Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Republicans do not trust women.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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Adios, Patty

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I guess Rush Limbaugh and Greg Easterbrook aren’t the only ones getting fired for their viewpoints:

Patricia Ireland, a prominent women’s rights advocate, has been dismissed after six months as chief executive of the YWCA of the U.S.A.

Dorris Daniel-Parkes has been named interim director by the National Coordinating Board of the YWCA, the organization said.

“We have the deepest admiration for Ms. Ireland’s dedication to women’s issues and social justice, but the YWCA has proved to be the wrong platform for her to advocate for these issues,” board chairwoman Audrey Peeples said in a press release.

True to Ireland form, it is someone else’s fault:

A former head of the Democrat group that calls itself National Organization for Women, she says right-wingers opposed her from the start because of her left-wing activism, because she admitted wanting to inject her politics into YWCA and because she lived with a woman in the 1990s while still married.

Once a victim, always a victim. Right, Patricia?

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Ick.

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This should be entertaining to watch:

David Gest, the estranged husband of Liza Minnelli, claims in a lawsuit filed today that the singer regularly beat him during the couple’s 16-month marriage. In the below New York State Supreme Court complaint, Gest, 50, describes Minnelli, 57, as an overweight, raging alcoholic who seriously injured him during a June attack (the couple separated the following month). According to Gest, whose lawsuit seeks $10 million in damages, he became a “victim of domestic violence” who, as a result of Minnelli’s beatings, now lives in “virtually constant, unrelenting pain” that requires “11 prescription medications per day, some more than once.” Gest’s complaint chronicles alleged beatings in London, Italy, and New York and claims that Minnelli once threw a lamp at him, punched a security guard, choked a male employee of Gest’s, and bit another security official. Gest even recounts a pre-marriage incident in December 2001 as the couple traveled, via a chauffeured Mercedes, to enroll Minnelli in a Pennsylvania rehab facility. Gest claims that the singer drank an entire bottle of red wine in the car and then began beating him “about his head with open hands and closed fists.”

Another Hollywood train wreck unfolds in slow-motion. Even though this is a civil suit, I could not fault either one for beating the other, and I would do my best to find a way to put them both in jail, even though jail terms would not be permissible.

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The Big No!

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Let’s watch the rats squirm now:

The Bush administration Tuesday threatened to veto the fiscal 2004 supplemental for Iraq and Afghanistan if a Senate-approved loan provision is accepted. “If this provision is not removed, the president’s senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill,” OMB Director Josh Bolten said in a letter sent Tuesday to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders.

The Senate approved the amendment, despite vigorous White House and GOP leadership lobbying, to convert $10 billion of the Iraq reconstruction funds into a loan unless other nations forgive 90 percent of Iraq’s prewar debt. GOP lawmakers and aides said the provision would likely be removed in conference, as the House bill would provide its entire $18.65 billion Iraq aid package in the form of a grant. “The House will hold firm in support of the president and, in the end, I expect the conference report will drop the loan provision,” House Appropriations Chairman C.W. (Bill) Young, R-Fla., said.

Good for Bush.

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Life is Like A Box of Chocolates

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Stupid is as stupid does:

You saw it first on News 4! A man is behind bars after he survived a daring jump over the mighty Niagara Falls.

Witnesses watched in horror Monday as the man took the dangerous plunge. But he somehow got the the bottom alive and managed to crawl to safety.

Police are not releasing his name, only that he is a U.S. citizen. No word yet on what charges he’ll face.

Investigators are also questioning the man’s friend who videotaped the whole thing.

This is the first known instance that someone has survived a plunge over the falls with no safety devices.

Groan.

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A Canadian With A Spine

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Brian Mulroney in the WSJ:

Although the reality of pre-emptive action is new, so was the terrorist strike on America. What is also new is the suggestion that Security Council approval is–and has been–a sacrosanct precondition to action against a hostile state. The historical record is to the contrary. In any event, I would never have agreed to subcontract Canada’s international security decisions and our national interest to 15 members of the Security Council. This would be a surrender of national sovereignty to which I’d never consent.

In fact, a coalition of nations–including France, Germany and Canada–mounted a massive air war against Serbia a few years ago without Security Council authorization, under President Clinton’s leadership. There was no “imminence” of attack on any allied nation, nor did Serbia represent a threat to anyone outside her own borders. Why the reversal of policy when Iraq was involved, with the same nations piously insisting that Security Council approval had to be obtained before any military action could be initiated–and that the absence of any such approval had rendered illegitimate any military action against Saddam Hussein?

Read the whole thing.

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