Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Books are my comfort food!

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

T R E 4 5 O N

Petty moves from a petty man.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

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

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How To Embed Links, a Refresher Course (aka Why do you people suck so hard at simple html?)

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What follows was originally posted a month back, but you all need a refresher course. If you want to put links in the comments section of a post, and I encourage you to do so should you have relevant information to add, please make sure you follow the procedure detailed below.

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One of my pet peeves is when you all put hyperlinks in the comments section, but do not embed them. Sometimes, this is not a problem, but other times, the link is so long that it can, in essence, break the comments section for some users. Since I wanted to play around with screen captures and Photoshop, I figured I would make this quick tutorial for you, which appears below the fold. If you do not know how to embed your hyperlinks, please check it out.

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The Iraq War Has A Cost

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I had no idea.

If the U.S. were to face a new conventional threat, its military could not respond effectively without turning to air power, officials and analysts say.

That is the ultimate upshot of the war in Iraq: a response elsewhere would consist largely of U.S. fighters and bombers — even, perhaps, some degree of nuclear strike — because so many ground troops are tied up in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

And that leaves at least some senior U.S. leaders and analysts crossing their fingers.

“I believe that we, as a nation, are at risk of mission failure should our Army be called to deploy to an emerging threat,” Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee, said last year, basing his assessment on classified Army readiness reports.

Some days when it’s raining and nothing seems like it’s going well, I close my eyes and imagine a world where people defending the Iraq war take into account that throwing our entire land army into a grinding open-ended occupation actually costs something. And then giant sparkling rainbows emerge singing out of my ass.

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Transcending Race

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While Obama has, his campaign has not:

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary. [See the full memo here.]

The memo, which was obtained by the Huffington Post and has been made public elsewhere, is believed to have been given to an activist and contains mostly excerpts from different media reports. It lists the contact info and name of Obama’s South Carolina press secretary, Amaya Smith, and is broken down into five incidents in which either Clinton, her husband Bill, or campaign surrogates made comments that could be interpreted as racially insensitive.

The document provides an indication that, in private, the Obama campaign is seeking to capitalize on the view – and push the narrative – that the Clintons are using race-related issues for political leverage. In public, the Obama campaign has denied that they are trying to propagate such a perception, noting that the document never was sent to the press.

Look- when Jesse Jackson, Jr. went on MSNBC last week and was interviewed by Norah O’Donnell, it was clear what he was saying when he made the remark that (and I paraphrase) “Hillary cried about questions regarding her appearance but not for the Hurricane Katrina victims and the 45% of African-American voters in South Carolina know where they get their inspiration,” it was clear it was about to get all racial in South Carolina. And it was clear what their strategy would be and that it was sanctioned, as no one from the Obama camp has said a peep about Jackson’s obnoxious words.

I am not saying it is a stupid or bad strategy, but I would like all the “Obama is above all that” bullshit artists in the media and on the web to put a sock in it. Everything the Clinton camp (or as it is the case right now, people who merely support Clinton but who are not with the campaign) says will now be labeled racist, and a gullible few will suck it up.

In the comments yesterday, someone claimed Bill Clinton dismissing Obama as a “kid” was racist. “Why not just call him boy,” the commenter asked? If we are now to the point where snidely and dismissively calling someone a “kid” can be transmogrified into “boy” which is code for “nigger,” then anything and everything you say is now racist. And that is a level of absurdity this campaign does not need.

Do people REALLY think Andrew Cuomo is racist? Or Bill and Hillary Clinton? Really? Seriously? Are the Obama supporters really claiming that “fairy tale” is the new dogwhistle to lure southern voters? Really? Seriously?

And no, this does not mean I dislike Obama. It does not mean I will not support him. I just think he is getting a free ride, and I think his campaign is no different from anyone elses while pretending to be above it all. It is bullshit. And before you claim I have an Obama obsession, it is primary season. What else do you want me to talk about?

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Noted racist (and yes, that is sarcasm) Josh Marshall has some thoughts.

I am also perfectly willing to admit that I may not see what many in the Obama camp are seeing.

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“We’re Trying To Prevent Young People From Taking Your Career Path”

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Granted that Barack Obama’s campaign be much ado, but the mania didn’t appear out of nowhere.

The first time I heard Obama speak, on a radio quiz show in 2005, my first reaction was that the guy could be a contender. One thing that jumped out at me was his weird knack for being a dick, genial and funny at the same time. Obama happy fun time isn’t quite the same as a Barney hour, it’s more like the comic who rips you a new one but you can’t help enjoying the experience. He has an oddly anti-political habit of telling special interest audiences what they don’t want to hear. Give a listen and see if you agree.

The kind of Republican who regards ideology uber alles may not enjoy an Obama presidency any more than Clinton or Edwards.

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