile away another Unocal station regular is $3.59. People were pulling into the first station. I have no idea why.
    Probably for the same irrational reason for the truck I saw on the way home. Brand new Chevy dually diesel pickup. Jacked up, rear wheels sticking outside the already wide fenders about 6 in/side, with those very long shinny, pointed lug nut covers on the front wheels that are about 3 in long. He was rolling coal a couple of blocks ahead of me when I first spotted him. I’m thinking moron but it’s possible that he hasn’t evolved that far.

  130. 130.

    Mnemosyne

    @Ruviana:

    Lavender is true purple in a lighter shade, perwinkle leans blue, and lilac leans pink.

    What’s the argument?

    Actually, if you really want to mess with people, let them in on a little secret: color is relative, and the same color will look different depending on what other colors you combine it with.

  131. 131.

    Amir Khalid

    @WaterGirl:
    Is your insurance paying for this therapist? Maybe you could complain to them, or to the hospital that referred you to him.

  132. 132.

    The Midnight Lurker

    Holy shit! I just saw Maddow’s piece on what David Nunes said at a GOP fundraiser. (Paraphrasing here) “If we don’t stop Mueller – this all goes away.”

  133. 133.

    Drunkenhausfrau

    Dear GOD (FSM or whatever) this is why I LOVE you all! Thank you for keeping me sane. The tacos place is clearly next to the barber, ?

  134. 134.

    The Midnight Lurker

    Mr. Cole… they don’t like me either. But you should hear the things they say about you!

  135. 135.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: Valdivia took almost a year before she could walk normally after she broke her ankle. She is about 18 months out now and she still has issues if she is one her feet too long. By which, I mean to say it can be a long road. Bon chance.

  137. 137.

    debbie

    @Amir Khalid:

    It also depends on lighting. A guy at work insisted my black coat was dark green, then when work upgraded the lighting, he was shocked I had been right.

  139. 139.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mnemosyne: I am told that my eyes look blue-green if I am wearing blue, gray-green if wearing gray, hazel if wearing brown, and bright green if wearing green.

  141. 141.

    NotMax

    Hm. Switched on O’Donnell’s show. Poor guy looks as if he hasn’t slept in a week. Multiple bags under the eyes.

  142. 142.

    Platonailedit

    A US woman arrested after speeding through a stop sign asked police to let her off because she is “a clean, thoroughbred white girl”, officers say.

    The arresting officer, who is white, detailed in his official report how Lauren Cutshaw, 32, appealed to him for special treatment based on her race.

    When asked why, Ms Cutshaw replied: “You’re a cop; you should know what that means,” the report states.

    She was arrested on Saturday night and also charged with drug possession.

    Ms Cutshaw was pulled over after she drove through a stop sign at 60mph (96km/h) in Bluffton, South Carolina.

  145. 145.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @satby: She knows. But all of you who really like her should know that she has a really dark side. She is a Real Madrid fan.

  149. 149.

    Mike in NC

    @Platonailedit: We quickly found out that in South Carolina, nobody ever uses turn signals, and drivers have a tendency to back up without looking for what’s behind them.

  150. 150.

    PsiFighter37

    FUCK THE WORLD we live in. As an early-30s millennial, I have to ask: why did you stupid apathetic white people fuck it up for everyone else?

    PF37 + hard drinks / not waking upp on time tomorrow / typing deliberately

  151. 151.

    sukabi

    @WaterGirl: how are stairs for you? I’m still having a bit of trouble coming down them…ankle isn’t flexing as well as it should.

  153. 153.

    PsiFighter37

    I’d be more impressed if you showed an ounce of passion that inspired a young college student to almost fail out of college and elect true progressives.To be clear, that does not mean Richard Ojeda and similar dim-witted idiots,

  156. 156.

    Jay

    @Ruckus:

    They’ve fired a bunch of people, created worthless pet projects, subcontracted work out ( to their Companies), killed programs and projects and are advancing the program to privatise the VA.

  158. 158.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @PsiFighter37: Why do you think that directlng that question here is helpful? The white people here aren’t stupid or apathetic – for the most part.. Or was it it just a cri de couer?

  162. 162.

    NotMax

    @Omnes Omnibus

    “Decisions, decisions. I could get 1 Walnetto, 2 Pixie Stix or 12 of those candy buttons one has to peel from the paper ribbon&#8230.”

    :)

  163. 163.

    NotMax

    Code fail.

    “Decisions, decisions. I could get 1 Walnetto, 2 Pixie Stix or 12 of those candy buttons one has to peel from the paper ribbon…”

    :)

  164. 164.

    The Midnight Lurker

    @PsiFighter37: I’ll field this one. In a word – greed. It is an ancient evil, a evil that spawns most others. It infects almost everyone at some point in their life. Even you.

  165. 165.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    @Platonailedit: My wife’s friend wound up getting asked for her number as opposed to getting arrested for a dwi when she was @22. Circa 1997.

  166. 166.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @debbie: My mom’s back has been messed up since the day I was born wen she was 23. No, I have no complex about it. Because your mom being in pain more or less since the day you were born isn’t a thing.

  167. 167.

    Platonailedit

    Democrats pick former Michigan state Rep. Rashida Tlaib to run unopposed for congressional seat that former Rep. John Conyers held for more than 50 years. Tlaib would be the first Muslim woman in Congress. https://t.co/q6L8mRO2Yx— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 8, 2018

  169. 169.

    debbie

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Yeah, I bet. My mom came down with some sort of pseudotumor in her head when I was about 16. Somehow she lived into her 70s, but she generally felt like crap.

    Speaking of crap, I just saw the Green Party candidate for Ohio’s 12th district (Manchin?) interviewed. The guy was either high or a total loss of a being.

  170. 170.

    smedley the uncertain

    @Ruviana: Color can Change your wardrobe…
    Over the years I had accumulated several sports jackets that coupled with a shirt and tie and appropriate slacks represented acceptable office attire. I rarely paid attention to the color and just selected them by style and fit. My wife over the years suggested various attire and said wear the navy blue one. I didn’t have a Navy jacket! Years pass and finally I succumb to cataract surgery. Yea verily! A Miracle I had Navy blue jackets in my wardrobe. It’s a Miracle.
    I couldn’t see blue….

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    NotMax

    What a world, what a world.

    Found the prize from the mini-pouch of Cracker Jack the TSA sprinkled over the interior of my suitcase.

    Peeled open the gaudy paper and there are instructions to download a free app to “reveal a fun digital experience.”

    Bah, humbug.

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    Mnemosyne

    @smedley the uncertain:

    There’s a famous anecdote about Monet being caught touching up some of his paintings inside museums after he had cataract surgery, because he realized they weren’t blue enough post-surgery.

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    Sherparick

    @Platonailedit: In someways it is a gift that Trump has encouraged all the racist assholes to let their freak flag fly. No more of this “I’m not a racist, but…”crap.

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    Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]

    @Jim Parish: I taught a lab in microbiology for a couple of years, and one of the things I said on the first day was for any colorblind people to please contact me after class (A large part of the class was dedicated to detecting color changes in chemicals to determine bacterial metabolism), Nobody ever came forward, I was hoping on developing some techniques for colorblind students.

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    WaterGirl

    @Amir Khalid: My co-pay is $30 bucks a shot. 16 sessions with him, about half of them useless, that’s $480 out of pocket. Nothing to be done about that, but the orthopedist was great about writing a prescription for me to see the new person who had been recommended to me. So I just have to move forward, though it’s a lot of money out of pocket. I just want to get better!

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    WaterGirl

    @debbie: My problem, I think, is that my balance was bad and I was compensating for the bad left ankle with my right knee, which would hurt like the devil at times and cause some serious pain in my groin at the same time. So I’d be at the grocery store and it would hit, and I would stand there trying to figure out how the hell I was going to get out of the store and to my car. It was a pretty unhappy situation, and it felt like it was turning into a chronic one. The only way I could lessen the knee and groin pain was to limp, which sucked.

    I am really happy to be seeing this new person. She came highly recommended buy the guy I know from the running shoe store here. He said he had seen her (after seeing 2 people before her) and she said “We’re not going to fix your back problem until we get your foot right.” He and I both thought that sounded like exactly the person I needed to see, and I think we were right.

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    debbie

    @WaterGirl:

    If you do circle back:

    Yes, compensation is inevitable, but it does have consequences. I never broke my ankle, but I do have chronic inflammation issues and only experience has taught me how to cope, outlast, and get beyond flare-ups.

    I hope your new therapist can help, but be sure to ask for suggestions on how to deal when you’re caught by surprise at the grocery, etc.

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    debbie

    @debbie:

    I’ve learned over the years how to distinguish between “good” pain I can just push through vs. the kind of pain telling me to stop what I’m doing. Ask the therapist about that. And never stop doing the stretches etc. that they give you.

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    WaterGirl

    @debbie: I also know the difference between “good” pain and “holy shit stop doing that right now”. I agree that it’s really important.to be able to distinguish between them. thanks

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