Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Motown is Joe-Town!

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

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

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

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

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

If you’re looking for someone who’s young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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  1. 1.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    Microscopes are a Satanic plot to wheedle money from taxpayers, and funnel it toward the shiftless atheists who have invented “micro-organisms” in order to line their pockets at our expense.

    True science only thrives when piously extracted from the mother lode of Knowledge, the Holy Bible.

  2. 2.

    Martin

    I agree with Scruffy. I don’t trust this science mumbo-jumbo.

    Sputnik is also interesting because 13 of its 21 encoded proteins are “ORFans.” ORFs are “Open Reading Frames” meaning that those regions of the genome probably encode a gene product of some sort, so ORFans are genes that have no detectable homologues in the current sequence databases, meaning that we cannot even guess their function based on their similarity to other genes that we’ve already identified and studied.

    I can guess their function! They’re trying to give me a homo-log! My log isn’t going near any homos! Are we clear on that?

    They shouldn’t have admitted they’re from France. That’s a dead give away to their plans… I’m gonna go pray now while watching porn. Maybe some good girl-girl stuff to reaffirm my non-gayness.

  3. 3.

    jake

    An apt description of the GOP as well.

    But their surprises did not stop there because they also saw a lot of tiny icosahedral viral particles, a mere 50nm in size, attached to the giant mamavirus

    Sorry, I just like seeing a virus described as “giant.”

  4. 4.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    I can guess their function! They’re trying to give me a homo-log! My log isn’t going near any homos! Are we clear on that?

    Excellent point, Martin. I should point out that this line was obviously written by a homosexual:

    Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em,

    If fleas really are Sodomites, as he implies, doubtless it’s because they’re in league with the Devil.

  8. 8.

    MNPundit

    Oh. My. God. We have beaten the Virus on this day.

    Humanity takes the first step in triumphing over it’s second oldest and second most implacable foe.

    The only foe greater than the virus?

    Old Age

  9. 9.

    RSA

    DeMorgan was just riffing on Swift:

    So, naturalists observe, a flea
    Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
    And these have smaller still to bite ’em;
    And so proceed ad infinitum.

    At least he still has a theorem to fall back on for his fame. :-)

  10. 10.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    Its turtles all the way down.

    Just as long as those turtles aren’t homosexual, I’m okay with that.

  12. 12.

    RSA

    I always assumed it was Ogden Nash

    The first time I ran into this, me too. Who know that Nash had such deep literary (and mathematical) influences?

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