Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You cannot shame the shameless.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

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

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

When we show up, we win.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

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

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

No one could have predicted…

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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I Can Support This

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Norbizness and I can probably count the number of times we have seen things eye to eye on one hand, and one of those times was probably about music. However, here is a propoal I can get behind completely:

There are definitely too many teams in the three main sports right now (I’m going to avoid talking about hockey, because my proposal for them would to be to go back to the 6-team league that existed until the 1960s). Certain teams add little to nothing for their respective cities, except to make them the repeated butt of jokes. Well, it’s time to separate the really crappy from the temporarily crappy, and institute a reverse playoff system. The “winner” of the playoff will cease to exist, the “runner-up” will cease to exist as a team, but the players could join up with other teams. The process will be repeated for three years, so that 6 teams in each league will cease to exist.

(1) Major League Baseball: So many teams, so little time. The lack of a salary cap makes it so that over 50% of the teams are pretty much guaranteed not to make the playoffs in any given system. The absolute dregs in the 8-team playoff will be the Montreal Expos, Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, and San Diego Padres in the National League, and Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and the Kansas City Royals in the American League. At this point in time, the Tigers will inevitably win.

(1a) I also propose a one-time single-elimination playoff between the Red Sox and Yankees so that approximately 50% of the insufferable fans in the United States can be instantly team-less.

I am not a Yankee hater. In fact, I like a lot of the Yankee players both past and present. What I am tired of, however, is them always winning.

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Domestic Terrorism

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Reader and commenter JC emailed two stories in, both of which are rather disturbing. Story #1:

Federal authorities this year mounted one of the most extensive investigations of domestic terrorism since the Oklahoma City bombing, CBS 11 has learned.

Three people linked to white supremacist and anti-government groups are in custody. At least one weapon of mass destruction – a sodium cyanide bomb capable of delivering a deadly gas cloud – has been seized in the Tyler area.

Investigators have seized at least 100 other bombs, bomb components, machine guns, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and chemical agents. But the government also found some chilling personal documents indicating that unknown co-conspirators may still be free to carry out what appeared to be an advanced plot. And, authorities familiar with the case say more potentially deadly cyanide bombs may be in circulation.

Since arresting the three people in May, federal agents have served hundreds of subpoenas across the country in a domestic terror investigation that made it onto President Bush

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Note To The NY Times

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Unlike the Bush Administration (as you weaselly asserted the other day), here is an administration who really is afraid of democracy:

Chinese military officers said today that Taiwan’s leadership had pushed the island toward the “abyss of war” with its independence drive, making clear that China would consider a popular vote on Taiwan’s political status as cause for war.

I hope that now you understand the distinction.

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Links

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I am horribly behind on my link maintenance, so if there is anyone out there who has linked to me and I have failed to reciprocate, please let me know. My policy is to link to anyone who links to me and to link to those who I read (even if they don’t link to me). In short, I willlink to anyone as long as they are not David Duke. As that is a rather liberal policy, I often fall behind with the reciprocal links, so please let me know in the comments.

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