Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

In my day, never was longer.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

T R E 4 5 O N

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

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

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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Friday Night Open Thread

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I’ve spent the last couple of days decluttering my pantry and throwing out expired shit, and lemme just put it this way- 2018 must have been an amazing year for tomato soup because I collected a bunch of it. Also, I have a dozen cans of tomato paste (those little fuckers are stealthy) and near a dozen cans of coconut milk, so there’s curry in my future.

I got so overwhelmed with all the dried beans I had that I got out the quickpot or hastypot I can’t remember what the fuck it is called but you olds know it as a pressure cooker with settings for stupid people and I just started throwing things in. Half a bag of mixed beans, a half back of black eyed peas, some pinto beans and then it just descended from there and I threw in some cajun seasoning and then a leftover packet of paella mix and some garlic and black pepper and then I just went to the freezer and did the same thing there with two handfuls of shrimp, two lingering brats, and a lonely ham hock, grabbed a couple onions and chucked them it, and pressed a button and let the thing fuck off for an hour or so.

Came back and it was by no means the best thing I had ever made but it was edible so we’ll just eat that for the next two days until it is gone. If any of you see me in the dried beans or rice aisle of any grocery store you have my permission to hit me with a tranq dart and get me the fuck out of there.

Lowkey night tonight. Gonna watch Hacks again. What are you all up to?

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Achievement Unlocked: Colonoscopy

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All in all, not too bad. As I noted elsewhere, the worst part of the procedure was dealing with all the hyper caffeinated nurses at 7 am when I was not allowed to have any and had basically been up all night going to the bathroom.

Experience was quick and painless. Wheeled you back told you to get on your side, injected some stuff they said would feel like fire in your veins for a second but I found to be cool, and the next thing I know I was awake and not groggy. The first thing the female nurse asked me when I woke ups was “Do you have a wife” because apparently I snored like a beast the entire time.

Took me back to the recovery room, waited ten minutes, and then went out to the lot where mom was waiting. Came home, had a quick breakfast of a sausage egg and cheese sandwich and fell asleep for four hours.

They found a few polyps and said I was not clean enough to get into some of the deeper regions so I get to do this again in a year with more “aggressive” cleansing techniques as preparation.

All in all, the whole thing was not a big deal and I think people do a disservice by claiming it is worse than it is. As far as the medical procedures I have had, this was way down on the scale.

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Maybe I Have Too Much Fiber in My Diet

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I dunno what is going on here, but I am four hours in on my colonoscopy prep, have had all but the last two 8 oz glasses of Muralax, all the Dulcolax, and I had two minor bowel movements, and I feel a little pressure, but I am not having any of the explosive shits or any of the stuff people normally talk about.

To be honest, I keep waiting for something to happen and it’s just not.

This really is a full service blog.

*** Update ***

9:12 pm- Nevermind.

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A Delightful Talk

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If you have some time, I would definitely check out the latest podcast at LGM in their series about the old blogosphere. This is part six, and is with Lauren Bruce, who many of you may remember as the person who started Feministe, which was the first major feminist blog I remember.

I reached out to Lauren afterwards and we had a little chat, and it had been so long since we talked. She was one of the liberal bloggers I chatted with a great deal while still a rightwinger (another being Avedon Carol), and she was always pleasant to talk to- a lot of weekends spent chitchatting on aol im or icq or whatever platform we were using back then. At any rate, one of the things we both agreed on is just how tedious talking to people about politics is these days.

For starters, I think things are different. I just don’t think you change anyone’s mind anymore. Second, I have just run out of energy when talking to wingnuts. I just want to throttle them. I’ve had this discussion before, 100 times, with people like you, and nothing has changed. In fact, you are using a dumber argument than I was when I was a Republican twenty years ago. And that argument was bad back then and yours has not improved it.

It’s just hard. Maybe because I am older and I keep seeing all the things people were right about in 2002 and I was wrong about turn out to be true, and then nothing happens. And the same people keep being right and keep being ignored while the awful people keep getting elevated.

I’m rambling again. Go give it a listen.

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The Willow is Too Close to the Mourning Dove

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I was doing my weekly trimming of the willow tree, which I do so that I can still have a little bit of the back yard and for the health of the tree, when I found something that tickled me.  I have to get all up in the tree’s kilt to properly maintain it, which requires me cutting all the branches to about 6 feet tall, then getting up underneath and cutting out all the dead stuff, when i looked up and what did I spyy with my little eye:

I went around to the other side for a better picture:

 

He or she kept a very watchful eye on me, and I left as soon as I got the picture so as to not distress them.  That explains why I kept hearing the calls and it felt like they were right on top of me when I sat on the deck.  They were!

I should also add that the willow tree brings me joy every time I look at it.  It’s such a splendid tree.

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