Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Everybody saw this coming.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

People are weird.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

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  7. 7.

    MazeDancer

    Wait – The vid stopped before the last kit caught up with the pack. So, now I get to worry. I had just finished urging it to cross the road by saying, out loud, “You gotta go, you gotta with your mommy.”

    Which, apparently, it heard.

    Also, who knew lynxes had such large litters.

  9. 9.

    Martin

    Had one in my backyard a number of years ago (bobcat here). Stupid me only knew something loud was up in our tree so I went out, stood underneath it and curiously shone my flashlight up to see what was growling at me (it was a very cool growl). I never did see it in the tree, though we did see it navigate our fence headed toward the lake a bit later. Next day Kevin Drum (who lives a few blocks closer to the lake)’s cat Inkblot went missing.

    We do have coyotes here, so it might not have been the bobcat, but I suspect it was the bobcat.

  11. 11.

    Martin

    Ok, so that wasn’t a happy story.

    Here’s some non-cat good news.

    The Trump administration formally proposed rolling back Obama-era fuel economy standards in August 2018, but two new reports suggest that the rollback may not end up happening at all. That’s thanks to some remarkable—even for this crew—incompetence.

    Actually, cleaner air is good news for both cats and bobcats, but in a very diffuse way. Good news all around! Favorite line:

    Certainly a “turducken of falsehoods” seems like a bad thing.

    Indeed.

  17. 17.

    Jharp

    That is a super cool video.

    I want to know everything.

    I once saw a big cat just north of international falls mn.

    So cool.

  19. 19.

    Jeffro

    Mrs. Fro saw an actual live skunk on her morning hike with the dog today…she came back in all goggly-eyed, saying, “It was BIG!”   Looked it up and apparently they grow to adult cat size.  She goes, “this one was BIGGER!”

    They can be as big as they want, I guess.  As long as she and the dog don’t round a corner and stumble right into one.

  20. 20.

    BC in Illinois

    What are you all doing this weekend?

    This is the weekend of the St Louis Irish Arts Feis, bringing 700 young dancers and singers and musicians.

    My assignment is to stay at my daughter’s house with the 5-year-old g’son, who is missing the beginners’ tinwhistle competition because of a case of the fever and the pukes. (It’s his turn, the 7 and 9-year-olds have already been though this.) His sisters are competing tonight on whistle, Irish singing (yeah, in Irish Gaelic), and the 9-year-old on harp. My daughter asked her FaceBook community what to do with singing competitions, when the singers have a tendency to cough if they take a deep breath. The suggestions included hot water and lemon and honey, water and honey, straight honey, various teas, and Baileys.

    Sitting with the patient, I got to see The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, which I had never even heard of. In Stephen King’s book On Writing, he mentions how many recent fiction writers are following the paths set out by JRR Tolkien. This heroic owl-fantasy is one of them. But the g’son had seen it before and pointed out what was happening, so it was well worth it.

    We hope that all three g’kids can be well for the dance competitions tomorrow. Jigs, reels, hornpipes, three-hand reels, etc. If everybody is healthy then I’ll get to go too.

  22. 22.

    Mousebumples

    We’ve got a support local downtown businesses Chocolate Walk tomorrow afternoon. $20 to walk from shop to shop and try different chocolate goodies they’ve prepared. Hopefully the weather cooperates!

  25. 25.

    Kent

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: 

    I’ve seen bobcats in my old suburban/exurban neighborhood in Waco TX and I’ve also seen them here in my suburban Vancouver (WA) neighborhood in the green belt behind my house. I wonder if they are getting more common like coyotes. Or if we are just encroaching in their habitat more. Perhaps both.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    @Martin:

    I don’t think that bobcats eat house pets, at least not nearly as often as coyotes do. I once saw a small dog at the vet’s office that came to get its stitches out after a coyote jumped over their backyard fence and tried to carry it away. Fortunately, the owners were able to drive the coyote away and rush the dog to the emergency vet.

  28. 28.

    Kent

    What are you all doing this weekend?

    I’ve got four 13 year old girls doing a sleepover in the basement.  They are probably going to watch Japanese anime until the wee hours of the night over Costco pizza diet cokes.

    Tomorrow I’ll probably bring them to a local DIY glass blowing studio so they can learn how to blow glass.

  29. 29.

    jl

    @Baud: “Respite thread turns out to be stressful.”

    All true BJ blog inhabitants know well how to escape the clutches of respite.

    I am fully respited by this delightful post. It is adorable, and I for one have full confidence these cats know what they are doing, and look forward one day to welcoming our new lynx overlords.

  31. 31.

    Kelly

    We had a really great XC ski day. Inch or so of new on a well consolidated base. Nice Mexican dinner on the way home. Cats managed to shut themselves in a bathroom while we were gone. Couldn’t even drink from the toilet because they knocked a pile of towels into it. They didn’t seem very bothered by their confinement. Glad we were home.

  33. 33.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @BC in Illinois: This must be post Hillbilly. Can ya give me more details? I’m gonna be in town for the Soulard pet parade on Sunday  but this sounds like it’s right up my alley and next year…

    Hope springs eternal.

  34. 34.

    jl

    @Mnemosyne: Going by what my friends in CA Sierra foothills say, bobcats love to eat house pets. Not in the news much I suppose because there are not as many around built up areas, and they are shy and more careful and cautious than other predators.They are also smaller than a coyote or mountain lion, so usually will tackle only smaller pets.  But having watched them, mostly as blurs running away in the middle distance, man, are they fast and nimble, when they decide to catch a domesticated animal, I think they don’t have any trouble.

  36. 36.

    laura

    Heart shaped pizza is in the oven & under the control of spouse. I’m in a comfy chair. We rode our bikes and the weather was sun and fair winds. Wishing a gentle and loving weekend to all.

  38. 38.

    khead

    I love this video.  I really wish we could’ve saved the MomCat that gave us 6 beautiful kittens.

    Weekend includes a western party/murder mystery.  I’m a sheriff and Mrs. Khead is a saloon girl.  I’m… coloring my mustache.  Because I’m old.

  40. 40.

    opiejeanne

    Right now I’m making Peruvian chicken because ohmygawdit’ssogood!  and it’s Valentine’s Day. The aroma of the garlic when I opened the ziplock bag with the marinade (24 hours is a long time to wait) was like heaven. Now it’s in the oven and we’re eating brie and other assorted cheeses while we wait.

    Tomorrow our youngest and my niece and her husband are coming to take us to lunch and to decorate sugar cookies. I will limit my cookie-eating to one, between nuts and carrots and other things so my blood sugar doesn’t go nuts.

  42. 42.

    Martin

    @Kent: I have an 18 year old who is still down with japanese anime, diet coke, and costco pizza. A pack of Pokemon cards still cheers her up.

    Rolling back to 13 year old pleasures can really help during later year troubles.

    Glass blowing is a fascinating artform.

  43. 43.

    ruemara

    Writing a cover letter tonight, writing tomorrow, maybe on set tomorrow night, maybe not. Maybe have a post or something to throw up.

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    Since we usually do our Valentine’s Day celebrating the weekend before (or the weekend after), tonight will be Chinese takeout because I was in the mood for it and willing to pick it up. I did bring G a cupcake from the batch that my co-worker’s mother made for us.

    Contemplating a train adventure down to the Happiest Place on Earth on Monday since I have the day off AND they somehow managed to leave one of those damn ink tags on a sweatshirt I bought and no one else seems to be able to remove it, unless I manage to convince Macys or JC Penney that I’m not a shoplifter, really. Gah.

  45. 45.

    khead

    Also, did Cole or anyone else ever talk about Jim Justice’s comments after I mentioned them here earlier this week?

    Dude is trying to walk it back now but I knew what the fuck he was saying. Check the demographics for Greenbrier County and Beckley, WV.

  50. 50.

    J R in WV

    Amazing litter, for a wild cat mother, I think 5 kits is a huge crowd of babies to raise in the north woods. And they all look healthy and growing up to be big wild cats on their own! Wonderful.

    Thanks Cheryl~!!~

  53. 53.

    Mai naem mobile

    @burnspbesq:  I cannot believe you’re posting here on your wedding day after the wedding!

    Anybody see the video of Obama at the NCAA Care event. Man, I miss him. What a cool decent empathetic president we were lucky to have.

  57. 57.

    Nicole

    @Martin: My 9-year-old loooooooooves Bad Lip Reading.  He likes the songs best (I think he knows every line of “Seagulls Stop It Now,”) but I’m old-school- I liked them when they were doing more actual bad lip reading.  We disagree on this frequently.

  58. 58.

    Nicole

    @burnspbesq:

    Enjoying married life.

    Yeah, give it a couple of weeks.

    (Kidding; I love being married.  Congratulations and wishing you years and years and years of joy!)

  59. 59.

    CaseyL

    Well, there’s the meetup on Sunday.  Other than that, this weekend will be like any other: hanging with the kitties, maybe doing some grocery shopping, and working on glass.

  60. 60.

    Bill Arnold

    @Martin:

    Certainly a “turducken of falsehoods” seems like a bad thing.

    Google translate French to English of this: https://asce.kanak.fr/t114-recettes-de-cuisine
    a dish called “Rôti Sans Pareil” -> “Roast Without Equal”, with jokes about artists of the time

    – Take a beautiful olive stuffed with capers and anchovies, marinated in virgin oil,
    and put it in the body of a fig beak which will have been cut off the head and The paws;
    – Put this fig beak so wrapped in an ortolan, fat and full of flesh;
    – Put this ortolan thus chosen in the body of a wimp to which, in addition to the amputation of the legs and the head, the main bones will have been cut off, and that we will have surrounded by a very thin bacon bard ;
    – Put the stuffed and trimmed wimp in the body of a thrush, which you will have trimmed and tucked together;
    – Put the thrush in the body of a very fat, very juicy quail, which is of vine, in preference to a domestic quail;
    – Put this quail, not clad, but wrapped in a vine leaf which will serve as a title of nobility and a certificate of origin, in the body of a good lapwing:
    – Put the lapwing, well tucked up and covered with a thin frock coat bacon, in the body of a golden plover;
    – Put the said plover, well clad, in the body of a young woodcock, tender like Melle Volnais, succulent, and well mortified;
    – Put this woodcock, after having surrounded it with thinly cut bread crusts, in the body of a teal;
    – Put the teal, carefully wrapped and well trimmed, in the body of a guinea fowl;
    – Put the guinea fowl, also well-clad, in the body of a young duck, chosen from the wild in preference to domestic ducks;
    – Put the duck in the body of a young chicken, white like Mme Belmont, plump like Melle de Vienne, fat like Melle L. Contat, but of medium size;
    – Put this chicken in the body of a beautiful pheasant, young, well chosen but above all suitably mortified, because the Gourmands love them only so;
    – Put this pheasant in the body of a young wild goose, fat and well tenderized;
    – Put this young and beautiful goose in the body of a very beautiful Indian hen, white and fat like Miss Arsène;
    – Finally, enclose your hen in the body of a beautiful bustard, and if it does not fill it exactly, fill the gaps with good chestnuts of Luc, sausage meat, or a good savory stuffing.
    – Your roast thus arranged, put it in a pot of a suitable capacity, with onions studded with nails, carrots, small dices of ham, celery, bouquet garni, mignonette, strong seasoned bacon bards, pepper, salt, fine spices, coriander, and one or two cloves of garlic.

    (roast on low heat for 24 hours)

  64. 64.

    MoCA Ace

    I’m about 200 miles south of lynx territory but we have plenty of bobcats around.  There is a mamma bobcat that must have a favorite den site close to my house because I have seen her and her kits regularly (in person and on camera trap) for the last 5 years.  I have never seen her with more than three kittens. 

    They are the most stealthy animal I have ever seen.  I was deer hunting a few years back and saw her coming through alone at about 25 yards.  I inadvertently made the smallest noise and she immediately dropped to the ground.  I watched for at least 10 minutes and never saw her depart the area.  It was like she never existed at all.  Another time I watched one of her mostly grown kittens  crouch on the end of log while a grey squirrel fed within two feet of the cat.  I so wanted to see it take the squirrel but it never moved… must have been full at the time.       

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