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I cannot speak for you, but I have a hard time, a lot of the time, finding happy moments in this shitshow madhouse that is now America.
I offer these photos in hopes they give you a quick hit of joy; to me, they really are just everything.
Meet our beloved little dingbat Jack Russell girl, Marley.
I offer these photos in hopes they give you a quick hit of joy; to me, they really are just everything.
Meet our beloved little dingbat Jack Russell girl, Marley.
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I cannot speak for you, but I have a hard time, a lot of the time, finding happy moments in this shitshow madhouse that is now America.
I offer these photos in hopes they give you a quick hit of joy; to me, they really are just everything.
Meet our beloved little dingbat Jack Russell girl, Marley.
I offer these photos in hopes they give you a quick hit of joy; to me, they really are just everything.
Meet our beloved little dingbat Jack Russell girl, Marley.
Whoot.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Whoot.
Fucking #Chuck.
#Schumer reportedly took NO side with his caucus on the deal that six Democrats signed onto Sunday to end the shutdown, without securing funding for ACA subsidies.
IOW, the Dem Senate "leader" provided NO direction on voting. He didn't fucking lead.
He needs to leave. #DitchChuck
#Schumer reportedly took NO side with his caucus on the deal that six Democrats signed onto Sunday to end the shutdown, without securing funding for ACA subsidies.
IOW, the Dem Senate "leader" provided NO direction on voting. He didn't fucking lead.
He needs to leave. #DitchChuck
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Fucking #Chuck.
#Schumer reportedly took NO side with his caucus on the deal that six Democrats signed onto Sunday to end the shutdown, without securing funding for ACA subsidies.
IOW, the Dem Senate "leader" provided NO direction on voting. He didn't fucking lead.
He needs to leave. #DitchChuck
#Schumer reportedly took NO side with his caucus on the deal that six Democrats signed onto Sunday to end the shutdown, without securing funding for ACA subsidies.
IOW, the Dem Senate "leader" provided NO direction on voting. He didn't fucking lead.
He needs to leave. #DitchChuck
Economy FOCUSED. There's an idea! Dude can't stay on topic/on script for two minutes at a time, and will end up babbling about stolen this, real-gold that, Biden, Obama and who knows WTF else -- sharks, maybe? That's in between any potential nodding off, of course.
So sure, get his ass out there!
So sure, get his ass out there!
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Economy FOCUSED. There's an idea! Dude can't stay on topic/on script for two minutes at a time, and will end up babbling about stolen this, real-gold that, Biden, Obama and who knows WTF else -- sharks, maybe? That's in between any potential nodding off, of course.
So sure, get his ass out there!
So sure, get his ass out there!
Can ANYONE on here, any big-name fighter or small-fry big-idea broker, tell me — & not just speculate, & not simply agonize w/ me — how we CAN, realistically, shitcan this coward? Dems had the country on their side, then Sen. Loss-Leader caved & brokered capitulation — & THEN tried to pass the buck!
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Can ANYONE on here, any big-name fighter or small-fry big-idea broker, tell me — & not just speculate, & not simply agonize w/ me — how we CAN, realistically, shitcan this coward? Dems had the country on their side, then Sen. Loss-Leader caved & brokered capitulation — & THEN tried to pass the buck!
Every time I see this Oval Office pic from a few days ago, I’m struck by how no other single image lately has summed up our national trainwreck better for me: Potential tragedy happening within view of Mr. “Leader” of the Free World here, & he does goddamn nothing, lost & arrogant & oblivious.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Every time I see this Oval Office pic from a few days ago, I’m struck by how no other single image lately has summed up our national trainwreck better for me: Potential tragedy happening within view of Mr. “Leader” of the Free World here, & he does goddamn nothing, lost & arrogant & oblivious.
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This trio of "Doonesbury" panels, from the last 3 days in 2004, appeared in my daily archival feed for the strip. Substitute POSUS 45/47 for Bush name, & it's uncanny.
Yes, POSUS. You'll work it out.
An impromptu reminder that our country's divide may now be a chasm, but it's no new rift at all.
Yes, POSUS. You'll work it out.
An impromptu reminder that our country's divide may now be a chasm, but it's no new rift at all.
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This trio of "Doonesbury" panels, from the last 3 days in 2004, appeared in my daily archival feed for the strip. Substitute POSUS 45/47 for Bush name, & it's uncanny.
Yes, POSUS. You'll work it out.
An impromptu reminder that our country's divide may now be a chasm, but it's no new rift at all.
Yes, POSUS. You'll work it out.
An impromptu reminder that our country's divide may now be a chasm, but it's no new rift at all.
Eat it, you MAGA fuckweasels.
CBS News projections, roughly 10 p.m.
CBS News projections, roughly 10 p.m.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Eat it, you MAGA fuckweasels.
CBS News projections, roughly 10 p.m.
CBS News projections, roughly 10 p.m.
Nothing could be more appropriate to this godawful year of Trump destroying goddamn everything than marine scientists discovering a carnivorous "death ball sponge” deep in the Southern Ocean.
I'm assuming I don't have to draw the parallel here.
2025, THE YEAR OF THE CARNIVOROUS DEATH BALL SPONGE.
I'm assuming I don't have to draw the parallel here.
2025, THE YEAR OF THE CARNIVOROUS DEATH BALL SPONGE.
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nothing could be more appropriate to this godawful year of Trump destroying goddamn everything than marine scientists discovering a carnivorous "death ball sponge” deep in the Southern Ocean.
I'm assuming I don't have to draw the parallel here.
2025, THE YEAR OF THE CARNIVOROUS DEATH BALL SPONGE.
I'm assuming I don't have to draw the parallel here.
2025, THE YEAR OF THE CARNIVOROUS DEATH BALL SPONGE.
In my nearly 60 years, few TV segments have made me as happy, & continue to do so, as Snoopy & his “Sopwith Camel” doghouse going up against the Red Baron over the imagined French countryside of WWI in the “Peanuts” Halloween special, which first aired the very year I was born.
That is all.
That is all.
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
In my nearly 60 years, few TV segments have made me as happy, & continue to do so, as Snoopy & his “Sopwith Camel” doghouse going up against the Red Baron over the imagined French countryside of WWI in the “Peanuts” Halloween special, which first aired the very year I was born.
That is all.
That is all.
Not sure where I came across this. But it's excellent.
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Not sure where I came across this. But it's excellent.
The morning view from behind the darling Boo. From here the world somehow doesn’t look quite so bad.
Go find your own Boo this morning. While life in this American madhouse is increasingly hard, brutal even, it’s also short, and the good moments too few.
Find your Boo, for you.
Go find your own Boo this morning. While life in this American madhouse is increasingly hard, brutal even, it’s also short, and the good moments too few.
Find your Boo, for you.
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The morning view from behind the darling Boo. From here the world somehow doesn’t look quite so bad.
Go find your own Boo this morning. While life in this American madhouse is increasingly hard, brutal even, it’s also short, and the good moments too few.
Find your Boo, for you.
Go find your own Boo this morning. While life in this American madhouse is increasingly hard, brutal even, it’s also short, and the good moments too few.
Find your Boo, for you.
"It's 2025 and getting late. ... Let's give horseshit a chance."
That's almost poetry, it's so apropos of now.
That's almost poetry, it's so apropos of now.
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"It's 2025 and getting late. ... Let's give horseshit a chance."
That's almost poetry, it's so apropos of now.
That's almost poetry, it's so apropos of now.
Right. Separate us. Put those black people and brown people somewhere else, for instance, away from your "Christian" hate, cuz they sure as fuck ain't safe in your ugly America.
September 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Right. Separate us. Put those black people and brown people somewhere else, for instance, away from your "Christian" hate, cuz they sure as fuck ain't safe in your ugly America.
Whoot.
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Whoot.
Haven’t yet seen the newest Jon Stewart-helmed “Daily Show,” from today? Do so, ASAP.
One of the funniest, most incisive, things I’ve viewed in I don't know when. I was about howling at some points.
Don’t slow down long enuff to be scared by the subtext. Just laugh at the superbness of its satire.
One of the funniest, most incisive, things I’ve viewed in I don't know when. I was about howling at some points.
Don’t slow down long enuff to be scared by the subtext. Just laugh at the superbness of its satire.
September 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Haven’t yet seen the newest Jon Stewart-helmed “Daily Show,” from today? Do so, ASAP.
One of the funniest, most incisive, things I’ve viewed in I don't know when. I was about howling at some points.
Don’t slow down long enuff to be scared by the subtext. Just laugh at the superbness of its satire.
One of the funniest, most incisive, things I’ve viewed in I don't know when. I was about howling at some points.
Don’t slow down long enuff to be scared by the subtext. Just laugh at the superbness of its satire.
Like fuck she does. She actually looks like some spectral, disembodied Grimace, from McDonald's, after that fat, purple lump's too-successful gastric-bypass surgery.
September 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Like fuck she does. She actually looks like some spectral, disembodied Grimace, from McDonald's, after that fat, purple lump's too-successful gastric-bypass surgery.
Fans of the old "Bloom County" who've not been following Berkeley Breathed's stellar return w/ new online panels (www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/) are sorely missing out.
I check Breathed's page daily now for the saga of poor Opus dragged off to Mongolia by ICE agents. Hilarious, topical stuff.
I check Breathed's page daily now for the saga of poor Opus dragged off to Mongolia by ICE agents. Hilarious, topical stuff.
September 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Fans of the old "Bloom County" who've not been following Berkeley Breathed's stellar return w/ new online panels (www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/) are sorely missing out.
I check Breathed's page daily now for the saga of poor Opus dragged off to Mongolia by ICE agents. Hilarious, topical stuff.
I check Breathed's page daily now for the saga of poor Opus dragged off to Mongolia by ICE agents. Hilarious, topical stuff.
What else is there to say, really?
September 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
What else is there to say, really?
When serving yourself some takeout lo mien in your pet-overrun kitchen, it's wise to remember the sharpness #cat eyesight, & the wild joy your feline companions take in string. B/c fighting w/ Mr. Whiskers over a long, fat noodle has all the dignity one might expect of a preordained, absurd loss.
September 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
When serving yourself some takeout lo mien in your pet-overrun kitchen, it's wise to remember the sharpness #cat eyesight, & the wild joy your feline companions take in string. B/c fighting w/ Mr. Whiskers over a long, fat noodle has all the dignity one might expect of a preordained, absurd loss.
Sadly perfect.
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sadly perfect.
(Stolen from I can’t even remember where; thank you somebody.)
Even AI seems to know what hope looks like.
Even AI seems to know what hope looks like.
September 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
(Stolen from I can’t even remember where; thank you somebody.)
Even AI seems to know what hope looks like.
Even AI seems to know what hope looks like.
Sure, this is more than 30 years dated (it should say 1993, BTW), but every bit as brilliant still. Not sure why it hit me so hard, seeing it again just now at the WaPo site. But there you go.
Just a reminder, anyway, that Trump isn't the first idiot we had to get through, even if he's the biggest.
Just a reminder, anyway, that Trump isn't the first idiot we had to get through, even if he's the biggest.
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Sure, this is more than 30 years dated (it should say 1993, BTW), but every bit as brilliant still. Not sure why it hit me so hard, seeing it again just now at the WaPo site. But there you go.
Just a reminder, anyway, that Trump isn't the first idiot we had to get through, even if he's the biggest.
Just a reminder, anyway, that Trump isn't the first idiot we had to get through, even if he's the biggest.