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if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

People are complicated. Love is not.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Second rate reporter says what?

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

After roe, women are no longer free.

This blog will pay for itself.

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“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    FYI.

    The Internal Revenue Service last week clarified that personal protective equipment — such as masks, hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes — bought for the “primary purpose” of protection against the coronavirus are considered tax deductible medical expenses.

    Taxpayers could already deduct the costs of medical expenses if those expenses accounted for at least 7.5% of their adjusted gross income. Now, the IRS has included PPE bought for the taxpayer, a spouse or a dependent in the covered expenses.

    Purchases made on or after Jan. 1, 2020, are included.

    Taxpayers must itemize on their tax returns to deduct the costs…. Source

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    WaterGirl, if folks are interested in restoring the function of a back arrow in the new Firefox so one can navigate from within the browser rather than by using the keyboard, I’ve put together a very brief tutorial and accompanying pictorial guide for this workaround, both of which I’d be willing to e-mail you so you could add the text and image within an appropriate comments thread if you might think them useful.

    Does NOT involve going into the scary about:config area of Firefox at all.

  3. 3.

    BruceFromOhio

    New York puts the P back in PARTY ON, WAYNE. There’s a high level of interest in this legislation, and to get into the weeds it indicates a great big bag waiting for those who want to invest in that Empire State buzz. Rolling up a summary, it decriminalizes those who’ve been caught smoking, opens the door for some high times for the commercial growers, and basically just does what should been done years ago: get the party started.

  5. 5.

    sab

    @NotMax: WTF!!! I started buying masks and mask-msking supplies a year ago. None of it was tax deductible, so I saved no receipts. Now it is?

  17. 17.

    cain

    @BruceFromOhio:

    I love the scary parts. If you tickle it just right, you can make it pee.

    How long have you been keeping that in your back pocket to whip it out for such an occasion as this?

  18. 18.

    Seanly

    Awww, very cute.

    My wife & I rescued a stray from a rural gas station in VA at Christmas 2001. She was very skinny, but turned out to be pregnant. We named her Ginnie. We had an unused room in our townhouse that we turned into a puppy room. We covered the floor with a old piece of carpet. The puppies were very cute, and each got a name. The ringleader was Grace, but my favorite was a male named Duncan (coz he had white paw tips like he’d dunked them in paint). Duncan was also a little trouble maker.
    The 7 puppies were very, very cute. I’ve lost most of my digital photos from that time, but we have a couple of cute shots. My wife talked me into keeping one of the pups and I chose Duncan. We had Ginnie for another 8 years and Duncan was with us from his first day in Jan 2002 until we had to put him to sleep in late 2013.

  20. 20.

    Ken

    @Feathers: Every driver thinking “Maybe I could get through, but if I hurt one of those cubs or even get too close, the mother will rip open my car like a sardine can…”

  22. 22.

    Ken

    @Another Scott: Aha!  It’s magnets instead.  Dark magnets. You can explain anything with magnets, I can only imagine what the dark-matter ones can do.

    (Please allow that I may have skimmed too quickly, and that the original is filtered through a science reporter.)

  25. 25.

    Benw

    I know it’s the faces of book, but he’s not on their main page yet.

    Go to: https://www.facebook.com/animalheartline/ and scroll down until you can read Chowder’s bio. He’s a very good boy!

  27. 27.

    Baud

    Via LGM.  Good news.

    Democratic Party leaders are considering overhauling the 2024 presidential primary calendar, a transformation that would include ousting Iowa and New Hampshire from their cherished perches as the first states to vote.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    @Amir Khalid: Amir, someone submitted an On the Road today – all about guitars!

    I’m not sure if you read OTR regularly, but you probably won’t want to miss that one.  Most likely published in a couple of weeks.

  32. 32.

    Ken

    @WaterGirl: What, you need more than that???

    Like that works. You could say “This thread is for discussing the implications of the new findings regarding dark energy,” and within twenty comments half the crowd would be discussing the infrastructure bill and the rest trading cornbread recipes.

  35. 35.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Labs, they gotta snuggle. Billie Jean is only 50% Lab, but when it comes to snuggles? 100% Lab.

  46. 46.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ken: and within twenty comments half the crowd would be discussing the infrastructure bill and the rest trading cornbread recipes

    Nu-uh! Discussing the infrastructure recipe and trading cornbread bills!

  50. 50.

    aliasofwestgate

    Roomie and I got our Fauci Ouchies yesterday. 1st dose of Pfizer (yes i went to the thread).  She of course, has no reactions to it and we’re about teh same age. Me: fatigue, nausea, joint aches and muscle pain. Joy.  Been sleeping most of today and it’s improved. The fatigue remains the biggest obstacle, but that should be leveling off by tomorrow i hope.  I’m just overly glad we got them and the process started. Roomie works at Amazon, where the distro center has been a more or less permanent cluster of infections.  I’ve got preexisting conditions, and i wasn’t taking chances socializing much at all because of it.  For now? CUTE PUPPIES!!!!!!! and supper awaits.  *grins

  52. 52.

    Gravenstone

    Just because I’m in one of those moods. For the last few years the group Band Maid have released new music on April1 in a genre different from their usual oeuvre. Last year they did not do so due to obvious reasons. Well, they’re back this year – sort of. The woman who started the band (Miku Kobato) has a fun little pop confection out today that touches on her idol group roots and leans hard into her nickname of “small pigeon”. Enjoy…

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    Count Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola among corporations pushing back on the Republican’s voter suppression laws in Georgia. Might be time to order up the popcorn, as I don’t believe we’ve heard from the sportsball teams yet.

    Did they not notice what happened in North Carolina?

  56. 56.

    dww44

    @NotMax: I’d love to know this as well. I did go into about:config a few days to restore  the print preview function.  I’m glad I did.

  57. 57.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @trollhattan: After signed sealed and delivered? Not exactly profiles in principle, Delta and Coke.

    I weaned myself off Diet Coke a couple of years ago and would buy one every now and then at lunch. The pandemic ended lunch out so it’s been over a year and an easy boycott for me.  I think I’ve flown Delta once.

    Both companies need to step up their campaigns against these awful laws.  Otherwise, just disingenuous lip service IMHO.

  58. 58.

    Yutsano

    @trollhattan:

    Count Delta Airlines

    Delta got a looooong way to go here after their CEO put up a really stupid statement in support of SB202. That might be a heel turn now but that’s gonna take a whole lotta time to get fixed. Or the Medallion Rebellion worked.

  59. 59.

    The Moar You Know

    Amir, someone submitted an On the Road today – all about guitars!  I’m not sure if you read OTR regularly, but you probably won’t want to miss that one.  Most likely published in a couple of weeks.

    @WaterGirl:  One of my few photo regrets:  I spent five years making them and three years importing them (and going to the factories in China and Korea) and never once dragged a camera into work.  I should have.

  60. 60.

    Another Scott

    @Yutsano:

    Now that the horse is out of the barn, Delta and Coke want you to know they were actually against the barn door being opened as they held it open. https://t.co/xdFcsAVWKI

    — LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 31, 2021

    Yup.

    Everyone knew the law was coming. Giant companies plugged deeply into GA politics waiting until it’s been signed into law to speak out against it is more than a bit disingenuous.

    Grr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  67. 67.

    sab

    @debbie: My ex used to haul six goldens in the back of his pickup, and they behaved like that. We could just stack them in, on top of each other, and they were happy because together.

  71. 71.

    laura

    @The Moar You Know: I sure hope that you may tell us some of the tales of the luthier that you are. Maybe just one, the first guitar you built, or the one your most proud of, or the one that played the shreddingest cords, or the one that traveled the farthest from your hands, or some such.

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Thank you muchly. Humbly suggest putting the relevant text and accompanying image below the fold, as the image is so tall it would otherwise overly dominate the front page.

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