Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

This really is a full service blog.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

Republicans don’t trust women.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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  2. 2.

    JL

    @Laura W: Good Morning! The Australian Open is on ESPN also. Bagjdatis is playing Djokovic and it is one all. It has to be after One AM there.
    Last night I watched a movie called "Arranged" about two public high school teachers, one Jewish and the other Muslim who find out that they have more in common than not. Both of their fathers are arranging marriages for them. It was enlightening and also charming. Although I could not imagine being that devout, it was both their choice.

  4. 4.

    Laura W

    @JL: Thanks for the tip, JL. I’ll go there now. Couldn’t care less about surrogates. Just want to see my Bret and Jemaine, and the puppy/kitten story from London, of course.

  5. 5.

    chopper

    not me. my 3-week old let us sleep almost the whole night.

    what is this feeling…this…’awake’ feeling, i feel…

  6. 6.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Sleep? What is this thing you call sleep? While you peeps have been zzzz’ing I have been up all night loading up configuring another server. Sans coffee but I made up for it getting stoned the whole time.

    Somehow it all works. Go figure. Almost time for a small nap, no sleep for the wicked. ;)

  8. 8.

    David

    Redstate headline:

    “Why should any stimulus money be spent on projects that won’t stimulate for two years?”

    Two ?!! years is too long to have a plan for?

    link

  9. 9.

    Laura W

    @Conservatively Liberal: I am in awe of folks like you who actually Get Stuff Done while stoned. Now that would be a study I’d like to read, ie, how and why different people metabolize pot so differently. People who clean house, create anything, write, remember where the letters are on the keyboard, carry on intelligent conversations, and chew gum and walk while stoned blow my mind.

    The only thing I could ever do after indulging was EAT, watch teevee (by "watch" I mean stare at, not follow any semblance of a plot), and sleep. Really, really good sleep. Turns me into a Schiavoesque dullard, and that is a true disservice to Ms. Schiavo. How I envy you.

  10. 10.

    Laura W

    @Comrade Jake:

    I assume you’ve seen the movie Eagle vs. Shark?

    No – never heard of it. Will go google it. If you say it’s good, and I can rent it at Blockbuster, I may have to break in my new DVD player in the bedroom.
    (Edit: the guy on CBS Sun AM did a great job with his descriptions, a la the wonderful contradictions the show offers in service to smart stupidity.)

  11. 11.

    Fructose

    Legalize pot and prostitution, dammit! American made grass and ass will be a boon for our struggling economy!

  13. 13.

    Tattoosydney

    @ Laura W

    I’ve always found it great for getting essays done.

    You just have to proofread, the jslsldhfh bacon into the oven to make sure the monkeys don’t get it, the bastards, the next day, just in case something odd slipped in.

  14. 14.

    robertdsc

    I’ve got an hour to go before I can escape the print shop and have the rest of the day off.

    Getting stoned (or drunk, for that matter) isn’t my style. I couldn’t do my job while stoned, that’s for sure.

  15. 15.

    Laura W

    @Tattoosydney: That’s great. The CBS show used a quick clip of that song, and over on Salon.com there is a piece on it today as well. She mentions that the songs this season sort of suck since the guys used up their catalog of early songs in season one so they are scrambling to come up with new ones. No matter. It still rocks.

  17. 17.

    gex

    @Tattoosydney: Tee hee! I always like writing code in that state. It’s really easy for me to block everything else out and just be focused entirely on the programming.

  19. 19.

    The Tim Channel

    Good thing I can get stuff done stoned or nothing would ever get done. Flight of the Concordes? ROCKS.

    I love Think About It.

    Junkies with monkey disease, who’s touching these monkeys, please leave these poor sick monkeys alone they got problems enough as it is.

    Could somebody please remove these cutleries from my knees?

    Priceless.

    Don’t waste your time TIVOing crap.

    Enjoy.

  21. 21.

    Dean Booth

    I watched CBS Sunday Morning for at least 15 years, but quit a couple of years ago when it became lifestyles of the rich and famous. I just couldn’t stomach all the stories on expensive wines or meals at fancy restaurants, not to mention Ben Stein.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Jake

    @Laura W:

    If you like Flight of the Conchords, you’ll enjoy Eagle vs. Shark. It has one of the same actors in the lead, and it’s the same variety of ridiculous.

  24. 24.

    Montysano

    I’ve been dying to get out to the Enchanted Forest, aka the Sipsey Wilderness, about 60 miles SW of here. It’s the most amazing place. But for the first time in years, we’re having a real winter. Today is yet another day w/temps in the high 30s, damp and cloudy. We’ve had a lot of days like this, and cabin fever is setting in, so I might go anyway.

  25. 25.

    Tattoosydney

    @ Laura W:

    *blush* He is the cutest boy in the world – and incidentally one of the reasons I love that song so much.

    I recommend "Car Tape" – It’s by far my favourite of her albums (although Amazon doesn’t seem to have it).

    New Zealanders. Pah. I sput on thum end their ikscents.

    (Just joking – I love them Kiwis).

  28. 28.

    Conservatively Liberal

    How I envy you.

    You shouldn’t. Once you smoke yourself straight you have to deal with the cost…lol! Thus the work! This shit don’t pay for itself, and in my case it’s now a medical necessity. If I weren’t getting stoned I would be taking so many meds that I wouldn’t be working. One scratches the back of another. ;)

    My attorney told me that I didn’t have to work if I didn’t want to but that ain’t in my plans for life. I can always fall back on disability but I prefer to earn a living while I still can.

    It pays better. :)

    Wrestling with custom Apache modules…grrr. Won two battles and got one more to go. Off to some more hacking up crap, I just had to ‘refresh’ the mind for the next round. ;)

  29. 29.

    Krista

    Can’t understand why anyone would want to ruin a perfectly good Sunday with golf, church or the talking heads. Blecch.

    I concur. I prefer to spend my Sunday mornings getting up at 10 am to watch Coronation Street on the couch in my jammies.

    The golf thing can be nice though, on a warm day. I wouldn’t get up early for it, though.

  31. 31.

    headpan

    For those of you who cannot stomach the Sunday gasbags and who had to work through the inauguration, CSPAN is running the highlights right now – inauguration speech at 11:45 am.

    Heh, that said, I’m at work right now – it’s playin’ in the background.

    Oh, and is it just me or does the sight of the Obamas standing next to the Bushes give you the heebs?

  32. 32.

    headpan

    And, yeah, I’m enjoying the supreme Souza I didn’t get to hear before and I don’t really care if it was piped. Still sounds good.

  34. 34.

    new day rising

    @Conservatively Liberal: Did the server catch a buzz?

    I share Laura W’s cynicism (or was that admiration?) at your ability to get work done while stoned out. Wow! Way cool, man! That’s something I couldn’t do when I use to get stoned. (Let’s get stupid, we use to say.) I probably metabolized pot in the same poor way Laura W did. My bad! That’s why I quit years ago. Now that I have injured your psyche by dissing your druggie lifestyle, please, I don’t want to hear that pot rationalization I constantly see on the web, that famous people, like Obama, smoke pot, so it’s okie dokie. (Do you really think he still does? Personally, I doubt it very much.)

  35. 35.

    AhabTRuler

    OT, but next weekend I will complete my indoc as a BJ’er. I will be driving to WeeVee to pick up mah nu kitteh! Yeah!

    Also, tonight I am making Brussels Sprouts (again). Right now I am listening to TV on the Radio, which I have be doing pretty much constantly for the past week. Whomever recommended Golden Age as the unofficial theme song of the inaugural was spot on.

    And on the subject of baked infidels, I don’t write better stoned, but I do forget to be obsessively perfect, so I get more done.

  37. 37.

    Krista

    That’s something I couldn’t do when I use to get stoned.

    Ditto. When I have partaken, I’d be more the type to suddenly find myself in the kitchen with a box of chocolate-chip cookies, absolutely no recollection as to how I got there, and delighted and surprised to see the cookies in my hand. The only things I excelled at while baked were eating, sex, listening to Sarah McLachlan, and talking utter shite while thinking I was having a really deep, introspective discussion. (Not all at the same time, obviously.)

  38. 38.

    Laura W

    @Krista:

    and delighted and surprised to see the cookies in my hand.

    I do not grok why the cookies were still in your hand?

    (Edit: I think I even googled this a few times: "effect of pot on blood sugar" and may have found lots of stuff claiming that it balances and helps fluctuations. Of course, I might have been high when researching and thus recalling totally incorrectly. This was the polar opposite of my experience in that I would immediately get ravenous, and stay ravenous. Like my blood sugar would hit the floor after two hits and I had to feed my gaping maw till I slept. Ick. Bad Times.)

  39. 39.

    AhabTRuler

    talking utter shite while thinking I was having a really deep, introspective discussion

    I find that it is not what people say, it is staying on topic that is the problem.

  40. 40.

    Krista

    I do not grok why the cookies were still in your hand?

    Because that just happened to be the exact moment when I pretty much came to. When I’d smoke, I’d basically drift in and out from periods of a hazy, dreamlike state, into periods of sharp lucidity. Going to the kitchen and grabbing the cookies happened during the former. I suddenly had a period of lucidity and said to my husband, "How the hell did I get into the kitchen? And what are these cookies doing in my hand?" The last thing I had clearly remembered prior to that was being out on the deck, so to suddenly find myself in the kitchen was a bit disconcerting.

  41. 41.

    AhabTRuler

    @Laura W: 30 Helens agree: pot ain’t for everybody and wouldn’t it be perfect if the world ran on a pot based economy because hemp can be grown like three times in the same period as trees or grass or something, but anyway, its all about George Washington planting hemp and something about how the oil companies and Dow wanted to corner the market on puff-pastries and pizza and have you ever noticed the way that your hands can tocuch anything but themselves. Oh, wait.

  43. 43.

    JL

    Once when I inhaled, I was surrounded by folks that I didn’t really enjoy. What a long, long, long evening!

  44. 44.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Now that I have injured your psyche by dissing your druggie lifestyle,

    Never gonna happen. :) Nope.

    I used to get ‘stoned’ but that got lost a long time ago. When I was stoned I did the same goofy shit everyone else did when stoned. Once you smoke yourself straight it never is the same again. You can’t ‘get used’ to increasing amounts of alcohol, you will eventually reach a point where you die. Pot isn’t anything like that. We used to have "Bongathons" where each person had to toss down an eighth (of an ounce) into a pile, the goal being the last one standing wins the remainder of the ‘pot’. ;)

    Once you are acclimated to it you function just like normal. I am a type A work nut and I tend to do stuff that is a bit cerebral at times. A bowl or two helps me to kick back and think about what I am doing, how I am doing it, review what I have done and what I have left to do. I write code, build custom computers for home and office, designed production marine electrical systems, built engines & transmissions for marine & racing use plus too many other things to mention, all while stoned. It doesn’t inhibit or restrict me in any way, if anything it makes me more calm, contemplative and thorough.

    But the most important reason I am glad I am used to it is because in the past it was fun, now it makes my pain medications work better. Which means I take much less than I used to (less than one-quarter of my original dosages). Plus I have a better appetite and can actually hold a little weight on my poor bones. Being just over six foot and 132 pounds sucked, plus feeling sick all of the time from the meds. I upped the amount of pot I smoked and trimmed the amount of meds I took and it works for me. My docs noted the improvement and I was sent to another doc for the paperwork to ‘get legal’ (Oregon is a medical marijuana state).

    I weigh what I did before my accident (172 pounds) and I feel well though I still have rough days, usually following a day when I push myself too hard, but I am much better now than I used to be. Pot ain’t the answer for everyone but it sure is for me.

  45. 45.

    SGEW

    Random thoughts drop [file under TL;DR if you like]:

    – I don’t watch tv (don’t even own one [1]), so I get most of my impression of the famed "Sunday Morning Bobbleheads" from all o’ y’all. I’m not sure whether to thank you for the service, or to denounce you all as alternative propagandists. In any case, I probably have a very, very skewed view of American television media. Is it really that bad?

    – Re: Marijuana research. Yet another thing I hope the Obama administration will do the right thing on. If he’s going to be our greatest "science-first" president [2], he better get on the right side of this one; no serious medical researcher doubts the importance and/or obviousness of legitimate, peer-reviewed research into cannabis. It’s common sense.

    – Re: Marijuana usage. [Standard disclaimer: I reserve the 5th Amendment right not to incriminate myself, and all statements herein following are not to be construed as being admitting or supportive of the use of THC for recreational, non-medicinal purposes.] Creative writing (fiction, poetry, drama, etc.) whilst high: an empirically supported boon, so long as typos can be caught later (this is why we have spell check). Professional writing (memos, legal writing, theses, etc.) whilst high: a nightmare. Do not attempt. As to coding, I have no idea.

    – When my friend told me that Flight of the Conchords was the best thing evah evah evah, I was skeptical. Turns out he was right. Who knew? They’re the greatest thing NZ has contributed to the international community since . . . um . . . uh . . .

    – Is anyone else already getting burned out by the New Hopey Changey Era of Awesomeness? I swear, it’s getting just a bit ridiculous. Every morning I read the news and weep with joy a little . . . how long can I maintain this level of credulous optimism? And it’s not just the whole "even a pile of dog turds would be awesome after W" thing (which I get, believe me), but it’s not just a repudiation of Bush: it’s a repudiation of almost every president we’ve ever had. Put aside childish things indeed! Fuck you Reagan. Fuck you Nixon. Fuck you Clinton, even! And fuck you Andrew Jackson and John Adams and James K. Polk and every last one of you murdering motherfuckers rolling over in your marble mausolea. I honestly think that Barack Obama is the first president since Jefferson that Thomas Paine would have fully supported. That’s a really big deal.

    – Finally, speaking of the Horror of W, I’m surprised more people haven’t been talking about President Obama’s very first official action: declaring a National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation. It’s not a particularly intriguing proclamation, in and of itself ("awesome God" or no [3]), but the word that really jumped out at me was "Reconciliation." My first thought was of this. Interesting, no?

    . . .
    [1] Alas, this denies me the cost-effective playing of Fallout 3, so I may have to wind up buying a damned Windows machine. Help!
    [2] When Obama mentioned curiosity as a national virtue, staff members at the American Institute of Physics literally wept with joy. Literally wept with joy. Physicists. Awesome sauce!
    [3] My biggest complaint with Obama: lay off th’ jebus juice a bit, ‘kay? Srsly. Other than that, carry on.

  46. 46.

    Montysano

    When I was a teen back in the ’60’s, one of the complaints against pot was that it made a person apathetic and detached. These past 8 years, apathetic and detached has seemed like a reasonable strategy. Now, I may have to rethink it…….. or maybe not.

    @ Laura W: have you heard the title cut from the Blitzen Trapper album "Furr"? The album as a whole is OK-ish, but that song really grabbed me. Lyrics here.

  47. 47.

    JL

    @SGEW: Well put musings. John became ignored with the over the top coverage of Obama on MSM but my son that just returned from Munich and Davos, and said that it could not possibly measure up with the coverage Obama received over seas. Can he do everything, hell no, but he has inspired the world.

  48. 48.

    JGabriel

    Laura W:

    I would like to add that I played a mean game of Scrabble on the white nose candy…

    You did coke, and then played Scrabble?

    You’re a party animal. That’s just living dangerously.

    .

  49. 49.

    Conservatively Liberal

    And with that last reboot I am done for the evening/morning! Time to wrap the hands in pressure bandages and splints, swallow my meds and go zzz for a few hours (until the meds wake me up). More to do but that can wait, my goals for the evening/morning have been met and even exceeded a bit and it is time to give the hands a break (or else they will). ;)

    l8r peeps, hope you all have a nice am too. :)

  50. 50.

    JL

    I’m just now watching This Week and Carly Fiorina is an idiot. She is making Sam Donaldson look highly intelligent. Krugman is on and appears to sit in disbelief at the ignorance of the round table, body language is everything.
    George Will said that on Monday when McDonald’s shows higher profits, that will be a sign that the market is working it out. So what happens now to health care costs?

  51. 51.

    Montysano

    @JL:

    my son that just returned from Munich and Davos, and said that it could not possibly measure up with the coverage Obama received over seas. Can he do everything, hell no, but he has inspired the world.

    Well, maybe not everyone. There’s a Peak Oil/doomer blog that I’ve hung around for years. The info is interesting, but the owner and commenters are the most cynical, pessimistic folks I’ve ever known. I dared to drop some carefully caveat-ed notes of hope and was treated to max flameage. Of course, those guys may be more interested in having their narrative confirmed than actually fixing anything.

    Essentially, we’re going to have to go backwards to a life that is more simple, local, less mobile, less global, and much less energy intensive. In an economic system where "growth" is the only option, it’ll be tough.

  53. 53.

    Cain

    @Conservatively Liberal:

    Sleep? What is this thing you call sleep? While you peeps have been zzzz’ing I have been up all night loading up configuring another server. Sans coffee but I made up for it getting stoned the whole time.

    I need to try that sometimes. :-)

    cain

  54. 54.

    Laura W

    @JGabriel:

    You did coke, and then played Scrabble?

    And apres Scrabble, hot monkey sex*. The BEST hot monkey sex ever.
    The best place ever, you ask? A Big Sur forest.

    Shit. Now I’m really missing those days, damn you.

    (*Words, the ultimate aphrodisiac for some of us.)

  55. 55.

    Cain

    Once you are acclimated to it you function just like normal. I am a type A work nut and I tend to do stuff that is a bit cerebral at times. A bowl or two helps me to kick back and think about what I am doing, how I am doing it, review what I have done and what I have left to do. I write code, build custom computers for home and office, designed production marine electrical systems, built engines & transmissions for marine & racing use plus too many other things to mention, all while stoned. It doesn’t inhibit or restrict me in any way, if anything it makes me more calm, contemplative and thorough.

    Hmm.. I wonder if that works with ADHD? My biggest problem is that I’m impatient. If I’m doing something, I’m always taking a short cut because I want to just get it done. It makes me clumsy, feel stupid because I’m a lazy thinker etc. I’m not sure if pot is the answer.. and really one shouldn’t depend on external sources if you can reach inward. But if it gives you a chance to actually establish doing that, that might be interesting.

    I’ve only tried pot once, and that was hashish. I had it, got good buzz and that was it. I couldn’t figure out what the big deal was. I was scared shitless that I would have some kind of strange trip and being a bit of a control freak I would not enjoy that at all.

    cain

  56. 56.

    Cain

    I find it funny that we’ve gone from CBS Morning show to drug experiences. Although I’m sure CBS Morning show would improve if I watched it stoned.

    cain

  57. 57.

    R-Jud

    @Laura W:

    Words, the ultimate aphrodisiac for some of us.

    I was won over (while sober) by a guy who said that he liked to play squash "for the acoustics, because sometimes when you hit the ball just right, it sounds like a French schoolboy being caned in a chapel."

  58. 58.

    LiberalTarian

    Remember when the evangelicals got together and laid hands on the bull on Wallstreet? Wasn’t that the Merrill Lynch bull? And, wasn’t that about the time they were stealing from the taxpayers????

    And people say God doesn’t have a sense of humor.

  59. 59.

    Laura W

    @Montysano:

    have you heard the title cut from the Blitzen Trapper album "Furr"?

    No, I am painfully out of the current music loop and I thank you for leading me into the new millennium so patiently and gently. With the occasional Joni tossed in so I don’t stroke out.

    BTW: I just learned my two Fleet Foxes aren’t shipping till mid Feb! I got the Sun Giant EP as well. Moss and Under the Covers (which I think I found on one of TBogg’s lists?) are en route.

  62. 62.

    headpan

    Although I’m sure CBS Morning show would improve if I watched it stoned.

    Sunday bobbleheads stoned? Sounds like a pretty bad trip to me. But to each his own.

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