Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Petty moves from a petty man.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

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

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

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

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

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The Instapundit links to this particular Day By Daycartoon by Chris Muir (which, I must agree, is genius), and states:

CHRIS MUIR’S Day By Day really deserves to be syndicated.

I could not agree more, and if you click here, you will be taken to a list of syndicates you can write to telling them how good Day by Day is, and how it deserves to be in newspapers everywhere.

How, you might ask, is this shameless self-promotion? Because I believe that if I was not the first, I was pretty damn close to the first blog in the blogosphere to promote Day By Day. He emailed me, I immediately recognized his genius, and it has been a daily read ever since.

While I am promoting things, let me remind everyonethat the best blog in the world is now back after a lengthy hiatus. If you have not been there before, go read Protein Wisdom. If you really want a belly laugh, click here to read the greatest fisking ever done– and I think it was done before ‘fisking’ was even a term. To this day, I still think “Let’s Rall!” is the greatest post ever written in the blogosphere, and when Protein Wisdom disappeared, I was so upset that one night, after a few cocktails and 3-4 months without Jeff and company, I actually used Yahoo’s people search and called every Jeff Goldstein in Colorado. I never found, the right one, btw..

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  3. 3.

    Norbizness

    I will personally throw my estimable weight behind this effort if I can be assured that it will replace Mallard Fillmore in my paper of record.

  4. 4.

    burnplant

    Wow, that is a good find, and buffoon-juice was there first.

    Alternate converstation bubbles for the hilarious Kerry-Gulf War-Vietnam cartoon:

    Panel 1
    “I actually was aware of the Al-Qaeda threat before they struck, it was a top priority from day 1 of my administration”

    Panel 2
    “I see that President Bush is telling the librul media that he had the Al-Qaeda threat covered”
    “Yeah, except when it came to stopping it!”

    Panel 3
    “Stop it? You mean we expect this President to actually do anything?”
    “Ha ha, that’s funny!”

    Look at me, I’m a cartoonist!

  5. 5.

    Chris Muir

    incisive, short, to-the-point…well done, burnplant! You must be tired after 6 hours of cogitation to write that in; kick back & have a beer!

  6. 6.

    Rick

    Burnplant,

    If Ted Rall can ever learn to draw, you might provide good, trenchant story lines for him.

    Cordially…

  7. 7.

    Proud2BSimpletons

    Chris Muir and John Cole are just soooo proud of being simpletons. Emulating dear leader no doubt. Can’t understand bills have amendments?

    “Kerry’s staff said he was trying to indicate his support for an amendment funding the appropriation from increased taxes on the wealthiest Americans. When that amendment failed, he voted against the bill.”

    Was that so terribly difficult for your pretty heads?

    johnkerry.com/pressroom/clips/news_2004_0322.html

  9. 9.

    Jeff G

    “pretty heads,” eh?

    Guess we know what you’ll be spending your weekend puffin’ on.

    Oh, and let me get this straight: Kerry’s FOR the troops unless he doesn’t get his way on a tax increase. In which case, fuck ’em. That about right?

    Tool.

  10. 10.

    burnplant

    Jeff G,
    Ha ha, that’s right you scored on ‘im. Wow, that’s devastating. Way to bring out the “Kerry tax increase or soldiers die” platform…finally a genius at buffoon-juice!!!

  11. 11.

    burnplant

    Sorry Rick,
    I’d just skimmed at first and didn’t notice your excellent application of the word “trenchant”. Way to go, time to chalk up another win for yourself and flip that calender…next word, “oblivious”…use it in a sentence.

  12. 12.

    Jeff G

    Oh, come now, burnplant. You’re gonna have to do better than that. I mean, “Wow, that’s devastating”…? And,”Way to bring out the blah blah blah”…? ‘slike being teased by a 15-year old girl who’s just discovered how emphasizing certain words can generate rudimentary sarcasm.

    Please tell me you have more in the bag than that. Because I’m already bored, and I haven’t even started slapping you around yet.

  14. 14.

    John Y.

    There’s a reason that Day by Day isn’t syndicated anywhere… a very simple one.

    It’s not ever funny.

  15. 15.

    Justin O.

    correct correct….not very funny…….and it needs to be a little more complicated in a way while maintaining simplicity with a more creative character development which is lacking as I’ve seen……..

    I said earlier……

    Cheap Ass Doonesbury

  16. 16.

    Kimmitt

    Yeah, I’ve had it recommended to me a couple of times. It’s a right-wing Doonesbury variant, but it just isn’t at all funny to me. It feels a lot like Mallard Fillmore; you’re supposed to laugh because “liberals” are so stupid, not because of clever comedic timing or good characterization.

  18. 18.

    John Cole

    Actually- I think the cartoon I linked to was laugh outloud funny.

    Full discluosure- I have all the old Doonesbury books- and they are damned funny. Miserable since at least the 80’s though.

    More full disclosure- The greatest cartoon strip in the world is still Bloom County.

  19. 19.

    Jeff G

    Berke Breathed is one of my heroes. Of course, another is Tanner Boyle, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.

  22. 22.

    Jeff G

    John. I wrote a novella for my master’s thesis called Brautigan, Revisited — about Brautigan’s ghost dating this college chick, despite all the inconveniences of the whole alive / dead thing.

    I’ve also taught both Trout Fishing In America and In Watermelon Sugar, along with some of RB’s poetry.

    Tell you what: I’ll post a couple of Brautigan links from my archives over on my site. Just for your having heard of him.

  23. 23.

    John Cole

    Brautigan is a genius- I think I have read every book he has ever written.

    Willard and His Bowling Trophies might be one of my favorites.

    I forget, though- was it the Hawkline Monster that had the Obsessive Comulsive counter who even counted the number of times he vomited in the boat?

    Been so many years. I need to read them all again.

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