Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

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

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

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

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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  4. 4.

    Englischlehrer

    hey hey, today is the 6 year anniversary of me having moved to Europe! I moved to Europe one month before Colin Powell’s UN presentation. It looks like I left at just the right time…

  5. 5.

    slimslowslider

    Today’s awesome Rosettasister comment:

    with Obama not being officially sworn in, we all lie in hope that some ray of hope will shine through and freeze that man dead in his tracks as he and his hostile wife approach ownership of our white house. and dont think twice about michelle and her man talking”ownership” because thats exactly what they have in mind.

    Apologies… I am obsessed with that site and their comments, etc.

  6. 6.

    sarah

    Via:

    U.S. President George W. Bush will deliver a televised farewell address to the American people on Thursday night, the White House said.

    What I want him to say: I was wrong about everything for the past 8 years.
    What he’ll probably say: So long and thanks for all the fish.

  8. 8.

    The Other Steve

    I have a bottle of Glenrothe’s waiting for this momentous occasion.

    If anybody wants some, you are welcome to join me at my house. :-)

  9. 9.

    Comrade Darkness

    "That being… the only good food in Germany is the Italian. :-)"

    That and the pig’s knuckle, especially when the skin has gone to cracklin. Oh, man, and the grilled mackerel at the beer garden.

    If you were foolish enough to go to the hofbräuhaus, you didn’t deserve anything edible.

  11. 11.

    jibeaux

    -35 degrees in Ely, MN. -40 in Bigfork. That’s some cold shit.

    I have a bottom line of 25 daytime degrees in D.C. or I cancel my inauguration attendance plans. Too much time out of doors to suffer. I’m a complete and total cold wuss.

  12. 12.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Weather yesterday was nice. We hit 74 and should hit about the same today and the next few days look good too. The wife wanted to go on a motorcycle ride but I have the bike in pieces doing winter repairs and service out of the way. Bummer. Last night the temp got down to 61, so we had the front door open until late last night. Not bad for the Oregon coast in January. :)

  13. 13.

    Montysano

    @Punchy:

    -35 degrees in Ely, MN. -40 in Bigfork. That’s some cold shit.

    Which, of course, causes the Dittoheads to burst forth with their "Where’s your global warming now, libtard?" They’re like dogs, waking up to a brand new world every day. No past, no history. No such thing as climate; there’s only weather.

  14. 14.

    tom p

    Can anybody parse this statement of Bush’s yesterday?

    Speaking to the WH press corps: "and sometimes you guys misunderestimated me."

  15. 15.

    CT

    @Conservatively Liberal:

    Brookings? (aka the Banana Belt of the Oregon coast for non-Oregonians).

    It was 4 this morning where I live-not ‘real’ cold according to my NoDak relatives.

  16. 16.

    Joshua Norton

    deliver a televised farewell address to the American people on Thursday night,

    He’s starting to have more goodbye events than Cher. Just go already.

  17. 17.

    TheHatOnMyCat

    Can anybody parse this statement of Bush’s yesterday?

    Speaking to the WH press corps: "and sometimes you guys misunderestimated me."

    It’s the same lexicon as OJ’s "I was just trying to get my stuff back, I am so sorry."

  21. 21.

    Conservatively Liberal

    @CT:

    Yup CT, Brookings, the Banana Belt of Oregon. Inland from here about 130 miles it was 14 last night. No thanks, I will pass. I almost didn’t take the bike apart this winter but I want to paint the fairing this spring and the engine needs a new base cylinder gasket (seeping a little), so it’s time for some TLC for my baby.

    Maybe I will have to pull the Mustang out and go topless for a bit today. :D

  26. 26.

    MikeJ

    Not bad for the Oregon coast in January. :)

    I was on the Oregon coast for the 4th of July and it climbed all the way to 63 or so, with winds gusting 15-20kts. Of course I don’t think I’ve ever been south of Tillamook in Oregon. Brookings is hardly even the Pac NW.

  29. 29.

    Brian J

    -35 degrees in Ely, MN. -40 in Bigfork. That’s some cold shit.

    I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but is that how it feels with the windchill factored in, or is that how cold it is on a thermometer?

  30. 30.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Laura W: He’s willing to come halfway out from under the bed. Far enough so that I can see that his wound doesn’t look inflamed or swollen. Far enough to pet him. Far enough to feed him. We’re making progress.

  32. 32.

    Brian J

    It is neither news nor controversial to call Fred Barnes an idiot, but the bastard has really outdone himself this time. Check out his list of Boosh’s ten biggest accomplishments. Keep the barf bag handy.

    I’ve always found it helpful to think of Fred Barnes as similar to that mother in a small town that’s a complete nag, the one who talks with a completely condescending tone, as if she is right and everyone else is not nearly as good. It helps because then you don’t take him seriously, something which could drive you insane if you did. I want to call him a sycophant, but I don’t think that’s the right word. Perhaps it’s better to just call him a douche.

  34. 34.

    Brian J

    @Brian J: That’s thermometer temperature, but also the overnight lows. It’s about -28 in Ely right now.

    Damn, that’s cold.

  36. 36.

    Conservatively Liberal

    @MikeJ:

    Tillamook is a great little town, as are the rest of the towns that dot the Oregon coast. I can’t count the number of times I have traveled the coast here but I can say that I will never tire of it. The coast is dotted with pull-out areas and state parks, which makes traveling up the coast a pain at times because you have excuses to stop everywhere and take pics…lol!

    Our weather is odd here at times. Once it stops raining in the spring we rarely ever get any rain until the start of the monsoon season arrives, which is in late October-early November. So our spring, summer and fall are usually excellent weather with the winter weather usually being wet and foggy. There are many days like this though where the weather is perfect. Thirty miles south (Crescent City, CA) or north (Gold Beach) of us usually runs about 10 degrees cooler than we are here. Heck, I wear shorts year round except when I take the wife to dinner.

    The Banana Belt indeed. Nice place to live and you just can’t beat that. I think this area is one of the largest lily growing areas in the country because the soil and weather are perfect for cultivation.

  37. 37.

    gbear

    Which, of course, causes the Dittoheads to burst forth with their "Where’s your global warming now, libtard?" They’re like dogs, waking up to a brand new world every day. No past, no history. No such thing as climate; there’s only weather.

    Man, you got that one right. Everytime the Mpls. StarTrib posts an article about how cold it is, the comments section explodes into pitched battles between the climate change deniers and the smarter people.

    Brian J: that’s the temp without the windchill factor. I used to think that once it reached -20 it really couldn’t feel any colder, but then we had a week in the Twin Cities with temps down to -40 (in ’96) and as I walked the 1/2 mile from the parking lot to the office I realized that I needed to reconsider that theory.

    J Michael: Good luck. Watch out for black ice if you’re on the highways. Once you’re car is started and warmed up it’s not that bad. Enjoy the sunshine.

  38. 38.

    BP in MN

    @gbear:

    No kidding about the Strib comments. Did you notice today that for some bizarre reason they decided to put up an article based on the Pravda prediction of an imminent giant Ice Age? I can’t tell if the writer is looking at kind of subversively, like "look at who’s on your side, climate change deniers", but the comments I could bear to look at were full of nonsense.

    Including the one who spouted some crap about how scientists just don’t understand human resilience, which is why we’ll always triumph. So why worry, right? I wonder if the commenter makes the same argument about buying home insurance….

  39. 39.

    South of I-10

    I thought you all might enjoy this particular piece of stupid which was published in my local paper today. As pissed off as I was yesterday after Bush’s presser about how great the federal response was to Katrina, this little gem really has me questioning again why the hell I live here. I try to tell myself someone has to be here to try and reason with people and maybe I can change some minds and improve this place that I do love. But right now, I feel like it is a big waste of my time.

  40. 40.

    Brian J

    Brian J: that’s the temp without the windchill factor. I used to think that once it reached -20 it really couldn’t feel any colder, but then we had a week in the Twin Cities with temps down to -40 (in ‘96) and as I walked the 1/2 mile from the parking lot to the office I realized that I needed to reconsider that theory.

    I went to college in Binghamton, which is in or just outside of the Snow Belt. For all of the talk of the weather, there was more rain than anything, although for four years I don’t think I owned an umbrella. There wasn’t a lot of snow, but there were some days when it was just brutally cold. The two I remember the most were the day I was walking from one of the far parking lots to a final, when I had to start the final late after trying to unfreeze my hands in the bathroom under hot water and the day when I walked near the front of one of the library buildings and my hair had icicles on it. On both days, the temperature was between zero and ten, with the windchill making it feel up to ten below zero. I thought that was cold, but apparently, I haven’t experienced cold yet.

  43. 43.

    Laura W

    WHY THE FUCK IS TWEETY TALKING OVER THE MOST RIVETING PART OF HILLARY’S HEARING SO FAR, THE QUESTIONING BY BOXER?
    Oh, yeah. It involves torture of young girls and women.
    Who cares.
    (Yes, I moved to C-SPAN. Need to remember to move there sooner and more often.)

  44. 44.

    Cain

    @Conservatively Liberal:

    Our weather is odd here at times. Once it stops raining in the spring we rarely ever get any rain until the start of the monsoon season arrives, which is in late

    Meh. Which was always around the end of June. When I first came to Oregon back in ’96 it started around May. The worst is the streak of good weather in April that almost always occur and it just gets you all hot and bothered for summer. Oregon weather can be cruel.

    But I still love it here.

    cain

  45. 45.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    I have a question about something that’s been eating me up and I thought the good people here at BJ could help. Here it is: If someone reads the first part of this article

    http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=936054&hpr

    and the first thought that pops into their head is "God, I wish women wouldn’t get drunk around strangers*", are they history’s greatest monster or do they have a point? That’s not their only thought, just the first thought they had.

    * Obviously, so they would be better able to fight off an attacker

  48. 48.

    Laura W

    @Notorious P.A.T.: Dying cats, Boxer’s flip charts of tortured women and girls, and now this. So much to say on your question, so little energy left.

    Time to suit up, bury my head in my iPod, and walk real fast to nowhere.
    Bleh redux.

  49. 49.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    So much to say on your question, so little energy left.

    Me first!

    part of the problem is that the person involved wasn’t a stranger to the women in question

    Another part of the problem is she didn’t know anyone else there, so she couldn’t get help from someone else. And she was drunk.

  51. 51.

    South of I-10

    @Xenos: I know. It just gets depressing sometimes. I had to write a letter to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education today requesting that they not allow Jindal to dumb down our kids anymore and allow creationism/intelligent design to be taught in science class.

  52. 52.

    passerby

    I find it fascinating that Senator Kerry can simultaneously appear to be a pompous ass and a dullard at the same time.

  54. 54.

    Saint Ignatius

    I made the mistake of commenting on Big Hollywood. I felt like one of the Alamo defenders. At any rate I want to warn people about a screen name I foolishly clicked on which led to french language page which I again clicked on and was shocked to see my gmail sign-in name and my personal name. I had used a yahoo e-mail address and anonymous screen name. The commenter was "BOOGLIODEMUS’. Does anyone know anything about this and what I can do about it. It was an attempt to silence me. It was the article by Andrew Breitbart entitled "Is He Really That Crazy? Why Would Mickey Rourke Defend George W. Bush?" Any info would be helpful.

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