Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Republicans in disarray!

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

White supremacy is terrorism.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

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  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Oh my.

    The last time South Korea is known to have plotted to assassinate the North Korean leadership, nothing went as planned.

    In the late 1960s, after North Korean commandos tried to ransack the presidential palace in Seoul, South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il Sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied.

    They killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up, an episode the government concealed for decades.

    Now, as Kim’s grandson, Kim Jong Un, accelerates his nuclear missile program, South Korea is again targeting the North’s leadership.…
    [snip]
    Rarely does a government announce a strategy to assassinate a head of state, but South Korea wants to keep the North on edge and nervous about the consequences of further developing its nuclear arsenal. At the same time, the South’s increasingly aggressive posture is meant to help push North Korea into accepting President Moon Jae-in’s offer of talks. Source

  6. 6.

    Peale

    So I got my Pokemon Go Ex raid pass. Not that I’d admit to playing a game that went out of fashion last August. But still, even if I weren’t forced to admit that I still am playing, the Ex Raid pass pretty much guarantees that traffic on Friday in Rockland County New York will be a disaster. as the gods conspire to make me miss my time slot.

  7. 7.

    Peale

    Also, I’m a bit concerned that it really did matter who was on the Supreme Court as chances appear good that they’ll decide that race based voter suppression is not only constitutional, but mandatory.

  9. 9.

    JMG

    My daughter arrives from France this evening for her three week vacation from her job in Bordeaux! We pick her up at Logan after she clears customs. Flight lands at 5:15. Ordinarily, nothing could get me to drive to Logan at rush hour, but for this, I’ll happily make an exception.

  10. 10.

    Librarian

    Driftwood: And two hard-boiled eggs.
    Tomasso: HONK!
    Driftwood: Make that three hard-boiled eggs.
    Tomasso: HONK! (a shorter honk)
    Driftwood: And one duck egg.

  12. 12.

    ET

    Looked at this interesting CNN piece on the Macedonian fake news industry. They make money because too many people looking at the Internet are way to credulous – regardless of the political affiliation – though it seems clear that they make more targeting the political right. It wasn’t long but did have some interesting perspective.

  13. 13.

    Catherine D.

    @Librarian:

    Ha! I watched A Night at the Opera over the weekend.

    I finally heard from my wheelchair bound friend in Fort Myers. He did not float away.

  14. 14.

    Brachiator

    Dispiriting, but interesting Politico story suggesting that Trump is more popular than people might think.

    President Donald Trump is still viewed as an outsider shaking up the system, which people in various surveys say they like….

    Worse news, they worry: Many of the ideas party leaders have latched onto in an attempt to appeal to their lost voters — free college tuition, raising the minimum wage to $15, even Medicare for all — test poorly among voters outside the base. The people in these polls and focus groups tend to see those proposals as empty promises, at best.

    Trying to link from my mobile device:

    politico.com/story/2017/09/13/teflon-trump-democrats-messaging-242607

  16. 16.

    p.a.

    Did you candle it? Just bought 1 dozen duck eggs ‘honor system’: a sidewalk cooler with 6 & 12 packs, $3/6, $5/12. They must have lots of ducks, I don’t think they produce like chickens.

  17. 17.

    Miss Bianca

    @TaMara (HFG): Destined for dog food? Oh, TaMara! Duck eggs are so egg-squisitely rich…like pate in egg form! Reason alone to keep ducks, imho, apart from the inherent entertainment value in their very duckiness.

  19. 19.

    FlyingToaster

    @JMG:

    Flight lands at 5:15.

    She should be out of Customs 6pm-6:15. If there’s no backup.

    It takes up to 15 minutes to taxi to E, ~15 minutes to deplane, 0-15 minutes for your luggage to reach the carousel, and then the citizen’s line through the CBE booths.

    When my sister and BIL are coming in from London, we usually park at 45 minutes after landing, and they show up sometime in the next 20 minutes.

    Traffic is worse than usual right now; road construction compounded by stupid people who just moved here and haven’t learned the ropes.

  20. 20.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    can we just drop all pretence and start calling it the Obstruction of Justice Department?

    Le sigh. I assume (hope) that they can’t refuse Mueller’s request for the same?

  21. 21.

    coozledad

    @TaMara (HFG): If you get six of them and scramble them with cheese and olives, they’ll make the best omelet you’ve ever had. But don’t boil them. Waterfowl eggs are too rubbery when boiled, unless you make “hundred year old” or Asian salted eggs.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @O. Felix Culpa:

    I assume (hope) that they can’t refuse Mueller’s request for the same?

    I would hope the same, but these days I try not to assume much of anything I would have taken for granted just a few months ago.

  23. 23.

    Cheryl Rofer

    I took the kittehs out this morning for the third day in a row. They really like going outdoors but aren’t fond of the vests and leashes. But they don’t object to my putting the vests on them. I think that’s progress.

    Edited for clarity.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    @Brachiator:
    It’s my impression that no amount of rational criticism of Trump will work on his base, whose choice to cling to him was and is fundamentally irrational. I would guess they take the criticism as directed at them too, and their natural reaction is to circle the wagons. (Have I got the movie-Western reference right?) I reckon that if the Democratic party wants to drive a wedge between Trump and his base, it should highlight where Trump has broken promises to the base, where he has actively worked to harm it: “Look! Here’s where he’s fucking you over!” I’m no political strategist, here let alone over there, so I have no idea if it will work; but that’s what I’d try.

  31. 31.

    JCJ

    @Peale: Good Luck! I haven’t gotten an Ex pass yet (not that I know what they are). I was at Pokemon Go fest in Chicago so I am even more uncool than you!

  32. 32.

    Amir Khalid

    @Cheryl Rofer:
    I doubt the kittehs will ever really learn to like wearing a vest. It must feel confining. Bianca hated wearing collars; she kept scratching and scratching at them until they frayed and started to look ugly. So I learned to respect her wishes and not make her wear them. Still, your kittehs are coming to accept the vests, and they will be safer for that as you intend, so it’s all good.

  33. 33.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Amir Khalid:

    I reckon that if the Democratic party wants to drive a wedge between Trump and his base, it should highlight where Trump has broken promises to the base, where he has actively worked to harm it: “Look! Here’s where he’s fucking you over!” I’m no political strategist, here let alone over there, so I have no idea if it will work; but that’s what I’d try.

    They don’t care. There’s a professor in Wisconsin who’s been talking to them, they never believed he would help them, only that he would hurt others. We can’t appeal to these people. We should still advocate and sell policies that would help them, of course, but we shouldn’t bother pitching it to them specifically.

  35. 35.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Brachiator: They really bury the lede in their “Democrats are doomed! None of the attacks are working!” article way at the bottom when they get to what actually matters.

    More and more, Democratic operatives are gravitating toward pushing for an argument that Trump is just out to make his rich friends richer, at the expense of everyone else. They believe they could include all sorts of attacks on his decisions under that umbrella, from stripping regulations on credit cards to trying to end Obamacare to pushing for corporate tax breaks.

    DCCC polling showed that on the question of who “fights for people like me,” Trump and Democrats were split at 50 percent each in February but that Democrats are now ahead by 17 points.

    “Everything is a trade-off,” said Guy Cecil, reflecting polling done by his Priorities USA super PAC. Republicans “want to give tax cuts to the rich, and they want to screw the rest of us. This is a quintessential question of whose side are you on.”

    Bill Burton, a former Obama aide now at SKDKnickerbocker, said he’s worried Democrats are still not making a convincing argument on economic issues.

    But he sees some cause for optimism.

    “The question has to be what counts as working — the guy’s approval ratings are in the mid-30s,” Burton said of Trump. “So the other way of looking at this is, everything is working.”

  40. 40.

    The Moar You Know

    There’s a professor in Wisconsin who’s been talking to them, they never believed he would help them, only that he would hurt others.

    @Major Major Major Major: Can so verify with the two Trump voters I know personally. They “know government won’t do anything for white folks” (thanks, Reagan), they just wanted to stick it to the Obamaphone and Obamacare recipients, the BLM folks, libtards, and everyone else who’s not white and proud who has pissed them off over the last fifty years. Trump voters seem to have two things in common: above average incomes (they are NOT WWC) and incredible amounts of rage and entitlement.

  43. 43.

    Brachiator

    @Major Major Major Major:

    There’s a professor in Wisconsin who’s been talking to them, they never believed he would help them, only that he would hurt others.

    I would like to see this person’s work. I think that some of this is true, but it is not the whole story.

    We can’t appeal to these people.

    Sure you can. Democrats have done so before. They can do so again. Maybe. I DO note that Trump and his people are trying to appeal to citizens’ worst instincts, to deliberately drive wedges between people.

  46. 46.

    Jeffro

    PBO has a post up on the Book of Faces about Edie Windsor, who just passed away.

    One of the best comments: “Okay Barack, you’ve had your fun, we gave you a 6 month break. Time to get back to work now. Your substitute is scaring all the students. He’s not following the lesson plans you left at all. Can you come home now? Please? With cherries on top?”

    More like: “He’s eating all the #2 pencils and crapping out the window…could you at least come back and guest-lecture or something?”

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    If CHERYL ROFER is around:

    Might want to note that Evan Osnos is guest on today’s Fresh Air, talking about NK and nukes. Program is just starting here. Podcast available later.

  50. 50.

    TenguPhule

    @NotMax:

    South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il Sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied.

    They killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up, an episode the government concealed for decades.

    If it wasn’t so tragic it would actually be kind of funny.

  52. 52.

    TKinNC

    @TaMara (HFG): My feedstore Rouen lays pale green eggs. They are YUGE – but she’s been laying for a few years now.
    I boil any extra eggs for my dog — it’s his reward for keeping the foxes & coyotes away.

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Damn. School shooting in Spokane.

    Edit: NEAR Spokane. One reported dead, six others reported injured. Bearing in mind all the usual caveats about early reporting, unofficial numbers, etc.

  64. 64.

    TenguPhule

    @Yutsano:

    Nothing will beat the gross out factor of a half-developed duck embryo eaten raw out of the shell.

    In all fairness, most of the time you can’t actually see most of it since they tend to be eaten whole.

    Never eaten it, but it can be found here at certain local eateries.

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