Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

No one could have predicted…

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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I won’t bother you guys with all the stuff that I have to deal with with for my new job, but it’s a lot. No complaints though. Being busy as all get-out means that I get to spend my waking hours doing stuff that I like (TIRF-FRET FTW, bee-yotches). The downside is that I can’t even read blogs more than once every couple of days, and as Ta-Nehisi Coates points out in a post that I recommend for a wealth of reasons, a blogger that doesn’t read a ton is a weak blogger. BJ will remain John’s show until I can scare up the time to blog again on a regular basis.

Also, One Of These Days.

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  1. 1.

    mikesdak

    My job usually allows time to read, but not necessarily to blog. Add to that the fact that I share my home computer with my daughter and my blogging tends to be rather sporadic.

  3. 3.

    jake

    Since this is an open blog I will now present my one-word review of the X-Files movie. [Ahem]

    CRAP.

    This concludes my one-word review of the X-Files movie.

  5. 5.

    Incertus

    I’ve been blogging a ton because I’ve had the time–when school starts up again in 3-4 weeks, I’ll be sweating for stuff to write about and looking for time to read, so I can relate. I can see why people who have a huge audience lean on things like going over to The Corner and seeing what stupidity issued forth that day.

  6. 6.

    LB

    Good luck with your work. TIRF is a pain, especially the setup. Do you use a homemade microscope or a commercial one?

  7. 7.

    Tim F.

    Do you use a homemade microscope or a commercial one?

    Shopping around for the ‘mersh variety right now. I don’t have the time or the depth of optics knowledge to build one of those myself. And anyhow, people have to use it after I’m gone (it’s a lab of cell biologists, not physicists). That by itself is a solid argument for buying something that comes with a manual and tech support.

  10. 10.

    Tom Levenson

    What? Mere gainful employment gets in the way of blogging?

    If this is catching it could be the death of the blogosphere.

    Catch your breath. I look forward to more when it’s do-able from yr perspective.

    best, T.

  11. 11.

    Delia

    There’s a rumor going round that McMaverick is going to pick Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota as his VP tomorrow. That’s as may be, but if he does, I’d like to be first in line with a new campaign slogan for the guv.

    WOULD YOU BUY A USED BRIDGE FROM THIS MAN?

  12. 12.

    Paul L.

    Mentally Ill man sentenced to 422 Years.

    Mr. Williams’s lawyer, Arnold J. Levine, sought a lesser sentence because, he said, his client suffered from severe mental illness. He said that Mr. Williams had not spoken with him in a coherent way for a year and seemed unable to comprehend why he was in court or what he was being sentenced for.

    “I don’t think he has any clue what’s going on,” Mr. Levine said after the sentencing, adding that he planned to appeal.

  13. 13.

    Mary

    Shit. Maybe he really, literally didn’t see that pedestrian. Novak has brain tumour.

    (And maybe he did, and his brain tumour is unrelated to that accident. And being ill now doesn’t given him a free pass on some of his more vile actions over the years. And the tumour may not even be malignant. But, still, this sucks for anyone.)

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