Andrea, Really, Get Stuffed

I picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue.

And also to get the windows on the house replaced.

Jim McDermott: “You Got Raped Because You Wore That Pretty Dress”

Isn’t that what he’s saying?

I mean, how dare we think the words in the Constitution actually mean something.

The Decline Of Western Civilization Illustrated…

…in three short sentences

“In the time it would have taken him to go get a teacher, could that kid’s throat have been slit?” O’Donnell recalled asking the vice principal. “She said yes, but that’s beside the point. That we ‘don’t condone heroics in this school.'”

I’m guessing it wasn’t “beside the point” to the kid who was protected by this young man’s actions.

The AP Is Getting A Little Cranky

About time they start hinting towards maybe kind of sort of doing their job.

The shine is coming off of their God-Child Leader and even they are starting to realize that an all-powerful government of whatever stripe is a very clear threat to their existence.

“Dilbert” Skewers a Teeny, Tiny, Egotistic, Bearded, Nobel Prize-WInning Economist Today

Who, oh WHO could Scott Adams have had in mind?

Sen Lautenberg Has Died, RIP

Which makes things a little complicated here in NJ. His seat was up in 2014, but according to NJ law it looks like we’ll get a Senator appointed by Christie (Joe Kyrillos?) who will have to also run this November to fill out the balance of the term…and run again next Fall.

Oy.

ths update: I guess I could always update this amateurish effort….

It’s for New Jersey, afterall.

I Feel Awful For His Family

And the people in his group who had to witness this but, seriously, all I can say is WTF was he thinking?

Authorities at Yosemite National Park were searching for a 19-year-old man who was swept over the edge of Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon.

Aleh Kalman of Sacramento was witnessed swimming above the 594-foot waterfall, about 150 feet from the precipice, when a strong current swept him to the edge of the fall shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday, officials said. The man, who was hiking the Mist Trail with a church group, was trying to swim to shore from a rock in the middle of the river, officials said.

It what universe was this possibly a good idea?

Turkey Riots

Thousands have been arrested as the PM seeks to impose some Isamist Order

Calling the protesters ‘a few looters’, Erdogan said he would press ahead with redeveloping Istanbul’s Taksim Square, a project which provoked the demonstrations that have widened into a broader show of defiance against his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Erdogan singled out the Republican People’s Party (CHP) – set up in 1924 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who founded Turkey’s modern secular state – for attack over a dispute he described as ideological.

‘We think that the main opposition party which is making resistance calls on every street is provoking these protests,’ Erdogan said on Turkish television.

Turkey’s fiercest anti-government unrest for years erupted when trees were torn down at a park in Taksim Square under government plans to construct a new mosque and rebuild a replica Ottoman-era barracks.

…Among Turks in general Erdogan remains by far the most popular politician, but critics point to what they see as his authoritarianism and religiously conservative meddling in private lives in the secular republic.

Tighter restrictions on alcohol sales and warnings against public displays of affection in recent weeks have also provoked protests.

Goodness knows we can’t have alcohol and PDA in a modern society.

They have been trying to have a more Western society and Erdogan’s looking to pull them back into that 12th century model that’s worked so well in other areas in that region.

Mr. Sulky Pants Notwithstanding

The short ribs turned out pretty darned yummy.

after they sat all night in the fridge to congealulate I took the pot out and gently skimmed off the fat chunks then put it on the stove on medium to simmer and reduce some more

while that was enthickalating I made some unctuous mashed spuds and my Bride oven roasted some brussel sprouts

nom nom de nom nom nom

I need to buy bigger plates.

Ah, Blessed Fecundity

The return of the sun has gotten things growing apace

Moinks!

They’re what’s for dinner

with some sauteed kale on the side

Of course a CERTAIN SOMEONE was far more interested in the short ribs I started tonight for Sunday’s dinner

and then he became all Mr. Sulky Pants when he felt short-changed on the short rib scraps

quick, call the ASPCA