Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

No one could have predicted…

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Come on, man.

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Open Thread (and Seattle Rendezvous This Saturday)

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So this is an open thread AND an announcement that CaseyL and Yutsano are going to rendezvous this Saturday in case anyone wants to join them.

From CaseyL and Yutsano:

CaseyL and I are going to be meeting up at Pike Place Market on Saturday the 12th at noon. We’ll be rendezvousing at the fish market where they throw the fish – which is right next to the main entrance. If no one in the area has plans feel free to come join us!

We’ll hang out, wander the market, decide on a food spot (there are lots around there) and probably be done by about 3. No one has any obligation to join us for the whole time.

If you would like to join Yutsano and CaseyL, chime in below or send me an email message and I’ll pass it on.

Otherwise, totally open thread!

 

 

 

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  2. 2.

    Dan B

    My brother’s birthday dinner is Saturday 7 miles south of Issaquah at 5 PM.  This is probably a bit tight but sounds like fun.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @Spanky: I think there was fish throwing on some TV show or in some movie that I saw.  Apparently it’s a thing.  All I remember is that it was very dramatic and it had to do with smuggling.

  10. 10.

    Almost Retired

    Awesome.  A Los Angeles meetup would be amazing.  We would spend six hours negotiating the location for a one hour event.  And then everyone would flake at the last minute.  And we’d all be forgiving about that.  And we would discuss rescheduling, but everyone would tacitly assume that it won’t really happen, but congratulate ourselves on the effort.

    I wasn’t born here, but I’ve gone native.

  15. 15.

    CaseyL

    Thanks for posting the Maybe* Meetup, Yutsano and WaterGirl!

    @Dan B: It would be wonderful to see you!

    @WaterGirl:  That happened to me, more than once, which is why we try to have something distinctive nearby.  In this case, anyone local knows about “the fish place at Pike Market where they throw stuff.”  If the Meetup is at a restaurant, we’ll have a balloon or paper lantern or even a sign.

    *”Maybe” only because we don’t know who else besides Yutsano and me will be there.

  16. 16.

    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: I saw the other day that you still cannot tell which of the redrawn Illinois Congressional districts you fall in. It might be worth calling your local Democratic party about this. They ought to know. If they don’t, it would be good to give them a nudge. The midterms are less than 10 months away, and those nice new Democratic districts aren’t going to elect Representatives all by themselves.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    @Mike in NC: How far are you?  “some people say” that it’s good until about episode 4.  I was about to watch the show when I read that so I will be very interested in hearing what you think of when you get that far.

  22. 22.

    Ohio Mom

    @WaterGirl: Just looked at #133. It’s so annoying when I come up with perfectly good words that use the green letters, and it’s still the wrong answer. Once I went through hoist, joist and foist, finally hitting on moist on the last line.

    Or is that the magic of Wordle?

  23. 23.

    Cameron

    @WaterGirl: I’ve only seen the first episode.  Seems fairly close to the books so far (Reacher isn’t a very nice guy – big on justice, but vigilante-style); and at least the guy looks like Reacher.  Tom Cruise didn’t cut it at all in the movie.

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    @Ohio Mom: Yeah, that is frustrating.  I guess it might help if I knew the relative order of H, J, F, and M in terms of frequency in words, but I don’t.  I’m sure it’s online somewhere.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @Geminid: Wow, they already wrote me back asking for my address, which I just sent them a second ago.

    When they write back again I will ask if there are plans to have a lookup on a website at some point.

  28. 28.

    CaseyL

    @WaterGirl: A lot of consonants.

    Everyone has their own strategy.  I try to maximize the vowels on the first try, so I know which ones I have to work with.  Then I work through dipthongs (or whatever the proper word is for the Sh, Ch, Fr, Fl, etc., combinations).

  38. 38.

    Dan B

    @CaseyL: It would be “interesting” to be seen since we haven’t been to our barber for months.  He’s got a tiny room in his house plus he’s got a pacemaker.  When I sweat a bit my hair sticks out in a mess.

  44. 44.

    Ohio Mom

    @MC: Just googled it. My eyes start glazing over when technical subjects like encryption come up. Am I correct in my first impression that this legislation will probably not help exploited children very much but it will entrap internet users who have nothing to do with exploiting children?

    I will continue to hold my belief that the main problem with bringing justice to child exploiters is that law enforcement generally is terrible at their job.

  45. 45.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Watching NFL show and Ravens kicker Justin Tucker twice said on air that God helps him kick game winning field goals.

    So ridiculous. Everyone knows God only bets on the California Angels.

  50. 50.

    Ohio Mom

    The thing about my hoist-joist-foist-moist example is that the Wordle WaterGirl complained about, #133, is one of those Wordles where there are at least two good answers, one letter apart. At that point, it isn’t your problem-solving abilities at play, it’s dumb luck.

    The main good thing about Wordle is that it ended all the Twitter discussions on the NYT Spelling Bee. By replacing them with grids of colored boxes.

  55. 55.

    Cameron

    @WaterGirl: Yes, they can be pretty grim – what makes Reacher heroic isn’t so much that he’s a hero, it’s that the bad guys are worse.  You really wouldn’t like John Connolly’s Charlie Parker books and stories.

  57. 57.

    Redshift

    I haven’t been around here today, so I don’t know how much discussion there’s been of the latest from the hard-core wingnuts Virginia voters decided saw fit to elect. A deputy attorney general resigned after it came to light that she had posted on Facebook in support is the insurrection. And later that it was Antifa and BLM who were responsible for the violence. And that the Pentagon had evidence that China had interfered in the election. And argued with people at length about every conspiracy theory.

    Did I mention that the office she resigned handled election-related matters?

  58. 58.

    Redshift

    @Cameron: Yeah, I’ve thought about switching to that, since it gets you ‘e’. Probably better. I may try it if I break my streak.

    ETA: but maybe not, it may be easier to guess where an e goes than an i.

  72. 72.

    J R in WV

    @Ohio Mom:

    law enforcement generally is terrible at their job.

    Yes… we fired a guy who was downloading porn, burning DVDs and selling them to other employees. The network guys looked into his giant hard drives ( he was supposed to be doing GIS work with giant data sets) and thought there was child porn.

    Gave the machine to the city cops, who gave it back later on. Sad!

    Don’t believe they could find an image to make their pension.

  82. 82.

    hotshoe

    @Redshift: oh, I like that suggestion.

    I’ve had good results always starting with STARE, for a  similar reason, most common consonants plus two good vowels.

    NYT says that the wordle future choices in its source code is about 2500 words, chosen to be relatively guessable.

    But that’s not gonna help when the wordle of the day is “Tapir” ;)

  83. 83.

    hotshoe

    @HumboldtBlue: I’d buy that shirt to burn it in public; I hope it would be possible to burn it on the driveway outside the 4H meeting hall. Show ’em what bullshit it is.

  87. 87.

    Kalakal

    @HumboldtBlue: Disheartening indeed. Before Covid I helped out the Youth department at the Library running summer classes in 3D design for the local 4-H club and I was very impressed by them. Both the kids and their parents were really great and I dropped many points on the curmudgeon scale. It was a really positive experience so it saddens me that that club should be so crass

  92. 92.

    ronno2018

    I would like to subscribe to your newsletter but what hats will you be wearing at the Pike Place Market?

  94. 94.

    different-church-lady

    This morning a debate broke out in the LGM comments regarding whether bourbon or Scotch is the superior alcohol, and all I could think was, “My god, these people have no idea how badly they’re botching their approach to living life.”

  103. 103.

    Yutsano

    @ronno2018: Good question! I’ll be the guy in a Wazzu hoodie in a yellow wheelchair. Maybe Casey can finagle a green balloon or two somewhere to tie to my chair?

  106. 106.

    opiejeanne

    I’m sorry that we can’t make it. We’d love to see you and everyone else, but we have to hang around to wait for a refrigerator to be delivered.
    I’m a little cranky about this. Our “old” one is slowly biting the dust, and we ordered this new one on December 13. That’s really the fastest we could get one that we think will be acceptable.
    I don’t want to talk about the price.

  107. 107.

    CaseyL

    @opiejeanne: My house has a drop-in stove.  When I redid the kitchen, about 16 years ago, I got a new drop-in stove.  I don’t remember what it cost, but around $700 max, I think.  Since then, most appliance companies have stopped making them at all, and few who still do want $1400 and up.   So my current stove better last for as long as I’m living here!

  110. 110.

    Miss Bianca

    @Omnes Omnibus: I have yet to succumb to the lure of Wordle. The way these things go, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before I do…a matter of time with my awareness of All Pop Culture Traditions being, “oh probably 15-20 years from now.”

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