Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Let there be snark.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

I was promised a recession.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

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

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  12. 12.

    frosty

    @Baud: That was my first thought, too. I haven’t been paying attention but PLEASE don’t let them be winning a playoff game!

    @WaterGirl:  Local variant: “How ’bout dem O’s?” [imagine O pronounced with at least 3 vowel sounds]. It used to be more fun to follow the Orioles. I can’t believe how bad they’ve gotten.

  14. 14.

    bbleh

    @JPL: Oh no, my sister plays that for HER grandson, over and over AND over.  And she runs a Montessori with toddlers, so she knows what she’s doing.  Just kill me now.

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    @frosty:

    That was my first thought, too. I haven’t been paying attention but PLEASE don’t let them be winning a playoff game! 

    Cubs decided not to play the second half of the season, ie. decided to suck.

    And most of the team is gone.  Free agency I think.

  32. 32.

    cope

    @Elizabelle:  According to a promoted Google response to my query, a cub is “…a young carnivorous mammal such as a lion, tiger or bear.” There’s your critter content.

  42. 42.

    TheflipPsyD

    Thanks for the change of subject :-)  I wrote this long comment for the thread below and it got borked on my tablet. So, I will be much briefer here, and just say that I am so grateful for having all of you in my (virtual) life. This place has gotten me through some really rough times in the past almost 20 years.

    Today, I had such a horrendous bout of acid indigestion after reading about 5 articles on a variety of horrible things happening in our country, that I honestly thought I was going to have to go to the hospital or was going to die from the pain. Luckily, neither happened. I am a natural pessimist, and so my dissertation included a whole section on learned optimism. I need occasional reminders to follow the steps to being optimistic. And so, I did my usual roundup when things get bad.

    I work with kids in the system — both the juvenile delinquency and child protective services. These kids have been through so much trauma, and often when they are feeling depressed and stressed, we’ll brainstorm ways to help them feel better. Invariably, I will make a challenge to them — and generally, the challenge is not refused — because they really want to prove me wrong. I’ve done this with kids 5 through college age — about 20/21. I admit I’ve never challenged an adult and had them actually do it in the office with me. I challenge them to skip across the room without cracking a smile. Each has done it — multiple times — to prove me wrong. So far, I have won the challenge every time, because how can you not smile doing something so ridiculous?

    So, I challenge all my fellow BJers to skip across the room and try not to crack even the tiniest of smiles (probably best in privacy, and since this is the place of naked mopping,  clothes are optional). And once you start smiling, it is really hard no to start laughing, and then it’s hard not to feel better.

    Thanks for being my sanity, especially during the Bush and Trump years.

     

    ETA fixed typo

  43. 43.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: He is a player for the Brewers.  My mom originally couldn’t stand him when the team acquired him.  But he keeps hitting home runs.

  44. 44.

    mrmoshpotato

    The Astros should have to dodge rolling trash cans while playing – Donkey Kong-style!

  46. 46.

    ArchTeryx

    There are times I just need to retreat to different worlds.  So splitting some time between working on my alien Storm City and reading the last of the Griffin Ranger trilogy, which appears to be a cross between the building of their Earth’s Panama Canal and the Shaka Zulu story, with our horribly broken hero Harrell White-Shoulders stuck in the middle as per usual.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    @sdhays: I would have said 50+, but I am apparently wrong.

    In my defense, 50+ isn’t a bad guess around here.  I am always grateful for the people who talk of their young or youngish kids.  It’s a good reminder that there’s more to life than what is wrong with politics.

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Benw: ​
      Thanks. I want a sweep of the championships by WI teams this year. Pro, of course. UW is so, so out of it.

  69. 69.

    frosty

    @WaterGirl: ​
      Whew! American League all the way (except for that verdammt DH). And the FTFYs of course. And the Red Sox too, now that I think about it.

  71. 71.

    frosty

    @mrmoshpotato: ​Well, I’m a Ravens and Orioles fan in PA a couple miles north of the Mason-Dixon line … but then south central has always been more Baltimore-centric. Pittsburgh is too far away and Philly is on the wrong side of the river. Seriously, I see Steelers flags in my neighborhood but I’ve never seen anything indicating there are Eagles fans around.

  73. 73.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @TheflipPsyD: Good advice…on the bike path today, I saw a guy, he wasn’t jogging, walking or blading, he was skipping, so it’s good exercise too.

    I used to do research for a crazy lady and spent some time looking into Laughter Yoga and the power of laughter generally. Apparently, even faking laughter releases the same pleasure chemicals as the real deal.

  74. 74.

    sdhays

    @WaterGirl: I still have a ways to go before I reach that milestone.

    A few years ago, my wife and I were hosting a 13 year old for a weekend and then dropped him off a camp for a week. I signed him in and the counselor referred to me as the kid’s dad. I laughed and said I’m not old enough to be his father. And then I did the math, and if my wife and I had had a kid after we graduated from college, we could have had a kid that age.

    It was very sobering. But we still didn’t have a kid for a couple more years.

  75. 75.

    Darkrose

    @Baud: Thank you! I’d said for years that if the Cubs ever won the World Series, it would start the apocalpyse, and look what happened.

  76. 76.

    japa21

    @Omnes Omnibus: The wife, who is a die hard Cub fan, but supports my Brewer habit, couldn’t watch the last pitch.  That’s not exciting, that’s terrifying.

  80. 80.

    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus: What do you think of the (basically) strike by hispanics that is set for Monday in Wisconsin?

    No school, no work, no shopping, no spending, etc.

    In protest because of those who want the Dems to ditch citizenship, etc in the BIF.

    edit: I don’t know if it’s all of Wisconsin, or just the areas that Voces de la Frontera works in.

  84. 84.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Darkrose:

    Thank you! I’d said for years that if the Cubs ever won the World Series, it would start the apocalpyse, and look what happened. 

    You get to share all the side-eyes with Baud! ??

  85. 85.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: hah  Only if they graduated from college at seventeen or something.  I assume they are thirty five or thirty six

    I only hope that we find out..

  88. 88.

    mrmoshpotato

    @WaterGirl:

    @Ruviana: Didn’t see it.

    Giant baked potato from Buffalo Joe’s in Evanston, IL.

    Chili, cheese, sour cream, jalapeno peppers, and tortilla chips!

    Off to get some chili, chips and jalapenos.

  91. 91.

    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: Are you sure it’s the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill people are upset about? I thought Democrats proposed to add immigration reform to the Reconciliation bill.

  94. 94.

    Wakeshift

    @Darkrose: 

    My family is watching Back to the Future II right now, and the Cubs winning the series was one of the “surprising future events”

    In 2015

    ?

    ?

    I’m convinced you’re right, is what I’m saying.

  96. 96.

    Persistent Illusion

    @mrmoshpotato: Thank you mrmoshpotato, as a former season ticket holder ( a very long time ago, during both the time when they sucked and that brief and shining moment when they didn’t).

  99. 99.

    Hildebrand

    So glad to see the Brewers win.  My hope is that they make it all the way so I can listen to Bob Uecker call one more World Series.

  103. 103.

    Peale

    I guess I’d be a bad manager. I’d have sat Tellez so that Urias could start at 3rd. And then Tellez turns into a gold glove first baseman and power hitting stud.

  107. 107.

    frosty

    @Hildebrand: ​
      Uecker, on going back to call the games in 2020:

    “I’m doing what everybody else is doing, and that’s stay locked down, shut down and wear a mask if I do need one. I went in the store a couple of weeks ago with a catcher’s mask, and they told me it was the wrong one. It helps when you get punched in the face, but that’s about it.”

    That happens to him a lot at the grocery store, does it?

    “Yeah,” Uecker said. “A lot of people are still living that saw me play.”

  109. 109.

    Another Scott

    As expected, …

    Now: Texas's 6-week abortion ban law, SB 8, is in effect again for now — the 5th Circuit has granted a temporary, administrative stay of this week's preliminary injunction (which halted enforcement of SB 8) to consider the state's request for a longer stay pending appeal pic.twitter.com/wdTIH5emjm

    — Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 9, 2021

    Grrr…

    (via CharlesPPierce)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  113. 113.

    VeniceRiley

    The fiancé is an expert at changing the subject and distracting. She is professionally trained. Just today she got someone off their oppositional defiance just by asking a prisoner what his first name is and then asking if he needs bags to pack his things.

  117. 117.

    Tony Jay

    @Baud:

    Brevity don’t drain no bile ducts.

    Also, your 2024 acceptance speech is now going to run to 18000 pages and will include no less than three anecdotal digressions into the wacky world of lint-weaving.

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