Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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  1. 1.

    Sojourner

    Yikes! Could you give us a warning when you’re going to post an image this frightening?

    Sheesh. Isn’t Halloween over?

  4. 4.

    Krista

    I look back at the Thriller-era Michael Jackson and weep for what was and what could have been.

  6. 6.

    Keith

    Why is that white woman on the cover of Ebony?

    Because Sandra Bullock has always been a champion of the various causes in poverty-stricken Africa.

  10. 10.

    skippy

    congrats on leading the vote count on your category in the weblog awards, john!

    it proves that becoming a trans-agenda’d individual pays off!

  12. 12.

    r€nato

    I look back at the Thriller-era Michael Jackson and weep for what was and what could have been.

    no kidding.

    re that photo, is there any part of his face that isn’t artificial, other than the eyeballs?

  13. 13.

    The Other Andrew

    In the interests of equal time, and in the interests of getting more votes, I think that one of John’s trusty sidekicks should have to post a picture of Jennifer Connelly, Monica Bellucci, or Laetitia Casta.

  15. 15.

    Cain

    Yeah, that’s one funny video. :-) That “mar mar mar goli mar” doesn’t make any sense though. He’s saying beat you with a bullet. But he doesn’t have a weapon on him. Maybe he’s asking her (and maybe the rest of us) out of his misery :D

    cain

  16. 16.

    Dreggas

    Cain Says:

    Yeah, that’s one funny video. That “mar mar mar goli mar” doesn’t make any sense though. He’s saying beat you with a bullet. But he doesn’t have a weapon on him. Maybe he’s asking her (and maybe the rest of us) out of his misery

    cain

    LOL it’s an Indian impersonator LOL.

  17. 17.

    Dulcie

    I look back at the Thriller-era Michael Jackson and weep for what was and what could have been.

    Me too, Krista. It makes me sad to think about how much he had to hate himself to change the way he looked so drastically.

  18. 18.

    Dulcie

    Because Sandra Bullock has always been a champion of the various causes in poverty-stricken Africa.

    Heh!

  19. 19.

    Jake

    It isn’t just the extensive plastic surgery/bleach bathing. It’s the fact that even a critter from Mars could tell he’s had his face done. And redone and done again…

    The man makes too much money to go to Big Bob’s Bone Saw and BBQ Hut for his surgery.

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    On the one hand, I agree that from all reports this is a sad individual, should have learned to be happy with his natural appearance, yadda yadda yadda. On the other hand, it’s not up to a bunch of largely-not-African-American bloggers to decide how an African-American entertainer *should* look, is it? Which may be why Ebony chose to put him on the cover in the first place… because, apart from the philosophical issue of racial & cultural identity, MAYJA LOOK, SUCKA! (and getting ya ta LOOK is what selling magazines is all about).

  25. 25.

    Dulcie

    On the one hand, I agree that from all reports this is a sad individual, should have learned to be happy with his natural appearance, yadda yadda yadda. On the other hand, it’s not up to a bunch of largely-not-African-American bloggers to decide how an African-American entertainer should look, is it? Which may be why Ebony chose to put him on the cover in the first place… because, apart from the philosophical issue of racial & cultural identity, MAYJA LOOK, SUCKA! (and getting ya ta LOOK is what selling magazines is all about).

    I’m a POC, and I see MJ changing his appearance as a sign of self hatred. YMMV.

  27. 27.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    Bleach! ;)

    Robot Chicken had a skit where Michael Jackson was watching a demonstration of a giant robot of himself moonwalking and whatnot. Then it spots the Big Boy outside a Bob’s Big Boy restaurant, goes over to it and starts pulling its pants down. MJ (the ‘real’ one), says “Mmmmmm, Big Boy”.

    Seth Green is a riot.

  31. 31.

    jake

    On the other hand, it’s not up to a bunch of largely-not-African-American bloggers to decide how an African-American entertainer should look, is it?

    However, it is all right for one blogger to arbitrarily decide the ethnicities of a bunch of other bloggers whom she has never met.

    Feh.

    I wonder if this means I’m not allowed to mock Androgyny Coulter’s Adam’s apple. Not that I give a flaming crap, but I do like to know these things.

  34. 34.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    Jake, just don’t mock (m)Ann Coulter’s adams apple over at the GOS, they don’t like that one bit. Why, when she(it) has been calling them traitors and heathens for years now? Maybe because they don’t like the transgender implications?

    I half expect Ann Coulter to one day reveal that she is a he (who really likes being a she), and a liberal to boot. And the whole thing was just an experiment to see how much crap could be dished out with the blessings of the right. How outrageous they could get and still have the support of the right.

    Man, that would be worth the pain if having to hear about her crap all these years. And the right wing males who drooled over her would gag (or not…lol!).

    Now that would be funny!

  36. 36.

    conumdrum

    Man, I bet the airbrushing on that photo landed at least three retouchers in the intensive care ward.

  37. 37.

    Bombadil

    That’s how I know I’m getting old. I can remember when Michael Jackson was talented, black and male.

  38. 38.

    Kynn

    On the other hand, it’s not up to a bunch of largely-not-African-American bloggers to decide how an African-American entertainer should look, is it?

    What Annie said.

  39. 39.

    Jake

    Jake, just don’t mock (m)Ann Coulter’s adams apple over at the GOS, they don’t like that one bit. Why, when she(it) has been calling them traitors and heathens for years now? Maybe because they don’t like the transgender implications?

    How are they on calling her a crazy fucked-up ambulatory piece of garbage? Hmmm. You know, with all of her other ugly personality traits there really is no need to comment on trAnn’s aa or cinder block jaw or big “thank god she isn’t a proctologist” hands.

    I half expect Ann Coulter to one day reveal that she is a he (who really likes being a she), and a liberal to boot.

    Ugg. Do NOT want. Performance art is fine (in its place) but we have to draw the line somewhere.

    And damn it, now I have “Lola” stuck in my head.

  41. 41.

    canuckistani

    On the other hand, it’s not up to a bunch of largely-not-African-American bloggers to decide how an African-American entertainer should look, is it?

    Why not? Are white poeple not allowed to say “batshit crazy” about people of colour? If it’s racist to call MJ a nut and a freak, let me know and I’ll get my liberal card revoked.

  42. 42.

    Dreggas

    ConservativelyLiberal Says:

    Jake, just don’t mock (m)Ann Coulter’s adams apple over at the GOS, they don’t like that one bit. Why, when she(it) has been calling them traitors and heathens for years now? Maybe because they don’t like the transgender implications?

    I half expect Ann Coulter to one day reveal that she is a he (who really likes being a she), and a liberal to boot. And the whole thing was just an experiment to see how much crap could be dished out with the blessings of the right. How outrageous they could get and still have the support of the right.

    well calling Mann Coulter transgendered is offensive to the transgendered and I can kinda understand why. I wouldn’t want any credit or association with that either. Having quite a few T friends I can see why they get a bit miffed in some ways.

    As for her being a liberal or something. She is in a relationship with some big named lib and they are in love. She’s nothing more than howard stern for the conservative set.

  43. 43.

    Dreggas

    canuckistani Says:

    On the other hand, it’s not up to a bunch of largely-not-African-American bloggers to decide how an African-American entertainer should look, is it?

    Why not? Are white poeple not allowed to say “batshit crazy” about people of colour? If it’s racist to call MJ a nut and a freak, let me know and I’ll get my liberal card revoked.

    I have to agree with the stinkin canuck (tongue in cheek). I am an equal opportunity prick. If you are a celebrity I don’t give a flying fuck what your skin color is, if you’re bat shit crazy I will call you bat shit crazy. If you want to be the male, white incarnation of your sister janet then you are, indeed bat shit crazy. It’s not a case of telling them what they “should look like”.

  44. 44.

    Tax Analyst

    What’s Michael Jackson got to do with Africa? Or anything anymore, for that matter?

    To my POV he’s only slightly more relevant than Phil Spector at this point. Would Phil Spector grace the cover of any national magazine in 2007? Maybe “Misogynist Gun Nut Quarterly”.

    Jackson probably can’t help being so indulgently weird. He traded in whatever creative energies he once had in his quest for Ultimate Whiteness, and that’s really sad, but not particularly newsworthy.

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