Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“Squeaker” McCarthy

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Republicans don’t trust women.

As long as McCarthy is Speaker, the House will never be in order.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The willow is too close to the house.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

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

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

People are complicated. Love is not.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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Patricia Arquette in High Desert

Apple TV has a new series called High Desert. It features Patricia Arquette as a quirky fuck-up/scam artist who’s pursuing a career as a private investigator. I got sucked into it because it also features Matt Dillon as Arquette’s character’s felonious husband. I’ve had a crush on Matt Dillon since we were both teenagers. Bernadette Peters is cast as Arquette’s character’s late mom and another woman who’s a mom-lookalike.

There’s a quote from a recent episode that kind of captures the essence of the series so far. Arquette is addressing the teenaged step-daughter of Arquette’s best friend. The bestie is a permissive and indulgent stepmom, and Arquette doesn’t think the step-daughter appreciates that sufficiently, so she says to the girl, “Do you know what MY stepmother was like? Mussolini with a perm and a nose job.” I laughed!

Somehow, I got incredibly lucky with the two intra-female relationships that are historically most loaded with fraught potential: stepmother and mother-in-law.  Both of mine are absolute darlings! Whew!

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  4. 4.

    satby

    We’re at day three of a five day +90° weather stretch and I’ve already lost the will to live. How do people live where weather like this is normal? I broke down this morning and put the air on, which I normally wouldn’t do while overnight temps are in the 60s, but the house was staying at 85°.

    Thank god temps are falling back to normal starting Sunday.

  6. 6.

    Tony Jay

     

    Apple TV has a new series called High Desert. It features Patricia Arquette as a quirky fuck-up/scam artist who’s pursuing a career as a private investigator US Senator.

    Kyrsten Sinema the Series?

    Who plays Manchin? Fred Gwynne is dead, right?

  8. 8.

    lowtechcyclist

    For a second, I thought that might be the car that went flying off the tow truck’s ramp.

  12. 12.

    Betty Cracker

    @JPL: No because even though I ordered and paid for the TV to pick up at a store some distance from our residence, it wasn’t actually in stock. The store offered to ship it to me from a different location, but I’m pissed about the bait and switch, so I got a refund and am starting over. Le sigh.

  13. 13.

    Soprano2

    @Betty Cracker: That’s a good call anyway. When I was researching TV’s to decide what to buy, I saw a lot of comments about delivery of broken TV’s. We got a 55″ LG TV, and so far I’m happy with it.

  15. 15.

    Betty Cracker

    There’s already a blob in the Gulf of Mexico? Sweet Jeebus, I hate summer.

  18. 18.

    Another Scott

    @Betty Cracker: I hate it when that happens, but it’s much, much worse on special occasions!  :-(

    Good luck with the search.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  19. 19.

    Salty Sam

    Matt Dillon, eh?

    I guess I’ll have to confess to having a serious crush on Bernadette Peters ever since she played Montana Wildhack in “Slaughterhouse Five”…

  20. 20.

    JeanneT

    @satby:  I feel for you!  Even up here in GR we’ve been trying for the 90 degree mark.  I am not ready for this kind of heat – and I don’t have my window AC installed yet for the summer.  Thank goodness for my big window fan at night..

  21. 21.

    Betty Cracker

    I’m just learning about the rabbit thing today. I was confused by several comments, including the rabbit thing, and briefly wondered if I was dissociating but then decided y’all are just weird. ;-)

  24. 24.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Betty Cracker:

    I’m just learning about the rabbit thing today.

    This is the first I’d ever heard of it too.

    I was confused by several comments, including the rabbit thing, and briefly wondered if I was dissociating but then decided y’all are just weird. ;-)

    I think you already knew that. :-D

    ETA: I was tempted to respond with “badger badger badger.”

  25. 25.

    getsmartin

    Matt Dillon’s character in Drugstore Cowboy was bloody amazing. Hardly an uplifting story, though…

  29. 29.

    Elizabelle

    Good morning, jackals.

    In previous thread:  I put up a WaPost gift link on the initial article on The Talented “Captain” Morgan Murphy, the food advisor now former staffer to Tommy Tuberville. https://wapo.st/3oAKbFw

    It’s a good read.  Murphy sounds like a serial fabulist.

  32. 32.

    Ken

    @Elizabelle: Murphy sounds like a serial fabulist.

    You mean that’s not a requirement of the job?

    A few years ago, someone noted that much of the Republican party’s current problems were because for decades prior, the leaders had been lying to their base and telling them all sorts of ridiculous things to secure their votes. And now there’s been a generation raised believing those lies and ridiculous things, who are becoming the new leaders of the Republican party.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    @satby:  He does indeed.  He worked for a while at Vanity Fair.  (Which does sound like a publication that hires the rich and connected’s kids.)

    Or how he told me that, when working for Vanity Fair after college, he was the “personal assistant” to the legendary editor Graydon Carter.

    “Morgan was never anyone’s assistant,” said Aimee Bell, who worked for the magazine at the time, in an email. “He was far too, well, Morgan-ish for that sort of position.” (Later, Murphy told me: “I assisted him, but I was never his full-time personal assistant.”)

  34. 34.

    Craig

    Thanks BC. I Wasn’t going to bother with that show, but sometimes I just need one review to push me. Plus, Bernadette Peters- she’s a national treasure.

  37. 37.

    Sean

    @satby: It probably won’t fall much below 90 for day time highs where I live until October. I just hope it keeps raining to delay the 100’s as much as possible.

  38. 38.

    Elizabelle

    @Ken:  Race to the bottom, for sure.

    But they’ve taken the Confederate ethos nationwide.  We are held back, again, by the South and traditional Southern values, wherever they may be found.

  39. 39.

    satby

    @rikyrah: and I for you 😂 and the other Chicago area folks getting the same weather as me.

    @JeanneT: The air in my old house doesn’t do the second floor well and I may break down and get a small window unit for my bedroom this year. I tossed and turned all night even with a fan. It’s time.

  43. 43.

    RaflW

    I kinda liked the show Medium. Arquette is a curious actor. She’s sort of stiff, but eventually I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t bad acting, but probably the essence of the character.

    Don’t have Apple TV so alas I likely won’t see this new series.

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