Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

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

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

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

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

In my day, never was longer.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

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

This blog will pay for itself.

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Fiscal Conservatives, My A$$

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Uggh:

A mid-year White House report will tout fiscal progress with a projected U.S. budget deficit for this year of around $420 billion — nearly $100 billion less than the forecast offered five months ago, congressional sources said on Tuesday.
A congressional aide who declined to be identified told Reuters that the $420 billion figure is “what people are talking about” on Capitol Hill.

The budget projection will be part of a mid-session budget report that the White House will be putting out, possibly as early as this week. Originally due on July 15, the document was delayed after officials in the Office of Management and Budget sought extra time to update their figures in light of improving economic conditions that have fueled higher tax revenues.

The greatest failure of the Bush presidency so far can be attributed to that fateful date when the Supreme Court ruled the presidential veto unconstitutional. Wait- you mean that didn’t happen?

Sure- the deficit is smaller than projected. But $420 billion?????? Jeebus.

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Ricky Williams

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This is old news, but here is my 2 cents:

Ignore everything you’ve read and heard.
Ricky Williams did not retire.

Call this breaking news, a scoop, this just in, or any other hackneyed media phrase you can conjure.

Just know this: Ricky Williams did not retire.

He quit.

Exactly. Williams gets the nod for most self-centered athlete in the history of the Universe. How he could wait until now to do this to his teammates is reprehensible and inexcusable. You don’t do that to people who are counting on you.

While we are talking about football, congrats to Coach Cowher:

Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher signed a two-year contract extension Monday — the second time since 2001 he has agreed to a new deal after his team missed the playoffs the preceding season.

The extension, which carries through the 2007 season, is expected to keep Cowher’s salary competitive with those of the game’s highest-paid head coaches. Cowher’s current deal pays him $3 million per season, and team president Art Rooney II said the coach was given a raise in his new contract.

Cowher agreed to his current contract, which runs through the 2005 season, after the Steelers rebounded from consecutive losing seasons by going 9-7 in 2000 but still missed the playoffs.

The 47-year-old Cowher has a 115-76-1 record in 12 seasons, with only three losing seasons. His seven division titles are the fifth most in NFL coaching history, and the Steelers have reached the playoffs 12 times under Cowher despite missing them four of the last six seasons.

Not long before my beloved Steelers take the field.

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Well What Do You Know

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I see that Ken Layne has re-emerged after spending a year going all Buddy Holly on us, and has started blogging again. Before you get confused, Welch is the one with the goofy glasses- Layne looks like a younger Steve Earle. Which reminds me- Welch is blogging up a storm, too.

I suppose I should be all pissy for Layne leaving me in the lurch for a year, especially after his first real return post is this stream of conciousness screed against all bloggers telling us how we have let him and the medium. I am not- welcome back.

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Andrew Sullivan Takes Psilocybin

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Check out this tongue kiss between Sully and the Kerry campaign:

I’m still somewhat in shock at the first night of the Democratic Convention. I kept thinking I was at a Republican convention. Tightly scripted, elegantly choreographed, seamlessly on the centrist message of war, unity, maturity and judgment. Foreign policy was front and center; faith was showcased; military service was held up as the ideal; prudent leadership was touted in a time of “peril,” in Hillary’s word. I wonder if they can keep this up. But I’m amazed they’ve tried. I’ve been writing for months now that Kerry’s most effective message would be that he’d conduct the war on terror with more allies and more wisdom than Bush. But I never actually believed he’d be canny enough to do exactly that. But he has!

I guess I watched a different show…

*** Update ***

Kevin Drum:

Andrew Sullivan is practically a one-man cheering squad for the first night of the convention. Weird. He sounds like a guy who very desperately wants to believe in Kerry.

Does this mean that David Brock is a Republican again? My head hurts.

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Day 2 of the Convention

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Apparently, a large part of today’s proceedings in Boston will be the lionization of the senior Senator from Massachussetts, Ted Kennedy, for all of his years of service.

Yesterday would have been Mary Jo Kopechne’s 64th birthday, and it was 35 years and nine days ago that Ted Kennedy left her stranded in the bottom of a canal to drown in order to save his political career.

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