Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

He really is that stupid.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

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

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

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

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

No one could have predicted…

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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Football Saturday

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WVU takes on Va. Tech about a mile from my house, and I am going to sit on thecouch and watch it in HD rather than brave the crowds. I am hopeful about the outcome, but I have a feeling how this is going to end up. I hope I am wrong.

For those of you who wonder why I write about so many sports but little attention to baseball, the standings say it all. The Pirates are going to finish below .500 for the 14th year in a row, and all that remains unanswered is whether they are literally the worst team in baseball.

I like the sport of baseball, I really do. But it is going to take more than a pathological hatred of the Yankees to pique more than a cursory interest in the sport.

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Breaking The Law

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And the administration hit parade continues on:

Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush’s education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated “covert propaganda” in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.

The contract with Mr. Williams and the general contours of the public relations campaign had been known for months. The report Friday provided the first definitive ruling on the legality of the activities.

Lawyers from the accountability office, an independent nonpartisan arm of Congress, found that the administration systematically analyzed news articles to see if they carried the message, “The Bush administration/the G.O.P. is committed to education.”

The auditors declared: “We see no use for such information except for partisan political purposes. Engaging in a purely political activity such as this is not a proper use of appropriated funds.”

Again, my main reaction is I simply can;t believe they thought this was a good idea. I can’t believe Armstrong took the money, which is degrees less serious than offering it in the first place, but the whole thing just leaves me aghast. It was just stupid, illegal, and well, stupid.

Not to mention Armstrong Williams was already a supporter of vouchers and the Bush education policy. Why pay him at all?

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