Want to see a Roseate Spoonbill poop?
The bird lets fly at about the 2-second mark, then goes on to preen, search for crawdads or mussels and scare away moorhens who would rather not get spooned. It’s such a pleasure to watch our friend Pinko throughout the day.
Pinko doesn’t wander aimlessly — he or she moves with a sense of purpose, always. But I spent the better part of yesterday wandering, despite starting off with purpose. I was traveling to meet a relative at a new location opened by a sandwich place we used to visit in our college town years ago.
Theoretically, this new location was equidistant between our abodes and closer to both of us than the original location. It didn’t turn out that way for me though because there was a major crash on I-75 that shut down all northbound traffic, so I ended up exiting and taking an alternate route on rural roads.
The destination town is one of those “you can’t get there from here” places — no direct routes because why in the hell would anyone go there? I arrived half an hour late.
It took forever to get back home too. I was unwilling to try the interstate again, so I took a different meandering route home, passing through small towns and driving through vast forests and traversing miles and miles of farmland.
There’s this whole other Florida that most people don’t know exists, and that’s where I was. I’d seen most of it before. At one point, I passed a boat launch on a lake that I remembered visiting with a friend who was a fellow Pizza Hut waitress and lived in a godforsaken town nearby.
Back then, young folks would gather at the boat ramp to drink beer and smoke pot. There wasn’t anything else to do. As I drove past, it looked like there still isn’t anything to do 35 years or so later.
I wondered if my old friend had ever left that town — we lost touch decades ago. My guess is no. I only achieved escape velocity briefly. Sometimes, maybe even most of the time, aimless wandering deposits you back in the place where you started. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Open thread!
Chief Oshkosh
That video has to be fake – birds don’t poop unless they are perched right above my car.
NotMax
Happy Mostly American Palindrome Day!
4/24/24
Baud
Oooh. This should be a short story in an anthology.
OzarkHillbilly
Eeewwww, he just shit in his dinner plate!
Baud
@NotMax:
It’s Sarah Palin’s birthday?
Math Guy
Blue highways.
NotMax
@Baud
Spoilsport.
;)
lowtechcyclist
It wasn’t exactly on my bucket list, but sure, why not? ;-)
OzarkHillbilly
I love aimless wandering. You never know what you are going to find.
Betty
Your trip in the hinterlands sounds relaxing except for the part about being late to meet your friend. I enjoy revisiting old places and old friends.
KM in NS
Hey Betty… I was too late for the Theology & Geometry music thread the other night. If you’re still open to suggestions, how about “God Gave Rock n Roll To Ya” by Argent. :)
KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))
Betty, your bird photography makes me almost miss Florida. Almost. They’re so beautiful, so serene.
We lived on the edge of a bird sanctuary in Vero Beach, and I had the most glorious bird sightings as I drove my younger son to preschool. Unfortunately that was the only thing Vero Beach had going for it in my book.
Juice Box
I have moved away from San Diego many times.
Mathguy
“young folks would gather at the _________ to drink beer and smoke pot.”
A description of teen life in every small town in America.
NotMax
Little beats traveling the length of the east spine of Florida on the A1A for a spot on the worst trip ever list.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mathguy: Large towns too.
NotMax
@Mathguy
Dew Drop Inn?
;)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
My daughter once went to visit my Florida sister & brother-in-law, and they took her on a drive through redneck territory. The town of Christmas, I think. Daughter saw a lot of things she didn’t know existed.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Never. Charlie Daniels had a really bad experience there. So bad he decided to go to LA by way of Omaha.
eta: Uneasy Rider
Bupalos
@Mathguy: Kinda sounds like my Big Town experience as well.
Anonymous At Work
That ain’t Florida, that’s the South. Saw such places all over when I went to college and lived there. Knew too many people from such places that achieved escape velocity via college scholarship.
zhena gogolia
What a thrill to see the darling spoonbill poopie!
NotMax
@Ceci n est pas mon nym
And then there’s the former Jackass Junction.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
One of the cool things over the years back in Central Misery were the hummingbirds. In fact, they should be there now, having started to arrive en masse over the last couple of days.
We had so many and they’d sit…and poop. Never thought I’d ever see a hummer poop but I watched em do it for 20+ years.
cope
Wow, that was close, glad my cup of coffee is on the left side of the computer.
It was “…this whole other Florida…” that we managed to discover when we lived there that made it tolerable for us.
Your final paragraph echoes one of my favorite lines: “We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Elliot
I know this to be true having recently come back to where my family moved over 50 years ago. I certainly appreciate it more after 3.3 decades in the Sunshine State.
Bupalos
Twice as many R’s in the senate supported the aid bill as opposed. That’s very very good news. Peter Thiel’s senatorial sock puppet worked very hard to turn this into another partisan clinch, and would like you to believe that only 80% means support for Ukraine is wearing thin.
I continue to encourage folks here not to take the bait by overemphasizing partisan differences on Ukraine. That can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the Putin caucus is counting on it.
OzarkHillbilly
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Yeah, they’re here tho not in large numbers yet. I got buzzed for the first time this year the Sunday before last.
frosty
This is why I love the campsites in the state parks. Florida has a great state park system and it’s as different from Orlando and Miami as you can get.
RE: Escape velocity. I went 3,000 miles to college to get away from my stifling home town. Decided California wasn’t for me long-term and moved back east to Maryland and then moved again … to the same County I grew up in, less than 20 miles from my old neighborhood. Twenty years now and I still can’t believe I’m back here.
OzarkHillbilly
@Bupalos: And both Misery Senators voted against it.
NotMax
“They didn’t know where they was goin’ but they knew where they was wasn’t it.”
– Lord Buckley (speaking of the 16th century gadabout Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s expedition to Florida, encountering crocodiles and swarms of dive bombing insects galore)
;)
UncleEbeneezer
Looks like this place needs a Party Robot! (disclaimer: not an actual robot)
Ken
Only if narrated by David Attenborough.
Bupalos
@frosty: Oh yes it absolutely does have a wonderful park system. Very well managed and a lot of great places.
I know it got ravaged by hurricane but Cayo Costa is a real gem, and you can kayak out to it. And putter around other little islands.
Dorothy A. Winsor
The Roseate Spoonbill has the prettiest name. Seeing it poop knocks it down a little
TBone
@OzarkHillbilly: brought back some memories of close calls, barely made it out times gone by. Amazing what you’ll find while you’re not looking!
Betty Cracker
@Bupalos: Cayo Costa is so beautiful! Last I heard, it hasn’t recovered from Ian, so the bare bones infrastructure it used to have is still not functioning. Tthe ferry service hasn’t been restored. You can kayak over or land in a private boat but cannot spend the night.
TBone
@Dorothy A. Winsor: we get Rose-breasted Grosbeaks frequently. Also a pretty name IMO
Betty Cracker
Oh look:
Gosh, when you allow a pack of screeching, poo-flinging baboons to take control of your party, the brand suffers? Hoocoodanode. Tillis is right about Greene, but it’s…interesting that he focuses only on her. Gaetz, Gosar, etc., are just as terrible, and that’s only the Gs!
eclare
Wow! What an endorsement of Joe by the NABTU president on Morning Joe! Great to see and well deserved.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
smith
Will wonders never cease — the Mittster said something that’s both witty and true!
japa21
Just wanted to say, the philosophical BC is as great a treat as the comedic BC.
japa21
@eclare: I saw that. What a great video. I hope it goes viral.
cope
@Bupalos: Cayo Costa was one of the gems we discovered. Though not open since Ian, the park had primitive cabins that my wife and I loved to stay in. We had to haul all our food and bedding in but it was so worth the effort. We made plenty of day visits from Sanibel in those days as well.
Melancholy Jaques
@Betty Cracker:
The follow up question to Thom Tillis should be, “But she is very popular with Republican voters, more popular than you and your cohort. Have you considered whether she might BE the brand?”
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I feel like the tone has shifted among Republicans and political media – like maybe MAGA isn’t such a slam dunk after all? It’s the polling. You wouldn’t know it if you read only political reporters and pundits but Biden’s polling is improving. I actually don’t care if they cover it. I don’t think it matters. Voters are coming to their own conclusions without political media managing their narrative. it’s better.
TBone
@eclare: I really like Sean McGarvey. That was awesome. He seems very knowledgeable and well spoken, a great guy to have in our corner. He used the word ‘patrician’ today and I was like oh yeah! Vocabulary! Woo hoo!
Just looked him up, he’s a Philly guy, go figure. More PA proud.
smith
TBone
@smith: 💙🔥
smith
@Kay: Looking at the numbers from PA last night, what’s really encouraging are the numbers from suburban counties. Haley got as much as 46% there.
TBone
@smith: my hubby is one of them. Only filled out one other (uncontested) vote on his ballot so they’d have to count it.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
When it comes to Gs, I’ll take G’kar.
:)
TBone
@rikyrah: good morning!
Kay
The anti abortion “movement” is incredibly dishonest. It’s not the worst thing about them, but it really stands out – they lie constantly.
This is true across fundie religious circles in my experience. They think Lying for the Lord is the way to salvation. It’s incredibly patronizing. The idea is they have to lie to non believers because non believers are too stupid to know better. I had an Amish leader tell me once he was allowed to rip off “English” in a land deal because they’re not saved so not really, I don’t know, people. They genuinely believe they are superior to you, which justifies any bad treatment of you. Only members of their tribe matter as far as morality or ethics.
Kay
@smith:
It is good. He’s weak. A lot of them will “come home” though. It’s just what Republicans do.
UncleEbeneezer
Simon Rosenberg with a bit of Hopium (Xitter):
Kay
Police Explorers are a Boy Scouts program where high school kids tag along with police to learn about policing. My oldest son was an Explorer, as was our county prosecutor -they say they were not abused,thank God, so narrowly dodged that bullet . Our Explorer program is closing due to lack of sign ups, which our local Right wing rag of a newspaper attributed to How Kids Are Just Bad These Days.
Wrong. It’s the parents:
I’d write a letter to the editor correcting them but they banned letters to the editor.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
“We don’t want no lady Trumps.”
smith
@Kay: This site keeps track of news items about child sexual abuse, with information about the offender’s occupation and/or relationship to the child. Unfortunately, a lot of the time that information is not included in the story, but for the ones that do give it, cops are cited more often than politicians, and slightly more often than church pastors.
Soprano2
@TBone: They come through here when they’re migrating, but they don’t stay. My mother had a male who came to her bird feeders for a couple of days, and I got to see him. They’re a beautiful bird.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Yep, they are prolific liars and always have been. The “crisis pregnancy centers” have been hoodwinking panicky teenage girls for as long as I can remember. Before OTC pregnancy tests were widely available, they used to offer free pregnancy tests so they could lure scared kids in to subject them to proselytization and shaming. I guess they’re still doing that, but now they get red state taxpayer money to bamboozle women and girls.
Soprano2
@Melancholy Jaques: I’m sure there was no follow-up question like this one. I think they would consider it rude to ask a Republican a question like that.
Soprano2
@Kay: In MO the woman who wrote the amendment the legislature is pushing to restrict the ability of voters to amend the constitution had “ballot candy” stripped out of it. She wants voters to think they’re voting to keep non-citizens from voting (already against the law in MO) and to keep foreign governments from taking sides in MO elections (again, already illegal) rather than voting to keep themselves from being able to ever amend the constitution again. Democrats in the Senate forced them to strip it out, but she wants it restored in the House. How dishonest is that, they know they can’t get people to vote for their measures unless they trick them into doing so. That’s how they got the Clean Missouri amendment establishing non-partisan redistricting removed – they put stuff like that in their measure restoring their ability to gerrymander, and it worked – the Clean Missouri amendment was repealed by the voters in 2020. It’s pathetic that they think what they want can’t stand on its own. They also put in the amendment that they’re trying to put on the ballot that “ballot candy” will be illegal from now on! Just total hypocrisy all around.
Jeffro
We were out in far, far southern Illinois last weekend…does that count as “wandering aimlessly”? It sure felt like it.
Sanjeevs
This looks like another winning issue for Biden. Around 30m people under Non-competes.
Jeffro
@Betty Cracker: and that’s on top of McConnell taking shots at Tucker Carlson, Rep Gonzales taking shots at Rep Gaetz, and more.
Just think years from now we’ll all be able to help our grandkids with their history reports on what caused the demise of the Republican Party. (Tee hee 😁)
SFAW
@Kay:
I realize LG&M is looked down upon by some of the jackals, but Paul Campos has an interesting post today, wherein he posits that TFG is done. He makes some good points.
I hope he is correct.
Jeffro
@Kay: having trump back in the spotlight…having the House GOP’s antics playing on an endless loop…having Biden out there, visibly running hard/embracing his VP/producing results…
…it had to have had effect on at least a few normies! 😃
Jeffro
@SFAW: that is a good piece and I think he’s probably correct.
How does trumpov improve his position from here? (Answer: he can’t and won’t)
The worst of the ‘oooo it’s a bad economy’ BS has passed. Biden is out there, visibly running hard. The GOP has gone berserk in its attacks on women’s reproductive rights all across the country. Trump is about to spend the entire rest of the year tied up in his many felony trials. Speaker Johnson just let aid to Ukraine through against trump’s and MTG’s wishes. GOP officials are turning on each other on a daily basis.
Even the anti-trump ads are getting better: “Would you hire this person? If trump can’t get hired at a store in the mall…why should we re-hire him as president?”
Add in all the advantages of incumbency, a well-funded campaign, etc. The Kochs know it – that’s why they are pivoting to trying to take the Senate, in order to block Biden II.
My question is, what happens at the RNC this summer? When it is clear that trump is tanking (and possibly, clear that he is mentally unwell)?
eclare
@Jeffro:
I had lunch with my old school country club Republican aunt yesterday (she knows my politics). She will never vote D, but she told me she was thankful that D’s in the House saved America’s reputation in the world by voting for aid to Ukraine. She just hopes it isn’t too late for them.
Kay
@SFAW:
I like LGM. I just can’t read it because the busyness of the site drives me crazy. Pare it down! Also the badges and things are too complicated.
its why I never took to Facebook. I hate how it looks.
Kay
@Jeffro:
i’m in the camp that says the more Trump coverage the better we do.
people need reminding
Old School
@NotMax:
If you want to continue celebrating, I’ve got good news for you about the next five days!
Jeffro
@Kay: yup
He drives up GOP turnout…but drives ours up even more.
And 2024 is not 2016, or even 2020. All but his hard core supporters are sick of his endless angry babbling and whining. Everyone but that same hard core knows he’s both incompetent AND ready to unleash violence on his fellow Americans.
I think there’s a decent chance that by the time we get to the RNC, the GOP powers-that-be make noise about replacing him on the ticket. That’s when we’ll see some serious thug stuff going on, only this time it’ll be trump’s red hats intimidating their own delegates.
emjayay
@Chief Oshkosh: I park on the street in Brooklyn. Only just recently I realized that there are a lot of birds here in winter, and that the leaves on trees catch a most of the bird poop before it gets to a parked car.
There are no leaves on the trees in winter.
rikyrah
Why is Senator Pitty Pat telling the truth?
Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 5:39 PM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
Lindsey Graham: Everybody who says we should do something about border legislation, you’re absolutely right but unfortunately, we didn’t get there because Trump opposed the bipartisan border deal. I hate that https://t.co/3aTgfqT2bY
(https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1782902085891022877?t=-HZYnqIZBrHXGtCnCRwQdg&s=03)
Melancholy Jaques
@Soprano2:
I’m sure Thom Tillis would consider it rude. Cf. Nancy Mace’s outrage at George Stephanopoulos asking her a pertinent question to which she did not have a good answer.
Melancholy Jaques
@SFAW:
I’d rather see that written after it happens. I am leery of predictions about the demise of Trump or the MAGA movement.
rikyrah
Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) posted at 5:49 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
Biggest takeaway from yesterday’s primary in Pennsylvania: Trump is hemorrhaging votes in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Look at the Nikki Haley protest vote in:
Montgomery – 25%
Delaware – 24%
Chester – 24%
Lancaster – 20%
Bucks – 19%
Major red flags for Republicans.
(https://x.com/mattmfm/status/1783085767624970276?t=KalqE8pXVOrDvNC5Y7Ya4w&s=03)
rikyrah
Because, OF COURSE….
Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) posted at 7:59 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
SCOOP: Looks like Trump has been using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to keep some of the attorneys he’s paying hidden from the public. It’s an $8 million mystery—and experts say it’s probably illegal. Me @thedailybeast
https://t.co/gF9dk7nUOs
(https://x.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1783118671956549987?t=NQmHxNQ76ThbN4LA7snAnQ&s=03)
rikyrah
YEP
Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) posted at 6:26 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
One of the things that makes 2024 different than previous elections is the intensity of union support for Biden. This stuff matters.
(https://x.com/SimonWDC/status/1783095065797099524?t=RXwwOEMReD6NsgfjDO82YQ&s=03)
rikyrah
Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) posted at 8:22 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
Question on MSNBC just now on why Trump hasn’t attacked Pecker. My guess is that from Trump’s vantage point, Pecker has a lot of power, bc he can create stories (including negative and even fake ones) about HIM! So he has power/leverage; not in Trump’s interest to antagonize him. (Pecker can’t lie, he is already on record and AMI has a non prosecution agreement stipulating to certain facts, so I doubt that is the expectation.)
(https://x.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1783124357763506597?t=ftjnt0Bt0WoDCf1ff3RT8Q&s=03)
smith
@rikyrah: He may have stories about TFG in his back pocket that he didn’t make up, ones that are even worse than what has already come to light.
rikyrah
Yep
Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) posted at 9:36 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
It is peak @LeaderMcConnell to blame Tucker Carlson for GOP turning toward isolationism & away from defending Ukraine vs Putin in particular while ignoring the central role of Donald Trump. This is the McConnell who wouldn’t even criticize Trump for racist attacks on his own wife
(https://x.com/RonBrownstein/status/1783143024421195939?t=4bJJeSpcOVP3fjeGY2G04A&s=03)
Miss Bianca
@SFAW: OK, I’ll read it. (I was taking a break from LGM because of their relentless doomerism, but I won’t deny they have some good writers and some even better commenters.)
rikyrah
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) posted at 9:30 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
More than 155,000 Pennsylvania Republican primary voters cast a ballot for Nikki Haley yesterday — even though Trump clinched the nomination weeks ago.
President Biden won Pennsylvania in 2020 by 80,000 votes.
(https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1783141425938403794?t=Gv3aY2YbkpKrSIPjonlKig&s=03)
rikyrah
hmmmm
Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman are American Heroes! (@Sandra137198021) posted at 6:38 PM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
My Prediction:
Republicans throw Trump under the bus and try to save the Senate.
They’ve given up on the House. It’s over.
This RFK, Jr. thing isn’t working out so well, so they’ve given up on Trump. They know he’s losing…
They will throw Trump under the bus.
(https://x.com/Sandra137198021/status/1782917047472488598?t=WbyGYQncfxfrlsd0yHqC3Q&s=03)
UncleEbeneezer
@SFAW: LG&M is a superb blog as long as you can ignore 1.) Loomis’ trolling on his political and cultural (music/food) hobby horses, 2.) Campos’ frequent doomerism and propensity to buy into any DOJ/Garland smear he finds (while dismissing or flat out ignoring any data/report showing countless other factors in why justice takes time) and 3.) the weird belief amongst the FP posters and commenters that Drive By Truckers are a massively important band. They really aren’t that as big or popular as you would guess based on the consensus at LG&M.
Geminid
@rikyrah: Maybe Lindsey Graham thinks Trump will lose now. I thought that about Karl Rove last month, when he went after Trump over his support of J6 defendents. They’re not denouncing Trump outright but instead are picking discrete areas of disagreement, previewing the blame-casting. It’s like they have begun to look past November and want to shape the post-Trump debate.
rikyrah
truth
17 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 3:51 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
If you’ve ever seen little old folks who are well over 65 but who cannot retire (a different lot than the ones who did actually retire well, but who are just bored), it’s scary & pathetic.
Clearly in declining health, and struggling to get into work every day.
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1783056121256615969?t=3aOdS82TZSZzha6wGA8sBA&s=03)
smith
@UncleEbeneezer: I would add 4.) Intense pissiness that often erupts over trivia. At least, that’s the main reason I stopped reading it.
rikyrah
Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) posted at 4:32 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
“Why do you like genocide?” is the 2024 version of “why do you hate single payer?”
(https://x.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1783066544571920763?s=03)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I heard that he was whining to the reporters that he’s not seeing the mob of protestors he expected to see outside the courthouse. I don’t know if he has any at all. Except maybe Laura Loomer (she who chains herself to one side of a double gate). Thought I saw her name pop up in the last day or two.
rikyrah
This racist attacking Black Medical Students.
Go colorfullstory!!!
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 5:41 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
Now remember
These Black doctors did not seek out Lauren
Lauren’s inner ancestral klan bleach demon felt triggered by Black people existing beyond stereotypes so she posted this
Remember that the next time yall ask why is everything about race in America
(https://x.com/colorfullstory/status/1783083874089623701?t=fe1gyBDheCpLoeP61EcIgw&s=03)
rikyrah
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 5:42 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
Summer Lee winning last night isn’t a surprise. Anyone using that race as some sort of Squad primary litmus test is foolish.
This was the moment Summer Lee won. https://t.co/ZN5PTionWO
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1783084067757379917?t=yNLfL5bwsMQvwldicnjhvA&s=03)
SFAW
@Melancholy Jaques:
The thing which made it more interesting is that Campos semi-predicted TFG in 2015.
Yes, everyone gets lucky once in awhile, etc. etc., but considering his “doomerism” (as others describe it) …
Trollhattan
Soggy rural Florida sounds a lot like California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Ditch the GPS and leave the map at home–who am I kidding, maps?–and 1. You’ll be lost soon enough and 2. You’ll discover at least one Really Neat Thing.
Finding your way home: optional.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Jeffro: I’m amazed what a slow and messy process it is. I’m pretty sure it’s as dead as the Whigs and yet the zombie body keeps rising again and putting people into the House and Senate, and against all reason and sanity That Guy is a viable candidate for President.
Maybe the Whigs’ death was similarly long and painful. I’m embarrassingly ignorant about history.
rikyrah
Oh well
Marvin Sapp InTheSkreets/Marvin Gaye InTheSheets (@groove_sdc) posted at 2:18 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
U.S. tourists face 12 years in prison after bringing ammo to Turks and Caicos – NBC News https://t.co/hkhrsokMhj
(https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1783032830148129060?t=3lmm7sW88v7cJb3E4UOO-Q&s=03)
rikyrah
UH HUH
Skeptical Brotha (@skepticalbrotha) posted at 6:32 PM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
Republicans are weaponizing the rampant anti-semitism claim to attack higher education. It’s a game to them. Don’t play into it. Don’t amplify it.
(https://x.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1782915399882817768?t=Fh1bHeZMOs5S8i7CRLEX0w&s=03)
NotMax
@Old School
Par-tay!
Layer8Problem
@Miss Bianca: It’s that Campos, in my estimation, has always been a doomist, albeit not quite to the level of Gloomis; and yet, he’s speaking with some positivity.
Jeffro
@rikyrah: exactly
geg6
@SFAW:
I have certainly trashed them here, but I can deal, mostly, with Lemeiux and Campos. It’s Loomis who drives me insane. Such a jackass. I just mostly quit reading his stuff.
I think Campos may (she says very cautiously) be right again.
geg6
@UncleEbeneezer:
I, too, find this hysterical. No, guys, DBT is not the world’s greatest band and almost no one I know has any idea who they are.
Manyakitty
@NotMax: what a fabulous character! Wish JMS would write G’Kar’s book.
UncleEbeneezer
@geg6: It’s kind of hilarious. It all feels like “there’s this band that only us cool kids know about.” I tried checking them out a couple times and they really didn’t do anything for me. They’re like a bargain-basement version of Wilco with less interesting songs, arrangements, lyrics and musicianship.
Bill Arnold
@SFAW:
Campos is not wrong, and he is NOT counseling complacency. (E.g. the electoral college tilts POTUS elections Republican.)
The title of the piece, “The world is changed: Cassandra on Zoloft”, is a bit of gentle self-mockery, too. Good to see.
Albatrossity
Well, at least it didn’t poop on those poor gallinules!