Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

In my day, never was longer.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Let there be snark.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Everybody saw this coming.

No one could have predicted…

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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  1. 1.

    JKC

    And it’s proof of the evil stupidity of the rabid-right’s witch hunt against family planning services and women’s health care because someone might mention the A-word. (That would be abortion)

    I should think that if one was pro-life he would not want to give credence to the liberal argument that conservatives are a lot more concerned about fetuses than they are about children.

    But cheers to Dr Hamlin- she is a saint in the truest sense of the word.

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    John Cole

    IS there anything you won’t use as a bludgeon against Republicans?

    What this is proof of is the moral superiority of the United States over other cultures- cultures who do not value women, who treat them as disposable commodities. It is proof of the vast superiority of the medical expertise and care of the United States.

    Pro-life individuals have their position due to their sense of morality and religious convictions. I don’t know one pro-lifer who would be in favor of cutting funding or keeping funding from the sort of operation Dr. Hamlin is running. The problem is the abortion at all costs crowd is unwilling to separate their agenda from causes such as this.

    If the UNited States is not funding this sort of ooperation to the degree I believe we should (I think we have a moral oligation to address this sort of issue, politically and financially), it is the consequence of the obstinance of both parties, not merely pro-lifers. BTW- I am pro-choice.

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    JKC

    John-

    I didn’t mean that to bludgeon Republicans in general- if my post came off that way, I apologise. I have a big problem with the policy-makers (on any side of an issue) who let ideological blinders keep them ignorant of the side-effects of any given stand.

    As a clinician,I’m pro-choice, too, but every time I see a pregnancy terminated because it’s unwanted, I feel a deep sense of sadness and shame. (Comes from having kids, I guess.) People need to have access to (and education about) contraception if we want to put an end to unwanted pregnancies. You and I are both smart enough to know that Santorum-type solutions will never work in the real world.

    I agree with you that America is a great society. Maybe that’s why (like, I suspect, a lot of liberals) I want to hold us up to such high ideals.

    Respectfully,

    Jeff

    PS: Let’s not forget that Dr Hamlin’s Australian. We Americans don’t have a monopoly on decency. : )

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    John Cole

    I understand- it just seemed to come off that way. I am pro-choice, but I get really heated when I hear some on the left bashing the christian right and others over abortion- they believe that abortion is against God’s will, not that they are evil people. Most of them are the most genuinely decent people I have ever met- they just view things differently. Coincidentally- they are also the people most likely to donate their time and money in the community.

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    David Perron

    I don’t have any issues with Bush cutting off funding for U.N. activities that he can’t control. He should be aware, though, when cutting such funding adversely affects activities he ought to support, and take some kind of remedial action when that happens.

    I’m not sure what fistulas and Chinese abortions have in common; in that respect the article is poorly written. I do have problems with funding Chinese abortions. Selective abortion in China is currently a popular way of ensuring a male child. It’s not clear to me why we should encourage such a thing with our money.

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