Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

If you’re looking for someone who’s young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The revolution will be supervised.

Republicans don’t trust women.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

People are complicated. Love is not.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

This blog will pay for itself.

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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Guess Habba can kiss her hopes of being Wife #4 goodbye…



Daddy Trump no like bad news!


 
Elsewhere, we have discovered Megan McArgleBargle’s spirit animal, and it is… a head of iceberg lettuce:


Srsly: Megan’s defending ‘supermarket’ tacos against the taco-truck originals. And she probably means it, too. Old El Paso kits, the ‘authentic’ American taco experience!

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  1. 1.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    Iceberg lettuce?  I understand it has been shown to be a valuable political force in the U.K.  Perhaps Tony Jay can give us more details.  In contrast to Belgian endive as so brilliantly demonstrated by Dan Quayle.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    It’s obviously a deep-state Illuminati Greys-from-Zeta-Reticuli conspiracy that a man who blatantly both ignores the advice of his attorneys and stiffs them on the bills has trouble finding competent ones to represent him.

  4. 4.

    sdhays

    Re: Madame Iceberg

    This is the lady who was extolling the virtues of $1k blender or something several years back, right?

  5. 5.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    TFG wasn’t interested in testifying or defending himself when he was being accused of rape and he lost. Once it came to the monetary damages though, OH HELL NO! At that point he wanted to eliminate or minimize the damage to his bank account by attempting to retry the case in the damages phase. This leads to him crying alligator tears when the judge smacked his ass down and the jury hands his ass to him.

    In the end TFG chose not to defend himself against the charges until it was clear that it was going to cost him $$$ because $$$ is all he cares about.

  6. 6.

    Jess

    I was thinking how the name “Alina Habba” sounds like a relative of Jabba the Hut, and then I scrolled down…and there he was.

  7. 7.

    eversor

    Convinced more left leaners not to vote today.  I felt great.  Thought about what people posted here.  The buy in was if the status quo types won’t work it we need a complete governmental failure and to rise from the ashes.

    Thank you Balloon Juice!  Without your motivation, and you’re quotes, more people would vote.

  8. 8.

    Anne Laurie

    @sdhays: This is the lady who was extolling the virtues of $1k blender or something several years back, right?

    Yep, that’s our Megan!  She also argued fiercely in defense of pink Himalayan salt as tasting sooo much better than the ordinary kosher variety, IIRC…

  9. 9.

    Jackie

    My granddaughters, 10 1/2 and 12 1/2 only know we as a family are Seahawks fanatics and have adequate clothing for Spirit Day at school. Otherwise they’ve no interest in football, other than it deprives them of TV time.

    My daughter ordered me a Taylor Swift/Kelse teeshirt for the Super Bowl and it arrived today. The granddaughters saw it and hollered I want one! I quizzed them by asking who is Taylor’s boyfriend? They both answered immediately TRAVIS KELSE! Who does he play for? KANSAS CITY CHIEFS!!!

    I ordered them the same teeshirts in appropriate sizes. 🥰

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    @sdhays: Yes, that’s her. I remember Cole had some good posts mocking her when that went down, something along the lines of ‘this is a decent chef’s knife. It costs a tenth of what your toy does and is far more useful, and if you had a glimmering of understanding of cooking you’d know that’, only terser and probably with more swear words.

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    @eversor:

    Thank you Balloon Juice!  Without your motivation, and you’re quotes, more people would vote.

    I see your grasp on grammar is in line with your other strengths.

  12. 12.

    jonas

    I’m sorry, but what is Haberman basing her assertion on that Trump can’t pay off his judgment via a GoFundMe drive or something? Is that actually illegal?

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    Maggie Haberman Breaks Bad News For Trump — Donors Can’t Pay $83M He Owes E. Jean Carroll: ‘It Will Have To Be From Him’

    Too bad.  So sad.  Fuck ’em!

  17. 17.

    topclimber

    Kinda hoping that jackals quit responding to our resident Anti-Christ. Nothing a troll loves more than hijacking a thread.

  18. 18.

    Carlo Graziani

    @eversor: So that’s, what, three of you sitting out the election? Well done! At this rate, you’ll have at least 50 of the righteous Nader-channellers in your flock, possibly as many as 100 if each of them recruits one more.

    I wouldn’t set my heart on triggering an exponential progression though, if I were you.

  20. 20.

    Splitting Image

    I’m skeptical about taking food advice from a woman whose gastritis was so bad it broke her calculator.

  21. 21.

    Chetan Murthy

    @jonas: I’m not going digging, but perhaps she means that he can’t pay for it out of PAC money.  There are things you can do with PAC money, and things you can’t do.  Maybe you can pay lawyers’ fees, but not legal judgments ?

  23. 23.

    jonas

    So McMegan has decided to die on a hill of…iceberg lettuce? Um, ok. I have occasionally craved an old-fashioned wedge salad, but I don’t fool myself into thinking for a second that the lettuce is doing anything other than being a convenient conveyance device for blue cheese dressing and bacon lardons. Other than that, I cannot think of a single reason to eat iceberg lettuce, particularly when the agricultural technology McMegan so praises has made a thousand other kinds of more flavorful and nutritious salad greens available year-round.

  24. 24.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @eversor: ​
      Ahahaha (points & snickers) ahahaha “snort” hahahaha *gasp* hahaha…………. ( wipes eyes) snufflrsmork

  26. 26.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @dmsilev:

    That’s the tell that Eversore is a right wing troll and as usual, a very poorly educated one.

    In their lingo, “their a looser”.

  28. 28.

    Pete Downunder

    @jonas: I’m way out of my legal lane, but I see no reason why he couldn’t ask supporters to pay his judgment so long as it wasn’t framed as a campaign contribution or claimed as a charitable contribution. Perhaps one of our other lawyers is more knowledgeable than I am – not a high bar.

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    @Chetan Murthy: Well, there’s this from the Post:

    Trump spent more than $55 million in donor money on legal fees last year, filings show

    Trump’s mounting legal bills
    Two of Trump’s committees, Save America leadership PAC and the Make America Great Again PAC, spent $55.6 million on legal bills in 2023, including $29.9 million in the second half of the year according to the new reports released on Wednesday.
    […]
    The legal spending peaked in July, when special counsel Jack Smith issued a superseding indictment in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and immediately before Trump’s indictment on Aug. 1 in a Georgia election interference case. Trump-supporting PACs paid $6.6 million to dozens of legal firms that month.
    The Save America account had about $100 million at the beginning of 2022. When the funds in the Save America account were nearly depleted last year, operatives for Trump began transferring money among his different committees, including some that were left over from his 2020 presidential campaign. One of those committees is the Make America Great Again PAC. That committee received a total of $11.8 million from Save America in multiple transfers across 2023, and has spent the sum almost entirely on legal fees.

  31. 31.

    Carlo Graziani

    @Chetan Murthy: Whatever the source of funds that he uses to pay, it had better be transparent to the IRS as “income,” even if Putin cut the check (Xi is way too savvy for that kind of investment, in my opinion). The FARA unit in DOJ had better get paperwork too.

  32. 32.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @topclimber: ​
      sorry, too over-the-top. Hadn’t seen the recent trend. I mean, “100% never happened, dude.” I had a good belly laugh.

  33. 33.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Entirely O/T, but has anyone seen WereBear recently?  I feel as though it’s been a while since she’s posted here, although I admit I don’t thoroughly scrutinise every thread.  Anyhow, hope she and all her kitties are doing well.

  34. 34.

    jonas

    @Chetan Murthy: Ok, I guess that’s a possible explanation. But you’d think Haberman knows Trump well enough at this point to know that he’s going to use every trick in the book to find some way to avoid paying a single penny out of his own pocket for any of this.

  36. 36.

    Quadrillipede

    [🍪💻 Also let’s see if I can pick up a moderation cookie on my laptop so I can maybe build and post comments in a less ridiculous manner than shoehorning everything into my phone, thanks!]

  39. 39.

    Renie

    I thought Judge Engoron was going to release his decision today about how much money trump has to pay in the fraud trial.

  40. 40.

    jonas

    @Carlo Graziani: Speaking of Trump evading income tax, he’s already staring down some trouble over a suspicious loan he claims to have gotten related to his Chicago condo tower. Turns out if a bank forgives a big loan for you, that becomes income you have to declare to the IRS. And you can’t just pretend that the amount of the forgiven loan was something your LLC “purchased” from the bank and put it on your own books as a “loan” to another one of your LLCs.

    Who knew?

  41. 41.

    Almost Retired

    All the “media” I consumed on Alina Habba’s performance was on MSNBC and a couple lawyers listserves I follow.  So I don’t know what they’re saying in the Fox-o-verse.  My guess is that Trump expected her to be as combative and confrontational as she was but didn’t count on the diversion that arose from her basic trial procedural incompetence.  So he looked like he was again unable to engage a competent attorney.  She was awful.

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    @Renie

    Presume the reference to end of the month meant the last week of the month. So by Friday?

    In any case wouldn’t be upset if it is released next week or the week after. Rather have it be legally airtight than strictly dictated by the calendar.

  44. 44.

    jonas

    @mrmoshpotato: Megan McArgleBargle should make some greasy ass queso too.

    Next week’s tweet will be about how anyone who thinks aged, artisinal French or Swiss cheese could possibly be better than Velveeta is just an elitist snob. In fact, Velveeta on iceberg lettuce is the Food of the Gods. Not melted Velveeta, just chilled cubes of Velveeta scattered on top. Washed down with a Dr. Pepper and a couple of Winstons.

    And we wonder where she gets the gastritis.

  45. 45.

    Alison Rose

    One-ply toilet paper is both a marvel of economical human manufacturing and a delightfully thin and airy counterpart to thicker barrier-causing fare. Reflexive sneers are the unfortunate legacy of 1940s medical professionals who were trying too hard to repudiate urine and feces covered hands and become real Londoners.

  46. 46.

    Quadrillipede

    @topclimber: I am finally persuaded to test out the pie filter. I feel like I might be missing the occasional robustly critical response, but maybe that’s OK…

  48. 48.

    mrmoshpotato

    @jonas: Still hoping that eyesore shitstain gets demolished.

    NBC showed it right before the New Year’s fireworks.  Bastards.

  50. 50.

    Roberto el oso

    Re Eversor …. to quote my grandfather “that old boy couldn’t talk a race horse into taking a piss”

  58. 58.

    Wave Function Collapse

    @dmsilev: I’m new here, so I need some things explained. Is Eversor a Tolkien character that is always getting beat up by orcs?

  59. 59.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    TFG wasn’t interested in testifying or defending himself when he was being accused of rape and he lost. Once it came to the monetary damages though, OH HELL NO!

    I’ve noticed Trump’s enormous sense of invulnerability at play in this process.  I think he skipped out the first trial because it was just impossible to him that he could face consequences, especially for something he considers admirable like rape.  Then he not only lost, but was staring down the barrel of serious money consequences.  Since then he’s been throwing dumbass hail maries thinking he can cancel the effect of the first trial, while simultaneously throwing screaming tantrums.  No no no this can’t be true, you’re cheating, you’re all poopy-heads!!!

    EDIT – And of course, lots and lots of “You’re not the boss of me!!!!!” which is just making his situation worse.

  61. 61.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Wave Function Collapse: First I saw him, he was pushing cryptocurrency.  Then, well, some time back he became an anti-Christian nutter, and he seems to have stuck to that for a while.  And I don’t mean just a bit anti-Christian.  I mean anti-Christian to the point where a rabid, *rabid* atheist like me got to “oh put a sock in it, fer crissake”.  When I see an eversor comment (b/c he dropped out of the pie filter) I put him right back into the pie filter.  Seems that now he’s decided to try to convince people not to vote Dem ?  For some reason?  I guess?

    Who knows, who cares.  That’s what pie filters are for.

  63. 63.

    Brachiator

    Guess Habba can kiss her hopes of being Wife #4 goodbye…

    Hell, she can kiss her hopes of getting paid goodbye.

    Trump is tedious and predictable. A whiny man baby. He is kept in political orbit by the twin forces of cynicism and fanaticism expended by the GOP leadership.

    It will get better when we finally dump this clown.

  64. 64.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @TBone:

    I agree, I think he really doesn’t care about the accusation because MAGA views his sexually assaulting her as a positive because manly man stuff and grabbing them because he can get away with it.

    In the end TFG is really one of the basest of the base when it comes to being a man. He has no respect for women, really no respect for anyone for that matter. He has no honor and is incapable of telling the truth, preferring to incessantly lie his way through life.

    The fact that he was able to succeed in our country is a damning indictment on our country and how it coddles and rewards rich people, allowing them to become monsters like Elmo and TFG.

  65. 65.

    Quadrillipede

    @Mr. Bemused Senior: Dan Quayle may not be able to spell potato(e), but he does have a solid understanding of Vice Presidential powers and responsibilities, so I’m inclined to let the former matter slide…

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    @Odie Hugh Manatee

    A question of character rather than income.

    Washington was arguably the wealthiest man in all the 13 colonies. Both Roosevelts’ net worth reached well into the stratosphere. Were they without faults? Of course not, but on balance heavily tipped the scale in a positive direction.

  68. 68.

    Quadrillipede

    @Wave Function Collapse: that commenter can very occasionally manage to present as an approximation of an authentic human being, but doesn’t seem to be particularly interested in doing that at all since around the 2023 elections in Virginia.

  72. 72.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @NotMax:

    Let’s talk about the wealthy of today. How about the Walton family getting Arkansas to put up a museum to store their art? There are numerous examples of what I refer to as affordable assholeishness. IOW, a person being stupid rich and using that money to enable their poor behavior. Such as TFG’s not paying bills and leaving vendors hanging for payment unless they accepted what TFG was willing to pay and not the actual cost. I am willing to bet that TFG is not the only rich guy to abuse people he has hired for work.

    Stupid money allows rich people to abuse the system to their advantage and the detriment of others, often in ways that we never get to see.

    @Quadrillipede:

    IOW, he’s a predator and his prey is stupid people. That he saw the Republican party as a bunch of easy marks is no surprise. Bumper crop there, no doubt!

  74. 74.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @sab:

    She is still posting over at Mastodon and has done so today so she is fine. I haven’t noticed her absence here but I do read her posts at Mastodon. I’m just not a + everything kind of person but I really should try to be I guess.

  75. 75.

    bjacques

    I remember the Pink Himalayan Salt episode. A couple of years later they were practically giving the stuff away at Marshall’s.

  76. 76.

    Ruckus

    @Quadrillipede:

    The pie filter. I use it seldom and I’ve been on BJ a rather long time. But this is one person that overall, reads a lot better without any words. And is the only one I’m filtering. I highly recommend it in this one case.

  77. 77.

    thalarctosMaritimus

    @Chetan Murthy: And she’s giving legal/accounting advice now?

    If that hack told me it was raining outside, I’d insist on verification from two independent reliable sources.

  78. 78.

    Ruckus

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    Excess money does that pretty much everywhere. It’s like a get out of stupid pass. However. There are some who, while they may have money, it’s just never enough to buy their way out of being themselves. They may be close, but then they are who they are and their money is just never enough to hide that.

  80. 80.

    Asparagus Aspersions

    @Ruckus: ​
      Same for me – I’ve been reading BJ since 2008, and this is the only person who has ever spurred me to use the pie filter. I got tired of interesting conversations being derailed. I used to just scroll by but eventually it got too distracting, and I don’t want to be distracted in threads like this. I just want to bask in Trump’s sad loser-dom, long may it continue.

  81. 81.

    Baud

    I can’t believe y’all missed what’s going on.

    Megan is trying to bring back argula-gate as a scandal.

  84. 84.

    TBone

    HA HA HA HA HA HA OMG YOU GUYS. Someone bought the domain

    SmallestDick.com

    It redirects to fElon’s xitter page 😆

  90. 90.

    lowtechcyclist

    @topclimber:

    Kinda hoping that jackals quit responding to our resident Anti-Christ. Nothing a troll loves more than hijacking a thread.

    I kinda like all the pastry pix strewn through a thread!

    But yeah, for those who haven’t yet pied him, DNFTT is still good advice.

  91. 91.

    LiminalOwl

    @Jess: After reading your comment, I suggested to my beloved an image of Habba-and-Jabba, with her of course in chainmail bikini.  Neither of us has the photomanip skills, and I’m a little surprised that a quick image search didn’t turn one up.

  92. 92.

    raven

    In one memorable episode of East of Eden, the hero, Adam Trask, has a clever idea: to ship fresh lettuce by freight rail to New York. Despite naysaying (“People in the East aren’t used to vegetables in the winter”), he pulls the project together. “Businessmen spoke of him as farseeing, forward-looking, progress-minded. The departure of six carloads of lettuce was given a civic overtone.”

    Fortune does not favor Adam Trask. The train hits delays from the Sierras to Chicago so that “what arrived in New York was six carloads of horrible slop with a sizable charge just to get rid of it.”

    Steinbeck’s fiction is rooted in fact. Many carloads of lettuce experienced the same fate before the first successful transcontinental shipment in 1919. After that, the trek became routine, and the shipping method gave a new name to crisphead, the leading lettuce variety, which today is called “iceberg.”

  95. 95.

    JR

    I’m all right with cafeteria tacos, they are their own thing. Much like “Americanized” Chinese food. There’s a distinct cultural heritage tied to those things and I think it serves us badly to dismiss them.

    McArdle is still a fool though.

  96. 96.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    Got the second to last piece for my new astrophotography rig, a portable power station.  I’ve been testing it out since I left work at midnight, and the mount and computer have only drawn down the battery by 5%.  That should last several nights of imaging.  The last piece is a guide scope and camera for both guiding and polar alignment(I can to the polar alignment with my camera, but it takes so many shots during the process, I’m afraid it will wear out).

  97. 97.

    Soprano2

    @SiubhanDuinne: I was wondering that myself. I need to visit her blog because my kitty has suddenly decided he can’t drink from the water bowl, but instead has to have water either dripping from the faucet or in the sink. That made me realize I hadn’t seen her around here for awhile.

  102. 102.

    Soprano2

    @JR: Cashew chicken is an American dish created by a Chinese man who was trying to get Ozarkers to come to his restaurant, and it’s delicious! You have to come to this area to get the real thing, because other places that try to make Springfield-style cashew chicken don’t seem to know what it is. There are no vegetables in cashew chicken except green onion pieces!

  105. 105.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Geminid:

    Now that Turkiye has ratified Swedish Nato accession, Hungary is the lone holdout in this matter as well.

    There really should be a way of giving Hungary some sort of lesser status in NATO, given that under Orban it seems to have gone over to the other side.

    Maybe they should create a nonvoting status that Hungary can be bumped down to – IOW, ‘sure we’ll defend you (assuming you ask to be defended from Russia) if push comes to shove, but you don’t get a say about anything else.’​

  108. 108.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Alison Rose:

    One-ply toilet paper is both a marvel of economical human manufacturing and a delightfully thin and airy counterpart to thicker barrier-causing fare. Reflexive sneers are the unfortunate legacy of 1940s medical professionals who were trying too hard to repudiate urine and feces covered hands and become real Londoners.

    Well played!!

  110. 110.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Roberto el oso: ​
     

    Re Eversor …. to quote my grandfather “that old boy couldn’t talk a race horse into taking a piss”

    I’m gonna have to remember that one!

    The expression “I’ve gotta pee like a racehorse” is one my wife’s family uses, so I asked her if she’d heard your grandfather’s saying. She hadn’t.

    But occasionally when my wife says she’s got to pee like a racehorse, I say, “what, standing up in the middle of a paddock?” which always gets me a dirty look.

  111. 111.

    Geminid

    @lowtechcyclist: Hungary is probably being told that their lesser status is gonna be “non-Nato” if they don’t ratify Sweden’s Nato accession. Nato doesn’t really need Hungary.

  112. 112.

    Ken

    @jonas: Velveeta on iceberg lettuce is the Food of the Gods. Not melted Velveeta, just chilled cubes of Velveeta scattered on top.

    Stir in some cooked chilled macaroni and add enough Miracle Whip to hold it all together, and you have a salad right out of a 1965 church cookbook.

  113. 113.

    Pete Mack

    Iceberg lettuce has one genuine use: as a substrate for wedge salad. It tastes fine with plenty of blue cheese, blue cheese dressing, tomato, fried onion, and of course bacon.

  114. 114.

    sab

    It takes three hours to make tamales. No wonder we don’t have them in the east. Tacos take maybe an hour.

  115. 115.

    sab

    My husband wants to eat macaroni and cheese, but hates all the recipes we have fed him. He has hated mac and cheese for twenty years.

    I went back to my grandmother’s 1937 recipe from Joy of Cooking. Very simple basic food.

    He loved it. Real cheese, sharp cheddar.

  116. 116.

    kalakal

    TFGs go to legal strategy has always been to have the deepest pockets. Delay and mess about until the other party folds because it’s becoming too expensive.

    For some strange reason, a small but critical flaw perhaps, this doesn’t seem to be working against the US govt.

  119. 119.

    Abnormal Hiker

    @prostratedragon: Perhaps because the purpose of an umbrella is to create a “little shadow”.  The French got this one right; that have both parasols and parapluies

  121. 121.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Soprano2: When I was a kid, cashew chicken was my first favorite “Chinese” dish. I guess spicy kung pao is the next step up from there.

  122. 122.

    NotMax

    @sab

    Child’s play compared to yummylicious pasteles.
    ;)

    @sab

    Instant Pot mac ‘n’ cheese is delish and so-o-o dang easy. (Personal preference is for using pasta shells instead of elbows but as always YMMV.)

  124. 124.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Ruckus: Yeah, being Donald Trump is both his crime and his punishment.

    ETA: My writer group met last night via zoom. We chat a little while waiting for the meeting to start, but we never talk politics since we differ sharply. Last night, a new guy mentioned Trump for something negative, then said he hoped he wasn’t offending anyone’s political sensibilities. And every person there laughed and said how much Trump repelled them. What the hell? Is this an effect of the Carroll trial? Has there been some change in the zeitgeist?

  127. 127.

    p.a.

    @lowtechcyclist: Looking at the map, Hungary has some border with Ukraine, but I don’t know how the Hungarian military is viewed by the rest of NATO.  I think there is concern abt the intelligence Hungary has, and Putin’s access to it.  If any action to lower H’s status in NATO- or actually expel it- drives Horthy Orban more towards Putin… IDK, above my pay grade.

  128. 128.

    Brit in Chicago

    @lowtechcyclist: “There really should be a way of giving Hungary some sort of lesser status in NATO, given that under Orban it seems to have gone over to the other side.”

    Likewise in the EU, though if there were it no doubt require unanimity, and it would be hard to get agreement from the country being downgraded. In each case (NATO and EU) I think it’s a problem that was not envisaged and dealt with well in the founding documents. But yes, Hungary is a big problem (until the recent election Poland looked to be on the way towards becoming one too).

  131. 131.

    p.a.

    @sab: The taquerias I’m acquainted with around me (RI) will have tamales as specials.  Same with pozole and menudo, usually weekend fare.  The places that have them daily are 😘

  132. 132.

    frosty

    @topclimber: Tamara made one comment in bold early yesterday and it kept the thread clean. I hope yours does as well. And now I’m done posting off topic.

  133. 133.

    Brit in Chicago

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: “Yeah, being Donald Trump is both his crime and his punishment.” But it’s not enough of a punishment.

    As for the unanimity in your writers’ group, presumably there’s a lot of self-selection in becoming a writer and more self-selection (and perhaps other-selection) in joining that particular group? Did this result differ from what your previous experience led you to expect? (That is: do you think anyone has changed their minds? I’m looking for reasons to hope.)

  137. 137.

    Soprano2

    @Spanky: That’s a thought. He’ll drink water that’s in the bowl of the bathroom sink, just not from the water bowl they all use.

  138. 138.

    Soprano2

    @Matt McIrvin: People who come to college here get addicted to it. When they come back for a visit the first thing they want to do it get some real cashew chicken.

  140. 140.

    frosty

    @Quadrillipede: I’ve got this one pied. For all of my delectable desserts, I’ll toggle the first one to see if it’s worthwhile but then find out if it’s worth it to toggle any others.

    ETA Damn, I didn’t intend to post another diversionary comment. Sorry ’bout that, Chief.

  145. 145.

    Eduardo

    @Geminid: Yeah, and Orban said he wasn’t going to be the last to ratify Sweden accession to NATO.

    The most interesting development here is that the new Prime Minister of Poland said that nobody is going to pay Orban for playing by the rules.  Finally.

  146. 146.

    Paul in KY

    @Quadrillipede: BJ heathens (or were they Christian scum types) did not take his advice on some restaurant not to patronize in DC.

    It all went downhill from there…

  149. 149.

    wjca

    @Quadrillipede: the closest thing Tron Dump has to a “skill” is identifying and further compromising weak and unethical people.

    That’s rather unfair.  Or, at least, incomplete.

    He is quite a skillful conman.  That is, he can find ways to separate the gullible from their money.  And even keep suckering them over and over again.

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