Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Peak wingnut was a lie.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The words do not have to be perfect.

House Speaker candidate unfamiliar with how to win non-gerrymandered election.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

I really should read my own blog.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

It’s a doggy dog world.

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    frosty

    Yes, yes it is, And having just seen Dinosaur National Monument, it’s even more poignant.

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    opiejeanne

    @frosty: How did you like Dinosaur National Monument?

    I was there when it was just open, but the road wasn’t paved or well-marked yet. Dad got out of our 57 Ford to see where the road was, if it curved to the left or continued straight, because he couldn’t see over the hood of the car. It sounds ridiculous but I’ve had that same experience in the eastern Sierras on a dirt road, just the once, but both were places where you don’t want to leave the road.

    I must have been about 7 or 8, and have only the vaguest memory of a building built around a hillside with some very big bones imbedded in the rock.

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    frosty

    @opiejeanne: They rebuilt the building since you were there. It’s impressive, and it was the wish of the archeologist to leave a wall with partially excavated fossils, which they did. The Quarry Wall (which is what you saw) is about 1/4 left of all the rock and fossils that they excavated. There were at least 20 complete skeletons, many of which are in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.​

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    Origuy

    That must have been a few years ago. The Field Museum moved Sue, the T-Rex, upstairs to a gallery of its own. They have a Titanosaur named Máximo there now, from Argentina. It’s considerably larger. Here it is being assembled.

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    satby

    Just wondering how they explained it to the small child watching.

    And yes, it was poignant in spite of being played for laughs.

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    J R in WV

    I visited Dino National Monument with Wife in around 1991. When I went back some years later with a friend, the building over the rock face full of giant bones was closed, asbestos pollution IIRC.

    Hope it’s reopened now, was stunning to visit and lay hands on ancient bonz!!! And Wife and I drove into the monument way east of the quarry, across a high mesa where people on horses were herding cattle from one ranch to another, with kids in front of them on the horse, was also astonishing.

    We got to see the badlands from up on top of that mesa, no wonder they need to use helicopters to access the newer sites deep in the monument’s territory. That’s why they stopped excavating at the quarry in the building, better localities found deeper into the badlands.

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