Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I really should read my own blog.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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  9. 9.

    Johnny Pez

    John’s been quoted and linked again on DailyKos. WHAT WILL THEY SAY AT REDSTATE?

    Something civil and temperate, without any profanity, of course. Because conservative blogs aren’t all shrill and stuff.

  10. 10.

    D-Chance.

    Just looked at Kos. They’re pimping Bird Flu, OMG WE’RE GONNA DIE!!!

    Which just goes to show that Drudge is 2 years ahead of everyone else…

  11. 11.

    myiq2xu

    OMG WE’RE GONNA DIE

    That kinda goes with being mortal. I’ve always accepted that I would die someday, but if I had known I’d live this long I would have taken better care of myself.

  12. 12.

    Dug Jay

    Interesting news out of Florida. Congressman Robert Wexler (D) is rumored to be the latest to fail the congressional page “problem.”

  13. 13.

    Cindrella Ferret

    Would the Karl Rove Republican hit machine keep this man from getting elected?

    * He’s a Jew
    * He’s unemployed
    * He wanders in the desert and hears voices
    * He hangs around with a bunch of attractive young men who live together.
    * No military service (actually this might be in his favor
    * He’s trying to overthrow the government
    * He has no respect for established religion

    So label this post: WWRD.

  14. 14.

    Cindrella Ferret

    Dug Jay Says:

    Interesting news out of Florida. Congressman Robert Wexler (D) is rumored to be the latest to fail the congressional page “problem.”

    Rumor? Gives us a link, or stop spreading rumors.

  15. 15.

    Tsulagi

    Every now and then, this admin takes an action that really illuminates its essence. Its core, its heart and soul.

    For me, this is the latest one from the little piece of shit with two feet…

    The administration has proposed a regulation requiring “coordination” with politically appointed Pentagon lawyers before any member of the Judge Advocate General corps – the military’s 4,000-member uniformed legal force – can be promoted.

    The gutless, spoiled brat has tantrums when some are not on message. Like Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, a Navy JAG, who argued and won the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld SCOTUS decision. Two weeks after that decision, Rummy took a personal interest in pushing Swift out of the Navy.

    Later, no doubt the pissant pouted during the MCA hearings when senior JAGs testified the legislation was unconstitutional, violated Geneva Conventions and treaties the country was bound by, and just not a path we should be going down as a nation. Bush’s buttboy McCain took care of that, but what you really need is to preempt that shit. Noted constitutionalist John Yoo could tell you that…

    Yoo, who wrote a series of controversial legal opinions about the president’s power to bypass the Geneva Conventions and antitorture laws before leaving government in 2003, called for some kind of “corrective measures” that would “punish” JAGs who undermine the president’s policy preferences.

    Actually, Bush tried this before in 04. When Congress was under Republican leadership. To their credit, they largely made him back off. But now there is a new group of apologists. I look forward to decisive action from the Committee of Sternly Worded Letters.

  17. 17.

    Eural Joiner

    Plowing through Rick Atkinson’s “The Day of Battle” which is an excellent read, but…holy crap.

    If the internet had existed back in WWII we never would have stuck with anyone or anything long enough to win. My God, it was one giant ongoing clusterfuck patched together by a bunch of rank amateurs – on all sides of the fighting.

    And besides being an annoying asshole/blowhard exactly what was Patton’s military “genius”? Or Montegomery’s?

  18. 18.

    Teak111

    Hey John, I know its cold in Pittsburgh today, but why all the empty seats at the game. Are the fans that whimpy? Stillers are in the game.

  20. 20.

    Wilfred

    Ashenburg focuses on Western Europe and the United States, covering everything from fear of hot water (the Visigoths believed it was emasculating, while the French later saw it as a disease spreader) to British suspicion of bidets (which they thought would encourage oral sex)…Cleanliness certainly had its dark side: the soap-averse Inquisition used the fact that Jews and Moors were “known to bathe” as evidence against them, while at least one 18th-century British doctor dismissed warm baths as a “luxury borrowed from the effeminate Asiatics.”…The Romans spent hours at their elaborate bathhouse complexes, but not everyone equated cleanliness with virtue: Seneca rebuked shvitz lovers for not smelling “of the army, of farm work and of manliness,” while early Christian ascetics embraced filth as a sign of godliness. In the Middle Ages, the struggle between Christians and Muslims sometimes resembled a battle of the bathhouses. “One of the Spaniards’ first actions during the Reconquest,” Ashenburg writes, was to destroy the baths that had made Arab Spain “the cleanest corner of early medieval Europe.” The Crusaders brought bathhouse customs back from the Middle East, but the plague soon put an end to their resurgent popularity…(Even now, Ashenburg reports, 40 percent of Frenchmen and 25 percent of Frenchwomen do not change their underwear

    Damn.

  21. 21.

    srv

    Even now, Ashenburg reports, 40 percent of Frenchmen and 25 percent of Frenchwomen do not change their underwear

    They wear underwear?

  23. 23.

    Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man

    Oh those nasty brutes! I’m referring, of course, to the San Diego Chargers. How dare they! Don’t look, Washington Redskins, don’t look.

  24. 24.

    HyperIon

    Eural Joiner Says:
    …If the internet had existed back in WWII we never would have stuck with anyone or anything long enough to win. My God, it was one giant ongoing clusterfuck patched together by a bunch of rank amateurs – on all sides of the fighting.

    And besides being an annoying asshole/blowhard exactly what was Patton’s military “genius”? Or Montegomery’s?

    yeah, and don’t forget MacArthur. what you are saying here is the same conclusion i came to after watching Ken Burns’ “The War”. a united effort was achieved only by keeping the homefront ignorant of the MANY fuckups.

  25. 25.

    skip

    Even if the French not using much underwear is true, most families have bidets–which keep things pretty tidy.

    Meanwhile the simultaneous De Toqueville survey revaled that Americans:

    * drink Root Beer
    * think cardboard with ketchup is haute cusine
    * use their frontal lobes about as often as the French use underwear.

  26. 26.

    Bombadil

    srv Says:

    Cindy calls for Impeachment of Pelosi

    I don’t know what this woman has to do before John will start ranting about her again.

    Become a Republican.

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