Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

The revolution will be supervised.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

After roe, women are no longer free.

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  6. 6.

    demimondian

    Tim, that…um..video?

    Yeah, listen, for that I’m going to invoke, not Hitler, nor Godwin…but Warren. Since he runs Windows on a LinuxMac, and browses the web with LYNX!

  7. 7.

    Cassidy the Racist White Man

    What in THE FUCK is that video.

    So not sexy.

    If you’re having flu like symptoms, with an emphasis on sinus complaint, I’d recommend Dayquil, or good old fashioned Nyquil to sleep it off. If you go see your Doc, deconamine is a good one, much better than Sudafed. OTOH, you might want to go and get a sinus infection ruled out. Good news is that a few days and a z-pak will kill it.

  8. 8.

    The Other Steve

    As far as I can tell the sugar-ish coating on Tylenol Severe Sinus Congestion & Pain pills tastes pretty good.

    Yeah, but fat lot of good they’ll do ya. They took out the psuedophedrine because of the meth addicts. The phenylephrine they replaced it with doesn’t work. Same with most of the cough syrups. The expectorant doesn’t do much more than just sucking on some lemon drops to stop coughing.

    Go get yourself some Claritin-D, that’ll have the good stuff in it. Take those with some tylenol fast acting tablets and you’re good to go. (or generic brands, whatever)

  13. 13.

    J. Michael Neal

    OTOH, you might want to go and get a sinus infection ruled out. Good news is that a few days and a z-pak will kill it.

    Your sinus infections are lame. Mine don’t bring that weak ass shit. I was once on cipro for three weeks to beat one.

  14. 14.

    Wonk

    @ninerdave:

    What in THE FUCK is that video.

    I need bleach for my eyes and ears.

    Nobody would ever accuse me of being a fan of Celine, but her partner in that video is Anastacia, she’s an American who’s quite the thing in Europe and is known as The Voice. She found out she had breast cancer while going thru pre-op testing for breast reduction surgery a couple of years ago.

    This is a much better example of her talents.

    It’s a chick anthem, what can I say?

    (Okay, I TRIED to fix the blockquote… fuckit)

  16. 16.

    oh really

    tastes…miles better than cough syrup’s cloying aftertaste.

    That’s because you have the wrong cough medicine. You need the kind that makes you not care about the aftertaste. Unfortunately, even in states where it is legal to buy it over the counter, pharmacists still may not sell it to you without a prescription. We’re all better off with the DEA intimately involved in our health care system.

    PS I’ll agree to feel the way you do, if you agree to feel the way I do. You’ll be sorry.

  17. 17.

    ninerdave

    @demimondian:

    At least Frampton could write a decent song. Dion just shits all over the radio with her over produced crap.

    I’m still trying to figure out what I’d do if I was Angus and heard that abortion of my music. I think I’d probably politely invite her into my office to talk about the song, then promptly kick her ass. Or at least chuck my shoes at her.

  20. 20.

    RPh

    Damnit. I’ve pledged some $ to this site (not a whole lot, but still …) I want "teh happy". I cannot accept this Rick Warren-ish defecation on my computer-picture-viewer-thingy.

    Bad Tim.

    VERY BAD TIM.

    I don’t care how Tim.F’d you are.

    No Celine. Not EVAH!

    The intertubes should be for information, profit, and fun.

    And porn.

    Not for abominations!!

    How am I supposed to sleep???

    John, along with Tim I Blame Ginny for this.

  21. 21.

    oh really

    Cassidy — I’ve never tried NyQuil, but Leary’s right about some over the counter drugs. Many OTC cough medicines contain dextromethorphan. Fortunately, they now warn against giving any of this crap to young children, but it is interesting to know what drugs DM is most similar to — PCP and ketamine — since it acts as a dissociative hallucinogen. (I’m assuming there are no fifteen year-olds reading this blog — I’d hate to think this would send them all scurrying for an all-night pharmacy to buy a case of DM cough syrup.)

    From Wikipedia:

    When taken at doses higher than medically recommended, dextromethorphan acts as a dissociative hallucinogenic drug. Its mechanism of action is as an NMDA receptor antagonist, producing effects similar to those of ketamine, an anesthetic classified in Schedule III of the United States Controlled Substances Act, and phencyclidine (PCP), a similar, Schedule II drug.

    I can’t buy codeine cough medicine over the counter, but I can get all the DM I want. I realize everyone responds differently to different drugs, but the idea that codeine is too dangerous to allow me buy it in the small quantities contained in cough syrup without the approval of my doctor the DEA, but DM is OK seems ludicrous to me. Of course, in this country the response would be to ban both, rather than make codeine more available.

  22. 22.

    Tim Fuller

    Things couldn’t be better on my end. I just finished a post over at my Talking Points Memo blog. Think you guys might just appreciate my official brand of snark. Not really qualified to give my opinion on the best tasting analgesics, but I’ve got pretty strong viewpoints on just about everything else.

    You’re gonna love this one. I promise.

    Those Crazy Fockers !!
    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/timtimes/2008/12/those-crazy-fockers.php

    Enjoy.

  23. 23.

    Crusty Dem

    Thanks Tim, Celine Dion in tight pants, that’ll fix any annoying erections I might be having for the next week or two.

  24. 24.

    Martin

    Your sinus infections are lame. Mine don’t bring that weak ass shit. I was once on cipro for three weeks to beat one.

    No shit. I plowed through 4 different antibiotics on one a few years back. The last one, at the middle of week 3, the doctor told me if it didn’t work I would be admitted for the IV stuff. Lost hearing completely in one ear, and 50% in the other, and didn’t get it back for weeks. Couldn’t speak, and had a fever basically nonstop for a month.

    Thankfully, none of them have been that horrific since, but I get one reliably at the end of each winter.

  25. 25.

    bago

    You know, I have also come to the conclusion that Fuckers is the appropriate colloquial term for these, erm, fuckers.

  34. 34.

    Michael D.

    @robertdsc:

    Speaking of “small” mercies, can we get a Tunch sighting any time soon?

    I think someone mentioned in an earlier thread that John doesn’t have a wide angle lens for his camera.

  36. 36.

    bago

    Look at me still posting when there’s snarking to do. When I look out there it makes me glad I’m not you!

  37. 37.

    TheFountainHead

    You’ve been wrong about every single thing you’ve ever done, including this thing. You’re not smart. You’re not a scientist. You’re not a doctor. You’re not even a full-time employee. Where did your life go so wrong?

  38. 38.

    jenniebee

    If the congestion even looks like it’s getting near your lungs, an Atrovent inhaler (prescription only) is teh awesome.

    Feel better!

  41. 41.

    Bob In Pacifica

    Tim:

    You can go to pharmacies and get your sudafed. You have to show your driver’s license and sign a register, but I get allergies all the time and that other crap doesn’t work. I used to feel like a heroin addict signing for the stuff but now it’s no big deal.

    That is, you can go a pharmacy and get your sudafeds as long as the pharmacist and cashier and the rest of the people in the chain of that package of sudafeds don’t find selling you sudafeds a violation to their religion. Bush’s freedom of religion in the workplace scam is being expanded. If the cashier at your pharmacy finds selling you trojans, birth control pills, antibiotics (hey, Christian Scientists), nicotine patches or sudafeds against their religion then you’re shit out of luck.

    As far as artificial sweeteners, there’s a new one being approved by the FDA (I think that they’re the ones) today so maybe all pills will be sweeter in the future.

  42. 42.

    Ace Armstrong

    Back in the Sixties a popular high was Robo-cola – Coke and Robotussin. But you had to be sure and get the right Robotussin -but since I never did it I never bothered to find out which one.
    If you’re looking for an alternative to mainstream pharmacopoeia, I recommend "Hyland’s Homeopathic’ (P&S Laboratories, L.A.). They produce a whole line for various ailments. I use the ‘Sinus’ one whenever I get that certain feeling in the back on my throat. The trick is early medication before the bad guy germs overproduce.
    For pain relief aspirin is suitable if not abused.

  43. 43.

    Faux News

    I wanna hear less cowbell.

    I have to disagree. This remarkable video made me realize I need more cowbell in my life.

    As for sinus infections I can relate. There are too many male trees in the metro DC area which makes our allergies a nightmare (although I am told Atlanta is worse). I almost spent an entire Labor Day weekend in the hospital hooked up to an IV. Besides feeling like my sinuses were filled with cement, I had a high fever, and my lymph nodes in my neck were the size of hen’s eggs. I had to do the Cipro thing, and the doc told me if I waited one more day I would have been hospitalized. So my fellow BJers, I feel your pain.

  44. 44.

    Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)

    Somehow, I’ve always found Celine Dion’s nerdy cluelessness to be kind of charming.

    Besides…… awesome cowbell.

  46. 46.

    The Moar You Know

    I’m still trying to figure out what I’d do if I was Angus and heard that abortion of my music.

    @ninerdave: I’m sure he’s laughing all the way to the bank; he gets performance royalties every time she performs it.

    But yeah. Yeah. Goddamn, what a way to start my day, I’m sure I’ll be dead by lunchtime.

  48. 48.

    Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)

    @The Moar You Know:

    Tim F: You bastard. That video is worse than Hitler. I hate you.

    Moar, BO would want you to reach across the aisle to that video, to achieve conciliation, to begin a dialogue.

    Maybe you’re not Change We Can Believe In?

    /snark

  53. 53.

    joeyess

    I watched all 4 minutes and 24 seconds of that video and I have to say that I’ll never get that time in my life back. It was stolen from me.

    Have a nice cold, Tim.

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