Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Republicans in disarray!

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

A consequence of cucumbers

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

No Justins, No Peace

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

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

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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  1. 1.

    nightjar

    The New Yorker material was not attributable to Obama, was actually an attack on Obama’s opponents, and yet nevertheless gave Obama the opportunity to play the an outraged victim of a scurrilous attack.

    That Ann, she’s so smart, I bet she wears a double layer tin foil hat adorned with the finest of wine labels.

  2. 2.

    Genine

    I actually heard this from some comments over at some feminist blogs yesterday.

    I just never expected to see it in a major column.

    Oh, well.

  3. 3.

    Punchy

    You could use a printout of her article to make a hat, or a brooche, or a tyradactyl flying…

  4. 4.

    Krista

    I like how Althouse says, “Suddenly, this inflammatory New Yorker cover appears…” Because we all know that magazine covers are created, printed, assembled with the magazine, bundled, packaged and shipped all by magical fairies who can do it in a day’s work. The Bernie Mac event was on Friday night. When did that New Yorker hit the newsstands again?

    She is really a very stupid woman, isn’t she?

  6. 6.

    calipygian

    She is really a very stupid woman, isn’t she?

    I dont mean to cast aspersions, but…

    Ann Althouse, Law Professor: Fucking dumb.
    Instapundit, Law Professor: Fucking dumb.

    I sense a pattern.

    Eugene Volokh and Radley Balko must feel electric shocks throughout their testicles everytime those two touch a keyboard.

  9. 9.

    Bubblegum Tate

    Because we all know that magazine covers are created, printed, assembled with the magazine, bundled, packaged and shipped all by magical fairies who can do it in a day’s work.

    That’s how it was at every magazine I’ve ever worked at. We could bang out the whole thing in a day…we just stretched it out to take a month so that we could mooch some more paychecks. Layouts? Ad budgets? Editorial changes? Proof shipping? They each take, like, 5 minutes, tops.

  10. 10.

    SpotWeld

    It’s an election year, will there ever be a good time to stop sniffing glue before January?

  11. 11.

    The Moar You Know

    It’s an election year, will there ever be a good time to stop sniffing glue before January?

    You know what they say – quitters never win.

  13. 13.

    cbear

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

    Shirley, you must be joking.

  14. 14.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Brad forgot to mention my favorite conspiracy: The Earth was created 1,000 years after the Sumerians invented ink. But, alas, he did get the three that are always good for a chuckle.

    I’m down to reading the Atlantic Monthly crew, AmConMag (mostly Larison since he moved his blog), selected GOS, TPM, Balloon Juice, and the Carpetbagger Report for political blog stuff. The NYT, WaPo, and the WSJ are my only mainstream sources. The rest of them should have their nuts cut out. Oops. For some reason I channeled Jesse Jackson. Must have been an acid flashback.

  15. 15.

    David Hunt

    me no understandy title. me feel stupids.

    It’s an allusion to the movie Airplane. In the opening credits, two announcers are on the airport’s P.A. system arguing about whether you use the White Zone or the Red Zone for loading and unloading. Mr. Cole is using that title because the “wrong week to start sniffing glue” line is also a reference to Airplane.

  16. 16.

    RSA

    Eugene Volokh and Radley Balko must feel electric shocks throughout their testicles everytime those two touch a keyboard.

    Not to mention former law professor Obama. . .

  17. 17.

    Brachiator

    Krista Says:

    I like how Althouse says, “Suddenly, this inflammatory New Yorker cover appears…” Because we all know that magazine covers are created, printed, assembled with the magazine, bundled, packaged and shipped all by magical Unity fairies who can do it in a day’s work.

    Amended.

    Cream?

    No, thank you, I take it black and angry, like my Democratic Party stealth Muslim nominees.

  18. 18.

    David Hunt

    Ugh,

    That should have been “wrong week to stop sniffing glue.”

    Sorry. I guess I picked the wrong week to quit taking amphetamines.

  19. 19.

    Zifnab

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

    Reminder, more important than not falling off the wagon is making sure you get back on.

    Ann Althouse, Law Professor: Fucking dumb.
    Instapundit, Law Professor: Fucking dumb.

    What’s that old saying about those who can’t do… ?
    But seriously, if you ever have to ask why lawyers are such humongous assholes, I think its worth noting how far the apple can fall from the tree. Just check where they went to college.

  22. 22.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    Dork Says:

    I wonder if Althouse has ever been to a Turkish prison, or seen a grown man naked.

    July 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Surely, you can’t be serious.

  25. 25.

    dbrown

    An interesting point made about the puppet king, bushwhack:

    … last point in his Sunday New York Times opinion column: “In [Mayer’s] telling, a major incentive for Mr. Cheney’s descent into the dark side was to cover up for the Bush White House’s failure to heed the Qaeda threat in 2001. Jack Cloonan, a special agent for the F.B.I.’s Osama bin Laden unit until 2002, told Ms. Mayer that Sept. 11 was ‘all preventable.’ By March 2000, according to the C.I.A.’s inspector general, ’50 or 60 individuals’ in the agency knew that two Al Qaeda suspects — soon to be hijackers — were in America. But there was no urgency at the top. Thomas Pickard, the acting F.B.I. director in the summer of 2001, told Ms. Mayer that when he expressed his fears about the Qaeda threat to Mr. Ashcroft, the attorney general snapped, ‘I don’t want to hear about that anymore!'”

    The smoking gun! So, it appears that the truth is, they could have stopped 9/11 … I always felt that people who clamined this had gone too far. A dumbass’s take time to learn.

    So Bushwhack, bloody hands cheney and their dumbass helpers are traders, war criminals and the worst criminals of all – mass murders.

  26. 26.

    Lesley

    I think of Ann as a modern-day Judith Hearne of the Intertubez. So lonely, she makes a big deal out of blogging from coffee shops and searches the tubes for mere mention of her name and makes posts about it.

  27. 27.

    Joshua Norton

    Puleeze. She’s still crowing about decoding Hillary’s secret racist message hidden in some kid’s pajamas. I cannot possibly imagine who would have ever hired her sorry ass as a lawyer. Her grasp of jurisprudence seems tentative at best.

  28. 28.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    The Earth was created 1,000 years after the Sumerians invented ink.

    Well duh. Adding up the lifespans of various people who lived for 200 or 300 years proves this to be true.

  29. 29.

    Brachiator

    Joshua Norton Says:

    Puleeze. She’s still crowing about decoding Hillary’s secret racist message hidden in some kid’s pajamas. I cannot possibly imagine who would have ever hired her sorry ass as a lawyer. Her grasp of jurisprudence seems tentative at best.

    Hell, her grasp of reality seems tentative at best.

    It was a rough place – the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It’s worse than Detroit.

  30. 30.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I like how Althouse says, “Suddenly, this inflammatory New Yorker cover appears…” Because we all know that magazine covers are created, printed, assembled with the magazine, bundled, packaged and shipped all by magical fairies who can do it in a day’s work.

    One minute yer drubk vloggin’, the next minute it’s three days later and some shit happened somewhere.

  32. 32.

    Zifnab

    I cannot possibly imagine who would have ever hired her sorry ass as a lawyer. Her grasp of jurisprudence seems tentative at best.

    I would hire her. I could enjoy the comic relief of watching that woman completely butcher a legal case, then demand a retrial based on an incompetent defense.

    Win-Win.

  34. 34.

    Marc

    That Ann, she’s so smart, I bet she wears a double layer tin foil hat adorned with the finest of wine labels.

    Don’t knock it. It’s tough to cut a wine label out of a box.

  35. 35.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    OT: Anybody watch Hardball tonight? Is it just me or does Mark Green absolutely rock? Green is a Democrat through and through and he knows his shit. Everytime I see him he hits it out of the park.

  36. 36.

    Genine

    Because we all know that magazine covers are created, printed, assembled with the magazine, bundled, packaged and shipped all by magical fairies who can do it in a day’s work.

    **gasp!** I thought that was suppose to be a secret!

  37. 37.

    Gregory

    That Ann, she’s so smart, I bet she wears a double layer tin foil hat adorned with the finest of wine labels boxes.

    Fixed.

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