Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

The words do not have to be perfect.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

The lights are all blinking red.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

How stupid are these people?

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  2. 2.

    West of the Cascades

    Here in Silver City (NM), they drop a javalina at midnight (a papier-mache one, of course). Two hours away!

  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    Watching the The Twilight Zone marathon.  Gonna switch over to fireworks on TV closer to midnight.

  8. 8.

    Emma from Miami

    I am 65 years old and this is the first New Year’s Eve I’ve spent by myself, in the sense of nobody to toast the Old Year out with. My sister had to take the booster shot and is down for the count; her hubby is providing broth and tea as needed at home (she says the fireworks are bloody nuts in her area). My dad fell asleep at around 10 and the dog joined him promptly.

    AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

  12. 12.

    Spanky

    And with that, time to turn the light out on 2021 and rest myself for 2022.

    Happy New Year, all!

  16. 16.

    Citizen Alan

    Ten minutes late, but Happy New Year from an expatriate Mississippian in Queens New York.

  18. 18.

    VOR

    2021 took Betty White from us at the last minute. We have to protect national treasure Dolly Parton all the way through 2022.

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    NotMax

    Hau’oli Makahiki Hou, y’all.

    Someone swung by this afternoon to present me a big bag of freshly picked apple bananas from their yard. Hm. No rum in the larder for bananas Foster.

    ;)

  21. 21.

    HumboldtBlue

    We’ve got a ways to go for the countdowns, and so far it’s been quiet other than the random “Eureka BOOM” and just to drop a random fact on youse, Babe Ruth hit 552 home runs AFTER Betty White’s birthday.

    So there’s that.

  31. 31.

    Layer8Problem

    I’m with my partner visiting the vaccinated and boosted stepkids and the vaccinated grandtots in DC. We all watched the kid-friendly 7 PM ball drop by someone’s house in Sherman Circle. As for the 12 AM EST ball drop at a Very Important Location, Ryan Seacrest looks like a prat. But I’m with people I love and feeling damned lucky. Happy New Year everyone.

  32. 32.

    Suzanne

    I am cuddled up here on the couch with Spawn the Youngest, who is still awake. The cuddles are epic, tho.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    Please feel free to liberally add to the brief top o’ the noggin list below.

    New Year in Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Hebraic calendar, et cetera all eligible.
    Any scene, however brief, involving or showing any New Year’s celebration.
    Any mention of or reference to any New Year .
    Any rendition of Auld Lang Syne.

    The Gold Rush
    Holiday
    After the Thin Man
    Sunset Boulevard
    Ocean’s 11
    Flower Drum Song
    P.S. Your Cat is Dead
    Rabbit Every Monday
    ;)

    And trivia:

    All thoroughbred race horses in the Northern hemisphere officially become one year older on January 1st. Born at 11:59 p.m. on December 31st? One year old at 12:01 a.m. Same thing is marked on August 1st in the southern half of the globe.

  40. 40.

    Soprano2

    Happy New Year from Missouri! This wasn’t the worst year I’ve had, but it wasn’t the best either. Here’s hoping 2022 is better.

  42. 42.

    Suzanne

    Now I’m trying to explain to Youngest that we don’t eat pizza in the bed.

    Spoiler alert: she’s eating pizza in my bed.

  47. 47.

    Suzanne

    Me to Mr. Suzanne: “Why did you let her bring pizza into the bed?!?!”
    Mr. Suzanne: “I didn’t. I mean, I did. But that wasn’t my intention.”

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    mrmoshpotato

    @Suzanne:

    Now I’m trying to explain to Youngest that we don’t eat pizza in the bed. 

    Spoiler alert: she’s eating pizza in my bed.

    Yum.  We need details.

  52. 52.

    Redshift

    We discovered that in our new house we could see several nearby First Night fireworks displays from our front lawn, so the year started out well.

  53. 53.

    HumboldtBlue

    I was all in for the various and sundry accounts of bacchanalia and exuberant celebration for the new year…

    But seriously… how did the baby get the pizza in the bed?

  54. 54.

    Suzanne

    @HumboldtBlue: Grabbed the rest of her piece of pizza from the table, ran upstairs, climbed into the bed, and threw a fit when my husband halfheartedly tried to take it. She’s fast.

  56. 56.

    Kalakal

    @NotMax: Sadly that’s what my cousins tell me. I can’t say first hand as I’m one of those evil immigrants and live in Florida nowadays*. I’m from a small village/town near Inverness, New Years were GREAT! Everybody ended up in everybody else’s house at some point, and a really good time was had by all and all would  “tak a richt gude-willie-waucht,fir ald lang syn.”

    *The things you do for love :)

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    sab

    @Suzanne: I did convince my pitbull that she should not eat milkbones in bed. She chews them up and leaves huge crunchy crumbs everywhere. If she just swallowed them it would be okay. It’s the crumbs I have objections to.

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    NotMax

    Chowing down on beautifully broiled 1¾ inch thick NY strip steaks from Costco. Special treat; budget squeezing enough to gaze at longingly but pass by except on rare occasions. Along with Kirkland Prosecco to wash ’em down.

    (Yes, steaks, plural. One is the runt of the litter so made the snap decision to include it on the plate in lieu of any veggies.)

    Much better quality meat than in any of the regular supermarkets (to begin with, all fat not trimmed to a fare thee well). Possibly not including Whole Hand Over Your Firstborn, home to meat counter sticker shock.

  68. 68.

    CaseyL

    T minus 25 minutes to NY here on the West Coast.

    I’m about to watch something called “Augmented Reality Fireworks” from the Space Needle.  They say this is the first time ever, but the Space Needle did the same thing last year.  Just a bunch of computer graphics overlaying the fireworks.  I wasn’t impressed.

    We’ll see if tonight’s show is any better.

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    Sheesh. Nearby neighbors must be having a gathering outdoors (under a canopy, I guess, as it is wet out there) and has an audio system set up blasting both Hawaiian and Jawaiian music. It’s just on the cusp of being too loud inside my domicile, several lots away.

    Meanwhile snap, crackle and bang unrelenting. County ordinance allows legal fireworks (no aerials which reach above twelve feet and only then with a permit) during the hours of 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The smoke and staccato sinfonia has been going on since sundown (~5:55 p.m.).

  70. 70.

    Starboard Tack

    Absolutely dead in West Washington Park. 16 degrees F and 3 inches of fresh snow is discouraging.

  73. 73.

    sab

    Lit my christmas pudding mountain time, Ate it. Those things are kind of unpleasant. Glad it is gone.

  74. 74.

    opiejeanne

    @CaseyL: 14 minutes to go. I’m in bed listening to the muffled booms and bangs. Not a lot of celebrants, but they’ve been going since 11.

    It’s 16 F. I can’t imagine wanting to be outside right now but some idiots here are setting off firecrackers. Brrrr!

  76. 76.

    opiejeanne

    I was hoping to be asleep by now but it’s just slightly too noisy. The cats were troubled when it started, but they’ve adapted.

  77. 77.

    sab

    @opiejeanne: Your climate is supposed to be mild and mine cold, but we are in the fities here in midwinter, and you are freezing. Everybodies’ trees are sufferung because none if this is normal and trees cannot migrate.

  78. 78.

    CaseyL

    Happy 2022 from the Left Coast!
    And the Space Needle show is much better than last year’s.​
     

    @opiejeanne: ​
      Some booms going on here, too. One good thing about the cold is both cats are inside with no desire to go out!

  79. 79.

    opiejeanne

    @sab: The trees on my property are mostly fir and birch, so they are suited to the cold. Seattle has had some really nasty cold winters. We got at least 6 inches of snow here over 3 days, starting on Christmas.  Last year we got a foot of snow in one storm and we were essentially snowed in for a week, and that has happened a few times.

    And now it sounds like a war, with huge explosions

  80. 80.

    opiejeanne

    @CaseyL: That’s good. I saw a little of it last year and they must have felt embarrassed.

     

    Now it sounds like someone has a smallish cannon.

  81. 81.

    CaseyL

    @opiejeanne:

    M80s sound like large-ish cannon; I’m waiting to see if anyone sets one off, and hoping not.

    @opiejeanne:  In 2019, I was just starting a new job at Edmonds Community College (now just plain old Edmonds College).  It was, IIRC, my second or third day when the Snowpocalypse of 2019 hit and we were all sent home.  And stayed there, for two or three days.  Happened again the following week with another huge deposit of snow… and the week after that!  The Dean told me, at one point – very bemusedly – that things weren’t always like this.  I said I wasn’t sure I could get used to working a whole 5 days (jokingly; she took it well).  My first month at a new job, and I was there in the actual office maybe a total of 9 days ?

    ‘Course, we had no idea what was coming in 2020, when we’d all be WFH seemingly permanently.

  83. 83.

    AlaskaReader

    Chef Andre announced he was packed and headed to the fire before the newscasts had ended.

    I’m gonna support Chef Andre in the new year.

    He should have been ‘man of the year’.

    HAPPY NEW AND BETTER YEAR to ALL

    (still not midnight here)

  84. 84.

    opiejeanne

    @CaseyL: were snowed in that year, too.

    We had a late snow, very heavy and wet, about 5 years ago. It took out a lot of trees, which took out some power lines, and we didn’t have power for 24 hours. The generator kept our refrigerator going, but we couldn’t figure out how to hook up the heater. We spent the daylight hours on the sofa pulled up close to the fireplace with e-readers, bundled up in blankets, and the cats joined us. We were warm enough. I don’t remember what we ate, probably crackers and cheese, stuff we didn’t have to cook.

    We got off easy, because other areas didn’t get their power back for a week.

  87. 87.

    Mai Naem mobile

    Happy New Year All!

    First thing I saw treading on my Twitter feed in 2022 is the Bee Gees and Staying Alive – whatever the hell that means for 2022. The neighbor two doors down was lighting fireworks but its pouring here in Phoenix which is always a good thing.

  88. 88.

    ColoradoGuy

    This was the quietest New Year in the Erie neighborhood that I can remember. No fireworks at all, nobody running outside and shouting, no hoots and hollers from party-goers driving by. I think it’s the shock from last night’s fire, which was only a few miles away and visible at night, combined with the first snowfall this winter. Everyone is just hunkering down and glad they still have a house to live in.

  90. 90.

    lowtechcyclist

    Well, it’s been 2022 for five hours here on the East Coast, and the world is still pretty much the same. Clearly that’s all Biden’s fault. ;^)

  91. 91.

    evodevo

    @NotMax:  Which means a foal born the last few days of Dec. is decidedly BAD LUCK in the racing world…when his compadres who were born in the spring of 2021 are racing as 3-yr-olds, he/she will be too immature …the basis of a Dick Francis novel, I think…

  92. 92.

    Miss Bianca

    @NotMax: Yes, and I have heard tales of TB breeders who fudged the books a little on their December babies to give them a January birthday. Only heard tales, tho. ; )

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