Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

No one could have predicted…

This fight is for everything.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

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

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

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

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

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

“They all knew.”

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Wow.

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I was pretty damned depressed by the disgusting showing from the Steelers vs. the Browns on Sunday night, but if I were a Bucs fan I would be suicidal after that Colts comeback. They seem to be handling it well, though.

Just to clear something up- I hear a lot of people grousing about the Simeon Rice call at the end of the game that gave the Colts a second shot. First, the Bucs did not deserve to lose the game after that hideous letdown (21 pts in five minutes- c’mon). Second, by rule, the call on the field was correct:

16. A defender who takes a running start from beyond the line of scrimmage in an attempt to block a field goal or point after touchdown and lands on players at the line of scrimmage.

As my brother stated, you can argue that the rule is stupid (ala the ‘no-fumble’ rule that cost the Raiders vs. the Patriots two years ago), but the call on the field was correct. He ran several yards, jumped, and landed on people- precisely the definition of leaping.

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Now There is An Answer!

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Tom Friedman has been savaged the last couple of months by theleft, generally because he hadwandered off the plantation and made sense in a few of his essays. Today, feet placed firmly in the liberal cottonfield, he comes up with a doozy: a gas tax increase, despite the fact that this would be horribly regressive and could quite possibly kill the economic recovery in the crib:

Let’s have a $1 a gallon gasoline tax and call it the “Patriot Tax.” We could use the revenue it would raise

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(R)nold

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According to the Calpundit:

We’re now up to 15 women who say Arnold “fondled, spanked or touched them” between 1979 and 2000. I guess before long it’s going to be easier just to list the women who aren’t on Arnold’s list.

According to my caclulations from the lessons learned during the Clinton years, Arnold is approximately one rape charge away from a NOW endorsement.

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In fact, even during their breathless condemnations of Arnold, they invoke the memory of Clinton, yet fail to see the irony:

For the charges to sway the recall at this late date, it will take more than the ad campaign being mounted by women’s groups. Politicians and the press would have to treat the story as a major scandal with potentially devastating consequences for California, the nation, morality and Western civilization. One wonders what would happen if even a fraction of the energy expended on Bill Clinton’s sex scandals was applied to Mr. Schwarzenegger.

I wonder what would happen, too. Would the author of this piece endorse him as she did Clinton? How about the author’s editor, Katrina van den Heuvel? What about Patty Ireland, former NOW President, who shilled for Clinton for 8 years?

BTW- there is one difference between Arnold and Clinton- people actually brought charges against Clinton, providing him all sorts of opportunities to perjure himself.

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Chicago

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I just saw Chicago, and, well- it was great. Well worth the two hours, and I was shocked by the performances of Renee Zellweger and John Reilly. And, of course, it has Queen Latifah, who I think is the female Snoop Dogg- anything she does is cool.

Also- the Press Conference/marionette (‘We Both Reached For the Gun’) scene is about the best ten minutes of movie ever made. I just loved that.

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And Then There Were Only Nine

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Bob Graham’ diary for 2 October 2003:

8 am: Breakfast

12 pm: Lunch

5 pm: Dinner

6 pm: Acknowledge that there is no chance in hell I will ever be President.

Democrat Bob Graham (search) will hold a news conference Friday to announce that he will be dropping out of the presidential race, Fox News has learned.

Graham’s campaign only has about $1 million cash on hand, causing a dire financial situation and the spokesman for Graham’s campaign resigned Thursday as his staff considered how to save his lagging candidacy.

Jamal Simmons told Graham and his wife, Adele, that he was leaving as the candidate prepared to meet with his advisers at his Miami Lakes, Fla., headquarters to discuss the campaign’s future.

As he left the meeting, Graham said his advisers presented alternatives for the campaign but no decision had been made.

“We’ll make a decision shortly,” said Graham, Florida’s senior senator.

After the meeting, an official close to Graham said he was letting go of several staff members, some of them senior aides — but did not say that Graham was withdrawing from the race.

I used to respect Graham before he entered this race.

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As noted in the comments section by Gary Farber, this Fox News announcement was premature. I stand by the accuracy that Graham will dorp out of the race and never be President- I was just a bit early.

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