Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Infrastructure week. at last.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    I have been meaning to ask whether anyone else thinks the Wordle words have been harder for the past few days.  I barely get them on the 5th or 6th like.  If they aren’t harder, then maybe I work up stupid this week.

  10. 10.

    oatler

    ABC should cover this, though reporter Chris Christie is in London covering the Queen’s funeral right now.

  11. 11.

    schrodingers_cat

    OT SIL update

    She is recovering nicely from her 20+ hour brain surgery.  She ate on her own today. She is still wobbly on her feet but responding well to the physical therapy. She should be able to go home this week.

    So far the mass found seems benign. More pathological testing has been ordered on the mass to rule out any malignancy. We spoke to her on Zoom today and she was lucid and smiling.

    Now we can all exhale.

    Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts. I appreciate it.

  17. 17.

    Doc Sardonic

    @schrodingers_cat: Don’t comment often, but that is good news. Will continue to cast my best wishes to the universe for your SIL.

    Also a quick question…Any recommendations for beginner cookbook for Indian cuisine?

  18. 18.

    Alison Rose 💙🌻💛

    In the meantime, this gave me quite a good laugh just now. The tractors are back!

    ETA: I find it interesting that the three letters I’ve seen most often painted on the invaders’ tanks are V, O, and Z…which happen to be Zelenskyy’s initials in the English alphabet. I know it’s not relevant, but it just made me go….huh….the first time I noticed.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @schrodingers_cat: Very happy for you and your family.  It’s pretty shocking that someone can survive a 20-hour brain surgery.  I don’t even begin to understand how that is possible.  I wonder if they trade out surgeons.  Amazing.

  25. 25.

    different-church-lady

    Kinda hoping we’re going to use some of it to keep our subways and buses from catching on fire.

  27. 27.

    Doc Sardonic

    @schrodingers_cat: Thank You. Will go looking, have the house to myself well let’s just say I am the only human cat servant present for the next 3 days, so I can do some cooking experiments without pressure.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @M31: Glad to hear that!  That’s so much better than “what the hell is wrong with me that I can’t figure that out?”

    Sometimes I have to go away and come back to it later.  Fresh eyes help.

  31. 31.

    M31

    so did Biden announce he was partnering with Hilary Clinton and the City of Boston to make sure that every street corner in America has a taco truck and a Dunkin Donuts?

  33. 33.

    schrodingers_cat

    @WaterGirl: They had an entire surgical team with several surgeons and nurses. I am going to try to speak with the surgeon who headed the team.

    ETA: The initial estimate was 12 hours but it turned out to be more complicated than initially anticipated.

  36. 36.

    M31

    lol years ago, pre-cellphone I was meeting a friend once in Boston when we were both traveling, so we settled on “the Dunkin right at X exit off the highwy” and wouldn’t you know it there were 4 of them

  40. 40.

    JPL

    @ALurkSupreme: Valued commenter Debbie, linked to a wordle like puzzle called wordmaster.    Anyhow, their puzzles are more difficult because of the double use of certain letters.   It prepared me for the change in the NYTimes.

  42. 42.

    Old School

    @WaterGirl:

    If they aren’t harder, then maybe I work up stupid this week.

    Probably a little more challenging, but it sounds like you could still use a nap.

  43. 43.

    scav

    @M31: GSD I hope so as our nearest corner taco truck did so well they migrated to brick.  Improved the menu further but it’s still further away.  There’s a corner immediately available!

  47. 47.

    trollhattan

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Wow, great news! Fingers crossed the biopsy results are correct.

    A former boss had developed symptoms mimicking Parkinson’s, and her neurologist put her on medications to suppress the effects (there’s no cure). After a good while and no improvement, while knocked sideways by the meds, she consulted a neurosurgeon who quickly discovered a baseball-size tumor on her brain, just beneath the skull on top.

    Successful surgery removed the entire mass, which proved benign, and so she got her life back. (Slowly, they filled her skull with fluid to prevent the brain from “bouncing back” too quickly and causing havoc.)

    Tough lady, that’s for sure, as she navigated the entire years-long misadventure with grace and grit.

  53. 53.

    WhatsMyNym

    @schrodingers_cat:   All the best for your SIL’s recovery.

     

    @WaterGirl:   Sounds bad, but most of the time is deciding how to not damage the brain’s functions.

    Even though mine was small and close to surface, they ended up just doing a biopsy.   Ended up doing chemo and radiation.  I’m still here (and the tumour is as well)

  56. 56.

    Layer8Problem

    @M31:  Hah!  I once told a highly-favored boss I would pick her up at the Dunkin Donuts in Weymouth.  She said in a strong South Shore accent “There are like five Dunkin Donuts in Weymouth.”  I said not my problem, be at the right one.  Luckily for me she understood my sense of humor, after about ten seconds.

  62. 62.

    JCJ

    @schrodingers_cat:   Hoping for a diagnosis of meningioma or otherwise benign lesion.  In the brain the location of even a benign growth is like real estate – location, location, location.

  67. 67.

    oatler

    Just read that Liz Truss will be visiting the US soon, but “she is now not thought likely to find time to tag on a trip to the White House.” Doesn’t say what houses or country clubs Truss will be tagging on time for.

  68. 68.

    JCJ

    @schrodingers_cat: Radiation oncologist.  Even some WHO grade 1 meningiomas need to be considered for adjuvant treatment, particularly those involving the base of skull.  Often they can just be monitored with MRI every six months if a gross total resection has been done.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: @Kristine:  I wasn’t aware that the original Wordle didn’t have double letters.  But something definitely changed because it’s definitely been tougher.

    Did they announce the they were doing double letters at some point?

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack

    @WaterGirl:

    They’ve been a little bit harder, partly because they’re using repeated letters (letter used more than once in the word, not necessarily next to each other). My “get the vowels sorted” strategy has helped a lot with this.

  89. 89.

    eversor

    @oatler:

    Since she’s into pork futures maybe she can go to Iowa and get blown up in one of those farms that have floating lagoons of pig shit that randomly combust and send swine for miles, Game of Thrones style but with no amazing Tyrion and Bron broham action to make it entertaining.  Just Chuck Grassley meeting people behind the Dairy Queen flying chunks of pig and flaming shit for miles.

  90. 90.

    Tony Jay

    @Spanky:

    Bet they didn’t. Dizzy is so deep in the Brextremists’ pocket she’s already droning on about breaking the Northern Ireland Protocol, which would break the Good Friday Agreement, which would make Washington very, very angry. She’s not getting invited to so much as a coffee date with the assistant deputy secretary to the Department of Lost Toys until she and the Tories stop being performative dicks.

    Most of her meetings will be with fellow extreme right politicos at the UN and whichever Libertarian sugar-daddies her staff direct her to suck up to.

  91. 91.

    Steeplejack

    @JPL:

    This is a good point. I’m still getting most of the Wordles in about 4, maybe because I play Word Master a lot.

  92. 92.

    Tony Jay

    @Geoduck:

    From the way the BBC are keeping cameras on or around her cortège at all times I’m coming to the conclusion that, whatever happened, it probably involved the bite of an Infected.

    If and when she comes bursting out of that casket looking for brains, the BBC will bloody well be recording it for posterity.

  93. 93.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Thanks to everyone who pointed me in the right direction (up) in earlier thread.  This pie has never tasted so delicious!!

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    @Alison Rose 💙🌻💛: Yeah, I used to guess in that situation, and sometimes I will take one guess, and then i write down all the letters it could be and my next word contains as many of those letters as possible, along with one vowel.  That narrows it down fairly well, by either one letter showing up or by eliminating all of those, and the options that are left are the letters you couldn’t fit into your test word.

  97. 97.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    It is very good. A lot of the time no, it’s often one surgeon in charge, knows what they’ve done from start to finish. But in extremely long surgeries they might. It depends on the surgeon. But in any case it’s extremely good news.

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Great to hear. Best of luck to her that everything stays good.

  103. 103.

    cain

    @Tony Jay: There are many UK celebrities/politicians that I’m willing to push in front for their brains to be eaten by zombie Queen Elizabeth. Piers Morgan is on top of the list. Although, I suppose – his brains are probably as fulfilling as a twinkie.

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