Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Second rate reporter says what?

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Not all heroes wear capes.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

White supremacy is terrorism.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

In my day, never was longer.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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  4. 4.

    PaulW

    Dammit, now I’m having a flashback to the 9th grade lit class! Why couldn’t you make references to Hemingway? WHY?!?!

  5. 5.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    Curses! Thanks to the TSA, my nefarious plot to hijack an aircraft with but a single jar of pear butter was thwarted this weekend!

    Jesus Christ, can we ratchet down the hysteria just a few notches? We can’t carry on our own fucking condiments?! Gah!

  6. 6.

    BFR

    Jesus Christ, can we ratchet down the hysteria just a few notches?

    My moment of clarity came when I had to carry a screaming toddler through the checkpoing as Baabaa went through the x-ray machine.

  8. 8.

    rawshark

    Jesus Christ, can we ratchet down the hysteria just a few notches?

    Listen, if we dial down the hysteria the democrats win.

    Is Lord of the Flies a good book? I never read it but since I’ve been on a reading tear lately, reading old books I should have read before maybe I’ll add it to the list.

    oops. Should have said; ‘Listen, if we dial down the hysteria the terrorists win.’ My bad for the slippage.

  9. 9.

    JC

    Who the F**k does this A@@hole think he is?
    What in God’s green earth does this godd**n idiot think he’s doing?
    Why doesn’t he just go f**k himself?

    Okay.

    Got that out of my system.

    Thanks.

    Insert clueless idiot of choice, in above rant.

    (Balloon Juice – the only place where you can totally curse someone out – WITH FEELING, then go and happily buy them a beer, or roll on the floor laughing at their joke.)

  11. 11.

    Cyrus

    Let’s try a thread with none of those oppressive topic rules. Try not to go all Lord of the Flies.

    Um, you say this only three threads or so after Phil’s multiple pie-eating comments? Brave of you. I’m amazed this thread has only got 10 comments in the past two hours.

  12. 12.

    RSA

    We can’t carry on our own fucking condiments?!

    What are you, some kind of condimentarian? We’ve got a place in Cuba for people like you, buddy.

  13. 13.

    Face

    Thanks to the TSA, my nefarious plot to hijack an aircraft with but a single jar of pear butter was thwarted this weekend!

    Duh. First, I tell all the passangers after takeoff that it’s really a jar of nitroglyceraldehydic bipolycarboetheroic acid, and that I can detonate it with the warmth of my hand. I then use it to force them to open the cockpit, at which time I pull the Moe-Larry-Curly headclank with the pilots into unconsciousness, and nail the 3rd not-quite-a-pilot dude with the jar itself. I then close and lock the door, and fly the plane into a building or to Cancun.

    This is exactly why your damn butter is so dangerous.

  14. 14.

    cleek

    my nefarious plot to hijack an aircraft with but a single jar of pear butter was thwarted this weekend!

    well, you never know what might evolve out of one of them. better safe than devoured by mutant bloodthirsty peanut butter monsters.

  16. 16.

    The Other Steve

    Thanks to the TSA, my nefarious plot to hijack an aircraft with but a single jar of pear butter was thwarted this weekend!

    Are you kidding? Pear butter can be turned into a thermonuclear device by simply adding Plutonium.

    Just be thankful they didn’t use Skippy crunchy. That can be turned into a biological weapon simply by adding anthrax.

  19. 19.

    ThymeZone

    Who the F**k does this A@@hole think he is?
    What in God’s green earth does this godd**n idiot think he’s doing?
    Why doesn’t he just go f**k himself?

    Let me guess: Laura Bush, watching a recent presidential press conference?

  21. 21.

    Dreggas

    Hey TZ,

    Was in Phoenix over the weekend and love the place. Looks like I’ll be moving there come April if all goes to plan. Also loving the Rustlers Rooste.

  22. 22.

    JC

    Let me guess: Laura Bush, watching a recent presidential press conference?

    I give Laura Bush a bit more credit than that. I’m sure she wasn’t quite so harsh. First sentence, she thought “idiot”. Second sentence is good. Third sentence she imagined the various objects involved – but didn’t verbalize the actual word – she’s too much of a lady for that.

  23. 23.

    Jess

    I give Laura Bush a bit more credit than that.

    She always looks a bit stoned on Valium to me…or maybe I’m projecting what I imagine it would take to put up with that loser.

  25. 25.

    Bubblegum Tate

    Is Lord of the Flies a good book?

    It definitely is. As noted above, you can breeze through it, but there’s plenty of symbolism and a good strong allegory and all sorts of other literary stuff that gives it lasting power.

  27. 27.

    AlanDownunder

    John,

    Love your blog – mark I to mark X. Is your take on this any different these days?

    Do you still equate boys being boys with the unselfconscious self-righteousness that guaranteed that collar a free pass all the way from the tank crew to the USMC website?

    I instantly saw the collar as emblematic of more than just the USMC (which you’ll appreciate means that back then I thought your take was part of the problem) but then I’m posting from a god-gene-deficient convict-based society to a blog in a god-gene-ridden pilgrim-based society.

  29. 29.

    D-Chance.

    Rick Taylor Says:

    Uh, what are those topic rules, oppressive or otherwise? Hope I haven’t been breaking them.

    I almost posted the same thing yesterday…

    “this place has topic rules? since when?”

    and the follow-up “where’s the link to a FAQ page around here?”.

    But that’s part of the charm of the place… /grins

  30. 30.

    D-Chance.

    Oh, the point of opening the thread…

    Tirkuk Katie has gone off the reservation.

    The eeeeevil woman, who suddenly became the right’s darling-of-the-moment when she said that it did look like things were improving after the surge, has now gone on a war-bash again.

    Friends are so fickle…

  32. 32.

    HyperIon

    I’ve watched the first three episodes of Ken Burns’ new WWII documentary. So far I’m thinking: Wow. The guys in charge screwed up majorly and repeatedly in that war, too. But their screw ups weren’t known publicly for decades. Now we get to discover almost immediately what chumps-in-charge are doing.

    plus ça change…

    perhaps we humans are just over-matched or out of our league.

  33. 33.

    Cain

    So Bush atthe U.N. was urging human rights or some shit like that. This guy still acts like he has some credibility and authority. The U.S. has zero street creds. We’re talking about the doofus who has secret CIA black prisons, holds people without trial, attacks a nation without solid proof, and God knows what the fuck else he’s been doing behind our backs.

    Fucking ass. I hate this administration. I hate every member in it and all their enablers. I hope one day they feel exactly what they all put us and the Iraqis through. That would be sweet. That would be justice.

    cain

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