Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

We still have time to mess this up!

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

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

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

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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  3. 3.

    LiberalTarian

    On a more serious note–do you think we’ll see disbarment of people like Yoo and Hayden? Prosecutions for abuse of power for people like Karl Rove?

    And, if not, if we will not go after people like these when we can clearly see their crimes, who WILL we go after, and when???

  4. 4.

    John Cole

    Just wanted to throw this out there- I am currently in an AB with a tauren shaman named Algore and a human warlock named annecoulter.

    Oddly enough, they both fit.

  6. 6.

    Rick Taylor

    I shouldn’t, but here’s another link to Taylor Marsh to get you to pull your hair out, John. It features a video of her being interviewed by Joe Scarborough. They can’t seem to figure out why a conservative like him is being so polite all of a sudden (and in the video they are being incredibly nice to her). They figure deep down he’s a conservative but fair, who respects her for her strength. The possibility a long Democratic primary benefits Republicans doesn’t cross their minds (weren’t right wingers being nice to Obama when all this started?).

  7. 7.

    Punchy

    I see Josh Marshall is really trying to hammer on this 100-years-in-Iraq thing that McCane said. Not sure why; the media is so in the tank for McCane that there’s no way they’d even report it.

  8. 8.

    bago

    Yoo. To be or not to be prosecuted. That is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the beatings and renditions of outrageous memorandum, or to take arms against a sea of rickrolls.

  10. 10.

    Ninerdave

    Just wanted to throw this out there- I am currently in an AB with a tauren shaman named Algore and a human warlock named annecoulter.

    I’d so be camping her graveyard.

  11. 11.

    McGuffin

    Why anything. I’ve been hooked on S.T.A.L.K.E.R SoC since early December, buggy piece of crap coding and all.

    I’ll never make fun of grinding again.

  12. 12.

    Ninerdave

    I found this amusing.

    HARRISBURG, Pa. – Gov. Ed Rendell recently received his first call from a political pollster despite nearly a lifetime in politics.

    The caller from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute wanted Rendell’s opinions on the Democratic presidential race between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois in the April 22 Pennsylvania primary.

    and

    “When they asked if Ed Rendell’s endorsement had any impact, I said, ‘absolutely,'” Rendell told The Patriot-News newspaper in Harrisburg.

    The pollster, who reached Rendell at his Philadelphia home during the weekend, also asked whether Sen. Bob Casey’s endorsement of Obama made Rendell more or less likely to vote for him.

    “I said ‘no difference,'” said Rendell, who defeated Casey for the gubernatorial nomination in 2002.

    I can’t believe Hillary would stoop so low as to try and stuff the Quinnipiac poll.

    They should be ashamed.

  14. 14.

    rob!

    The Colbert Report is having a charity drive for Pennsylvania causes and you can donate “in the name of” either HRC or Obama.

    as of tonight’s show, HRC’s donations total $20K.

    Obama’s total $117K.

  16. 16.

    jake

    as of tonight’s show, HRC’s donations total $20K.

    Obama’s total $117K.

    Piffle! That money did not come from the wallets of real voters.

    /pluckshake

  18. 18.

    Incertus

    Why is it I feel stupider just scanning the headlines on Redstate?

    Because they went to the Billy Madison School of Rhetoric and Logic?

  19. 19.

    Josh E.

    Taylor Marsh is a pathetic fraud. Apparently she’s threatening to sue this guy for exposing her resume-padding.

    I haven’t played WoW in many months. Are warlocks still overpowered?

  20. 20.

    rob!

    Taylor Marsh is a pathetic fraud. Apparently she’s threatening to sue this guy for exposing her resume-padding.

    oh my god that guy is brilliant. he’s like a pit bull on TM’s leg and the harder she shakes the firmer the bite.

  22. 22.

    Kevin K.

    he’s like a pit bull on TM’s leg and the harder she shakes the firmer the bite.

    Yeah, John Brown’s Marsh bio has slowly but surely started to circulate. It was a joy to come home today and read her flame out on her blog. It’s great to see Marsh, who’s been seething about what she claims is Obama’s over-inflated resume, to finally have someone shine a light on hers. And having him call her on her hypocrisy when it comes to her earlier run in with Schlussel is just icing on the cake.

  23. 23.

    cbear

    he’s like a pit bull on TM’s leg and the harder she shakes the firmer the bite.

    Man, that woman is tedious.
    Great analogy, Rob.

  24. 24.

    The Other Steve

    Taylor Marsh is a pathetic fraud. Apparently she’s threatening to sue this guy for exposing her resume-padding.

    That makes a lot of sense. I sure hadn’t heard of her before this year. Suddenly she shows up, and she’s a big time over the top supporter of hillary.

    Why?

    To draw hits on her website. To make a name for herself, to catapult that into the Ann Coulter of the left.

    This is how most of the pundits operate. Ed Schulz? He’s got a radio show now. Did you know he used to be a right-wing radio show host back some 5-10 years ago? It didn’t work for him, the field is too crowded. So he turned to the left.

    It’s all just a big charade.

    And yes, John Cole obviously does it too. But John Cole is dreamy!

    I haven’t played WoW in many months. Are warlocks still overpowered?

    I only play games of skill.

    WoW requires no skill, only a tolerant mother.

  27. 27.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Thanks for the links about Taylor Marsh. I have wondered where she came from, and now I know. Nowhere. She hitched her ass to Hillary for the popularity boost, IMO, and little else. Maybe she likes Hillary because she can appreciate a person who takes nothing and tries to make something out of it. Even if Hillary loses, Taylor wins. She has her audience, and if she hangs around to harp on Obama (after the primary), you can bet the rabid Clintonistas will be there.

    Like Hillary, she knows her target audience…lol

  28. 28.

    Asti

    John,

    The trolls decided to send you an invitation but it bounced. Is your email addy link broken on purpose?

  30. 30.

    jake

    Taylor Marsh is a pathetic fraud. Apparently she’s threatening to sue this guy for exposing her resume-padding.

    OMFG this is hilarious. The cartoons he used to replace the pictures of Pat Benetar’s love child have resulted in a coffee/monitor incident.

    It appears she was threatening him with the possibility of being sued for copyright infringement by the photography company that took the pictures that appear on her website.

    She throws in some garbage about him “plumbing” her resume at the beginning in what looks like a really lame attempt to connect resume inspection with a highly hypothetical third party lawsuit for copyright infringement.

    Seriously, those pics are dreadful. Are we sure she isn’t trying to be some sort of left-wing version of Stephen Colbert?

  31. 31.

    Dork

    Gas prices here approaching $3.30. Diesel up past $4.00. How the fuck do truckers handle this? How does this not drive up the prices of shit at Walmart and Target?

  32. 32.

    zmulls

    OMG. I’ve been reading Taylor Marsh for the last few years. I *really* have enjoyed her writing. She’s always been out front about what she thinks, she writes well, she’s smart and engaging, and she pays attention to details.

    I can’t bear to read her site these days, and can’t wait until the primaries are over. I don’t think she’s was being opportunistic regarding Hillary Clinton — I think she’s Clinton’s natural constituency (older, smart woman who remembers the 1960s and 1970s when smart women had no opportunities) and identifies with her. I’m appalled by the venom that she and the commenters (even moreso) have for Obama.

    I agree she’s unreadable these days, and her comment section has become a self-referential farce. But if you go back six months to a year, and read some of her posts, you’ll enjoy them. I’m sorry this is the first people are really seeing of her, because she’s leaving a very bad first impression on people.

    And to be clear, I think she *is* taking the opportunities that are being handed her. TV shows are happy to have someone come on and tear apart Obama and praise Hillary, for their own reasons; she’s taking advantage of the opening and doing some self-promotion. And I don’t really care about the “resume padding” as it’s par for the course in today’s media — I’ve enjoyed her for what she was writing on a given day, as I would any blogger.

    So, no, I think TM is saying what she’s saying because she really believes it, and she’s always been pretty feisty about what she believes. I think she’s dead wrong, not to support her candidate but to project all the evils of the world on the guy who’s standing in the way of her candidate. But while I am avoiding her blog today, I hope to return to reading her in a few months….

  33. 33.

    chopper

    She throws in some garbage about him “plumbing” her resume at the beginning in what looks like a really lame attempt to connect resume inspection with a highly hypothetical third party lawsuit for copyright infringement.

    i just find it ironic that a hillbot is pissed that someone points out that said hillbot has seriously padded the shit out of her resume.

    it’s doubly ironic that said hillbot accuses obama of padding his resume.

  34. 34.

    Rick Taylor

    zmulls:
    I agree completely with you about Taylor Marsh. I was enjoying the site when it went off the rails. Funnily enough, she would post how she was getting messages from people telling her she needed to tone it down and just ridiculed them.

  35. 35.

    D-Chance.

    They olympic torch is in San Francisco. And they’re HIDING it in a warehouse. Pathetic.

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