Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Republicans in disarray!

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

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

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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The Texas Mess

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Someone asked for a thread on Greg Abbott’s decision to ignore a Supreme Court ruling and double down on the razor wire.   Like Cheryl Rofer over at LGM, I don’t know exactly how to deal with this clown.  But this I do know:  he wants a confrontation with Biden, badly, as do the 25 Republican Governors backing him.  He will keep escalating and threatening secession until he gets the confrontation he wants.

I hope the Biden administration will keep its power dry and confront Abbott at a time and place of their choosing, with a response that is firm but proportional.  I have no idea what that response should be, so I’ll leave it there.

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E Jean Carroll Verdict: $83.3 Million

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Just a place for you to whoo-hoo the verdict.

 

3…2…1 to Criminal Trump tantrum

 

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RIP Ingenuity! It Was A Good Run (Open Thread)

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Just a remarkable accomplishment.  Farewell Ingenuity…and we thank you (h/t Apollo 13)

I am working on combining our good news posts and some hopeful climate change information in a series of posts. I’m just trying to figure out how best to approach it. It is a LOT of good information and I am overwhelmed by it all and want to disseminate it in a way that you are not. Stay tuned…

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Good Cookware Is Plentiful And Cheap

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This is a random ass post, but I was in scrubbing the kitchen when the Amazon person arrived with a package, and it was the dutch oven I had ordered. One of the things I have learned rather recently is that there is a LOT of really good cookware for cheap.

When I got my first paycheck after grad school, one of the first things I did was buy a really expensive chef knife. It was a Viking, it was super heavy, and it was like 120 bucks. And then, over the last 20+ years, I have slowly built the kitchen one item at a time. I only buy stuff that is going to last. So I will spend 140 bucks on one sauce pan, and then I will have that sauce pan for the rest of my life. A couple of items a year the first couple years, one or two a year over the next few, and then as needed. So I was able to amass a nice setup without every having to do a massive outlay of cash, but also didn’t have to buy a bunch of replaceable crappy stuff over and over.

At any rate, I have all that shit at home, but it is not here. And I have neither the financial means nor the desire to stock another kitchen. So I have been doing shit on the cheap. And so far, I have been super impressed. Two items of note- at home I have a range of matfer bourgeat skillets. I have no intention of doing the same thing here, but we did need one skillet, so I picked up a preseasoned Merten & Storck for 29 bucks off Amazon. And it’s been a great pan. I’ve used it 20 times already, and it is my go to skillet. Were I to do it over again, I don’t think I would spend the money on higher priced ones like I have at home.

Same with this dutch oven. I’m not spending the price of a small car on Le Creuset for here. This Mueller one for 60 bucks looks, feels, and probably is every bit as durable and good as the OG le Cresuset.

So that’s nice to know.

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TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: Bringing Minnesota & Wisconsin Together

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On The Road – Dan B – A garden on Whidbey, main collector’s garden

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To the West of the house and front door is a garden fenced to keep deer out.  This is the repository for the most special plants.  It also sidles up to the parking area.

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The gate seemed both flimsy and unable to compete with the shapes and vivid textures of the many plants.  Vividly colored plants were strewn willy nilly among their less bold siblings making the more modest look drab and the vividly colored seem garish.

The parking area is to the left in this picture but fortunately is not visible from the garden.

Late Night Open Thread: Dean Phillips Is Making No New Friends

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I’m beginning to wonder if Phillips has any friends, as opposed to people he pays to tell him how good his ideas are. Dude is beginning to look more and more like a shaved bear at the mercy of a bunch of (GOP) carnies. From the hipsters at Slate, “Nevertheless, Dean Persisted”:

… With the dust nearly settled in New Hampshire, Dean Phillips looks to have pulled in just below 20 percent of the vote in the state’s unofficial Democratic primary. For a candidate who staked his entire campaign on his success in that state and who outspent the rest of the field there—and who may not even be on the ballot in some other states—that number doesn’t seem so heartening.

But for Phillips, the backbench Minnesota congressman, losing by 35-plus to someone who wasn’t even on the ballot, in a race that can’t award any delegates to the Democratic National Convention, is actually akin to winning, if you really think about it. “I’ve built business and brands and studied the best successes in marketing history,” Phillips posted on X the morning after the primary. “Never known one that generated 20% market share in just ten weeks, as we did last evening in New Hampshire.”…

It’s possible that Phillips was trying to appeal directly to his benefactors in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street by using their favored parlance. Because it’s very clear that the baby that needs to be kept “going,” the market share that needs to keep being “generated,” is the torrent of big-money donations that will be sunk into his doomed campaign. (Phillips’ pals in the Valley, in particular, should have no real aversion to lighting resources on fire in a quixotic, money-losing venture; they do that often.)

But the message may just as well have been a pep talk directed from Phillips’ consultants, vendors, and staffers to Phillips himself. The gelato and liquor tycoon has an estimated net worth of $124 million, more than enough to keep this gravy train rolling well into July, when he has pledged a contested convention. It is unclear whether he will have any delegates by that point. He has committed to self-fund at least part of this enterprise, and the people on his payroll are no doubt gleeful that he has decided to soldier on…

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