Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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

Please don’t feed the bears.

Bark louder, little dog.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

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

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

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Valued commenter Quinerly sent along this gem from American bluesman Keb’ Mo’ (featuring Roseanne Cash). I think it makes a great soundtrack for efforts to elect Kamala Harris in 100 days.

From the official video description on YouTube (five years ago):

“My mother just recently passed at the age of 91. She was smart. She was strong. She was a leader. This video is dedicated to her and amazing women everywhere that are getting the job done.” — Keb’ Mo’

Not only is it about goddamn time we had a woman president in the U.S., I can’t think of a sweeter circumstance under which to usher in that massive change than for VP Kamala Harris to whup Donald Trump’s hideous old orange ass.

We’ll never fully scrub the stain of Trump’s 2016 Electoral College victory out of our national history. The rise of his oppositional defiant disordered cult is an ongoing danger to American democracy.

But Trump himself won’t last forever, thank dog. He’s a convicted felon who is pushing 80 and under indictment for a slew of serious charges that he won’t be able to make go away unless voters are dumb enough to sleaze him into office again. We’re the underdogs right now, but I don’t think we’ll let him do it again.

Speaking of dogs, Quinerly also enclosed a photo of her insanely handsome and photogenic canine companion, JoJo las Orejas — JoJo the Ears.

Good looking dog with large ears sitting in a chair.

What a good boy!

Open thread.

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  6. 6.

    Tony Jay

    So, I’m sitting here watching the US beat Serbia at basketball (a sentence which only exists in this reality because you can append “in The Olympics” to it) and a couple of things stand out.

    1) These guys are specimens of… something. They all look like they can cross the length of the court in one lolloping step, they’ve got shoulders you could land Combat Air Patrols on, and when you see them standing or even sitting next to a normal human the contrast is almost cartoonish.

    2) Haven’t got a scooby what’s going on. Really. The ball goes in the buckets, other than that they might as well be playing cricket.

    3) I miss the days of complete coverage when you could pop on the BBC and choose between a dozen events and watch them all, getting caught up in the whole contest from the start and dropping your jaw at regular intervals at how…. Olympian… these people are. Just amazing, and the truncated coverage takes that away. I don’t care how the presenters think the competitors might ‘feel’ about something the presenters want to obsess over, I just want to watch these incredible people doing incredible things with seeming ease.

    4) Street Skateboarding is astonishing, even more so when 90% of the competitors appear to have been foetuses last week. Seriously, kid, does your Mum know you’re here? 

  9. 9.

    trollhattan

    @Tony Jay:

    Heh yeah, basketball has morphed into a pretty weird sport that can be mastered by something like 0.003% of humanity.

    In the States we get one freely accessible broadcast/stream and every other thing is paywalled, including events you actually wish to watch. I somehow finagled Japan-Brazil women’s futbol for zero dollars today, with the commentary in Spanish. Gooooooooooooalllllll.

    I remember skateboarding from Tokyo and every competitor seemed to be from middle school. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, they can crash onto pavement, leap up and keep going pondering whether they’d scraped up their tennies. I’d be a pile of bone chips.

  11. 11.

    BeautifulPlumage

    OT: I was so disappointed when I learned that Chicken & Waffles used breaded, fried chicken and not a sauce or gravy. Ugh.

    I finally made my own version: chicken pieces in gravy over crisp waffles.Yum! Why can’t that be a brunch thing?

  15. 15.

    Jo Jo las Orejas

    ¿Esta imagen hace que mis orejas se vean grandes? Hay una señora coyote que me estaba cantando.

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    TCFFG/PAB’s supporters are the domestic enemies of the Constitution I swore an oath to oppose.

    Go Kamala.

  18. 18.

    HinTN

    @BeautifulPlumage: Why isn’t it a brunch thing? Maybe, if ever, the next time I’m out Seattle way we can do a Chicken and Waffles brunch meetup.

    I’ve got chicken pot pie in the oven right now on this rainy Sunday.

  19. 19.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @raven: ​
      I disagree, and getting a plate with a hunk of breaded chicken sitting uncomfortably on the dry waffle is unattractive.

  20. 20.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Tony Jay: ​ 

    I was just watching the equestrian events. They’re being held at Versailles and the setting is absolutely stunningly beautiful. Just gorgeous.

  22. 22.

    Tony Jay

    @trollhattan:

    Japan was when I totally zoned the world out watching the mayhem on the Skateboarding/BMX parks. Just lunacy everywhere you looked. Kids young enough to be asking for Roblox tokens taking 15 foot drops onto concrete and shrugging it off like they stubbed a toe before going right back up that ramp and throwing a trick that seemed to deny a couple of pretty serious laws of physics.

    Glorious. Could watch it all day.

  24. 24.

    trollhattan

    When’s the last time anybody thought of Lindsay Graham? He’s trying to fix that, but not in a good way. Please proceed, assh…I mean, senator.

    July 28, 2024 at 1:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said when asked about Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) recently resurfaced comment about “childless cat ladies” that “you should never say anything to hurt anybody’s feelings,” CBS News reports.

    But he made clear his support for Vance and the Republican ticket, indicating that Donald Trump doesn’t regret selecting Vance as his running mate amid recent backlash.

    Said Graham: “This idea of trying to marginalize J.D. and make him some kind of bad person is not going to work because he’s not a bad person — he’s a good person.”

    “he’s not a bad person — he’s a good person.” Welp, I’m convinced.

  30. 30.

    Jo Jo las Orejas

    @Baud:  Mi mamá ha estado bailando durante tres días. Alguien dijo que mi mamá baila como Elaine. Nunca he conocido a Elaine. Su baile me asusta.

  31. 31.

    trollhattan

    @raven: I can buy that. “Two peoples separated by a common language.” See also, gaffer for coach and dressing room for locker room. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  32. 32.

    RandomMonster

    Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner

    But he knew it couldn’t last

    Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona

    For some California grass

  34. 34.

    Tony Jay

    @raven:

    No one does. I’m convinced it’s just a long running practical joke devised by people who want to throw very hard balls at each other’s goodlies.

    I mean, all power to them, but let’s not pretend it’s anything more than that.

  36. 36.

    Geo Wilcox

    @Tony Jay: My husband is watching 8 different events at the same time with Directv. They did an 8 scene channel and you can pick which one to watch just like their old Sunday Ticket.

  39. 39.

    SatanicPanic

    @Tony Jay: the women’s division is my favorite. Such a great group and Rayssa Leal has a gift. Some of the best style on her board out of anyone right now and she’s only going to keep getting better. Yuto Horigome’s talents are otherworldly.

    But don’t tell me how it’s going I want to watch!

  41. 41.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Jo Jo las Orejas: In 1996, people in Nuevo México called the ticket agency for the Olympics in Atlanta, and were told they had to contact their own country’s Olympic committee to get tickets.

  42. 42.

    Tony Jay

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Bloody well should be. Louis the Paranoid lavished more than enough of France’s gold on it!

    I admit, I can’t really get into the Equestrianism. I know it’s beautiful and dramatic and all that, but to me it just reeks of ‘things the Royals and people who call their kids Tristram enjoy, therefore is a sport’. Unfair, I know, but blame the Windsors. 

  43. 43.

    Phylllis

    @Tony Jay: I was watching the rugby yesterday & my husband came in and asked why I was watching it. I replied that it was fourteen incredibly fit and attractive young men running up and down a field periodically bashing into one another. What’s not to like?

  44. 44.

    Suzanne

    Secretary Pete probably shouldn’t be the VP pick…. But, God, I love him so.

    “I’m pretty sure voters are worried about the age and acuity of President Trump compared to Kamala Harris. How could anybody not watch the stuff he’s saying, the rambling on the trail, and not be just a little bit concerned?”

  48. 48.

    Tony Jay

    @Geo Wilcox:

    That sounds like heaven. I bloody love the Olympics.

    @SatanicPanic:

    Is she the Brazilian kid? No spoilers, but yes, danged impressive. They all are. They have to be fearless to dress that way. Don’t you have any jeans that fit you, young lady?

  49. 49.

    Quinerly

    Thanks for all the kind words. JoJo has been wanting to make the front page here since he adopted me in February, 2020 while I was traveling. He knew my previous traveling companion, Poco, had hit the big time on BJ some years back with some front page pictures and with the shortlived Baud/Poco ticket and campaign.😎

    He’s been jealous. Thanks Betty for including him in this Keb’ Mo’ post.

    BTW, if you ever get a chance to see Keb’ Mo’, do it!!! Puts on a fabulous show.

  50. 50.

    RandomMonster

    @Quinerly: Yes…JoJo was named after the song. Probably my favorite Beatles song.

    We had a dog we named “Josie” after the Steely Dan song, so she might think she was the “pride of the neighborhood”. She was the meekest little thing so we thought her confidence needed a little bucking up. She was the last thing on earth that would “stare like a Roman with her eyes on fire”.

  51. 51.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Tony Jay: Street skateboarding…as more and more obscure sports, especially those that rely on judges, become Olympic sports I wonder why Ultimate (the sport played with a sport disc/Frisbee) which has the virtue of not requiring judges, continues to be left out.

  53. 53.

    hueyplong

    @trollhattan: Struggling to contain my glee at the thought that the best thing that happened for JD Threenames this week is that L Graham mewled on a Sunday talk show that he’s not a bad person.

  54. 54.

    Quinerly

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I love the section at the end of each copy of “New Mexico Magazine.”

    It’s called “one of our 50 is missing.” A recount of stories like yours. I am always surprised how many bank tellers in those various stories don’t know New Mexico is a state. Always stories with tellers and bankers involved when people from here, are traveling in other states.

  56. 56.

    Nancy

    Beautiful and noble dog with lovely ears.

    I like being at a site where people disagree politely about food. No threats of death or eternal damnation over breaded chicken.

    (Full disclosure: I have used Shake n Bake at least three times in my life. Then I discovered that chicken thighs were better–thanks, John Cole).

  57. 57.

    Lapassionara

    @Tony Jay: Re, this comment, I suppose there is some beauty, but drama? Have you ever sat through an entire show?

    I admit, I can’t really get into the Equestrianism. I know it’s beautiful and dramatic and all that,

  58. 58.

    Tony Jay

    @Phylllis:

    That’s got to be up there in the top five reasons for watching Rugby, maybe top three. Personally, I’ve maintained for years* that it’s just a transparent excuse for all those muscles to get into a big bath together and play ‘hide the Ralgex’. There’s a reason the Welsh have the leek as their national emblem, and it’s not because they like to make a nice stew.

    *Not to their faces, mind you. I’m not quite that bonkers.

  59. 59.

    NeenerNeener

    @rikyrah: This is going to follow Vance around for the rest of his unnatural life, like the gerbil myth is stuck to Richard Gere. Vance might even change his mind about staying in politics…

  60. 60.

    RandomMonster

    @hueyplong: Sounds like maybe your beloved pet isn’t a “raw flame” or a “live wire” either.

    Nope. But she needed to think it was a possibility.

  61. 61.

    Josie

    @BeautifulPlumage: ​
     But then you put butter and syrup on the waffle. Then, if the chicken picks up a little of the syrup, that’s just additional goodness. Of course, the secret is that it has to be really good fried chicken.

  62. 62.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @TBone: ​
      Yessss, that’s what I’m talking about. Yum. Looks like I’ll have to up my game.

    Is it ever served with an egg under the gravy?

  63. 63.

    Quinerly

    @RandomMonster:

    Such a great song.

    I am a HUGE Steely Dan fan. (Steely Dan, Little Feat, and Josh Ritter are my go tos for background music). I think Fagen and Becker’s music really holds up over time. I wore out the vinyl of Fagen’s first solo album  (Night Fly) in law school. Love “The Goodbye Look.” That song still makes me smile 40 years later. Reasons.

    Fagen’s book “Eminent Hipsters” is a short and good read.

  64. 64.

    lahke

    Keb Mo’s work has been adapted for politics before.  Here’s BTS doing a remix of his song “Am I Wrong?” to call out a South Korean politician who was calling for reinstated Josean-era social castes that classified most folks as subhuman:

    https://youtu.be/LxwMHqU2IlU?si=79EVfnzQMFhzKL9F

    Given that he was part of a pretty right-wing government that was busy blacklisting artists , BTs couldn’t be more explicit,  but Korean audiences got the point.

    They gave Kevin Moore the main producer credit on their remix so that he’d collect the royalty check; BTS like to give the credit where it’s due.

  67. 67.

    Tony Jay

    @What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:

    Considering they had Baseball at the last Olympics, I guess it’s just a matter of time.

    I mean, Baseball, really? Other than you guys and the Japanese does anyone else actually play it?

    @Lapassionara:

    Come on. The timed jumps. Rider and mount working in sweaty harmony to beat the clock. Knowing that when they finish its tea and crumpets and a bracing interrogation at the hands of Miss Marple about the dead valet in their dressing room.

    Drama!

  71. 71.

    Martin

    @Suzanne: I really think he should be. He’s hands down the best communicator in the party when it comes to defending Democratic positions. He’s also from the midwest, he’s really good at talking about infrastructure and manufacturing and labor and all of the things that everyone thinks we need to shore up with white men.

    And yeah, he’s gay, but he’s not leather daddy dancing in a pride parade gay. He’s work hard and defend his family gay. And that really resonates with all men with a family. Yeah, you’re not going to get the hard homophobes, but you never were. 70% of Americans approve of gay marriage, and for an awful lot of people it’s because of guys like Pete that they approve.

    Put another way – there’s a lot of folks who are kind of squishy on gay people. They’re okay with Neil Patrick Harris (one of my daughters other choices for VP mainly for the Harris/Harris meme) but not so much with the flamboyant look-at-me gay community. To them, Pete is a role model, and a lot of voters like to support role models. That’s one of the bigger objections they likely have to Trump – that he is a terrible role model. And it’s one of the bigger adjectives attached to Obama. They liked Obama because he was the right kind of black guy with a picture perfect family. And I don’t know if there was some element of ‘if we elect him, maybe those kind of black people will try and be more like this guy’ or not, but I did kind of get that kind of vibe off of some folks. Hell, I have a gay friend who gives off that kind of vibe about trans people, and I have not figured out how to have the ‘what the fuck, dude’ conversation with him.

  72. 72.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @Josie: ​
      I think it was the actual versus what I imagined it would be from the description, something like biscuits & gravy : ). Plus the chicken had too much breading. Did not look as appealing as the picture Raven pointed to.

  74. 74.

    SatanicPanic

    @Tony Jay: yes, she’s the Brazilian with the long hair. She’s been a phenom since six. Just looks like someone who was born on a skateboard.

    It wouldn’t let me link videos fro my phone but if you want to see some current not contest street skateboarding look up Tristan Funkhouser. That guy is incredible

  75. 75.

    MomSense

    @Quinerly:

    I’m still thinking about you meeting Dr. John.  I loved him.  The way the second line did him proud at his funeral was just amazing.

  79. 79.

    Baud

    @Martin:

    And yeah, he’s gay, but he’s not leather daddy dancing in a pride parade gay.

     
    Not a week in, and we’re already willing to compromise our values for a win?

  83. 83.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Tony Jay: Baseball is big in South Korea and a couple of Latin American countries but that’s about it. Canada has a couple pro teams but I have no idea if anyone plays baseball there. So maybe 8 countries total take it seriously. I think Cricket is bigger globally and that’s only big in former British colonies and not even in all of them.

    Ultimate is fun to play and while it’s not a major spectator sport anywhere I think it’s played in a lot of place recreationally. The game is played on the honor system – they don’t even use referees. You’d think that kind of sportsmanship would appeal to the Olympic Committee but I can see how I’m totally naive saying that with a straight face

  87. 87.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @whatsmynym: That’s great. Shouldn’t have taken that long but I’m glad it’s in. I wonder if they’ll have referees or continue to rely on the honor system?

  88. 88.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @eclare: ​
      I’ve been experimenting with savory waffles for dinner dishes. Not happy with the results yet but enjoying the experimenting.

  90. 90.

    Tony Jay

    @Martin:

    Jesus Christ! Would you just look at that absolute nonsense!?!? How do you even think that craziness up, never mind do it so well?

    Hands down some lobe-melting stuff to be enjoyed right there.

  92. 92.

    Phylllis

    @Tony Jay: It’s also pretty easy to figure out, play and scoring-wise. Still not quite clear on when they’re allowed to forward kick tho. An excuse to find more rugby to watch.

  93. 93.

    eclare

    @Phylllis:

    I remember once asking Steeplejack what team to cheer for in metric football if I didn’t really care who won.

    His answer:  the hotter team.

  98. 98.

    Tony Jay

    @SatanicPanic:

    That’s the one. She and the Japanese girls, just wow. Loved the American girl with the red hair who skates sans helmet but protected from harm by the biggest grin of blissed-out enjoyment I’ve seen since Brian Blessed discovered a second helping of mashed potatoes hidden under his roast chicken.

  102. 102.

    hueyplong

    @Quinerly: I was actually going to go with that line but decided that it was dangerously coconuttish for me (as opposed to you) to do.

  103. 103.

    Tony Jay

    @Martin:

    Because it turns out he was, in fact, her long-lost biological father who had discovered she was, in reality, the mad twin from up in the attic who had kidnapped the real Olympian sister and was planning to frame her for putting itching powder under the saddles of her rivals.

    Oh, hang on, no, they used that in an episode of The New Avengers.

  111. 111.

    Tony Jay

    @raven:

    I love that at least three of those flags are clearly invented. 😂

    ETA – No, just two. Turns out Canada is real.

  114. 114.

    TBone

    @BeautifulPlumage: no egg!  The best dish I’ve ever had was at a local watering hole named The Scarlet D.  The former proprietor was quite a gent and used to have a roasted peanut factory in the tiny town where his pub is located, a twin business.  So of course the floor of the pub was ankle deep in peanut shells most days. We’d throw handfuls around, shouting about NUTS!

    This pub was in a very old building that was an Inn (new owner has since ruined it) for weary travelers.  It had an old school wood burning cook stove with the stovetop lids.  The proprietor had his old school waffle iron going with an old school waffle batter and a cauldron of turkey stew bubbling on the stove.  Waffles were made to order right in front of you.

    Scarlet D owner also made the best oyster stew to order on that stove (served separately of course).  Oh those good old days!

  117. 117.

    raven

    @Tony Jay:

    •  Canada – Invited
    •  Chinese Taipei – 1983 Asian Baseball Championshipgold medalist, defeat Japan in a playoff
    •  Dominican Republic – 1983 Pan American Games Fourth place – Replaced Cuba as the highest Americas team
    •  Italy – 1983 European Baseball Championship gold medalist
    •  Japan – Invited
    •  South Korea – 1982 Amateur World Series gold medalist
    •  Nicaragua – 1983 Pan American Games silver medalist
    •  United States – Host nation
  118. 118.

    Marc

    @What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:  Baseball is big in South Korea and a couple of Latin American countries but that’s about it.

    One of the most quintessentially Japanese moments I’ve experienced was a trip to the fabled Koshien Stadium (47K seats) to see a sold-out regular season game between the Hanshin (Osaka) Tigers and the Yomiuri (Tokyo) Giants.  Fans segregated by team waving huge banners while drunkenly singing the team songs, young women carrying kegs on their backs supplying beer and takoyaki (breaded fried octopus balls), various team and local mascots running all over the field between innings.  The Tigers won, so no Colonel Sanders statues were thrown in the Dotonbori Canal (don’t ask).

  120. 120.

    laura

    @Quinerly: Slash has been out on a Blues musical revue tour with a revolving lineup of Bluesman and Blueswomen and KebMo was among them. I saw them in the Sacramento area on the 12th with Eric Gales, Samantha Fish and Warren Haynes. I’d never seen Slash play a Fender flat steel guitar before, and as usual, he did not disappoint. https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/slash-serpent-festival-warren-haynes-tour-2024/

    Check em out if you get a chance.      Will that dog ever learn to speak the english? Does he still have a girlfriend?

  122. 122.

    Tony Jay

    @Steve in the ATL:

    There’s also “hearing me list the ways in which Highlander 2 was a terrible film, despite Michael Ironside being in it”, but those are the three internationally accepted ones, yes.

  124. 124.

    MomSense

    @Quinerly:

    That is a good piece.  Did you see Lightening in a Bottle?  He is so good in that and I loved hearing his thoughts on some of the other musicians.

  125. 125.

    Tony Jay

    @raven:

    You and your bloody ‘facts and research’, man. I was hoping for at least one ‘Grand and Liberated Republic of Pyramidia’.

  126. 126.

    eclare

    @Tony Jay:

    This morning I listened to my cousin (visiting from out of town) go into detail about the Crowdstrike problem.  He works in IT, I get it, but using abbreviations none of us know?  Read the room.

  127. 127.

    Martin

    @Baud: Not at all. If you want to wait until the electorate is ready for a gay candidate that expresses their sexuality in any way they like, we can do that. The black community understands this dynamic. They don’t like it, and I don’t blame them, but we were better off electing Obama than waiting until we could elect someone who didn’t code switch for the electorate. I think it’s bullshit that the electorate is more likely to vote for Harris than Jasmine Crockett simply due to how they speak and look, but I feel pretty safe in saying that’s a true statement.

    The question is whether we’re better able to change minds by getting who we can get into office now, or waiting. I can tell you that Scott Wiener loses a LOT of support with voters even here in liberal California because he’s a little too visibly gay. I think that’s bullshit, but that’s the electorate, man, and if you want to elect a gay candidate, he’s a heavier lift than someone like Pete. I’m up for the challenge, but I’d rather the consequence of losing not be someone like Trump.

    I’m not selling out our values. I’m not suggesting that Democrats don’t back the LGBTQ community in every respect, exactly as they wish to be. But we have had how many conversations about how a guy who happens to live in a PA zip-code is a better choice than a guy who lives in a NC zip-code because the electorate in PA will respond to that candidate better. This is fucking electoral politics, man. If this is compromising our values, then every single conversation we’ve ever had about a candidate ever was a compromise of our values. We’re neck deep in we need a midwest old white guy because that’s what the electorate respects, and all that bullshit.

    I’m sorry for pulling forward the stereotype, but we know that’s what a lot of people are afraid of. We know that’s what they envision. I’m not making a judgment on how people express their sexuality, but if we can’t recognize that other people DO and those people get to vote, then I don’t know how we get people elected and work to remedy that.

    Pete is my first choice because I think if we want to come through for and elevate the gay community, he’s not just our best bet to do that as soon as possible, I think he’s better than the other people we’ve been discussing to win in general – I think he’s a better candidate than Shapiro. But a lot of that is because I think when he speaks on values and talks about his family and relationship, and when people look at his family, they will just see a normal family, just like the Obamas fit the stereotype of a normal family.

    Maybe I’m all wrong on this. And if I am, I’m sorry.

  128. 128.

    TBone

    @KatKapCC:  I adore Chelsea, especially when she’s on skis 😆

    Chelsea rang in her 47th birthday on Friday, Feb. 25 in a very special way: By sharing a video to Instagram of herself skiing down a mountain, topless. In one hand, Handler held a joint, while in another she held a drink. The author even repped Canada with a flag on her back — as well as a Canadian flag and American flag over each nipple.

    Handler captioned the video, which was set to “The Next Episode” by Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg,

    “47. Doing all the things I love with the man I love.”

  129. 129.

    eclare

    @Martin:

    In his CBS interview, he said he wanted to spend more time at home with his kids.  Being governor of MI would let him do that, VP would not.  I don’t think he wants the job.

  137. 137.

    Tony Jay

    @eclare:

    He could have been trying to drive everyone out of the house so that he could safely take the Internet out of its protective box for a tune-up.

    Sorry. I’ve been watching the I. T Crowd. Linehan might have turned into a Rowlingesque freakturd, but my god Moss makes me cry laughing.

  142. 142.

    Trivia Man

    @Tony Jay: They should have fouled steph hard. 20 point lead with 10 seconds to play, scramble like hell for a loose ball and fire off an instant 3? Ass and a poor sport.

  145. 145.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @Miki: ​
      that’s the little waffle maker I have & I love it. Easy to store & clean. I would never use a full-size maker as I do this one. I like to experiment with different flours and liquids.

  147. 147.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @Mousebumples: ​
      I love the idea, but I gave up camping a while ago. The ground got harder as I got older and I realized I like eating my meals without dirt & bugs & leaves in them 😸. Not sure this works in the kitchen!

  149. 149.

    MagdaInBlack

    @TBone: There is a wee part of me that is concerned about all those peanut shells and a wood burning stove.

    I’m all in on the oyster stew tho.

  150. 150.

    Jeffro

    BREAKING: my wallet

    as in, I made the mistake of browsing through a fantastic independent bookstore this afternoon, and now…let’s just say I’m set until Thanksgiving if not later.

  152. 152.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @NotMax: ​
      I learned today that I need to look for the Dutch version instead of the Southern version. And now I want to open Waffles Only with both dishes and pudgy sandwiches and other fun stuff 😻

  153. 153.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Mousebumples: We had those when I was in girls scouts, and my parents had a set too. I’m kind of embarrassed we never thought of anything but jam fruit pies in them.

  154. 154.

    AWOL

     

    @Tony Jay: Venezuela, Korea, Taiwan, the DR, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, and a few other nation states/territories/tax shelters produce professional baseball players.

  157. 157.

    Geminid

    Women’s volleyball play starts tomorrow. Twelve teams are divided into three 4-team pools; the top two teams in each pool willadvance to knockout rounds, as will the top two 3rd place teams.

    Italy’s team is 1st in world rankings and Turkiye is 3rd. Both teams are in Group C, and their match next Sunday could be a preview of the final. Turkeys “Sultans of the Net” were ranked 1st much of last year so this will be a game to watch.

  158. 158.

    Kyle Rayner

    @Martin: Yeah, this is fair and accurate. I hate that it is, but it is. Especially if we’re also talking about things like “Harris was simply next in line and can dodge accusations of being too ambitious that are usually lobbed at women.” It’s all about maximizing appeal and sidestepping potholes. Some truths about electability are more hurtful than others, sadly, but they all generally suck.

    That said, fingers crossed for a leather daddy option in 2032.

  159. 159.

    Ruckus

    I’ve been on this blog for a rather long time and this is one of the best posts I’ve seen – and heard.

    And that is high praise for everyone involved here because this blog is, in my mind, one of the premier places on this concept of wide ranging human communications and has been for a long time now. Some have opinions that get them banned but far, far more have opinions and views that have opened up minds and brought on growth because of it. It is of course not the only blog online, but it is one that has existed, grown, and become home on the web for many of us beings called human.

    And it is because of bits and pieces like this one.

    I don’t believe I’ve ever said this before but, John Cole, all the rest of the authors and commenters – thank you, thank you, thank you all.

    I am on the retired side of life, and damnit I’ve earned it. Over 60 yrs of working life, mostly making tools that made plastic products that many of you have seen in your lifetimes. I hope to see at least another 25 yrs, just to break the century mark, and to be around to see this country grow the hell up – for all of us.

    And in that vein GO KAMALA HARRIS!

  161. 161.

    TBone

    @MagdaInBlack:

    The wood burning cook stove was set up on its feet on a little non-flammable platform because the Inn still had its original, fat plank wood floors!

    @NotMax:

    I bet that’s where the proprietor got his big peanut ideas!

  162. 162.

    TBone

    @BeautifulPlumage: the secret ingredient was the antique cast iron waffle iron.  No electricity.  It made the best waffles I’ve ever eaten.  Wish I had that old school batter recipe too.

    https://www.castironcollector.com/waffle.php

    An upsurge in popularity of waffle making in the late 18th century roughly coincided with the advent of wood-burning stoves, so irons were designed with them in mind. As with pots and pans, different diameter waffle irons and bases were used depending on the size of stove eye openings. Some models were marketed as being usable over more than one size stove eye and were marked as such, e.g. “6 & 7”, or “8 & 9”. Early bases were low in height, as the iron would be unobstructed when rotated over an open stove eye.

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    Citizen Alan

    @Tony Jay:  It breaks my heart to think that what would have one of the funniest episodes of The IT Crowd (“The Speech”) was ruined because the B plot is a transphobic mess.

  169. 169.

    Martin

    @Kyle Rayner: I’m here for it.

    And again, I’m sorry if I hurt Baud or anyone else’s feelings, that wasn’t at all my intention. And I am happy to be corrected. I get shit wrong all the time.

  170. 170.

    SomeRandomGuy

    We’ll never fully scrub the stain of Trump’s 2016 Electoral College victory out of our national history. The rise of his oppositional defiant disordered cult is an ongoing danger to American democracy.

    We could. Germany went full Anti-Nazi, after WWII, unlike the Confederacy, who went full on “The Yankees did NAZI this coming!” who, please remember, *TRAINED* the Nazis in being bigots. The PRIDE OF THE CONFEDERACY! That’s right, today’s Republican Party will *NEVER* be “premature anti-fascists”. Nor anti-fascists for that matter. But if you get rid of the P and the A, they’re F as F, let me tell you.

    (Huh? Oh, during the McCarthy era, “PAF” = “Premature Anti-Fascist” = you realized that Hitler had a lot of Trumplike qualities BEFORE, I dunno, Pearl Harbor or something? I don’t know what’s “pre-mature” in thinking a treasonous bigot is bad for, well, everything. Get rid of the P and the A, and sure, Republicans will gladly be as F as F, if you know what I mean, and you’re probably right if you’re guessing “Physics!”

    What? Well, has string theory, right? Well, what do you tie strings into? Little nazis! BWAHHAHAHAHA BWAHHAHAokay it was a dumb joke.

    )

  171. 171.

    bluefoot

    @Kyle Rayner: ​
      It would be wondrous. I didn’t think we’d get to a Democratic woman of color this fast, but here we are. So I hold out hope for more and faster change, and that the MAGA craziness is just a burst before extinction.

  172. 172.

    like a metaphor

    @BeautifulPlumage: what all kinds of savory waffles have you made?  I’m thinking of getting a waffle maker soon, but I’m not really into sweets.  Also, would a Belgian waffle maker be better, or worse? I’ve never used either type.

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