Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

Republicans do not pay their debts.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Giving up is unforgivable.

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

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

This blog will pay for itself.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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  1. 1.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Does John McCain celebrate Father’s Day twice–once for the family he abandoned and once for the wife and kids he has now?

  3. 3.

    jake

    I heard PaulEll got a new pack of jackalopes from his son: Goat Boy.

    HFD to the rest of you Mack Daddies.

  5. 5.

    gypsy howell

    Does John McCain celebrate Father’s Day twice—once for the family he abandoned and once for the wife and kids he has now?

    And once more in secret for the “black baby” his pal GWB claimed he sired.

  6. 6.

    Ned R.

    Busy guy.

    My dad had to go through emergency hip replacement surgery yesterday! Out with his bicycling group, makes a bad turn, lands on a hip that had been bothering him anyway. He tries to make light of it — very him — but a doctor in the group says, “Um, no” and off to the hospital. It was going to be a partial hip replacement but once he was opened up they saw that it was arthritis already giving him incipient trouble and asked my mom if they should go ahead with a full replacement. She’s all “Heck yes,” and it’s done.

    It is perhaps emblematic of my folks that during the whole time my mom wasn’t worried or flustered even once — much to the surprise of my dad’s bicycling buddies and the hospital staff (she says it must have had something to do with being a military wife all those years) — while my dad’s biggest regrets right now lie in not being able to attend the Olympic track trials up in Eugene. He is, however, utterly thrilled at the idea of the new hip being made out of titanium. As my cousin said to me just now on the phone, “At last, he’s part of the bike.”

    Happy Father’s Day to all and hope yours don’t land on bad hips while they’re out and about!

  8. 8.

    The Other Steve

    No outraged posts on the Feminist blogs about this story.
    Cowardly
    When will the Feminist blogs show any outrage over this?
    I wonder why.

    Why don’t you tell us why?

    I’m having trouble connecting to the google.

  9. 9.

    The Moar You Know

    Wow, Paul, your site has got the eye-grinding color scheme and layout of the internet circa 1996. It took me back.

    I am curious as to what the hell a “Feminist” blog is, but fear the answer. To answer your stupid question, there has been outrage from all quarters of the internet, not just “feminist blogs” over this horrific crime, but that’s not good enough for you, is it?

    You’re looking for something very specific, aren’t you, Paul?

    Since there’s only one VNN, you may want to try looking for it there.

  10. 10.

    Dennis - SGMM

    Happy Father’s Day!
    Our son is autistic.
    Sometimes people say that must be tough.
    It would be far worse if he wasn’t in our lives.

  11. 11.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    We should have nice weather in Chicago this week with temps in the 70s.

  12. 12.

    OriGuy

    The Texas GOP is meeting in Houston this weekend. I’m not saying that there are more stupid people in Texas than anywhere else; I’m not saying that the people in Texas are stupider than the people anywhere else; I’m just saying that only Texas produces that unique blend of stupid and crazy.

    Susan at Kiss My Big Blue Butt has an article about the GOP Platform Committee. One Robert Hurt is incensed about all the nudity in Washington, DC. Not in the strip clubs; he’s talking about public art.

  13. 13.

    The Other Steve

    Cowardly
    When will the Feminist blogs show any outrage over this?

    Ok, finally got to the article, about a man who raped a woman and tortured her for hours and tried to burn her apartment down and…

    Was this guy a friend of yours?

  14. 14.

    Liz

    For those of you lucky enough to still have one, be damned sure to call your dad. I really wish I could.

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