Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

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

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

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

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

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

We’re not going back!

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

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

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Have you an arrangement with anyone in WV to shovel the walk and steps so it appears the house isn’t empty? Looks like it’s Snow City there.

  6. 6.

    PaulWartenberg

    There’s good news about January 6th: The Tarpon Springs FL Epiphany celebration to bless the waters had John Hitto retrieve the cross and a blessing in the Greek Orthodox church.

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    EmanG

    Oddly enough but I got a great deal done today. Dead ass, dry as a bone fire hazard xmas tree to the recycling spot, done. Daughter’s stereo set up, done. Wife’s new curtains hung, done. Super fun drinks and dinner and card game with amazing friends, done. Not trying to humble brag, just a good day. Hope y’all had one too.

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    Well let me tell you mister…all I did today was lay in bed throwing the occasional fever of 102.7. It has since come down but this does worry me. Something is getting missed. But I’m staying on the positive side right now.

  15. 15.

    Chris T.

    @Yutsano: You’re still on antibiotics for the UTI, I presume. Fever is a normal reaction to a bacterial kidney etc infection, and since the kidneys regulate a whole lot of the blood-system, you have to take it very easy while the antibiotics do their thing and the kidneys recover.

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    Old Dan and Little Ann

    My daughter made her 1st official basket in her 3rd/4th grade hoops game this a.m.  It made my day. January as well. : )

  17. 17.

    JoyceH

    I’m feeling bad because I have to keep Suppressing Whimsy, when she’s doing perfectly normal puppy stuff that would be acceptable if her big sis was a healthy adult dog, but right now needs to be left alone. Afraid I’m going to break her spirit or give her a complex or something.

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    Hoodie

    Apparently Trump said in Iowa today that the Civil War could have been avoided by negotiation. Party of Lincoln!

  19. 19.

    divF

    @HumboldtBlue: One of Madame divF’s most cherished memories was, when she was 13, saving up her babysitting money and getting tickets (along with three of her buddies) to see the Beatles Kansas City concert in 1964 at the old Municipal Stadium. Well, my MIL was not about to turn four young teenage girls loose in such a mob scene, so she turned in the four tickets and got five of them all seated together so she could go with the girls. Needless to say, a great time was had by all.

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    Jackie

    @Hoodie: He also said had Lincoln negotiated, we would never had heard about him (Lincoln).

    His cult is actually buying this???😵‍💫

  22. 22.

    Lyrebird

    @Jackie:

    @Hoodie:

    They are definitely the Know-Nothing party,

    know nothing about the compromise of 1850 or all the concessions and negotiations in the preceeding hundred years

    Ready to cheer on anything that feeds their hate.

    JC be good to yourself and that fine fiancee of yours.

  23. 23.

    Rose Weiss

    @Hoodie: Who in their right mind thinks Southerners would have negotiated anything? I grew up in Memphis, my father was from south Mississippi. If he were alive today he still wouldn’t negotiate anything.

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    TS

    @Hoodie:

    Apparently Trump said in Iowa today that the Civil War could have been avoided by negotiation

    Has anyone ever noticed trump negotiating – on anything -but of course a rhetorical question

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    TaMara

    @JoyceH: Puppies are pretty resilient. If you are playing with her, giving her some one-on-one rough play time, it should be okay.

    Better she learn now that those who are sick, injured or frail need gentleness. Boundaries are good, and learning to read cues makes for an excellent dog. Which is why all my puppies made it to adulthood without one of the cats killing them. LOL Sharp claws make learning cues pretty darn important.

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    Juice Box

    I feel like I was doing shit all day long but accomplished very little.

    Consider it practice for being retired.

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    TriassicSands

    @Yutsano:

    I hesitated to say anything when you wrote that you are in the hospital. My advice to anyone who lives within a reasonable distance of Seattle with serious concerns about their health is to go to the UWMC. It is the best hospital in the state, and my experience there compared with other hospitals in western Washington that I have first-hand experience with is that the care at the UWMC is superior.

    The one caveat to that is that undoubtedly every doctor at UW is not likely to be great, but I had five different hospitalists during my stay and every one was exceptional.

    Admittedly, if what you have is a UTI, they should be able to manage that pretty much anywhere, and I don’t know anything about the hospital you’re in. But if this goes on without any resolution or improvement — and I hope it doesn’t — you might consider a change.

    You can sign out against medical advice without any repercussions, despite what one doctor once told me — “Sign out AMA and your insurance won’t cover your stay here.” That is nonsense and doesn’t make any sense. Insurance covers what has already been done. The “against medical advice” is just a legal move to try to protect the hospital from being sued. I would never sue a hospital for a choice I made. Responsible people don’t do that.

    If you can, find out what the cause of the infection is and try to see (online) if you are getting the best antibiotic for that. Yes, that ought to be a given, but all hospitals don’t have all medications in their inventory. And there are currently shortages of a lot of medications.

    I wish you well, and hope this turns around in the next few hours or day. Good luck.

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    TriassicSands

    @MC: ​
    Are comments limited to Ohioans? Bad or non-existent medical care is every American’s problem. Medical standards should be national. Too many states have become “laboratories of bigotry.”

    Note: commenting at BJ is not working “perfectly” for my system. When I post a comment, there are unnecessary spaces. When I click on “Edit Comment” and then on “Update Comment” without making any changes, the space(s) disappear.

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    BeautifulPlumage

    I did nothing all morning, took a nap, and have been doing nothing since. Tomorrow I’ll be up early and get a lot done

  30. 30.

    JAFD

    @TriassicSands: ​
     There are downsides to being in the medical school’s hospital. One afternoon after my heart attack, had visit from nervous young man who asked a few basic questions and left. I think I might have been his First Time With A Real Live Patient..

  34. 34.

    Brachiator

    @Yutsano:

    Sorry to hear that you are not feeling well.

    Best wishes to you.

     

    ETA. Today was a lazy day for me as well. Did not get anything done. Maybe tomorrow.

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    wjca

    @TS: Has anyone ever noticed trump negotiating – on anything -but of course a rhetorical question

    But one to which an answer exists.  He does what he calls “negotiating” all the time.  Of course, it’s the sort of negotiation you get when one party has a gun (at least a metaphorical one) to the other party’s head.  And, being how he is, the “or else” is often fairly explicit.

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    satby

    @MC: I’m sorry you’re in danger from these bigoted rules. I’m not from Ohio, so comments I make would be ignored, but I hope Ohio citizens do the right thing next election and throw out the Republicans. Especially since this is the latest attempt to force rules that Ohioans don’t want on its citizens.

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    sab

    @MC: Ohioan here. My transgender niece is now living happily in California.

    The rules from the legislature are so extreme that even our RW governor had a problem with them and issued an executive order allowing hormone blockers for minors.

    Of course the legislature is now trying to override his executive order.

    I am cautiously hopeful that perhaps Ohio women worried about medical care will throw enough of these bozos out next election to return us to the normal governments of my adolescence.

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