Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Donald Jessica Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Cole is on a roll !

You cannot shame the shameless.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Let there be snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

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Partisan Sniping

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C’mon Jeralynn- this is two lame attacks in as many days:

Why on earth does President Bush need an entourage of 700 for his four day jaunt to England? That’s ridiculous. What’s even more galling is we, the American taxpayers, are footing the bill.

Ahh, the convenience of partisan memory blocks:

President Bill Clinton, accompaniedby first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and an entourage of 800 government officials and press people, made a 12-day visit to six African countries–Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Botswana, and Senegal–in March of 1998. The visit made history. It was the first substantial visit of that length by an American president. The trip was also designed to inaugurate a new era of mutual partnership and respect for those African states that are now making steady progress in building prosperity on the basis of market economics and political democracy.

Yawn.

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Matt Stinson was a bit harsher on TalkLeft.

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Impressive

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Under the guise of ‘investigative journalism,’ Josh Marshall and Nick Confessore bring you something special-a 293 word and a 4,253 word circumstantial argument ad hominem.

Impressive. To spare you the grief of reading the pieces- a PR firm, which specializes in astrotruf, publishes Tech Central Station. The PR firm takes money from evil corporations, and the ideological bend of Tech Central Station is such that it often is supportive of many of the causes of those who pay for advertising. Which means that Josh doesn’t like their viewpoints, is too lazy to attack the arguments individually, and would rather just smear the whole publication.

Why does this guy get so much respect? Does anyone here care where Josh Marshall makes his money? The NY Times? The National Review? Tech Central Station? The Weekly Standard? The Nation?

Well- I guess Josh and Nick do.

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The Instapundit comments.

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I Don’t Know

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I don’t know if I have it in me to watch cable news anymore, particularly with the new Michael Jackson issue (who would have everg uessed he really was a sexual predator?). Kobe, Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson, the Sniper trials- I think I am going to be sick.

[sarcasm] You know who the real loser in all this is- Jon Bonet. [/sarcasm]

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Top Albums

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There has been some rumbling about the top ten albums of all time, so I felt it was necessary to list my FAVORITES (and there are more than ten) of all time. I am not going to pretend to know enough about music to claim these are the best, but these all pass my ‘Stranded on a Desert Island’ test:

Little Feat- Waiting For Columbus
Grateful Dead- Reckoning
Dave Brubeck Quartet- Time Out
R. L. Burnside- Ass Pocket of Whiskey
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention- Fillmore East June 1971
Yes- Roundabout
Jerry Garcia BandJerry Garcia Band Live
JGB – Welcome To Our World
Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense
Peter Gabriel- Passion Sources
NWA- Straight Outta Compton
Willie Nelson- Willie Nelson’s Greatest Hits and Some That Will Be
Alice In Chains- Dirt
Jane’s Addiction- Ritual de lo Habitual
Run DMC- Raising Hell
The Allman Brothers- Live at the Ludlow Garage 1970
Parliament- Mothership Connection
Dire Straits- Love Over Gold
Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
James Brown- Sex Machine
The JB’s- Funky Good Time, the Anthology
Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerels- Highball with the Devil
Stevie Wonder- Original Musiquarium 1
The Beastie Boys- Ill Communication

These are in no particular order- I love them all. Also, I will add more when I think of them. This was also much harder than I thought it would be- how do you choose one album by a band over another (like with Dire Straits- both Love Over Gold and Brothers in Arms are genius- hell, so is Making Movies). I still don’t have a Who album up there, even though I have a dozen in my collection- I just can’t make thecall which album is best.

At any rate, go make your list and I will link to it.

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Norbizness has his list up.

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A Real Kneeslapper

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I guess Republicans really don’t have a sense of humor, because I don’t find a damn thing amusing about this video that TalkLeft approvingly linked to and claimed was ‘very funny.’

Haha. Our President was selected, he is a terrorist, and he has lots of weapons of mass destruction. Very funny, indeed.

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My disdain for everything that ‘funny’ video represents is stated nicely for me in this piece by Austin Bay (via the Instapundit):

The leftish teeth-gnashers will never get it. The figment utopias they tout can’t be challenged by difficult facts. The green-cheese moons they detect orbit their own weightless imaginations, and the gravity of down-to-Earth decision, particularly when it comes to defending liberty, exerts little pull. Hence, the rhetorical hokum they spew that Bush is “more dangerous than bin Laden.”

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Matrix Revolutions

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I got to the theatre this afternoon and watched a matinee of the Matrix Revolutions. I always try to go midweek during the day to movies I am really looking forward to, and much to my delight, there were only four other people there. That means the Surround Sound Speaker to ear ratio was about 82 to 1, and it was awesome.

I thought the movie was fantastic, and I think movie critics are now officially morons. Of course, I did not go to the Matrix seeking deep philosophical fulfillment- I went for a couple hours of excitement, action, a decent story line, and lots of hot screaming special effects with an equal amount of complimentary ear-bleeding loud sound effects.

The Matrix delivered.

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Unbelievable- Egypt has banned the Matrix movies because they promote Zionism.

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