Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let there be snark.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Republicans would impeach Biden if he bit into a whole Kit Kat rather than breaking the sections apart.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

T R E 4 5 O N

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

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

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

I really should read my own blog.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

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

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

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Freak Snowstorm

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Woke up this morning to the power going on an off, and then I heard a weirdly familiar metallic grinding sound from outside. Got up, looked out the window, and we had 8 inches of snow and what I was hearing was the snowplow.

Internet out, cable out, lights flickering on and off, and it took two hours just to get downtown. The snow itself wasn’t that much of a problem, but since all the trees have their leaves and have not turned, they were able to catch a lot more snow, and the weight of it all downed tree limbs everywhere. That and the car wrecks really screwed things up.

Weird. I don’t ever remember it snowing this much this early in the season.

*** Update ***

To those of you who think this is a bad thing and are using this as an occasion to taunt me, don’t. I LOVE winter. I will have my windows open all but the coldest of days in January. I look forward to snow. I turned my heat on only 2-3 times last year. I love snow and snowy weather.

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Fill In The Blanks

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Here is a fun game for you- who are they talking about:

“He’s a vile, detestable, moralistic person with no heart and no conscience who believes he’s been tapped by God to do very important things,” one White House ally said, referring to ___________________.

A.) James Dobson
B.) Rick Santorum
C.) Osama bin Laden
D.) Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald

Unfortunately, I think you know the answer. And how about this, a piece written by Michelle Malkin that is 100% accurate.

My head hurts.

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Used Computers or Trash

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Interesting piece in the Times on the ecological issues/problems raised by ‘green’ technology:

Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental problems in some of the world’s poorest places, according to a report to be issued today by an environmental organization.

Basel Action Network Web site The report, titled “The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa,” says that the unusable equipment is being donated or sold to developing nations by recycling businesses in the United States as a way to dodge the expense of having to recycle it properly. While the report, written by the Basel Action Network, based in Seattle, focuses on Nigeria, in western Africa, it says the situation is similar throughout much of the developing world.

“Too often, justifications of ‘building bridges over the digital divide’ are used as excuses to obscure and ignore the fact that these bridges double as toxic waste pipelines,” says the report. As a result, Nigeria and other developing nations are carrying a disproportionate burden of the world’s toxic waste from technology products, according to Jim Puckett, coordinator of the group.

I forget where I saw it, but I saw a pretty appalling piece about a group of people (India, I think), who spend their entire lives breaking down old ships for scrap, and are basically destroyed by the heavy metals and toxins they encounter during their job.

Just more in the line of things we don’t think about often enough.

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