Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Optimism opens the door to great things.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

“Alexa, change the president.”

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

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

So many bastards, so little time.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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  1. 1.

    WereBear

    I rested yesterday. Yes, I’m still furloughed, but…

    I’m writing two books and revamping my cat website and devoting considerable time to trying to turn a small weird attic space into a Youtube studio. It’s challenging with Pandemic Brain.

    In fact, that’s been my excuse for late paperwork, mangled understanding of phone messages, and just now realizing I MUST renew the car registration TOMORROW.

    See? The funny thing is, everyone understands.

  2. 2.

    featheredsprite

    Good day for baking. I have rye bread working. The recipe calls for several ingredients and takes a good bit of time. But oh my foes and ah my friends [or the other way] the results are much appreciated.

  3. 3.

    Ken

    @WereBear: Not only does everyone understand, they’re even using it in commercials.

    There’s one for online car shopping where the customer asks if it can be delivered Tuesday. The seller says “Today’s Tuesday,” and the buyer says “It is? Honey, is this Tuesday? Why does this keep happening?”

  4. 4.

    Nora

    I had a staff person apologize for some understandable confusion today and I said, “Forget it, Benny — it’s COVID 19.”

    The Chinatown reference worked surprisingly well.

  6. 6.

    bbleh

    I did not until now realize that coronavirus is an anagram of carnivorous.  That’s actually cool.

  7. 7.

    Nicole

    So I went to get a Covid-19 test on Friday at one of the NYC public hospitals and had my result on Saturday, barely 24 hours after I took the test (it was negative).    And they followed up with phone calls yesterday and today to make sure I’d gotten my results.

    Props to public health.

    Also, the writers who walked off Deadspin are starting their own blog, Defector.  They all own it together.  I’m ridiculously happy about this.  I read Deadspin every day until the mass walk-off, and I don’t even follow sports.  I bought a subscription and am looking forward to their launch in September.

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    Humor, eh?

    I’m watching a Ballistic BBQ video for a bison bacon cheeseburger and just saw an ad for beef.

    Beef – It’s What’s Not In This Video

  9. 9.

    raven

    I went to my physical therapy appointment and, basically, the PT thew in the towel. I appreciate the fact that he said “it hasn’t gotten any better and I’ve done everything I can”.  He’s sending his notes back to the Sports Med Doc so we’ll see. After that my tenant send me a read out from the wireless thermostat and said the HVAC ran for 7 houses and never hit the “point”. I spent $5k on the unit a couple of months ago and the installer said “you can’t keep a 100 year old house at 70 degrees when it’s 96 outside. Fun times.

  11. 11.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    @WereBear: I feel your pain on the car registration. Every time I do it I am either renewing it the day before or putting the sticker on my license plate in the parking lot.

    It’s frankly kind of embarrassing.

  12. 12.

    raven

    @Nicole: The original owner lives here in Athens and has a great newsletter. He’s an Illini, like me, so we’ve had some good discussions even though my time was way before his.

  13. 13.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Kelly:

    That’s fucking hilarious! I wonder if they’ll move the fence eventually or just keep eating the fines. In 24 hours, that could be 48,000 dollars. DHS is well-funded of course, but that could become expensive. Or they might just refuse to pay the fines

  14. 14.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @WereBear:

    Does your state allow a grace period for car registration renewal? Ohio is 30 days. Of course, with the state of emergency, all license plate/license expirations have been extended until 12/1/20 or until 90 days after the state of emergency ends

  15. 15.

    Aleta

    @raven: Sometimes we have to turn ours off (to reset something?)  so its response to the thermostat will work right again.

  16. 16.

    laura

    Spouse and I drove to the Bay Area this morning to get a bank deposit form completed and then on to the multi-employer trust to submit the final retirement packet. No walk in appointments allowed. I didn’t cry in the parking lot. We just drove home.

    So close.                                                   So. Very. Close.                                       So. Very. Ready.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    @raven: Did mine today as well. Two major things happened:

    1. The therapist decided to have me work with the student PT who is helping out. I determined that he definitely had more confidence than other student. Oh, that and he’s bit chunky but built all to hell otherwise. And he did A LOT of manual resistance. Needless to say I was quite sore when I was done.
    2. The head therapist for my case took a look at the size disparity between my left and right calf. He seems convinced there is something neurological happening. But until I get a full nervous system MRI I won’t have any answers there. And I really want a new neurologist but I’m not sure how to go about getting one.

    Oh and I was almost two hours early for my appointment. So yeah that was a thing too. I’m taking a nap.

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    Our county new COVID case rate is dropping from a high of 344 July 7 to 54 on the 23rd. Re-closings clearly making a difference.

    Then there’s this douche.

    A 26-year-old Dallas man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento on charges that he tried to extort a Northern California woman by threatening to post sexually explicit videos of her unless she sent him money and additional explicit material.

    Cameron Andrew Garcia was arrested Tuesday after being indicted on charges of making interstate threats and extortion and cyberstalking the woman since April, according to the indictment.

    Garcia allegedly used Instagram to communicate with the victim “threatening to post to public websites images and videos of (her) engaging in sexually explicit conduct that Garcia had produced when (she) was under the age of 18,” the indictment states.

    Garcia threatened to post the videos and images unless she “produced new sexually explicit images and videos for him” money through Venmo, the indictment says.

    The victim is a resident of Butte County, and authorities are asking anyone with information on the case or who believes they may be a victim to contact the FBI at [email protected].

    Garcia could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article244552892.html#storylink=cpy

    Guessing the federal involvement is because it’s across state lines.

  22. 22.

    Nicole

    @raven: I’m glad your PT is at least sending things back to the Sports Med MD, and I’m sorry nothing the PT tried worked.  Man, the human body can be a major puzzlement.

  24. 24.

    Gravenstone

    @trollhattan: Threatening to post explicit materials created when the victim was less than eighteen? Yeah, had he followed through he’d be staring down a shit ton more than 5 years. Child porn is not treated lightly.

  25. 25.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @raven:

    Sorry to hear about….well….all of that, really. My thermostat is always set at 74 and my house is like 20 years old. No AC unit could keep a 100 y/o house at 70 degrees when it’s nearly 100 outside.

  26. 26.

    lamh36

    Good evening BJ.

    So I heard back from the Hiring Manager for the position in Houston I’ve been applying for.  If you recall the last interview I had was with the big bosses last Wednesday.

    I was pretty sure it went well.  When I asked them if I would be able to visit the lab somehow before any decision was made, at the time they said they definitely understood that, and if they were going forward, they most definitely arrange a tour or a least maybe a virtual tour.

    Well, I received an email this morning from the hiring manager (who had been sick for a bit) and he wants to arrange a quick trip to Houston to tour the lab and for a meet and greet, all expenses paid by the lab (hotel, travel, car!!)!

    This means the job is mine right?  Guess it’s time to start beginning to think about my salary negotiations…hmm.

    Unless the lab is completely tragic, I think it’s a good deal as long as the salary negotiations go well of course.

    Anyway, great news all around!  I’m looking to hopefully be able to schedule the visit for the end of next week sometime.

  27. 27.

    Frosty Fred

    @WereBear:  THANK YOU! I just dug down through the stacks on the kitchen island and found my truck renewal. ETA And completed it on line.

  30. 30.

    StringOnAStick

    @laura: I’m enjoying retirement, and I’ll enjoy it more when my husband joins me in February; then we sell the house and move to another state to get away from the ever growing big city.  I can’t figure out how I am busier now than I was when I was working though.

    At first I felt guilty for “letting down the team” by quitting rather than going back into dental hygiene (too dangerous as far as I’m concerned).  Now I mostly worry about my former coworker who is far too young to quit and has student loans to pay off.  It takes awhile to get used to not being involved with work anymore, it makes you realize just how many hours you spent doing that and how much of your work interactions were your social life, especially now that we’re keeping ourselves as insulated from the outside world as we can be.

  32. 32.

    laura

    @lamh36: Know Your Worth! Sending your positive vibes and hoping that you like the potential job as much as they want you. If you haven’t done so already, do a search of salaries for like positions and establish a floor on salary and check the benefits package. Go get ’em.

  33. 33.

    Kelly

    @StringOnAStick: We canceled our tooth cleaning appointments. Told them we’ll check in next year. Dentists parking lot looks like biz as usual.

    How did your retirement scouting trip to Bend go?

  40. 40.

    laura

    @StringOnAStick: I’m already feeling guilty – I dont know how to not work and the only time I didnt have a job was first year of law school (thim’s was the days). I’ve been employed since 1976. I wrapped up my last two contracts and they were good’ns a three year and a five year with decent wages and really good benefits packages. I’d hoped to be easing up but the ‘Rona is present in my county and my prison assignments and it’s been very busy. But on September 1st, I’m getting my head shaved ‘cept for the big ass mohawk that will transition from the hair color I pay for to the hair color that it actually is – seriously hoping for a Emmylou Harris type deal. Am sorting through my work attire and cleaning/pressing/packing to donate for women reentering the workforce. Loafer’s paradise is almost in sight. Also, how’s your spouse’s CLL doing – hopefully very well managed and not concerning.

  41. 41.

    frosty

    @StringOnAStick: … how much of your work interactions were your social life, especially now that we’re keeping ourselves as insulated from the outside world as we can be.

    Retired in January, got home from the road in May. Pretty much my whole social life was work interactions. They’re having a going-away picnic on Thursday for two young employees heading back to school, and I’m going to attend, suitably distanced and masked.

    I am ridiculously looking forward to this. It’ll be the first face-to-face conversation with someone other than family and store clerks since February.

  43. 43.

    Nicole

    @lamh36: That is great news!  Safe journey to Houston, and may the lab be excellent and the salary negotiations be smooth.  Very happy for you.

  44. 44.

    MomSense

    My son just sent me a photo of the meal he and his SO made tonight.  He used the veggies I gave him from my garden.  They were sitting in their new kitchen at the table I helped move in the weekend before.

    Also, too we will hopefully be celebrating some very happy news in September.  

  48. 48.

    Auntie Anne

    @lamh36: Oh, this is fantastic news!  Best of luck during the site visit, and ditto on the need to research salaries and benefits in comparable jobs.  Go get ‘em!

  50. 50.

    lamh36

    @lamh36:  …And of course Dallas County would get back to me about a Lead Micro Public Health position I applied for a while ago, the same day I hear back about the Supervisor position in Houston

     
    I honestly don’t want to work in Public Health in the middle of all this COVID mess though…I applied a while back along with the Public Health supervisor position in Baton Rouge, before all this COVID shit hit the fan.
    The job in Houston is a reference lab and they don’t do COVID testing in Micro there!

  52. 52.

    JMG

    I have been retired for six years. It rules! I was lucky enough to be financially secure enough to do it when I turned 65. I loved my work, but I’ve never looked back. Always something to do, and I am in touch with enough friends and family to avoid isolation.

  53. 53.

    Roger Moore

    @Chetan Murthy:

    FWIW, you actually need a sourdough starter if you’re going to make a bread that uses mostly rye flour.  There are enzymes in rye flour that tend to break down the dough as it bakes, and the sourness of the sourdough inhibits them.  They also don’t do much to wheat gluten, so a bread that’s made from a mix of wheat and rye will hold up if it’s made with baker’s yeast.

  54. 54.

    lamh36

    @laura: Yup, I’ve def been doing that.  I have a friend in Texas who’s a supervisor, has been for a while though.  So I’ve been picking his brain about salary stuff.

    As for Benefits, it’s the same company I currently work for, so the benefits are mostly the same in terms of health insurance and what not, the difference is likely in the other benefit area like time off and retirement.

  58. 58.

    Phylllis

    @Nicole: 

    Also, the writers who walked off Deadspin are starting their own blog, Defector. They all own it together. I’m ridiculously happy about this.

    Ooh, so am I. I splurged on a year’s subscription to Sirius in my new car with the 1st round of $1200 from the feds; if the 2nd round comes through, this promises to also be money well spent.

  59. 59.

    Brachiator

    Respite?

    I work from home and things got slower around mid July. And yet I have been hit with a couple of bouts of insomnia. Practically could not get to sleep at all.

    I’m in southern California and I think the surge in virus outbreaks is worrying me. Most people I see at the supermarket and the few places I go for takeout wear masks, but overall cases are increasing.

    It all gets tiring.

  61. 61.

    Barbara

    @Roger Moore: I think rye bread tastes better when it is made with sourdough, but you can do without if you make the dough more acidic.  Some people just put a teaspoon of vinegar in the liquid, but the recipe I have uses hard cider as the liquid for the bread.  Just google Pain au Cidre and look for recipes using rye flour.

  62. 62.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    We had good pet news today. Sammy the Mostly-Beagle tested negative for heartworm, 1 year out from being treated for a full-blown case in 2019. The all-day treatments were apparently horrendous (gave him some new phobias and the vet gave us no details except that they’re “very painful”), and it was scary trying to keep a very active young pup on bed rest for fear of a doggie heart attack. For MONTHS.

    Sammy was picked up as an 18-month-old stray in WV before he was shipped to PA and we adopted him. He had a lot of adjustment to being a house pet, so I suspect he’d never lived in a house before. Yet however rough his life had been, he’s amazingly friendly and good-natured.

    The heartworm was the last (we hope) in a series of parasites he brought with him from WV. If a dog can get it, he had it. [deleted TMI]

    Anyway, he’s over all of that and ridiculously healthy and happy now.

  63. 63.

    featheredsprite

    @Chetan Murthy: Okay I’m back now.

    If you can do sourdough, you’ll have no problems with this bread.

    Rye Bread

    [1 slice = 85 calories and 10 grams of CHO]

    1 cup wild yeast [such as sourdough]

    1 tsp store-bought yeast

    2 TBS sugar

    1 ½ cups Warm water

    1 cup rye flour

    1½ TBS caraway seeds

    1 TBS cocoa or instant coffee for dark color

    1 TBS buttermilk powder

    1 cup white flour

    1 cup whole wheat flour

    2 tsp salt

    Mix the whole thing together. Turn out on parchment paper and place in a bowl or something in some place warm. Let rise for 1 hour.

    Heat oven to 425F and heat dutch oven or equivalent.

    Lift the risen dough by the parchment and place into the hot dutch oven.

    Bake 30 minutes with lid on and 15 minutes without the lid.

    Let the puppy cool and enjoy.

  65. 65.

    lamh36

    @lamh36: Besides, COVID won’t go on forever, and with my ultimate goal being Micro Lab Mgr or upper Lab Managment, I want to gain the experience that is closest to what the actual job entails when NOT in a pandemic crisis. ya know what I mean?

  67. 67.

    featheredsprite

    I read the other comments about rye bread. My recipe uses buttermilk powder but you could use 1 cup of actual buttermilk or a teaspoon or so of vinegar.

  69. 69.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @MomSense:

    Happy news? We all could use some! You’ll share with your close personal jackal friends, of course.

    By the way, your shark made the national news (NBC) tonight

  71. 71.

    Salty Sam

    Respite?  I just got back from moving our boat from where she was anchored to a good strong mooring a friend offered.  The storm isn’t named yet, but will be “Isaiah” by the time it is on top of us tomorrow afternoon- not expected to be more than a middling strong Tropical Storm by then, but that can still wreck a boat!

    We haven’t stayed anchored in one spot for so long due to the virus- 4 1/2 months, and the marine growth on our anchor bridle was impressive! Tiny crabs scuttled all over the deck, and I smell like a bait shop now. Time for a shower…

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    @featheredsprite: Do you have a good rye bread recipe?  I tried one with molasses (nope) and one with too much brown sugar (nope).

    Looking for something that will taste like rye bread.  Must have caraway seeds.

    edit: I am not a sourdough girl.

  76. 76.

    cain

    @lamh36:

    oh man!! I hope it is confirmed but definitely you must have gotten it if they are willing to put all that into play. You’ll likely get your offer at the end of the tour and hopefully they won’t try to make you answer there.

  77. 77.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: It’s looking really good, but I would make no assumptions.   I have seen situations where people think they have the job, and then they don’t.  It’s happened twice to people close to me.

    Can you talk to your mentor and ask her opinion on you possibly asking them outright whether the job is yours if you want it, or whether this is one more step in their interview process?

    That said, this is great news!!!!

  78. 78.

    WaterGirl

    @laura: @lamh36:

    I will second what laura said, and add this:

    You only get one shot at your starting salary.  Get what you want up front, because they highly unlikely to make a significant change in the next year or two or three.

    Your starting salary sets the stage for your salary there forever.

  79. 79.

    MoxieM

    @raven: I feel your pain. After my neurosurgeon did an incredibly thorough workup, she basically said I would have to be utterly debilitated (wheelchair) and incontinent before surgery would help. This is more than 10 years after every doc I saw said I should postpone surgery, I was finally ready to go for it. :/

    As a door prize, I got more PT. I wonder what an ortho doc would say?

    Oh, and did they do an electromyogram on your bad leg? It checks if the nerve signals are getting through properly, and how well you perform as a human pincushion. (really not that bad.)  Standard disclaimer IANAD.  Best of luck.

  81. 81.

    Matt McIrvin

    VIDEO: Meet the Canadian donkey crashing online meetings.

    Finally! I so miss being able to do my Canadian donkey crashing in person.

  82. 82.

    Jay

    @lamh36:

    Fingers crossed, hope it all goes well, best wishes for most many fishes.

    2 weeks of hell have ended. I have 2 days off and then one day back and we will be a full staff. Nobody got Covid.

    Tomorrow, and Thursday, off , get to Street Medic at two unhoused camps until noon,

    Then a social distancing BBQ, ( I have been elected cook) at April’s house, ( a haven for us), with April, Saheed, Jen, some of the amazing people The Love of my Life works with people who are changing the world,

    Thurs, ??????????

    Friday, back at work on close, but with enough ppl scheduled that it should be normal, not horrid,

    Saturday, move from the passive aggressive, always sniping Covidiot fundi compound, to our own apartment, 24th floor with a patio, communal facilities, in suite laundry, south facing, rather than what we have been doing for over a month to avoid “The Compound”, which was house sitting for April and Shawna,

    Funny thing is I have vertigo. I’ll get used to the height, eventually.

    Week after, 3 days off in a row for a Canadian Stat Hiliday.

  83. 83.

    trollhattan

    @MoxieM:

    The nerve conduction test isn’t that bad–it’s like having a 12 YO boy use a TENS unit on you. But the muscle conduction test…that MF hurts.

    Was told by the neurologist it’s the only way to know if impingement has progressed to permanent muscle loss. Memories.

  84. 84.

    Brachiator

    A bit of upbeat news. Good luck to a new generation of doctors.

    The new Kaiser Permanente medical school in Pasadena opened its doors to faculty and students for the first time Monday, with free tuition through 2024.

    The Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine opened for its inaugural class of 50 students in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which officials say presents “unparalleled challenges.”

    The pandemic has forced the school to make adjustments, including adopting a “hybrid model” that includes in-class and virtual programs and more frequent cleaning, Walter Harris, the school’s senior vice president of administration and finance, told City News Service. He said some classes could be held with some students in one classroom and others watching from another classroom via Zoom.

    The school has waived tuition, fees and disability insurance for students entering through the fall of 2024, and students in those classes will receive a waiver for the cost of a health plan from Kaiser Permanente unless they have an equivalent health plan, according to the school’s website.

  88. 88.

    satby

    OK,  so this is weird.  A SUV has been parked for 6 hours, engine running, in front of the vacant lot next to my house. I don’t want to be a Karen,  so I was trying to ignore it,  but strange, right?  My neighbor was out a few minutes ago,  so I asked her if she saw anyone in or  getting out of the car,  she said she hadn’t.  So I  stroll over to the SUV,  trying to see if maybe someone was passed out in it,  and a guy in swat gear rolls down the window and says hi.  He’s got an AK47 (or whatever those are) in his lap,  pointed down but ready,  IYKWIM. I just told him we were concerned  someone  had had a medical emergency but that I was just going to go mind my own business now. Wonder who they’re staking out.

    And I was just thinking how dull my life has been.

  91. 91.

    Honus

    @raven:

     

    @raven: he’s right. Especially in Georgia in the summer. You can make it tolerable and knock out the humidity, but you aint gonna get to 70 without some serious insulation.

  93. 93.

    Kirk Spencer

    @mrmoshpotato: agree.

    Call the police (use the non-emergency number for your area) and advise them what you saw. If it’s legit (regardless of who) nothing will happen. If it’s not legit you’ll be entertained for the evening.

  94. 94.

    Kay

    Jonathan Lemire
    @JonLemire
    ·4m
    NEW: In backchannel talks, Trump administration signals to Oregon governor that it could begin to draw down federal police presence in Portland – but only if state drastically steps up its own law enforcement to quell protests

    The corrupt incompetents who put them in there don’t know how to get them out of there without admitting defeat, so they’re going to declare victory and leave.

  95. 95.

    satby

    @mrmoshpotato: probably tact team regular cop.  Not Trumper goon squad,  he was perfectly calm and professional  and didn’t try to intimidate me, more like let me know he was legit but to stay away.

    @WaterGirl: I live in a poorer working class area,  mixed race,  and I have a lot potentially sketchy neighbors. The white supremacist with the Trump 2020sign is who I hope they’re  after,  but the renters next to me are hard partiers and there’s also suspected dealers down the street.

    None of which freaks me out,  I’m a born and bred city girl.

  96. 96.

    Kay

    Donald Trump and Bill Barr invaded Oregon without an exit strategy. Not one of them considered how The Battle of the Courthouse was supposed to end when they started it. Blundering, reckless morons at every stage of the thing.

  99. 99.

    satby

    @Kirk Spencer: Nope, not calling the cops.  He had a regular  insignia.  He’s a local cop. And there’s some perfectly legit targets for investigation around here, as I mentioned.

    My dad was tact team in Chicago in the 1970s. I remember how bad stake outs sucked for them.

  100. 100.

    Kay

    quell protests

    Where did this phrase come from and why are they all using it? It isn’t Barr’s job to “quell protests”

    Protests aren’t illegal. They adopt these completely illegitimate concepts by using Right wing phrases without thinking at all.

  101. 101.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Kay:

    Donald Trump and Bill Barr invaded Oregon without an exit strategy. 

    I believe the Russthuglican exit strategy is this.

  102. 102.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl: My plan is to treat it as another part of the job interview.

    I’m likely to be meeting the 2nd supervisor and the team members for the Micro lab, along with meeting the supervisors I was introduced to via the Skype interviews.

    Of course there are still COVID precautions, so I will not likely meet too many people because of social distancing.  So I also don’t expect another panel interview.

    Like I said, this is all expenses paid, and it won’t be that cheap to pay for since so much is uncertain due to COVID and who knows what can happen in even just a week.

    So I plan to go into it like I am going for an in-person interview.

     

    BTW, here’s a bit of the actual email:

    Good Morning!
    I’ve been out for a couple of weeks so my apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I was informed that the 2nd level interview went well, and here are the next steps:

    I would like for you to come in the lab to meet and greet and take a tour of the lab
    Plan on doing this either a Friday or Monday
    Have you stay overnight so you can go and explore Houston surroundings
    You need to select the date: fly early Friday and leave Saturday or fly Sunday and leave Monday. Be sure to inform me in advance, of the dates that work well for you.
    I will arrange for the travel (Hotel, flight and car) but you will need to get reimbursed for your meals.

    Feel free to give me a call if you have any questions or concerns.

    As I said last time, I did emphasize that I would want a walk through before even making any decision. I’ll def be going with an idea of my base salary for sure

  104. 104.

    Ken

    @Kay: Donald Trump and Bill Barr invaded Oregon without an exit strategy.

    And there are people who still say Trump’s not really a Republican.

  106. 106.

    laura

    @lamh36: it seems like just yesterday you were juggling travel and babies and school and work and international travel and toddlers and graduation and travel and concerts and whether or not to go to grad school and labs and finals and now Here You Are! Nothing but good wishes and crossed fingers for an engaging and remunerative and challenging job.

     

    @MomSense: it sure is good to hear good news and possibilities

     

    @VeniceRiley: glorioski! What beautiful photos – I suspect your going to get offers for Sudbuddies

  107. 107.

    satby

    @Jay: First,  I was an EMT, so I know what to do. I’m not calling 911 on an empty car, I was looking for a potential victim first.

    Second,  he’s a local cop just working his shift on a stakeout.  The potential drug dealers AND the Trump 2020 guy are white. Imma staying outta his way.

  108. 108.

    Kay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I knew they didn’t know how to get out of there. I bet there are “back channel talks”. They’re hoping not to have to admit it was an idiotic idea and they made everything worse.

    Hopefully when we get rid of the corrupt Barr and his sleazy cronies we can see the communications between the various actors and find out what it cost.

  111. 111.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Kay:

    They’re hoping not to have to admit it was an idiotic idea and they made everything worse. 

    Soviet shitpile mobster manbaby is going to whine about how tremendous bigly they were at leaving Portland.

  112. 112.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: I love how you start out – you sound confident, that will come across when you are visiting.

    Now that I’ve seen part of the email, I think you are right to consider this the next step in the interview process.  I don’t think it’s yours yet, but you are definitely in the final cut.

    I don’t know if you will go out to eat with them – probably in normal circumstances, but who knows with COVID??  But you surely know all the rules about what to eat / what not to eat during a meal with potential employers, right?  No soup, nothing red, nothing spoilable, nothing drippy.  No finger food, other than a sandwich, etc.

    I am SO excited for you!

  113. 113.

    CaseyL

    Chiming in with my bit of good news:  the temporary position I’ve been working at UW Medicine may be extended through the end of the year.  That is excellent news on many levels:  I like working there, and it gives me more salaried time before I have to think about either finding another job or retiring earlier than planned.

    Now, though, all the house-hunting expeditions have to be put on hold.  A downside I am happy to deal with, even though I just virtually toured a place on a river that is absolutely darling.

  114. 114.

    Kay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    “Backchannel talks” Can you imagine how insane these people are? The federal government now treats a state like it’s a hostile foreign country. They’re going to send an ambassador from Trump Country to the United States for peace talks with Oregon? WTF? Does Barr imagine he’s an actual nation-state now?

  115. 115.

    Baud

    @Kay:

    quell protests

    Where did this phrase come from and why are they all using it? It isn’t Barr’s job to “quell protests”

    Typo.  They meant to say “cull protestors.”

  117. 117.

    Mike in NC

    @Kay: Republicans don’t believe in loser exit strategies.  They go with their gut, and that always blows up in their faces.

  119. 119.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    Well, we saw the culmination of the Battle of the Courthouse today. They got the video they wanted for that campaign commercial they ran in the hearing room so now it’s time to quietly slink on out of there and hope no one notices. One big publicly funded Trump campaign event, courtesy of DHS. Who get 49.8 billion dollars A YEAR in funding. We can’t find a dime to spare for 55 million public school students but we had plenty of money to run a two week campaign commercial battle in Portland.

  121. 121.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Mike in NC:

    Republicans don’t believe in loser exit strategies.  They go with their gut, and that always blows up in their faces. 

    Their guts end up farting, if not outright pooping, in each other’s faces.

  122. 122.

    Jay

    @satby:

    Blacks/ blues, badge, nametag, no biggie if your local Cops arn’t Nazi’s.

    crotch held M-15 is a bit of a trigger. It should be in the trunk.

    Desert Camo, no badge, no nametags, M-15,could be any kind if Nazi.

    Desrt

  124. 124.

    Baud

    @Kay: Very nice.  This whole thing reminds me of how the GOP would lie that Bush kept America safe. You just had to ignore his major failure to protect us on 9/11.

  125. 125.

    japa21

    @Kay: Read a bunch of the replies.  It was a good response but the Bernie Bros are calling him a fascist.

  126. 126.

    frosty

    @Kay: I got out of the boat. The comments are crazy! Like, Biden and Trump are the same?

    ETA: japa21 was that you I saw trying to pull yourself back in over the gunwales? LOL

  127. 127.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @japa21: 
    Jesus Christ, those replies were the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever seen in my life. These people just want to watch the world burn

  129. 129.

    Yutsano

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Keep in mind at least a few of them are troll farmers. But some are indeed true Wilmeristas. And the pattern is they either don’t vote or go third party but there usually isn’t enough to swing an election. 2016 was the very rare exception.

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