Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

“Alexa, change the president.”

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

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NY Times On A Roll

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Horrible news from Iraq, where six British soldiers were killed in an attack:

Six British military personnel in Iraq were killed and eight were wounded today in two separate attacks near the southeastern city of Amara, a spokeswoman for Britain’s Ministry of Defense said. The deaths were the first among British troops by hostile fire since April 6.

It was one of the deadliest days for coalition troops since President Bush declared the end of major allied combat operations on May 1.

The six fatalities happened in the same attack, the spokeswoman said, though she offered no further details on the incident.

This is awful, but what is most surprising is how the NY TIMES covered it on the front page of their web-site:

It was one of the deadliest days for coalition troops since President Bush declared the end of major allied combat operations on May 1.

See, lefties- even the NY Times gets it right when Howell is not around. Bush did not declare the war was over- he declared that MAJOR combat operations had ceased. Quit telling us that all these casualties happened “after the war.” You are just making yourself look foolish.

At any rate, that is twice in one week I have praised the NY Times for objectivity and honesty. The Times, they are a-changin’.

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Ooops

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Via Drudge, one of the funniest unfortunate choices of words ever by a Presidential candidate:

Dean was asked how he would win support of Democratic Party leaders given his frequent criticism of them and he responded that the leaders would come around once they got to know him.

“It is a bit of a club down there,” he said. “The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I’m doing is breaking into the country club.”

Must run in the family:

The 17-year-old son of Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean would “pay the price” for his alleged involvement in what police said was a break-in at a country club that included the theft of alcoholic beverages, Dean said Sunday.

At least Howard has a sense of humor about it once he realized what he had said:

On Monday, Dean winced when he heard his own words.

“That was an incredibly unfortunate phrase,” he said.

“Why do I say these things?” Dean asked a press aide.

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Insane Clown Posse

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Despite the fact that almost everyone on the planet is recognizing that the Supreme Court decisions on the Michigan Affirmative Action cases are a victory for Affirmative Action and racial preferences, the Insane Clown Posse (my name for the Atrios subsitutes) is upset. Let’s review the remarks about the ruling:

NAACP– Kweisi Mfume, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the court provided universities with a roadmap for constructing lawful affirmative action programs.

“The Michigan model now becomes the operative model for both graduate and undergraduate affirmative action programs,” he said in an interview.

Linda Chavez– In two split decisions, the Supreme Court today ruled that minority applicants may be given an edge when applying for admissions to universities, but limited how much a factor race can play in the selection of students.

The NY Times– Justices preserved affirmative action in university admissions by a narrow margin but with a forceful endorsement of the role of racial diversity on campus.

Even the National Review thinks this was a victory for Affirmative Action:

President Bush’s statement on the Supreme Court’s Michigan rulings is a major letdown: “I applaud the Supreme Court for recognizing the value of diversity on our Nation’s campuses.” Oh, please. There is precious little to “applaud” here. More Bush: “Today’s decisions seek a careful balance between the goal of campus diversity and the fundamental principle of equal treatment under the law.” Perhaps the rulings do “seek” such a thing, but they do not in fact achieve it. Not even close. Color-coded admissions will be in our future for a long time.

Interesting. Seems like a win, right? Not to the mouth-breathing Insane Clown Posse:

Yes, the Supremes upheld race-based criteria in college admissions in Grutter v. Bollinger, but just as with the relentless whittling away at Roe v. Wade, this is a strategy of death by a thousand cuts. With Gratz, Rehnquist continues his life’s work hamstringing minority advancement, and validates all over again Chris Rock’s mordant observation: “There ain’t a white person in this room who would trade places with me–and I’m rich.”

No wonder they are the fringe- they can’t even claim victory when it is announced for them on the front page of every newspaper and the lead story on every television broadcast. Not surprising from people whose observations on political policy are based upon stand-up comedy.

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Bastards

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While we are all paying attention to the SCOTUS rulings on Affirmative Action, this seems to have slipped underneath the radar:

With none of the fanfare that usually accompanies the introduction of a new bill, Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Tex.) quietly slipped proposed new legislation into the hopper Thursday calling for greater FBI and Department of Justice (DoJ) involvement in Hollywood’s ongoing war against file swappers.

The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003 (H.R. 2517) calls for the FBI to “develop a program to deter members of the public from committing acts of copyright infringement,” including increased information sharing of suspected online copyright violations among various law enforcement agencies, copyright owners and Internet service providers (ISPs). In addition, the DoJ would be required to formulate programs to educate the public on copyright laws.

Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, found a co-sponsor of the bill in Rep. Howard Berman (D.-Calif.), who introduced legislation in the last Congress that would have authorized copyright owners to hack into computers of suspected file swappers.

Orrin Hatch got beat up last week for his remarks, and it appears that these fellows intend to follow through where Hatch let off. Here is the list of Smith’s top contributors. Here is the list of Berman’s, who received 40k from Hollywood in 2002). Here is a list of how much Hollywood gave in 2002.

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That Settles That

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I had intended to go to see The Hulk tonight, but after reading Oliver Willis’s review of the Hulk, I might go see Bruc Almighty or something else. Here is part of Oliver’s review:

“Hi, my name is Ang Lee. Somehow I’ve made the Incredible Hulk boring.”

That’s all I could think as I walked out of Hulk. Here’s a movie about a 10 foot tall giant whose driving force is pure and unbridled rage and Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has managed to mold the thing into a snoozefest. For too many years critics have derided the plots and pacing of summer movies, essentially dismissing them as MTV-inspired bits of candy. I’m here to say that I like my candy, and I want my summer movies to be big, loud and engaging. Based on sheer entertainment value, Hulk is sadly a failure.

I am trying to think of a time I disagreed with Oliver about a movie or tv show, and I can’t. Sorry Hulk, I’ll catch you on DVD.

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Dennis Kucinich

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Speaking of Democrat candidates, did anyone else see Dennis Kucinich on stage singing ‘This Land is Your Land,’ while the other candidates were perched uncomfortably on bar stools on a stage? I forget where or what the event was, but it was some of the funniest video footage I have seen since Michael Dukakis decided to go joy-riding in a tank.

Here is a WaPo piece on Kucinich.

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