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… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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“Squeaker” McCarthy

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Republicans don’t trust women.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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  1. 1.

    dr. bloor

    but does not care

    Your headstone is going to read, “But I thought he didn’t care.”

  2. 2.

    Another Scott

    Our doggie Ellie goes crazy when she finds an old banana peel on a walk.

    She eats everything. :-/

    (Nice picture.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  5. 5.

    Anonymous At Work

    “Steven got banana peel but I don’t care” is the 45th verse to Jimmy Crack Corn.

  7. 7.

    Percysowner

    @Another Scott: Beagle or another hound or Lab? Oh, so many breeds eat anything that is even vaguely food adjacent. I’m a Beagle owner, I know.​
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  8. 8.

    Ohio Mom

    Interesting composition the way the curl of the banana peel echos the curves of Steve and the pet bed.

    Then there’s the contrast with the triangular spot of sun and I’m guessing, the vertical line created by the metal chair base. Both of these harder shapes pull our eyes out of the concentric circles and arcs of pet bed, cat and banana, and keep the composition from being static.

    ETA: Steve’s tail also serves to move our eyes out of the circle, all together making it three points connecting the circle of the bed to the outer rectangular of the image’s edge.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Another Scott: Yup, my old lab would’ve woken up, eaten it, and gone back to sleep.

    He might have gotten up to sniff around to see if there were more

  11. 11.

    scav

    Nah, I can see the plotting.

    Those internal wheels are turning and, however slow, will grind small.  And far too close to the house.

  13. 13.

    Geeno

    @Percysowner: My Beagle when I was growing up would anything EXCEPT peas. The vet had my mother mix peas in his food (can’t remember the ailment), and she would look at his bowl after he ate and see a nice little pile of peas.

    Our Lab “Sam” would eat anything you gave her, but she didn’t like things with vinegar – salads, pickles, etc.  She’d eat them, but she would bark at them first and growl the whole time eating them.

  17. 17.

    geg6

    @Geeno:

    Our Koda (Lab, of course) LOOOOOOOOVES salad dressing, pickles, olives…just about everything but bananas.  She won’t even consider a banana.  No idea why when she’s basically a canine garbage disposal.

  19. 19.

    danielx

    West Virginia man found in bed with throat ripped out, resident feline denies any knowledge.

  21. 21.

    bbleh

    @Ohio Mom: yes, but the curvature of the bed, the angle of the sun, the placement and curvature of the banana, and most importantly, Steve’s left rear leg, like a finger in a Renaissance painting raised heavenward, ALL point toward … what?!  What is there, what is so important, but that we cannot see? Here is the tension, the vitality of the composition, that in a truly modern way, leaves the completion to the observer.

    The NFT will fetch millions.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    Hm. Notice it’s been peeled from the non-stem end. Could this betoken a whole Lilliput v. Brobdingnagesque fruit fight about which end to begin peeling?

    :)

  23. 23.

    raven

    We’re missin our pups. Lil Bit was deaf and blind for her last couple of years but if you peeled an apple she was right at you feet no matter where in the house she was sleeping.

  31. 31.

    marklar

    Great shot, John. Looking at this photo made me think I was back in the Andy Warhol Museum (North side of Pittsburgh)!

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    i just finished watching the daily press briefing.  I don’t know how Jen Psaki keeps her patience with them day after day after day.  She is a saint.

    I loved how she called out the Republicans for presenting themselves as “pro police” and are downplaying what happened on Jan 6 and *shitting on the police officers, nearly 150 of whom were injured that day.

    *Jen may or may not have used those exact words.

  34. 34.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Percysowner:  I have a (mostly) beagle. I am familiar with this.

    He gets prescription dry food from us because as a pup he had a strong reaction to a lot of different animal proteins.

    And then on walks he keeps his nose to the ground and eats EVERYTHING.

  39. 39.

    mrmoshpotato

    @WaterGirl:

    I don’t know how Jen Psaki keeps her patience with them day after day after day.  She is a saint. 

    Yes.  100% agree.

  41. 41.

    Dan B

    @mrmoshpotato: I believe she is requiring a lock of hair from each reporter and late at night in her underground studio she is inserting pins and coolly putting out cigarettes on the dolls of a select few.

    It’s the same way with Steve.  Look calm and plot.

  42. 42.

    RaflW

    I dunno. That expression on Steve’s face isn’t quite “I don’t care”. It seems to have just a simmer of murderous rage in the corners of his eyes.

  43. 43.

    Another Scott

    @Josie: She’s a mutt.

    According to the DNA test:

    3/8 Aussie Shepherd

    1/8 Collie

    1/8 Rottweiler

    3/8 nothing dominant.

    We think she was an outside doggie that was used to finding food where she could get it.  :-)

    She loves paper too, (sigh), but she’s very respectful of our stuff in the house.  Fortunately!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  45. 45.

    Ohio Mom

    That’s an important question you raise, bbleh @21, about the possible meanings the photo’s composition could be pointing to; you also have sharper eyes than I do, and correctly identified the downward pointing limb as a leg (I mistook it as Steve’s tail).

    For those who asked, I was an art major, long ago. It was somewhat accidental. When I had to declare a major, a task I put off as long as possible, I had more art courses than anything else. Another sociology class or two and that would have been my major.

  48. 48.

    wmd

    So the young woman that swims for the Seward Tsunami swim club just won a gold medal. My son has been her coach for the past 5 years.

  49. 49.

    Citizen Alan

    @mrmoshpotato: I demand that John dance around Steve and the banana peel while singing “It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!” at the top of his lungs.

  52. 52.

    wmd

    @Dan B: 100m breaststroke. Lydia Jacoby is the first Olympic swimmer from Alaska – 17 years old. She’ll be at U Texas after she finishes high school.

  53. 53.

    LeftCoastYankee

    “That fat man could feed us for weeks, why won’t the dogs see this….”

  55. 55.

    JustRuss

    What am I bid for this fine print of “Steve Plots His Revenge”, by the late John Cole?

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