Dogs are the theme of my life now. Kaiser has pretty much taken over the house, and has shown absolute fascination with chewing a particular pair of shoes and my Apple watch. He figured out how to open the closet to get to the shoes and he actually pulled my watch off the charger to give it a good chew. He ate a fucking Brillo pad. We also discovered his greatest fear- sunglasses. No shit. WebDom came over to pick him up, she was wearing sunglasses, and when he spotted her he ran away yelping and pissing himself in fright. Ran under a nightstand and sat in there cowering. She took them off and he barked for joy and ran over to her for petting and comfort. Pissing with joy this time. I’m seeing a theme.
Another theme is birthdays, including a man for all seasons; a guy who has streets named after him in Baltimore, Chicago, and a few other spots with the right ethnic mix; a guy who cut quite the attractive figure; a guy who could be a real headache; a guy who put Indiana on the map; a cartoonist who was a really nize guy (and greatly inspired Art Spiegelman); a great cosmologist who could even make an author list into fun; a fascinating woman who ought to be better known; a fantasy object for Young Man With Candy; a piece of shit who admittedly did some good trolling; and an actually good thing that came out of Canada.
Link woof.
And in the end, the spying on us is not going to stop.
Common sense evaluation of “climate change.” So of course, she will continue to be an Unperson.
I like how we’re already positioning the 2024 election to be about absolutely nothing important.
Why do this shit when there are actually valid reasons to criticize this asshole?
Team Red is a hilarious shitshow, but we knew that.
This is no dog. After a soft and lovely intro, Moody just starts blowing fire on that flute. Holy shit, I didn’t know fingers could move that fast.
‘As I stare at a pile of shit on the kitchen floor, I’m starting to wonder about my life choices.’
Yes, yes, but what has the dog been up to?
Well played.
Mornin’ all.
OMWC, you might want to pick up a copy of The Art of Raising a Puppy by the Monks of New Skete. I got a lot out of it way back when I was raising my first.
I’ll second this and add How To Be Your Dog’s Best Friend. Excellent training guides despite the retarded hate.
Disney will not rest until every trace of evidence that Song of the South ever existed is erased from history, including hunting down anyone who claims to remember the movie and “treating their hallucinations” with electroshock therapy and lobotomies.
Hiding one of the first Hollywood movies with a black actor in a leading role in a film, not racist. The song must go too.
Cancel Satchmo!
Sammy D dances away from Frank, Dino et al
Farewell Uncle Remus, Aunt Jemimah, Uncle Ben, and that Indian girl on the Land O’Lakes box-you will be missed by all noninsane people. Well maybe not missed but what the hell?
I don’t miss AJ, UB or LOL. I don’t use any of those products. I have a copy of Song of the South.
Region 1?? Heck, if you play your cards right, that thing might be able to fund your retirement!
I still have the Splash Mountain souvenir t-shirt I got from Disneyland when I was 5. Perhaps some day it’ll have to be lost in a boating accident like so many other things…
Will they lobby AMPAS to revoke James Baskett’s Oscar?
I can see that happening.
Why do this shit when there are actually valid reasons to criticize this asshole?
It seems valid to expect a Governor to spend all their time in state, especially in a crisis.
Yeah, but that’s so far down the list. Like when the President or some other administration official doesn’t do a photo op at the border or some disaster – who really cares? It’s the kind of cheap partisan talking point that sucks the air out of the room (and is refuted with trivial ease by . . . doing a photo op).
We also have been over all of his fuck ups. Just add this to the list.
Image is everything.
I agree. I can’t believe he didn’t take the opportunity to preen.
Here I sit waiting for 8a when my CPC exam starts. I could not sleep last night, so bfast consisted of a Payday and Mountain Dew.
Breakfast of Champions!
Good luck! 🤞🏼 You can do it!
Good luck!
And stop taking my Dew!
Oof. You’ll do fine, but years ago I redlined myself out of states where I would have to take a bar exam to get a license, instead of waiving in with reciprocity based on my OTHER THREE LAW LICENSES.
There was a brief moment where I thought I would go get a PE license, but then I realized I had better things to do.
Late, but good luck and wishes just the same.
Canine colon cleanse?
I had a Newf who (1) ate the fiberglass insulation out of an air conditioner, (2) swallowed (and passed with some, err, manual assistance) over a foot of rope, and (3) bit open and drank the beer from a sizable fraction of a case of cans. He could also steal food from countertops. With all four feet on the ground.
“ The speaking consensus to power strategy acknowledges that available knowledge is inconclusive and uses consensus as a proxy for truth. The consensus to power strategy reflects a specific vision of how politics deals with scientific uncertainties.”
Mob rule always works out great.
Morning yall,
Looks like Mercedes found some pace, and aside from Aston, fp3 wound up looking pretty much like last year, and pretty much how I expect this year to look. We will see if qualifying has any surprises but I doubt it. I’m thinking Verstappen, Leclerc, Alonso, Perez
Hmm. I’m thinking there’s a t-shirt/meme to be made juxtaposing race cars and “I’m a racist. I love me a good race.”
For full rage inducing effect, have the white car leading the pack.
Maybe a shot of the OJ Simpson white Ford Bronco chase?
Perfect.
I would have told her “I’m a man. Just let me fly it.”
https://www.tiktok.com/@willyourealize/video/7199702640257879342
Tell me you graduated at the bottom of your training class without saying you graduated at the bottom of your training class.
Professionalism is sexist.
And I’m sure women everywhere appreciate her tearing down those lazy old stereotypes about women being histrionic and over-emotional…
So did my son.
Also, he ate 2 whole blankets.
O.o
Don’t teach Kaiser to read, OM, he’ll be wanting his own shades and privacy for doing ‘his thing’.
He sounds a lot like my kids.
He rolled over on his back and popped a massive boner. I told him, “One day, you’re gonna make some bitch really happy.”
“What a wonderful day” is a pretty horrifying notion to the puritan scolds who wish to rule us.
“The nagging fear that someone somewhere is having fun.”
using statistics that sometimes mask far more complicated debates
Unprecedented!
50 U.S. medical, science organizations launch group to fight health misinformation
Is this another of those anti misinformation groups that wants to crush dissenters under their heel?
“It is important to note that medical misinformation is not a new phenomenon,” Litt added. “But it has been exacerbated by the ease of dissemination on online sources without oversight.”
Whoops, it is…sorry bud, I don’t trust you.
“Alarmed by the increasing spread of medical misinformation”
As are we all.
“American society — the contemporary society that we live in — is characterized to a significant degree by a distrust in almost all of institutions of our society”
Huh.
OK, you’re right, there’s a trust issue – diagnose it.
Exposing our lies creates distrust. The solution is to put anyone who questions us in prison.
Ah, a public health expert.
Why people no trust us after we lied?
I read the article. Of course there was no mention of any responsibility on the medical profession’s part for the public distrust in medicine. No, no. It’s all social media’s fault. Being gaslighted and outright lied to by the people from the highest levels of corporate medicine and government all the way down to your general practitioners for three straight fucking years had nothing to do with it. Gee, I wonder what steps are going to be proposed…
“It is important to note that medical misinformation is not a new phenomenon,” Litt added. “But it has been exacerbated by the ease of dissemination on online sources without oversight.”
Ah, “oversight”, of course. Keys shall be held, gates shall be kept.
Called the Coalition for Trust in…
Tell me to not trust you without saying don’t trust us.
I’m sure there will be open debate and discussion using data and no appeals to authority.
You name a dog Kaiser and then you’re surprised he’s into piss and shit?
Would you expect better if named President?
Then he’d just sniff your hair.
Should have went with Tsarina. Just keep the horndog away from horses and you’re all set.
Added bonus: You get to tell the local woke he identifies as a bitch.
Does the dog run around trying to hump hornets nests?
No shit, I have a photo from my Arizona days of SugarFree humping a saguaro.
Question:
Has the word “tribalism” been officially declared racist yet?
Because it’s just a matter of time.
It will go the way of n***er, acceptable when said by the elect, unmentionable when said of them.
It seems almost quaint to be concerned with 702 in light of the Snowden papers. I’m sure the spooks who blatantly and illegally spied on every American citizen who ever sent or received any form of telecommunication for 20 years and repeatedly lied about it to congress and the American people will stop doing 702 surveillance as soon as congress tells them that’s a no-no now.
You are only in danger if you cross the Deep State.
YouThe spooksSilicone Saturday inflames desire that can never be fulfilled leading only to misery and suffering.
https://archive.ph/Q0jar
Lie back, and think of Gavin
Shelah Riggs said the street she lives on in Crestline hasn’t seen a snowplow in eight days, leaving people in about 80 homes along the roadway with nowhere to go. Typically, a plow comes every day or two when it snows, she said.
“We are covered with five or six feet (1.5 or 1.8 meters); nobody can get out of their driveways at all,” she said in a telephone interview.
Riggs, who lives with her 14-year-old daughter, said everyone is working to keep snow and ice off their decks to prevent collapse and making sure the gas vents on their homes are kept clear.
She said the county’s response has been “horrible” and that “people are really angry.”
Devine Horvath, also of Crestline, said it took her and her son 30 minutes to walk down the street to check on a neighbor — a trek that normally takes just a few minutes.
Horvath said she was lucky to make it to the local grocery store before its roof collapsed several days earlier but hadn’t been able to leave her street since.
“I’m getting more upset by the day,” she said.
Just imagine how bad it would be if DeSantis was in charge.
Of course, those NPR reporters could probably find a hundred stories about people coming together to help their neighbors, but where’s the drama in that?
Typically, a plow comes every day or two when it snows, she said.
Typically, snowfall there is measured in inches not feet.
DeSantis will travel this weekend to California, where the Republican has already drawn the renewed ire of Gov. Gavin Newsom, a frequent critic taunting him ahead of his visit. “Welcome to the real freedom state,” Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement to The Washington Post, predicting his GOP counterpart is “going to get smoked by Trump” in the Republican primary. DeSantis aides did not respond to a request for comment.
California is “the real freedom state”? Newsome is off his meds.
Well, compared to East Germany, yeah
Freedom is defined by two metrics:
Abortion.
Children transitioning.
Nothing else matters.
Funny how they don’t talk about inequality or the Gini Index in California, isn’t it?
And drugs. Possession of any drug for personal use is at most a misdemeanor.
You’re not truly free unless you’re free to get a 3rd trimester abortion while a kindergarten class and 12 drag queens in lingerie parade around the operating room.
Good morning, Old Man!
Kaiser is so damn cute. They don’t stay in that puppy phase very long, so hopefully he’ll stop shitting on the floor.
My 12 year old pup hasn’t even come downstairs yet. More coffee time.
Here’s an interesting take on the world:
Is Putin winning? The world order is changing in his favour
What’s everyone doing today?
Wine run. Three of my subscriptions are ready for pickup, so it’s a Finger Lakes afternoon.
Probably Shop Vacing (Vacking?) up the puddles in the basement after yesterday’s torrential rains. 😒 A French drain along the “uphill” edge of the lot where water tends to collect has helped a lot, but when there’s rainfall such as we got yesterday when the ground is still frozen, water still creeps in.
We have the same problem. New plan is to dig down the side of the uphill wall and waterproof the sill plate.
The tricky bit here is that the “uphill” side of the house is the garage, so the water seems to be going all the way along the width of the garage to leak in along the baseboards at that end of the basement. And getting to the outside wall at that end of the basement would involve tearing out some very nice, useful, and full closets. 😕 Doesn’t seem worth it when at worst it’s puddles and not outright flooding.
Ahh. Our uphill wall is the side of the house. We don’t usually get much water in the basement but, under certain weather circumstances it can be pretty bad.
We’re going to lose some hedges which have probably been there for 40 years. Fortunately, it’s the least “open” side of the house. I was hoping for advice from our tree & hedge company yesterday on how to preserve the hedges. Stayed home all day waiting for him – no show.
California is “the real freedom state”?
California is where all the nonconformists live.
Officials said crews were dealing with such tremendous depths of snow that removal required front-end loaders and dump trucks rather than regular plows.
In the old days, they’d dump that snow in a river. I assume that’s illegal now.
I know a couple who live in Big Bear. I wonder how they’re doing.
Check your facts at the door
The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in Maryland. And the members of Congress, former government officials and conservative personalities who spoke at the conference on Thursday and Friday made false claims about a variety of topics.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia repeated a debunked claim about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country. Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from Trump, this time baselesly blaming Fox for Trump’s defeat.
Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida incorrectly said a former Obama administration official had encouraged people to harass Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina inaccurately claimed Biden had laughed at a grieving mother and inaccurately insinuated that the FBI tipped off the media to its search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Two other speakers, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka, inflated the number of deaths from fentanyl.
Republicans lie. If CNN says it, that’s good enough for me.
LOL only 23% of Americans can’t read. Take that, so-called “GOP”!
The sinister cruelty of lockdown has been laid bare
Ah Prison Island One.
It would be ‘hilarious’ to watch some of these folks swinging from lampposts.
Woodchippers. C’mon, you’ve dealt with Preet before.
No comment.
(Hi, Preet!)
“Civil servants working from their plush homes having a giggle about a policy that inflicted severe financial pain on the diverse working classes.”
I had to bite my tongue in countless Zoom meetings as fellow academics – working from home with no threat to their salaries – denounced the “idiots” and “morons” protesting in parks.
Marjorie Taylor Greene said the Republican Party has a duty to protect children. Listing supposed threats to children, she said, “Now whether it’s like Zelensky saying he wants our sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine…” Later in her speech, she said, “I will look at a camera and directly tell Zelensky: you’d better leave your hands off of our sons and daughters, because they’re not dying over there.”
Facts First: Greene’s claim is false. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t say he wants American sons and daughters to fight or die for Ukraine. The false claim, which was debunked by CNN and others earlier in the week, is based on a viral video that clipped Zelensky’s comments out of context.
In reality, Zelensky predicted at a press conference in late February that if Ukraine loses the war against Russia because it does not receive sufficient support from elsewhere, Russia will proceed to enter North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries in the Baltics (a region made up of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) that the US will be obligated to send troops to defend. Under the treaty that governs NATO, an attack on one member is considered an attack on all. Ukraine is not a NATO member, and Zelensky didn’t say Americans should fight there.
Pounce, and a miss.
Greene appears to be the other side of the Squad coin.
At times. She at least occasionally is within spitting distance of sanity.
So the guy who’s been lobbying for NATO membership and sucking off the western money teat to the tune of a quarter trillion dollars or so only said that if western countries don’t continue to leave the money faucet full-open until Ukraine has beaten Russia back to its pre-2014 borders, then America’s sons and daughters will be forced to go feed the war machine on behalf of some other NATO state rather than the one he aspires to become? Well that’s totally different then. Whew. I almost thought Zelensky was some kind of warmongering sack of shit trying to drag the United States into a direct conflict with Russia or something. I’m glad he’s just an extortionist sack of shit trying to blackmail the United States into bankrupting itself for his political benefit.
It will be for his benefit if he survives it, but at this point he might be better off asking for asylum in Russia because he probably knows too much for DC’s comfort level.
OK then.
Treasure first. Blood later.
Much brave
TEXAS COUNTRY-PUNK BAND Vandoliers are standing in solidarity with drag performers and the LGBTQ+ community. On Thursday night, the group performed their set at the Shed in Maryville, Tennessee, with all six of its members wearing dresses in protest of the state’s newly enacted law on public drag performance.
“Fuck a drag bill,” they wrote in an Instagram post. “Gonna auction off the dresses we wore onstage in Tennessee tonight and donate the money to a couple of LGBTQ charities in this state.”
Suffice it to say, the heavily tattooed, impressively hairy group may not be making a Drag Race runway debut anytime soon (or maybe they will, who knows!), but the image of them in their show wear suggests they came ready to party and kick a little homophobic ass.
“As a band our core mission has always been to be a positive force of energy,” singer Joshua Fleming tells Rolling Stone. “What is happening in Tennessee is a blatant attack on a marginalized class, and we wanted to show all of our friends and fans in the LGBTQIA+ community our unwavering love and support. We see you, we stand with you, and we’ll fight alongside you. Vandoliers is for everyone. Forever.”
Was the music any good? Who cares?
OFFS!
Was the music any good?
Didn’t you read: Texas country-punk? There’s your answer.
I was chuckling last night at the blatant misrepresentations of the bill (characterized as a “drag show ban” without qualification) on the evening news. Accompanied by video of a very old school drag show (men in fancy dresses/evening wear singing show tunes) in front of adults. Funny how they didn’t show the stunning and brave drag performers in bondage gear performing in front of toddlers.
As I stare at a pile of shit on the kitchen floor, I’m starting to wonder about my life choices.
I don’t have a pile of shit on my kitchen floor, but I have been wondering about my life choices too.
Art Spiegelman? He of “Maus” fame?
“Without 702, we will lose indispensable intelligence for our decision makers and warfighters, as well as those of our allies. And we have no fallback authority that could come close to making up for that loss.”
Why do I smell bullshit? And why do I think FISA reauthorization is a given, i.e. this article is just FUD?
DeSantis argues that his refusal to bow to the “oppressive biomedical security state” during the pandemic
Nitpick: He did bow initially, locking Florida down. Unlike the other lockdown governors, DeSantis actually educated himself on epidemiology and infectious diseases. Dr. Jay Bhattarcharya (of the Great Barrington Declaration) said more than once that DeSantis was quite familiar with all the literature around lockdowns, masks, and Covid-19. DeSantis realized his mistake and reversed course.
It’s unclear where Newsom traveled as his office does not comment on such matters due to what they say are security concerns, however the governor reportedly left California on Wednesday after a visit to the Diablo Canyon power plant in Avila Beach.
Security concerns. We don’t want another French Laundry incident now do we?
I like today’s Old Guy Music.
Yes, Maus. And a lot of other great work.
Health misinformation
A prominent group of nurses in California slammed a state plan to rollback masking and COVID-19 vaccine requirements in health care settings starting in April, arguing that the decision puts health care workers at risk.
The condemnation came Friday after the California Department of Public Health announced earlier in the day that it will no longer require masks to be worn in indoor high-risk and health care settings nor require health care workers to be vaccinated for COVID-19 starting April 3.
The department noted that federal rules still ensure most health care workers are vaccinated for COVID-19.
But Bonnie Castillo, the executive director of the California Nurses Association, said in a release that the decision is a “failure of public health leadership.”
“Abandoning these standards is a counterproductive and unscientific approach to curbing the spread and evolution of Covid-19,” Castillo wrote. “This decision endangers the health and safety of nurses and other health care workers, hurts their ability to access personal protective equipment from employers, and ultimately exacerbates the health care staffing crisis that political leaders have vowed to tackle.”
Why don’t people listen to them?
“Tom Sizemore has died after being taken off life support, his manager Charles Lago confirmed to Variety. The 61-year-old actor suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18.”
RIP
A very troubled life.
“For Black equestrians with natural hair, finding a helmet that fits can be virtually impossible –– another barrier to inclusion in a sport that remains overwhelmingly white.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1631663285090111491
OFFS!!!
The real problems facing society
“Beyond parody”, as one commenter noted.
National Review
You would think they might have noticed that NFL players manage to suck it up for a properly fitted helmet.
Sounds like a great business opportunity to me. Somebody should start a line of Afro-centric jockey helmets. I’m sure that will reach sells in the dozens. DOZENS!
I see black women wearing wigs. I assume if there’s a way for them to wear wigs, there’s a way for them to wear helmets.
Will no one think of the Mohawk equestrians?
And no fat shaming Big Beautiful jockeys!
Who needs a helmet?
She was perfect.
Powerline fun
Bonus: New Remy.
Remy is amazing. That was awesome!
“ Florida man arrested for reportedly tossing gator into Wendy’s”
Awesome.
Justice and equity prevail
The tech giant announced it will close its four Amazon Go locations in San Francisco on April 1, putting an end to the cashier-less shopping experience that spurred a ban against cashless brick-and-mortar stores in the city.
After the first two Amazon Go stores opened in 2018, the company was accused of discrimination since the shop required having both a bank card and a smartphone to shop.
The company is also shuttering four Amazon Go locations in New York and Seattle, though it maintains that this is not the end of Amazon Go and new stores will open in the future. “We remain committed to the Amazon Go format, operate more than 20 Amazon Go stores across the U.S., and will continue to learn which locations and features resonate most with customers as we keep evolving our Amazon Go stores,” an Amazon spokesperson wrote in a statement sent to SFGATE.
No mention of shrinkage rates in unattended stores.
“No mention of shrinkage rates in unattended stores.“
You would think that without the workers they wouldn’t have to keep it quite so cold.