Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Consistently wrong since 2002

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

So very ready.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

I really should read my own blog.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

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

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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This week must be the week all electronics in my household die. First the laptop, now my DVD player went tits up. The back-up isn’t progressive scan.

Grrr.

BTW- Is this a Zappa reference, or did this phrase appear somewhere else, first:

THANKS, GUYS! Army of Davids is now up to #78 on Amazon, which isn’t bad for a book that doesn’t come out for over a month. Keep those pre-orders coming; they’re much appreciated!

UPDATE: #66! With a bullet!

Just curious.

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  1. 1.

    neil

    What’s going on today? Is Pajamas Media starting a new viral ad campaign for power conditioners or something?

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    Aaron

    I believe that Billboard charts indicate quickly rising or new singles with a bullet point. To be “number one with a bullet” means you either debuted at number one or got there very quickly, indicating a huge success.

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    a guy called larry

    rising up the charts. I think it predates Zappa

    Yeah. This question is asked with some regularity, I guess. Zappa didn’t have to worry about that much, but Volman and Kaylan did, I think, in The Turtles.

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    ppGaz

    “With a bullet” means “increasing rapidly.”

    On a record “hit” chart, which is actually a sales chart, a bullet indicates rapidly increasing sales.

    “Number three with a bullet” indicates that the item is probably going to move up the chart quickly.

    The “bullet” was a bullet-shaped symbol used on the chart to indicate the items that were rising rapidly.

    Yes, I’d say it predated Frank Zappa.

    The “rapidly rising” reference is from Webster’s New World College Dictionary (“bullet”, 5)

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    Gary Farber

    “First the laptop, now my DVD player went tits up.”

    Curiously, my DVD player also died, for no visible reason, three days ago, with a Battlestar Galactica disk in it. It was 55 weeks old.

    :-(

    I do have a backup in the computer, which I live in terror of a problem with, because I couldn’t possibly afford to fix it if one developed. And the idea of going back to the Pentium I backup with the 33k modem (instead of the speedy 49k I’m limited to in the modern one) is horrific.

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