Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

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

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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

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  3. 3.

    Mary G

    So fracking adorable. I looked at Boghan, and I heard in my dead father’s voice “how can he see with all that hair in his face-get him a haircut today”

  9. 9.

    CaseyL

    Is that kitten staying?

    Why is the fur on Boghan from the neck up a different color than from the neck down? (Yes, I DO mean Boghan’s fur, NOT the kitten cuddled in his decolletage.)

  13. 13.

    Bonnie

    The kitten is adorable. Your website, however, leaves a lot to be desired. Does it have to do with the upgrade? I just got a new eight year old cat. Bonding is going slowly.

  16. 16.

    JAFD

    In other news:
    WBGO mentioned that today was Michael Franks’ 75th birthday, and, of course, played his classic “Popsicle Toes”.
    (As I told the young lady, “I’m not a foot fetishist, but I’m still looking for a sole mate”.)

    Got one of those messages from LinkedIn “Do you want to congratulate X on her new job?” And I did, and finally changed my ‘job title’ to ‘Retired’ and ‘industry’ to ‘Arts & Crafts’.

    Have great Thor’s Day, everyone, and a happy Equinox !

  27. 27.

    MomSense

    Squeeeeeeeee!

    My dog is whistling at me (yes she somehow knows how to whistle) because she wants to go out again. I keep taking her out but she doesn’t go – she just wants to sniff everywhere. It’s cold out.

  29. 29.

    Gin & Tonic

    My wife bought some mangoes at the scratch-and-dent sale, and I have a pretty good crop of habaneros, so I decided to make a mango-habanero jam. I like spicy food, but this came out *spicy*. Will have to be tempered with a soft cheese or something.

  30. 30.

    Gin & Tonic

    @MomSense: 50 here already, and going down. Was planning to cycle to work tomorrow, but that’ll have to be a game-time decision. Should be brisk at 0645.

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Have seen another bit with the talking dog, these are amazing.

    thanks so much for sharing that hillarous bit with us. The dog is amazing! I guess I said that already, but it bears repeating…. amazing!!!

  32. 32.

    kindness

    The kitten is saying ‘This is warm and fuzzy and nice but it smells like dog! Daymm’. If it isn’t it will soon enough.

  39. 39.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: Count me in as ‘some’…this is good, but only if Schiff presses the shit out of Maguire and gets some answers as to why he’s holding on to the whistleblower complaint from the IC.

    Closed session tomorrow; open session on the 26th. Let’s have at it, Dems. Someone way, way up there is clearly trying to suppress this complaint. Someone from the IC is trying to bring some sunlight on…trumpov? Jared? Barr? Who knows? But it needs to get out and get out now.

  40. 40.

    zhena gogolia

    This is a nice break from my 20th viewing of Barry Berke’s questioning of Lewandowski. Read pp. 90-92 of vol. 2 of the Mueller Report, then watch it, then tell me that the Democrats aren’t doing anything. I’ll laugh in your face.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrlDGvuUxMY

    Sorry I broke the respite, but man — they are doing something!

  43. 43.

    Raven

    OK, now I get it. I thought the Burns doc was going to be every Sunday for 8 weeks so now I get all the references to episodes 2 and 3 last night. I can see how someone who doesn’t know anything about, or like the music, wouldn’t like it. For me it’s really good. I’m familiar with most of it, I had Bob Wills greatest hits 40 years ago and was immersed in the music like most of my posse. My wife doesn’t know much about any of it and she is enjoying is as well so that’s my story and I’m stickin to it!

  46. 46.

    Gin & Tonic

    @MomSense: Hoping these nights in the 40’s don’t drop the ocean temp too much – I was looking forward to likely a last swim this weekend.

  47. 47.

    Jeffro

    BREAKING: the whistleblower complaint is “about trumpov’s communications with a foreign leader”

    HOO BOY

  51. 51.

    Raven

    @Immanentize: My brother, the lawyer, is flying into ATL at 5pm Friday then it’s back to the Classic City for the epic Georgia-Notre Dame game. Back to Hartsfield-Jackson Monday, him to LA, me to the Easy! The trip is Tuesday and the weather looks good!

  53. 53.

    opiejeanne

    @Raven: on your advice we went to the Wedge yesterday late afternoon. The tide was low but the waves were impressive. We watched a group of surfers for a while. They didn’t take very long rides and only one didn’t get dumped. They were working hard and they looked like they were enjoying themselves.
    Thanks.

  54. 54.

    Aleta

    I remember JC said two kittens have found a home, Whitefeet and Blackfur. But I wish Wfeet here could stay and live in that warm fur instead. Or Stripes stay. Or me.

  55. 55.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Immanentize: South. Last Sunday was great, I was still hoping for this Sunday.

    I felt really bad, though, there was a guy in the water clearly looking for something, so I asked. He’d lost a necklace, made in part with his father’s WWII dog tag. In the surf zone, there was really no chance, but he was looking anyway. Really sad.

  56. 56.

    Immanentize

    @Raven:
    You are truly living large!

    Although unnoted here, the Owls met the Longhorns in one of the most savage rivalries since Greece versus Sparta. Sadly, as is custom. UT prevailed over Rice; 48 – 13.

    Hootie Hoo,!

  58. 58.

    Aleta

    @Raven: I see there’s a related podcast too.

    Points South is available now wherever you get your podcasts. The first episode features Ken Burns, Julie Dunfey, and Rhiannon Giddens discussing the contributions of African-Americans in country music and a performance by Dom Flemons from Black Cowboys, recorded live on the Oxford American stage. The episode is rounded out by a conversation with Burns and Dunfey about building the soundscape for their latest PBS documentary, Country Music. We hope you’ll tune into both the film and the podcast and let us know what you think!

    Throughout this first season we’re excited to highlight the best parts of the OA on Points South. Each episode will feature longform storytelling, exclusive music performances, and conversations with your favorite Southern artists and writers.

    If you like what you hear, please subscribe to the podcast and give us a five-star rating. This will really help spread the word and further our mission of exploring the complexity and vitality of the South.

    (email from the Oxford American, a great magazine of Southern writing and music.)

  59. 59.

    Yarrow

    @Jeffro: From the WaPo article:

    The whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

    Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

    It was not immediately clear which foreign leader Trump was speaking with or what he pledged to deliver, but his direct involvement in the matter has not been previously disclosed. It raises new questions about the president’s handling of sensitive information and may further strain his relationship with U.S. spy agencies. One former official said the communication was a phone call.

    Hoo boy, indeed.

  60. 60.

    Immanentize

    @Gin & Tonic:
    RI? Horseneck? It stays so much warmer longer in that part of the coast.

    That story about the necklace is just sad and making me feel quite lost somehow.

  63. 63.

    Yarrow

    @RAVEN: That sounds like fun. You’ll have to post some pics of the whole experience. Glad the weather is cooperating. Could have been caught in Imelda if it had been this week.

  64. 64.

    RAVEN

    @Gin & Tonic: That happened to me when I stupidly put my stuff in a kayak seat bad with no zipper. I had just gotten my challenge coin from the Rhode Island guard unit and had two key fob, dog tags and a P 38! I got fins and a mask and swam back an forth for a couple of hours, zip.

  65. 65.

    Immanentize

    @RAVEN: @Yarrow:
    Will anything ever match the photo of the little girl in her swimmies looking apprehensively at Raven’s catch?

    Once you reach that level, what new pic could compete? But I agree. More photos!

  67. 67.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Immanentize: Charlestown. Horseneck is actually in Mass. Nice beach, but more of a drive for me, and no point going during the season – I get a season pass to the state beaches here for $15. Although going to Horseneck could mean a stop at Buzzard’s Bay Brewing…. Hmmm.

  68. 68.

    Jeffro

    @Yarrow: “IHAVETHERIGHTTODISCLOSEANYTHINGIWANT!!!1!” – trumpov, late tonight or tomorrow morning.

    Sure thing, mr. president*. And we have the right to ask you what it was, and why you disclosed/promised it to foreign leader X, and to wonder about how you may have endangered the national security of the United States.

  70. 70.

    Immanentize

    @RAVEN:
    That is awful. Makes me feel more like so much gets lost. Although maybe you were better off without the Walthers?

  73. 73.

    Matt McIrvin

    @JAFD: Once I saw Michael Franks in concert at the Montreal Jazz Festival. I didn’t even know who he was, remember very little about the concert, but what I do remember is the drunk guy in the audience yelling “POPSICLE TOOOES” through the whole thing. Somebody yelled “SHUT UP” eventually.

  74. 74.

    RAVEN

    @Immanentize: This spring a guy who had been watching me for a couple of days came running up with an encrusted rod and reel with a big lure that had washed up. I took it but didn’t think I wanted it so I took the lure and through the rest in the trash. When I told the guys at the bait shop they were shattered!

  76. 76.

    RAVEN

    @Matt McIrvin: I saw him at a jazz fest in Atlanta. The was this big buzz of anticipation especially by many African American folks in the crowd. I was stunned when this dude came out. He was fun but, Miles. . . .

  85. 85.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Baud: I really don’t get this. I understand that people want younger blood but Ed Markey is not a Democratic Senator I’d want to see primaried, by any means.

  88. 88.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @zhena gogolia:

    Watched it live yesterday, and again this morning. A thing of beauty, that was.

    Oh, meant to ask this yesterday and forgot: Lewandowski keeps saying “I’ve asked and answered that [question]” (my emphasis). IANAL, but that’s not a normal usage of “asked and answered,” is it?

  89. 89.

    ola azul

    @Kay:

    Sounds all over like the newest shitweasel Supreme.

    Tho will say: Am very heartened to hear the authors divulged the extent of Kavanaugh’s slimey surreptition. Wish more journalists did likewise. If a “source”, whether it’s Jared or Ivanka or the Mooch or Kelley or whoever the fuck, knowingly and deliberately misleads/lies to a journalist, the implicit “pact” protecting that source from exposure by the journalist is, imo, invalid.

    Poor Maggie Haberman wouldn’t have nobody to talk to nomore!

  90. 90.

    Kay

    @Immanentize:

    Rick Hasen
    @rickhasen
    ·2h
    Talk about burying the lede. Here’s what the Times news analysis said over the weekend: “Mr. Kavanaugh did not speak to us because we could not agree on terms for an interview.”

    That’s technically true, I guess. Not really though, if “speak” means “speak”. Maybe he wrote it out, folded it into a tiny square, and passed it to them under the table.

  91. 91.

    J R in WV

    @Immanentize:

    Although maybe you were better off without the Walthers?

    The P-38 Raven referred to is a tiny can opener that came with military field rations. Very popular with hunters campers and fishermen who want to open a can in the field…

  93. 93.

    zhena gogolia

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    No, it’s hilarious! That phrase is spoken in a context where you’re being questioned by an opposing side’s lawyer, and your lawyer says, “Asked and answered,” meaning, “You [opposing lawyer] already asked that, and he [my client] already answered it.” Lewandowski keeps saying, “I already asked and answered that question.” None of them ever corrects him — I kept waiting for Berke to say, “I asked it, douchebag, not you!”

  94. 94.

    Immanentize

    @J R in WV:
    Ahhhh, the P 38 I know of is a 9mm. And an odd but great WWII fighter…. But I assumed he didn’t have one of those with him.

    Thank you for the addition to what I now know.

  99. 99.

    Immanentize

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    I love them. They were all fundamentally despoke! So crazy advanced! Yet stalled or lost control in steep dives. Fatal flaw exploited by the Germans. But boy are they beautiful.

  100. 100.

    Anotherlurker

    @Raven: Hey Raven, I wish you a kick-ass trip! I can’t speak for Yellowfin Tuna fishing in the Gulf, but the fall Yellowfin run in the Canyons, East and South of Montauk and South of New England can be amazing!
    The weather can be challenging but the results can be epic. Ahi steaks all winter!

  101. 101.

    FlyingToaster

    @Matt McIrvin: I actually would, because Markey has had some “Joe Biden” moments recently. My neighbors the activists have seen him several times recently and he’s not tracking as well as he did in ’13 and ’14. He was my congressman before that, so I’m not surprised he’s having some slippage. When Markey chose to be nasty to JK3 in public, he had to know there’d be consequences.

  102. 102.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Raven:

    I’ve had some issues with it but have liked it. Learned some stuff I didn’t know. I’ll miss tonight because I’m flying, but I think it will be on later in the week in D.C.

  103. 103.

    J R in WV

    @Immanentize:

    Yes, a Walther P-38, one of my best friends has one his dad brought back from Europe after the war.

    It’s in great shape, built in 1941 or ’42 IIRC, we don’t shoot it at all, on account of times it may have been shot in the war. At people who didn’t deserve shooting, perhaps. Sad, but still a fine piece of work for the time it was made.

    Not the kind of thing you carry in a kayak, tho.

  105. 105.

    JAFD

    @satby: Well, a few years back, I made a pun on another blog* that brought bomb threats in reply. I hope I don’t provoke you to that extreme.

    *They’ve changed their commenting system since then, so that thread has vanished into the ether ;-(

  106. 106.

    ghost cat

    @Mnemosyne
    You once mentioned that one of your favorite cat rescue stories was Grandpa Mason at TinyKittens. His story started here, but Mason’s kidneys have failed, and he will end his journey later today. He’ll be surrounded by kittens til the end. I thought you might like to know.

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