Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

“woke” is the new caravan.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Bark louder, little dog.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

I was promised a recession.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

You cannot shame the shameless.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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Not nearly so elevated, and yet!…

Looks like the answer might well be Ivanka!

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  1. 1.

    germy

    Here’s a great thread with illustrations from an unpublished book. The author never made it back from the second world war:

    This is one of the most remarkable works of art I’ve handled. But it’s one of those things where I need someone to listen to me, so people of Twitter please take a look. Two manuscript illustrated books by an unknown soldier in 1943 – from the perspective of a cat. (Thread) 1/12 pic.twitter.com/qO2H1oJ4Ww

    — The Library Auction (@LibraryAuction) April 6, 2022

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    Cancel your Disney vacation and support *checks notes* proud queer icon and longtime supporter of LGBTQ rights Dolly Parton

    The self-owning, it BWHAHAHAHA!

  3. 3.

    germy

    Much better than the nominee they insulted us with:

    Under questioning by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Amy Coney Barrett is unable to name the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. pic.twitter.com/U3KFm5FA97

    — The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) October 14, 2020

  4. 4.

    Raven

    @germy: It’s not the same but I’m reading a book written by a destroyer captain in the Pacific .

     

    To think of this as a book of military history can be misleading; it’s a personal experience of war from the perspective of a unit commander. He knew little of U.S. plans less of the enemy’s, and writing in 1943 he had no way of knowing how it would all end. But if you want to know what it was really like then this is a great book.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    I love how these idiots prattled on for five years about the omnipotent reach of the diabolical deep state and then just proceeded to text one another coup deets— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) April 8, 2022

    It’s not illegal if you’re stupid enough to conspire over text messages!

    Lock them up! – after indictment since they’re definitely a flight risk before their free and fair trial.

  8. 8.

    Ken

    @Raven: It’s not the same but I’m reading a book written by a destroyer captain in the Pacific .

    My Side of the Story, by Captain P.F. Queeg, USN.

  9. 9.

    Kropacetic

    I love how these idiots prattled on for five years about the omnipotent reach of the diabolical deep state and then just proceeded to text one another coup deets

    They know better than to take their own conspiracies seriously

    But not enough to know that normal accountability processes still apply.

  10. 10.

    MagdaInBlack

    @mrmoshpotato: I am SO looking forward to Jr’s coke fueled rant on this development

    It also, I think, explains the loons ramping up the Hunter laptop bs.

  13. 13.

    Kropacetic

    @germy:KAMALA HARRIS: “Good morning!”

    People love pointing out when you make that “mistake” at a retail job.  Like we have time to be looking at the time…

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    Burgers for Breakfast, but no Ch’King for Breakfast?

    Get it together, Burger King!

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Kropacetic:

    People love pointing out when you make that “mistake” at a retail job. Like we have time to be looking at the time… 

    “Oy, mate!  Don’t be a slapdick!” works for all hours of the day and night.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @germy:

    She’s a Californian. It was only 9:35 am on the left coast.

    Pretty funny, though, to see how desperate the Rs are.

  18. 18.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    We’re leaving for the Netherlands on Friday. Viking requires us to have a covid test either within 72 hours of departure or 24 hours, depending on the kind of test. I can’t believe the trouble we’re having finding a place to get the test. Everyone has home kits now and Congress didn’t renew the funding for all the pop-up sites. Those sites are now closing. CVS changed its story on what to do between when I talked to them on Thursday and when a friend talked to them on Friday. I realize this is a pretty fancy problem to have, but I’m stressed.

  20. 20.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Kropacetic: I have been known to answer the 9 am phone calls with ” Good Afternoon.”  I just tell them it was wishful thinking.  They laugh and say ” I know, right?”

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    @MagdaInBlack: Oh, the elusive laptop, or is it just a hard drive?, gets yelled about whenever these shitstains are getting caught for their bullshit.

  22. 22.

    Kropacetic

    @mrmoshpotato:“Oy, mate!  Don’t be a slapdick!” works for all hours of the day and night.

    Whatever you do, don’t pull out the dreaded “Have a good one!”

    Have a good what?

    Have a good two…

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Yes, Kamala was probably working too

    ::Watches video::

    Yeah, that checks out.

  25. 25.

    Kropacetic

    @MagdaInBlack: I have been known to answer the 9 am phone calls with ” Good Afternoon.”  I just tell them it was wishful thinking.  They laugh and say ” I know, right?”

    As a night owl, I struggle to understand why people would be calling a business or doing anything they didn’t absolutely have to do at that (this) ungodly hour. Speaking of which, off to work.

  27. 27.

    Betty

    @Raven: A family member just published a book based on his uncle’s WWIII story. A bomber pilot, he was shot down and killed over the Pacific. The book is based on family memories, his uncle’s letters and diary plus research. Air War Days by Heath White, only $5.99 on Amazon.

  34. 34.

    mali muso

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Do you need the test in order to board the aircraft to the Netherlands or just to board the cruise?  If the latter, maybe get a test once you arrive in the Netherlands?  I feel your pain, having been responsible for organizing multiple student group trips in January…getting tests and results in time for boarding was super stressful.  One other idea, some of the major airports here in the US have on-site testing facilities (expensive) with instant results.  Good luck!

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    @MagdaInBlack

    100% true story.

    When worked at a movie theater, the person working to the ticket both was also assigned to answer the phone.

    One evening she received a call asking, “What time does the 9:40 show start?”

    Without missing a beat she responded, “It starts at twenty minutes to 10.”

  37. 37.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: The US requires a test for entry, and it was trivially easy to get one in CDMX. Walk in, pay the ~$15, get a printed result in 15 minutes.

    Also, indoor masking is 100% there. Uniformly required and fully observed. And probably 50% of the population masked outdoors as well.

  38. 38.

    Raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: Oh yea. When I met my old man in New Orleans for the dedication of the Pacific Wing of what was then the D-Museum they had trucks of the various services. One was marked “Taffy III” and I asked him what that was. Mind you he was right in the teeth of the action in the Philippines but he shrugged his shoulders and said “I don’t know”. As the book points out, the battle was largely ignored because the Navy was protecting Halsey and his ill-conceived pursuit of the Japanese decoy fleet leaving Taffy 3 unprotected.

  40. 40.

    MagdaInBlack

    I am pleased beyond words with Supreme Court Justice Jackson.  I am all warm and fuzzy when I see the pride radiating from her husband and daughter.

  42. 42.

    Anonymous At Work

    Trump flips on his children first, I’m good for $100 on that.  Just children, Ivanka looking to beat Daddy to the punch.  Only $50 on that, and ain’t expecting to win much if I do win.

  44. 44.

    MagdaInBlack

    @NotMax: One does develop the skill of answering those questions in a way that says “wtf” without actually saying “wtf.”

  46. 46.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Kropacetic:

    Whatever you do, don’t pull out the dreaded “Have a good one!”

    Have a good what?

    Have a good two…

    I’ll take three!  Triple-header!  I think Mr. Cub would approve.

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax: I like the thin crispiness of smash burgers, but one patty isn’t enough.

    I need to take down my smoke detector and open windows if I make them at home.

  48. 48.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @mali muso: Viking says we have to have it before we board the plane. I assume they don’t want to have to deal with us if we get there and test positive. We’ll get it sorted out. It’s just that things are in flux because of the funding cut.

    I can’t imagine getting a bunch of students all with the right documentation at the same time.

  49. 49.

    debbie

    Hey, GOP! You’ve got competition:

    FUN FACT: The first law the Taliban changed when they came back into power was to lower the age at which a girl could marry to 7 years old.
    — Paul Cogan (@PaulCogan) April 8, 2022

  52. 52.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @sab: It should be fun. The river cruise is called Tulips and Windmills.

    @Gin & Tonic: What’s CDMX? I think Viking will do the required test to head home.

    @delk: Yeah, the Advocate hospital near us lists them on their website but scheduling one turns out to be hard. In a pinch, we could just walk in and ask for one, I suppose.

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Let’s also toss in the former trump aide who just got 12 years for child-pron.

    Much frantic redirection going on.

    Yup.

    And –

    Tennessee Republican Rep. David Byrd admitted to molesting three children.

    Democratic Rep. @VoteGloriaJ tried to expel him from government, but the Republicans refused and continue to support and protect him. pic.twitter.com/wsvYN7q6Hr
    — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) April 8, 2022

  58. 58.

    Frankensteinbeck

    There will be no flipping, for two reasons.  First, they simply cannot imagine they can get caught.  They’re sure they’re geniuses who will get out of it somehow, and will still think that when the sentence is being handed down.  Isn’t that the personality these messages display?  Second, flipping might self-incriminate.  It requires you to admit you know something.  They won’t lift a finger to help each other either, but the well-established Trump pattern is “Who?  Never met him.”

  61. 61.

    Ken

    @lollipopguild: “Midnight, but you’ll want to get there by 11 for the pre-service choral concert, and you really have to arrive by 10:15 to find any parking.”

  69. 69.

    delk

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I went to an Advocate pediatric-ob/gyn office that’s a five minute walk from my place. I made the appointment the day before.  Check the Live Well website/app.

  77. 77.

    mrmoshpotato

    @delk:

    I went to an Advocate pediatric-ob/gyn office that’s a five minute walk from my place. 

    And for the longest time, we thought Goku was the youngest jackal!

  82. 82.

    Betty

    @OzarkHillbilly:  Yes, my old worn out memory could not be trusted. I am just only as far as the training, and, oh boy, that alone was incredibly dangerous. They had to learn so much so fast.

  86. 86.

    Steeplejack

    @mrmoshpotato:

    NEW: Speaking of grooming, @ryanlcooper and I dug into how Rep. John Rose (R-TN) met his wife, and found evidence that they likely met while she was a 17-year-old high school senior at the state FFA contest. Rose was the 42-year-old vice chairman of TN FFA.
    https://t.co/FQkEgZ4yrh

    — Alex Sammon (@alex_sammon) April 8, 2022

    But he waited to marry her until she was a college senior, so it’s all good!

  87. 87.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Betty: A lifelong buddy’s father was a waist gunner on B-24s out of Italy. Got shot down over Yugoslavia and was MIA for over a month. He was picked up by Tito’s partisans and they got him to the coast where he was eventually picked up by a sub and returned to his base.

    He had been writing his family daily before he got shot down and while MIA he kept a diary instead. As way of explanation for his long absence he sent the diary to his father when he returned. His father kept that diary until the day he died and when my buddy and his father went to the old man’s apartment to sort thru stuff, my buddy found all the letters and the diary.

    Quite the eye opener for H as his father had never told him he’d been shot down or anything else. After his father died, I asked H about the diary, thinking the WWII museum would probably be interested in it. H told me it had disappeared.

  89. 89.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @NotMax: Much better Allan Sherman of the same ilk:

    Harvey and Shiela, Harvey and Shiela, Harvey and Shiela –
    Oh, the day they met!
    Harvey and Shiela, Harvey and Shiela, Harvey and Shiela,
    No one could forget.
    Harvey’s a CPA, he works for IBM;
    He went to MIT and got his PHD.
    Shiela’s a girl I know at BBD&O;
    She works the PBX and makes out the checks.
    Then
    Came
    One gray day whenHarvey took the elevator,
    Shiela got on two floors later.
    Soon they both knew they were falling,
    Everyone heard Shiela calling
    “Ring the bell!” But they fell –
    Harv and Shiela fell in love…    .

    (Several stanzas more, in which Sherman has some good clean fun stuffing various & sundry acronyms into the story.)

    From memory over roughly 60 years. And I’m not even Jewish!​

  90. 90.

    narya

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I had to do that before my surgery, and Northwestern required I use one of their clinics. There’s an immediate care site in Evanston, which is a hike for you, but there might be other NW sites.

  93. 93.

    Geminid

    @Frankensteinbeck: Trump’s children may have only indirect knowledge of their father’s crimes on January 6. He is a career criminal who learned long ago to keep all but few trusted henchmen out of the criminal loop.

  95. 95.

    MomSense

    Going to take my mom to the post office and then hit the farmers market.  I’m begging her to please use the cotton, reusable produce bags I bought for her.  She has been saving them for god knows what.  When she dies I’m going to find boxes full of all the gifts we have given her over the years.

  96. 96.

    Another Scott

    @NotMax: It doesn’t work that way any more, of course.  Not with 20-30 minutes of commercials, etc. before the feature starts.

    My J has been calling music venues for years, asking when the headliner goes on.  It’s a necessity these days if one doesn’t want to stand around for 4 hours to hear 90 minutes of a favorite band.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“… Lawn!!”)

  97. 97.

    Bex

    What’s up with Lindsay Graham still attacking Justice Jackson?  I thought it might be a campaign ad, but he isn’t up for re-election until 2027.  John Pavlovitz tweeted the ad on his feed.

  98. 98.

    The Moar You Know

    Who flips first?  The plan has always been to leave one of the two failsons holding the bag; Don Junior will end up getting the privilege of taking the fall because of the coke habit, which his rental wife, the former Mrs. Gavin Newsom, is supplying, and when the time is right, will testify to.  She’s done this before.

    You will note the absence of leaks about Jared, Ivanka and Eric.   Junior is being set up but good.

    As an aside, although that family has done far more reprehensible shit, it’s appalling that they went and hauled Don Jr. back into the family business and drugs after he’d gotten sober and tried to get clear of them.  Yeah, he made the choice, but a decent family (I know) would have kept him clear for his own good.

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Frankensteinbeck: I don’t hold out any real hope that it will happen, but I would be really amused if Eric flips on them and skates.  “Call me the dumb one?  Who’s in prison now, bitches?”

  102. 102.

    Steeplejack

    @Bex:

    Fundraising? That would be my guess. There’s a whole RWNJ ecostructure that’s out of sight of the real world.

  103. 103.

    Jeffro

    @NotMax: I can call several of his tunes (including that one) to mind just. like. that.  =)

    (my dad had 2 or 3 of his LPs, and my brother and I got such a kick out of them as preteens…what weird little kids…)

  107. 107.

    Anonymous At Work

    @mrmoshpotato: Pretty much.  “They asked me to speak on January 6th to this yuge crowd and then I headed back to drink Diet Coke in my office and something weird happened.”
    That’s if he doesn’t try to negotiate everything away to flip hard on his kids.

  108. 108.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    @The Moar You Know:

    I can imagine a scenario in which Jared and Ivanka turn on the people who “mislead and exploited” her father, who she then discloses has significant cognitive and emotional impairments making him susceptible to the influence of bad actors.

    They may try to save Daddy’s bacon by squealing on all the folks screaming lies and false informaton in his face, goading him to do illegal things— in return for him not getting prosecuted.

  109. 109.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Omnes Omnibus: but I would be really amused if Eric flips on them and skates.  “Call me the dumb one?  Who’s in prison now, bitches?”

    LOL though Eric’s still a pile of shit like the rest.

  110. 110.

    Ken

    @Ella in New Mexico:  [Ivanka] then discloses [TFG] has significant cognitive and emotional impairments making him susceptible to the influence of bad actors.

    That the impairments also requires she be appointed trustee and given total control of TFG’s finances is merely an incidental detail, irrelevant to the primary goal of keeping her beloved father out of prison.

  112. 112.

    Brachiator

    A GOP/Taliban debate would be them out-horribleing each other.

    Almost obvious for a SNL skit.

    I wonder if it has been done somewhere.

    ETA: My variant. The GOP insult the Prophet. The Taliban shoot them and then get off using a “stand your ground” defense.

  113. 113.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Brachiator:

    My variant. The GOP insult the Prophet. The Taliban shoot them and then get off using a “stand your ground” defense. 

    LMAO!  Genius!

  116. 116.

    jnfr

    Watching Joe and Kamala come out with Judge Jackson and present her to the people as our next Supreme Court Justice was the brightness that got me through yesterday’s bad war news. I let myself bask in that life-sustaining glow.

  117. 117.

    Ruckus

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Yesterday I walked into a CVS and got a Moderna booster.

    Sign up window had a note – no walk ins. I got helped no problem. They had a window for testing as well. Have no idea if this is true in other states, but they seemed very helpful.

  118. 118.

    Baud

    @Ella in New Mexico:

    who she then discloses has significant cognitive and emotional impairments making him susceptible to the influence of bad actors

     
    Won’t fly since he passed that cognitive test.

  119. 119.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Ruckus: I talked to them on Thursday and thought I knew exactly what we were going to do. Then Friday morning, a friend talked to them and they couldn’t even get into their own appointment program because the rules changed overnight. I’m checking with them again today.

  120. 120.

    sab

    @Ruckus: I went into the grocery chain’s distant pharmacy yesterday and got new facemasks. Laid out on a table in stacks of three. Sign said take a stack for each family member. Honor system. I took for me only. Got home and spouse was furious because none for him. I thought he took for him at CVS. I like my pharmacy’s brand better. First world problems.

  121. 121.

    Brachiator

    @Bex:

    What’s up with Lindsay Graham still attacking Justice Jackson? I thought it might be a campaign ad, but he isn’t up for re-election until 2027. John Pavlovitz tweeted the ad on his feed.

    Peevish and vindictive. I still also like Judge Michelle Childs, who Graham pushed for, but now kinda wonder if he felt she might be a stealth conservative. Her judicial record seems solid and moderate.

  122. 122.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The aspirations of the Declaration of Independence are on display with this new Supreme Court Justice.  It’s a great day for America.

  124. 124.

    sab

    @Brachiator: I liked Michelle Childs a lot and was outspoken here on BJ. Thrilled beyond belief for Jackson who will be a credit to all Americans.  I still hope Biden gets another choice and chooses Childs.

  125. 125.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @sab: If there’s a deity out there who cares and has the power to Do Something for the betterment of humanity by reducing the number of Useless and Vile on the Supreme Court, I have a little list….

  127. 127.

    Starfish

    @Geminid: You are giving Trump credit for being smart, and there is nothing that supports this theory.

    He has not experienced consequences for his actions because he is rich, and rich people do not experience accountability. This lack of accountability for people who are wealthy is really a large part of what is wrong with stuff right now.

  129. 129.

    sab

    I should be doing family tax returns today, but I just don’t want to get up and about.

    ETA I did plan dinner. Enchiladas!

  130. 130.

    Geminid

    @Starfish: I’m not saying Trump is smart. I’m saying that he is exprienced and cunning when it comes to crime, and he relies on a very few people, like Roger Stone, to do his dirty work.

  132. 132.

    Steve in the ATL

    How is international travel these days?  We are looking at Europe for a Memorial Day trip and the rules seem to vary widely even within the EU.

    Things would be so much easier with an official Covid passport like civilized countries have.

  136. 136.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @Geminid: “Experienced criminal” does not necessarily equal “smart”. Even then, these guys violate the Stringer Bell rule so often, you have to wonder if they learning anything along the way…

  137. 137.

    sab

    @Steve in the ATL: I have in-laws who have in-laws in China (Shangai) who are scared a lot. We thought they were ssfe, but not so much. Every autocracy is bad i tts own way.

    What autocracies  have in co~on is they do not listen to their own citizens. We in the west do listen.

  138. 138.

    Geminid

    @Brachiator: If Lindsey Graham really wants Judge Childs on the Supreme Court he should shut about her. He’s giving her a bad name among some Democrats.

  139. 139.

    smith

    @Sure Lurkalot: Good thread. If we can’t do something soon to stop the consolidation of power by mobster-oligarchs, we are doomed to go back to a feudalistic political system. The thing that makes me despair is that mobster-oligarchs undermine our system of laws to accomplish nothing more than to make themselves richer, when they are already so rich that every extra dollar, or million dollars, they add to their pile is entirely worthless to them. They already have so much they can’t spend it on anything meaningful. Once money gets into their grubby hands it becomes just so much monopoly money.

  141. 141.

    Anyway

    OT – Went to the movies last night! I was never a huge movie-goer pre-COVID but it was nice to be out with friends Friday night and watch a movie on a big-ass recliner.

    “The Lost City” – wasn’t bad within the Action+Comedy framework.

  142. 142.

    sab

    Ponyo is stuffing her face in my face. She has urgent ( or not) dog concerns.

    IETA I think she cares a lot but she is just a dog. She has no choice about the world she  lives in.

  145. 145.

    Brachiator

    @Geminid:

    If Lindsey Graham really wants Judge Childs on the Supreme Court he should shut about her. He’s giving her a bad name among some Democrats.

    Totally agree.
    The idiot GOP insists on playing stupid power games even if it hurts them where real bipartisanship might help.​

    I would love it if Judge Childs told Graham, “Keep my name out of your f***ng mouth!”

  148. 148.

    Brachiator

    @Baud:

    And Lindsey isn’t going to support Childs or any other Biden nominee if a Republican justice dies.

    Why not? Graham was strongly supportive of Childs. It would be so much fun if Thomas resigned and Biden nominated Childs.

    I would love to see Graham have to hold to his previous remarks.

    McConnell would always be an ass. Not sure about Graham.

  149. 149.

    Tom Levenson

    @OzarkHillbilly: One of our closest friend’s dad was a torpedo bomber pilot on one of the jeep carriers that backed up that destroyer/DE flotilla.  Hell of a day. Among those he was defending were my dad, an intelligence officer on Adm. Kincaid’s flagship, and my wife’s dad, an LST captain in the landing force.* Small world and all that.

    *None of those three guys ever met.

  150. 150.

    BeautifulPlumage

    OT: if Water girl is around I wanted to report that something changed overnight with the site loading, in a good way! The site no longer jumps around then drops to the bottom of the page when I refresh a post to see new comments. I had reported the issue in the second post about the problems. Chrome browser on a Motorola phone.

  152. 152.

    Geminid

    @Baud: I don’t see Graham supporting any that Judge Joe Biden nominates. But Graham’s praise of Judge Childs tends to encumber a good prospect with political baggage she doesn’t need.

  153. 153.

    JAFD

    @germy: ​
     Well, by ‘God’s time’, it’s still morning …
    ( If you’re on the South Lawn of the White House, you may be thinking of the Washington Monument as a sundial.)

  154. 154.

    Brachiator

    @Baud:

    Words don’t bind the GOP.

    I suppose. Meanwhile, we now have a new Supreme Court justice. That’s cause for celebration.

    I don’t mind if Graham wants to have a little hissy fit.

    That’s also cause for celebration.

  156. 156.

    JAFD

    @Gin & Tonic:

     Had an hour or so to kill before last Saturday’s Meetup, walking around Greely/Herald Square, must have passed a dozen sidewalk covid test sites.

  157. 157.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Geminid: I’d bet that if he gets another nomination, Biden will pick Sri Srinivasan

    pointless speculation, but the name of the blog is Balloon Juice after all

  158. 158.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Tom Levenson: And my (future) dad was on Leyte, a diesel mechanic in a motor pool, scared out of his wits. All props to the swabbies in the tin cans and the escort flattops.

  159. 159.

    PST

    @Steeplejack:
    But he waited to marry her until she was a college senior, so it’s all good!

    I met my wife when she was 11 but waited to marry her until she was 58.

  160. 160.

    rosalind

    @NotMax: first job out of college was working as the receptionist at a music amphitheatre. 90% of my calls started with:

    Me: “Bayside Amphitheatre!”

    Them: “Yeah, uh, is this Bayside Amphitheatre?”

  161. 161.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Bex: am I right that all Lindsey’s whining about how mean people were to Coney Barrett is about that one thing his huggy pal Dianne Feinstein said about her being deep in the doctrine or something like that, and that wasn’t even in her SC hearings

  162. 162.

    James E Powell

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Or, they could not just admit it, but brag about it on Sunday & cable shows. Chuck Todd, would nod & say, “we’ll have to leave it right there,” then talk about how this was bad news for Biden & the Democrats.

  163. 163.

    James E Powell

    @Brachiator:

    Meanwhile, we now have a new Supreme Court justice. That’s cause for celebration.

    All Democratic celebrations must be accompanied by an explanation of how it’s really not good news. It’s like a law or something.

  164. 164.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @sab: Sammy was restless and bugging me at 4 am. I ignored him and told him he needed to go back to sleep. A 7 am he had his first accident since finally figuring out housebreaking 3 years ago.

    I feel incredibly guilty.

  166. 166.

    sab

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: So sorry for Sammy. He meant well but you failed him.

    Been there and failed there as a pet owner. And you still have to pretens he did wrong to keep up on his training. q

    Life isn’t always fair.

  167. 167.

    JaneE

    Justice Jackson is terribly impressive every time she speaks.  Even without knowing that she has exceptional qualifications already, you can tell that she is well qualified to sit on the Supreme Court.  Part of the “wow” I felt listening to her in the hearing clips may be attributable to the very low bar set by her immediate predecessors confirmed, but I think she would be impressive even without the lowered standards of the GOP.

  168. 168.

    Citizen Alan

    @Geminid: 

    The notion that Lindsey Graham ever supported child for any reason other than as and as an excsuse not to support Jackson is preposterous.

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