Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Tick tock motherfuckers!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Their freedom requires your slavery.

In my day, never was longer.

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

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

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Irresistable (cherry-picked for your entertainment)…

(Astronomia, by Vicetone & Tony Igy)


Apparently, that call is a ‘peent’…


(Shine, Collective Soul)

Now somebody gotta give this lil dude the soundtrack he deserves…

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  1. 1.

    mrmoshpotato

    Jurassic Park- Poorly conceived- Extremely dangerous- Not falling for this againJurassic World- Wait you didn't fix anything, you just made it bigger- The dinosaurs are way more dangerous? Why did you do this- Oh there’s a Margaritaville, that actually rules ok I’ll go— the drake gatsby ? (@DrakeGatsby) April 14, 2020

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    Adorable fuzzy little birdies.
    Remind me a wee bit of my favorite Sierra bird, the dipper. Nondescript gray birds that do quick knee bends alongside streams then–ploop–dive into the water and stalk the streambed looking for bugs.

  7. 7.

    zhena gogolia

    Oh, I guess I used a forbidden word. Anyway, I love these. They’re the kind of thing Paul Bronks used to do.

  8. 8.

    Quiltingfool

    Also known as “timber doodles!”  No, I don’t know how that name came about, sorry.

  14. 14.

    Poe Larity

    A long time ago, a woodcock had to cross not a road, but a lava field.

    Now you know the rest of the story.

  15. 15.

    geg6

    Growing up, we lived on Woodcock Drive.  My sister still lives there because she bought my parents’ house when they died.  You can’t imagine what it was like in high school, with everyone knowing my street’s name.  You just can’t.

  22. 22.

    Duane

    @geg6: How much wood would a woodcock cock if a woodcock could cock wood? Is that anywhere close? I may have been a boy in your high school.

    //

  24. 24.

    different-church-lady

    The American Woodcock: it looks weird, it sounds weird, it acts weird, it IS weird.

  27. 27.

    Askew

    @different-church-lady: They are wonderfully weird and crepuscular in their displays. I’ve lived in Madison, WI on and off for years, and we used to bike out to the Arboretum, a large natural area with open, prairie vegetation, to lie down quietly at dusk and wait for them them dial up their courting ritual. You can get more of the experience here: https://ebird.org/species/amewoo. There’s the on-ground stuff and a completely distinct on-wing set of noises.

  28. 28.

    joel hanes

    Woodcocks dancing and peenting on their peenting ground, and then doing the twittering spiral courting flight, are one of the glories of midwestern woodlands.

    Aldo Leopold wrote about it.

  35. 35.

    Kattails

    My sister got a pic of one in her front yard, doing its thing, I have never seen one. But if you see the picture in a forested dead-leaf habitat you’d see how well camouflaged they are. So now I can see what she was talking about with the funky moves. (did I send her pic to Watergirl? can’t remember.)

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