Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

I really should read my own blog.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

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

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

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

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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

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

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

This fight is for everything.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

People are complicated. Love is not.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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

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  2. 2.

    myiq2xu

    Any hints for those of us with YouTube blocked at work?

    Quit lagging on the job and surf from home.

  3. 3.

    ThymeZone

    Use GoToMyPC to connect to your home PC.

    Get a Verizon Broadband Wireless Modem and connect from almost anywhere.

    Find a job where they don’t block stuff.

  5. 5.

    Dracula

    Any hints for those of us with YouTube blocked at work?

    I say we mess with Punchy and Billy K.

    Guys, that a video of a hot naked chick, replete with oil, batteries, and a donkey. What’s that? A firewall issue? Ah…sorry to hear that.

  13. 13.

    srv

    It’s true! It’s true! The press has made it clear.
    The changes must be perfectly vague all the year.

    A law was made a distant smoke filled room ago here:
    Iowa and New Hampshire cannot be too hot.
    And there’s a legal limit to the specifics here
    In Obamalot.
    The detailed plan is forbidden till next December
    And the hand waving starts March the second on the dot.
    By order, vagueness lingers through September
    In Obamalot.
    Obamalot! Obamalot!
    I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
    But in Obamalot, Obamalot
    That’s how conditions are.
    The mania may never fall till after sundown.
    By eight, the morning the fog must appear.
    In short, there’s simply not
    A more congenial spot
    For happily-ever-aftering than here
    In Obamalot.

    Obamalot! Obamalot!
    I know it gives a blogger pause,
    But in Obamalot, Obamalot
    Those are the legal laws.
    The specifics may never slush upon the tube.
    By nine p.m. the nodding heads must appear.
    In short, there’s simply not
    A more congenial spot
    For happily-ever-aftering than here
    In Obamalot.

  16. 16.

    Xenos

    What I had in mind was the Monty Python Camelot, not the version sung by Robert Goulet (RIP).

    Still, I am quite impressed. The Monty Python may be even trickier to adapt (‘I sing from the diaphragm a lot’ as a rhyme to ‘Camelot’ is pretty hard to beat!).

  18. 18.

    jcricket

    All the recent consternation about what would happen if Countrywide fails reminds me of why Republicans and Libertarians are idiots (but what doesn’t, really).

    Countrywide originates something like 1/7th of all the mortgages in the US. And, of course, you and me would be left holding the bag in the form of increased government debt from any bail-out. Hmm, what could prevent this type of catastrophic situation from existing? Government regulation, that’s what.

    Government regulation that prevents excess consolidation (media, banks, etc.) sound like the prevent capitalism, but really they help act as a check that prevent catastrophic failures from destroying the economy during bad times.

    Just like why the NASDAQ and NYSE are such better markets for investors than the AMEX (better regulation, rules, disclosure).

    If I could ask for anything in the next 20 years out of American politics, it would be the complete discrediting of Libertarian (large L) economic ideas. No other “free” country in the world suffers from the delusions that we do because Libertarians are taken seriously.

  19. 19.

    jcricket

    Any hints for those of us with YouTube blocked at work?

    Apropos my other post: Get another job. Free market and all that.

  20. 20.

    Harley

    Heh. I guess if John can quote Karl Rove, I can quote VDH:

    [Obama’s] clearly as good a speaker as they come, as bright or brighter than Hillary, and understands American politics in a way reflective of someone 50-60 with decades more experience. So what will the Clintons do about that? We will soon learn — but already from bits and pieces that leak out, and Bill’s harangues, we are beginning to sense some of the same patronizing and resentment that heretofore was reserved only for conservative blacks. I would expect the Clintons will bite their lip and then adopt the “we have to destroy the black candidate to save the black vote” mentality.

    Yep. Here it comes.

  22. 22.

    Xenos

    I call fake ‘Birdzilla’. Name in all-caps too, please.

    They don’t make spoofs like they used to.

  23. 23.

    bernarda

    “She changed me into a newt.” If she changed him into that evil toad Newt Gingrich, she really is a witch.

  24. 24.

    Lee

    Countrywide originates something like 1/7th of all the mortgages in the US. And, of course, you and me would be left holding the bag in the form of increased government debt from any bail-out.

    Only if you assume the government bails them out. Keeping with the libertarian agrument, the government would NOT bail them out they would go bankrupt. Then all of the mortgages would be purchased by other companies and you get the deconsolidation you are looking for.

    This not just libertarian policy, but also free market policy.

  26. 26.

    srv

    If I could ask for anything in the next 20 years out of American politics, it would be the complete discrediting of Libertarian (large L) economic ideas. No other “free” country in the world suffers from the delusions that we do because Libertarians are taken seriously.

    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Exactly how many times does the Gov’t have to pick up the bill from the latest experiment before you get a clue about what purpose it serves?

  27. 27.

    flitterbic

    We’re Knights of the Round Table,
    We dance when ere we’re able,
    We do routines and chorus scenes
    With footwork impeccable.
    We dine well here in Camelot,
    We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
    We’re Knights of the Round Table,
    Our show are formidable,
    But many times, we’re given rhymes
    That are quite unsingable.
    We’re Opera mad in Camelot,
    We sing from the diaphragm
    a looooooot.
    In war we’re tough and able,
    Quite indefatigable,
    Between our quests we sequin vests,
    And impersonate Clark Gable.
    It’s a busy life in Camelot,
    I have to push the pram a lot.

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