Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Stay strong, because they are weak.

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

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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

I really should read my own blog.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

“They all knew.”

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

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The best comments about Fahrenheit 9/11 since Hitchens:

Halfway through Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 there is a shot of a lone state trooper keeping vigil over thousands of miles of Oregonian coast. The trooper looks wholly inadequate to the task, a sense compounded by a deadpan tour of his empty station. Because of public-safety cutbacks, Moore tells us, Oregon has been left dangerously unprotected. Homeland Security, he says, is a sham.

It’s a funny scene, and I’m sympathetic to the argument. But I also know that Oregon has almost no police because its residents, in a referendum held last year, refused to raise their own taxes

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Simply amazing:

When Maggie Rogers spotted something bobbing in the water three miles into the Gulf of Mexico while on a scalloping trip with friends, she assumed it was a turtle, or a piece of sea kelp.

But as the boat got closer and slowed down, she found it was a tiny, apricot-colored kitten. Nine inches long and screaming at the top of its lungs, the cat was paddling furiously.

“We scooped him up and he sat on the boat with me for eight hours,” said Rogers, who is the finance director at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

“He was exhausted and stressed,” Rogers said. “His heart rate was high.”

I am generally against the death penalty, but in crueltyto animal cases, I think it is justified. How someone could dump this fellow in the ocean is beyond me. Scum.

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With John Edwards elevation to VP candidate, here is a trend you will begin to hear more about:

About a year ago, 49-year-old trial lawyer Clay Mitchell’s physician retired, leaving him to look for a new internist.

With a reference from his father, a prominent gynecologist, Mitchell chose Dr. Ivan Castro of Winter Park Internal Medicine for his annual check-up.

Mitchell arrived for his appointment, filled out the paperwork, including his profession and employer’s name, and was escorted into a room. But after Mitchell changed into a paper medical gown, an office staff member informed him that because he was a trial lawyer, Castro would not attend to him.

“It was humiliating,” he says.

Castro, who was a named Top Doctor in 2003 by Orlando Magazine, still stands by his decision to not treat Mitchell.

His reason: Trial lawyers can no longer bite the hand that cares for them. And, Castro says, he is not alone. “Many of us do this for a very good reason.”

This is not a rare example:

A South Carolina surgeon dropped a patient when he found out her husband was a trial lawyer.

In New Hampshire, a neurosurgeon told the head of the state

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I can’t think of any situation in which Riordan’s comments might be found amusing:

No one ever accused Richard Riordan of being a prisoner to political correctness, but the feisty former mayor of Los Angeles and now the state’s education secretary may have outdone himself last week when he called a youngster at a book event a “stupid, dirty girl.”

The incident took place Thursday at the Santa Barbara Central Library, where Riordan stopped in to promote a summer reading program. After reading a picture book to preschoolers and young elementary school pupils, he chatted with some of them.

One girl asked whether he was aware that her name was that of an Egyptian goddess.

While her full name was not released, event participants said her first name is Isis, the archetypal Egyptian goddess who represents everything from motherhood to magic to the dead and is considered by some historians to have influenced Christian interpretation of the Virgin Mary.

Riordan apparently thought the girl was asking whether he knew what her name meant and, with a camera rolling from a local news station, made an inexplicable quip he would immediately regret.

“It means stupid, dirty girl,” he said.

The story was carried by the Associated Press and circulated statewide over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who named the 74-year-old Riordan to his Cabinet, issued a stern statement calling his appointee’s remark “unacceptable in any context.” But Schwarzenegger went on to say that Riordan “would never knowingly or intentionally upset a child. … I know he deeply regrets having made these unfortunate remarks.”

Riordan apologized to the girl on the spot, said Carol Keator, director of the Santa Barbara public library system.

Has he lost his mind? Is there really any situation where insulting a 6 year-old is considered funny? Jeebus.

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