Pleeeease, Murphy? Just as a little treat?…
I know what gift I want from the cursed timeline https://t.co/3EacQ5SY1q
— kilgore trout, cryptopolice chief (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 7, 2022
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The revolution will be supervised.
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.
Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!
If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.
How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
People are weird.
Celebrate the fucking wins.
Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.
In after Baud. Damn.
So many bastards, so little time.
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.
Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.
American history and black history cannot be separated.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
Alison Rose
[popcorn-eating.gif]
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.
LeftCoastYankee
One more gravestone: “Fittest? Fuck, I thought it was survival of the shitheads!”
Alison Rose
@Jerzy Russian: How about mauled by a bear and then tossed into the Great Salt Lake?
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.
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.
Tehanu
@HumboldtBlue: Oh yes. And Colin Farrell is just as good as Gleason in it.
Sister Golden Bear
@Alison Rose: Mauled by a bear with chainsaw arms, and then tossed into the Great Salt Lake.
Alison Rose
@Sister Golden Bear: Or of course, there’s one of George Carlin’s ideas for new forms of the death penalty: dip a guy in brown gravy and lock him in a small room with a wolverine who’s high on angel dust
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.”
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.
Ten Bears
What did those bears ever do to you?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Well played.
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.
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.)
Jimmm
Why not both?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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).
mrmoshpotato
Stop hiking through grizzly country slathered in salmon, Chuck!
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: I’ve seen one bear in the wild, it paid no attention to us, it was just interested in heading to the river for morning sushi.
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.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s good. I would have wet my pants.
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.
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.
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.
The Thin Black Duke
@Martin: We missed you, dude. Welcome back.
NotMax
Trickster music.
(And because that’s how Anne Laurie rolls, Murphy music.)
;)
lowtechcyclist
@Spanky:
Ah, “we retirees.” The countdown’s now under two years before I’ll be joining that club.
Phylllis
@lowtechcyclist: Same for me; June of ’22. I really mean it this time. I’m getting too old for this shit.
OldDave
What’s all this talk of retirement? I’ll turn 69 this year – still going to work. Yes, I am that stupid. ;-)
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.
Quinerly
Apologies if someone has posted this. I’m deep in packing up my house. Not on the interwebs that much. This made my early morning, though, before l get back to the grind. https://www.comicsands.com/buttigieg-troll-fired-instagram-comment-2656247469.html
Just One More Canuck
@Jerzy Russian: How about if he’s kicked in the junk by a bear? Or by a robot bear?
HinTN
@Phylllis: 31 December did it for me. This first week if not having the daily fix was interesting. Pretty sure I’ll adjust easily. ?
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.
Ken
@Just One More Canuck: A robot bear piloted by a goldfish? Or is that old news now….
HinTN
@Quinerly: Chasten didn’t mess around!
Baud
@HinTN:
He cancelled that mofo the way one do.
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:
Lamb certainly doesn’t stint on labels for his Twitter heading:
“Marine, Prosecutor, Patriot, Catholic, Democrat”
The Pennsylvania primary will be May 17.
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):
It’s a dangerous time in too many places. :-(
Cheers,
Scott.
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.
Quinerly
@HinTN: ?
Just One More Canuck
@Ken: Is there a GoFundMe account for that? I’d chip in
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.
Jerzy Russian
@Just One More Canuck: Yes, that could work if the robot fleet is not ready for deployment.
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!'”
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…
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.