Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Bark louder, little dog.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Everybody saw this coming.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Infrastructure week. at last.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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  3. 3.

    Vlad

    The Pirates don’t properly appreciate Craig Wilson! My cat has a weak stomach! Ana Lucia is sucking all the life out of Lost!

    Don’t worry; I’ll have plenty more left over for Tuesday.

  4. 4.

    Halffasthero

    I am likely going to be filing a greavance about the Steelers/Vikings game but right now just giving you a warning. Also, there was no Friday Beer Blog. WTH?

  7. 7.

    stickler

    I got my grievance right here: no beer post on a Friday night. This is not right. It will not stand.

    Oh. My glass is empty. Rant suspended until further notice.

  8. 8.

    ppGaz

    Grievance: Why don’t all satellite radio receivers use the same power supply accessories? I want capital punishment for the people who build these things.

    Okay, just corporal punishment. But severe corporal punishment. Torture would be good. Good old fashioned Bush-Cheney torture.

    Okay, just verbal torture. But severe verbal torture.

  10. 10.

    ppGaz

    Oka, here’s a real grievance: Why does this blog fail to break the kneecaps of commenters who say things like “I’m subsidizing unhealthy people with my health insurance premiums?” Slightly paraphrased, I don’t feel like looking up the original quote.

    Health care costs, insurance availability, and access to care are a large, growing, real time ongoing disaster for millions of families in this country. The cost of care is now increasing at double-digit annual rates according to this series in NYT. Read-da-hole-thing as they say, because the horror stories in this article will curl your hair if you are lucky enough to have hair.

    Being a Patient

    So here we are with a government that coddles a set of rich industries like BigPharma and Manipulated Managed Care, pays only lip service to these real life-and-death issues, and then plays politics and power games with a phony War on Terror, a bullshit Patriot Act, and executive-branch-ordered spying on ordinary Americans … and yet the people do not assemble in the streets and march on these negligent motherfuckers!

    What’s up with that?

  11. 11.

    Shygetz

    So here we are with a government that coddles a set of rich industries like BigPharma and Manipulated Managed Care, pays only lip service to these real life-and-death issues, and then plays politics and power games with a phony War on Terror, a bullshit Patriot Act, and executive-branch-ordered spying on ordinary Americans … and yet the people do not assemble in the streets and march on these negligent motherfuckers!

    We’re afraid we might catch the flu and die for lack of health care if we march in this weather.

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    ppGaz

    We’re afraid we might catch the flu and die for lack of health care if we march in this weather.

    Good point.

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    docG

    It wouldn’t be a real Festivus celebration unless John Cole wrestles someone – Amanda from Pandagon, perhaps?

  15. 15.

    Krista

    It wouldn’t be a real Festivus celebration unless John Cole wrestles someone – Amanda from Pandagon, perhaps?

    Or ppGaz from Balloon Juice. That I’d pay to see.

  16. 16.

    chef

    “Health care costs, insurance availability, and access to care are a large, growing, real time ongoing disaster for millions of families in this country”

    And now, businesses too.
    The AMA spends a fortune highlighting every problem with national health care elsewhere, but as anyone who has lived in Germany or Canada (like me) and you will find they prefer any system over that of the US. World Bank Stats show the American people spend more on health care than anyone, yet receive inferior care.

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