Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

When we show up, we win.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

We still have time to mess this up!

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

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

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

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

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

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

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

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

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  2. 2.

    Zoogz

    Tired from watching the Ducks-Wings game last night (and as an evil Wings fan, depressed to boot). Currently in the middle of having to write technical instruction documents so that my processes can be offshored to India to boot.

    I can’t tell which would end my employment sooner… writing the documents, or just going to sleep right here and right now.

  11. 11.

    Mr. Stuck

    @Bob In Pacifica:

    First time the SF Giants have been five games over .500 since the steroid era.

    First time the Reds have been over 500 since the Paleozoic Era.

    Senate Torture Hearing in 12 minutes on cspan 3 for those of you with computers:)

  12. 12.

    Dennis-SGMM

    Reid: Johnsen Doesn’t Have Votes for DOJ Post

    As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moves to ease a backlog of executive branch nominations, he suggested on Tuesday that he does not have the votes to bring up President Barack Obama’s pick to run the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.
    “Right now we’re finding out when to do that,” Reid said, responding to a question about the status of Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen’s nomination to the Justice post. “We need a couple Republican votes until we can get to 60.”
    Johnsen has come under fire from some social conservatives, who have voiced concerns over her positions on abortion and the war on terror.

    Johnsen is qualified, Obama wants her in the job. Since when did a nominee for the president’s Office of Legal Counsel require sixty votes? Oh, since the “up-or-down vote!” crowd found themselves in the minority with a feckless Majority Leader.

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    @Zoogz: Desperately need the Ducks to complete the upset so my Blackhawx can advance to the Stan Cup Finals. There’s no way the Hawks can beat the Wings, but I’m guessin they’ll be favorites over a offensively-challenged Ducks squad.

    Talked to Mom the other day and she said the city of Chicago has gone berserk over the Blackhawks. I almost dropped my phone….the last time anyone in that town not named Suter or Savard cared about that team was 1992ish….

  15. 15.

    MikeJ

    GOP: Re-brand ourselves? No way. We’ll re-brand you!

    All I can think of is that poll from a few months ago where a plurality of Americans had no problem with sòcialism. The GOP is trying to drive that number higher and higher.

  17. 17.

    harlana pepper

    Hi, I went by the unemployment office today. They open at 8:30 am and it was about 8:20 and the line was already out the walkway and about to wrap around the side of the building. This is a huge increase from the last time I was there a less than a year ago. I was not about the stand in that line so I think I will show up an hour early with a book (my mom suggested taking one of those camping chairs, which sounds like a good idea, actually).

  18. 18.

    Zoogz

    Punchy @13:

    I know, I want the Wings to win because I can’t help but salivate over the possibility of an Original Six WCF plus the possibility that it will be a Detroit-Boston SCF.

    To be honest, if forced to choose between Anaheim and Chicago in the WCF, I would be a Blackhawk supporter all the way. I can’t get over the fact that this Anaheim team drops gloves AFTER they win, multiple times. It’s like watching a Broad Street Bullies revival.

    Besides, Chicago winning could still keep the Original Six scenario alive…

  19. 19.

    harlana pepper

    And may I say, Kathleen Sebelius puts me to sleep. How I would love to have seen Dean in that position. I’d just love to see somebody in that position with some passion who can articulate the issues in ways I can understand and relate to, instead of yesterday’s snoozerama. I realize I’m being somewhat petty, I suppose. I hope her demeanor is a tad more dynamic and assertive in the back rooms.

  20. 20.

    Cat Lady

    In the “illness as metaphor” department, how is it that Dick “dick” Cheney, World’s Biggest Asshole (TM) gets to be on TV to promote his Torture ‘R Us agenda, and Farrah Fawcett is going to die any day now of anal cancer? In what world is that just? I believe in karma, but it really, really does work in Mysterious Ways.

  21. 21.

    Bill BelichickI

    zoog beat me to it, an original 6 final would be awesome. i still have not accepted the notion of a team in so. cal, or florida, or even carolina. never will.

    the latest rage seems to be playing outside – the bruins are headed to fenway next january. so as far as i’m concerned if your team can’t host something like that yourselves then at least you need to play the role of the washington generals to our harlem globetrotters.

  23. 23.

    Xenos

    Just caught Leahy on CSPAN3 commenting how the USA protected the rights and the welfare of imprisoned enemy combatants during the Civil War. Sounded like a nice, deft jab at the political descendants of those who ran Andersonville, but I suspect that insult flew right over their heads.

  24. 24.

    Punchy

    @harlana pepper: I think that’s a learned habit of having to speak repeatedly to an absurdly hostile and wantonly childish Republican Kansas Legislature. She kept things bland to avoid essploded heads and shit being thrown at her head.

    Farrah Fawcett is going to die any day now of anal cancer?

    There’s got to be a better, more sophisticated name for this. This just sounds so……..crass.

  26. 26.

    Fulcanelli

    Looks like my Senator Whitehouse is hitting the ground running with the torture hearings. Live on msnbc.com now.

    Lindsey Graham doesn’t look happy at all.

  28. 28.

    Cat Lady

    @Fulcanelli:

    Senator Whitehouse must be such a pleasant surprise that he’s really got game. From here in Massachusetts, known for its liberal politicians, I’m jealous that you have him. Wouldn’t it be great if he was president one day? It would be headline writer’s dream come true.

  29. 29.

    slag

    @gnomedad: I love Jesse the Body for the same reasons I love Ross Perot. That special brand of crazy that borders on extreme sanity. The Philadelphia Inquirer should hire him to write a column.

  31. 31.

    passerby

    @Fulcanelli:

    Looks like my Senator Whitehouse is hitting the ground running with the torture hearings. Live on msnbc.com now.

    This guy’s good. Maddow’s had him on several times. He’s the example of how I wish all elected officials would speak and act. Kudos to the Great State of Rhode Island for electing this man.

  33. 33.

    Mr. Stuck

    Senate Republicans have successfully filibustered David Hayes for ASSISTANT Director of Dept. of Interior. Next they plan to filibuster Obama himself, just because they wanna.

  34. 34.

    Ash Can

    @Punchy:

    Talked to Mom the other day and she said the city of Chicago has gone berserk over the Blackhawks. I almost dropped my phone…

    I don’t know if “gone berserk” is entirely accurate, but the interest level is definitely off the charts compared with, as you correctly identified, the situation since the early 1990s. When Dollar Bill Wirtz went to the great Union League Club in the sky in the fall of 2007, I’m slightly ashamed to say that the first thing on the minds of all us Hawks fans was that, whaddya know, the Hawks might finally have a shot at becoming a winning team again. Sure enough, with Wirtz’s son Rocky taking over, the franchise was finally allowed to join not just the 20th but the 21st century. For those who are familiar with the sad recent history of the Black Hawks, Rocky’s changes can be nicely summed up in one sentence: Home games are now televised. In addition, the cross-marketing that’s been going on with Chicago’s other sports teams has been very effective. The Hawks are no longer a (wealthy) neighborhood men’s club, but a pro sports franchise, and it shows in both their level of play and the size of their United Center crowds.

  36. 36.

    angulimala

    Is there an award for “Biggest Chickenhawk” and, if so, can I nominate Rusty Shakleford of the Jawa Report?

    Bloggers Needed in Afghanistan; or, Rusty’s Dream Job Almost a Reality

    How do you counter Taliban propaganda?Bloggers as counter agit-prop:

    A former top military official believes he may have the answer, however: let troops blog in combat, so they can ward off the accusations of atrocities as they fight.

    Awesome! Hey Pentagon, call me.

    “call me”?

    So, let me get this straight. Rusty’s “dreamjob” is to serve in Afghanistan but for some reason he has utterly failed to walk his ass down to the recruiter for the last 7+ years, but he really wants to go and is able to go if only the Pentagon would call and ask him to. Am I missing something?

    I can just see him in 40 years talking to his Grandkids: “Well kids, Grand-dad would have served but the Pentagon never called him personally to ask him to and back then the Army was invitation-only”

  37. 37.

    Paul L.

    For those “highly informed individuals”/hypocrites who believe that Dick Cheney should respect “tradition” and STFU.

    # If one were to say the vice president emeritus, as a matter of understood decorum, should refrain from criticism of the subsequent administration, then why did former vice president Al Gore — to the delight of much of the media — go on a virtual barnstorming crusade against the Bush administration in language far more partisan and hysterical (e.g., “He [Bush] lied to us! He betrayed this country! He played on our fears!”)?

  38. 38.

    angulimala

    Paul,

    Who said Cheney should be quiet?

    I only hear people say that he’s an idiot and a coward who has the right to run his mouth but might want to STFU since he only makes himself look more like an idiot and a coward by talking.

  39. 39.

    Paul L.

    @angulimala:

    Who said Cheney should be quiet?

    @JK:

    I’m totally disgusted by Cheney’s flagrant violation of the unwritten protocol for former Vice Presidents and Presidents. He should have had the decency to STFU for at least 6 months.

  41. 41.

    DBrown

    @Paul L.: Please post extensive examples of Gore going this – getting one wingnut to say dumb shit is not proof; also, I was around during that time and never saw Gore on all those new programs talking shit like bloody-hands ass wipe fuck face cheney is now doing. When did Gore stab the Admin in the back by saying we were less safe due to bush-whack off and his actions?

  42. 42.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Who said Cheney should be quiet?

    One summer I got an old pair of tennis shoes out of my closet and found they had grown a nice patch of fungus. I put them in direct sunlight and by the end of the day they were clean again.

    Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

    And Paul, saying someone should give a new president a chance before trying to shoot him down is a long way from trying to silence them.

  44. 44.

    Digital Amish

    If I remember correctly, Gore pretty much disappeared for about a year following the 2K election. Went to Europe, grew a beard, ate a lot. Didn’t say boo about the Bush adminstration for quite some time.

  46. 46.

    TenguPhule

    Gore Says Bush Betrayed the U.S. by Using 9/11 as a Reason for War in Iraq

    And it is a completely true statement.

    Dick Cheney can’t say the same.

  47. 47.

    TenguPhule

    go on a virtual barnstorming crusade against the Bush administration in language far more partisan and hysterical (e.g., “He [Bush] lied to us! He betrayed this country! He played on our fears!”)?

    Partisan and hysterical? It was all true. Bush lied and attacked Iraq.

    Dick Cheney can’t say the same.

  48. 48.

    Paul L.

    Gore pretty much disappeared for about a year following the 2K election. Went to Europe, grew a beard, ate a lot.

    Made a Powerpoint based on falsified data.

    In Al Gore’s movie and book An Inconvenient Truth, he presents a graph which he identifies [in the book] as “Dr. Thompson’s Thermometer.” Gore attributes this graph to the ice core research of Lonnie Thompson, and says [in the book] that it provides independent evidence for the validity of the “Hockey Stick” temperature reconstruction of Michael Mann and coauthors.

    As it happens, the image Gore presented actually was Mann’s Hockey Stock, spliced together with the post-1850 instrumental record as if they were a single series, and not Thompson’s ice core data at all. See Al Gore and “Dr. Thompson’s Thermometer”.

  49. 49.

    asiangrrlMN

    Yes, Gore did exactly the same thing as Cheney is doing—no, I can’t even type the sentence in sarcasm. MF, please. That shit is weak.

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