Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

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

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

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  4. 4.

    laura

    The gravy must be interesting.

    The double runner of paper towels really elevates it from ho hum to “Holiday.”

  6. 6.

    Juice Box

    That’s a very disturbing photo. The greenish reflections from the turkey add to the dissonance.

  12. 12.

    geg6

    Good lord.  Thankfully, our family meal was lovely today.  Loved seeing my older niece’s 5-month-old baby today.  She is the chubbiest, cutest, most pleasant baby I have ever seen.  Just an absolute joy.  If I had known there were babies like that, I might have questioned my choice to be childless.

  13. 13.

    Raoul

    We went to a James Beard finalist restaurant last night (a relative offered to pick up the tab last night since I’d be whipping up the big feast today). It was a very nice meal, but a couple of us had the trout, which was described as being cooked with some bacon.

    We didn’t realize it was a trout roulade completely encased in bacon. It was too much. Even my bacon-loving brother took off about half the pork wrapper and set it aside. It sort of blew the point of having trout the night before a massive stuff-fest.

    Ah, well.

    BTW, the big Thanksgiving went off well. I have a new convection oven with a probe that gave real-time info on the breast temp, so it cooked wonderfully and the convection oven made nice crispy skin.

    Made a gluten free, pecan topped pumpkin dump cake and it was delish. Bob’s Red Mill does good GF mixes. Lots of drizzled butter doesn’t hurt.

  14. 14.

    Bill Arnold

    @beth:

    people, please don’t eat octopus. they are probably smarter than all of u

    Agreed with the first, haven’t spent enough time with them to have an opinion about the second, but [presume that] they are conscious beings, and they do think with their arms.
    Octopus Arms Are Capable of Making Decisions Without Input From Their Brains (MICHELLE STARR, 26 JUN 2019)

    “The octopus’ arms have a neural ring that bypasses the brain, and so the arms can send information to each other without the brain being aware of it,” said behavioural neuroscientist Dominic Sivitilli of the University of Washington.
    “So while the brain isn’t quite sure where the arms are in space, the arms know where each other are and this allows the arms to coordinate during actions like crawling locomotion.”

  17. 17.

    satby

    Happy Thanksgiving to the evening shift crowd!

    My son and his gf are at their hotel, the leftovers (of which there are tons!) are safely put away, and I am exhausted. Tomorrow I have to do the market but I’ll leave a bit early to take my visitors to the Studebaker museum and the Oliver house, both really interesting.

    The house is the cleanest it’s been since I moved here. I just hope I can even walk tomorrow. Time to take the doggos out and head for bed, I’m whipped.

  22. 22.

    Leto

    Hope everyone had a good holiday, that the food was delicious, the drinks plentiful, and the company good. We wrapped ours about an hour ago. Had an excellent day: food, drinks, and board games. Also got to talk to the kid for a while, so that made it extra special. Have most of the left overs put away, just about everything washed, now just left to decompress :)

    Also that octo-Thulu is just pure nightmare fuel.

  26. 26.

    prostratedragon

    (Testing the comment box; had trouble with reply box)

    to beth @9: That’s not the only reason.
    (Someone who’ll eat almost anything else)

  27. 27.

    randy khan

    Reposting from my Facebook feed:

     

    Nine things I’ve learned from Thanksgiving

     

    1. Be generous.

     

    2. Embrace the generosity of others, especially if it involves pie.

     

    3. Family is both the people you get and the people who choose each other. They both matter.

     

    4. Clean up as you’re going along. You’ll get to bed earlier.

     

    5. There’s something really satisfying about making something from scratch.

     

    6. You can do a lot more when you’re working with someone than when you’re working alone.

     

    7. It’s easier to get the house ready if you had a party four days ago.

     

    8. If you plan things carefully and nothing goes wrong, you’ll be ready just when you need to be. Both of these things occasionally happen at the same time.

     

    9. There’s always room for one more at the table, particularly if you forgot to set enough places for all of the people you invited. (Not this year, but it did happen once.)

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    Leg o’ lamb put into oven fifteen minutes ago. Waiting for the just cooked yams to cool before mixing them together with additional ingredients into a casserole, which can do its thing in the same oven for the last thirty minutes of lamb time.

  29. 29.

    Jay

    “I don’t want billionaires to have their student loan debt cancelled!”
    So umm do you truly believe billionaires owe student debt????????

    — Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) November 29, 2019

    If you suffered in life and want other people to suffer as you did because “you turned out fine,” you did not in fact turn out fine.
    — Daniel Shipwreck (@daniel_swensen) November 22, 2019

  31. 31.

    Jay

    Pete infuriates me because he works so hard and is so sincere in his efforts to hurt us.He’s using rich kids as a muse— a foil — to keep poor and middle class kids from getting free tuition… and he so sincere with it. I’ve never seen someone so passionate about hurting us. https://t.co/JO1z5pERT7— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) November 29, 2019

  32. 32.

    The Dangerman

    I’m so over this rain (and snow) shit.

     

    /3rd generation southern californian, grumbling and grumpy

  34. 34.

    Jay

    1. Universal public systems are designed to benefit EVERYBODY! Everyone contributes & everyone enjoys. We don’t ban the rich from public schools, firefighters, or libraries bc they are public goods.2. Universal systems that benefit everyone are stronger bc everyone’s invested!— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 29, 2019

  35. 35.

    Jager

    My pal from Florida had Thanksgiving in Burbank with his daughter, grandson and his ex-wife. He’s on the train coming to our place, I have the Keitel One in the freezer. He gets one drink and a piece of pie. I’ve been up since 4:45, cooked while Mrs. J did Christmas decorations. She’s not a big football fan, but she’s from Batavia, NY and was overjoyed the Bills beat the Cowboys. We had a nice day with friend Steve and his kids. Happy, Happy.

  41. 41.

    The Dangerman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    …didn’t see any snow showing for the Santa Monicas.

    I was at Soboba Ca$ino today (for the buffet, not blackjjack … well, maybe a little blackjjack … but mostly the several thousand calories at the buffet, which was quite good by Ca$ino standards). Anyway, the hills next to the Ca$ino were dusted at the top and those hills aren’t that high.

     

    I need to get across the Grapevine or Tehachapi tomorrow (grump!!). Certainly not early in the day….

  50. 50.

    The Dangerman

    @Jay:

    We’ve now spent two news cycles trying to confirm that a dog with a penis does in fact have a penis, thank you

    If not, is Trump going to draw a picture of a package on the pooch with a Sharpie?

  58. 58.

    gogiggs

    Yes, I have seen John Carpenter’s version of “The Thing”, why do you ask?

     

    Oh my god! Kill it now! Kill it with fire!

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