Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

ha ha ha! Nice try weird people.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Second rate reporter says what?

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

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

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

Even though I know this is a bad idea, I’m off to do it anyway!

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

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

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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  1. 1.

    Ben

    Well, here in the Disaster of Columbia, violent crime is down… if you stick to strict rules about cities. While violent crim in the peoples republic of DC has dropped it has skyrocketed in PG County, which borders the district. Essentially, the statisticians are just re-arranging deck chairs on the titanic. If there are more murders in PG county than the district, what’s to stop the criminals in PG county from making a 10 minute car ride to kill me? Nothing.

  2. 2.

    Kimmitt

    Last time, when they were up a little, the police chief shrugged and said something like, “Some years, people kill each other. Some years they don’t. I have no idea why.” I think that’s pretty accurate.

  3. 3.

    Ben Regenspan

    Was it here that I read about (federal-level?) plans to redefine certain types of dealer-level drug possession as “violent crime”? I don’t really see that one going anywhere, given how much major cities want to cut those rates.

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    tom scott

    Do you suppose that more incarceration and for longer periods of time might have an effect? It’s long been postulated that about 7% of criminals are responsible for the majority of crimes committed. Programs like 3 strike-you’re out and other similar ones are having their affect.
    An excerpt from this study:

    In one of the most comprehensive studies following offenders and the criminal justice system over time, University of Pennsylvania criminologist Marvin Wolfgang and his colleagues found that hard-core predators were a relatively small group of repeaters who rarely were punished.

    The Wolfgang group compiled arrest records up to the 30th birthday for two groups consisting of every male born and reared in Philadelphia in 1945 and in 1958. Their study, published in 1990, found that in both groups about 35 percent were arrested at least once for a nontraffic offense and nearly half of these never tangled with the law again. The group that turned 30 years old in 1988, however, was guilty of much more serious crime than the one that turned 30 in 1975. The two groups had two things in common: the hard-core predators were few in number and were rarely punished:
    * Just 7 percent in each cohort (the top 20 percent of those arrested at least once) committed two-thirds of all violent crimes, including three out of four rapes and robberies.

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