Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

ha ha ha! Nice try weird people.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

It’s the corruption, stupid.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

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

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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Lost Puppy Update: Popcorn Is Home

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Popcorn. I about died laughing when his person told me that. I only talked to him on the phone, but I am so picturing this big burly guy and his three-pound pup name Popcorn. He is out of town and the pup snuck away from his “grandparents”. I now have everyone’s names on file – he doesn’t live far from me…but too close to a busy street for him to keep wandering off. They need to figure something out. Although he is pretty old, so odds have been with him so far.

Now that he’s settled, we are off to hike.

Here’s another open thread.

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  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    Of course, we’ll need confirmation, if possible, on his hooman being a big burly guy.

    Glad to hear the pup will be reunited.

  3. 3.

    RAVEN

    There’s a little yapper by that name down the street. The folks named their daughter Arrow.

  4. 4.

    MazeDancer

    Wonderful that Popcorn is back home.

    But have to admit to bit of a fantasy of some pics of Popsy nose-to-nose with Bixby. And beak-to-nose with Penelope Pearl.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Millard Filmore: Sounds like a threat. Three-pound gangster dog?

    “Nice place you got here. It’d be a shame if I ran away again and came back to visit.”

  12. 12.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Please see my very long comment down stairs about my favourite escape artist Dweebe. She was a master.

  14. 14.

    Inventor

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I had an escape artist dog named Benson that would dig/climb/jump/crawl out of the back yard. Then he would go around to the front door and “knock” on the screen door. I would let him in and follow him to the back yard where he would show me where he got out. I would “fix” the place with cinder blocks or chicken wire or whatever was available and go back inside leaving Benson outside. Then the game would begin again. If I wasn’t home when he “escaped”, he would just go over to a friend’s house and wait there until I came and got him.

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    Litlebritdifrnt

    Spent all day at the Family Fun Day and Dog Show in aid of Wolfwood animal shelter. (I was running the Cake Stall I will send pictures of the amazing animals to Alain later). The tiniest dogs were two little fluffballs, one fawn one blonde. I took pictures of one of them who had won a rosette and when I looked up both of them had leads held by huge burly bald guys wearing black heavy metal t-shirts. I just thought it was priceless.

  17. 17.

    Shana

    @Litlebritdifrnt: That reminds me of a clip from an English episode of Antiques Roadshow with a guy in a Motorhead tshirt and mullet with the most delicate beautiful jewelry that he brought in for appraisal.

  18. 18.

    Bnut

    Our Lab is an escape artist to perfection. We have a fully fenced yard that he can’t get out of, but if you don’t close the front door or side door to the garage fast enough he scoots out like lightning is in his butt. We don’t even bother chasing after him anymore. He always comes home within half an hour invariably covered in some type of random animal feces. Yes he has tags and is chipped. Pretty much everyone in the neighborhood knows him by now.

    Popcorn is an exceptional name.

  22. 22.

    Sab

    Bret Favre used to have a tiny dog with a barrette in its fur. Saw it on a sports calendar.

  25. 25.

    Spanky

    Just got back in from corraling our own little escape artist. Folks might remember my angst on July 4 when Bandit disappeared. Today he managed to slip by the Mrs. but reverted to his usual MO, making sure he stayed close to his pursuers, but not too close.

    But besides the extreme heat there was sensory overload. Dragonflies! Butterflies! Bugs! He managed to bring down a Black Swallowtail, but then wasn’t sure what he should do with it. That’s when I scooped him up. The swallowtail that had been pinned under both of his front feet simply fluttered off, so I was glad to see that. He was bug-eyed and panting (not the swallowtail), so I’m glad we’re all back in the A/C.

    Asshole.

    (ETA – It’s currently 98 out there.

    Asshole.)

  26. 26.

    smintheus

    This is almost the Platonic ideal of the slipshod argument masquerading as a big think piece: Chances are, you’re not as open-minded as you think. It’s dizzying how many times the reference points get changed. Willingness to be bribed to listen to tired arguments against gay marriage = willingness to test one’s views as ‘hypotheses’ = accurately predicting the future = nonpartisanship = good judgment = engaging seriously with blatantly fake information. And that’s just the first five paragraphs.

  28. 28.

    smintheus

    @Inventor: We had a Belgian Shepherd rescue dog in who would always manage to get into the back part of our long garden in Berkeley and dig up our vegetable, even after we put up a tall wire fence (ca. 6 ft). He was close to 80 pounds and way too big to dig under it. We could not figure out how he was doing it, until one night we saw him jump over the wire! Cleared it easily. He was an astounding critter and I miss him like the world.

  29. 29.

    MattF

    @smintheus: You’ve validated my gut feeling that it wasn’t worth reading. Thanks– I guess.

    Now, I can go back to being irked by everyday life.

    ETA: I should add that it seemed to me to be obvious clickbait.

  30. 30.

    Nicole

    The rainy summer has brought the rats out in our neighborhood and someone on my block has taken it upon themselves to illegally poison them (I’m assuming, due to the number of dead rats and the absence of any of the signs the city puts up when they do pest control). It’s making for a difficult time walking our AmStaff mutt. Yesterday she nosed in the tall grass growing around one of the city trees and just as she wrapped her mouth around it, I realized she’d found a dead rat. Fortunately, she knows “LEAVE IT” and did, though she wasn’t happy about it.

    Two days before she spotted a live one under a car and flushed it out, whereupon it ran straight for my 9-year-old kid, who let out a shriek that could have shattered glass (no contact was made). Our pooch adores humans, fears other dogs, is surprisingly gentle around non-aggressive cats, but holy cow, let her see a rat and all of her terrier instincts come screaming to the surface.

    I’m starting to develop a nervous tic every time I walk her.

  34. 34.

    Catherine D.

    Haven’t seen this mentioned on the last few threads, but the Jarvanka family got a white, blue-eyed dog (looks like an Eskie) Twitter has ‘sploded.

  35. 35.

    satby

    @Catherine D.: and if it is an Eskie it will last about a week. They’re high energy, high intelligence dogs who, according to the AKC are:

    Eskies are social animals and can develop problem behaviors when neglected or undertrained—they insist on being part of family life.

    I don’t see that ending well.

  36. 36.

    satby

    So since I came down hard on the idea of dogs running off repeatedly, I feel the need to point out that part of my (mostly successful) ability to keep dogs from running off is that a runner would be escorted outside in the yard and on a 40 foot rope. Every single time. If they could dig under or scale over or dodge around a fence, they didn’t get a second chance. But the 40 foot rope meant they could wander pretty far and freely while I could be sure there’d be no escape. It only takes one careless driver to make those amusing stories into a tragedy.

  38. 38.

    SWMBO

    @satby: Depends on whether the nanny has time to work with it. You really don’t expect Jarvanka to, do you?

  39. 39.

    SWMBO

    @satby: We have a runner at my mom’s house. He would get out of the temporary fence she would put up and it worked for the rest of the dogs. Not Maxim. He was gone once for over an hour. My mom’s neighbors are trigger happy rednecks. So now he goes out on a 20 foot training lead when we visit. He doesn’t like it but that’s tough beans.

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    J R in WV

    Speaking of big guys with little dogs, a friend who had a very tough time as a kid, started a heavy construction company, now well to do hard working manager of a construction company, pipeline work mostly.

    He has a 4 lb or so tiny dog, maybe a maltese? Named Chuck Norris ~!!~ Loves that little guy. There are squirrels as big as Chuck Norris.

  44. 44.

    Michael Allen

    @Catherine D.: Yeah, not just totally white but BLUE eyes too. Surely they must have realized how it would look to most people, particularly with Grandpa going way past the “good people on both sides” racism level in the past few days. It wasn’t exactly like the thing followed the kids home from school.

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