Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

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

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

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

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    Yes, busy day filled with committee meetings and classes.  I look forward to going to bed these days.

  3. 3.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Right there with you Cole, sometimes

    Well, since it’s an open thread:

    Any opinions on the live action Disney remakes, such as the Lion King (2019)? I thought it looked pretty awful. They have a reputation for being unnecessary soulless cash grabs that frequently miss the point of the originals, as well

  6. 6.

    sab

    Husband getting PICC line out tomorrow! Yay! No more at home antibiotic IV drip operated by me. If Goku is still awake, your nursing has taught you another set of life skills that may come in useful even if you never go professional. I foumd it terrifying.

  9. 9.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @TaMara:

    Thank you for that video. I think it’s really stupid that there’s grown adults that hate on a movie aimed at families for transparent racist reasons. So many people online try to do the “I’m not a racist, I just want ‘red hair representation’!” thing with the new The Little Mermaid movie.

    It’s insane that trailer on Youtube allegedly got 1.5 million dislikes (which is apparently probably not true because the extension used to “bring back the dislikes” overestimates how many dislikes there actually are)

    I think it’s a heartening thing that young black girls are more and more able to see themselves on the big screen now

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    Cptlhill

    @sab: Congratulations on the milestone! I self-administered my own antibiotic through a PICC line for six weeks over the Summer. An ooky task!

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @TaMara:

    OMG, all those gorgeous little Black girls seeing an Ariel who looks like them! They made my heart sing a little bit! I’m not much of a Disney Princess fan in general, but this 80-year-old white woman just might have to see TLM in solidarity.

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    Frankensteinbeck

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen the racism more transparent.  Their excuses are so asinine, and if you’ve read Hans Christian Andersen’s writing, so obviously based on their imagination, not his writing.

    It’s a tough subject for me because I got about a quarter into Andersen’s collected works, including reading the clusterfuck of WTF that is Little Mermaid, before giving up.  His writing left me with the kinds of scars it is hard not to rant about.

  23. 23.

    Jager

    I posted earlier about the passing of my Chef Cousin Janey after her long, nasty battle with cancer. I was talking with her mom (my “Baby Aunt”) about Janey today, we decided when she reached the other plane, Anthony Bourdain, walked up, handed her a tall vodka on ice, lit a smoke, and said, “Where the hell have you been, the dining room is full and you need to run the kitchen.” Janey grinned,  jumped up, drank a slug of her vodka, got the kitchen staff moving, and started on the entrees. Going to miss my beautiful cousin.

  26. 26.

    frosty

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ​
      I hated the Lion King. Took my toddler to it and guess what happens? First thing is that Dad dies. The movie sucked, I can’t believe they thought live (CGI) action would be worth making.

    PS I’ve pretty much hated The Rodent’s movies ever since Pinocchio as a child. Wait, you’re telling me these kids get turned into donkeys and they can’t turn back??????

    /rant off/

  27. 27.

    glc

    The post gives me some nostalgia for the Kingston Trio.

    Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.
    And I don’t like anybody very much!

    Sheldon Harnick, 1949 (“Merry Minuet”)

    Dated in some respects, but less than one might wish.

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    sab

    @frosty: My mother never let us see the Rodent’s cartoons after my older sister was traumatized by Bambi. I loved the non-cartoon movies ( Hayley Mills, Susan Hampshire.)

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    JoyceH

    A story I heard just recently that gave me a lift, with a side order of vindictive glee.

    Obama is now telling a story that he’d never told before – that when he was president, his daughters were in the UK with their grandmother. Not an official occasion, but the word got to the queen that the president’s daughters were visiting, so she had them and their granny over for tea — and then called out that gold royal coach so the girls could ride it around the palace grounds. A sweet thing to do for an eight and eleven year old.

    But I’m mean-spirited enough to remember a few years back when Trump went to the UK and had his people lobby like crazy to get him a ride in that coach, he all but held his breath till he turned blue. And he didn’t get it.

    I wonder if he’s heard this story yet? Anybody seen ketchup dripping down the walls at Bedminster?

  33. 33.

    opiejeanne

    @Frankensteinbeck: My grandparents lived next door to us when I was a kid, and sometimes we stayed with them when our parents went out. We asked Grandma to read us a story one night and, after hunting around, she found a book of fairy tales. She read us one, got to the ending ,  closed the book, and said, “What kind of a fairy tale is that?”

    The Little Match Girl.

  36. 36.

    prostratedragon

    @sab:  Yaaaaay for both of you.  I had one a few years ago when I had lines-o-Rama with the bleeding ulcer.  Didn’t hurt much, but so, so weird in a Dr. Phibes sort if way. I explored other realms for a while whenever it was being attended to.

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    Misswhatsis

    I’m right there with you. I was a four-term NH House rep until yesterday. I lost my primary, largely because of a much needed housing bill I sponsored, to a charismatic 19-year-old. He’s a great kid but really? You want to trade a subject area expert for someone who’s barely out of high school.

    Why, yes, we do! Because you were going to make us allow four plexes on in-town streets with municipal water and sewer and That’s Just Not Fair.

    I’m pretty salty about it because the nice kid was urged to run by the Democrats in the next county. In their movie the moderate old white guy would be unseated by charismatic youth and charismatic youth and I would bring progress. That was never going to happen and I told them so. But they didn’t believe me and here we are.

    Democrats are their own worst enemy some days.

  40. 40.

    PST

    @Cptlhill:

    @sab: Congratulations on the milestone! I self-administered my own antibiotic through a PICC line for six weeks over the Summer. An ooky task!

    I’m a member of this club too. Ooky, yes, but not as ooky as I imagined. My favorite memory is explaining all the saline syringes and other equipment to TSA when traveling.

  43. 43.

    evodevo

    @opiejeanne: ​
      Mine used to read me Grimm’s – talk about grim lol – didn’t bother me much. If you have ever read the unexpurgated version, you’ll know what I mean…

  44. 44.

    opiejeanne

    @evodevo: Oh yes, I have read them and Grimm’s were quite a bit better, and the brothers Grimm didn’t seem to hate girls.   I think the only heroine Andersen allowed a happy ending was Thumbelina.

  48. 48.

    glc

    @frosty:

    Nat’l Brotherhood Week (in brief)

    Nat’l Brotherhood Week (more detail)

    And the “break” of Merry Minuet finds its way into Lehrer’s “We will all go together when we go” – but that’s the Zeitgeist. 1949 was certainly early for that.

    (In fiction, nuclear war had been described since the 1920s. In 1944 the FBI was sent to talk to the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, who had worked out from the address changes in his magazine subscription list what was going on at Los Alamos, and published the story “Deadline” about it. This is the same guy who suggested the three laws of robotics to Asimov.)

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