Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

This really is a full service blog.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

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

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

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Pet Calendar deadline extended until Sunday Morning!

Two of my calendar pet crushes this year:

Monday Evening Open Thread Pets Are Contacting Me About The Calendar! 2

I left to do my monthly grocery shopping at 7am, went to two different stores and I can’t believe it took nearly 2 hours.  And then I had to put everything away, so it’s nearly 10am.

In a couple of hours I have to leave for a memorial/party for a good friend I have known since 1972.  Sad day.  It’s being held inside (ugh!) in a huge barn at a spot where she spent a lot of time at contra dances, pot lucks, etc.  This will also be the first time I have been indoors in a large group for an extended period of time since Covid.  (Ugh again!)

But there will be music and dancing and friends and long-time acquaintances, and lots of homemake pie, so that’s all good!

This is also the first time I have attended anything like this for someone in my age cohort.  That’s distressing, too.

On the upside, this means that I will be getting to the calendar pics on SUNDAY morning instead of this morning, so everyone gets an extra day.  Even if you haven’t contacted me already to say you want pets in the calendar, as long as I have your pics and names of your pets by SUNDAY MORNING, you are golden.

Open thread.

 

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    Pet Calendar Deadline Extended until Sunday Morning

    This is worse than the BBB bill. I’m tired of watching the sausage calendar getting made.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    What!? You mean I stayed up until almost midnight last night in order to get pictures in, and then … you turn around and do this to me??

    Procrastinating on deadlines is half the fun. Dammit. Now what am I going to put off today?

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud:  @SiubhanDuinne:  @Ken:   Some people just cannot be pleased!  Three of my blog favorites, all in a row, turning on me one after another.  “Well, I Never!”

    I see how you are.  Next thing you know you will all be complaining that the ads are gone.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I only now went back and read the full post. I’m very sorry about the loss of your friend, WG. It’s tough when our parents and people of their generation die, but it’s a blow to the solar plexus when we begin losing our own contemporaries.

  13. 13.

    geg6

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I belong to a FB group of my high school class and one of my oldest friends from back in kindergarten recently retired and started a project of tracking us all down, two by two, by posting a request, “whatever happened to ___ and ___.”  We had the largest class that ever graduated from our high school (I think it’s 535) and it’s been a real eye opener for me, convincing me that I am truly old now.  It’s been shocking how many of us are gone.  Some I knew about but so many I didn’t!  He’s only about halfway through and about 60 or 70 have passed or cannot be found.  It’s very sad.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    @Monala: You can send email to my nym at balloon-juice.com

    If you send the email in the next hour or so, I can reply with the link to upload the photos.

    If you just have a couple of pets, you can send the pics directly by email if that’s easier for you.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I just don’t want people stressing out because they missed the deadline.

    Especially when it turns out I can’t really get to the pics today anyway, and Beth is out of pocket for the weekend with family visiting, so the deadline ended up being kind of arbitrary.

    But this is pretty much it unless your name is John Cole.  Unless someone wants to bribe me with dark chocolate or licorice.  I never said I couldn’t be bought, and now you know the price. :-)

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    I attended my high school class’s 25th, 40th, and 50th reunions (60th should have been last year, but the pandemic had other ideas). Each time there was a poster board set up with the names of deceased classmates, and each time it was a wrenching experience to study all the names on the list.

  21. 21.

    Betsy

    Awful sorry about your friend.  She sounded like a real livewire.  That’s a long friendship, too.

    Make new friends, and keep the old;

    One is silver, and the other, gold.

  22. 22.

    sab

    @WaterGirl: My phone still won’t send photos to an e-mail, only to another telephone. I went through everything in the menu this morning, and then went online to research. No go. Lots of people were complaining that a recent update deprived us dinosaurs of that option. We are supposed to go to our gmail account and then attach a photo from our gallery. But we can no longer access gmail from the phone. So all my photos are stuck in phone limbo.

  23. 23.

    Betsy

    Got my booster and I’m tired, a bit wiped out, now in bed.  I wouldn’t say I feel *bad*; just feel like I climbed a mountain, came back down, and now need a hot bath and a good night’s sleep!

    No previous side effects.  I’ll take this fatigue as proof I’m protected (even though I know that side effects aren’t necessary or even connected to vaccine efficacy)

  24. 24.

    sab

    Ponyo got spayed very late in life (age  7) so she has been through many heat cycles. My favorite picture of her, which I am not allowed to share, makes her look like Romulus and Remus’s wolf mother.

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