Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

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

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

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

In my day, never was longer.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    Kid’s off taking the SAT a second time. “1500 or bust.” We’ll see about that, but now maybe she’ll be able to enjoy the scant few days before school begins.

    I’m doing laundry. Yay me.

  9. 9.

    Spinoza Is My Co-pilot

    Dogs are angels with fur, yes. Actual, real angels, not imaginary, non-existent ones invented in our myths.

    Half of us, at least, are devils, though; nearly-hairless devils who create sickeningly evil shit like child soldiers. In my 7th decade now, and I’ve come to believe the human race is just that monstrous. The other half are made of some angels (as this heartbreaking video demonstrates) but mostly those who are in that ambiguous and compromised moral middle who mainly just want to muddle through this curious life (I flatter myself that that’s the territory I inhabit, since I know I’m no angel). This is why, for instance, taking the fascist road is so easily done, and resisting that the far more difficult route.

    I’m happy to see the love shown in this video — thanks so much for sharing it — while I remain all too aware of the abject horrors that made such a project necessary (a project that makes my own small bit of volunteering for the local animal shelter seem the slightest and most minimal thing, and I suppose that it is).

  13. 13.

    O. Felix Culpa

    What a wonderful program. It brought me to tears. I lived and worked in Uganda and the unaddressed trauma there is unimaginable and widespread. Rwanda has actually done a better job of addressing trauma. I’m happy to see that there are efforts to make mental healthcare accessible and respectable in Uganda. It’s so badly needed, and it’s lovely to see the dogs as beloved change agents.

  14. 14.

    Tazj

    That’s a beautiful story. Our attitude in the U.S. toward mental illness and trauma and getting help for it isn’t too different from theirs. I’m happy to see it changing there and I hope it will change more here too.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    (open rant)

    This is fast becoming most tiresome.

    Today is the sixth day in a row in which the phone rings once and then goes silent again sometime between 6:30 and 7:00 a.m.

    (close rant)

  17. 17.

    Jay

    today. i’m going to lie on the porch. with my front paws hanging off the top stair. and when the sun breaks through the trees. i will squint and smile. and become marginally toastier— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) August 10, 2019

  24. 24.

    Dan B

    Back from the vet with our remaining furry critter. Oscar kitteh got in a cat fight two weeks ago and the bite wound that seemed healed abscessed. He seemed fine except for an asymmetrical face. After his trip to the vet he sprawled on the floor imploringly and purred like crazy once I picked him up. He bathed like mad to wash off the vet odors. Now he’s sleeping just a foot away. This is a former feral cat who was the toughest guy. It’s like he’s getting to live his kitten years being dependent and feeling safe. It’s much like LGBT people of my generation who didn’t get to have their teenage years and only got to experience socializing 101 in their twenties or thirties. There’s a sense of that I niticed about this Ugandan woman who missed her teenage years. Her dog lets her be as immature as she needs to be so she can be awkward and experiment with a companion who doesn’t judge. It reminds me that Trump has never had a pet.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    @Peej01

    Aware of that but not a service I have chosen to implement. Could easily ignore the ring if it was, say, after 10 in the morning instead of my being from the embrace of Morpheus untimely ripped.

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    TomatoQueen

    @NotMax: A local company did this to me a few times some years back, when one could still get real help from something called Directory Assistance. This was particularly urgent as the call, every day, was a fax failure, with that distinctive horror of a whine, and the directory assistance person was most obliging in directing me to the voice number. Next day, immediately after the fax fail, I called the voice number, and proceeded to Rip Them A New One. No further disturbances afterward. Caller ID might help in this matter, might not. But oh the pleasure of Ripping Them A New One. Finest Kind.

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    A Ghost To Most

    @Repatriated: Cujo was one of the most difficult books I ever read. I still haven’t watched the movie.

    I do not trust dogs I do not know.

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