Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

This blog will pay for itself.

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

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

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

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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

Come on, man.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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

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My new thing is to try to get good pictures of Rosie. They’re not very easy to get because she shares both my disposition and my feeling about cameras, but I got two good ones tonight:

She looks rather peaceful and happy, which lasted all of about ten seconds because I moved in for a close shot and she immediately started to look away because she was just OVER my shit:

She’s a good dog.

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  2. 2.

    Aleta

    That’s beautiful picture.

    Foolish question, you probably turn the camera sound off on your phone/device to take her picture right? My dog avoided the phone and ipad like mad when it was pointed at him because he hated that noise. Eventually I tuned in to the reason and turned it off.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Open thread? Curioser and curioser.

    A model and escort from Belarus who caused a sensation by claiming to have information linking Russian interference to the election of President Donald Trump said Monday that she no longer has the evidence and will not talk about it.

    Anastasia Vashukevich, who also uses the name Nastya Rybka, pleaded not guilty to charges of soliciting and conspiracy to solicit in a court appearance in the Thai resort city of Pattaya to prepare for her trial along with seven co-defendants. Lawyers will submit legal submissions at another hearing next week at which the court is expected to set a date for testimony to begin.

    Vashukevich, Russian self-styled sex guru Alexander Kirillov and six other people were arrested at a sex training seminar in Pattaya in February and have been in custody ever since. All the defendants, who could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, pleaded not guilty.

    Vashukevich told The Associated Press that she had turned over audio recordings to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, whose conversations about election interference she claimed to have taped.

    She has said she provided “escort” services to Deripaska, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and who has links to Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager now being tried in the United States on money laundering and other charges.

    Speaking to an AP reporter in the courtroom in Pattaya, Vashukevich said she had promised Deripaska she would no longer speak on the matter, and that he had already promised her something in return for not making that evidence public. Source

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    @PJ: I’m a bit surprised. Most likely part of the deal with Derispaska is that he pays to keep her alive in jail and he pays to buy her out of the charges.

  14. 14.

    Bill Arnold

    Another good Paul Krugman piece; related to the one a couple of days ago (18 Aug).
    The G.O.P.’s Climate of Paranoia (Aug. 20, 2018)

    In short, if you followed the evolution of the G.O.P.’s position on climate change (not that Republicans believe in evolution, either), you shouldn’t be surprised at the party’s intellectual and moral collapse under Trump. For Republicans, ignorance has been strength for a long time.

    He also includes an interesting point about bad faith arguments and a common characteristic of people who make them:

    There’s also, I believe, an additional relevant lesson from the climate story: the special rage of those who knowingly act in bad faith.

    Climate denial is a deeply cynical enterprise; the people misrepresenting evidence and sifting through emails for “gotcha” quotes have to know that they’re not being honest. Yet their rage against “elitists” who continue to point out inconvenient truths is very real…

    Also of interest is a Eric Levitz NYMag piece today(?): Trump’s Base Has Become Too Delusional for the GOP’s Own Good

    For decades now, the conservative movement has sought to keep its core voters confined to a carefully curated media ecosystem — one where the Democratic Party is a Marxist-Islamist organization, America is the world’s most over-taxed nation, illegal immigrants bear sole responsibility for the stagnation of middle-class wages (and/or all violent crime), and there’s never been a better time to buy gold coins.

    Original has a bunch of hyperlinks. It manages to cover similar territory without mentioning climate change. TBH, I have a hard time with mental modeling of people who can (and do) coerce their minds to Believe such arguments.

  16. 16.

    Platonailedit

    Anyone else po’ed that the mobile version of bj has been shitcanned? It was much stabler than desktop.

  18. 18.

    jl

    Thanks for Rosiepix. At first, she probably thought Cole was bringing more fish. Was on to his tricks by the second shot.

  19. 19.

    Beautifulplumage

    Look at Rosie’s bright eyes and lovely paw action. Great pic!

    OT: Puget Sound had a brief break from the forest fire smoke over the weekend, but now it’s back and raining little ash bits. Very eerie, red sun & moon, and not changing until Wednesday.

  21. 21.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Thai gaols are are bit like 18th Century gaols.

    They can be a hellhole, or with the application of a bit of baht they can be converted into, if not luxury, then at least a Motel 6.

  23. 23.

    Kelly

    @Beautifulplumage: The smoke has been slowly building here in the Willamette Valley since sometime last night. We’re also looking forward to Wednesday’s fresh air off the Pacific. I’ve seen reports of smoke today even on the Coast.

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    @Platonailedit:

    The new version is kind of okay on my phone, but it won’t load on my iPad that has a much older version of iOS on it. It just keeps trying to reload until it fails.

    It’s the fucking video ads. They keep force reloading the page. I sent Cole screenshots of the 3 I could see earlier.

  26. 26.

    L85NJGT

    “I’m not a Democrat,” said another Abilene voter. “But I’m sure as heck not voting for Ted Cruz.”

    Can we deport him to Canada?

  30. 30.

    L85NJGT

    @Bill Arnold:

    I just read someone’s defense of coal power on strategic grounds. They used the phrase “the bad guys”. Trump diehards have the critical thinking skills of an eight year old on a sugar rush, and have no grasp of the multiple factors pulling their worldview apart. They just interpret Trump as promising no change.

  33. 33.

    EBT

    Whoo was a good birthday overall.
    Some kind soul got me a new keyboard; and my nerdy friends ended up getting me a total of 6 booster boxes, and a fat pack.

  34. 34.

    jl

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: The Maud is a fitting simple of Baud 2016!, Baud 2020! and probably all future Baud campaigns. Try to show some respect for the great wrecks of history (including me!), young man.

  35. 35.

    jl

    @Fair Economist: I read about Silent Sam earlier today. It was one of the hundreds of mass produced anonymous yeoman Confederate soldier statues put up. IIRC, it was put up in 1913, for Jim Crow and white supremacy, not really to commemorate any real Civil War history. Not much of a loss.

  41. 41.

    DEMcDermott

    John,

    May I suggest the following for capturing great photo’s of anxious/agile quadrupeds: Video them and then scan through the individual frames until you find the best (there may be many, this is a Warning) and do a screen save. Then delete the video, or save it if you want. Also works great with bipedal hominids and other forms of wonder in nature.

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