Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

The willow is too close to the house.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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Dear Matt,

I respect you, so I am sincerely asking you take a deep breath.

‘24‘ is a fictional television series. That means it is made up, and is intended to be broadcast for entertainment purposes. This made me giggle:

If you can really get the bad guys to fess up in 90 seconds by putting a bullet in someone’s knee, then Bauer should be torturing people all the time and not pussyfooting around with all this satellite surveillance, deception, etc. But now all of a sudden what was a great idea Sunday night doesn’t even seem to be on the table. If only CTU would abandon these liberal pieties and start organizing some death squads, then we could lick this problem.

You know why Jack Bauer shot one guy and not another? Because it was in the fricking script.

I hate to have to say this, but based on the tone and tenor of your previous posts, it may be necessary. At any rate, I think you need to know- Kiefer Sutherland really didn’t shoot anyone. It was all fake- so when you get done analyzing 24, please don’t call the California State Police with information about some gruesome shootings you saw on television.

Up Next- Matt discusses the Grinch that Stole Christmas and the effectiveness of Neighborhood Watch Groups during the Holiday seasons.

BTW- Happy Blogiversary!

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    jeff

    Isn’t it kind of ironic that Matt is one of those bloggers who brags about being in the “reality based community”, but then spends two posts rambling on about a TV show.

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    Jim Henley

    So uh, John. Are you saying that there’s no such thing as too dumb for: television? a story? What?

    I’ve seen various writing instruction books dwell on various kinds of plausibility and how to achieve it. Were the writers of those books wasting their time? Likewise various writer’s guides spend considerable time on the value of internal consistency in fiction. Misguided?

    Have you yourself ever seen any fictional TV that you found yourself dismissing as, for what it was claiming to be, too stupid? What about books? Movies?

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