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A Moment’s Respite

by Tom Levenson|  May 6, 20224:51 pm| 15 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Open Threads

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I’m still mired in the third cholera pandemic’s London outbreak, so no real posting. But I just saw this in my post-lunch attempt to read all of Twitter, and it’s too good not to share:

A Moment's Respite

I have so many uses for this. You?

Plus: Bonus Champ, in all her world-weary glory:

A Moment's Respite 1

This thread: it is open.

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15Comments

  1. 1.

    JPL

    May 6, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    Megyn McArdle was daring you yesterday to come out of retirement and critique her latest defense of the whackos.

  2. 2.

    Tom Levenson

    May 6, 2022 at 5:09 pm

    @JPL: Life is too short.

    And I have another 40,000 words to get into shitty-first-draft shape by the end of the summer. No time for McArdle-gigging.

  3. 3.

    Ohio Mom

    May 6, 2022 at 5:11 pm

    This really was a moment’s respite — four minutes later and Adam is sounding an alarm.

    Go the way of the Russian warship is a great phrase.

  4. 4.

    Old School

    May 6, 2022 at 5:12 pm

    @Tom Levenson: Just tell McArdle to go the way of the Russian warship.

  5. 5.

    Tom Levenson

    May 6, 2022 at 5:15 pm

    @Old School: Works for me.

     

    @Ohio Mom: Adam’s feet are big!

    Hey–substance over cat pics every time.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 6, 2022 at 5:20 pm

    @JPL:

    Megyn McArdle 

    Please show her the respect she deserves (none).  Her name is Megan McArgleBargle.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    May 6, 2022 at 5:27 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Champ has her number and could take her out with a hiss and a swat.

  8. 8.

    Gin & Tonic

    May 6, 2022 at 5:39 pm

    @Ohio Mom: Meh on the Adam. I thought he’d be posting about what appears to be the beginning of the Ukrainian counter-attacking phase. I guess I’ll have to stay up late for that.

    Anyway, now “go the way of the russian warship” will have to be more specific, as it appears that the Admiral Makarov is joining the Moskva on the bottom of the Black Sea (subject to independent confirmation.)

  9. 9.

    Mike in NC

    May 6, 2022 at 6:11 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Admiral Makarov is/was a modern (2017) frigate and some people were amused that the namesake for the ship was born in Ukraine.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    May 6, 2022 at 6:29 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I would be very happy to post your take on the counter-attack and/or the significance of sinking the warships and/or anything else you have to say on Ukraine.

    Really good to get multiple perspectives.

  11. 11.

    planetjanet

    May 6, 2022 at 7:43 pm

    @Mike in NC: Most excellent news.  And the weekend is just starting. I may also start practicing saying “make like a Russian warship”.  Two smiles.

  12. 12.

    Another Scott

    May 6, 2022 at 9:55 pm

    @JPL: Popehat has it covered.

    As Meghan McCain's book tanks, a flashback to the time 11 years ago she used Snell & Wilmer to make vexatious litigation threats to Red State over a clearly protected parody of her execrable writing t.co/2JSoYhphO0

    — FindACrimeHat (@Popehat) May 6, 2022

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  13. 13.

    Another Scott

    May 6, 2022 at 10:10 pm

    @Another Scott:

    A taste.

    Perhaps he thinks people who want to read Meghan McCain’s work non-ironically are unusually stupid; this doesn’t help him either, because the test is what a reasonable person would think, not what a McCain fan would think.

    [ snort! ]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  14. 14.

    Jinchi

    May 6, 2022 at 10:21 pm

    Tim Mak:

    I can’t count just how many Ukrainians I’ve spoken to who, in casual conversation, now use…

    …”go the way of the Russian warship!” as a polite substitute for “eff off!”

    I am the only one wondering why so many Ukrainians are using this in casual conversation with Tim Mak?

  15. 15.

    SargassoSink

    May 7, 2022 at 5:25 am

    I can almost hear Champ asking me if I’ve gotten my ticket to the gun show

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