Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

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

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

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

This fight is for everything.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

In my day, never was longer.

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  8. 8.

    BP in MN

    I’m with cleek; the format means you don’t get a lot of added value from facial expressions or a really genuine interaction, and I read faster than they talk, so I just get frustrated and move on to something else. If they had transcripts, I’d like it a lot more.

    That said, there are people who get a lot more out of audio than out of the written word, so it’s nice to have it as an option. Just not for me.

  11. 11.

    Common Sense

    @John Cole:

    I suspecct you might be seeing a bit more of SG Sanjay Gupta, no matter what channel you watch.

    Admit it, it will be great fun to watch the Surgeon General of the United States eviscerate Bill Donahue in a debate. Almost as fun as it would be if Obama poached Zakaria too.

  12. 12.

    Montysano

    This post was my reminder to wander over to Amazon and order Bacevich’s book The Limits of Power: the End of American Exceptionalism.

    While the vast majority of the reviews are positive, there are a several that are just what you’d expect: "anti-American", "liberal claptrap", etc. But my favorites were the ones that sought to remind me that the USA!® is the Bestest Country That Will Ever Exist.

    Which is high-larious on several levels.

  13. 13.

    monad

    But my favorites were the ones that sought to remind me that the USA!® is the Bestest Country That Will Ever Exist.

    All is best in the best of all possible countries.

  15. 15.

    JL

    News that put a smile on my face.

    New poll shows Palin would trail Murkowski big in a Senate race. Murkowski garnered 57 percent to Palin’s 33 percent; 9 percent said they were not sure

    Andrew Sullivan has a link to the poll at his site.

  16. 16.

    The Moar You Know

    New poll shows Palin would trail Murkowski big in a Senate race. Murkowski garnered 57 percent to Palin’s 33 percent; 9 percent said they were not sure

    Winky The Brood Sow from Wasallia is finished. Thank goodness.

  17. 17.

    Reverend Dennis

    By the way, who is Bush’s Surgeon General?

    There is at present an acting Surgeon General. He used to work as a barber on Fleet Street.

  18. 18.

    Reverend Dennis

    Winky The Brood Sow from Wasallia is finished.

    That’s a slap in the jowls to Brood Sows.

  19. 19.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    The Limits of Power is a great book. It’s short, so it won’t take you long to read. Then, you’ll have time for some of the other great books at American Empire Project.

    Sorry, it was supposed to be a review, not a commercial.

    It would be great if a Bacevich or Chalmers Johnson had some voice in the Obama administration.

  20. 20.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Winky The Lipstick Wearing Brood Sow from Wasilla is finished. Thank goodness.

    Fix’t.

  22. 22.

    Reverend Dennis

    @Punchy:
    A brood sow is a female pig who is maintained on a pig farm because of her ability to produce large litters of healthy piglets.

  24. 24.

    Joshua Norton

    All is best in the best of all possible countries.

    But at least Candide made that point with a catchy tune to go along with it. Wingnutz just sort of reflexively blurt it out without even a passing attempt at persuading anyone.

  25. 25.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Common Sense:

    I can’t believe that I am not only going to get a POTUS that I can drool over but I will actually be having naughty thoughts about the Surgeon General… when I think of the past Surgeon Generals that thought almost makes my eyes water.

  26. 26.

    srv

    Bacevich’s latest is a quick read and filled with institutional slaps in the face on every page:

    The operative question becomes this: If neither the CIA nor the Joint Chiefs of Staff had existed when Osama bin Laden launched his attack, if Congress had not created the Dept. of Defense or the National Security Council back in 1947, would the United States find itself in any worse shape than it is? … To frame the question more broadly: When considering the national security state as it has evolved and grown over the past six decades, what exactly has been the value add? And if the answer is none – if, indeed, the return on investment has been essentially negative – then perhaps the time has come to consider dismantling an apparatus that demonstrably serves no useful purpose.

  27. 27.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    PS) I don’t know if anyone else has been following this or if it has been posted in the comments (if it has I apologize) but there has been a war of comedic proportions going on between Wonkette and Confluence with RumpRoast acting as the cheerleader today. I have got absolutely nothing done today due to the fact that it has been hilarious to follow, it began cause Wonkette realized that they had been nominated for the Weblogs award and sent their posters out to vote, at which point Riverchucky’s minions started calling foul. You have GOT to check out the threads. The Wonkettes only discovered Riverchucky’s site yesterday (I think) and they are simply aghast that such batshitcrazy people could actually exist.

  28. 28.

    TenguPhule

    A brood sow is a female pig who is maintained on a pig farm because of her ability to produce large litters of healthy piglets.

    The emphasis is on *healthy*. Think of the sows!

  29. 29.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    This interview strayed from the book more than the Moyers interview. The talk about Afghanistan is particularly good. He points out that sending more troops isn’t in anyone’s best interest. How we square things with the Afghanis and Iraqis is going to take some real effort. Wish I thought Hillary was the best person to be leading that.

    How did that hippie become a colonel?

  30. 30.

    Conservatively Liberal

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    OMFG that ‘war’ is a riot to read! The comments over at Wonkette are f’ing gold. They are shredding PUMA ass and laughing their asses off while doing it.

    Thanks for the tip, time to go back and laugh some more! Those PUMAs are entertaining fuckwits but the commentary at Wonkette is to die for. Laughing all of the way, of course.

  32. 32.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Conservatively Liberal:

    It truly has been comedy gold all day, I have been laffing my little british arse off all day. The best bit was when the Puma’s declared war, one poster at the confluence said "they didn’t know better than to bring a knife to an Annie get your gun fight" at which point the Wonkettes just about lost their nice (don’t play with the retards) position and went for all out war. I swear, this is the most fun I have had on teh intertubes since I don’t know when.

  33. 33.

    A Squirrel

    Thanks for the link, John.

    Even when I disagree with Bacevich, he comes off as so damn thoughtful – even kind. I have a tremendous amount off respect for that guy. I don’t usually like bloggingheads, but I’m glad I got to catch that.

    I’m not usually so positive.

  35. 35.

    binzinerator

    I’ve never seen Heather Hurlburt before, and don’t know who she is, but she is one of those women who I inexplicably find attractive without her being either pretty or sexy, at least not in the usual sense. And then when she talks there’s that utterly charming gap between her front teeth.

    Bacevich, old guy, white hair, his son dead, he’s retired, he’s looking at the twilight years of his life. A sane conservative, alas, rare, and no wonder it seems he’s a dying breed. It’s the slow closing of a lineage in many ways.

    Other than that, I have nothing to add, certainly nothing of value. Not that I ever did.

  36. 36.

    Napoleon

    @binzinerator:

    I’ve never seen Heather Hurlburt before, and don’t know who she is, but she is one of those women who I inexplicably find attractive without her being either pretty or sexy, at least not in the usual sense.

    Funny, I thought the exact same thing about her.

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