Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everybody saw this coming.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Bark louder, little dog.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

No one could have predicted…

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

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Second rate reporter says what?

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

The revolution will be supervised.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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  1. 1.

    jl

    Best new open thread ever! Thanks for cute pet pic of a beautiful beast. Good night, I am sleepy. The cat pic reminded me.

  2. 2.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    Hey, M^4, where does the name “Samewise” come from? Oh, and cute cat!

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    Blurb on front page of CNN’s site:

    Monsanto loses $289 million in critical herbicide cancer case

    Headline of story:

    Jurors give $289 million to a man they say got cancer from Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller

    “Monsanto loses”? “A man they say got cancer”? Methinks someone at CNN reckons Monsanto was treated harshly.

  6. 6.

    BC in Illinois

    Great to see the new thread. . . .
    Timely picture of Samwise. . . .
    But I’m off / back to bed.

    I need to get up in 4 hours, then drive for a half an hour, to feed my son / D-in-L’s three cats.
    They will briefly wake up for my arrival.
    I will then continue on for another half-hour into Illinois.

    The things we do for grandcats.

  7. 7.

    JCJ

    Greetings M4. I was meaning to ask you about your nym. Since you were promoted to the front page shouldn’t you now be Lieutenant Colonel Major Major Major? See? There is even a Catch-22 with your new status!

  9. 9.

    Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    Can’t be holding Corporations accountable,

    Imagine if somebody sued CNN for a bad case of American Exceptionalism, Simpltism and Misdirection for their broadcasts?

    Or Faux News for their Granny coming down with a bad case of Racism?

    Sueing Corporations is un-American,

  11. 11.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I think that he got his rank as a clerical error and maintained it without promotion due to mediocrity and a skill at being not present whenever anything needed to be done.

  13. 13.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Major Major Major Major:
    Oh yeah? Whoever named my cat at the shelter must have been an LOTR fan. His name is Bilbo. Never bothered to change it and now I have to explain to everyone I talk to abou him that I’ve never even read LOTR.

  16. 16.

    Major Major Major Major

    @JCJ: This is the part I’m remembering:

    There were six people and a Scotch terrier inhabiting the remote farmhouse Major Major called home, and five of them and the Scotch terrier turned out to be agents for the F.B.I. Soon they had enough derogatory information on Major Major to do whatever they wanted to with him.

    The only thing they could find to do with him, however, was take him into the Army as a private and make him a major four days later so that Congressmen with nothing else on their minds could go trotting back and forth through the streets of Washington, D. C., chanting, “Who promoted Major Major? Who promoted Major Major?

    But I guess even that promotion was actually in error.

  20. 20.

    lahke

    Good evening! Just watched”Headin’ Home”, a 1920 silent movie that creates a fake biography of Babe Ruth, starring the Babe himself. Amazing what you can find at the library.
    Saw a few episodes of”The Good Place” on the plane coming home and it seemed fun. Is it worth seeing more?

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m spending a pleasant afternoon re-stringing The Girl. (She wears 9-gauge D’Addario strings.) The task list:
    1) De-string.
    2) Remove original string saddles and install roller saddles.
    3) Cover fretboard in masking tape. Polish frets.
    4) Remove masking tape. Clean fretboard with lighter fluid.
    5) Clean body with lighter fluid, especially parts under string path.
    6) Re-string.
    7) Set string height.
    8) Tune and intonate. (Remember to stretch strings.)
    Next week, Sister and Lady. Who knew owning guitars was so much work?

  24. 24.

    Nelle

    I’m mostly a lurker and even at that I’ve been gone for a bit. I took an emotional journey to central Ukraine, to the site of my father’s birth and his youthful stories, first of mischief and then terror of civil war and the dull ache of famine. But he survived, came to North America and created a family of strength and love.

    One thing he did not get, one thing totally mystified him. The racial divide..he said, “I was not taught to hate.”

    I thought of him in seeing BlackkKlansman tonight. Anyone else see it yet? It is brilliant, funny, and horrifying all at once. And that isn’t just my loyalty to my friend who co-wrote it with Spike Lee. My friend, Kevin, came to the theatre last night too and that was a fine way to see it. They’ve made the past and present a seemingly complete whole and the persistence of vile racism the sick reality. Haunting to see it on the anniversary of Charlottesville and with a man (my husband) whose attitude toward his own Jewish identity mirrors that of one of the main characters.

  25. 25.

    DissidentFish

    Look up for meteors tonight. I saw one with a tail looked like a Jerry Garcia design. Perseids are on.

  29. 29.

    Jack the Second

    @Amir Khalid: Eh, I think Monsanto probably was treated unfairly.

    I mean, it’s possible that Monsanto has successfully covered up evidence that Roundup causes cancer for the last 30 years, the tobacco companies did, after all, but the evidence is a lot less slam dunk so it basically comes down to assuming the lack of evidence is evidence that Monsanto is just that good.

  30. 30.

    otmar

    I’m at Vienna Airport again. Same procedure as last year: two weeks with the family on Mallorca.

  33. 33.

    Haroldo

    @Amir Khalid: Singin’ the guitar maintainence blues, you are. You should borrow from history to create your moniker, Amir ‘Guitar’ Khalid.

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Josh Dawsey jdawsey1
    Omarosa just said on Meet the Press that she recorded John Kelly in the Situation Room. (They are playing the tape.)

    Some old phrases come to mind… extreme carelessness with classified information, four-star Marine general, can’t be trusted….

  35. 35.

    J.

    You can never have too many cat-themed open threads. Also, Samwise is a very handsome — and well-dressed — boy. :-)

  37. 37.

    Amir Khalid

    @Amir Khalid:
    All done. It’s the ugliest job I’ve done of winding strings around the tuning posts, but it’ll work. The Girl deserves better from me next time.

  38. 38.

    RedDirtDirl

    @Nelle: dead thread, but want to say hi, and thanks for de-lurking. I’m looking forward to seeing that movie this week!

  39. 39.

    Frankensteinbeck

    So, Dennis Miller tweeted:

    I believe Paul Ryan will be the Democratic nominee for President in 2020 and he will select Omarosa as his running mate.

    Why do I quote this? Because it’s ‘Clint Eastwood lecturing an empty chair’ bizarre. Conservatives live in a world of imagination where even their humor makes no sense, because their straw man fantasies are so far from reality it’s hard to figure out where they come from. After considerable thought, in this case I think it’s ‘Paul Ryan and Omarosa have criticized Trump. Democrats have no traits other than criticizing Trump. Therefor, naming these famous people who have criticized Trump and I have no respect for as if Democrats like them is funny satire.’

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Frankensteinbeck: to say nothing of the idea of Ryan as a trump critic. Only Miller and Ryan think that, trump knows he’s got Ryan’s testicles in the pocket of his jacket

    Miller had a fairly highly rated– for premium cable in the 90s– show on HBO, I believe sold out tours– I went to one of his stand up shows, now he’s the opening act for internet-TV’s Bill O’Reilly’s speaking tour.

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