Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

When I was faster i was always behind.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The revolution will be supervised.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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  5. 5.

    KrackenJack

    It doesn’t take long to lose your acclimation to cold. Palm trees and Gulf zephyrs will be haunting your dreams.

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    @WaterGirl:

    Was Thurston happy enough to piddle? That’s the true test.

    edit: Turn up the heat and get Steve to sit in your lap.

    Clean up after Thurston first.  Naked mopping?

  9. 9.

    suzanne

    Take up hot yoga, Cole. It’ll be good for your shoulder and will give you a break from the cold without having to snuggle up to DeSantis.

  13. 13.

    TaMara

    Got up to a whopping 0 degrees F today. So hush.  I have never had to bring the ducks in as often as I have the last year.  It’s getting real old…

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  15. 15.

    frosty

    Welcome back to winter! Glad you and the doggies are happy to see each other.

    We have another 14 days in vile Florida then it’s back on the AutoTrain north to gut out the rest of February. Hoping for no nor’easters.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    @TaMara:

    Got up to a whopping 0 degrees F today. So hush. I have never had to bring the ducks in as often as I have the last year. It’s getting real old…

    Because it’s real cold!  Haha!

    I’ll see myself out.

    ETA – oh, and it sounds like it’s a three dog night, but then where would you sleep?

  22. 22.

    trollhattan

    So, how’s that Brexit going?

    Supah!

    The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advanced economies as the cost of living continues to hit households, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.

    The IMF said the economy will contract by 0.6% in 2023, rather than grow slightly as previously predicted.

    It said its new forecast reflected the UK’s high energy prices and financial conditions, such as high inflation.

    Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the UK outperformed many forecasts last year.

    In its World Economic Outlook update, the IMF, which works to stabilise economic growth, said the UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would shrink rather than grow by 0.3% this year.

    It predicted the UK would be the only country – across the world’s advanced and emerging economies – to suffer a year of declining GDP.
    However, the IMF said in 2024 it expected UK growth to be 0.9%, up from 0.6% previously.

    Tories are economic terrorists. But posh.

  26. 26.

    patrick II

    It is -6 wind chill where I am today. I am a little older now it is getting harder on me. I stopped at the gym today and as I pulled up to the front there was a young lady walking some distance back to her car in short shorts and a t-shirt, her coat slung over her arm.  I have no idea how they do it.

  28. 28.

    trollhattan

    @mrmoshpotato: Sure showed ’em!

    Beginning with Brexit, continuing with BoJo, coming home with Liz Truss, I’ve decided the Brits in Charge are utterly incompetent while blinded by a turbocharged sense of self-worth. Maybe I was the slow one to come to this realization.

  32. 32.

    Suzanne

    @trollhattan:

    I’ve decided the Brits in Charge are utterly incompetent while blinded by a turbocharged sense of self-worth. 

    Um yeah, to say nothing of the horror show that is Charles-and-Camilla.

  33. 33.

    RSA

    @patrick II:  I stopped at the gym today…

    Has the New Year rush subsided?

    I was part of that, having moved to a different part of town over the holiday break and found a new gym, but I plan to be a regular

    ETA: Speaking of the cold, moving from a 1B apartment to a drafty house in winter is a shock—I’ve had to buy a couple of space heaters.  Gradually adjusting.

  34. 34.

    RaflW

    I’m glad to be (just) west of the continental divide, where it is currently 8°F (a good 20° colder than WVA at the moment, BTW).

    Our hometown is -5°F. Friends there are not so enamoured.

    Got to snowboard in about 4-6″ of fresh powder today. But did have to knock off early, as I was losing sensation in my cheeks and nose. Oh well!

  37. 37.

    satby

    And I got home just about 50 minutes ago. All the cats seemed gratified that I FINALLY turned up after 8 days away. But as the bowls were full and the litter clean, they weren’t nagging for anything. It’s cold here too, not unexpectedly so for January though.

  38. 38.

    CaseyL

    Welcome home, John!  Sorry about the weather…

    Seattle is having another cold snap, which for us is low 30s, though things do occasionally go into the 20s.

    About 35 (good lord) years ago, we had a Big Freeze here; it got down to the teens, and there was an icy wind on top of that.  I didn’t drive or have a car back then: got around by bus or, if the walk was a mile or less, walked to wherever.  So I head off to the grocery store, maybe 6 blocks away, walking into the wind.  My face was numb by the time I got there.  I hadn’t experienced anything like it before, and was too fascinated to be appalled.  (Walking home was comparatively balmy, since I had the wind at my back.)

  40. 40.

    Geminid

    @RaflW: Ahhh, the west side of the Rockies in winter!

    I spent a few days in Alamosa, Colorado in January, 2019 and that was the coldest fu*king place I have ever been. And that’s not even counting the wind.

    I went back there that March, and I decided that Alamosa would be a great place to live- from May to September. Maybe half of April and half of October too.

  41. 41.

    mvr

    @Geminid & @RaflW: If I were at my cabin (which I’m not) I would be one mile or less East of the Divide in Southern Wyoming and it would be -9.9 degrees with about 9 feet of snow as of earlier tonight.  According to NOAH’s snow monitor nearby.  Sort of wish I was there because it would be cozy in my tiny one room with a woodstove blazing. But it would be work getting there and I have work here.

  43. 43.

    Gvg

    Well now you know why people move to Florida. I just wish a slightly different mix of voters had. My grandfather from Massachusetts decided he had had enough cold more than 70 years ago.

  44. 44.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Gvg:

    I’m in my late 60s, but I honestly think there’s a decent chance I may live long enough to see Florida become all but uninhabitable due to heat and humidity.

    I think I’ll stay here in Maryland and let the warmer climate come to me.

  45. 45.

    Anonymous At Work

    John,

    Just did the reverse, going from cold back to south Florida.  I miss having the ability to wear more than shorts without sweating.

  46. 46.

    gvg

    @lowtechcyclist: It’s not as likely as you think. We are an peninsula, which means water on both sides and breezes (sometimes too much breeze) and that means we are cooler than our latitude in summer. It also means we are warmer in the winter. The water moderates our climate by several degrees.  Now if the Gulf stream stops moving as some theories say it might, that would be bad, but we still will not be as extreme as the continental part of the US.

    Humidity is already normally about 90% in summer. We are used to it. It bothers some people more than others, and they have already left mostly. I found California and the west incredibly painful and drying to the skin when I visited. I enjoyed visiting, but noticed that it was a problem for me.

    I do expect parts of the south like Texas and Georgia to become much worse. And Florida will have flooding and saltwater intrusion into some of our water supply. It will get warmer, but not as much warmer as the main land mass..

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