Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Fight them, without becoming them!

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

You are here: Home / Nature & Respite / Sunday Night Open Thread: What We Do For…

Reader Interactions

31Comments

  2. 2.

    Another Scott

    There’s a giant cat down the street that is shaped like an inflated pufferfish or basketball when it sits down. It came up to me a couple of days ago when I was walking Ellie – it wanted to say hello and get some stitches.

    I petted its back and was amazed to find that it’s almost all fur!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  6. 6.

    LeftCoastYankee

    The romantic part of me was hoping Betty Bubblefish would wander by and be very impressed with Barney Bubblefish’s work of art.

    The post-2020 part of me was waiting for the shark….

    Seriously, this is very wondrous.

  7. 7.

    craigie

    That’s amazing, all the more so because he’s made a perfect circle (actually several of them) without ever being able to see them while he’s doing it.

  8. 8.

    Jim Appleton

    There’s a joke in here somewhere involving “fugu,” but I’m hopeless at finding it …

  9. 9.

    Ajabu

    To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief

    Exactly what drove me to become a professional musician…

  14. 14.

    Benw

    @Another Scott: my folks rescued a pair of Himalayan kittens. We named them Edmund and Lucy after the Narnia siblings and it’s impossible to overstate how their gigantic floof disguised tiny cat bodies.

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    Imagine having to drag your li’l Johnny through the sand like that to catch a hottie, leaves my brow in a furrow!

    I’ll stick with ridiculous handsomeness and a penchant for silliness to catch a female puffer fish’s eye.

    It’s not easy being a Merman.

    Oh, and the Southsiders are staying alive with the bats!

  16. 16.

    Yutsano

    I sent El pufferfish to a friend of mine who also happens to be a specialist in marine life at the Monterey Aquarium*. I’m pretty sure he’s seen one of these in the water up close!

    *I think that’s where he works. I’m not going to bug him about it except he works at an aquarium in the Bay area.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I was just talking to friend, she does service jobs. She mention she does doordash three days a week, earsn, 300 to 400 for 20 hours of work. No wonder no one can be bothered to wait tables.

  24. 24.

    trollhattan

    Fans of “Chinatown” or folks generally interested in California water wars might find this of interest.

    State water officials took a significant step on October 1 toward reversing damage to the Mono Lake Basin from excessive water diversions through major revisions to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) water rights licenses. The changes approved by the State Water Resources Control Board provide significant updates to an existing stream restoration program and will restore instream flows to 20 miles of creek and fisheries habitats in the basin. LADWP is required to construct an outlet structure at Grant Lake Dam to facilitate higher peak flow releases during certain months and accelerate ecosystem recovery processes that will benefit the trout fishery and riparian habitats of Rush, Lee Vining, Walker and Parker Creeks, tributaries to Mono Lake. The new measures build upon a historical 1994 State Water Board decision that established water export limitations and conditions to protect the environment in and around Mono Lake.

  28. 28.

    Chetan Murthy

    That little clip was fascinating.  It made me immediately wonder what the variation of designs for such mandalas is  (what symmetries the fish are capable of expressing) : perhaps some fish create ovals?  ellipses?  squares?  Are they always rotationally symmetric?

  30. 30.

    oldster

    It’s cool, and props to the fishy.  But unique in the animal kingdom? Tell that to the spiders, the beavers, the weaver-birds, etc.  There are many amazing architect-builders outside of the primate taxa.

  31. 31.

    Ohio Mom

    Disclaimer: I don’t believe in an intelligence behind the unviverse, I believe in evolution, completely.

    But what a marvel, that evolution selects for fish drawn mandellas!

Comments are closed.