Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

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

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

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

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

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

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Battle won, war still ongoing.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

I really should read my own blog.

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  1. 1.

    lowtechcyclist

    Is it just me, or have your moods been less than optimal ever since Joelle headed back to Arizona?

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    Butt ass naked sounds like the beginning of the uptick.

    Pants are for losers, mazel tov!

  9. 9.

    KenK

    John, envisioning you butt-assed naked under a fan is making me a bit pissy. Thanks for spreading the good cheer ;).

    Stay cool.

  14. 14.

    Kelly

    Hilarious news, Microsoft and Meta have trademarks using X. Musk’s X maybe OK but lawyers are saying if those two want to fight it they could make a lot of trouble.

  16. 16.

    MagdaInBlack

    Come sit by me, John. I’m so crabby you could make crab-cakes with me. No clue why either. Ok, I have a clue: people. 😉

  17. 17.

    laura

    That’s been me several non-consecutive days in the last week of way too hot- I just can’t stand myself/crabby/out of sorts and all I could do was endure the day, hydrate and go to bed early. Read some stuff, petted the dog, tried to not harsh on the spouse, smoke a bowl, stare out the back door and find whatever peace could be found in the backyard. Some days are just like that.

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    Between the daily deluge of stupid and cruelty, the grieving about climate change and democracy in jeopardy-we are all feeling terrible stress.

  21. 21.

    Jay

    Could be worse.

    The place we used to live in the hills, south of Kamloops is under evacuation due to the Ross Moore Lake fire, and the neighbor just south of us, let me know today that he’s evacuated all his cattle, and spot fires are breaking out on his property from wind borne embers.

    The fire is still not under control.

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Come sit by me, John. I’m so crabby you could make crab-cakes with me. No clue why either. Ok, I have a clue: people. 😉

    Did you just skip over the “butt ass naked” part of the post? 😁

  28. 28.

    Scout211

    @Jay: oh no. Being from California, I have a great deal of empathy for people in fire areas. Are they fighting this fire or letting it burn?

  30. 30.

    FlyingToaster

    It could be worse.

    My barn* was struck by lightning Friday night during the Hub’s Big Ass Electrical Storm, and sent the power surge up the conduit to the house.  Killed a fuckton of connectivity and electrical equipment and ethernet and circuit breakers and on-demand hot water and basement HVAC and….

    But the Fire Inspector and the wire inspector cleared us, and the non-barn repairs are complete.  The insurance is in progress and we’re replacing the dead electrical equipment (all the fucking TVs) as we go.

    * in 1920, it was a carriage barn.  By 1950 it had been converted to a very small 1 car garage.  In 2022 it was converted to a storage shed holding wire frame shelves full of bins, luggage, and 2 wine fridges plus 1 chest freezer.  It took enough damage from the fire, and putting out of same, that it’s probably going to need to be razed and rebuilt.

  31. 31.

    dr. bloor

    @MomSense: Trying to tease apart the existential from the intrapsychic is going to drive untold numbers of therapists to drink over the next few decades.

  35. 35.

    mvr

    Cole in OP:

     I have no idea why I am in such a mood, either.

    Get that completely. For me I think it’s the cumulative effect of lots of things that really have very little to do with my own pretty lucky life. Just worrying about the world I mostly won’t have to live in.

    OTOH, it could also be coming home from a too short vacation to a not functioning 1 year old heat pump/air conditioner with our 3 hottest days of the year coming up and heat warnings every which way I turn.

  37. 37.

    Jay

    @Scout211:

    They are fighting the south east corner, where it could cut off the 5A, which is many peoples escape route.

    The Haughton’s property is just next door to the place I built and we lived for 20 years, and right now there is just 20 acres between where we lived and the front of the fire, north of the fire.

  38. 38.

    Ohio Mom

    @cain: I think you might be on to something, the diet-mood correlation needs exploring. Could end up being unrelated but maybe not.

    I am not particularly grumpy but I am bored these days.

  39. 39.

    Honus

    Maybe try some naked mopping?  Although I guess that was back in your drinking days.

  40. 40.

    catclub

    @Betsy: ​
     

    Humidity is worse than just heat.

    When the Miami Heat were started my mother said they should name a Miami baseball team the Humidity.

  41. 41.

    BeautifulPlumage

    I think I remember you had an exam with labs recently? If not, having your thyroid levels checked would be advised. Could also be your androgen hormones dropping off?

    And you probably just wanted to vent, so never mind my ‘advice’.

  42. 42.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    I figured out how to rewire my Costco air fryer into a Tucker Carlson-endorsed infra-red sack tanner. So I got that goin for me.

  44. 44.

    Shana

    I know why I’m hot as hell. It’s because I’m taking an estrogen blocker after breast cancer surgery and radiation treatment and now all my menopause symptoms are back. Not as bad as when I first hit menopause because that was godawful, putting my head in the freezer awful, but still not great. I even bought a small portable fan to take on a couple of upcoming vacations because I’d be miserable without one.

  45. 45.

    Ella in New Mexico

    I always blame those types of days on bad sleep.

    Or alcohol, and since you don’t drink anymore check the sleep part.

  47. 47.

    Ohio Mom

    @Shana: I just switched oncologists — the old one moved out of town — and the new one can’t believe I want to stay on Arimidex even after my ten years are up in October. I am the odd duck without any bothersome side effects.

    She’s very unenthusiastic about my idea. But as long as my bones and heart hold up, I don’t see why I should go off it, ever. I expect the science to catch up with my approach, eventually.

  48. 48.

    Manyakitty

    @MagdaInBlack: I’ve been a raw nerve for the past few weeks. Can’t get past it. Just aggravated and edgy AF. Glad and sorry to hear I’m not alone in this.

  52. 52.

    The Up and Up

    I’m in a shitty mood also. I’d go to the therapist to discuss but that’s one of my problems. The clinic is short staffed, several left on vacation, there is frequent turnover.

    The anti-vax brothers, looking for my brother, paid a visit to the parents’ place. They have since come down with COVID-19. I’m staying away from everyone just to be safe. Some fascist city in the state is coming after me, because they can. You might think “But it’s close to Seattle!” It’s MAGA territory. The kind where no one bothers to run against the incumbents other than the gadfly who ALL CAPS his campaign platform in the voters guide. Get on the council, serve until you die thirty years later. Why did I ever volunteer for that burg? Because as a chyron here suggests, “Don’t be the monsters we hate.”

  53. 53.

    BQuimby

    “I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her name was grief.”. CS Lewis

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