Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

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

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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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