I have to not get too carried away because we still have Graham-Cassidy to get rid of and the 1,001 other bad things happening on the ground right now to worry about, but THIS TELENOVELA IS THE BEST TELENOVELA. When Trump goes down (and I believe in my heart that he will) it will be SO VERY DELICIOUS.

Well, and if Mueller has evidence to a high enough standard to get the warrants he wanted for Manafort and Facebook, my bet is that he can overcome any probable-cause hurdles he would be up against from the IRS. I have a hard time believing they’d be unwilling to cooperate with an investigation at this level.

Yes, and it’s a well known fact that nice clothes make babies nauseous.

I’m not sure they need to let Trump know they’re doing it, if it’s an investigation in part into tax evasion and they’re supoena-ing IRS records. Do they? If they’re picking Manafort’s locks, I wouldn’t put them past quietly riffling through his returns.

Do we know if Mueller has already asked for Trump’s tax returns? Would we find that out yet if he had?

my old Mabel cat who was allergic to MEAT (or an enzyme in literally all of it, save one food with that enzyme predigested) - and then that one food gave her deadly bladder stones. We  opted to give her the bladder safe food she was allergic too and give her prednisone every day. It wasn’t ideal, but she lived.

Don’t forget old people, sick people, the disabled, and Sesame Street!

Right now the poll reads “La Llorona vs La Llorona.” Which, if you ask me, is what decision we’re talking about, but... fyi. Loving these brackets!

Sorry, no soft landing for the Nazi-adjacent.

It’s classic Schrödinger’s Douchebag - when a SD says something terrible, then only claims that it was serious or a “joke” depending on the reaction to it.

Chicago is chockablock with bodegas. My guess is that “far north side” means West Rogers Park or some other white gentrified pocket up there, several of which have all single family homes and few corner stores. If you lived where the rest of us do/can afford to, you’d have bodegas all over the place. (And sorry,…

Au contraire! Four of the last seven Illinois governors have gone to jail for corruption! Give credit for incompetence and corruption where it’s due!

“everyone is a potential voter” is the healthy version of that trope, yes, but not the Illinoisian version

amending my own post: Obama beat Blair Hull in the primary, and it came out Hull liked to hit his wife; former Gubernatorial candidate and person dumb enough to actually lose to Rod Blagojevich Jack Ryan ran as the republican in the general until L’Affaire Sex Club blew up his campaign, and then Alan Keyes came to…

ah! I had forgotten the part about him running against Blago after George Ryan started his long march to the pokey.

Jack Ryan ran against Blagojevich for Governor before he ran against Obama in the election for Peter Fitzgerald’s open US Senate seat in 2004.

I’m not sure who owns it now - I haven’t seen anyone there passing by since like May. Will press the neighborhood busybody for details.

Hello neighbor! I guess you got routinely snarled in the traffic of TV camera vans and guys in clown wigs with “John 3:16" signs too! Rod is still my favorite shorthand explanation when anyone asks me where in Chicago I live. There we are, right under all those helicopters before every trial date.

My husband used to say he was so irritatingly friendly “because everyone is a potential juror.”

Rod is my neighbor, or at least he was before he became a guest of the state. He had the annoying habit of stopping to say hi to literally every human being he met in the neighborhood while he jogged, which sounds folksy af but the reality was more like “Oh great, there’s the governor and he’s all sweaty and gross…