Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

The words do not have to be perfect.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

I was promised a recession.

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  4. 4.

    Comrade Dread

    Awww… a Kitler.

    You just know that he was planning on invading Poland, but got distracted by a string.

  5. 5.

    schrodinger's cat

    You just know that he was planning on invading Poland, but got distracted by a string.

    and a catnip mouse

  9. 9.

    JenJen

    Juicers, if you haven’t seen this video of (a clearly half-crocked) John Ziegler getting escorted off USC’s campus for disrupting an appearance by Katie Couric, do yourself a favor now.

    (Ziegler is the filmaker behind "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted," which is chock-full of wingnutty goodness.)

  11. 11.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Just got back from a bike ride with my dog. That dog at the top of the page is very pretty. Cats suck.

  12. 12.

    Laura W

    @JenJen: I liked his reality dating show video a whole lot, posted a couple months back (Ash Can?). Our host didn’t find it fair or at all funny, ironically. Because mocking people for how they look, and not what JERKS they are underneath their looks, is funnier. And fair.
    pppppffffttttttttttt.

  14. 14.

    JenJen

    @Laura W: You mean this video? ;-) You gotta love a guy who, on the first date, talks about how marriage should be like a business, with a renewable contract that can be re-written at will, while explaining to his date that women really aren’t rational, huh?

    @Zuzu’s Petals: Best Kitler EVER!!

  17. 17.

    JWW

    John,

    That is a beautiful Belgian Shepherd. Is he or she yours? Doesn’t matter, just a fine looking dog.

  20. 20.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Laura W: Annie is such a doll. What a good present she is! Yes, she is. You could post pics of her every day, and I would be a happy grrl. Sigh.

  22. 22.

    TenguPhule

    My cat urinates on your post.

    The only good cat is a declawed belled neutered cat never allowed to roam and poop around the neighborhood.

  28. 28.

    asiangrrlMN

    That Ziegler guy is every girl’s dream. Not. Whatever!

    Laura W. I really like the pic of Annie in Aretha’s hat. So chic and stylish.

    P.S. Don’t declaw! Don’t have cats if you don’t want them scratching things.

    P.P.S. Fuck everybody!

  32. 32.

    schrodinger's cat

    Straddling the Maginot Line.

    I thought he would be landing in Normandy as a memberof 101’st futonborne

  34. 34.

    JWW

    This seems to be a nice hangout for the night! Since we are all f**king each other. I do love the pleasant chatter and will continue to imbibe in the love. But where is Dennis when you need him?

  39. 39.

    TenguPhule

    I thought he would be landing in Normandy as a memberof 101’st futonborne

    When they tried to load him onto the flying fortress, it buckled under the weight.

  41. 41.

    JWW

    John,

    Why is it that all my comments are moderated? I know I point the finger at you most often, but you are the host and I respond to the post. Do I offend you or does the truth hurt that bad?

  43. 43.

    Violet

    @TenguPhule:

    The only good cat is a declawed belled neutered cat never allowed to roam and poop around the neighborhood.

    Love indoor cats, but can’t stand owners who allow their cats outdoors and that kind of rubs off on me not liking the cats. They need to keep their stupid cats from pooping all around the neighborhood. It’s especially a problem when they poop in my front yard. And back yard. Because the damnable cats can climb over the fence.

    Dogs, however, are well behaved in my neighborhood. As are their owners. Dogs are walked on leashes and if they poop in people’s yards, the owners are prepared with plastic bags to scoop up the mess.

    We’re not fond of cats in this neighborhood. Well, that’s not really true. We’re not fond of most of the owners of cats who let them run all over the place and won’t own up when their cats defecate in other people’s yards.

  45. 45.

    asiangrrlMN

    Disco songs? Did someone say disco songs?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faf1ch7Q9XE

    LOVE this song. Great beat.

    Davebo, Beaux is very handsome. Sorry for your loss.

    P.S. TattooSydney, wait, we’re about to get multiple-everything married, and here you are flirting with everyone in the place!

  46. 46.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @JWW: Ya don’t have to be a spazz all the time, ya know. Just say normal shit, like normal people. Fake it til ya make it.

  50. 50.

    HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker

    They need to keep their stupid cats from pooping all around the neighborhood.

    I know! And then they let their birds poop on my car! Whassup with that?

    Okay my cat eats their birds, but still!

    WTF? Can I not be free of poop?!

  54. 54.

    asiangrrlMN

    @HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker: Yeah! And how about that incessant barking that cats do all night long when they are left outside? Or the lunging at you they do when their owners can’t control them? Or how they take out a chunk of your leg that requires twenty stitches (my brother)? Oh, wait, that’s what dogs do–not cats.

  57. 57.

    Laura W

    @gbear: That Jesus one was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day!
    Last time I posted this I was ridiculed for it (in an update on a front page post, no less.)
    Bite me. The man was HOT.
    RIP.

  58. 58.

    TenguPhule

    And how about that incessant barking that cats do all night long when they are left outside? Or the lunging at you they do when their owners can’t control them? Or how they take out a chunk of your leg that requires twenty stitches (my brother)?

    Ah, you’ve met our local feral cat population, have you?

    Though it’s not barking so much as earrending yowling.

  63. 63.

    asiangrrlMN

    @TenguPhule: Nope. Those are the neighborhood dogs of which I speak. Feral cats are the results of bad owners (grossly simplified), just as badly-behaved dogs are the result of same.

  64. 64.

    HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker

    Though it’s not barking so much as earrending yowling.

    I think that is your neighbors having sex.

    ( listens )

    Wait, that’s just your neighbor having sex. Or, imagining having sex.

    Or something.

  66. 66.

    TenguPhule

    Wait, that’s just your neighbor having sex.

    The cat obviously was objecting to it then.

  72. 72.

    Montysano

    @Tattoosydney: I wonder when we’ll hear from the Dixie Chicks again? Guess they went off to make babies and enjoy their $$$. Good for them; they worked their asses off for a while there.

    Gillian Welch, one of my favorites, has gone missing as well. No new album in 6 years, and only a handful of shows.

  74. 74.

    robertdsc

    I just gotta say that with the ongoing ridiculousness in Alaska with Sarah Palin, I’m just going to dig her looks and nothing else.

  75. 75.

    Left Coast Tom

    What about the noise when the local feral cats get in fights with the local raccoon population? That’s _really_ loud.

  78. 78.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Tattoosydney: The Pet Shop Boys are Australian? I always thought they were British. They’re releasing a new CD? No wonder PETA has gone after them up. Silly.

    Very nice song. I like!

    Laura W., dang right. The Dixie Chicks did not back down.

    Hey! You guys are song savvy. What do you consider a sexy song? I need it for something I’m writing.

  79. 79.

    Tattoosydney

    As a lawyer, I find the reader comment that Sullivan has just posted to express a lot of the things I have been thinking since I read those memos. We lawyers get a lot of flack, much of it justified. However, it is when lawyers like Bybee ignore the ethical obligations we owe to our clients, and (above even our obligations to our clients) to the courts and the law, that criticism is most due. These men sold out their ethics for their beliefs. Disbarring is not good enough.

    It was written purely to provide cover. To do that, Bybee and the others involved in these memos knowingly subordinated their oaths as officers of the court and their ethical obligations to give carte blanche to the interrogators and those who directed them. Perhaps they thought it was their patriotic duty; perhaps they thought that the "chatter" mentioned in the memo created an exigent circumstance that demanded that shortcuts be taken; or perhaps they expected that the memos never would see the light of day. I doubt we’ll ever really know. Regardless of the reason, though, the dull legalese conceals an utter lack of respect for the law and for any constraints that the law might require. And that’s what’s really chilling about it.

  83. 83.

    Tattoosydney

    @asiangrrlMN:

    What do you consider a sexy song?

    More information needed – 3am, second pill dancefloor sexy? Vanuatu beach, moonlight, just the two of you sexy? Washing his underwear on a Saturday morning sexy?

  84. 84.

    Krista

    @NutellaonToast

    TORTOISE SHELL! SO PRETTY! :drools:

    Nutella on toast….drools.

    I swear, every time I see your handle on here, it makes me hungry.

  87. 87.

    Mike in NC

    Kinda reminded me of the old Davey and Goliath shows I loved as a kid.

    Innocent times when clay was king. Now we have these computer-generated images. Damn you CGI! You’ve made scumbags like Adam Sandler and Vin Diesel filthy rich!

  90. 90.

    Krista

    @85 — Sexy songs are pretty subjective, which is the fun part of it. One person’s "sexy" is another person’s "huh, I don’t get it" at best, and "holy god, that’s cheesy" at worst.

    For some reason, this song always puts a pleasant twist to my knickers. There’s something about the tempo that makes me want to install a stripper pole in the bedroom. ;)

  95. 95.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Just Some Fuckhead: You’re just jealous because you aren’t getting any. Don’t be a hater. Join in the love.

    @Krista: Yeah, I know sexy is subjective. The problem is I have an odd idea of what is sexy. I need other people’s input so I don’t just go by what I think is sexy.

    I like your pick, by the way. Very hot.

  99. 99.

    D-Chance.

    BTW, this meaningless Rasmussen poll has been on Memeo all day long.

    To my fellow Texans… it doesn’t matter what you think. Secession is a matter of laws and treaties, not opinions. We don’t give a flyer if 99.9% of you think you have the right to secede. You don’t. Trust me on this one.

    But, it kept Rasmussen in the main column all day long, and has a decent amount of links from other sites, so… MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

    After all, that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?

  101. 101.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Tattoosydney: Yeah, this is a lazy seduction song for sure. It’s giving me ideas….(for my writing!)

    Great. I have no one to practice on…er, with….

  104. 104.

    Laura W

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Oh HER! Finally we can agree tonight. I do like that, a lot.
    I’m searching in vain for one of my top sexy chick songs, but while I search, this is one of my fave sexy boy band songs.
    Don’t laugh!
    And it helps if you close yer eyes and just listen, frankly.

  110. 110.

    asiangrrlMN

    Thank you all for your input. I am now going to, um, do some research. Um, yeah. Be back…when I am done. Keep them coming….

  114. 114.

    Laura W

    @ John

    I may need to rethink my position on taser usage, because I was cheering for them to break out the taser and they never did.

    Dunno when you posted your update but as discussed way upthread, some of "us" wanted to taser him during his reality show dating appearance. You seemed to almost feel sorry for him back then, and took umbrage that we would even discuss that episode in the comments here.
    Wha’ happen’? How is this different?

  120. 120.

    John Cole

    @NickM: How many comments before someone without a sense of humor or artistic license concern-trolled the entire thread with a “Stalking is something we should take seriously” or related remark?

  126. 126.

    The Moar You Know

    @cleek: It’s a lot easier to shoot up in the studio than in front of an audience. Consequently, there is no heroin to interfere with the sweet, sweet cocaine.

  127. 127.

    JK

    @cleek: I’m not an expert on Rolling Stones concert performances, but I don’t think it’s entirely accurate to say that their live versions are always much faster than their studio recordings.

    I just think this version of All Down the Line is amazing and I consider that time period to be the high watermark for the Rolling Stones.

  130. 130.

    NickM

    I agree that stalking is something we should take seriously, especially when the stalker is a scary dude named "29% of the Country."

  133. 133.

    A Squirrel

    Not politics related, but:

    Shep appears to be some sort of god-dog hybrid. Proud lookin’ sob.

  134. 134.

    Common Sense

    Texas House slashes Perry’s Budget:

    —–

    AUSTIN – House members virtually wiped out Gov. Rick Perry’s office budget Friday in order to help veterans and the mentally ill.

    With little debate, the House on a voice vote approved erasing 96 percent of the nearly $24 million that budget writers had recommended for Perry’s office operation over the next two years.

    Some Democrats cast the House’s move as a rebuke of the governor’s recent comments about Texas seceding from the Union.

    "That’s the headline: ‘Two days after governor says we ought to secede, House zeroes out the governor’s budget,’ " said Appropriations Committee vice chairman Richard Raymond, D-Laredo.

    —–

    This is, by far, my favorite quote in the article:

    Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said, "I think they’re just playing silly games."

  135. 135.

    TenguPhule

    With little debate, the House on a voice vote approved erasing 96 percent of the nearly $24 million that budget writers had recommended for Perry’s office operation over the next two years.

    Perry needed $24 million for his office?

    No wonder Texas was in so much trouble.

  136. 136.

    deminoz

    @Tattoosydney:
    OT….the other day you were filling someone in on the phenom of "Cory" in Australia. The next day I was on a tram on Brunswick St in Melbourne and a teen/early 20’s male boarded the tram in — parka with ‘fur’ lined hoodie and big white (guess yellow was sold out?) plastic framed sunnies. So whilst anyone with any sense had hoped that Cory’s 15 minutes were up….sadly, no.

  137. 137.

    The Other Steve

    My mother passed away yesterday, after a 3 month fight with peritoneal cancer. I’ve never even heard of this, but it is the lining of your abdomen and it caused her to build up fluids in her organs that had to be drained. She was 72 years old, and not in the best of health to begin with. So it’s been sad watching her suffer so the last few months as she was not strong enough to do chemo and the cancer was already fairly advanced. So they just treated the symptoms, and she had various tubes hanging out to drain the fluids which made her uncomfortable.

    The end came quickly. She ended up in the ICU on wednesday with trouble breathing as fluid entered her lungs and her kidney’s and stomach had shut down. While we were all waiting with her friday afternoon her blood pressure began to drop and within a few hours came the end. I’m just glad we were all there at the end, and there was time for my brother to come from Wisconsin with his wife to be there too. The nurses at the hospital were wonderful, as were the doctors.

    The saddest piece for me is that she did not live long enough to see her grandson born. My wife’s due date is sunday, and we expect him to be born obviously soon. We’re going to name him Alexander Patrick, as my wife’s grandmothers name was Alexandra and my mothers name was Patricia.

    Life is too short. Cherish it.

  138. 138.

    Common Sense

    @TenguPhule:

    Have you ever seen the Texas Capitol Building?

    They built it expressly to be taller than the US Capitol (as they did with the San Jacinto Monument vs the Washington Monument). It’s gorgeous, but a massive money sink.

    The dumbest thing about this is that Rick Perry has about as much actual power over as the Queen of England. Dog Texans all y’all want, but at least they had the sense to castrate their Guv to prevent greedy selfish assholes from detonating their citizens’ welfare for their own ambition. The Texas Leg (which to give them minimal credit at least isn’t as nuts as GA’s) will simply cut his knees off.

    Texas also originally banned any interstate banks from operating within their borders, restricting financial institutions to credit unions and local banks.

  139. 139.

    Shibby

    I am so sorry for your loss Steve. May your son bring you comfort in this difficult time.

  140. 140.

    Wonk

    @The Other Steve: TOS, I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother.

    I lost my own dad 2 years ago this Friday, and it never gets any easier.

    Peace to you and yours.

  142. 142.

    Svensker

    @The Other Steve:

    My sympathies, Steve. Losing your mom is really hard. I still miss mine almost every day, 15 years later. Big hugs.

    It is sad your son won’t get to know her, but he will bring such comfort and joy to you and remind you of her — in a wonderful way — every day.

  143. 143.

    Krista

    Steve, I’m so sorry to hear about your mother. I’m glad that you were all able to be with her at the end — I’m sure that her family was a great comfort to her at the end.

    My wife’s due date is sunday, and we expect him to be born obviously soon. We’re going to name him Alexander Patrick, as my wife’s grandmothers name was Alexandra and my mothers name was Patricia.

    My grandfather’s name was Patrick Alexander, and he died a year ago next Friday (the 24th). He was an excellent man, and I’m certain that your son will be as well, sharing the name of these fine individuals.

  144. 144.

    The Other Steve

    Thank you all for the kind words. We’re so focused on the upcoming birth of our son that it distracts from the loss. It is so interesting that in this month we witness the end of life and the beginning of a new one.

  145. 145.

    canuckistani

    My sympathies, TOS. Cancer took my mom a year and a half ago. I’m still sad, and I don’t see it stopping soon. So I’m going to crank up the Specials "Enjoy Yourself", and then go out and do it.

  146. 146.

    asiangrrlMN

    My sympathies to TOS, as well. Congratulations on your son, and sympathy on your mom. The true cycle of life in a month.

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