Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

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

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

When we show up, we win.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Bark louder, little dog.

The willow is too close to the house.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

The revolution will be supervised.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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  4. 4.

    JoyceCB

    Well, except for telling her to put a vaccine in, eh?  Where do we stand on that?  Brilliant sign, BTW, I’m not slagging it.

  6. 6.

    JPL

    @Eljai: Penny’s last book thanked Chelsea for allowing her to having family zoom time.   It was really sweet.   I can’t remember the exact wording, but if you have an e-reader, it’s at the back.

  10. 10.

    Lapassionara

    @JoyceCB: As I understand it, the government’s current position is that a person should be Vaxxed OR regularly tested for COVID. So, not really what I would call a mandate.

  11. 11.

    Chetan Murthy

    @JoyceCB: There is, of course, the gynormous difference between previability abortions and vaxx resistance: in the first case, the only really-existing human life you’re endangering is your own; in the second, you’re endangering all around you.

    It’s a relevant difference.  If we were talking about a non-communicable disease, or even a disease that was just much-less communicable, we wouldn’t be resorting to vaccine mandates, even if it was harrowingly deadly.

  12. 12.

    Mike in NC

    @Eljai:  We passed a Barnes & Noble in the Boston suburbs last week. It struck me that I hadn’t been inside one of those in at least ten years.

  14. 14.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Mike in NC: Yep.  And the pandemic will do for a lot of those.  Before the pandemic, I had a car, that I basically only used to go to the grocery.  But now?  I get delivery.  Why didn’t I before?  It was cheap and easy, but I had an atavistic preference for actually picking my own veggies.  After 19mo of delivery, I’ve gotten used to not doing it.  And so, when my car got t-boned in a hit-and-run, I didn’t start looking to replace it.  Instead, I’m just l plowing the insurance and maintenance [ok, 10% of that money] into delivery fees.

    Before the pandemic I would get delivery or takeout from restos.  Now?  I try to learn how to cook the dishes myself.

    Lotta things gonna change, with this pandemic.

  15. 15.

    Delk

    Ten-Four good buddy!
    The easiest way for me to remember my anniversary, October 4th.
    22 years for Mr & Mr delk!

  17. 17.

    Anotherlurker

    In other news, IATSE, the union of Theatrical, Motion Picture and Television technicians and other crafts, has voted overwhelmingly to authorize a nationwide strike . This vote came in response to the unsafe working conditions and excessive hours that have become standard in motion picture production .  Workers are expected to go 10-12 hours between meal breaks. Turn around times between work days are dangerously short, with some techs getting only 4-5 hours of sleep between release times and call times.

    There is also the issue of low pay for some crafts and streaming productions (Think Amazon, Netflix, HBO, etc. original productions. ).

    For more info go to IATSE.net.      The authorization vote was 98.7% of the 87% who voted.  The bargaining body numbers 60,000+ members.

    The ball is now in the court of the producers, who need to bargain in good faith.

    Stay tuned…..

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    FYI.

    A prolonged, global outage of Facebook’s apps has the company’s engineers scrambling to fix the issue at one of its data centers in California, according to two people familiar with the situation.

    The outage, which began around 11:40AM ET on Monday, has brought down all of Facebook’s apps — including Instagram and WhatsApp — globally, affecting billions of users and millions of advertisers. Inside Facebook, the outage has also broken nearly all of the internal systems employees use to communicate and work.
    [snip]
    Further complicating matters, the outage has broken the ability for some employees to access company buildings and conference rooms with their badges, according to The New York Times, which first reported that engineers were being dispatched to the data center. Source

  22. 22.

    CaseyL

    @NotMax: I’m  finding it difficult to feel much sympathy for FB, despite knowing a lit of people rely on it for their business. And WTH was FB doing, using the platform for building access? That just seems dumb.

  25. 25.

    RevRick

    The debate about abortion usually centers on the question about the personhood status of the fetus. But if the state can hijack a woman’s body and life to serve its agenda, no matter how noble, then her personhood is negated. If the decision lies in anyone’s hands other than the woman’s, she is not the sovereign subject of herself. She is reduced to less than human.

  26. 26.

    hueyplong

    Loving the fact that millions of RWNJs aren’t sure just what to think about anything right now.  If only their tv cable would go out, too.

  28. 28.

    CaseyL

    @hueyplong: Imagine them all sitting down, staring blankly into space, in a semi-catatonic state, waiting for The Transmission to resume.

    How long does FB need to be down for them to forget how to breathe?

  29. 29.

    Ken

    @CaseyL: It would be weird if there were an uptick in vaccination as a result of this.

    Which suggests a joke; something like, “Facebook’s still working, they just removed all the misinformation.”

  31. 31.

    CaseyL

    @Ken: I think it’d have to stay down for a few days to have that kind of effect.

    Be funny if that’s the reason FB went down: someone wants to clean it out, good and hard.

    Or, much less amusing, the tricksters are RWNJ-affiliated, and are frantically erasing the evidence that DOJ and the Jan 6th Commission are looking for.

  32. 32.

    Kent

    As a guy I can’t imagine the reaction most guys would have to putting up with the interference with reproductive health that women have to deal with.

    You would have walk-in non-appointment abortion clinics with sports playing on the big screen.  And any politicians who tried to fuck with your rights would have their asses handed to them.  Of that I am positive.

  34. 34.

    Anoniminous

    @Anotherlurker: ​

    The ball is now in the court of the producers, who need to bargain in good faith.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
    You funny person.​
     

    ETA: I got a number of friends in the business

  35. 35.

    JPL

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: When we moved to Atlanta in the eighties, the sons and I would go to Oxford Book Store.   It turned into an end of the school year event, and each had so much money to spend.  I do miss that.

  37. 37.

    Mike E

    OT I tuned in to NPR’s ATC on my drive home (I know, I know) and caught Nina Totenberg’s report on the new scotus term…she called Sotomayor “paranoid” for being the only justice wearing a mask… called a Mississippi groundwater case “boring” because even Alito couldn’t muster up a comment on it…and she mentioned sorting her hosery. I do know better to subject myself to their crappy broadcasts but I guess I needed a further dose to bolster my usual avoidance.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    @Raven:  When they opened the Pharr Road location, the ex and I would go and browse then stop at Buckhead Diner for their Bluecheese Chips.  The original store was always my favorite though

    For those bringing their kiddos to bookstores, don’t pooh their choices.

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Mike E:

    she called Sotomayor “paranoid” for being the only justice wearing a mask…

    doubly odd considering Kavanaugh was out with Covid, and IIRC Sotomayor is diabetic, which is a pretty serious increase in Covid risk

  40. 40.

    Dan B

    The grey cat is wildly twitching in his dream.

    My shoulder is sore from my 10-4 flu shot.

    My partner is building a support structure for his truck canopy.

     

    I hope you celebrate your anniversary different from the ways we seem to be doing it.  (Our anniversary isn’t till March.)

  41. 41.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @NotMax:

    A prolonged, global outage of Facebook’s apps

    Am I wrong to wish that it’s a ransomware attack? “Delete every account or…”

  44. 44.

    Dan B

    1. @CaseyL: T Mobile loaded my business FB on my new phone but not my personal FB.  I had not used the business site for a decade.  So I’ve been off FB for a year and do not miss it.  Who knew?
  46. 46.

    Kattails

    I sent Watergirl an email noting that the quote was retweeted by Stonekettle, the original was something between @Alyssa_Milano and @HB Servitus, whatever.  Just to be polite here.

    We have a wonderful local bookstore for sale, after 50 years, if anyone is interested.  There are three stores, the purchase includes all inventory plus the Peterborough building.  They survived the economic downturn and COVID, and outlasted one of those chain bookstores.  Just thought I’d toss that out there.  It’s a lovely region. He’s not in a hurry, wants to find the right buyer. I sure hope he does.

  50. 50.

    Ruckus

    @CaseyL: 
    Wanna bet it is cheaper.

    As long as nothing goes wrong.
    Which of course it now has. Heavens to Murgatroyd, whatever will we do without Fauxbook? Well, I’ll sleep just fine.

  51. 51.

    Anotherlurker

    Right you are. IMHO there are too many MBAs making the decisions. They have no idea what the union members do. To them, they aren’t skilled trades people who spend years perfecting their craft. To them they are liabilities to be derided and cheated. To a person, they have no clue what the people who do the actual work go thru to bring their product to completion. So what if some Grip dies in a car wreck because he was leaving work after a 17 hour day? We can’t afford to pay the crew more and work with the Union on real safety issues. That will ruin our bottom line!!! Think of the Producers!!!
    IMHO. MBAs= Soul less bastards.

    @hueyplong:

  52. 52.

    Mike E

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: She did mention her condition, but to use that deliberately inappropriate descriptor when “cautious” or “prudent” ::takes no effort at all:: shows what a hack she made herself out as on a national broadcast. Again, I know better. But that was a poor showing by a supposed professional, kind of jaw dropping

  54. 54.

    Ruckus

    @Dan B:

    Me.

    I’ve been off FB for over 3 yrs now. I find that I miss some contacts on there, but not as many as I thought I would and the only reason we were in contact was FB. And not supporting that platform makes up for it.

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    @Kattails:

    I sent Watergirl an email noting that the quote was retweeted by Stonekettle, the original was something between @Alyssa_Milano and @HB Servitus, whatever.  Just to be polite here.

    I hadn’t seen that note. If someone wants to include a link to the original tweet or the retweet, I’ll include the context.

  56. 56.

    Mike in NC

    @Ruckus:  I also deleted my Facebook account about three years ago. One of the best things I’ve ever done. Social media is a sewer filled with foreign rats.

  60. 60.

    The Pale Scot

    is currently out for two weeks for treatment of her stage 3 breast cancer,

    Fuck her. Have some newbie staffer with a mean streak let her know she’s gone, and her health insurance too. That’s the GQP Way. Offer thoughts and prayers and assure her that her church will pick up the costs

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