Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let there be snark.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

In my day, never was longer.

Republicans in disarray!

We still have time to mess this up!

Bark louder, little dog.

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

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Come on, man.

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  4. 4.

    Albatrossity

    Ironic that the same folks who gave us the term “Human Capital” are now claiming that helping actual humans is not part of strengthening public works and other structures that capitalism depends on…

  5. 5.

    Baud

    Saw this quote on Reddit. Thought I’d share.

    Never argue with someone John Brown would have shot

  6. 6.

    J.

    I’ve been meaning to ask this for a while, where do you front pagers find these awesome tweets? The MSM and POTUS etc. ones sure, but the ones from @Convolutedname etc.? Thank you.

  13. 13.

    Spanky

    Caregiving “not even close to infrastructure”? How many billions in unpaid wages are lost from family members forced to care for the elderly? Those with special needs?

    Is that really snark, or just privileged cluelessness about how this country is limping along?

  21. 21.

    Baud

    @Immanentize:

    For the record, I’m not advocating shooting people in lieu of arguing with them.  The point is that there’s no point arguing with people who are acting in bad faith.

  22. 22.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Probably old news around here, but I find this hilarious: NRA’s Wayne LaPierre sought refuge from mass shootings on a friend’s luxury yacht

    Embattled National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre feared for his safety after mass shootings in recent years, forcing him to take refuge aboard a friend’s luxury yacht, the gun rights advocate testified.

    LaPierre made the admission in a deposition connected to the NRA’s bankruptcy case in Dallas.

    “They simply let me use it as a security retreat because they knew the threat that I was under. And I was basically under presidential threat without presidential security in terms of the number of threats I was getting,” LaPierre said.

    “And all of us were struggling with how to deal with that type situation with a private citizen with the amount of threat that we were having. And this was the one place that I hope could feel safe, where I remember getting there going, ‘Thank God I’m safe, nobody can get me here.’ And that’s how it happened. That’s why I used it.”

    LaPierre was questioned why he didn’t pay the yacht’s owner, Hollywood producer Stanton McKenzie, for its use or cite it in conflict-of-interest forms.

    “I actually thought that given the security threat that I was under and the fact that NRA was — was at almost a loss as to how to protect somebody with the amount of threat that I was having, that — that my work and the threat that came with it, this was — was a place that I could go and be safe, and it was related to that that I — that I — that I did it,” he said.

    As somebody* on twitter said, the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a rich friend with a yacht.

     

    ETA * Shannon Watts, founder of the gun control group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense.

  23. 23.

    Starfish

    @Spanky: The anger I feel towards the person who is not a nurse’s aide in my sister’s understaffed hospital room from reading this is infrastructure.

  26. 26.

    raven

    @Immanentize: Oh no, I was in the lottery for 20 years and finally got in 5 years ago. The practice round was yesterday and the “patrons” are either members or very highly place folks. Ou neighbor is going over to be with her family. Her grandmother has had tickets for 50 years and she can’t get it. They are making the sandwiches available for delivery so there is that.

  34. 34.

    Booger

    If our journamalists can’t grasp what infrastructure is, maybe we need to teach them the OSI model. That’ll fix things right up.

  35. 35.

    Geminid

    @Baud: Sasha Beauloux has a better variant of this as her twitter motto: “I don’t argue with people Harriet Tubman would have shot.”

    I say a better variant, because while Tubman was a hardheaded, clear-eyed struggler for justice. Brown was a bloodthirsty fanatic.

    @SashaBeauloux is one of the better twitter polemicists I have followed. She is very well grounded and earnest

  37. 37.

    Immanentize

    @OzarkHillbilly: Moms Demand reminds me of the earlier days of MADD.  I think they are starting to really have a very strong impact in many places.  I think they are great — and Watts is pretty clever too.  Although I don’t know how anyone can deliver constant messaging about tragic gun violence every day.  But she (or her people) comment on home gun “accidents” to mass shootings.  It’s a load, I am sure.

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    Two hundred years ago trains weren’t “traditional” infrastructure either — until America made the choice to lay the tracks.

    Which cow humper wants us to go back to horses. Nunes?!

  39. 39.

    Immanentize

    @raven: Sandwich delivery is a nice touch!  I knew you went once.  But 50 years of tickets?  C’mon!  That should be an anniversary gimme.

  41. 41.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @Spanky: When so many of the pundits, talking heads, op-ed columnists and other gatekeepers of the news are millionaires, it’s not surprising that these clowns have no bloody idea how real people live.

  43. 43.

    Kay

    @Spanky:

    Caregiving “not even close to infrastructure”?

    It isn’t just that. It’s that they so consistently put the work that women do (primarily) into a lower tier.
    They’re not “conservatives” or “Republicans” as much as they are just RIGIDLY conventional people – the “caregiving” part of the plan actually polls well, so they are (once again) MORE conventional and rigid than most of the public.
    They need to look at why they so consistently dismiss jobs that are mostly held by women, because it doesn’t make any sense. There’s no reason a child care worker is less beneficial to a working economy than a construction worker. It’s just nonsense.
    It’s amusing because these are the same people who just spent 6 months covering how closing public schools hugely impacted working families. They can’t make the simplest leaps or connections- they go right back into their comfortable rut.

  44. 44.

    Betsy

    @Albatrossity: That’s a great point!

    Treat humans like objects to be thrown away, that’s definitely not infrastructure.

    Treat them like precious investments that deserve to be maintained and improved, well … that’s infrastructure, that’s  a pro-worker stance, but it also sounds like other good things like good parenting,  solid friendships, advanced training and education opportunities … eating right and health care and exercise and recreation … SHOULD WORKING PEOPLE EVEN HAVE THESE!?!?!

  49. 49.

    rikyrah

    I was reviewing tweets from yesterday’s Press Briefing, and they actually had the nerve to question about MVP going to the bakery during her visit to Chicago.

    I mean, how can you purse your lips about MVP going to a bakery?

     

    Besides it being the dispensary for some of the most delicious ? sweets that you will ever taste, it’s an example of a small business, owned by a Black woman, that survived the Pandemic.

     

    It’s the question-just ridiculous ?

  61. 61.

    cmorenc

    @raven:

    @debbie: Stunning, our yard is awesome so we know it will be peak over there. They showed 13 and it’s jumping. This was five years ago when we got to go to the practice round, they were not peak that year.

    Spectators at the Masters can only take photos or carry a cell phone onto the grounds during the practice rounds.  On days with competitive rounds (Thur-Sun) any spectator caught even having a cell phone or camera in their possession will get ejected from the grounds.  OTOH spectators are extremely unlikely to accidentally carry such onto the grounds Thur-Sun, because at the grounds entrances, spectators have to pass through airport-style screening complete with metal detectors and x-ray bag screening.

  62. 62.

    John S.

    @The Thin Black Duke: It’s important to stay grounded — something most pundits are seemingly incapable of.

    I am pretty solidly middle class, and at the closing for my mortgage refinance a couple weeks ago (rates were so stupidly low), I got into chatting with the notary a bit. Somehow we got on the topic of credit card issuers raising your limit without telling you about it.

    Having come from modest means, I was quick to point out how lucky I was to have someone extending me more credit than I want or need as a “problem” when so many people have no credit and live paycheck to paycheck, often having to decide between food and medicine.

    The notary nodded her head and said it’s so rare to hear people in my situation acknowledge how fortunate they are, and how little so many others have. And given how often she interacts with people, that’s incredibly sad.

  63. 63.

    Mary G

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: We have a drive-thru place where you stay in your car and they direct you onto these wide rails over a pit and they do the oil change from underneath while you sit in the car. Then when you leave they put a paper place mat under your feet that never left the car. With curbside service being available I can do a lot of my own errands now.

  65. 65.

    raven

    @cmorenc: Well that probably accounts for how I got that picture now doesn’t it? And they are “patrons” not spectators.

  68. 68.

    JML

    Got round one of Pfizer last night, never been so happy to have a sore arm! (no worse than tetanus, and the shot itself was less painful and faster than a flu shot for me. which was nice, because I’m one of those with the needle phobia, but I scheduled this as fast as I could get an appointment)

  70. 70.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Kay: Speaking of which, my daughter, the union thug public school teacher, went in to school for the first in-person-with-kids day today. She said the kids seemed excited,

  73. 73.

    cmorenc

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    @Mary G: I know there are options. I was just wondering if it would be very bad if I didn’t get the oil changed. I mean, maybe the car and/or I will die before it needs to happen

    On PBS’s “Car Guys” program one morning, a caller asked what would happen if she never changed the oil in a car she had just bought.  They answered: “the original oil will last for the lifetime of your car [pause] but its lifetime will only be about 20k miles.”

  74. 74.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @JML: Good for you for getting it despite your needle phobia. My DIL’s mother is too scared to get the shot despite having many health complications. I suggested she look for the J&J because at least that’s just one shot, but that was one too many

  78. 78.

    Immanentize

    @JML: congrats!  Second Pfizer for me next Wednesday.  I’ll be happy to be done with it all.  For the moment, at least.

  79. 79.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @J.: My experience is that if you keep a tab open with Twitter on it and check in once an hour or so, you will see most of these tweets as the day goes by. If you’re AL, you save them somewhere else and then share.

    I use Tweetdeck, which give you more tweets per page, so that helps.

  84. 84.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Baud: Multi-million dollar deal to have someone ghost write about a life of being a ghost caught in a blizzard? ??

  85. 85.

    NotMax

    @raven

    IRL the only hay fever engines azaleas I’ve seen are yellow. All over one of the neighborhoods was in when a kidlet, but always, always, yellow.

  88. 88.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: I stopped changing my oil when I realized the cost of having someone else do it was about $5 more than the cost of my doing it, and I didn’t have to take my used oil back to the parts store for recycling either.

  89. 89.

    debbie

    @rikyrah:

    I’ll tell you what he better lead off with: His first thoughts on seeing that gallows on January 6th and knowing it was built for him.

  90. 90.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Immanentize: My son got Pfizer #1 about a week and a half ago, and promptly went to Mexico (that was scheduled before the shot got scheduled.) Anyway, he reports that among his circle of friends in CDMX, he is among the last to have gotten the shot. Most everyone flew to either Texas or Florida and got vaccinated, somehow. They are all healthy, in-shape, well-off 30-somethings.

  91. 91.

    Baud

    @debbie:

    His first thoughts on seeing that gallows on January 6th and knowing it was built for him.

    “Antifa and BLM have gone too far.”

  93. 93.

    Cameron

    @rikyrah: Our Liberal Media got very comfy with four years of lies, gibberish and trivia (or some combination of the three) and aren’t very interested in actually having to think/work.  Infrastructure? BORING.  Jewish space lasers?  Now you’re talking!

  96. 96.

    jonas

    Next up: Politico goes line-by-line through a defense appropriations bill and crosses out everything that’s not a tank, gun, or bomb.

    Hundreds of billions in savings by focusing on essentials!

  98. 98.

    Ken

    @OzarkHillbilly: It’s Pence’s revenge. If TFG ever writes a book*, he will demand the publisher beat Pence’s price, and might not find a buyer.

    * By which of course I mean “hires someone to write a book about him”.

  99. 99.

    Phylllis

    @cmorenc:  When we went to the 1st women’s tournament in 2019, we saw a lady pull her phone from her bag & check messages. In no time, she had a couple of staffers at her elbow leading her off. I asked another worker if they were going to let her put her phone in her car. He said “Yeah, then they’re going to let her put herself in her car and leave. And she won’t be back. Ever.”

  102. 102.

    rp

    Such a stupid debate. Should Biden just call it the “Infrastructure and Some Other Stuff that will improve the Country” bill? How about the “First Annual Montgomery Burns Bill for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence”?

  103. 103.

    gvg

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: ​  Your car engine will be destroyed, which is most of the value of the car. If it “tosses a rod” it may send a piston through the engine and the hood of the car. If you have a less severe ending, you may be able to have the engine rebuilt for a LOT of money. Just go to a place and pay them to change the oil. I’ve done it myself but consider it a pain, and stopped decades ago. Ask around for a reliable place and keep a list. It’s also not fun to have to arrange a car to be towed especially if it happens at night or somewhere unpopulated.​

  104. 104.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @SFAW: For the longest time, I thought their last name was actually Tappet.

    Call the Tappet brothers,

    Call Click and Clack,

    If you don’t like their free advice,

    You can get your money back!

  105. 105.

    NotMax

    May or may not have scored an appointment for shot #1 at Costco on Monday. After waiting 15 minutes for the little wheel icon on the page to stop spinning after I submitted the info, closed the tab.

    (And no, not required to get shots at Costco in packs of 12,)

    As about the only time I leave the property or encounter people other than my 93-year-old landlady is for once monthly grocery runs or driving her to the doctor (where I stay in the car while waiting)*, have not been in any great hurry; willing to wait until wider availability and distribution of vaccine kicked in, letting others whose lifestyle is less hermit-like get in line ahead of me.

    *Exception was taking her and her car to the mechanic for needed work. I brought along a folding chair and spent the time waiting, masked, entirely outdoors.

  107. 107.

    NotMax

    @raven

    No azaleas at house parents had when I was in high school. However there was a gigundo mountain laurel in the front yard which yearly bloomed like a bandit. Beginning right around May Day, if memory serves.

  108. 108.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @SFAW: Half of those fucks are functionally illiterate and the other half just blew their stimulus checks at the guns and ammo store.

  113. 113.

    Baud

    Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Staunch Conservative, Will Run for N.Y. Governor

    NYT > Top Stories / by Katie Glueck / 15min

    I hope all the aging Boomers in NYC don’t think they’re voting for Led Zeppelin.

  114. 114.

    Geminid

    @NotMax: Forsythia are all over Virginia, and are blooming right now. I do maintenance for some folks with ten big ones. They will get pruned right after blooming. A gardener friend tell me to be ruthless, cut them back to between knee high and waist high.

  115. 115.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Kay:

    “Rigidly conventional”. That’s a good way of putting it. I’d say this is another example of misogyny. Caregiving is “women’s work” to these people and therefore not important. Which is of course bullshit.

  116. 116.

    NotMax

    @OzarkHillbilly

    functionally illiterate

    There’s an interesting hypotheses that a contributing factor explaining the explosion in attendance once talkies came on the scene was that movies, as they no longer contained intertitles, became more accessible to audiences who couldn’t read (or couldn’t read English).

  118. 118.

    NotMax

    Format fix.

    @OzarkHillbilly

    functionally illiterate

    There’s an interesting hypotheses that a contributing factor explaining the explosion in attendance once talkies came on the scene was that movies, as they no longer contained intertitles, became more accessible to audiences who couldn’t read (or couldn’t read English).

  120. 120.

    Geminid

     

     

    @Baud: Zeldin may believe that it’s up or out for him. New York will lose a seat in the upcoming reapportionment. Albany Democrats will use redistrictiing to turf out one, maybe two Republican Representatives.

  121. 121.

    NotMax

    Just peeked in at e-mail. Confirmation for vaccine appointment at Costco came through.

  125. 125.

    Kay

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    In fairness to them, they would say it’s not that, it’s that they’re focused on the narrow meaning of “infastructure” but that to me just takes us right back to “rigidly conventional”.
    Biden isn’t putting anything over on people. He explains the caregiving piece directly- why he’s including it in infrastructure. They don’t have to accept his definition but they could at least consider it.

  126. 126.

    Gin & Tonic

    @NotMax: Mountain laurel in the Northeast bloom around Father’s Day. It’s the state flower of Connecticut (which does not actually grow nutmeg.)

  127. 127.

    OzarkHillbilly

    “Press Secretary Jen Psaki is kind of badass at her job, and it’s because of the extremely non-combative way she is just FINISHED WITH YOUR SHIT,” Wonkette observed. “It’s just like … some kind of assassin thing where some idiot asks her an idiot question and she handles it so quickly and quietly and effectively, the poor idiot’s liver is bleeding out before they even feel a thing.”

  129. 129.

    Spanky

    @Geminid:

    They will get pruned right after blooming. A gardener friend tell me to be ruthless, cut them back to between knee high and waist high.

    Go for ankle high to knee high.

  133. 133.

    WereBear

    @NotMax: Yay! While our neighbors created a part time job hunting down their shots, I followed the “I’ll do it when it’s easy” pattern because my life is stressful enough, and I don’t mind my new hermit lifestyle THAT much.

    Our friend circle is roughly in the same place, so we are looking forward to getting together again, soon and somehow.

  134. 134.

    WereBear

    @Spanky: I don’t see it that way. They have been trying peaceful solutions to not get mired in the Brexit nonsense, to no avail.

    The rest is inevitable, but it’s not like it’s entirely their fault.

  135. 135.

    Ken

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Tony Jay commented in one of the late-night threads and says it’s related to Brexit.

    Also that Boris Johnson is an incompetent moron whose actions are making things much worse than they would otherwise be, but he always says that.

  136. 136.

    debbie

    @Spanky:

    I believe the Protestants are upset at the prospect of a hard border between them and their beloved England. Took them a while to realize that, I guess. ?

  137. 137.

    narya

    @NotMax: Yes, and it always always always makes me think of my maternal grandmother. She had one in her back yard (and a lilac bush, and I think my dad actually planted both), so every year around this time, when they’re starting to bloom, she’s in my thoughts. I even called my mom this week just to remind her, too.

  139. 139.

    zhena gogolia

    @NotMax:

    Good! You’ll feel so much better. I’m a little apprehensive about social engagements becoming possible/necessary again, but it’s better than the infection fear.

  141. 141.

    Ken

    @OzarkHillbilly: The one thing I’m not sure of is whether the reporters realize that they’ve just been (metaphorically) eviscerated. They keep coming back with the same idiot questions, so I’m leaning toward no. Or perhaps they are mortified inside, but the pay’s good.

  142. 142.

    bnateAZ

    Because the GQP and media in general is rotting my brain, I created a Twitter handle @CultureWarBot with some co-workers to contribute to random culture war bullshit and skewer it as best as we can. We’re not true creative types (all IT workers) but this was another sanity check activity.
    F the GQP, Keep at them Sleepy Joe!

  143. 143.

    Ohio Mom

    If you understand and accept the social model of disability — that is, what makes you disabled is the lack of accommodations, which in turn excludes you from full participation in your community — then caregiving (which for many is the prerequisite for participation) can be infrastructure in the same way that curb cuts are.

    It is the difference between having to live in an institution and having the civil right to live on your own terms in the wider community.

    (Sorry if that is awkward. I am still learning my way around this sort of language.)

  144. 144.

    Ken

    @debbie: I believe the Protestants are upset at the prospect of a hard border between them and their beloved England. Took them a while to realize that, I guess.

    In their defense, they were told repeatedly by the UK government, both before and after the Brexit vote, that there wouldn’t be a hard border between NI and the rest of the UK; and also that there wouldn’t be one between NI and Ireland, an EU member.

    Yes, perhaps they should have figured out for themselves that was impossible.  In this they are much like the UK citizens who’ve only now figured out that they cannot live in Spain/France/Germany/etc. any more, at least, not without the extra paperwork required of any non-EU foreigner living in those countries.

  146. 146.

    NotMax

    @WereBear

    Based on anecdotes related here of more cumbersome experiences, have to say Costco’s sign-up is extremely user friendly, intelligently designed and a snap to navigate. The link to check if one near you is offering shots.

    AFAIK one does NOT need to have a Costco membership in order to make use of their pharmacy. Certainly no indication of that on the sign-up site.

  147. 147.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: There were lots and lots of warnings that Brexit was going to reignite the Northern Ireland situation one way or another, because we now have a non-EU country on the same island as an EU member, but people got used to free movement of everything across that border, and the UK just punted on any possible resolution of the problem. The unrest seems to be happening now.

  149. 149.

    Ohio Mom

    Zhena goglia:

    I admit this is personal for me. Increased supports for independent living gives me hope that Ohio Son will be able to live on his own, safely, happily and productively, sooner rather than later.

    I am coming to understand that wanting an empty nest is as biological as wanting offspring in the first place. That is end goal of parenting, that they can live without you.

    And it blows me away that we are considering such forward-thinking, progressive legislation. It’s a big step for this country, to think in these terms.

  152. 152.

    LiminalOwl (formerly The Fat White Duchess)

    @NotMax: we had azaleas in front of the house during the part of my childhood when we lived in the suburbs. One shocking pink, one orange. Not a combo I have ever liked.

  157. 157.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax:

    AFAIK one does NOT need to have a Costco membership in order to make use of their pharmacy. 

    Does the vaccine at Costco come with a complimentary 5-gallon bucket of ummm……I’ll go with baked beans?

  158. 158.

    zhena gogolia

    @Ohio Mom:

    It’s amazing how many people do not understand this! Anyone who has ever been in a caretaker situation should understand it — but maybe the Peter Doocys of the world can’t even imagine that.

    I pray that your son will be able to live on his own and you can have peace of mind. It must be so difficult.

  162. 162.

    WaterGirl

    @raven: I am perplexed by the title:

    Meet Charlie & Nancy Hartness | Charlie: Writer, Musician, Composer, Armchair doctor

    So they list what Charlie does in the title, but nothing about Nancy?

  167. 167.

    Ken

    @WaterGirl: At least they gave Nancy’s first name. At my church, the older records (through about the 1950s) don’t do that; they’re “Mrs. John Smith”.  When we were trying to put together a history we had to do a lot of cross-referencing with marriage records to find their names.

  168. 168.

    Ruckus

    @Spanky:

    I’d go with privileged cluelessness. If you have money, you can afford healthcare, you can afford to keep parents in their own homes, with additions to…. staff. Or put them in an expensive care facility. If you don’t have lots of cash laying around you have to care for them or special needs kids in your home, as best as you can. And depending on what issues they have that can be more than most people can handle reasonably, it often is not just another mouth to feed. And what is done for those that have no family to care for them?

    That this is not infrastructure is one of their dumbest takes ever. And arguing over the definition rather than actually finding a way to make the situation better is actually rather normal for the people making the noise. Solutions are not in their ballpark, solutions cost money and effort, and limit their bank account growth.

  176. 176.

    Elizabelle

    @raven:   They sound like way cool people.  Love the pencil portrait of them in surgical masks.

    Will read this in full.  Assuming they have some stuff up on youtube??

  178. 178.

    Soprano2

    I just read a story that there was a shooting this morning at an intersection that I drive through every morning on my way to work. It’s in a residential neighborhood. It happened right before 7 a.m.; I saw all the police cars and the ambulance at the intersection this morning, so I went a different way. Literally if I had been five minutes earlier I might have been at the intersection when the shooting occurred!. All they know is someone was shot in the chest and died, and they’re looking for the suspect but no description of the person yet. It’s just wow to think I might have been there.

  179. 179.

    NotMax

    @Elizabelle

    Trivia: In the world of numismatists, FIDO is shorthand for the category of Freaks, Irregularities, Defects and Oddities.

    ;)

  182. 182.

    L85NJGT

    The DC press corps remind me of the vacuous dolts that populate American C-suites. Maybe it’s a function of the professional selection metrics changing from showing capability in a career path to college major selection.

  184. 184.

    J R in WV

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: ​

    Do you get your car’s oil changed? Mr DAW is taking my car in today and it occurred to me that if he died, my car’s oil would never get changed again.

    Probably it would get changed, because the dashboard would star nagging you by telling you it was time for an oil change. We don’t drive very many miles right now, so our car has been nagging me about an oil change for a couple of months now.

    Very annoying… I really don’t want an oil change after 2500 miles! Even if it has been nearly 9 months.

  185. 185.

    NotMax

    @L85NJGT

    Cool. Something to help the 15 minute post-shot period flash by.

    “Got any ice stashed in that super cold freezer?”

    ;)

  186. 186.

    Brachiator

    @Soprano2:

    I just read a story that there was a shooting this morning at an intersection that I drive through every morning on my way to work. It’s in a residential neighborhood. It happened right before 7 a.m.; I saw all the police cars and the ambulance at the intersection this morning, so I went a different way.

    That has got to be an eerie feeling, to know that you might have been in the middle of that tragic shooting!

  188. 188.

    Brachiator

    @WaterGirl:

    Meet Charlie & Nancy Hartness | Charlie: Writer, Musician, Composer, Armchair doctor

    So they list what Charlie does in the title, but nothing about Nancy?

    The headline is bad. The story itself (and the photos accompanying it) is fair to both Nancy and Charlie, thank goodness.  A fun read.

    Some of the other profiles on that page are interesting reads, and feature cool women doing way cool stuff with their lives.

  189. 189.

    J R in WV

    @NotMax:

    IRL the only hay fever engines azaleas I’ve seen are yellow. All over one of the neighborhoods was in when a kidlet, but always, always, yellow.

    @raven:

    @NotMax: We have white and red.

    Wild azaleas around here are orange — in the shade of the forest, just a scant few blooms, but in yards where people have collected them down to their house, they can be thick with orange blooms.

  191. 191.

    Cameron

    @mrmoshpotato: I didn’t get my COVID shot at Publix, but I get my flu shots there, and they give you a $10 gift card (probably just for us old farts on Medicare, though).

  192. 192.

    laura

    @rikyrah: and the Jen Psaki reduced him to a smoking pile of rubble. The distain and misogynior  directed at our Vice President AND the small business owner was so obvious – I wish Jen had called him out on it. So, is the caramel cake as delicious as it looks?

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    JML

    @J R in WV: after nine months, it’s still probably a good idea, even if it’s only been 2500 miles.

    on the other side of that, don’t trust the lube stations that tell you it must happen every 3000 miles or 3 months, whichever comes first, because that’s just a scam. (the only reason I’m doing it at 3750 right now is because the dealership will do it for free, but ONLY if I meet their schedule within like 1000 miles…)

    I feel like I should have laminated by vaccination sticker, so i can just wear it all the time…

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