Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Bark louder, little dog.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The revolution will be supervised.

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

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

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

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

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  1. 1.

    Ken

    I can’t quite tell from the photo. Is that a kid’s “Happy 2nd Birthday” banner, or do they sell them for dogs?

  2. 2.

    Eric S.

    Happy birthday Biscuits and Luna.

    I had a fun work phone call today:

    Person 1: [to Person 2] Are you ready to implement the new computer system.

    Person 2: [Complete pendant to the point he will Reply All to an email to correct your spelling or punctuation] In the words of Winston Churchill, it will be a day that lives in infamy.

    Me: FDR.

    P2: What?

    Me: FDR said that.

  3. 3.

    Barbara

    Ant & Bee threw a birthday party for Dog. They got him a new kennel as a gift and made a birthday cake out of biscuits because he didn’t like sweet cake. I must have read that book to my kids 1000 times.

  4. 4.

    RoonieRoo

    I’m baking a pup cake next week for my dog’s birthday.  He’ll be 7.  His birthday present is to go to doggie daycare that he loves.  He gets to go swimming and do a lure course and I am springing for the Happy Birthday celebration that gets me the most adorable photos ever.  Have I mentioned this is the most amazing dog daycare place?

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    Doggie birfdays, why the hell not?

    Happy woof day to you
    Happy woof day to you
    Happy woof day good doggies
    Happy woof day to you

    Eight at night and it’s convertible weather. In February. Cue Twilight Zone theme.

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    I went out and bought a bunch of freeze-dried camping food to add to our emergency kit. I needed to do it anyway since we live in earthquake country, but COVID lit a fire under me.

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    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    I went out and bought a bunch of freeze-dried camping food to add to our emergency kit. I needed to do it anyway since we live in earthquake country, but COVID lit a fire under me.

    Have you sampled any of it? Anything really tasty?

    Once I looked at surplus “meals ready to eat” at Amazon and a couple of other places, but just couldn’t really be bothered.

  20. 20.

    dmsilev

    So, off to a conference on Sunday. At a guess, about a quarter of the attendees in a normal year are from China, so that’s going to be cut way down. I also know of people here who are canceling their trip because of virus fears, which I think is an overreaction at this point but can certainly see why others might disagree. Going to be a somewhat weird experience, most likely.

  24. 24.

    Juice Box

    @Mnemosyne: I ordered two bags of dog food from Chewy’s for my Corona virus prep. I figure that if worse comes to worse and we finish the stuff in the freezer, we can always share with the dog.

  27. 27.

    Martin

    @Brachiator: Freeze dried camping food is generally pretty decent. Beats any MRE I’ve had by a mile. Mind you, you do have to do a bit of preparation which you don’t with an MRE.

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    @Brachiator:

    I read the reviews on REI.com and people seemed reasonably pleased. I decided to get camping food rather than “emergency” food because it needs to be halfway decent or campers will stop buying it.

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    @John Cole:

    They could be better than about 75% of the meals I was served in the navy. They only beat starvation by about 1 point. Most days.

    When ever we pulled into port the local markets/bakeries would run out of bread and stuff to put on it. Bar food was better. Hell McDs was better and that’s swill. OK I’m sorry for giving swill a bad rap. Still….

  35. 35.

    Mnemosyne

    @mrmoshpotato:

    The brands I ended up with are:

    – Backpackers Pantry

    – Mountain House

    – Alpine Aire

    – Omeals, which are self-heating in a way that seems a little weird but everyone says is functional

  36. 36.

    Martin

    @Ruckus: You should have volunteered for the subs. They got fed pretty well. My dad was always a bit shocked at how bad the food was on the surface boats.

    Don’t piss off people in an enclosed space, I guess.

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    So I was trying to figure out how I could boil water for these meals if we didn’t have electricity or natural gas after an earthquake. It turns out that there are little heating packs that are used to warm up MREs — who knew? It’s essentially a double boiler that runs on a chemical reaction of water and quicklime. I saved a couple of options to my Amazon wishlist to review later.

  38. 38.

    Duane

    @chris: Thanks for the film link. Pretty cool. The Flatiron Building has a great history. With so many horses in a city of 5 million it must have taken a army to clean the streets.  Not Max probably remembers.//

  39. 39.

    Ken_L

    My dog-hating Maltese would have gotten drunk and started a fight. Or hung out with the cats, if there were any at the party.

  40. 40.

    PST

    @Martin:

    Don’t piss off people in an enclosed space, I guess.

    Or feed them anything that will make them fart.

    I realize the thread is dead and buried, but sometimes I like to indulge my inner nine-year-old.

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