Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

So many bastards, so little time.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

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

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

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  6. 6.

    Immanentize

    That was a quintessential shaggy dog. ?

    Agreed about Dusty Springfield. Far the best version. Also too, how could AL refuse to support someone whose non-stage name is:
    Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien

  15. 15.

    Chet

    They just dropped another nugget out of that WaPo/ABC poll last week that had Trump at 60% disapproval. The generic ballot question was 52-38 D.

    Two data points from the same poll don’t corroborate each other, and it’s an “all adults” poll, but it still looks like a favorable hand dealt to Dems. Lots of people don’t start thinking about elections until after Labor Day, so the stage is set.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    Watched The Surprise on Amazon Prime.

    Cute and funereally genteel; the director and actors are wise enough to keep a lid on letting things get out of control and to move along in their own good time. Give it a rock-solid B (nothin’ wrong with that), rising to a B+ for the second half as they did dare to go skillfully in a direction one would at first have dismissed as too obvious. Nice enough as a diversion on a rainy evening, all in all.

    While watching, one internally cringes thinking about how over the top and strained an American remake would be, botching up the whole thing and sucking out all the sweetness in favor of cheap gags.

  29. 29.

    Immanentize

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:
    I am getting through, thanks for asking. We just went through the one year deathaversary which was hard. And I occasionally still have hauntings in my dreams which, when about Julie, are the most real and the type you can’t wake up from ….

    But I am getting through. I am so happy to be back teaching and the “get the kid into college” project is certainly keeping me busy. I swear to the FSM that colleges design this process to purposefully drive a wedge between parent and child so that the kid is just dying to get away from home….

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    @Dorothy A. Winsor

    Many of us are old enough to remember when one would prefer having a root canal performed by a blind, palsied dentist over trudging to the DMV. In many (most?) locales, things have improved since then, noticeably so in DMV employee demeanor.

  34. 34.

    Nicole

    That was hilarious. Thanks Anne Laurie.

    Also, I know what Fortnite is because it has taken over my 8-year-old’s brain.

  36. 36.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Princess: I’m gonna call somebody else’s senator, a GOP senator who is running for election and tell him/her that if they vote for Kavanaugh, I’m gonna give their opponent campaign the maximum allowable $s. That’s a lie but they won’t know it and besides, they don’t have a problem with trump’s lies.

  42. 42.

    oldster

    Thanks be to Orkney–I love a good, long-wind-up, multi-word pun.

    And even better that it’s the real live Orkney way the hell up in the North Sea, so far North it belonged to Norway until a few centuries ago.

    Tina Turner’s reach is long.

    Indeed, America’s greatest export has been African-American pop music. It will outlast all of the Boeing jets and Ford autos.

  43. 43.

    JGabriel

    OzarkHillbilly:

    The all too predictable RWNJ self immolation has begun:

    Others on social media posted videos of Nike shoes burning and Nike socks with the “swoosh” symbol cut out.

    We can only assume that the reason book burnings haven’t become a thing again is because none of these people know how to read.

  44. 44.

    JGabriel

    Orkney Library via Anne Laurie@Top:

    So over the last few months kids keep coming into the library asking if we have any books about this thing FORTNITE. We don’t and I’d never heard of it so I tried asking what it was.

    Nicole:

    I know what Fortnite is because it has taken over my 8-year-old’s brain.

    I notice that no one else is asking what it is, so I’m wondering: Am I the only one here who’d never heard of it?

    Anyhow, I googled it (actually duckduckgo’ed it) and, if I’m getting the right answer, I’m guessing it’s a video game? Or is there some other Fortnite that kids are asking librarians about? Because I’m a little puzzed about why kids would be asking librarians for books about a video game that hasn’t even left Early Access yet, much less have enough time for people to research, write, and publish books about it.

  45. 45.

    JGabriel

    And now reading that comment, I’m thinking to myself, “Damn, how’d I get so fucklng old and staid?”

  53. 53.

    JAFD

    @Immanentize: Actually, a ‘shaggy-dog story’ ending with a bad pun is known as a Feghoot.
    Those who enjoy them should try to find the collection of Reginald Bretnor’s classics.(though not at Amazon’s current price)

  55. 55.

    montanareddog

    @oldster:

    Thanks be to Orkney–I love a good, long-wind-up, multi-word pun.

    Here’s one of my own, also lyric-based. I was a passenger on a French motorway when our driver overtook, on the inside, a car with Netherlands plates. I said, “you do realise you have just “passed the Dutchie on the left-hand side””, which was met with the expected groans and face-palming.

  57. 57.

    Frank McCormick

    @JGabriel: I think wherever you landed on Google underplayed the games release and success. It’s been out for a year and the latest version is “Battle Royale”.

    From Wikipedia:

    “Fortnite Battle Royale became a resounding success, drawing in more than 125 million players in less than a year, and earning hundreds of millions of dollars per month, and since has been a cultural phenomenon.”

  58. 58.

    Bostondreams

    @JGabriel:

    Or is there some other Fortnite that kids are asking librarians about? Because I’m a little puzzed about why kids would be asking librarians for books about a video game that hasn’t even left Early Access yet, much less have enough time for people to research, write, and publish books about it.

    ‘Early access’ in this case doesn’t mean what it used to. Fortnite is always adding features, and the most recent numbers indicate it had more than 3 million concurrent players playing. One of which is my ten year old daughter. These kids are looking for strategy guides, most likely.

  59. 59.

    JGabriel

    rikyrah: I

    had no clue. …

    The funny thing is, I actually read gaming sites on a pretty regular basis. I’d read all about PlunkBat (PLayer UNKnown BATtlegrounds, for the uninitiated), so I knew the Battle Royale genre was a big thing now.

    I’d even heard of Fortnite, but only as a cartoony Minecraft-type game – I had no idea it had evolved a super popular battle-royale mode, or that Anne Laurie was even talking about the same thing at top. And I’m just completely baffled as to how I could have missed that development. 125 million players and I had no idea? Even though I check out gaming sites pretty regularly?

    Damn, things move fast these days.

  60. 60.

    JGabriel

    @Frank McCormick:

    I think wherever you landed on Google underplayed the games release and success.

    Probably. I also think I probably wrote it off in it’s early stages as a Minecraft clone, and just subconsciously ignored any headlines/stories I saw about it afterward.

  61. 61.

    Jamie Nafus

    @raven: That’s great and I hope that you have success for your pup. On the Facebook groups that I am in for my Addison’s dog, there are several dogs that use Bailey chairs for Megaesophagus. The dogs do very well. They are lucky dogs with attentive owners.

  62. 62.

    Jeffro

    This Kavanaugh is a crazy MF in most every direction – he’s okay with foreigners spending big in our elections, and of course he is extremely hostile to Roe. And then on top of that, no judge (much less a SCOTUS one) appointed by the loon-in-chief should be confirmed until after the midterms AND after the Special Counsel’s investigation is over. Period. Call your Senators, write those op-eds, hit your social media accounts.

    As we’ve already seen with Twitler, once they’re in power, they’re hard to stop much less root out. Fight NOW

  63. 63.

    satby

    @debbie: How kind, thank you!
    I admit, I’m pretty proud of my kids, they turned out ok. All of them, including some of my foster sons, were at a wedding together this weekend. A good group of I do say so myself.

    @rikyrah: Good morning rikyrah ?!

  66. 66.

    RSA

    Son of a Preacher Man was originally written to be sung by Aretha Franklin (according to Wikipedia). Good timing, Anne.

  69. 69.

    J R in WV

    We went to see a Tina Turner show here in WV years ago. Amazing crowd, high-end dressed black folks in so many different styles… and such a great show. I can understand why she just moved to Europe to get away from — well — all the hate for wealthy black stars here.

    I can’t do action video games with our internet service, by the time I see something that needs shot or scored on, do something and it gets back to gamer HQ, everything has moved on from where I scored/shot/moved. Would be so frustrating!

    Anyone read the twit-thread about Qanon? Pretty strange mix of occult, weird politics, twisted racist/anti-semetic memes and paranoia… interesting how whoever cooked it up mixed so much mythology up. Everything but Slendaman.

  70. 70.

    pcpablo

    Twitter question that I hope someone can answer. Whenever I click on a retweet of Trumps, and in reading the comments at least 95% are dumpTrumpers. Now I clicked on a Huckabee tweet, and the same thing. Am I seeing the actual tweets that Trump would see, or is my twitter feed controlled by some algorithm that twitter uses because they know I hate the bastard? Thanks!

  72. 72.

    sukabi

    @JGabriel: the entire library thread has the answer…online video game launched last year, has 125 million followers / players. Apparently based on Lee Child’s books — Jack Teacher.

  74. 74.

    Steeplejack

    @sukabi:

    Jesus Christ, the game is not based on the Reacher novels. The librarian just used that as the hook for the “son of a Reacher man” joke referencing the “Son of a Preacher Man” song by Dusty Springfield.

    The dad of the kid who explained the game to the librarian was there for Lee Child’s Reacher books—hence “the Reacher man” and the game-explaining kid as the “son of a Reacher man.”

    Yet another joke killed by vivisection.

  75. 75.

    pcpablo

    Tom Cruze is NOT Jack Reacher. The thought him in that role has made me take a sabbatical from the books till I purge!

  78. 78.

    Steeplejack

    @BruceFromOhio:

    Thanks, but even the titles run together. I just need to check my Nook and see which is the last one I downloaded. It has been a while, so there probably is a new one.

    Same with Michael Connelly’s Bosch and Mickey Haller books.

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