Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

This fight is for everything.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Let me file that under fuck it.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

The lights are all blinking red.

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  1. 1.

    Tim F.

    You know, that adage never made any sense to me. Wouldn’t it make more sense to say that perhaps the fundamental definition of a great mind is that it doesn’t think like any other mind out there? Albert Einstein didn’t think a damned thing like Winston Churchill who didn’t think anything like FDR who (despite what some would say) didn’t think like Stalin, yet they were all, in their own way, major thinkers who won WWII.

    I think the important thing here is that I though four minutes faster.

  2. 2.

    Rome Again

    What I think is amazing is that you both thought about it within 4 minutes of each other, but you were also both a day late.

  3. 3.

    Jake

    Yah sure. I bet you guys call each other in the morning to make sure your outfits match.

    On more a more serious note, it isn’t surprising that five seconds of Mr. Crook Talk Express makes sane folk think of fools. (Chocolate) Christ all mighty, what the hell is wrong with that man?

  4. 4.

    Face

    McCain will never, ever win the primary. He’s too damn old, too damn all-over-the-map, and too busy playing most of America as chumps.

    Seriously, does he REALLY think that he’s convinced us that their walk thru Baghdad wasn’t escorted by an entire platoon? That there wasn’t snipers on every rooftop?

  5. 5.

    Face

    McCain will never, ever win the primary. He’s too damn old, too damn all-over-the-map, and too busy playing most of America as chumps.

    Seriously, does he REALLY think that he’s convinced us that their walk thru Baghdad wasn’t escorted by an entire platoon? That there wasn’t snipers on every rooftop?

  6. 6.

    ThymeZone

    The real question is why two guys would have the same rather ordinary idea at around the same time, and then decide that they had great minds.

    Heh. Sorry, that shot had to be taken.

    As a lay empiricist, I have to say, we don’t have a lot of data to support assertions about what a “great mind” actually is. Do we?

  7. 7.

    Rome Again

    So now that we’ve got two threads about McCain and April Fool’s Day, and another thread about synergy or lack of synergy regarding the previous two postings, I guess you don’t have room for a thread about THIS, huh?

    WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration’s legal strategy in its fight against terrorism.

    The victory may be only temporary, however. The high court twice previously has extended legal protections to prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. These individuals were seized as potential terrorists following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and only 10 have been charged with a crime.

  8. 8.

    Darrell, D'Souza, Delay and Strauss

    As several great minds in one, I can say that John McCains heroic jaunt through a normal Baghdad hood did not endanger any troops lives.

  9. 9.

    Punchy

    The victory may be only temporary, however

    What GREAT reporting by the douchebags at AP. Why is this temporary? They never say. How can anything decided by the SC be temporary, anyways? Aren’t they highest court in the land? WTF does this statement mean?

    I’ve seen 5th graders who can pen a more coherent article than the clowns at AP…

  10. 10.

    SPIIDERWEB™

    John,

    Do you have any clout with the military? I’m thinking of going to Baghdad to buy some rugs (the prices are sooo good!) and would like the assistance of about 100 soldiers, three Blackhawk helicopters and a couple Apache attack helicopters. If they can throw in a tank I would be very grateful. Body armor is covered. No need to borrow any.

    Want me to pick up a couple rugs for you? Let me know the color scheme in your home and I’ll do what I can. You’ll just have to trust my judgment.

    Thank you in advance for your assistance.

  11. 11.

    Rome Again

    I’ve seen 5th graders who can pen a more coherent article than the clowns at AP…

    True, but it IS a Supreme Court rejection, even it temporary, and is much more important than whether two people on this thread have great minds or not.

  13. 13.

    Chad N. Freude

    As a lay empiricist

    empiricism is a theory of knowledge which emphasizes those aspects of scientific knowledge that are closely related to experience, especially as formed through deliberate experimental arrangements

    the phenomena of consciousness are simply the product of sensuous experience

    Do I have to make the joke explicit?

  15. 15.

    Chad N. Freude

    Isn’t there a similar expression about fools seldom differing?

    There are different versions of the wording of this exchange between someone and Dorothy Parker:

    Person: I can’t bear fools.
    Parker: That’s strange, your mother could.

  16. 16.

    demimondian

    “A man who represents himself has a crook for a lawyer and a fool for a client.”

  17. 17.

    demimondian

    I think the important thing here is that I though [sic] four minutes faster.

    I think you should type more slowly sometimes.

  18. 18.

    Chad N. Freude

    I think you should type more slowly sometimes.

    At least no faster than you think.

  19. 19.

    Cyrus

    Krista Says:
    Isn’t there a similar expression about fools seldom differing?

    I’ve always liked a variation of the phrase referred to in the post title. My favored version: “Great minds think alike, simple minds seldom differ.” A quick Google shows that the more common formulation is “great minds think alike, fools seldom differ.” If someone wanted to make a substantive point from that phrase, one might stress the meaning of “think alike” — it’s not that the greats come to the same conclusions, but that they have a unique and special way of getting to those conclusions, regardless of whether or not they’re the same ones.

    But it’s never used like that, so, more likely, it’s merely a way to keep someone from getting too full of themselves without actually disagreeing with them. Which is pretty much how it’s been used here. Oh well.

  21. 21.

    RSA

    “Great minds think alike. . .”

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard this phrase used non-ironically. (I’ve never heard the follow-through either; thanks, Cyrus.)

  22. 22.

    Jim

    You know, that adage never made any sense to me. Wouldn’t it make more sense to say that perhaps the fundamental definition of a great mind is that it doesn’t think like any other mind out there?

    I take it you’ve never eaten shrooms with anyone.

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