Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

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

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Let there be snark.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    Thanks for the warning about the impending hurricane. I was planning to stay home today, but I will take the extra precaution of staying under the covers.

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    Brachiator

    Funny stuff!

    Of course, Cinco de Mayo really isn’t observed in Mexico. Kinda like how Saint Patrick’s Day was not a big deal in Ireland.

    And both holidays are mainly known for amateur drinkers making it harder for the professionals to get things done.

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    Steeplejack

    The dark, gray drizzle here in NoVA is like a white-noise sleep machine. I am struggling to stay awake. Baseball murmuring in the background is not helping.

    The housecat has long since gone into a deep theta sleep, but she does that every day.

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    oldster

    “our thoughts are with everyone in her path” — those Onion writers are good.

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    Raven

    I’m taking a break from the beach and the sun. Caught two really nice “slot” reds this morning in the 24 inch range. I’ll grill one up on the half shell and go back down at 5 or so until dusk. It’s gorgeous here.

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    johnnybuck

    Well, it could easily be Al Shepard day. He went into space 58 years ago today.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    @johnnybuck:
    “Let’s light this candle.”

    Al was this space kid’s favorite. And that was before golfing on da moon.

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    Raven

    @johnnybuck: We’re on 30A which is really exploding. Lot’s of music people coming down from Nashville and it was already Atlanta south. We are in the real sweet spot after spring break and before Memorial Day. The next week should be pretty mellow with a great forecast and the reds hitting. I was sad they closed amberjack early but I’ve already caught enough redfish that I would go home happy without catching another. A pompano or so would be nice!

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    Belafon

    The Latina custodian at work was telling me she is going with some of her friends to Las Vegas in September because Mexican independence is celebrated. Ricky Marin and Marc Antony will be there. She asked why they would do that and I said Americans are just looking for an excuse to hold a party.

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Patricia Kayden:

    This is why we shouldn’t hate migrants.

    I hear what you are saying, but we both know it is simpler than that. They are people who have done nothing wrong. And that should be the end of the story.

    FWIW Giannis is also finally teaching an entire state how to pronounce those Greek sandwiches made on pita bread.

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    Raven

    @johnnybuck: I guess I think of the forgotten coast over toward Apalachicola, no? We’re on the other side of Panama City Beach.

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    johnnybuck

    @Raven: It is, but I was thinking I remember you fishing over there at one time. Used to go down there quite a bit before the oyster trade disappeared.

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    joax

    As one who lives in southern Mexico, it is unusually quiet. Normally, there would be lots of cojetes, very loud firecrackers, as there were on May 3, El dia de Santa Cruz, the day of construction workers and practicals jokes. Here, people don’t do anything for Cinco de Mayo, strictly a gringo thingo… However, in the state of Puebla, it’s a big deal.

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    germy

    @Steeplejack:

    The housecat has long since gone into a deep theta sleep, but she does that every day.

    Theta would be a good name for a cat.

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    eemom

    @Steeplejack:

    The dark, gray drizzle here in NoVA is like a white-noise sleep machine.

    Feh. I think it’s dreary as shit.

    Just hope we’re not gonna have another rain drenched summer.

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    Barbara

    @Steeplejack: I did not sleep well last night and have had to will myself to stay awake. I am making muffins in an effort to stave off sleep.

    The analogy to St. Pat’s day for Cinco is apt. I overheard someone in line cooing about how they needed to buy tequila for the holiday. Most Spanish speaking people in NoVa are not from Mexico. I am becoming such a curmudgeon, at least in my head.

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    Roger Moore

    @Belafon:

    She asked why they would do that and I said Americans are just looking for an excuse to hold a party.

    I think there’s a bit more to it than that. Americans are looking for a way of demonstrating that we accept an immigrant culture, and one key way of doing that is to adopt one of their holidays. We’re just really bad at it. In some cases, we actually mange to pick a holiday that’s really important in the culture we’re trying to honor, like Chinese New Year. But far more often we will either blow some minor holiday out of proportion, as we do with Cinco de Mayo and Hanukah, or make up a new holiday out of whole cloth, as we did with Columbus day.

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    Dan B

    Seattle meetup came off without a hitch, phew! We had 12 people at a table for 10. I promised to tell everyone that Piratedan from warm Tucson (94 degrees) froze in the 40 degree steady rain, because it rains all day every day. /

    Actual report coming soon.

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    Steeplejack

    @Barbara:

    I did end up taking a bit of a nap, but mostly because the housecat had me up at 5:00 this morning for a clarification of the dining hours on the platinum concierge plan (resolved in her favor, of course). But the quiet rain on and off all day made it very easy.

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    prostratedragon

    @NotMax: I’m relegated to google chrome for now, because in addition to the add-on problem, it’s refusing to load some sites for “security” reasons — like, you know, startpage or youtube or the one for the on-line course I’m taking — while other sites like this one show with absolutely none of the formatting. This is beyond disgusting.

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    Aleta

    Sally Jenkins, WaPo

    A foul? They called a foul because Maximum Security with Luis Saez aboard swerved out of his “lane”? “He’s a baby,” Saez said rightly of his horse. Where, pray tell, was the discernible lane in all that muck and rain and screaming and flogging and young animal surging? Where is the “lane” in a sport beset by medication overuse and purse structures that incentivize racing horses even when they are hurt, in which the jockeys whip-beat their horses to the finish on a clearly unsafe wet surface the substance of farina?
    .. …
    This isn’t a sport; it’s a fancied-up vice. Horse people counted on the excitement of the Derby to obscure the fact that 23 horses died at Santa Anita this winter, and Churchill Downs, too, is one of the deadliest tracks in America.

    All you could think, during the long 22 minutes that the stewards took to review the film, as the walkers led the steaming, mud-caked contestants in cool-down circles while great plumed exhalations came from their nostrils, was, “I don’t give a damn who won; somebody just please get these horses out of the mud, and check their legs, and dry their coats, and give them something to drink.”

    Some tracks hurt horses more than others, Churchill Downs is one of them, and everybody in this beautiful-turned-rotten game knows it.
    … …
    (N)ot until two weeks ago, amid scrutiny of its track record in the wake of the Santa Anita debacle, did Churchill Downs move to institute any common-sense reforms. It will install an equine medical center and surveillance cameras in barns and advocate for medication reform. That’s a start.

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    Manxome Bromide

    @Roger Moore: I like to think of Cinco de Mayo as less “blowing a regional holidy out of proportion” and more “hey, thanks for turning Napoleon III’s forces back before they got to us.” This isn’t (“shouldn’t be”, I guess) us copying them badly, it’s us raising a glass to someone else’s victory that also helped us.

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