Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Let there be snark.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

People are complicated. Love is not.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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

Come on, man.

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

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

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  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    I think actual bear attacks that result in the (human) victim being eaten are exceedingly small. Sure, the victims get bitten, mauled, scratched, etc., but not eaten. So here is my wish: Mr. Kirk catches COVID, then gets mauled by a bear. I think that would be more realistic than having him getting COVID and being eaten by a bear.   Now, if we are allowed to have some impossible/implausible things added in, I would have Mr. Kirk being kicked in the junk by my roving band of robots (that designed for this purpose) before catching COVID.

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    LeftCoastYankee

    One more gravestone:  “Fittest?  Fuck, I thought it was survival of the shitheads!”

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    Jerzy Russian

    @Alison Rose:   I am not sure how many bears are in that part of Utah.  On the other hand, there are plenty of  bears near the ocean in Alaska (I once saw a nature show featuring Kodiak  bears feasting on a beached whale).  So instead of the Great Salt Lake it could be the (cold) ocean waters off the Alaskan coast.

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    HumboldtBlue

    If the grizzly bear is Brendan Gleason In Bruges, I’m all for it.

    Just finished In Bruges, (again), what a little gem of a movie that is.

  10. 10.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    There is a Covid in the woods.
    For some people, the Covid is easy to see.
    Others don’t see it at all.
    Some people say the Covid is tame.
    Others say it’s vicious and dangerous.
    Isn’t it smart to be as strong as the Covid?
    If there is a Covid.”

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    HumboldtBlue

    @Tehanu:

    It’s the unibrow. That man must shave the space between his eyebrows twice a day.

    He and Anthony Davis (NBA) share a common ancestor.

    I remember following a recommendation to watch the movie, and Farrell jumped off the screen.

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    ian

    I will be contrarian and say that I agree with Mr. Kirk. I am also more afraid of a grizzly bear than covid. If I was stuck in a hallway with one door out awash with covid germs, and one door with bears behind it, I would choose the infection. That being said, I know the likelihood of being in said situation with the bear is about 10 in 350 million per year in the United States, whereas Mr. Kirk looks like he is likely he could have caught covid in that very room.

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    Redshift

    @Jerzy Russian: There are bison on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, though. They are huge and terrifying, and I’m sure they could deliver sufficient wounds for the salt to be effective. (And there are black bears, if not grizzlies, in the mountains around SLC.)

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    opiejeanne

    @Redshift: Probably not a grizzly, but they might maul you if you startle them.

    According to someone who worked as a guide and a ranger in Alaska who gave a lecture on the subject, he said that the cute, friendly, not at all threatening black bears are the ones that will eat you. So will a polar bear, but they found more wallets and watches and bits of people inside black bears more often (they used to kill nuisance bears pretty often, according to him).

  18. 18.

    mrmoshpotato

    Charlie Kirk: “I am more afraid of getting eaten by a grizzly bear than COVID”

    Stop hiking through grizzly country slathered in salmon, Chuck!

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    Betty Cracker

    I’m thinking of doing a limited cartoon series called “No, Puppy, Noooo!” It would start with Puppy pissing on a Christmas tree skirt.

    @HumboldtBlue: That really is a fantastic movie. Wonderful acting all around.

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    opiejeanne

    @ian:  I’m really afraid of bears. All bears. I have a healthy respect for the damage they can do to my puny body, and I’m really glad that the one that moved into our neighborhood a few years ago has moved elsewhere, since the authorities refused to remove him. It was a really dry year and bears moved south into areas with more food available.

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    Betty Cracker

    We have black bears in Florida that are smallish as bears go. The chief danger they pose to people is being victims of a car crash. I’ve only seen one in the wild, many years ago, while on a hunting trip with my dad. I’m pretty sure there are bears in our swamp, but they leave us alone and vice versa. Last spring, a bear was sighted ambling along a nearby highway. The local paper published multiple sightings of the same bear over a series of days until it disappeared into the forest.

  24. 24.

    Martin

    Apparently my scarceness had been noticed. Everything is fine. Just adjusting my brain from work to retirement. Setting new routines. You aren’t free from me yet.

  25. 25.

    Spanky

    @Martin: Apparently that involves a rearranged sleep schedule so that we retirees wind up awake in the middle of the night. I blame naps, though there’s no way I’m going to deprive myself of them.

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    OldDave

    What’s all this talk of retirement?  I’ll turn 69 this year – still going to work.  Yes, I am that stupid.  ;-)

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    lowtechcyclist

    AFAICT, there aren’t any bears in Calvert County, MD, but there is a fair amount of Covid.  I can tell you which concerns me more, and that’s why I don’t carry bear spray, but I’m vaxxed, boosted, and wearing a KN-95 mask to the grocery store.

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    Dorothy A. Winsor

    I’ve seen Charlie Kirk mentioned on here, but I have to finally admit I don’t know who he is or what he does or did. So if he wants to get covid, no loss to me.

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    Geminid

    The “No Labels” folks got a lot of attention the other day for their silly poll about the January 6 anniversary. Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb was already talking labels when he introduced his first Senate compaign ad right before New Years:

        Some people like to divide our party & just want to talk about labels like “progressive Dem” or “moderate Dem.” Well, I’m a Pennsylvania Democrat. In our first ad of the Pennsylvania Senate campaign I talk about what that means to me.

    [earnest 30 second video]

    @Conor Lamb, Dec. 29 2021

    Lamb certainly doesn’t stint on labels for his Twitter heading:

    “Marine, Prosecutor, Patriot, Catholic, Democrat”

    The Pennsylvania primary will be May 17.

  40. 40.

    Another Scott

    schrodingers_cat has reminded us of what’s going on in India. AlJazeera has a video report on “The Listening Post” (26:10):

    Hate speech and online abuse: India’s growing extremism problem

    Calls to kill minorities, weak mainstream media and negligent officials in India.

    Plus, Russia’s media blacklist.

    https://aje.io/9kwca2

    It’s a dangerous time in too many places. :-(

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  41. 41.

    Phylllis

    @HinTN: Working from home most of the Spring & Summer of 2020 let me know I’d be fine not going to the office every day. Plus my husband is an artist who’s work is starting to get noticed. I’d be more than happy helping him with marketing, selling, etc.

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    Citizen Alan

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:  All I know about Charlie Kirk comes from the memes he generates that I regularly see on the Herman Cain Awards about 5 slides before the death announcement.

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    LongHairedWeirdo

    “In other news, Kirk, who declared he was more at risk of being eaten by a grizzly bear than dying of Covid has died. He was found in the woods, clearly having been unable to function well for a few days, likely due to his low blood oxygen, which caused severe organ damage. Fans of irony will hate this tidbit: the mauling by the bear was *clearly* post mortem, and the pneumonia clearly shows this was a death caused by Covid-19.

    “Unconfirmed are rumors that the nations top experts on grizzlies looked at the death scene photos, and said ‘that was no mauling; the bear took one bite and spit it out!'”

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    J R in WV

    I don’t know how many bears there are in the AZ mountains where our place is, but there are plenty of really large Mountain Lions up there. Scary to run into one of those after dark!!

    Yet way more people in AZ are dying of Covid than from Lion attacks… Imagine that!

    Lots of alligators in Florida — yet way more people will die of Covid in FL than of ‘Gator attacks…

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    JaneE

    Most bears and other wildlife will be happy to let you alone – but be aware of cubs or an animal that is injured or ill or starving.  Coronavirus, OTOH, is invisible, is sociable, and may or may not kill you for no reason at all.  Know the appropriate precautions for all kinds of threats.

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