Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

This really is a full service blog.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

A norm that restrains only one side really isn’t a norm – it’s a trap.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

The revolution will be supervised.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Let’s finish the job.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

When we show up, we win.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

Let me file that under fuck it.

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Respite Open Thread: Maysie and Tux Update

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My tolerance for stupidity has reached empty, so once again I’m tuning out. Except probably to hang out here for the debates.  For those of you who need a break, Sister Rail Gun provides us with the perfect antidote:

They weren’t able to get handoff photos, because as you can imagine, it was hectic.  But here they are settling in. More from Sister Rail Gun:

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We got them both into their room. They checked it out and said, “Yep, that’s a litter box, now where’s the food?”

We have Maysie in her favorite spot, by the window overlooking the bird feeders.

Tux behind the ironing board.

Tux and Maysie in the scraps pile behind the ironing board.

Maysie after Tux gave up on the game of tug. They were each pulling on the dangler when Tux said, “Oooh, right, there’s food here!”, let go, and turned away.

Maysie in her new favorite sleeping spot.

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Sister Rail Gun has promised more videos when available – you can click on the video and actually subscribe to be notified.

This is a true respite thread. I don’t care if it only has 2 comments two hours in, if anyone is feeling like I am, they need a break. So as best as I can do, here is your cuteness break for the morning.

 

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  2. 2.

    Lymie

    This is what Twitter does best!
    Jenny Jaffe (@jennyjaffe) Tweeted:
    The 12th verse of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is an eggplant parm recipe but no one ever includes it in their cover.
    https://twitter.com/jennyjaffe/status/1170815670486855680…
    Cut an eggplant, and salt each slice,
    Then flour and fry ‘til crisp and nice
    Then shred some mozzarella (never gouda)
    Your marinara sauce is hot—
    you’ll ladle it straight from the pot,
    Then broil the whole megilla—hallelujah!

  5. 5.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @Lymie: The link didn’t work, but I searched it out. Here it is and I LOVE IT:

  10. 10.

    The Moar You Know

    I miss kitties. Wife’s allergic so that phase of my life is over, sadly.

    To compensate, I snuggled multiple times with my golden retriever this morning. I love this dog more than any other soul I have ever encountered.

  13. 13.

    J R in WV

    So, in spite of really harsh summertime high temps, last night it was pretty chilly, and I left the bedroom window open. By near dawn it was actually pretty cold, so wife and I were snuggled up.

    But Punkin was also cold, and walked and curled up on my sore hip, Nope, cat, that’ll never do. So she walked between us up to the pillows. Then when I squirmed a bit, the quilt lifted and showed a gap, and Punkin was into that gap and under the covers in a flash. Ne’re to be seen again until wife got up around 9:45.

    When I got up, the dawg was lying where wife had been sleeping, it was pretty warm with her, also, too!

    Gonna be 97 today, after a low around 59 last night. No fun, no rain either!

  15. 15.

    Leto

    The new Margret Atwood book is out, the planned sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale”. I read a review about it and it seems pretty good. Explores the women who helped build/prop-up the system (the Aunts), what their motivations were and how that dovetails with current society. Also a new Stephen King book is out. So yeah, heading over to the local book store to pick those up for Avalune and to check out what else they might have. I’ll check back in later tonight to see what lunacy has transpired.

  16. 16.

    Elizabelle

    @Leto: Sounds good. Maybe we will have to do a book club.

    I am still up for a book club on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, although I have not started that one yet. Believe it or not, I have been reading old Perry Mason novels.

    @ Sister Rail Gun: Love the photos. Those are some happy kitties who are settling in happily. I love Maysie’s eyes and demeanor. They’re both darling.

  17. 17.

    Tazj

    Congratulations Sister Rail Gun! They look they’re settling in nicely and already taking over the laundry basket.

    @schrodingers_cat: That is a very cute cat and my husband’s very favorite kind of cat, a ginger tabby. That’s the first kind of cat he ever adopted.

  19. 19.

    Middlelee

    @Elizabelle:
    I just reread The Bluest Eye. It was the most emotionally devastating book I’d ever read the first time around. This time, 40 or so years older, I was so angry, and despairing that we will ever change.

  20. 20.

    Sister Golden Bear

    It’s my last night in Chonburi, so I splurged at the new hotel’s restaurant, which is surprisingly good. I figured the shrimp cakes would be a small appetizer, but nope it’s a full-sized plate of shrimp, out of the blue, no explanation.

    I just rolled with it and got out my eating dress. Sometimes the cosmic unconsciousness smiles upon you.

    Did I mention the shrimp, plus a tasty pad see ew, were less than $12.

    OTOH, I have to get up at Zero Dark Thirty for my flight to Taipei, Taiwan tomorrow, and I can’t get to sleep.

  24. 24.

    Kayla Rudbek

    Kitties! Hooray! And for my respite, I am trying to figure out whether Edwardian photography was good enough and/or fast enough to capture trick cycling. I just got a book titled Fancy Cycling, which is a facsimile of the original book published 1901. 115 pages of instructions and pictures of trick cycling, with the Edwardian women in skirts down to their ankles riding e.g. a bike through a hoop, knitting on the bike, doing cavalry-style sword attacks on a target, etc. And then the Edwardian men riding e.g. balanced solely on the top tube, two men on bikes holding a clown on a pole between them. I know that they had some touch up techniques in photography back then, but I don’t know if they could have faked these pictures.

  27. 27.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    Maisie decided that her first escape attempt yesterday went very well. She made it as far as the master bathroom.

    So she tried again. I accommodated her, picked her up to keep some control over the situation, and….

    Oh, my, Maisie does have a loud snarl.

    She encountered the Vorwiggles twins, who were all “What is this curious creature?” She wasn’t interested in being investigated.

    I put her back in the room and told her, “There be dragons out there. That’s why you’re staying in here.” She’s sleeping after her great adventure.

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    Movies already existed and could shoot at 18+ frames per second depending on how fast the cameraman cranked the camera so, yeah, I don’t see any reason why those images couldn’t have been captured. They may even be still frames from a movie and not a “true” photograph, but a 1901 camera absolutely could have captured them with enough light.

  32. 32.

    Quiltingfool

    @TaMara (HFG): Oh my, that kitty looks so much like my kitty, Baby! And Baby poses the same way, you know, the “I’m so adorable, pet me and give me treats!”

  34. 34.

    Leto

    @Elizabelle: a book club would be cool. Picked up those two books, and Samantha Powers’ autobiography. And indeed insanity/chaos reigns today. On to lunch…

  35. 35.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @Mnemosyne: okay, the photos being stills from films makes a lot of sense to me. I was wondering how the cyclists were managing to trackstand during the pictures in all these wacky poses, and having the photos being stills from films would eliminate that requirement.

    The Brownie camera had just come out from Kodak (1900) and I wasn’t sure whether it would have been fast enough to take those pictures or not. So that’s why I was thinking about retouched photos.

  36. 36.

    JustRuss

    Used to have a kitty who looked like Tux, still miss her. Though she was hell on the local bird population.

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    I wonder how Waffles and Hemingway are today …

    Also AmyBlueKat is one cool cat. And Sister RailGun makes two.

  38. 38.

    AmyBlueKat

    I am so happy to see these photos! Have been waiting a few days to let Maisie and Big Tux settle in a bit before I contacted Sister Rail Gun to get an update. I can’t believe how perfectly all of this worked out. After dropping the kitties off, I went to my best friend’s house who just so happened to live in the same town as Sister Rail Gun – despite me putting a will-transport-anywhere adoption post! And my best friend just happened to be in the moving process this very weekend. So I dropped the kitties off, and headed to his house to help him pack up and move. Sometimes, things go right. :)

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