Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

The revolution will be supervised.

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

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Second rate reporter says what?

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

We still have time to mess this up!

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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Holy Warrior Boykin Finally Retires

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It’s about time.

Steve Benen has thoroughly documented Lt. Gen. William Boykin’s cartoonishly enthusiastic evangelist streak. The next time you see a jihadi video ranting about imperialist American crusaders out to destroy the Muslim religion, keep Boykin in mind. We really have guys like that. It’s worse than scattered nuts like Coulter and Malkin or the odd presidential freudian slip. We had a guy who presented our side in exactly the same terms that terrorist recruiters use to describe us running counterterror operations at the Pentagon.

Now Boykin’s gone, the nutters seem to have quieted down at the Air Force Academy and we have a Secretary of Defense who seems minimally capable of doing his job. Chalk it up to the soft bigotry of low expectations, but I feel something verging on relief.

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    Tsulagi

    Boykin is a crack up. He’s capable in many ways, but he’s a certified loon. He really believes he has a photo of Satan hovering over Mogadishu when we were in Somalia.

    Props to Gates. He’s forced out Boykin and some of Cheney’s Gestapo (Powell used that term) like Cambone. Actions which might have been part of the reason to create and look for a War Czar. Gates is/was daddy’s man and maybe now suspected of being not entirely loyal by the idiot son and Last Throes Cheney.

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    Davebo

    Now he can present the war on his garden moles as a Holy Crusade to his wife and his assorted buddies down at the American Legion.

    Or perhaps he saw an opportunity in the death of the right reverand Falwell.

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    Wilfred

    One by one, the stars of the Bush firmament begin to recede. Years from now we’ll look back at the Armitages, Rumsfelds and Boykins with nostalgia, to a time when uncommon craziness was a common nuisance.

    Well, at least now we know that Bush won’t attack Iran – Boykin would never have missed a chance at that.

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