I’m heading up to Connecticut for a few days with ABC, so I spent the day cleaning the house, getting ready, and making sure the piglets would be safe with their new dog sitter. My former dogsitter graduated (BOOO!) but I found a new college student who is only a sophomore at the local college, …
Schadenfreude Open Thread: The Bucket Brigade Arrives!
White House refuses to address reports that Jared Kushner wanted secret line with Russiahttps://t.co/pjmLXZvjO7 — TIME (@TIME) May 27, 2017 Inside WH, Kushner's allies have rallied behind him. But some aides privately wonder, not to his face, whether he's damaged. — Robert Costa (@costareports) May 27, 2017 Yup. I can't tweet some of the foul …
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Buddy Update: He’s Home!
BL emailed me and asked that I move her update via comment to the front page: I just returned Buddy to his home. The owner had returned from his trip.They had to leave suddenly to attend a funeral in Detroit. He is elderly but clearly cares for Buddy, whose name is Buddy. They live on 4 acres …
Saturday Afternoon Open Thread
Ric wanted to be with the flowers I bought at the Farmers’ Market this morning. Got some potatoes, obviously among the last of last year’s, but new potatoes should be coming soon, and Napa cabbage. Had a bunch of other stuff, like green onions and beets, from last week. There’s a Twitter account called @isacatinthesink …
Call the Senate
Here is our list of target Senators: pic.twitter.com/TLoTM9LKhY — Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) May 26, 2017 Call the Senate. Tell them that the AHCA is horrendous policy that actively and aggressively harms people and that you expect them to vote No. Be polite but be clear and firm as to what you want your Senator to …
Peak Dude Bro
As predicted yesterday, Hillary Clinton’s Wellesley commencement speech riled up the usual suspects because Hillary Clinton. But I found the reaction from unpaid New Republic intern (I hope) Graham Vyse particularly irritating. Not because it was worse than the drivel poured forth at Fox News, etc., but because it exemplifies a particular strain of post-election …
Saturday Morning #PopCulture Open Thread
The Simpsons takes on Trump-Comey (complete with Nixon cameo) and it’s the *perfect* way to start your weekend. pic.twitter.com/uA0VdhkMXd — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 26, 2017 (h/t Adam) If you ever saw Gene Rodenberry speak, you probably heard him describe how the Paramount suits demanded, after watching the Star Trek pilot, that he drop either …
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