Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Second rate reporter says what?

Shut up, hissy kitty!

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Books are my comfort food!

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The lights are all blinking red.

How stupid are these people?

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

This fight is for everything.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

People are complicated. Love is not.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

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

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Let me file that under fuck it.

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  1. 1.

    Benw

    Everyone take care of yourselves and those you can care for. I’m hoping for the best for all of you

  2. 2.

    Another Scott

    TheHill:

    Senate Democrats are convening a special, in-person caucus meeting on Tuesday as they brace for a fight on voting rights and the filibuster to come to a head.

    Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called the meeting for 5 p.m. on Tuesday, a source confirmed to The Hill. Unlike most of the caucus meetings in the wake of the rise of the omicron coronavirus variant, the meeting will be in person.

    The meeting comes as the Senate is expected to formally start debate on Tuesday on voting legislation that combines the Freedom to Vote Act, which would overhaul federal elections and campaign finance laws, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which strengthens and expands the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

    […]

    We’ll see what happens…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  3. 3.

    Jerzy Russian

    Your post rhymes a bit (… off to bed, … need an open thread).

     

    I would like to go to bed myself, but I try to make it to 10:00 pm before that happens.  I would wake up too early the. next day.

  6. 6.

    MisterForkbeard

    Do we still have aspiring/successful writers here? I recently ran across a SF/Fantasy writing class Brandon Sanderson taught at BYU in 2020 that’d been posted online, and listened to it (all 12 hours or so) over a week. For a non-author it was really instructive, but I feel like there’s a lot there for newer writers too.

    For extra weirdness, Covid hits about 2/3rds of the way through the class and they have to move to entirely remote around the 8th or 9th episode. Just fascinating in retrospect.

    Anyway, worth listening to if you’re at all interested in the subject but I’m really curious what our own authors think about it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc&list=PLSH_xM-KC3Zv-79sVZTTj-YA6IAqh8qeQ&index=2&ab_channel=BrandonSanderson

  8. 8.

    Ohio Mom

    Ever since the beginning of Covid, I often fall asleep while reading in bed after supper. Then I wake up around 11 and get ready for bed.

    I think it’s because there is just not enough happening in my life. For obvious reasons.

  9. 9.

    West of the Rockies

    Just after 2100 hours here.  Some sort of to-do out on the lake because the geese are honking up a storm.

  12. 12.

    RaflW

    We packed up the big Xmas tree in the living room tonight. It was time, and tomorrow more light will come thru the front windows since the tree was blocking about 1/4 of it, but it feels a little empty. Still, it’s a ‘celebration’ of sorts: Sunset was after 5pm today for the first time since Nov 9th. We don’t need the tree lights quite as much as I do in bleak December.

    Also had a great short hike (just under two miles – not really a hike in dry conditions but the snow increases the effort noticeably) on snowy rustic trails at one of our excellent lake parks here (and as it happens, just blocks from the house where Mary Tyler Moore ‘lived’ during the first several seasons of her eponymous show). Oh, and BF ran out and got yuuuuumy takeout. An OK pandemic holiday Monday.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    The 6000 mile man.

    Received another “Help!” tech call from Mom in NY yesterday. The base unit for her landline was doing weird things and displaying cryptic messages.

    It’s a cliché but first thing instructed her (once I talked her down from the virtual ledge) was that old buddy “Have you tried unplugging it, waiting 30 seconds* and plugging it back in?” Voila, problem solved.

    ;)

    *Yeah, 15 seconds is usually sufficient for capacitors to sufficiently discharge but I always say 30 to coddle the impatient, who I find then wait 20 seconds while saying they waited 30.

  15. 15.

    Jeff Del Papa

    We had high winds and rain last night. I had one of those “instant garage” tents in the back yard. This morning the roof and sides were in tatters. I moved the stuff that doesn’t like water elsewhere, but the big kinetic sculpture that was the whole reason for putting the tent up in the first place was damaged sufficiently that I don’t really want to repair it.

    (It was a “scale” model of a power tool. The scale happened to be 1 foot to the inch. (12 times bigger than the original). It wasn’t built for outdoor storage, I built it like a stage prop, a metal armature, carved styrofoam over that, covered with “space blankets” so it appeared to be made of cast aluminum.)

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