Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

“woke” is the new caravan.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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

Republicans in disarray!

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

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

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Optimism opens the door to great things.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Let there be snark.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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  2. 2.

    BruceFromOhio

    “I can’t make you love me” – Bonnie Raitt’s original makes me sing along. Adele’s version makes me want to sob like a lost child. What the hell, its the same song? Maybe its the time of day.

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    Mnemosyne

    I’m probably going to dye my hair purple tomorrow. I found some stuff called Overtone that will let me do a dark purple without having to bleach my hair. We’ll see how this goes. ?

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    Peale

    Word of the day: allotheism: the worship of strange gods.

    Aren’t they all strange?

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    Amir Khalid

    I queued up again this week to get into the supermarket. (I guess that’s going to be a thing in the era of covid-19.) Plenty of TP, no apparent shortage of anything. A woman two places ahead of me in the queue was wearing her mask — kind of. She kept her nose and mouth uncovered, so she could chat with her friend standing right next to her and blow her nose every few minutes. She covered up only when right in front of the security guard at the entrance; once she was past him, down went the mask again. SMH.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Peale: Word of the day: allotheism: the worship of strange gods.

    Aren’t they all strange?

    Strange gods for strange worshippers!

    TBH, I’ve only ever heard the word used in two contexts:  As an accusation of faddism (eg, Terry Pratchett’s Tibetan monks who worship ‘The Way of Mrs. Galloway’, an ordinary Ankh-Morpork landlady, because she’s exotic to them); or as an accusation of heresy.

    Either way, using it just seems to be asking for trouble.

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    Major Major Major Major

    Did about 875 words of the “write a random chapter in a book in a day” thing I’m doing. It’s due tomorrow at 4 and I wrote a beat-by-beat outline so I think I’m good. About 1/3 of the way through the outline.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: To be honest, in my coronavirus searches, I’ve seen more than one Muslim jeering Doesn’t wearing niqab look like a good idea now?

    (Not that I agree, but if *those guys* wanna wear one… )

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    Amir Khalid

    @Anne Laurie:

    Masking up for covid-19 isn’t just for women so it doesn’t count as wearing niqab, I would think. And I wouldn’t really call that jeering; it’s more like friendly teasing.

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    NotMax

    Repeating from the morning thread.

    Excuse me, ladies and gentlejackals, did someone at this table order an extra helping of cute?

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    Mnemosyne

    @West of the Rockies:

    I already wear a LOT of purple, so I figured, why not? It’s not like I have a whole lot else to do in quarantine. And my gray roots are really bad because I procrastinated too long on getting a professional to dye them.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: Fair enough.

    I’ve ordered a couple plain cloth masks, although the Spousal Unit is the only one going beyond our yard right now.  (I have a ton of spare cotton fabric on hand, but no 1/2″ elastic I can find, and of course elastic is out-of-stock or backordered everywhere.)  Wearing N95 masks, even if we could find the last couple opened, probably-expired packets from the last basement renovation project, gets tedious fast.

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    Dan B

    @Amir Khalid: My friend in Saudi has been poking fun at the men for discovering the joy of niqab.  Her friends are having great fun.  Wish I could forward the memes.

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    NotMax

    @Anne Laurie

    Mom told me that earlier in the week (or maybe it was late last week) she went to her local CVS to get a prescription refill. Said she was the only customer in the place and the pharmacist commented that she wasn’t wearing a mask, then he disappeared into the back, reappeared and gave her a brand new one. For free.

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    Mnemosyne

    @West of the Rockies:

    Though I’m looking at my test strand again and seriously considering going with rose gold even though I’m not normally a fan of pink. It seems to leave a nice shimmer on top of my normal color, whereas the purple will take me a couple of shades darker. ?

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    MisterForkbeard

    @Mnemosyne: That sound slikena good idea. I’ve been thinking about screwing with my hair since I’m now stuck in the home for a month or ywl.

    I’ve basically had a ponytail for 25 years and a beard for 10. Maybe time to switch it up.

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    HeartlandLiberal

    Son and I managed to get the large rear tine tiller started yesterday, and tilled up the 2,000 sq ft garden. 2/3 will be vegetables, 1/3 separate plot will be sunflowers, zinnias, and wildflowers. I went to this config two years ago and we have enjoyed the three or four months of flowers beyond measure. The butterflies, birds, including swarms of hummingbirds, have shown their appreciation, too.

    Could not start the small, light Honda tiller. Engine is locked up again. I forgot to fuel it with stabilizer and give it a final run leaving some gas in the tank. Will have to call small engine guy to come pick it up and degunk it again, I did this two years ago. Sigh.

    Here in south central Indiana, at this point global warming has produced situation where in early April one has to question if there will be another frost. When we moved here 35 years ago, one could expect frost and sleet and snow into the first week of May. Now in first week of April we have temps hitting upper sixties, I think one day made it to lower seventies.

    Trying how to figure out how to get tomato and pepper plants without exposing myself to virus and bringing it home and killing everybody. Read that the Farmers Market may offer online order and curbside deliver. Will have to check the web site out. That is where I get my plants from local nurseries every spring.

    Hope everyone is staying safe and taking this seriously. As I predicted weeks ago, the Deep South is about to be hit by a wave of sickness and dying off that will be unprecedented in any of their lives or imaginations. All because they drank the kool-aid, and think that quoting Psalm 91 and the words of Dear Leader Trump will protect them from this Democrat Hoax virus.

    Not going to work out well for many gramps and grannies, I fear.

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    Geminid

    Just read a good article in Medium  by the brothers Krassenstein regarding a certain Biden assault accuser. I came away wondering, was the “Russian friend” who was with her when she wrote her fulsome Putin praise KGB or GRU? Is she being paid in rubles, dollars, or both?

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