Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Everybody saw this coming.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

This fight is for everything.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

When they say they’re pro-life, they don’t mean yours.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

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  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    there’s primaries tonight

    Dave Wasserman @Redistrict. 50m

    I’ve seen enough: Trump-endorsed Tim Michels (R) defeats former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (R) in the #WIGOV GOP primary and will face Gov. Tony Evers (D) in the fall.

  4. 4.

    Cameron

    Damn.  That sounds delicious.  I could mos def scarf some of those critters down with a green salad on the side

    ETA: I reserve the fava beans and Chianti for meals featuring human parts.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Cameron:

    ETA: I reserve the fava beans and Chianti for meals featuring human parts. 

    Well aren’t you speciesist when it comes to liver!  Snob!

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    I hope it’s a joke, because I’d never touch that ice-cream maker again…

    Oh, that?  That’s the cats’ ice cream maker.  You don’t wanna know.

  8. 8.

    Leto

    OT? Not sure if this has been discussed today, but: Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen’s DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion

    A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant. Seventeen-year-old Celeste Burgess, who is being tried as an adult along with her mother Jessica Burgess, is awaiting trial in Madison County District Court on charges that they broke a Nebraska law banning abortions after 20 weeks.

    This marks one of the first instances of a person’s Facebook activity being used to incriminate her in a state where abortion access is restricted — a scenario that has remained largely hypothetical in the weeks following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Nebraska currently outlaws abortions beyond 20 weeks. On Monday, Republican lawmakers in the state failed to secure enough votes to decrease that window to 12 weeks.

    Celeste and her mother were charged in July with allegedly removing, concealing or abandoning a dead human body and concealing the death of another person after the Norfolk Police Department received a tip claiming Celeste had miscarried in April at 23 weeks of pregnancy and secretly buried the fetus with her mother’s help. The case was first reported by the Lincoln Journal Star.

    While Celeste told police that she had suffered a miscarriage, they continued to investigate, serving Facebook with a search warrant to access Celeste and Jessica’s Facebook accounts. They subsequently found messages between the mother and daughter allegedly detailing how Celeste had undergone a self-managed abortion with Jessica’s help. There are four states that ban abortion at 24 weeks, and more than a dozen that broadly ban it at the start of fetal viability.

    If you haven’t deleted FaceBook already, here’s n+1 reasons why. And fuck Republicans forever.

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Mmmmm … so hard to decide … um, could I get a waffle cone with a scoop of shrew and bird sprinkles?… or wait, wait, make that a double dipper, one scoop of sparrow, one shrew, with, uh, a SALAMANDER shell … yeah, sugar cone.

  12. 12.

    piratedan

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: out here in the Old Pueblo, we’re already getting the dark money attack ads against the GOP nominees for Gov and Senate, both candidates are anti-abortion and pro-Trump.  Lake also carries the additional baggage of leading the cyber-ninja charge that found zippo running against the AZ Sec of State who ran the elections and the fact that she’s a straight up grifter, former TV anchorwoman who’s gone full Dark Sinema.

    Masters is just some rich dude who likely paid Trump for his endorsement and is a complete strawman as a candidate.

    considering the state has gone full MAGA, that may affect turnout here, where Trump isn’t on the ballot, but in fact he very much is, since everyone is a build the wall advocate and a 2020 election denier.

    Dems have been just quietly registering voters and letting the GOP hang themselves.  The Cyber ninja fiasco alienated a lot of folks and while there are some libertarian conservative types here, there may be just enough of them staying home to give the Dems a chance to not just win the offices but maybe even override the gerrymander at the State level (who knows, but the trends are better).

    One possible issue is the shutting down of the Trump immigration policy, which will result in the normal shrieking regarding invasions of POC who could be mowing lawns and working for landscape companies in their spare time from threatening the bejesus out of the old folks for simply existing.

  17. 17.

    Mike in NC

    Wife was hanging out with her friends for Tuesday game night, so I was home alone and pulled up You Tube to watch the “Trump’s American Carnage” 2021 documentary from PBS. Really made me want to vomit about how many filthy scum in this country continue to worship this despicable fascist asshole.

  18. 18.

    Redshift

    Even apart from the worst bits, “boiling cream”? I’m not much of a cook, but surely that’s not how you make custard.

    I second the “hope it’s a joke”…

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Scully covered Connie Mack, who was born in 1872 and Julio Urias, who was born in 1996.

    I love stuff like this. I had a great-grandfather (I’m sure I’ve mentioned this here) who enlisted to fight in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. He lied about his age both times :-)

    I was young when he died, but I do remember him.

    In 2010, I attended my 50th HS reunion. It dawned on me that the kids who were graduating that year were as far removed from us as my class of 1960 was from the class of 1910 — which was the year my grandmother and great-aunt graduated from the same high school!

    The Bertrand Russell-Napoleon story is cool.

  21. 21.

    Geoduck

    Here in SW Washington state, it looks like GOP rep Jamie Butler Herrera might get booted from office in the primary after she voted to impeach the Shiatgibbon. If she does, it will be interesting to see how the Dem candidate does against the frothing MAGAt replacement. (Ms. Herrera used to be my rep, but I got moved to more Dem-friendly district a few years back.)

  25. 25.

    phdesmond

    Domino’s pulls out of Italy as locals reject American pizza
    The pizza brand has shut its final branch in the country after seven years

  26. 26.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @Geoduck: Was her district affected by redistricting this year? Or is it mostly the same electorate as before?

  29. 29.

    HumboldtBlue

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I love stuff like this.

    I live for it. I, too, had a great-grandfather who served in the Civil War, my paternal grandfather was born in 1898 or 99, can’t recall at the moment, and when I was lecturing my then four, five, and six-year-old nieces and nephews, history is never far away.  I can go from paternal grandpa straight to the Civil War (as well as indirect roots to the creation of the IRA), and on mom’s side, from grandma to the Irish famine.

    I should look more into my Dutch-origined maternal grandad’s family. I know his elders owned land on what is now the Philadelphia Naval Yard, but haven’t gone any deeper.

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Last week in a primary debate, veterans (30+ years each) Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney stumbled over a question about supporting Joe Biden in 2024. Obama WH alumnus Suraj Patel endorsed Biden. Tonight there’s another debate, for a congressional district primary, and…

    Jeff Coltin @JCColtin
    Patel fires back against Maloney calling him a rookie, saying “the rookie on this stage” is the only one who didn’t just spend seven days embarrassing himself by throwing Biden under the bus for 2024.

    Candidates get a Biden 2024 redo: Maloney: “I am supporting Joe Biden…” Patel: “Yes! … This man has accomplished so much in two years, why are we asking this question.” Nadler: “Absolutely he should be the Democratic nominee and he should be reelected president.”

  35. 35.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    @phdesmond:

    Domino’s pulls out of Italy as locals reject American pizza

    Is it American Pizza they’re rejecting, or Shitty Pizza?

  36. 36.

    mrmoshpotato

    @phdesmond:

    Domino’s pulls out of Italy as locals reject American pizza 

    The pizza brand has shut its final branch in the country after seven years

    1. Someone thought that was a good investment?
    2. They lasted 7 years?!
  37. 37.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Geoduck:

    I remember in 2009 when McConnell and Rove said the death panel hysteria was getting unrealistic, and got so much venom from the GOP base that they had to publically apologize.  GOP voters demand total war.  Joining with Democrats in chastising a Republican president?  It’s as bad as claiming Democrats didn’t win an election by cheating.

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Cameron:

    Next you’re going to say that a Big Mac isn’t a real hamburger. How un-American.

    Bury me in Wendy’s burgers any day.

    Their Bourbon Bacon Cheeseburger totally slaps.

    ETA – and you have to get a McDonald’s triple burger to have any hope of tasting any “meat.”

  40. 40.

    Regnad Kcin

    @HumboldtBlue: same — he fought on the Union side out of Texas (but then my white trash folk had been here for 150 years by then, once the *&^% English tossed them out

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    I remember in 2009 when McConnell and Rove said the death panel hysteria was getting unrealistic 

    Getting unrealistic. BWHAHAHAHAHA!

    and got so much venom from the GOP base that they had to publically apologize.  GOP voters demand total war.

    You like the monster you created?  Do ya?  Assholes.

  44. 44.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Dave Wasserman @Redistrict 40m

    A big deal: WI Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) has apparently eked out a primary win over Trump-endorsed challenger Adam Steen (R), 52%-48%.

    Robin Vos has been one of the most successful collaborators with the infamous, Koch-funded ALEC.

    and on the other side, of politics and the WI/MN state line

    Theo Keith @TheoKeith

    BREAKING: Ilhan Omar survives #MN05 primary, challenger Don Samuels concedes. Omar will win by ~3,000 votes, far less than the 35,000 she won by in the 2020 primary.

  45. 45.

    Carlo Graziani

    @mrmoshpotato: Look, McDonalds is still in Rome. Starbucks still infests Milan. I don’t know why these perverse fascinations with US necro-cuisine persist, but apparently, like German cockroaches, they can only be controlled, never stamped out, more’s the pity.

  47. 47.

    Cameron

    @mrmoshpotato: I believe that you have to have some fealty to Big Macs to be a righteous MAGA.  But, yeah, I’m a Wendy’s apostle.  Although down here in FL, I’ve only begun to explore local eating even though I’ve lived here since 2016 – didn’t even know Duval’s (in Sarasota) existed until a few weeks ago.  Have to see what local burger joints are around.

  52. 52.

    Jackie

    @Geoduck: Jamie Butler Herrera conceded today. I HOPE that translates into a Democratic seat pick up🤞🏻 My GOP Rep, Dan Newhouse kept his seat – despite Trump’s endorsement to a mini-Trump candidate. Slim to none chance Democrat Doug White pulls out an upset this Nov. If the Trumpies stay home and don’t vote, we COULD squeak out an upset victory!🤞🏻🤞🏻

  53. 53.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Martin: Well, slapnuts!  Closest ones are in Texas and Colorado.

    Are you offering to open one on the north side of Chicago? 😁😋

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ​
      Michels has spent the last decade working in NYC. He claims to have split time between WI and CT. His family owns a construction company in WI; his father founded it and Michels and his two brothers currently run it. He ran against Feingold in the 2004 Senate race and lost.

  60. 60.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:
    Speaking of pizza, there’s a new pizzeria chain hereabouts coming up to challenge the dominance here of Domino’s and the Hut: US Pizza. The “US” in the name seems legit since the founder is from Kansas City, Missouri. Looks worth a try.

  61. 61.

    Cameron

    @Another Scott: Christ.  John Tyler – the President who went back to Congress after his time in office.  Just like John Quincy Adams, except sorta different, since Tyler went to the Confederate Congress.

  66. 66.

    Roger Moore

    @Leto:

    As much as I hate Facebook, it would have been very hard for them to fight a court order on this.  It’s not as if the mother and daughter would have been any safer if they had discussed it over text messages; their phone provider would have coughed up the messages exactly the same way.  If anything, it’s a sign you shouldn’t discuss any kind of potentially criminal activity in a way that can create a permanent record.  If they had discussed it exclusively by voice, they might be in the clear.

  67. 67.

    Jay

    Burger Heaven in New Westminster, best burgers in BC by far, great fries. Hand chopped sirloin, not ground beef.

    Not a Wendy’s fan, except on price point. Fries are okay though. I do like their salads. For fast food burgers, I like A&W.

  68. 68.

    prostratedragon

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:  Someone must have shown them a still of Patel’s expression when he heard them both flubbing what should have been a softball question. (Maloney?! I don’t want whatever she was smoking.)

  69. 69.

    StringOnAStick

    Man, these fascists are tricksy.  I was watching a You tube about how to replace a Pulaski handle (Habitat find, big digging project coming up) and the redneck showed his stash of handle-free axes and sledgehammer heads he was going to restore then lingered on the sword with White Supremacist designs and not in need of any restoration or handle replacement.  So clever.  Always Be Closing.

  70. 70.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Craig: ​ 

    The best ever. I’m a Harry Kalas kid, but I spent a lot of years in So Cal listening to Vin Scully. He’s the best ever. And it’s not close, and even those others who could possibly make an objection are unanimous in agreement with us.

    Vin was the greatest.

  71. 71.

    Carlo Graziani

    I’m going to take an opportunity to do a little harmless venting here.

    I am not a cat lover. I am at best, a cat tolerator. Self-taught. By necessity, since (1) I am allergic to cats, and (2) I happened to marry 3 of them.

    None of the aforementioned cats arouses any particular sense of devotion in my soul. I have been a dog person since childhood, and capable of great affection towards dogs. These cats give me “meh”. I try to overlook the fact that they are crop pests who deliberately damage the yard, and also hooligans who vandalize the furniture, that they adorably throw up preferentially on the rug, and that they believe a closed bedroom door is an outrage worthy of shrieking about at 5:30 AM. That they turn my home into a toxic pit requiring me to take a list of medications that Tom Lehrer could probably have used for lyrics of a comic song.

    When my wife is not available, I do my duty by them, feeding and watering them. One of them mostly ignores me, which is perfectly OK with me. Another will actually climb up in my lap when my wife’s lap is unavailable and I’m in my evening armchair. This is tolerable, so long as he sits still.

    Then there’s Claude.

    Claude is the Eldest cat, and the Apple Of Her Eye. He is, to put it mildly, a chronic proctological affliction. His only mode of communication is the needy scream-meow. He uses it constantly, because whatever his current state, he needs Something Else (unless my wife is holding him). And, he appears to have amentia. He has no idea that I despise him, despite the fact that I get so frustrated with him that I shout at him, I have sprayed him with water, and one time, at 3:45 in the morning, I burst out of the bedroom, chased him to to foot of the staircase, and actually got a kick on his rear end to speed him down the stairs (I’m not proud of this, but he’d been destroying my sleep for days. My wife, bless her, helped find a better solution involving the vacuum cleaner and a remote-controlled AC power outlet).

    Approximately 3-4 times per week, Claude  will actually stand 12 inches away from me, within easy kicking range, look right up into my eyes, and scream at me for some inscrutable cat reason.  And each time, I think to myself: “Today. Today is the day that I fail this test. It’s about to happen.”

    So, I can’t really say that I get making shrew ice cream for the fucking things.

    Anyway, venting feels good. Probably good for Claude too. And for my marriage…

  73. 73.

    Kent

    @Geoduck: Here in SW Washington state, it looks like GOP rep Jamie Butler Herrera might get booted from office in the primary after she voted to impeach the Shiatgibbon. If she does, it will be interesting to see how the Dem candidate does against the frothing MAGAt replacement. (Ms. Herrera used to be my rep, but I got moved to more Dem-friendly district a few years back.)

    I live in the district.  Jamie conceded tonight.  She completely fucked up and just phoned in her primary campaign.  I think she was afraid of going out and facing the MAGA hordes live so never showed up.  The other candidates were going around holding public forums and debates.  I watched a debate between Marie Perez and Joe Kent, for example.  Jamie was just completely absent other than having her campaign throw up a shitload of lawn signs that were basically part of the visual garbage of 25 other candidate lawn signs for every other race.

    It will be an uphill battle for Marie to win and I’m not sure which candidate would have been the easer one to beat, Herrera-Beutler or Kent.  Probably Kent but he is more or less from GOP Central Casting so will get a lot of GOPers legs shaking when scratched.

    I do think Marie will be a better candidate than Carolyn Long who was the Dem running the last two cycles.  We will see how much energy she generates over the next 3 months.  She is kind of a badass liberal car mechanic and mom so has a compelling story.

    The WA-3rd is basically like Texas.  It keeps slowly trending blue but never seems to get there.  The fast-growing parts of the district are all in Clark County (Vancouver) which is already blue or purple.  Clark County went for Biden over Trump by 5 points.  The rest of the district which includes the mill towns up I-5 like Longview is rural and red but also not growing.  So the district is slowly becoming more suburban-centric.  I’m not sure how much it will change in the redistricting, perhaps shrink just a bit in area to account for population growth in Clark County.

    Anyway, donating to Marie is somewhat of a long-shot but within the realm of possibility.  She is REALLY running on abortion 24/7.  We shall see how that plays.

  75. 75.

    Kent

    @Roger Moore:

    @Leto:

    As much as I hate Facebook, it would have been very hard for them to fight a court order on this.  It’s not as if the mother and daughter would have been any safer if they had discussed it over text messages; their phone provider would have coughed up the messages exactly the same way.  If anything, it’s a sign you shouldn’t discuss any kind of potentially criminal activity in a way that can create a permanent record.  If they had discussed it exclusively by voice, they might be in the clear.

    The problem is that a “friend” turned them into the police so the police knew EXACTLY what they were looking for and where to find it in terms of electronic evidence.  The lesson here is don’t involve any “friends” in your illegal medical abortion.  This wasn’t some random thing the police happened to stumble on.  Even absent the Facebook evidence they might well have been caught just on the testimony of the friend witness.

  78. 78.

    piratedan

    since this is an open thread and we’re all just typing casual like, perhaps with a late night beverage, as is my usual want to rant about the 4th estate, I thought I would give virtual voice to some idle speculation….

    its a case of what if… which is something that the media excels in, when it’s spinning out predictions of how anything and everything could, would or perhaps spell doom for the Democrats, as its understood, that they’re the only political party that has agency and can suffer any repercussions from their actions, policies or good intentions.

    but this what if spins in the other direction… what if Trump is arrested by the US Marshals and tried by the DOJ for any number of crimes…. improper handling of classified material, RICO, treason, conspiracy, manslaughter, campaign finance violations, tax evasion… hell, what hasn’t the fucker done? So… say that they arrest him, try him in a court of law and they find him guilty…  then they do the same for Bannon, Meadows, Barr, Miller, Pompeo and the rest of the mousekateers….

    does Garland have the juice and do the Dems go for it and cut this cancer from our body politic, do they go after the pols and the money men?  Do they invalidate everything that treasonous fuck did?  Do they recall SCOTUS jurists who obviously perjured themselves to get on the bench?  Do we go after the media that enabled this onslaught of information, or sue them into oblivion?

    Would a Trump conviction (and that of his henchmen) break the fever of the Right nationalist movement?  Do they turn him into a martyr?  Do they simply saddle up Governor DeSatan and keep on trucking?

    for all the speculation about how each Dem success is somehow a double edged sword for Dems but with what has taken place, no one is apparently speculating on what a Trump conviction would mean.

  79. 79.

    Roger Moore

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Scully covered Connie Mack, who was born in 1872 and Julio Urias, who was born in 1996.

    I’m not sure if Scully actually covered Connie Mack, since he was in the AL and Scully was exclusively an NL announcer.  My favorite thing to think about Scully is that he was on the air for Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Around the World” home run, and it wasn’t even his rookie season. Just a ludicrously long career.

  80. 80.

    Kent

    @Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:@Geoduck: Was her district affected by redistricting this year? Or is it mostly the same electorate as before?

    Basically the same district as before since WA didn’t gain any seats.  They did more changing of district lines in central WA around Yakima to consolidate Hispanic and Indian votes.  The district may have shrank slightly on the margins to account for faster population growth in Clark County but it is basically the same district.  I haven’t seen the new district boundaries superimposed over the old.

    Here are the actual districts:  https://leg-tech.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3413cce928744f6a86bd631d97e2a06a

    Pretty un-gerrymandered compared to many other states.

  82. 82.

    karl

    “Someone left the shrews out in rain.
    And I don’t think that I can make it
    because the ice-cream maker can’t take it,
    And I’ll never have that twitter feed again. Oh no.”

  83. 83.

    prostratedragon

    I remember two of my great-grandparents who were emancipated when Sherman’s army came through. Ggm, a little girl then, watched Atlanta burn from up on a hill.

  84. 84.

    joel hanes

    @NotMax:

    <em>what Domino’s sells barely qualifies as pizza. Anywhere.</em>

    Here in small-town Iowa, better pizza than Domino’s is available from Godfather’s and from the three gas-station/minimart chains Casey’s, Kwik-Trip, and Kum and Go.

  86. 86.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Roger Moore:

    I just found out I was wrong (that is the default for me) that Connie Mack was born in 1862 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CIVIL WAR!

    Vin knew,

    At an inconsequential Spring Training game in Florida in 1950 the torch was passed. In the broadcast booth for the Brooklyn Dodgers was a nervous youngster who at the ripe old age of 22 was about to begin his big league broadcasting career. On the field below him was a very old man who was about to begin his final year in major league baseball. The old man stepped down as manager of the Philadelphia A’s after that season. Sixty years later, the young man in the broadcast booth is still the broadcaster for the Dodgers.

    The major league careers of Connie Mack and Vin Scully intersected at the midpoint of the 20th century. Connie Mack was born Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy in 1862, before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, at a time when Abraham Lincoln was President and America was engaged in the Civil War. Today, Vin Scully is broadcasting for the Los Angeles Dodgers at a time when a black man is President.

  87. 87.

    Roger Moore

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I once received a silver quarter in my change twice in one week. I could actually tell the second time even before looking at my change because the silver quarter sounds different from a nickel/copper sandwich coin.  It rings much better, and if you’re already attuned to the difference it’s as distinct as night and day.

  88. 88.

    Roger Moore

    @HumboldtBlue:

    I just found out I was wrong

    I was technically incorrect, too.  Connie Mack was in the AL during the time he overlapped with Scully, but his career substantially antedated the AL, which was only founded in 1901.  Mack started out in the NL, spent one year (the only year) in the Players’ League, came back to the NL (where he started his managerial career as a player/manager), and finally moved to the AL as a manager/owner when it promoted itself to the big leagues.

  92. 92.

    Kent

    @joel hanes:Here in small-town Iowa, better pizza than Domino’s is available from Godfather’s and from the three gas-station/minimart chains Casey’s, Kwik-Trip, and Kum and Go.

    And the scary thing is that Dominos is actually much improved from it’s 1990s or 2000s version.

  94. 94.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Roger Moore:

    Connie Mack was in the AL during the time he overlapped with Scully, but his career substantially antedated the AL, which was only founded in 1901. Mack started out in the NL, spent one year (the only year) in the Players’ League, came back to the NL (where he started his managerial career as a player/manager), and finally moved to the AL as a manager/owner when it promoted itself to the big leagues.

    This is why we read this fucking blog. I am getting a free history lesson. (I admit, I have never used the word “antedate”, like… ever.)

  101. 101.

    LeftCoastYankee

    @prostratedragon:
    For a long while it was great pitching, but now it seems like they’ve forgotten how to hit (and run the bases on the Yankees side).
    My Mariner’s give me much heartburn.​

  106. 106.

    LeftCoastYankee

    @Kent:

    That was a pretty epic game for the regular season.  Crazy good pitching all night long.

    Now I can finally go to bed….

  107. 107.

    prostratedragon

    @LeftCoastYankee: ​ Miss “details” like baserunning when you follow on the scoreboard. I did see a certain shortstop, who tends to flail, flailing away at pitches probably near his head height, so your M’s are not the only ones who forgot things. Baseball can be hypnotic.

  108. 108.

    Amir Khalid

    @Kent:

    Dominos is actually much improved from it’s 1990s or 2000s version.

    Really? The last time I tried Dominos, early in the new millennium, it gave mediocre a bad name.

  109. 109.

    gwangung

    @Kent: Woo hoo!

    (Well, a double edged sword. Ms in a playoff chase makes getting audience hard for my shows–traffic and parking problems. But we’re managing…)

  111. 111.

    schrodingers_cat

    @sab: Yes they did. They had to haul it in. It gave blood curdling shrieks as it was being stuffed into the trap. But the forestry people managed to keep the mother and the teen together

    It was like stuffing a cat in the carrier but 100 times more difficult. Did you see the part where they were rocking it like a baby and feeding it bananas? That was cute.

  114. 114.

    sab

    @schrodingers_cat: I can’t link but have you seen the meme of art historic Hercules feeding pills to his cat? Actually many sculptures of him wrestling lions, but I can relate to the cat pill perspective.

  115. 115.

    schrodingers_cat

    @sab: I haven’t seen it. But I too can sympathize. Pilling a cat is hard.

    Monkeys are more agile and muscular than the average house cat. So it was a difficult job to wrangle two monkeys climbing walls as easily as we walk.

  116. 116.

    sab

    @schrodingers_cat: Live and learn. What did Italians eat before tomatoes. Or Irish before potatoes? And doesn’t India and southeast asia have a broader range of hot chiles from Americas.

  118. 118.

    sab

    @schrodingers_cat: I had a friend years ago in Florida whose family had a pet monkey. He said he could always get control of its four feet with his hands, but then the monkey could still pull his hair with its tail.

  119. 119.

    schrodingers_cat

    @sab: As I said it was a 4 person operation of trained professionals for over 4 hours. So not an easy task at all.

    I can’t understand who would want to keep monkeys as pets. That’s crazy.

  120. 120.

    sab

    @schrodingers_cat: I know you aren’t a Vikram Seth fan, but his was the first novel I ever read about India written by an Indian.  (“Suitable Boy”) Monkeys at a train station ( casual but charming)  is what struck me. Not a big deal. She was going home to her family. Local color a Brit author might not even  have noticed.

  123. 123.

    sab

    @schrodingers_cat: And that’s just monkeys. People actually keep chimpansees. Boggles my mind. Also pet ocelats. I love cats, but anything above 15 pounds gets the human/cat balance of power off.

  124. 124.

    ColoradoGuy

    I remember our last encounter with a monkey when we visited India in 1991. It snuck in through the window and tried to steal the fruit out of a fruit basket, but my sweetie encountered it just as it entered our bedroom, she screeched a blood-curdling scream, and both ran away from each other. They are blindingly fast and extremely strong, and not what I’d call friendly or cuddly. They embody some of the worst human traits … greed, cunning, and violence,  without the affection of domestic animals. I can’t imagine one as a pet … they would be incredibly destructive and physically dangerous to have around.

  125. 125.

    JWR

    @piratedan:

    for any number of crimes…. improper handling of classified material, RICO, treason, conspiracy, manslaughter, campaign finance violations, tax evasion… hell, what hasn’t the fucker done?

    Stephen Colbert’s cold open tonight was about that very thing. It was a game show called “What Crime Is It?”, where the contestants are asked to hit their button to stop on a square labeled with a specific crime to find out if they’ve won. I know this was modeled off a real game show, I just forget which one.

    But yeah, evidence for which of his many crimes were they looking?

  126. 126.

    NotMax

    @joel hanes

    Don’t know if it is unique to the state, but the one and only time I was visiting Iowa (some time during the 1970s), tagged along with friends and acquaintances there on a late night munchies hunt.

    Only place open within walking distance was what today we would call a mini-mart, which sold “wonder dogs.” For all intents and purposes four-feet long Slim Jims, sans the wrapper.

  128. 128.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Martin: ​
     

    You can always tell which commenters don’t have an In N Out nearby.

    I have a grill on my deck. I’ve only had a better burger than I can grill for myself at exactly one place: Duffy’s Tavern, in the Holmes Beach section of Anna Maria Island.

  129. 129.

    satby

    @HumboldtBlue: @SiubhanDuinne: I love stuff like that too! I also have probably mentioned this, but my great-grandfather came over from Ireland alone at age 16 fleeing the famine and died just 19 years before I was born in 1936. At age 106. I wish I knew more about his life story.

  132. 132.

    satby

    @Baud: nope. Cole calls me “crabby old lady”.

    But, if I have his genes, I’m just middle aged 😆 (I did see what you did there, thanks)

    More about great grandpa: he had 19 children by two wives with two sets of twins, and he died months after falling in an ice storm and breaking his hip because he insisted on walking to town for his morning paper that day. Stubborn old Irishman, and I think I’m probably a lot like him 😉

  133. 133.

    satby

    Is anyone else looking forward to what new delights may happen today in the news? I’m hopeful the dam is giving way and it’s a continuing flood of setbacks for TFG.

  135. 135.

    germy shoemangler

    It was closer than she wanted, but progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) narrowly defeated centrist Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels in their primary matchup Tuesday night, winning on a margin that indicates a much shakier standing in her Minneapolis district than most expected.

    Leading up to the primary election, Omar remained seemingly unfazed. Not only did she have the benefit of incumbency, but she was backed by a number high-profile progressive figures, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

    Samuels did benefit from some last-minute endorsements, including from Minneapolist Mayor Jacob Frey. But his challenge ultimately fell short—and he conceded the race to Omar around 10:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday night.

    Omar isn’t the first member of the squad to survive a close primary challenge this year. Both Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) faced centrist primary challengers, though they both prevailed with more comfortable margins.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/ilhan-omar-narrowly-survives-democratic-primary-in-minnesota?ref=home

  136. 136.

    evodevo

    @prostratedragon: If they are located in Rome, the answer is most probably yes.  It’s also why Mickie D’s survives over there.  My niece and hubby live in Naples, and wouldn’t touch Domino’s with a ten-foot pole.  Pizza as enjoyed by the natives over there is a whole universe different from “stuffed crust” American abominations…

  137. 137.

    Baud

    @germy shoemangler:

    It’ll be interesting to see how the closeness of the primary affects her, if at all.

    IIRC, her challenger was pretty old.  I wonder if a younger person would have won.

  138. 138.

    germy shoemangler

    In 2016 Trump called for HRC to be jailed for her handling of classified material.

    In 2018 he signed a law that stiffened the penalty for the unauthorized removal & retention of classified documents from 1 to 5 years, turning it into a felony offense. 🤣 https://t.co/09U1Sqnv75

    — The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) August 10, 2022

    The writers outdid themselves on this one. Real Chekhov's gun plotting. https://t.co/OapcuY9CpD

    — Schooley (@Rschooley) August 10, 2022

  139. 139.

    Baud

    @germy shoemangler:

    Not only did she have the benefit of incumbency, but she was backed by a number high-profile progressive figures, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

     
    Quoted for the people who hate Pelosi for standing by her centrist incumbents too.

  142. 142.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud:

    Quoted for the people who hate Pelosi for standing by her centrist incumbents too.

    I have no problem with Pelosi etc. putting out press releases saying they endorse so-and-so in a primary.  It’s when the party power structure really throws its weight behind the incumbent with ad buys, personal appearances in district, etc. that I feel they have to have a damned good reason, like the challenger being a Nazi or something like that.

    I very strongly believe in the primary process.  I still believe in Markos’ “more, better Democrats” from nearly two decades ago.  You get ‘more’ in the general election, but the main opportunity for ‘better’ is in the primaries.

    When Marie Newman beat Dan Lipinski, when AOC beat Joe Crowley, that improved the party. If the party puts a heavy thumb on the scale for the incumbent in every primary, that keeps the party from improving.

    I have no idea whether Pelosi’s support of Omar was a token press release, or whether she really went to the mats for Omar.  I’m OK with the former but not the latter, even in Omar’s case.

  147. 147.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud: By members of the House leadership?  Ad buys by the DCCC?

    Let’s put it this way: if a primary challenger ever got that sort of support, it would be because the incumbent had done something pretty damned bad, like being under investigation for committing felonies but with little doubt that they’d actually done so.

    I think that’s actually happened a couple of times in the past half-century: that the party threw its weight behind a challenger, where the incumbent later went to prison.

    Otherwise, it’s really not the sort of thing that’s a concern, because it just doesn’t happen.

  148. 148.

    Baud

    @lowtechcyclist:

    So it’s a rule against leadership? Like AOC or Bernie can do whatever they want?

    I disagree with your stance on that.  I’m ok with all endorsements and personal visits.  I agree that DCCC ads can be more dicey.

  149. 149.

    Geminid

    I would differ with the Daily Beast’s characterization of Ohmar’s and Bush’s challengers as “centrists.” I thought they were pretty standard moderately liberal Democrats.

    But I see this a lot nowadays: people like to divide Democrats into “progressive” and “centrist” wings as if there is nothing in between. I think that ideologically, Democrats fit into a fat bell curve, with Representatives like Cuellar and Schrader falling on the rightward edge, and ones like Ohmar and Bush on the leftward edge. The latter two’s challengers would fall in the middle, I think.

  154. 154.

    Geminid

    @schrodingers_cat: I differ with a lot of people in that I consider “progressive” and “centrist” as strategies. I describe Democratic politicians as more or less “moderate” and “liberal.” But “progressive” became a another way of describing liberal and that seems to have stuck. I think it brings confusion, though.

  155. 155.

    oatler

    @Geminid:

    “Progressive’ always sounded like an attempt to appease an imagined group of ‘centrists’ they fear will turn on them.

  156. 156.

    Barney

    Even worse – one of the Twitter replies points to this story:

    Langya: New virus infects 35 people in eastern China

    Scientists are tracking a new, animal-derived virus in eastern China that has infected at least several dozen people.

    The novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) was found in 35 patients in the Shandong and Henan provinces. Many had symptoms such as fever, fatigue and a cough.

    They are thought to have contracted the virus from animals. There is no evidence so far LayV can transmit among humans.

    Researchers detected the virus predominantly in shrews.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-62489808

  157. 157.

    artem1s

    @Roger Moore: ​
     
    the larger issue is how far back in someone’s social media history are state prosecutors going to go once their state criminalize all contraception. If life begins at conception, abortion = murder. There is no statute of limitations on murder.

  158. 158.

    Geminid

    @oatler: The term seemed to come into use more twenty or so years ago, and seemed to be used because it was thought that “liberal” was more suspect among voters generally. Later “progressive” was used more to describe the anti-establishment movement led by Sanders and others, although the House Progressive caucus has many members who are not Sanders followers.

    Now “liberal” is regarded as suspect by some on the “Left,” and is sometimes used interchangebly with “centrist.” Also, some soreheads are beginning to attack more moderate members of the House Progressive Caucus as “PINOs,” progressive in name only. But these people are few in number and their attacks get very little traction.

  159. 159.

    Feathers

    @artem1s: I think the “it was legal at the time” covers this situation, but with the wack-ass Supreme Court we’ve got, dunno.

    Considering that data and surveys show between 25-35% of American women have had an abortion by age 50, there’s a lot of room there.

  160. 160.

    J R in WV

    @piratedan: ​
     

    …no one is apparently speculating on what a Trump conviction would mean.

    I speculate it would crash the Republican’s hopes on the national level — but I try not to think about it too much. I want it so badly I fear that desire could change the orbit of politics.

    “Hands behind your back, please, sir! Watch your head, please~!”

    I would also like to see him in an orange jumpsuit for arraignment after a night at Rikers. Fluffy hair all messy! Now I will put all those happy thoughts back in the deepest darkest part of my head…

  161. 161.

    J R in WV

    @schrodingers_cat: ​
     

    Pilling a cat is hard.

    We had a sweet cat who got a sinus infection, was sneezing out green snot. First Vet trip she got a big old-fashioned antibiotic shot, helped but not enough. Second trip, oral liquid with a tiny syringe to shoot it into the back of her throat.

    Also gave me a bottle of antibiotic drops, wanted me to put droops in her nose twice a day — tiny kitty, 6 pounds, but named Spike for her sharpness and aggression. Nose drops were straight out of the question as far as she is concerned. She still sneezes some, but seems mostly OK now, sits on my shoulder and we purr together,

  162. 162.

    Betsy

    @Roger Moore:

    @Major Major Major Major:

    when I was a kid, and I’m Gen X, a big thing for kids was to comb through a batch of mom or dad’s pocket change and try to find a few wheat pennies. There were generally 2 or 3 to be found in a small jar of change.

    Silver quarters too – I believe the ending year for those was 1964.

    I asked my nieces and nephews a few years ago if they ever looked for wheat pennies.  They had no idea, had never even heard the term.  I myself don’t remember the last time I got one in a handful of change.

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