Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

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

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

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

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

I really should read my own blog.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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  8. 8.

    The Dangerman

    @Baud:

    Samantha be like…

    …”oh, shit, they cut off his head and put it in a box … and he’s still talking!…”

    ETA: Ah, hell, came it at 8; that would have been better at 7, in a Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman kinda way…

  11. 11.

    laura

    There’s something very Jambi-esque about your framed, disembodied noggin. Samantha’s cute too.

  13. 13.

    LeftCoastYankee

    Is this a “separated at birth” quiz?

    You’re losing on the facial hair quantity points, Cole.

    Tie on the contentedness vibe though!

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    @Baud

    Funny you should mention that. Have been inundated with robocalls, sometimes the same one 4 or 5 times over the course of a day (and night), to the point where stopped dithering and a couple of days ago attached an answering machine to the phone so I can screen calls.

    Of course, since the day that was turned on the phone has not rung once.

  19. 19.

    Jager

    I’m off to Burbank to pick up the Executive wife. Her little company wrote about 250k (not counting today) in business in 5 days at the Las Vegas Winter Furniture Market. It’s only her 2nd year in business and she is kicking ass. 5 days of 12 to 14 hour days in heels. I bought her a good bottle of cab and I’ll give her a foot rub while Anze the Dog gives her kisses.

  21. 21.

    Lefty Southpaw

    Whoa, until I saw the top right corner I thought you had dropped the ball on the beard trimming

  24. 24.

    chris

    @mrmoshpotato: Good one! Weird, eh? First found on reddit, owner says she’s quite vocal and very affectionate. They just look like they’re about to eat your face.

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    @chris:

    They just look like they’re about to eat your face. 

    Haha

    Don’t want one of them to wake you up like Garfield.

  27. 27.

    jl

    Yikes, didn’t see Cole’s face in the upper right hand corner at first. Cole facetimes dogs in a trance or what?

    it startled me, and I still find it unsettling. That is spooky looking.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    I will repeat my recommendation for Weathering with You, currently in (some?) theaters. Visually stunning, worth seeing on the big screen. And a very good movie besides.

  32. 32.

    jl

    @mrmoshpotato: “Samantha is not a warmonger.”

     

    Making fun of a warmonger with a cute funny pic of a shaggy dog does not make the dog a warmonger. There…. I said it, and I’m not taking it back. Ban me!

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack

    In other news, my back is acting up, which happens almost never. Felt a little tight starting late last week—I have no idea why—then flared up the last day or so. The crisis points are (a) right when I start to get up from a sitting position and (b) bending down below a certain point. I have been moving vewy, vewy deliberately and trying to stay off of the computer (at the desk, my primary sitting location). Fortunately, lying down really helps, and it doesn’t hurt to turn over in bed, so that’s good. And Aleve, which I take about twice a year, has been helping. That is all.

  45. 45.

    The Dangerman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    …Burbank, not LAX.

    Depending on starting point, the correct answer between Burbank and LAX is … Ontario.

    If the LAX run involves the Sepulveda pass, it’s hello Super Shuttle (I assume that operation is still in business).

    ETA: I should note the last time I was at LAX … on premises, I mean … good grief, well over a decade.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    @Steeplejack

    Could never quite warm up to that modern visual style of anime other than in small chunks. Part of that stems from hours of being around a friend of a friend who was/is so obsessed with anime that it’s the ONLY thing he ever talked about, regardless of what the conversation, ad nauseum.

    (BTW, the program I linked above to a snippet from is live action.)

  47. 47.

    CaseyL

    Photo gives me the spookies, don’t know why.  Maybe because Cole’s eyes seem closed, like he’s an Action Figure still in the box.

    Or, y’know, a coffin.  Yikes.

    @Jager:  Wow!  What a great trade show – congrats to your wife, and warm fuzzies to you for picking her up and taking her home and plying her with fine wine :)

  50. 50.

    danielx

    @The Dangerman:
    Shades of a Rolling Stone interview with Alfred Hitchcock I read long ago – featured a photo of an open refrigerator with Alfred’s head inside (intact) resting on a shelf

  53. 53.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    I was looking at Google Maps and they had a place name “Neenach Volcano” up near Palmdale.  Turns out that it really was a volcano(last erupted 20 million years ago) here in LA county.  The article pointed out another extinct volcano in eastern Ventura county were I grew up, Conejo Mountain(last erupted 14 million years ago).

  55. 55.

    The Dangerman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    …same distance, but a world of difference.

    I used to drive the Sepulveda Pass every workday (worked in Glendale, near Dodger Stadium, lived on Veteran near campus … talking last year or 2 at school here).

    I really screwed the pooch (sorry Samantha!) with that job; I ran a lab, basically had it to myself (it was kinda dirty, so the office people avoided it) so I could crank up the stereo and do my thing. Damn, those were the days (wasn’t a fancy lab like my Aero days, where we had toys aplenty and was plenty clean, but it was fun in it’s own way). Had to quit though or graduation was going to be a real challenge (it was a challenge, anyway).

    Anyway, these days, I’d rather hang out in Wuhan than drive the Sepulveda pass regularly.

  59. 59.

    CaseyL

    @debbie: Actually, the vibe it gave me was more like the Dr. Who series where Amy keeps seeing a woman staring at her from unexpected windows in walls, with the window and the woman vanishing as soon as Amy sees her.  Turns out Amy is actually a prisoner somewhere else, with the woman keeping watch, and the “Amy” who is with The Doctor and Rory is a construct.

  62. 62.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    One particular line still etched in momory lo these many decades later from an otherwise better assigned to obscurity Cold War spoof film:

    “What has ethics got to do with diplomacy?”

  63. 63.

    The Dangerman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I lived on Veteran my last 2 years at UCLA…

    Huh, we coulda been neighbors, but you were a year or 2 ahead of me, IIRC. On Veteran, I think it was the 600 block (660?), right across from the Cemetary. It was an easy walk to campus and the village.

    Before Veteran, I lived over off of Wilshire and San Vincente. NOT an easy walk to campus but did it regularly (along with bus, of course). I was in the shadow there of Barington Towers, which I always thought were really nice, but there has been 2 fires there in just a few short years. Maybe it was never that nice or isn’t that nice any longer

    ETA: Holy Hell, just looked at a map. Jackie Robinson Stadium used to be in the sticks and now it’s all developed. Huh.

  65. 65.

    Adam L Silverman

    If you say “John Cole” three times he emerges from the mirror above and to the right of Samantha! 

  67. 67.

    The Pale Scot

    @Steeplejack (phone): Yesterday there was a “I’m leaving for now message” posted. I thought OK, I can deal with this, just scroll thru the old stuff to find my kinda happy place when I need it. Today it’s gone. But there’s a post from yesterday on the instagram Like I said, don’t tell anyone, this is just between us.

  70. 70.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @The Pale Scot:

    He has taken a break or been suspended for a few days several times in the past. I don’t know why it keeps happening, unless somebody has a problem with the sourcing of his material.

  74. 74.

    Mnemosyne

    @Amir Khalid: 

    I just started my THIRD week of lower back pain + sciatica. At this point, it’s really the sciatica that’s killing me because it makes it painful to walk since I have lovely shooting pains down my calf and shin. Yay.

  75. 75.

    JWR

    @Mnemosyne: Yikes! I know the feeling! For me, beginning in 1990, it started with lower back pains, which chiropractic adjustments, once every few years seemed to take care of. But my Sciatica skipped my leg and jumped to where it is now, centered in my right foot. (And it hurts like hell, 24/7.) Here’s hoping that your pain, (and anyone else suffering from Sciatica), doesn’t become chronic.

  77. 77.

    Mnemosyne

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    To add insult to injury, you know how I threw my back out?

    Coughing.

    I had the flu that’s been going around that wasn’t covered by this year’s flu shot, and I coughed while I was laying in bed and injured my back. Ugh.

  79. 79.

    Mnemosyne

    @JWR:

    Ouch! I’m seeing both a physical therapist and a chiropractor for other things, so they’ve both been working on the emergency that is my lower back. It’s definitely helped even though I still have pain.

  81. 81.

    JWR

    @Mnemosyne:

    the emergency that is my lower back

    Ah, the memories! But seriously, here’s hoping the degradation can be halted and not be allowed to overtake your life! IOW, be well! ;-)

  82. 82.

    opiejeanne

    @CaseyL: That whole business with Amy Pond being a construct and a prisoner was so confusing to me that I realized too late that I must have missed a crucial episode or two.

  85. 85.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Mnemosyne:

    Two words: Thai massage. I have had a couple of raging bouts of sciatica in my life, and the last time Thai massage was the one thing that really helped my leg pain. It’s sort of like guided yoga.

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