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by John Cole|  June 15, 20107:08 am| 28 Comments

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Big day for Tunch- off to the vets to have his teeth cleaned and a tooth removed. He is really bitching up a storm because I did not feed him this morning because I didn’t know if it was safe to feed a cat before surgery. I guess I never thought to ask if cats were like humans in that regard.

BTW- It is a good thing this little fellow was already adopted, or I was going to grab him. I really need to stop visiting petfinder.com.

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Monday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  June 14, 20108:02 pm| 92 Comments

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RedKitten passes along a new picture of her spawn:

I’d say he is filling out a bit.

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On the Other Hand, I’d Pay to See This

by John Cole|  June 14, 20107:27 pm| 49 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Teabagger Stupidity

TNC:

One final note, I’ve seen a lot of Tea Party folks taking exception to the charge that they are in anyway motivated by racism. Fair enough. I would humbly suggest that when you embrace political leaders who claim that the president “favors the black person,” or when your keynote speaker claims that “literacy tests” would have prevented an Obama election, you should not be surprised that your membership comes to the mall toting signs that claim Obama is supporting “White slavery.”

I would pay cash money to watch TNC debate Welch, Gillespie, and the rest of the pasty white apologists at Reason barfing up lengthy pieces about how unfair it is to call the teabaggers racist.

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Southern states

by DougJ|  June 14, 20104:12 pm| 347 Comments

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Over at TPM, readers from North Carolina are foaming at the mouth about another reader’s suggestion that South Carolina and North Carolina are about the same. FWIW, I think the North Carolinians are right that the states are quite different, but nevertheless, I always find it interesting how passionate southerners (or at least southeasterners) are about this stuff.

When I lived in Georgia, I twice had conversations where I confused something that happened with Georgia with something had happened in Alabama. I was told “Do not ever compare us with Alabama or with South Carolina”. I then asked how about other southern states and in each case was immediately given an overall ranking of “Virginia is the best, then North Carolina, then Georgia, then South Carolina, then Alabama and north Florida, and the rest of it you don’t even want to know about”. This wasn’t off the top of their heads, this was something that they had given a lot of thought to and were happy to explain at length (the explanations were quite similar to the TPM reader explanations). Another friend of mine from Georgia who moved to New York State told me that she felt proud that she could tell people that she now lived in New York State.

There’s nothing like this up north. Sure, people make cracks about New Jersey being polluted, New Yorkers being rude, and people from Massachusetts being assholes, but that’s about as far it goes.

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Monday Morning Open Thread

by John Cole|  June 14, 20108:52 am| 47 Comments

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No matter how bad your week is starting, at least it did not begin with an own goal.

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Open Thread

by @heymistermix.com|  June 14, 20107:15 am| 4 Comments

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Looks like we need one of these, so here’s some cheery music for a Monday.

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Trueblood/Treme Open Thread

by John Cole|  June 13, 20108:58 pm| 85 Comments

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By popular request.

Actually, it wasn’t so much a request as a threat.

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