Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

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

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

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  2. 2.

    geg6

    I admit that we get doggie ice cream for Koda and Lovey so they can have dessert with us.  And I don’t care who knows it!

  5. 5.

    RSA

    The clothing in the cat pic makes me think, “1960s Italian science fiction movie.”

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    @debbie:

    That’s not the face of an angry hissing cat. The cat is probably meowing to the person right of frame for attention.

  12. 12.

    Roger Moore

    @Amir Khalid:

    That’s not the face of an angry hissing cat.

    Yep.  Ears pointing forward means the cat is engaged and interested.  If the cat were angry, the ears would be pointing backward and flattened.

  16. 16.

    Jeffro

    Ok, back on a non-political note: today I stumbled across our family’s fridge magnet collection*, which I thought had gotten lost during our last move 10 months ago.

    *yes, we are THOSE kind of people  =)

    We’ve been pretty consistent about picking one up from most every place we have traveled, most every blessed sports league our kids have been a part of, and a few others.  I mean most things are just ‘things’, but this was a huge bummer.so cool to find them and see them all again!

  19. 19.

    Gin & Tonic

    Not animals, but open thread. Today Eddy Merckx, the greatest bicycle racer in history, turned 75. I don’t know how to say “Happy Birthday” in Flemish, but so be it. Here’s to many more.

  20. 20.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    @dmsilev: It’s already Thursday (morning) in Japan if that helps.

    It does help, thanks.  That means the new Pokemon expansion is out.  I know what I’m doing tonight.

  21. 21.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @debbie: Yes it’s real. We used to take our dog to Petsmart day care and they would have doggie parties on occasion, and would ask us if ice cream was ok.

    I don’t think it’s sweet but it is dairy based as I recall.

  23. 23.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Jeffro: Meh, not nearly as good as the priors. IMO way too busy, tried to do too much in too little time – and the background music is too loud, swamps the voiceover at crucial times.

    But I gotta say I’m salivating over the one on Russia they’re gonna hit him with right before the election. I’m thinking a visual something along the lines of

    TRUMP

    becomes

    TRUMPUTIN

    becomes

    TRAITOR

    & then the first R reverses and the O morphs into a hammer & sickle….

  25. 25.

    geg6

    @debbie:

    No idea but they love it.  We can get it at our local grocery store.

    ETA:  It is dairy based…I believe yogurt is an ingredient,

  27. 27.

    zhena gogolia

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    No, no, no, not the reversed R! That drives me crazy!

    The reversed R is YA, as I think you know! I hate it when it’s used for English R. Of course, R is P!

  29. 29.

    Yutsano

    @debbie: @geg6: You already know this Geg, but most grocery stores have a small refrigerated/frozen section in their pet food aisles now. You’ll find stuff like that there. It must be popular if they’re dedicating sections like that.

  34. 34.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Uncle Cosmo: (Scrabble board with AMERICA across the center.)

    Voiceover: The choice is clear: America –

    (Camera backs away & pans down to closeup of Scrabble rack with TRUMP in tiles.)

    Voiceover: or Trump.

    (R morphs into I, M into N, & letters turn red as a hand comes down & (speeded up, blurry fast) rearranges them into PUTIN.

    (Hand knocks the rack over, scattering the tiles.)

    Voiceover: Game over, Don.

     

  35. 35.

    Feathers

    @debbie: Generally it’s peanut butter, bananas, and yogurt mixed together and then frozen. My sister makes it for her dog if there is going to be a party, so she has her own treat. Once one of the boys grabbed the container labeled Mandy Ice Cream out of the fridge and was eating it out of the container. We all fake freaked out and told him it was the dog ice cream and we didn’t know if it was safe to eat. He was momentarily shocked, but took off for the bathroom and googled it. Much not amused ensued. But, dude, eating the dog’s ice cream! Shame!

  38. 38.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Poe Larity: If you are stupid or greedy, you will get taken to the cleaners. My own 401(k) gets more conservative as I get closer to ceasing gainful employment, and is up a little less than 1% since Jan 1. No, not quite at the mid-Feb sugar high, but I sleep nights.

  39. 39.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @zhena gogolia: FFS I am perfectly well aware of this – but nothing says DIRTY ROTTEN REDS! on a screen like the backwards R and a hammer&sickle.

    (See my later post for another idea that might not offend your tender kirillitsa sensibilities so much…)

  42. 42.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jeffro: today I stumbled across our family’s fridge magnet collection*, which I thought had gotten lost during our last move 10 months ago.

    We. Need. Details!  And pictures please. :)

  44. 44.

    Raven

    WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked a federal judge on Wednesday to immediately order President Trump’s former national security adviser John R. Bolton to halt publication of his memoir, which has already been printed and distributed to booksellers around the country, saying that it contained classified information even as details emerged from it.
    In a court filing, the Trump administration also urged the judge overseeing the lawsuit, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, to declare that the potential restraining order it is seeking should bind the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, and bookstores from disseminating the book once they receive notice of it.

  45. 45.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Gin & Tonic: I could not care less how “offended” you and Zhe-Ghe and the other 0.001% of the USAn population that knows the Cyrillic alphabet are by the “ya.” Those ads aren’t meant for you but for the remaining 99.999% who see the backwards R and think DIRTY ROTTEN REDS!

    Sheesh, do I gotta splain everything to yinz?

  48. 48.

    Jeffro

    @HumboldtBlue: thank you (doubly!)

     

    @Uncle Cosmo: I like your visual thinking!  Once he’s out, here’s hoping we get the full Russia investigation the country (and Hillz) deserves: the loans, bartering away sanctions, Helsinki, all of it.

     

    @schrodingers_cat: which are good!  But hard to display on the refrigerator.  =)

     

    @mrmoshpotato: oh gosh, it’s all kinds of places (probably about half are U.S. cities and half are overseas locations like England, Italy, etc).  Some are from Broadway shows.  We are still trying to remember where we got the one that looks like a scarab – I think it was the Minneapolis Institute of Art circa 2019, but opinions ahem differ.

    I was surprised at how many K-12 school-affiliated (the kids) and higher ed alma maters (me and Mrs. Fro) car magnets are in there!  I will start to rotate some of the school ones in, to complement my “BYEDON” magnet I’m currently sporting ;)

  49. 49.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Poe Larity: I wonder if Rick Wilson has “da noive” to run with this tidbit & in a full full-frontal ca$ino-based Lincoln Project screed:

    Trump wants you to roll the dice on your IRA. After all, what’ve you got to lose? Only your retirement. Trust him – he used to own a ca$ino – that he ran into bankruptcy. Only a “stable genius” like Donald Trump could bankrupt a ca$ino…

    (I think the LP can manage this without pissing off their Wall Street buddies, though it might be a leetle ticklish…)

  50. 50.

    John Revolta

    @Jeffro: We’ve got a fridge magnet collection but about 90% say “HOBOKEN” in block letters. Also, and this may be related, they actually live down on the furnace. Mrs. Revolta is tolerant but only up to a point.

  54. 54.

    trollhattan

    Area COVID-19 uptick is alarming enough the county may make masking mandatory rather than recommended in stores, restaurants and the like. Easing is not pleasing.

  56. 56.

    Another Scott

    @Raven: If I were the good judge, I would ask Barr’s minions:

    1. Show me the classified information in the manuscript and tell me why it’s classified.
    2. Show me your correspondence with Bolton and his lawyers where you asked him to remove the information in #1.
    3. Show me Bolton’s and his lawyers’ response to #2.

    I fully expect that they won’t.  Because they’ve not even started the process – they’ve just sat on it.  And they cannot do that.

    In that case, the judge should throw out the suit – with prejudice.

    It will be interesting to see what happens.

    IANAL.  My $0.02.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  61. 61.

    Feathers

    Heartbreaking. In New Jersey, COVID-19 has killed 12% of the nursing home population. In New York – 6%, Michigan – 5%. Propublica investigation looking into Cuomo’s decision to force nursing homes to accept COVID patients discharged from hospital. Slightly less strict policy from NJ & Michigan. States which kept COVID patients out had <2% population fatalities.

    There goes Saint Cuomo. We knew who he was. Link

  62. 62.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: 

    I’d respond with a link to a clip of an unarmed young black man on his knees surrounded by officers pointing their weapons at him.

    A young woman stopped and recorded and pleaded until she was in tears for them to put down their guns and take him into custody. They finally did but if she hadn’t been there there was a good chance he would have died, the cops were in their full contradicting orders bullshit routine they use.

    I just can’t.

  63. 63.

    Persistent Illusion

    Fire everybody who calls out.  All of them.  This is too important to let bigots disrupt the conversation.  No more white separatist BS!

  69. 69.

    Yutsano

    @zhena gogolia: Oof…

    (Yes I had to look it up.)

    I can read Cyrillic. It’s a phase of me being weird in high school. I agree with you that it doesn’t look right.

  71. 71.

    HumboldtBlue

    I… I… Umm, I have no words but I drove through Oklahoma once and I was boggled people actually lived there.

  76. 76.

    cain

    @Mary G:

    The thing is.. I hope that these people who get in, I hope they will be wise enough to vote all the things required to keep a Democratic majority – and not suddenly play blue dog democrat – or republican lite. That never worked for any of the other blue dogs.

    Rather, if they want to be blue dogs, they should just start with forming a conservative caucus that eventually turns into the new conservative party.

  77. 77.

    cain

    @OldDave:

    @HumboldtBlue: Especially near Tulsa in the 60s.  The stench from the refineries was overwhelming.

    I understand that it is also one of the heart of rock n roll – along with austin, oklahoma city, seattle and san francisco too.

  79. 79.

    debbie

    Thanks for the doggie ice cream information, everyone. How refreshing to learn something that doesn’t fill me with horror.

  80. 80.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @cain: The thing is.. I hope that these people who get in, I hope they will be wise enough to vote all the things required to keep a Democratic majority –

    Shockingly enough, I feel exactly the same way. Except–

    and not suddenly play blue dog democrat – or republican lite. That never worked for any of the other blue dogs.

    –my sense of “what’s required to keep a Democratic majority” is probably about 170 degrees away from the Jackaltariat’s. Far closer to your despised “blue dog democrats” than to the hyperleftish heartthrobs of your dreams. Yinz are almost as bad as the Berniebros, screaming your heads off for bright-blue unicorns in places where the best you can realistically hope for is a purplish workhorse like Joe Manchin. (Who BTW is a reliable Democratic vote in the Senate at least 80% of the time.) You never stop to think that if a despicable “blue dog democrat” like Manchin didn’t hold that seat, the WV electorate would hand it to a Thuglican in a blowout, & that 80% would drop to zero in a Morgantown minute.

    Happily, yinz represent something less than 0.1% of the US electorate & you can (& will) be ignored by those whose job it is to save us from fullblown fascism by winning elections for Democrats however purplish they may be.

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