Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I really should read my own blog.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

White supremacy is terrorism.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

So many bastards, so little time.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

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

The willow is too close to the house.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

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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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