Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Everybody saw this coming.

Republicans do not trust women.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    Oh Lordy. Cute doggie is cute.

    Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion, just crossed my mind.

  8. 8.

    raven

    Here’s Artie’s DNA results

     

    For Artemis we have been able to go further, and identify some of the breeds that we think may have been part of her heritage and have contributed to the Supermutt portion of her genome. We cannot be sure, given how little of their DNA has carried down to Artemis, but we thought you might like to know our best guess anyway!

    Likely breeds that contribute to Supermutt:

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    Looks like Pete knows who’s the boss.

    Every dog needs a buddy and I bet these guys end up great friends.

    Little upside-down Pete is beyond adorable.

  18. 18.

    raven

    @WaterGirl: They said Bohdi had Cocker and, of course, my wife said “Oh yea, I see that”! I’ve said that my genetics friends say this is good for entertainment purposes.

  20. 20.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    Pete deserves this tweet. Or maybe Bandit does. Anyway, Pete is adorbs, and Bandit seems to be handling him with aplomb.

  25. 25.

    debbie

    Will Pete’s coat darken like Badger’s or stay grayish? I’m already trying to figure out how to tell them apart when Pete’s older.

  28. 28.

    opiejeanne

    @NotMax: lol. A friend got a French bulldog puppy a few years ago and was considering naming it Gucci.

    I suggested Pucci, but she just laughed.

  29. 29.

    Betty Cracker

    @debbie: We think he’ll stay gray. He’s not full Boston — he’s part Frenchy. (Though I’ve heard there are gray BTs too — never seen one.)

  34. 34.

    debbie

    @Betty Cracker:

    Good. Cute video, but I think Pete walks in, sees Badger, thinks “Whatever,” and proceeds on his way. Badger may end up not being the Boss Man he thinks he is.

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie: I saw that differently. I thought Pete was rolling along, the Badger gives him a look and then Pete turns his head away like he’s a tiny bit intimidated by the big dog.

  40. 40.

    Another Scott

    New puppies (and new doggies of all sorts) is good.

    ObOpenThread:

    We have the full vote history back from NJ. It was all about turnout. Dem turnout increased by 65k from 2017, while GOP turnout surged by 195k. Not a lot of evidence of a "suburban swing" back to the GOP. pic.twitter.com/Ng1oBPNmPB

    — Tom Bonier (@tbonier) December 21, 2021

    Beware the hot-takes.

    As always, Turnout – Turnout – Turnout!

    (via LOLGOP)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    Knew it was coming, just not when. “When.”

    Sacramento County has detected its first two cases of the “very contagious” omicron variant of COVID-19, health officials announced Tuesday. The two cases are still being investigated by the local health office, but do not appear to be linked to each other and neither reported a history of recent travel, county spokeswoman Samantha Mott said in an emailed statement. One of the cases experienced mild symptoms, and the other is asymptomatic with their case identified through weekly testing, according to Mott. “One case is in a vaccinated individual, the other is unvaccinated,” Mott wrote. The omicron variant had previously been identified in the region in Yolo County earlier this month, first detected in a West Sacramento adult.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article256772357.html#storylink=cpy

  46. 46.

    Ann Marie

    Pete is soooo cute! But so is his big brother. It feels like everyone is getting a new furry friend. I need to get a companion for my remaining cat, Harley, since his big brother Louie passed away a couple of months ago. When I’m home he is happy enough being an only cat, but when I leave for work I get big lonely kitty eyes.

  47. 47.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    @Betty Cracker: I’m so glad you appreciate it. I’ve been cackling over it between cookie batches all day and my family thinks I’m nuts. Well, they thought that before, but…

  49. 49.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @WaterGirl: I’m really worried about it here in Glendale, we have a low vax rate for Southern CA(about 68%) and about 10% of the orange apron’s customers refuse to mask.  It’s really quite scarry.  I had one unmasked older lady asking me a question and she kept trying to get closer to me, I’d back up and she’d move forward.  I really can’t say anything either.

  56. 56.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: I bought some on Sunday, I’ll probably use one today.

    ETA: A face shield won’t work well with what I do.  I do lots of moving, putting on my reading glasses…just don’t think it would work

    ETA2: I mean a lot of moving around, I walk between 25k and 35k a day.  I’ve lost over 30 lbs since I started the orange apron gig.  My neighbor asked if I was ok, in that I’d lost so much weight.

  57. 57.

    Jerzy Russian

    What is Pete’s full name?  Also does he have any honorifics, like “The Right Reverend”, in front of his name?

  59. 59.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I don’t know your situation, but it sounds like a counter-type ordering set-up? When things really started hitting the fan here (early spring 2020) folks at the ice cream store my son manages just couldn’t get it through their heads to stay back from the ordering stations they’d set up. He found that simply putting a table in front of the order station solved the problem. Oh, occasionally a customer would push the table out of the way to get closer, but he would just say, “I’m exposed to a lot of people all day; are you sure you want to do that?” That was almost always all it took.

    Anyway, I hear every day how nerve-wracking and annoying thoughtless customers are. I feel your anxiety, believe me.

  64. 64.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager)): I don’t work at the counter, I’m what they call a “delivery associate'(it sounds better than a gopher).  I go out into the store and pick up items that folk have ordered for either curbside or service desk pickup or to have delivered to their home.  I get stopped by customers quite often doing this in the aisles, that’s were the plague rat, excuse me I mean customer, interaction happens.

  65. 65.

    dmsilev

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Just down the road, so to speak, here in Pasadena we have a pretty high vaccination rate (almost 90% of total population with at least one dose, about 84% two or more), and yet our case rate has doubled in less than a week.

    On campus, just got an email saying five cases in the last day, which is bonkers high considering that just about all of the undergrads have left for winter break already, along with a lot of grad students and staff. We’re still planning, or perhaps hoping would be a better word, on in-person instruction in January. The contingency planning for going back to remote teaching is underway though.

  69. 69.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @zhena gogolia: We’ve pretty much had a countywide mask mandate for the duration(I think there was about a month in the summer where we didn’t), we also have a statewide mask mandate, they ignore it.  We had two smug looking maskless guys walking down one of the main aisles and after they were out of earshot, one of the other workers said “who do they think they are”, I said “they think they’re invincible”.

  71. 71.

    debbie

    @cope:

    Thanks. When people started renaming their pet’s breed to get around restrictions, I lost track of what the actual name was.

  72. 72.

    Jay

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    why can’t you say something. Policy at the Orange here is wear a mask or “special accommodation”, which is order online and p/u in lot.

    When I run into a maskhole, I give them a couple nudges towards the free masks, then ignore them if they don’t take the hint, hand them off to a Manager via the link.

    A bunch of staff, like “order fulfillment associates”, TR etc don’t even wear the Orange anymore, because we would never get to do our jobs.

  73. 73.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Aack! Is there a cart or something you can wheel around with you to swing strategically between you and Typhoid Martin? At least put a tiny space in there?

    I know from my niece, who works in a grocery store, that if management doesn’t share your concerns for themselves, they’re no help at all in protecting employees.

  74. 74.

    germy

    Abbott destroyed tests, laid off workers and closed plants due to lack of demand over the summer and now they're scrambling to increase production

    The national supply of pandemic equipment shouldn't be subject to just-in-time production workflows!https://t.co/6YRgdii7Af

    — Apocalyptica (@ApocalypticaNow) December 21, 2021

  76. 76.

    germy

    This August 2020 email from Deborah Birx perfectly encapsulates why so many of us were frustrated with her.

    First she privately lays out why Trump and his yes-men are wrong about Covid’s danger. But then she ends with “I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover” https://t.co/e8RM1AgOnc

    — Arlen Parsa (@arlenparsa) December 21, 2021

  77. 77.

    mrmoshpotato

    @germy:

    This August 2020 email from Deborah Birx perfectly encapsulates why so many of us were frustrated with her.

    First she privately lays out why Trump and his yes-men are wrong about Covid’s danger. But then she ends with “I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover”

    Murderous bitch.

  78. 78.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I’ve probably just lost a good friend. He forwarded some link to an article, the headline of which was highlighting Biden’s “dead agenda.” Out of courtesy I started reading the piece, got to a reference to “Democrats in disarray” (in so many words) in the second paragraph, and lost it. I think I was logical and reasonable in my response, but perhaps it came across as an unhinged rant. I guess I’ll find out soon enough.

  80. 80.

    germy

    Safety First: Tonight is the Solstice so please remember to not make any bargains with, or to accept any gifts from, fae creatures after darkness falls.

    — Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll) December 21, 2021

  81. 81.

    Jay

    @debbie:

    the breed restrictions in most places, lumped as many as 14 different breeds into the “pit bull bans”, along with a bunch of physical characteristics, ( phrenology like) that also caught up any mastiff/rottie/boxer cross .

  90. 90.

    Nutmeg again

    Oh my gosh!! Puppy joy!! so wonderful. I once had a dog called Pete–he was a Husky x Black lab x Whatever mix. My first own grownup dog. Such a good boy. I’m sure your Pete will also be a Very Good Boy.

  93. 93.

    raven

    @cope:

    The American Pit Bull Terrier originated in the British Isles and descends from the Mastiff-type dogs introduced to England in antiquity. The breed was brought over to the United States by English immigrants in the 1800s, and quickly became one of the most popular and widespread breeds there.
    FUN FACT
    One of the most famous American Pit Bull Terriers is Pal, the dog who played the beloved Petey in The Little Rascals.

  94. 94.

    Jay

    @zhena gogolia:

    I’m on an I phone. When I hit the bottom right corner of the screen, a square box pops up, which when pressed, shows all the multiple screens I have up in window box fashion.

    I usually have 2 to 10 screens up at any one time, BJ, CBC, You tube, twitter.

    When someone posts a tweet or link, pressing on the link and holding it, gives the option of “opening in a new screen”,

    If by accident I wind up “jumping” to the link or tweet, I hit the “back arrow”  < to go back.

  95. 95.

    CaseyL

    Pete is illegally adorable.  I look forward to The Further Adventures of Pete and Badger.

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: A better mask couldn’t hurt and might help,  But unless everyone can stay away from people nonstop until February at least – which is near impossible, especially working a “customer service” job like yours – I think we’re all going to catch this fucker.

    If you’re fully vaxxed and boosted, you might improve the odds a bit more by taking zinc and extra Vitamin D if you feel anything like symptoms at all.

    How is Omicron more transmissible than Delta, FFS?  Does it float in the air longer, stay virulent longer?  Shit.

  97. 97.

    Travels with Charley

    It may be too late in the thread, but I thought I would share that I also got a Christmas puppy (on the breeder’s waiting list, but their current litter had TEN puppies  so – oops, i have @ Christmas puppy!) Tango, 9 weeks old, black standard poodle. The successor to my brown standard poodle, Charley, who died in October 2020.

  100. 100.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @CaseyL: I think it packs a greater viral load.

    It’s probably only about 10% of the customers that don’t mask, but that can be enough to spread it around.  One guy walked into the store with his mask on and took it off once in the store…asshole.

    I’m fully vaxed and boosted(J&J+Moderna).

  101. 101.

    Jay

    @CaseyL:

    apparently, bronchial tubes, greater aerosol spread, 12-24 hours of lung spraying before the onset of symptoms, if any show up.

  106. 106.

    Redshift

    I was at Worldcon last weekend, and there have been three reports of positive tests from people who were there, so I just got back from waiting two hours in line for a COVID test at a local community center (Northern Virginia.) I wasn’t expecting to to be quite that long, but I brought my Kindle, so that was okay. I should have realized the line would be outdoors and dressed warmer, though.

    I wanted to get a proper test before visiting my parents in Christmas, so it was worth the wait.

  107. 107.

    JWR

    @germy:

    First she privately lays out why Trump and his yes-men are wrong about Covid’s danger. But then she ends with “I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover”

    I read one of those stories about Birx, and that sentence, “I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover” really blew me away. How does she sleep nights?

  109. 109.

    Another Scott

    It’s #SantaPawsDay – the day all our dogs get to pick their Christmas gift! Sadly, we couldn’t fit them all in, but we hope the pure joy of the ones we did makes you smile!

    To all our supporters and everyone who sent a gift, thank you! We hope you have a very Merry Christmas! ? pic.twitter.com/lFR7LNdvZG

    — Dogs Trust Ireland (@DogsTrust_IE) December 21, 2021

    :-)

    (via JJMacNab)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  111. 111.

    Redshift

    @JWR:

    How does she sleep nights? 

    I suspect people who find themselves in a situation like that and aren’t sharp enough to realize it’s only going to get worse quickly become very good at rationalizing.

  112. 112.

    Betty Cracker

    @WaterGirl: Reference to “Breaking Bad,” which had two surprisingly endearing meth head characters named Badger and Skinny Pete.

    ETA: We didn’t consciously name the dogs after them.

  115. 115.

    Jay

    @zhena gogolia:

    lots of counters, lots of plexiglass, (tills, Returns, Customer Service, Pro Desk, TR, Millwork, Kitchen and Bath),….

    but Bill doesn’t get to sit behind one, he’s out in the isles picking orders with constant interruptions from customers,

  118. 118.

    frosty

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: You’re lucky. We’re way below 68% in my part of South PA and at the local orange apron store 90% don’t have a mask. It’s like everyone around here figured COVID was over and that’s what they’re acting like.

  119. 119.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Congrats on the adorable pup! It looks like Badger gets to have a roomie to boss around…lol! Have fun with puppyhood!

    We are in to Day Two of a surprise addition to our household and there has been face to face hissing with the new kitten. So far Stewie and Morty are being nice to Chuckie, who also happens to be Morty’s nephew. Morty’s sis, Shelby had three kittens on August 16th and we were able to pick one to add to our home. We named him Archie and were excited to have him come home in early October. Unfortunately about a week before he was to come to his new home he was killed in a couch/kid incident that I really did not want to know the details of. We thought that was the end of it.

    Two days ago Shelby’s owner (Morty’s sis) called us and asked if we wanted one of the kittens. It seems that the 15 year old girl who got our ‘new’ kitty thinks that he meows too much and wants to find a new home for him. We picked him up two nights ago and our son named him Chuckie because he’s orange and of course, Chuckie Finster. He even came with a runny nose! And a weeping eye, runny poop, fleas… you get it. It’s apparent why he was meowing all of the time, poor guy.

    We put him on a good food for kittens (Blue Buffalo), which he pigged out on. I gave him a dose of Revolution for the fleas and they spent yesterday dying and falling off of him. He was going gonzo scratching and they were falling off of him like flaming rats abandoning a burning ship. His poop has firmed up just with the good food and it looks like he is worm free (whew!). Today he’s been ripping around all over the place with nary a worry and oblivious to two pissed off adult cats he now lives with. The face to face with Stewie was something I could have recorded. Stewie was on the steps hissing up at a Chuckie kitty who was descending to a nose to nose greeting. One was hissing and the other was loudly purring. I carefully separated them and praised/treats Stewie for not killing his new roomie.

    Morty just had a horrible day at the vet’s office and he’s napping off his shot. All good news but still horrible for the poor guy. He’s a favorite there since he’s a Siamese Scottish Fold and cute to no end, but the attention still scares him.

    Back to cat adventures. Enjoy your new puppy adventures, Betty! :)

  120. 120.

    CaseyL

    @Jay: It’s Giant Corporation’s fault that people who are supposed to be focused on carrying orders for pick up are always intercepted and asked for help from customers. There just aren’t enough ACTUAL floor service reps, so we who are wandering around lost home in on anyone wearing the orange.

    Can’t tell you how often I’ve been in HD and haven’t seen a single CSR anywhere… or have seen exactly one (1) CSR, surrounded by people like vultures waiting for a deer to die.

  124. 124.

    Dan B

    @CaseyL: Omicron is mostly upper respiratory tract and produces a lot more virus (70 times more – don’t quote me) so breathing, coughing, and sneezing pump a lot of virus into the air.

  126. 126.

    geg6

    @frosty:

    Same here.  50% fully vaxxed and maybe 10% masking.  I hate these people.

    What’s been infuriating is that my campus is vastly safer than the county around us (we are pretty much centrally located).  Students are hovering around 90% vaxxed, faculty is at 86% and staff at 83% (the Union staff is pulling that number down a bit).  But everyone is fully masked indoors.  An island of sanity amidst the crazies.

  127. 127.

    Miss Bianca

    Feeling like I might explode from the cute.

    That, or I just ate way too much guacamole and chips this evening. Or both. Yeah, both.

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