Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The lights are all blinking red.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

When I was faster i was always behind.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

No one could have predicted…

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Books are my comfort food!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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  1. 1.

    stinger

    How much I love that photo! With or without the caption!​
     
    ETA: Maybe we could have a captioning contest. I could maybe think of one if I weren’t so tired. I love Astrid but subtitles take so much attention. I can’t multi-task!

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Nope.  No sign of cat here.  Not to be seen.  Felt, perhaps, but not seen.

  10. 10.

    Jackie

    What time tomorrow (Monday) does TCFG find out he’s NOT ABOVE THE LAW?

    I’m so ready. Even if the Court tosses it back to Chutkan, several conservative lawyers and retired judges hope/expect Jack Smith to charge ahead with the J6 charges and Chutkan will agree🤞🏻

    (disclaimer: saw on TV, so no link to verify)

  11. 11.

    VFX Lurker

    I wrote and mailed thirty Postcards to Voters total for a school board election in Florida today. I’ve been slacking off on my postcarding efforts, so it felt good mailing these out.

  14. 14.

    piratedan

    so…. tomorrow…

    Bannon reports to jail…. ten days later, Trump gets sentenced for NY.

    SCOTUS issues more rulings.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: I am pretty sure the SCOTUS releases will start at 10am Eastern, as they always do.  Are we even certain that the immunity case will be announced on Monday?  I don’t think they have announced that Monday will be their last day.

  16. 16.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl:

    I love that sweet kitty face, all comfy and cozy and tucked in.

    I do, too. Both look so comfy and content as sleeping buddies.♥️

  21. 21.

    Jackie

    @eclare: I know to expect decisions to start @ 7, but as it’s (supposedly) the only one left, will they hold us in suspense until Prime Time? I wouldn’t be surprised.

    ETA The only good thing about waiting, is TCFG is also waiting! Baahahahaaaa!

  24. 24.

    Splitting Image

    I’m reading the Widow Barnaby trilogy of books by Frances Trollope. She was a contemporary of Jane Austen but didn’t start writing until she was over 50. She’s best known these days for being the mother of Anthony Trollope, but she was a novelist in her own right and sort of a one-woman wrecking ball smashing her way through the notion of Victorian propriety. Widow Barnaby was published in 1839 and the two sequels a couple of years later.

    Widow Barnaby is what you would get if you took Mrs. Norris from Mansfield Park, gave her a sizeable inheritance, and sent her on the road with Fanny Price so she could abuse her all over England instead of in the family mansion. Mrs. Barnaby is vain, stupid, profligate, and when she isn’t demanding to speak to the manager, she is determined to find a rich second husband and enter high society. Agnes Willoughby is her long-suffering niece who attracts eligible bachelors like flies to honey. Everybody gets what they deserve at the end.

    The Widow Married, the second book, is sort of a light-hearted caper story. Mrs. Barnaby returns from Australia with a con-artist husband and makes all of her relatives wish she’d stayed there. It reads like a cross between Keeping Up Appearances and The Sting. I’m still reading The Barnabys in America, the third book.

    It’s really good stuff if you’re a Jane Austen fan looking for something similar to read. Trollope isn’t as good a prose stylist as Austen (almost no one is), but she was older and better travelled when she wrote her books and could write about a much wider variety of characters. She uses a lot more slang, and I was surprised to see her use phrases that I assumed were mid-20th century, like “it’s a no go”.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    Court is expected to announce decision on Trump immunity.

    The Supreme Court’s last opinion day will be Monday, July 1, said Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday, teeing up a dramatic finale to an unusually long Supreme Court term.

    The scheduling announcement means the court, which still has several cases to resolve, on Monday will announce its highly-anticipated decision on former president Donald Trump’s bid to avoid federal prosecution for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

    The court is also set to announce a pair of decisions about social media misinformation.

  27. 27.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Splitting Image:

    I should read these to compare them in style to Mary Shelley’s books.  It will help me understand what is Mary’s style and what is expectation of the times.

  28. 28.

    Quiltingfool

    I finished a quilt top today!  Here’s a photo of the center; I added more to it, but don’t have a photo of the finished quilt top.

    I’m naming it, “Dreaming of Freedom for Ukraine.”

    I’m thinking I need to make a quilt with blue fabrics, you know, Vote Blue!

    So many ideas, so little time!

    https://pin.it/4sl5DhjR0

  30. 30.

    Jackie

    The court is also set to announce a pair of decisions about social media misinformation.

    I’m not sure how to read this?

     

    @WaterGirl:

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    @eclare:  Looking into a new group that works with hispanic voters in NV.  And possibly have a line on a group that works with Asian-American folks in NC.

    Sometimes these things pan out, and sometimes they don’t, but I am hopeful.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: I am thinking that there are two cases related to social media and misinformation.  And they are going to be releasing their opinions on both cases on Monday.

    What are you not sure about?

  37. 37.

    Chet Murthy

    @Gloria DryGarden: she is, isn’t she?  I’m not a specialist, not an aficionado, so I can only appreciate her achievements and abilities as a layman.  But I watch her fly through the air and it’s just amazing.  How can she do these things?  I’m without a clue.  And thenI remember that it wasn’t so long ago that she lost the ability to do these things,and had to relearn how to do so.  It’s all just amazing.

  39. 39.

    Redshift

    I have a Zoom meeting tomorrow evening with Tim Kaine and my rep Don Beyer to discuss joint campaign goals. Doing the work!

  40. 40.

    ascap_scab

    Does Trump (and Biden) get full and total immunity to use Seal Team 6 to assassinate rivals?

    A) SCrOTUS says yes.

    B) SCrOTUS says absolutely not.

    C) SCrOTUS punts back to lower court having successfully delayed Trump’s trial past the election.

  41. 41.

    Betty Cracker

    My sister and her wife are at a beach resort in Grenada with a cat 4 hurricane rolling their way. They tell me they’re safe and not to worry, but I am scared for them.

  42. 42.

    H.E.Wolf

    @VFX Lurker: I wrote and mailed thirty Postcards to Voters total for a school board election in Florida today. I’ve been slacking off on my postcarding efforts, so it felt good mailing these out.

     Wow! That is an amazing output! You are a rockstar. :-)

    And now I’m going to talk about slow.

    I’m a slow writer… I aim for 5 postcards a week. Maybe 2 sets of 5 in a single week, if I’m really on fire.

    But it adds up. That’s about 100 postcards between now and the November election. (I’m giving myself credit for a couple of fired-up weeks between now and then.)

    If a couple more of us here on the blog were to sign up in July and write 5 a week, that would be another couple of hundred GOTV postcards going out to Democrats.

    Arlo Guthrie understood about numbers. First thing you know, it’s a movement.

    [email protected]

  43. 43.

    Quiltingfool

    @eclare: Thanks!  I just love that appliqué!  It’s called “Cat Nap.”  The pattern is just one cat, but I made a mirror image and put the two together,  just so I’d have a center big enough for the snazzy borders that go around it.  Much less math, lol!

    The cat informed me it is time to go to bed.  See you tomorrow!

  45. 45.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Chet Murthy: she’s so stable, strong, focused. And mind blowing.

    God I admired how she came back, during those olympics, and won a silver, totally humble, but she stripped all the twists out of her routine to do it. She spent her olympics time at some private gym up outside of Tokyo , getting herself together to do something, stay in shape for it, finding out what she could still do, knowing she wasn’t going to do the high scoring twist things. And still got a silver. It makes me almost cry. I watch every video that comes up, of her.

  47. 47.

    joey5slice

    @Jackie:

    There are two cases regarding laws in Florida and Texas that want to make social media platforms responsible for the content on those platforms if they do any moderating of those platforms at all. SCOTUSBlog has the write up from the arguments in February:

     

    https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/02/supreme-court-skeptical-of-texas-florida-regulation-of-social-media-moderation/

     

    Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott want either (a) Facebook to stop taking down Stop the Steal nonsense or (b) to be able to sue Facebook when some rando posts something they think is libelous.

    Arguments made it seem likely that SCROTUS will not entertain this line of “logic”.

  48. 48.

    Martin

    Seems to me if they were going to grant Trump immunity, the timing of the announcement wouldn’t matter. It only matters if the ruling is bad for Trump, because the delay becomes the gift.

  51. 51.

    BethanyAnne

    @Redshift: It made me actually laugh out loud. And I loved the dots he connects about AI being this season’s crypto or blockchain. Something to the effect of “words used by people whose main talent is smiling at other people.”

  55. 55.

    NotMax

    @joey5slice

    They’re already shat the bed with Chevron. The question now is do they want to dig in wrist deep and spread it around like marmalade on toast.

  56. 56.

    eclare

    @BethanyAnne:

    Yep.  If most large corporations are like the one that I previously worked for, they have bought into AI hook, line, and sinker with no idea what they are doing.  But the consultants advising them, who have no idea how the company works, are making millions.

  57. 57.

    kindness

    I have to stay away from LG&M.  Every other piece is them shitting their pants.  It’s no fun to read.  Not even informative.  Just hysterical pants shitting.  Not my thing.

  58. 58.

    JWR

    @Chet Murthy:

    And thenI remember that it wasn’t so long ago that she lost the ability to do these things,and had to relearn how to do so.

    Yeah, she got something called the “twisties”, which causes one to lose track of one’s time and position relative to the cold, hard ground. She seems to have gotten over it, and that’s excellent news, not only for her, but for gymnastics as a whole.

  59. 59.

    Chet Murthy

    @kindness: I’ve spent lots of time there reading  and commenting.  And I do wonder if part of the reason there’s so much pants-shitting going on there, is that typically nobody ever discusses what to -do- about the impending doom we can all feel might be coming.  I mean,  they talk about it a lot.  A.  Lot.  But nobody ever talks about what to do about it.  By contrast, even though around here people discuss the possibility of a bad outcomes a good bit (OK, a lot less than over at LG&M), they also discuss and participate in actions to try to prevent it.

    I wonder if some of the pants-shitting is due to a feeling of “we didn’t do anything to stop it, and now it’s too late” sort of shit.  But who knows, I might be reading too much into it.

  60. 60.

    BethanyAnne

    @eclare: I worked for Sysco when they replaced their entire back end in one huge project. They chose to trust Accenture and Adobe, who chose to reward them by hitting metrics instead of producing good software. It was an unmitigated shitshow.

  61. 61.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    That photo is funny as hell! Here at home our orange guy went to the vet the other day. He’s the last cat for the year and I’m done with it until next year. I was a bit anxious as this was his first visit with me there and him in full health (read that as claws and teeth ready to go). He let me know he was going to be uncooperative all of the way to the vet. I brought two Churu squeezables for backup. He really started yowling when we got in the building and they covered his cage with a Feliway blanket. That helped to hide the large German Shepherd that was making lots of dog sounds that he didn’t like. I tried to slip Chuckie some Churu when we sat down to wait but that was no go.

    They got us in a room right away and with some trepidation I extracted an unhappy cat out of the cage so the assistant could weigh him and check his pulse. She was able to do that with minimal growling and no blood loss but decided to pass on the temp as she was happy with my assurance that he is fine. Probe avoided! I was able to get him to eat the Churu while we waited for the doc, with me assuring him that it was going to be OK. I talk to my cats all of the time and I use certain phrases when I want them to understand something. It works very well as it did in this case.

    When the doc came in she didn’t tap first, as usual. I had to grab Chuckie right away and tuck him in close to control him. Between the startling of the door opening and my suddenly grabbing him, I think he thought I was protecting him and he hissed at the doc. I reassured him that it was OK and the doc suggested another Churu to see if it would settle him back down. Bingo! The doc fed him about 1/2 of one and the assistant fed him the other half while the doc checked him out and slipped him him his rabies shot. Done and no blood!

    I picked him up and loved him up to let him know that he did a “good job” which he always likes to hear. Some ear scritches from the doc and assistant, back in to the cage, bill paid and on the way home!

  62. 62.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @BethanyAnne:

    In my early video editing days I had a real fun one with Adobe Premiere Pro. I had purchased the upgrade from version 1 to 1.5 and it kept crashing every time I launched it. It turned out that the fix was to rename the premiere.exe executable in Windows to anything but “premiere” before the period.

    Now that’s pretty stupid.

  64. 64.

    eclare

    @BethanyAnne:

    I was friends with someone at Andersen Consulting, which became Accenture.  He said instructions were to tell clients, if they asked, the project was 80% done.  Always 80%.

  68. 68.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @WaterGirl: Is discussion of the French elections allowed, or is that too depressing a subject, too? (Though probably not nearly as contentious).

    My cursory glance is that Macron has f*cked France by calling an early election. The only way to deny Rassemblement National dominance in the Assemblée nationale is for the Nouveau Front populaire, Ensemble! & at least part of Les Républicains to unite against RN in the 2nd round. Mélenchon committed to withdrawing the Left candidates in any constituency if they are in 3rd place, to prevent the RN from winning the seat. Macron has not yet made the same commitment for the centrist candidates to do the same. Goes to show who are the more committed anti-Fascists.

  69. 69.

    Chet Murthy

    @YY_Sima Qian: Macron is the scorpion in the fable of the frog & the scorpion.  every time the Left helps him, he repays by shafting them.  And in the process, making it more likely that Le Pen will come to power.

  70. 70.

    Martin

    @eclare: Yeah, not many years before I retired my employer decided to replace a core campus wide system that we had developed in-house and at the time was amazing and got some really good updates but was now starting to not meet our needs in serious ways. I was in favor of the idea of replacing it. As that was my area of expertise and I had written a major system that heavily relied on the campus system, I had thoughts on this, even though I was no longer in the chain of responsibility for it.

    They reached a critical decision point – develop in-house, hire x, or hire y where x and y are the only two major vendors who have a product like this. Both are terrible. I’ve worked with dozens of universities that use these two and they all hate them. Most never got the promised system working well enough to even match the tool we’re trying to replace. They’re in worse shape than we are using the products we’re looking to hire. I collect details, contact information, etc. Put a report together, along with my personal arguments and my reasons – build in-house.

    They make the decision, they’re hiring x. High 7 figure contract. Mind you, I could have overseen the development of an in-house one with a team of around 8 people – much less than high 7 figures. This thing isn’t that complicated, I mean, the one we’re using was originally developed in the early 90s with a team of 4 and the upgrades were almost entirely to web enable it with a team of 2. We’re not building healthcare.gov here.

    So, I grab the VC who made the decision for a ‘what the fuck are you doing’ lunch. There’s some okay arguments there, no real refutation to the challenges I mention, but after about half an hour he drops it: “Look, all the big universities use these, and we need to act like a big university.” I said some polite things, but that said it all, and there was no arguing with this lunacy.

    In a previous thread I talk a little bit about how I’m a staff administrator in positions usually occupied by faculty. This VC is faculty. He’s never been arms deep in some vendors bullshit. He’s never tried to build on top of a product that is getting changed in response to needs of other universities which are not your needs, but you still need to rewrite your shit. He’s never dealt with a bunch of consultants that just do not know what they’re doing.

    One problem with organizations is that it’s easy for them to grow their budget faster than their organizational decision making capability. Budgets can (and should) scale super-linearly to the scale of your service responsibilities but your decision making capability should grow sublinearly, so organizations increasingly abdicate decision making in favor of just throwing money at problems, and that’s what the “we need to act like a big university” statement represented. That’s why they buy into consultants so hard.

  71. 71.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Chet Murthy: One gets the sense that some of the centrists are quite OK w/ a Fascistic turn, since their wealth & privileges will remain intact (or so they think), whereas the Left raising their taxes is existential! Just like in the US.

  74. 74.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @NotMax: Light at the end of the long dark tunnel? If only we can be confident that the current Labour Party will seize the moment, as opposed to triangulating their way into the minority, again.

  75. 75.

    Martin

    @Chet Murthy:

    I wonder if some of the pants-shitting is due to a feeling of “we didn’t do anything to stop it, and now it’s too late” sort of shit.  But who knows, I might be reading too much into it.

    No, this is why. I said this earlier or yesterday, but we’re in a state where 100% of voters thinks one of the only two presidential candidates is in cognitive decline. That we allowed ourselves to get into this state, which pretty much everyone is responsible for is just fucking terrible for the country. It’s why Europe is freaking out – if we only permit two potential leaders, can we for the love of god make sure those two are aren’t banging the deep end of the actuarial table, aren’t criminals, and all that, and we deserve our share of blame for that.

    I don’t think we should have taken the chance on a Biden re-election. It was a nearly free opportunity to get Harris and someone like Pete and reset the term clock so that 2024 could be the re-election campaign. We were just handed THE turnout issue with the Dobbs ruling and there’s scarcely a better candidate to bang that drum than Harris. That’s what should have happened, and now it’s too late to take that path and we’re kicking ourselves.

  76. 76.

    eclare

    @Martin:

    At my former employer, we had a massive layoff, so consultants were hired to figure out how to do our jobs more efficiently.  Of course for the longest time they never talked to anyone below manager level, and when I finally was in a meeting and explained our processes, one of the consultants said that their product would not meet our needs (honesty!).  Shortly after that the director called me into her office to tell me not to be totally honest about the futility of this project, and shortly after that I quit.

    I have no idea if the company ever used it, I don’t see how they could.  Rumored price tag:  12M.

    But official headcount had to be reduced, even if projects like these were more expensive.

  79. 79.

    Slightly_peeved

    @Martin:

    This thread is not for speculation about Biden. Please take it elsewhere.

    Complaining about LGM was not an invitation to emulate it.

  80. 80.

    Martin

    @Jay: I don’t think he should step down – I think that would be worse. I thought he should have chose to not run for reelection 2 years ago. And I’ve said why I don’t think this is going to matter much anyway. I was only speaking to why I think people are freaking out.

    Take it up with the other posters who raised the issue.

  81. 81.

    Chet Murthy

    @Martin: Frankly, I don’t think that this is why those LG&M commenters and FPers are freaking out.  It’s not because they think the Dems did the wrong thing, didn’t choose the right candidate, whatever.  It’s b/c they don’t think that -they personally- are doing what’s necessary.  I think there’s a kind of cynical detachment over there, with people not discussing what they personally can do to get involved.  Unlike around here.

    That sense of detachment works fine, when you kinda have a decent reason for thinking that it’ll all work out fine in the end.  But when you’re faced with the possibility that maybe the shit will really hit the fan in the worst possible way, you start to think about what you woulda, coulda, shoulda done, that you didn’t.

    Anyway, that’s my theory, and I could be wrong.

  82. 82.

    Jay

    @eclare:

    I had to “manage” ERP/EMS systems for years. Manage meant train staff, and implement.

    Funny thing was, two part, I knew a bunch of the “consultants”, because they had worked at our company when we first switched from an MBCA system to an ERP, system, were sent off to Europe to train on the system, on the Company dime, were supposed to manage the transition, but quit to become salesmen/consultants.

    Second part, the “consultants” always suggested “custom code” to patch around improper use of data fields. Works great until the first upgrade.

  83. 83.

    John Revolta

    @Martin:

    100% of voters thinks one of the only two presidential candidates is in cognitive decline

    Yeah, this is just a leetle overstated. Even over at LGM, where doom and gloom is practically a way of life, it’s currently only ten to twenty percent are saying Joe should go. Most people who are not pundits, or Republicans, seem to think that Biden is well capable of running the country, even if he can’t keep up with a firehose of lies and bullshit like the other night.

  84. 84.

    Jay

    @Martin:

    Since the “not debate”, we have had dozens of threads dominated by the horse race theories.

    Watergirl very kindly asked that this thread not become one of “those” to discuss “other things” that are happening.

    So,………………..

    Anybody want to talk about how the Reich Wing Slovak Prime Minister is all in on defending Ukraine, now, while being “again it” during the election campaigns?

  85. 85.

    Chet Murthy

    @Jay: wut?  Fico is now all-in on defending Ukraine?  really?  Got a link? [if so, it’s good news!

    ETA: sigh, the names of some of these CEE leaders, they’re at the tip of my tongue.  B/c wow, the world is so fucked-up.  sigh.

  86. 86.

    Tehanu

    @Splitting Image: ​
      I just read a sample of The Widow B. on Libby (from the public library) and decided to give it a try — the first few pages look good.

  87. 87.

    Martin

    @Chet Murthy: I think a lot of Dems have been nervous about this trajectory. There was plenty of discussion in 2022 about Biden not running – it’s not a new thought. The Hunter stuff also triggered a lot of anxiety. The Israel policy has triggered anxiety.

    You can’t prove a counterfactual. Nobody knew then or now which path is better. Nor do I. But there have been a lot of people for the last 2 years unsure about this path, and anything positive ahead of their expectations will make them feel better about this, and anything worse reinforces their suspicions.

    We went through this with Obama during primaries, but that tended to calm people as it went along. We went through this with Hillary, which didn’t calm people as we went along. And even if Trump should win, that still doesn’t inform us if we took the wrong path.

    Put another way, we’re where the GOP was immediately after the Access Hollywood tape. Who won that election?

  88. 88.

    Slightly_peeved

    @Chet Murthy:

    I’ve lurked there for a few years now. I’m beyond caring at this point. Cheryl’s good, but between the Arianna Grande lens of electoral discussion and Erik ranting about how Fanfic was for dumb-dumbs I think I can get my old man yelling at clouds content elsewhere.

  91. 91.

    Slightly_peeved

    @Jay:

    you tried, Jay.

    Not informed on that, but I wouldn’t mind knowing since it’s not a subject that’s done to death.

    Is this one of those cases where a stance against aiding Ukraine works ok as long as Ukraine is actually aided? The geopolitical equivalent of having your friends hold you back from fighting someone.

  92. 92.

    Slightly_peeved

    @NotMax: John definitely yells at clouds, but he owns it. He doesn’t act like he’s giving the lessers the benefit of his superior analysis when he does so.

  94. 94.

    Jay

    @Slightly_peeved:

    Personally, I think it was more a “reading of the room” thing.

    Supporting Ukraine is a “big deal” in Slovakia.  They have massively supported most of the Slovak support for Ukraine with crowd funding.

    And they used to be part of Czechoslovakia, and the memory of the Soviets still lingers.

    The Reich Wing mostly won the election on “immigrants”, but there arn’t many Ukrainians in Slovakia, mostly of late are ruZZian’s who are being assholes, and Syrians/etc who are not.

  95. 95.

    Chet Murthy

    @Jay: Mmm …. reading the article, it seems that it’s the Slovak -President- (Pellegrini) who’s all-in on supporting Ukraine, and the Prime Minister (Fico) who’s …. being dragged kicking-and-screaming to grudging support?

    At the same time, Robert Fico’s government has not stopped commercial arms supplies to Kyiv and officially supports the recovery of Ukraine’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders.

    Robert Fico described the very successful Slovak fundraising for ammunition for Ukraine as a “symbolic gesture” and compared it to “farting”. 

    Regardless, it’s a good thing.

  96. 96.

    Jay

    @Chet Murthy:

    Robert Fico described the very successful Slovak fundraising for ammunition for Ukraine as a “symbolic gesture” and compared it to “farting”.

    That was crowd funded until now.

    170x the donations to his party for the elections.

    Some “fart”. Slovakia based on just the crowd funded numbers is #4 in the Czech initiative.

  98. 98.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    Here’s something that isn’t about whether a candidate should drop out (I’m with the Philly paper that said if anyone should drop out, it should be TFG), but unfortunately isn’t all that great.

    All weekend, I’ve been getting screamer alerts on my cell phone (actually phones, plural – my personal phone and my work phone) about fires in various spots around Attica. It’s looking like a dry summer and a hot one, and the fire risk is really high. There’s been an infuriating incident with a yacht near the island of Hydra (BBC article) where the people on board shot off fireworks, they landed in a forest, started a forest fire, and the crew got arrested while the passengers (Kazakh oligarchs or something) were allowed to walk away and leave the country.

    It’s going to be another hot day today. High of 35 Celsius, 95 Fahrenheit.

  100. 100.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    In other good news, drunken Steve Bannon begins his prison sentence today.

  103. 103.

    Subsole

     

     

    @Jay: Yes. Please. Lay it on me. I don’t even know who he is or what he said. Tell us all about it.

    Anything but the God. Damned. Motherfucking. Discourse.

    Please.

  104. 104.

    BellyCat

    @Martin: Look, all the big universities use these, and we need to act like a big university

    Exactly my experience. No surprise that the board members are all from large corporations. And some wonder why tuition increases are out of control.

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    stinger

    @Splitting Image: Thanks for this review! I’m a huge Anthony Trollope fan and knew his mother was a writer before him, but didn’t know much more about her than that, and nothing about her books. These sound delightful! I’ll look for them.

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