They all do, in a sense. As country club members, they’re billed monthly for their food and drinks, and are expected to purchase a minimum amount of boost and chow monthly.
The owners of Pom (and Fiji water) were featured on an episode of The Dollop (left leaning comedy American history podcast). Their water-hogging ways were very much frowned upon by the hosts.
Equal amounts Pom juice and sugar. 1/2 cup is enough, usually. Very low heat on stovetop, stir to melt sugar. Remove from heat and stir in a couple drops of orange blossom water (sold in bottles, and a little goes a LONG way). You can use other berry juices as well. Or throw in, mush up, simmer, and then strain out whole berries as you like.
ETA: keeps in fridge for a couple weeks, if it isn’t all gone by then
Thank you all for the kind remarks about my EEG on Monday. As I said, I don't usually make personal posts, but I'll post results when I know them if that's okay.
We're going to offer the Azalea at a dinner party tomorrow. Appetizers are skewers of cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, Genoa salami, and kalamata olives drizzled with a balsamic vinegar reduction. Main is broiled salmon with wild rice and a seasonal veggie mix. The Azalea should be just the thing--light, refreshing, and not too much alcohol for an early evening. Thanks, Hooper!
Friday’s cocktail brings back memories. My Sicilian grandmother made her own limoncello every year… now I can make my own syrup and raise a glass to her memory (she loved to her late 90s;maybe limoncello helped!)
"Supreme Court Allows DOGE Team To Access Social Security Systems With Data On Millions Of Americans."
Question: WHY? WHY do they need this to "do their work?"
Second Question: DOGE is not an actual department. No one has legislated this thing in to existence. It came from some crank EO. For fucks sake, the mind reels.
Republicans don't believe in privacy for poor people, women, trans kids, cell phones, and others. Gun owners' privacy is sacrosanct. As is pepsodunce PEDO's tax returns.
You think gun owners' privacy will be respected? All that will be cross-referenced with race, email/text history, etc. Palantir will tell this administration who's gun rights matter.
Europe enacted the GDPR several years ago. They're seriously stringent laws protecting a person's privacy and they're hard for many normal companies to comply with because they're so strict. And here we have the Supreme court approving that our most private information is for sale to anyone willing to pay for it.
A conman, who has been impeached twice, and convicted of felonies - AND participated in election interference for the 2016 win AND orchestrated an insurrection against our nation - SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO PUT 3 JUSTICES ON THE BENCH!!
With how EASY this was for them I think it's been in the works for DECADES, Trump is just the dumb figurehead they needed to get all their evil shit passed. I fucking hate this country and I am ASHAMED to be an American.
That's all bad enough, but it's the other ruling that really pisses me off - the one that determined we have no ability (through FOIA or anything else) to demand answers about what DOGE is doing.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A local union leader was hospitalized during a confrontation in response to immigration raids in downtown Los Angeles Friday.
David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union California (SEIU) and SEIU- United Service Workers West, was injured during his arrest. According to Rep. Gil Cisneros (C-31), Huerta was also tased.
The arrest happened as hundreds of protesters rallied in downtown Los Angeles late Friday afternoon, condemning the ICE immigration raids that took place at three different locations across L.A. earlier in the day.
At some point, there was a scuffle involving federal agents and it appeared Huerta was pushed down and hit his head. One video shows a federal agent pushing Huerta while he has his hands at his hips, after which, he falls to the ground.
He was hospitalized and treated for his injuries, but has since been released. Huerta remains in custody, according to a statement from the union.
From the history I've read, the ones that try their best not to just repeat Nazi propaganda (a surprising amount of which is still just taught as history), yes, yes they were.
It's pouring at the pied-à-nuage and I'm loving the sound of rain on metal roof. We have had our delectable fruit bowls (I cut the pineapple), flowery green tea, elitist avocado toast on locally made seven grain, and I'm sipping lovely black coffee. We know Suzie said to make our own main dish and she's bringing the sides, but we made enough vegan (and gluten free) pasta to share with everyone coming to the Vermont WonkMeet. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot when due and get any other vaccines you need while we still can, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like Forever 27 Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among nearly eight million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (greetings and salutations, Wonkette medicos), particularly ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Be kind, especially to yourself, and please stay safe.
Yes. Darling husband Meccalopolis asked me to rename our mountain aerie. We call our East Village apartment the pied-à-terre, and this is certainly foot-at-cloud.
the thunderstorms totally missed me last night. they rolled straight up the hudson, we barely got a drop of rain, while my colleague in poughkeepsie couldn't drive for the blinding rain.
5:28 AM in the morning on an oh my God I can’t believe I thought this was a good idea day.
In the next couple of hours, equipment and materials will be turning up at my place and all hell will break loose. By Monday, the low spot in my driveway in my driveway will be opened up, drainage installed and run to daylight and the pile of gravel that’s been sitting next to my house for five years for this purpose will be dropped on top of it.
Landscaping done, compacted, acidic, soil in front of the house, pulled out and topsoil inserted, trail opened up on my property that will give me access to the wood supply back there, and leave a nice little nature trail for morning walks and winter recreation.
The future is here. Now. Today. And I just want to pull the quilt over my head and go back to sleep.
I have six workdays left on contract, which can be spread out over the rest of this month, and I did not sign the last contract offer. The long vacation begins. This is all in service of creating more possibilities for future me.
Present me just sees mud and sore muscles. I’ve had some bad luck in the past hiring people who thought they knew what they were doing, or at least convinced me they did. Much expense and despair followed. I think this guy has more chops.
I know no one likes to admit it, but the fascists didn't win (a win I still expect to be more temporary than they think) because they were smarter than us. This wasn't a brilliant scheme, and they don't have brilliant schemes now. We were beaten by idiots because they had more money than us, and spent decades using that money to make this possible. Because billionaires who aren't themselves fascists would rather risk fascism than pay more in taxes. And because the smart people are too easily divided, and many of them still haven't done the work necessary to recognize how deeply the racism and misogyny of this culture is baked into their thinking.
“And so he should,” said the entity, with satisfaction.
“Indeed. But I think you misunderstand. I am not here to keep darkness out. I’m here to keep it in.” There was a clink of metal as the shadowy watchman lifted a dark lantern and opened its little door. Orange light cut through the blackness. “Call me . . . the Guarding Dark. Imagine how strong I must be.”
The Summoning Dark backed desperately into the alley, but the light followed it, burning it.
Also, the Democrats only offer half-measures that inspire no-one but their own followers and mostly benefit corporations, so they offer no reason for the idiots to vote for them.
They want to be a cog in a machine, with no culpability but total security, though they all know they personally will be the shiniest, most important cog- one that cannot just be replaced at will, unlike all the other cogs.
My dad used to use the "cog in the machine" analogy all the time. He always told us to not make work our everything. To do a good job but to know that we could be gotten rid of just like that. It took TWO people to replace him.
I'm seeing the end of civilization. We've reach the point where continued growth without catastrophic consequences is no longer possible and the only way forward is for the entire world to work together and share what we have left. But instead, everyone is panicking and rushing for the exits at the same time.
144 golfers on the course and they’re all charging in here for drinks. Pray for me. Questions about the cocktail go here.
Pomegranate juice? So it's healthy then...
Gross.
Now I'm morbidly curious...how many of those guys run tabs?
They all do, in a sense. As country club members, they’re billed monthly for their food and drinks, and are expected to purchase a minimum amount of boost and chow monthly.
A gross of golfers. Appropriate.
🙏🙏🙏
Is there a known Golf themed cocktail, or will any drink do if you throw a tiny plastic golf club bag in it?
Yes - the Transfusion. I’ll write it up next week.
Rory is 149
Rory needs to get his driver mojo back. The US Open is next week and Oakmont is very long and the rough is deep!
Yum, this one just sounds like a porch drink.
Praying for lots and lots of tips
Steady as she goes Laddy! We're pullin' for ya!
Could I use pomegranate syrup? I have some of that.
Never mind. It's pomegranate molasses I have, and I saw in a non-comment below that you used some. Problem solved.
Worth a try, sure.
This is my kind of drink. I would go so strong with the lemongrass. I'm an herby kind of person like that.
Ginger ale with a teeny splash of vodka and stick of olives?
Thanks. I tip generously.
Go with GOD
It's so pretty!
Grenadine is a crime against nature. Pomegranate junkie here.
(cranberry)
Store bought grenadine is sadness in a bottle.
Always make my own. Pom, sugar, a few drops of orange blossom water.
Also fun to make fresh blueberry or raspberry or blackberry juice versions.
I add a little pomegranate molasses for extra tartness.
Is POM juice out of the big bottles they have at supermarkets a good substitute?
Merci beaucoup, monsieur.
The owners of Pom (and Fiji water) were featured on an episode of The Dollop (left leaning comedy American history podcast). Their water-hogging ways were very much frowned upon by the hosts.
Regrettably, I am unsure of any other commercial sources of pomegranate juice in the US.
Yes.
Ohhhh…excellent idea. Thank you!
Pourqoui, s'il vous plait, comment fait-vous les grenadine?
Et pourqous le mot "grenadine" est semblable con let mot "grenade"?
Non.
Grenadine is food-coloring-enhanced sugar water.
Oh! Merci beaucoup, mon ami.
I'm an annoying purist. I LOVE proper pomegranite nectar.
Everyone should use what works for their palate and their wallet. The end results are almost without exception delicious.
Equal amounts Pom juice and sugar. 1/2 cup is enough, usually. Very low heat on stovetop, stir to melt sugar. Remove from heat and stir in a couple drops of orange blossom water (sold in bottles, and a little goes a LONG way). You can use other berry juices as well. Or throw in, mush up, simmer, and then strain out whole berries as you like.
ETA: keeps in fridge for a couple weeks, if it isn’t all gone by then
If you pull the pin on grenadine, you have 5 seconds to throw it into the neighbor's yard.
Ha! Finally a use for it.
Arnold Palmer, hold the pickle.
If it will fit in your hand, that is.
Two. According to Yrump
sounds uncomfortable
Hooper, if you're still reading, the Azalea is an absolute hit with my dinner party guests. Thanks!
Just read Trump is deploying the California National Guard against the ICE protests. So it begins.
Thank you all for the kind remarks about my EEG on Monday. As I said, I don't usually make personal posts, but I'll post results when I know them if that's okay.
We're going to offer the Azalea at a dinner party tomorrow. Appetizers are skewers of cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, Genoa salami, and kalamata olives drizzled with a balsamic vinegar reduction. Main is broiled salmon with wild rice and a seasonal veggie mix. The Azalea should be just the thing--light, refreshing, and not too much alcohol for an early evening. Thanks, Hooper!
Mention of "azaleas" always reminds me of my two favorite lines from Kathleen Turner and Steve Martin in "The Man With Two Brains."
Friday’s cocktail brings back memories. My Sicilian grandmother made her own limoncello every year… now I can make my own syrup and raise a glass to her memory (she loved to her late 90s;maybe limoncello helped!)
WaPo: After outcry, 4-year-old girl can stay in U.S. for lifesaving care
For most or all asylum seekers, staying in the U.S. can be lifesaving.
This headline;
"Supreme Court Allows DOGE Team To Access Social Security Systems With Data On Millions Of Americans."
Question: WHY? WHY do they need this to "do their work?"
Second Question: DOGE is not an actual department. No one has legislated this thing in to existence. It came from some crank EO. For fucks sake, the mind reels.
Republicans don't believe in privacy for poor people, women, trans kids, cell phones, and others. Gun owners' privacy is sacrosanct. As is pepsodunce PEDO's tax returns.
You think gun owners' privacy will be respected? All that will be cross-referenced with race, email/text history, etc. Palantir will tell this administration who's gun rights matter.
Europe enacted the GDPR several years ago. They're seriously stringent laws protecting a person's privacy and they're hard for many normal companies to comply with because they're so strict. And here we have the Supreme court approving that our most private information is for sale to anyone willing to pay for it.
Because the grand scam is finally reaching its’ apex.
SCOTUS is illegitimate
A conman, who has been impeached twice, and convicted of felonies - AND participated in election interference for the 2016 win AND orchestrated an insurrection against our nation - SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLOWED TO PUT 3 JUSTICES ON THE BENCH!!
Good chance he'll be replacing Thomas and Alito, too.
Associate Justice Ivanka anyone?
Somehow I think she’d be no worse than Boxwine.
Exactly 🤬
With how EASY this was for them I think it's been in the works for DECADES, Trump is just the dumb figurehead they needed to get all their evil shit passed. I fucking hate this country and I am ASHAMED to be an American.
That's the part that really pisses me off. At least give us an *intelligent* person in charge. This is embarrassing.
They’ve been teeing this up for 45 years. When Bork got cancelled they started plotting so they’d never have that happen again.
McConnell took it personally.
That's all bad enough, but it's the other ruling that really pisses me off - the one that determined we have no ability (through FOIA or anything else) to demand answers about what DOGE is doing.
But TOTALLY TRANSPARENCY amirite?
Maximal even!
Good morning you filthy fuckaducks.
Today is.... *drumroll*
H NOIZE!
https://youtu.be/61GrbjeNc1E?si=HfsVPv0XUkupy5Wl
The Hooters, "All You Zombies"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I
Haruna Luna, "Peach-Colored Typhoon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lZmPluNB4s
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A local union leader was hospitalized during a confrontation in response to immigration raids in downtown Los Angeles Friday.
David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union California (SEIU) and SEIU- United Service Workers West, was injured during his arrest. According to Rep. Gil Cisneros (C-31), Huerta was also tased.
The arrest happened as hundreds of protesters rallied in downtown Los Angeles late Friday afternoon, condemning the ICE immigration raids that took place at three different locations across L.A. earlier in the day.
At some point, there was a scuffle involving federal agents and it appeared Huerta was pushed down and hit his head. One video shows a federal agent pushing Huerta while he has his hands at his hips, after which, he falls to the ground.
He was hospitalized and treated for his injuries, but has since been released. Huerta remains in custody, according to a statement from the union.
https://abc7.com/post/seiu-president-injured-detained-during-confrontation-dtla-amid-response-ice-raids/16682922/
The article goes on to say that he was born in the US and is in ICE custody. This is bad.
Sadly this is what it will take and I'm so terrified it will take ALOT more of this to wake Americans up.
I'm also sadly sinking into the feeling that TOO MANY are celebrating this shit and it will keep on happening until so many of us are dead.
Weird how refugees keep streaming from countries impacted by CIA fuckery
This is unmitigated fascism in action. And it's going to get a helluva lot WORSE before anything starts to change.
We are going to have to fight back. This must NOT be allowed to continue, dammit!
Can advocates dox and sue these thugs?
I am so scared right now. And ANGRY, very VERY ANGRY.
"suicidal empathy"
Good lord, these people are selfish monsters.
Was Germany this stupid during the rise of Hitler?
From the history I've read, the ones that try their best not to just repeat Nazi propaganda (a surprising amount of which is still just taught as history), yes, yes they were.
Been listening to alot of YouTube history breakdowns since January
Interesting to see so many Americans in the comments asking how many of us are watching this in horror.
From "Daily Kos": "ICE-mart":
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/30/2325027/-Cartoon-ICE-mart?
Let's not be giving these seditious shit sacks any more ideas, okay?
It's pouring at the pied-à-nuage and I'm loving the sound of rain on metal roof. We have had our delectable fruit bowls (I cut the pineapple), flowery green tea, elitist avocado toast on locally made seven grain, and I'm sipping lovely black coffee. We know Suzie said to make our own main dish and she's bringing the sides, but we made enough vegan (and gluten free) pasta to share with everyone coming to the Vermont WonkMeet. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot when due and get any other vaccines you need while we still can, avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like Forever 27 Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among nearly eight million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (greetings and salutations, Wonkette medicos), particularly ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Be kind, especially to yourself, and please stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
My French is weak - you live on a cloud?
Can you refer me to your real estate agent?
.
I lived in an apartment with an open beam ceiling, and I miss the sound of rain on the roof.
Yes. Darling husband Meccalopolis asked me to rename our mountain aerie. We call our East Village apartment the pied-à-terre, and this is certainly foot-at-cloud.
We're going on an adventure!
the thunderstorms totally missed me last night. they rolled straight up the hudson, we barely got a drop of rain, while my colleague in poughkeepsie couldn't drive for the blinding rain.
Conditions continue to resemble Vietnam here, but, like, chilly.
Had rolling thunder Thursday night, sublime.
I woke up about 3am with a thunderstorm going on. It just now, this very minute in fact, ended.
5:28 AM in the morning on an oh my God I can’t believe I thought this was a good idea day.
In the next couple of hours, equipment and materials will be turning up at my place and all hell will break loose. By Monday, the low spot in my driveway in my driveway will be opened up, drainage installed and run to daylight and the pile of gravel that’s been sitting next to my house for five years for this purpose will be dropped on top of it.
Landscaping done, compacted, acidic, soil in front of the house, pulled out and topsoil inserted, trail opened up on my property that will give me access to the wood supply back there, and leave a nice little nature trail for morning walks and winter recreation.
The future is here. Now. Today. And I just want to pull the quilt over my head and go back to sleep.
Short term ARRGGGHHHH for long term gain
Indeed! Expect me to be on here periodically throwing fits for the rest of the weekend.
Change to one's abode that makes a mess does this to me too. Hang in there, it WILL end! And be worth it!
I’m folding that up and tucking it in my pocket.
I have six workdays left on contract, which can be spread out over the rest of this month, and I did not sign the last contract offer. The long vacation begins. This is all in service of creating more possibilities for future me.
Present me just sees mud and sore muscles. I’ve had some bad luck in the past hiring people who thought they knew what they were doing, or at least convinced me they did. Much expense and despair followed. I think this guy has more chops.
I know no one likes to admit it, but the fascists didn't win (a win I still expect to be more temporary than they think) because they were smarter than us. This wasn't a brilliant scheme, and they don't have brilliant schemes now. We were beaten by idiots because they had more money than us, and spent decades using that money to make this possible. Because billionaires who aren't themselves fascists would rather risk fascism than pay more in taxes. And because the smart people are too easily divided, and many of them still haven't done the work necessary to recognize how deeply the racism and misogyny of this culture is baked into their thinking.
"Is the dark side stronger?"
"No. Quicker, easier, more seductive."
//
“What kind of human creates his own policeman?”
“One who fears the dark.”
“And so he should,” said the entity, with satisfaction.
“Indeed. But I think you misunderstand. I am not here to keep darkness out. I’m here to keep it in.” There was a clink of metal as the shadowy watchman lifted a dark lantern and opened its little door. Orange light cut through the blackness. “Call me . . . the Guarding Dark. Imagine how strong I must be.”
The Summoning Dark backed desperately into the alley, but the light followed it, burning it.
“And now,” said the watchman, “get out of town.”
//
Pratchett, Terry. Thud!: A Discworld Novel (pp. 344-345). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
Also, the Democrats only offer half-measures that inspire no-one but their own followers and mostly benefit corporations, so they offer no reason for the idiots to vote for them.
Also, never to be discounted, a lot of people want fascism.
They want a "strong" daddy to tell them what to do.
And protect their stuff from "those others".
They want to be a cog in a machine, with no culpability but total security, though they all know they personally will be the shiniest, most important cog- one that cannot just be replaced at will, unlike all the other cogs.
It's cognitive offloading, because thinking is hard. Responsibility is hard.
My dad used to use the "cog in the machine" analogy all the time. He always told us to not make work our everything. To do a good job but to know that we could be gotten rid of just like that. It took TWO people to replace him.
He sounds like a good man. I learned that lesson the hard way.
He was a very good man. I feel super lucky to have had a good dad. He died too young unfortunately at 66.
I'm sticking with mass psychosis.
I'm seeing the end of civilization. We've reach the point where continued growth without catastrophic consequences is no longer possible and the only way forward is for the entire world to work together and share what we have left. But instead, everyone is panicking and rushing for the exits at the same time.
PS. I also believe a lot of Establishment Democrats would rather see fascism win than cede control of the Democratic Party to "Leftists".
I’m reluctantly inclined to agree, what with the party’s fecklessness.
Also, thinking USAmerica is special, and USAmerican democracy can never fail, and USAmericans are naturally resistant to evil, etc.
Too damned disdainfully accurate.
I don't know why but the greediness of the billionaires ALWAYS leaves me breathless. I should know better by now.
It's honestly gotta be a mental pathology. They're sick fucks.