Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Let there be snark.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

This blog will pay for itself.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Come on, man.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Republicans in disarray!

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  1. 1.

    David Koch

    Chuck Todd on the nightly news said the shutdown is the fault of …. wait for it.. “both sides”.

    Brian Williams was pissed that his stock portfolio went down today. No really.

  9. 9.

    Svensker

    He looks a lot more intelligent than Gohmert or Bachmann. Also, cuter. Love that Max.

    How’s the rug rat?

  10. 10.

    Montysano

    A couple of my best selling photos were taken on foggy mornings, and yes, I too felt like I was cheating.

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    I’m walking a tightrope with my TV viewing tonight. Gotta monitor the football and the baseball, and then there’s Castle. I thought the premiere of The Blacklist last week was pretty bad, but I’m going to give it a couple of more episodes because James Spader was good and I think it could have potential. Other shows have recovered after stumbling out of the starting gate.

    Citizen Kane is on TCM at 11:00 EDT, for those who want a refresher, but the real late-night gem is The Best Years of Our Lives at 1:30 a.m. A surprisingly (given when it was released, 1946) affecting and not-gauzy movie about the aftermath of World War II. Good acting all around: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and real-life disabled war veteran Harold Russell.

    And it’s followed by Roberto Rossellini’s Open City at 4:30 a.m., a hard-hitting movie about the late stages of the war in Italy.

  19. 19.

    Yatsuno

    MAXPUPPEH!!!

    @Ruckus:

    How’d you get him to sit still?

    Apparently Dobies go from zero to zoom and back again. A friend breeds them, when they weren’t scaring me when I was walking in to his house (only once, once they knew me they literally fought over who would get head skritches from me) they were laying around in the house and occasionally demanding attention from stray hands. They can be lazy things when they want to be.

  20. 20.

    Steeplejack

    @koalaholik:

    He won the Best Supporting Actor award and also got a special Oscar for being an inspiration to returning vets.

    I have seen that movie so many times, but now I am thinking about watching it again or making room on the DVR for it. There are so many great scenes, and the issues are not soft-pedaled in the usual Hollywooden rah-rah way. Great scene where Teresa Wright confronts—and accepts—the Russell character’s disability. And a particular favorite of mine comes late in the movie, when Dana Andrews, leaving town after the collapse of his marriage, comes upon the graveyard of airplanes, climbs up into a bomber and flashes back to his wartime experience.

    These days it really makes you think about the legacy we will have from Iraq and Afghanistan.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    When I see that much grey low-hanging sky around here, it doesn’t make me think of morning mist, alas. It makes me think that some Indonesian plantation work crew, perhaps in a Malaysian-owned plantation, is burning agricultural waste again, and the smoke is drifting all over Southeast Asia.

  27. 27.

    raven

    @Steeplejack: One very important part of Russel’s story is when they are talking about how he got hot. Andrews was a pilot and March was a grunt. They are saying how Russel must have seen a lot of shit and he says, “no, not really, I was below deck and took a torpedo” (or words to that effect). It threw a little cold water on the supposition that there was one way to be in the shit.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    Yeah, it’s a surprisingly realistic movie, given the time.

    I looked up the airplane graveyard scene.

    One of the underlying themes is that these guys had unbelievable pressures and responsibilities in the war, and then they’re expected to go back to their previous lives as soda jerk (Dana Andrews) or office jockey (Fredric March) as if nothing had happened.

  31. 31.

    PurpleGirl

    Max! Beautiful doggy. Love how Dobermans look when they sit up straight like that. Noble, regal.

    Max!

  32. 32.

    Liberty60

    It isn’t the intense chiaroscuro that marvels me, its finding that one moment when the photography subject is able to look noble and inteligent, before discovering something of intense fascination in his butt.

    Truly, Annie Liebovitz would be proud. She had the same challenge, from what I hear.

  39. 39.

    sherparick

    Max is simply a magnificent dog. How is he with cats, I wonder. You are a great photographer with a wonderful subject.

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