Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s a doggy dog world.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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

Please don’t feed the bears.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

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

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

In my day, never was longer.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

“woke” is the new caravan.

This fight is for everything.

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  2. 2.

    CaseyL

    Welcome home!  You earned going to bed whenever you want, and sleeping in as late as you want.

    (As long as the cats have everything they need and want, first; but I’m sure you understand that.)

    Check back in when you’re rested enough to know what half of the country you’re in :)

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    Tony Jay

    Home Crap Home

    That’s a nicely terse way to describe your trip across The Heartland. Have you considered professional reviewing?

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    Ohio Mom

    Thanks for checking in; we can all rest easy knowing you made it home in one piece.

    Sweet dreams.

  8. 8.

    ColoradoGuy

    Wow! You drove straight through! Take care of the kitties … it must have been rough on them as well as you.

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    TaMara

    Enjoy the reacclimating to your old home, trying to remember why the spatula is in the left drawer, instead of the right one like it was in AZ (or something similar to that).

    Glad you are home safe and sound.

  12. 12.

    Shalimar

    In “Holy Crap They Track Everything” news, I am getting ads for Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken everywhere.  I have not to my knowledge lived within 100 miles of a Lee’s since 1989 when I worked for the Shoney’s that was next door to one, so there is no way I can use these coupons and offers they are presenting to me, but the current corporate headquarters for Lee’s Chicken is in Shalimar, Florida (they do not have a restaurant anywhere near there, just the headquarters).  So maybe they are picking up on my username here and some other places?

  15. 15.

    Jackie

    John, 8:00 EDT or PDT? 😉 Sweet dreams whenever!😴😴

    Are Steve and Max happy or freaked out?

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    Hoping there are not new neighbors who are calling the police to report a break-in “at that empty house” on the block.
    :)

  19. 19.

    Tony Jay

    @lowtechcyclist:

    They were jacked by ill-behaved teens while Cole was parked outside a cat-rescue drop-in facility near the De Pont’s Magical World Of Pulley Cords display in Kansas.

  20. 20.

    cain

    Glad you made it home safe. Take that rest and be ready to carpe the fuck out of the diem tomorrow.

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    RSA

    @TaMara:  Enjoy the reacclimating to your old home, trying to remember why the spatula is in the left drawer, instead of the right one like it was in AZ (or something similar to that).

    Worse, middle-of-the-night confusion about where the toilet is.

    At least, that’s middle-aged me, traveling on business and staying in hotels.

  22. 22.

    satby

    Glad you’re home, that’s a long drive even for someone who really enjoys driving like you do. Looking forward to some tales of the trip and the downsized deck landscaping. Sleep well, you’ve earned it.

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    wjca

    @TaMara: reacclimating to your old home, trying to remember why the spatula is in the left drawer, instead of the right one like it was in AZ (or something similar to that) Joelle isn’t right there.

    FTFY

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    Uncle Cosmo

    Cole, you have any interest in heading over to Ohio on 8 April for the total solar eclipse? If the weather holds it’d be the most impressive thing you’ve ever seen of 4 minutes’ duration.

    I’m hoping to come through the area on the evenings before & after, maybe with a couple of friends. I’ll drop yinz an e-mail.

  27. 27.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    glad to hear everyone made it.

    Cats will be delighted to be back in their old territory

  28. 28.

    John Cole

    @Uncle Cosmo: 

    If the weather holds it’d be the most impressive thing you’ve ever seen of 4 minutes’ duration.

    I have some exes who might disagree.

    Oh, you said minutes, not seconds. Carry on.

  29. 29.

    Quinerly

    Welcome home!

    Love your Uranus Fudge post!

    Passed that place so many times on my travels thru Missouri when I lived in St. Louis. My inner 12 yo boy always giggled. That place and the nearby  Kum and Go gas station provided big laughs for years.

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    geg6

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    Erie, PA is pretty much out of hotel rooms.  But I’m told that even here in my part of southwestern PA, we should have a good view.  So no need to drive the two hours or so.

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    frosty

    @geg6: ​Looks like it will be partial in SW PA. It’s worth the drive to see a total eclipse if you can make it a day trip. We saw the one in 2017 and it was awe-inspiring.

    To paraphrase Mark Twain, it’s the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    @geg6: ​I’m told that even here in my part of southwestern PA, we should have a good view. So no need to drive the two hours or so.

    I’m very sorry, but you have been cruelly, even criminally misinformed! The eclipse will only be total within a 115-mile wide path, the centerline of which in the IN/OH/PA/NY region runs from Bloomington IN to Cleveland OH to Erie PA to Buffalo NY. Anyone who is within this path will see (weather cooperating!) the moon completely cover the solar disk for a period in midafternoon ranging from a few seconds at the outer edge to about 4 minutes on the centerline.

    As the moon’s disk touches the disk of the sun (an event called first contact) sunlight begins to dim, the sky gets dimmer, and the temperature starts to drop, barely noticeable at first. Once the solar disk is completely covered (second contact), the sky turns dark as night (except for a band of daylight that may be visible on the horizon coming from outside the path) and the stars come out[ the birds stop singing as they temporarily go to sleep; the solar corona comes out surrounding the black disk of the moon, and prominences (jets of plasma spurting off the sun and falling back) and other effects (shadow bands, Bailey’s beads, diamond rings) may be visible. When the sun’s disk reappears from behind the moon after third contact, the effects are reversed, until the moon completely uncovers the sun at fourth contact and the eclipse ends at that location.

    Those outside the path will see (weather permitting!) a partial eclipse – the moon will not completely cover the solar disk. The percent of the solar disk obscured can seem quite large (97.2% in Pittsburgh and even 88.2% in Baltimore where I live) but all someone would see is that the daylight will get fairly dim and the air temperature may drop a few degrees. No corona, no stars, no shadow bands, no Bailey’s beads, no prominences, no deep night in the middle of the day.

    Compared with a total solar eclipse, viewing a partial solar eclipse is like kissing your sibling. Actually more like kissing your 80 year old aunt who keeps slipping you eucalyptus cough drops instead of candy. Qualitatively different and much, much less impressive. Which is why I’m proposing to drive about 20 hours round trip to get into the path of totality for about 4 minutes of magic, rather than watch over 7/8 of the sun’s disk be covered over a couple of hours. Trust me on this – I viewed the 7 March 1970 eclipse for 2 minutes of totality in VIrginia Beach VA and I flew to Europe a couple of days early to view the 11 August 1999​ total eclipse from Stuttgart (and got rained out for my troubles :^(…

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    frosty

    @Uncle Cosmo: We’ve got a campsite reservation at Findlay State Park in Ohio. I’m looking forward to seeing the light dim. We’ll get at least that much with the Ohio cloud cover.

    We saw the last one at a Tennessee SP. They charged double for campsites that weekend. Ohio didn’t get the memo LOL.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    @frosty: Findley SP looks like a prime location for eclipse viewing. Just watch out for Lake Effect Snowstorms!

    In 1999 I chose Stuttgart for viewing the eclipse because I hadn’t been there before. At the appointed hour of die totale Sonnenfinsternis it fucking poured rain. I felt badly for all the folks who’d never seen one before. (At least I had the memories of March 1970, traveling down to Virginia Beach with the observing team from the JHU Physics Department as a baggage hauler.) And I did manage to cop a couple of eclipse hats and T-shirts at deep discount the next day, (Coincidentally it was the first day of their summer festival and they turned it into quite a production – too bad about the weather. Wie Schade!)

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