Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Everybody saw this coming.

Let there be snark.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

This really is a full service blog.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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  1. 1.

    cmorenc

    I want some of whatever kind of coffee you’re having, if it makes you do that. Or are you spiking your beans with something…extra like mushrooms or peyote?

  3. 3.

    Svensker

    … then chased the cat around the house for ten minutes while singing “Day Tripper.”

    TMI

    (LOL)

  5. 5.

    Mary

    If you had decided to have just had a glass of OJ, everything would have been different.

    (P.S. Tunch is SO going to sleep on your face tonight.)

  6. 6.

    Mary

    I am not responsible for the mishmash of bad grammar in the previous comment because I haven’t had my tea yet.

  9. 9.

    Bob In Pacifica

    Apparently, the price of food is exploding upward and there are riots all over the world. Is this the time to make gasoline out of corn? Will it be easier to lose weight now?

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    Also “surprising”:

    In fact, the report concluded that “the definitions of ‘national security’ and what constitutes ‘intelligence’ — and thus what must be classified — are unclear.” It also found that there was “no common understanding of classification levels” among the various agency guides, nor any consistent definition as to what constitutes “damage,” “serious damage” or “exceptionally grave damage” to national security. Those ratings determine which level of classification should be attached to various information.

    The study also found that people classifying information routinely ignored a directive that they should be able to support decisions in writing by describing the damage to national security that would result from public disclosure. Instead, it found, the classifiers routinely just referred to the executive order.

    Here’s the rule: when it’s criminal and needs to be hidden, it’s “top secret”. When it needs to be released to hurt Democrats, it’s “confidential”, yet always leaked. See, that was easy.

  11. 11.

    Krista

    Got up, got all smacked up on coffee, did the treadmill and the exercise bike, then chased the cat around the house for ten minutes while singing “Day Tripper.”

    Jesus, that’s some good coffee! I wish I had that much energy in the mornings.

    Poor Tunch. He’s going to poop in your shoes tonight, I’m guessing.

  12. 12.

    Wilfred

    PARIS – Pirates have freed 30 hostages who were held aboard a French tourist yacht off Somalia’s coast for the past week, France’s president said Friday

    Somehow I’m pleased that piracy still exists. The image of Hugh Hewitt’s NRO cruise ship being taken by Somali pirates just leads to some marvelous fantasies. There’s this also:

    Pirates seized more than two dozen ships off Somalia’s coast last year. The U.S. Navy has led international patrols to try to combat piracy in the region, but an increase in naval patrols has coincided with a rash of kidnappings of foreigners on land.

    Coincided?

  13. 13.

    joe

    OK, let’s see if I can do this linking thingy.

    The Baghdad government and the Americans are now going to “politically isolate” the Sadrists, as well as confronting them militarily. They’re planning on banning Sadrist parties from the next election. This will, no doubt, be greeted as a great development by the dumbest fucking people on the face of the planet – ie, those who wish to continue the Iraq War – as they are utterly incapable of both rational thought, and of learnging from history, even the history of the war they fancy themselves such experts in.

    This is almost identical to the political isolation of the Sunnis during and after the January 2005 elections. A recalcitrant faction (the Sunnies/the Sadrists) refused to play nice as long as the American occupation continues. So their political party (the Baathists/the Sadrist parties) is banned, causing them to harden their recalcitrant stance. The dumbest fucking people on the face of the planet say, “That’s their problem, now they’re really going to get it, and have no say in the government, which will sweep them aside.”

    They will then withdraw completely from the political process, their anti-American and anti-government insurgency will grow, as will their alliances with foreign troublemakers who they never would have worked with before.

    There are some key differences, however. The Sadrists command the loyalty of a much larger segment of the Iraqi population. They control much more important cities (Basra, Najf, Sadr City). They sit astride our most important supply lines. And they have a unified national leadership that can organize coordinated action in important locations throughout the country.

    Gee, nobody could have foreseen that alienating an important faction of Iraqi society could lead to a major insurgency. Not in January 2005, and certainly not now.

  14. 14.

    dougie smooth

    Wasn’t Day Tripper played on one of the NBC shows last night? Maybe on The Office — is that the CD Jim stole? This is driving me nuts now, trying to remember. Someone help me out or I’m going to wind end watching them all again. It’s the OCD.

  15. 15.

    Ninerdave

    … then chased the cat around the house for ten minutes while singing “Day Tripper.”

    TMI

    (LOL)

    No TMI would have been him chasing the cat naked.

  16. 16.

    sean

    dougie – Jim stole the Hunter CD (Jan’s former assistant):

    You took me by the hand,
    Made me a man
    That one night
    You made everything all right
    So raw, so right
    All night, all right
    Oh yeah oh yeah
    So raw, so right
    All night all right oh yeah …

  19. 19.

    Ninerdave

    Remember that today is the dark day that a major setback occurred in the civil rights of African-Americans and women.
    3 Rich white men and their hired gun lawyers used their corrupt political clout with the Republicans to deny justice for the rape of a poor black woman and demonize a fine progressive man(Nifong), city(Durham) and college(Duke).

    Eh who cares about that. Were you running around this morning singing and chasing your cat Paul?

  20. 20.

    Surabaya Stew

    You’re 1 crazy man! But hey, if this is what gets you into a blogging mood, than I fully support you. Just don’t remind us about your morning activities too often, promise?

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