Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

T R E 4 5 O N

Peak wingnut was a lie.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

We still have time to mess this up!

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    WaterGirl is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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  2. 2.

    AJ

    My sleep cycle is funky but if I’m not napping I’ll likely join again. The ones last year were fun.

    Ty for organizing us as you always do so well!

  4. 4.

    zhena gogolia

    I’ll try but not in a great mood. And I look like one of the hags in the Scottish play.

  11. 11.

    HinTN

    My dear departed Carlotta, a mix of Borzoi and Shepherd and the runt of the litter, would bound through the high grass like that Shepherd in the video. She was spectacular.

  12. 12.

    sab

    I feel better about dog zoomies now. Ponyo just roared down the stairs so fast that she crashed into a chair, knocking it over before she crashed into the wall. And I was thinking how weird she is sometimes.

  18. 18.

    mrmoshpotato

    @sab: Haha, hope nothing was broken.

    We were watching my sister’s pitbull (she’ll lick your face off!) all week, and some zoomies were had after a couple afternoon walks.  No crashes.

  21. 21.

    dmsilev

    Maybe. I’m attending a (virtual) birthday party for my niece and nephew around then, so it depends on how long that lasts.

  22. 22.

    Ruckus

    I’m in.

    Have just finished my 2 mile now daily walk – in the sun! Of course it was 59 degrees in the sun, but that’s shorts weather…..

  24. 24.

    Scuffletuffle

    I don’t have a mike yet, can I still join in? (Tech phobic person here…computer is a magic box…)

  25. 25.

    Yutsano

    I’ll pop on in. My plans for today went ungestuppt when the well water at the ranch froze. It’s flowing now so I”m gonna grab a shower and maybe some more snackies.

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Scuffletuffle: You can join video only if your computer doesn’t have a microphone.

    You can also call one of the listed phone numbers and put in the meeting number and passcode to join like it’s a conference call.

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Mother Nature in action — Zombees.

    Trivia:

    When the Comics Code was instituted during the 1950s the word zombie was on the verboten list.

    So the company which eventually morphed into Marvel instead produced stories with “zuvembies.”

  33. 33.

    Mike R

    Thanks for the dog pictures.  It is 5 degrees snowing and the horses won’t come out of the barn, can’t blame them.  The dogs cheered me up enough to head out to feed, water and shovel.

  42. 42.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    @zhena gogolia: I doubt you’ll see this (or that I’ll remember to check for the answer) but, I’m honestly curious. I had a theater friend who I would sometimes troll with “Oh, yes, that Scottish play, Mac_HAMlet!” in or around the theater, or, if she was acting or directing in a play that was running.

    Because I respected her, and the theater (far more for having known her!), I rehearsed that joke. Given who I am, I could say “well, Mack, Beth could have been my theater friend’s name – she’s a woman – but I’d never put those two syllables together, even if they were the names Mack and Beth, in a theater context.”

    Is there a further reach to the superstition, or a story involved,  or are you just alluding to the theater?

    (And if that’s a weird question, well… sorry, but, see, it’s even in the nym! and I like culture (superstitions) stories (well, most good ones…), and allusions – especially the ones that are hard to see because ‘allusions’ rhymes with ‘illusions’, see….)

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: Yeah, at the 30-minute mark we took a sharp pivot from covid to politics, movies and theater.

    We have to live it, but that doesn’t mean that we have to talk about it during our “fun” time.

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