Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

We will not go back.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

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

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Good lord, these people are nuts.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

How stupid are these people?

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Republicans in disarray!

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

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  1. 1.

    gonzone

    The Idiocracy is upon us.

    I shall fight in the octagon.

    Who will dare oppose me?

    Darth Cheney will flee before my might.

    His children shall be my servants forever.

  5. 5.

    Cat Lady

    Most likely the next Senator from Massachusetts will be a woman. Our AG pulled nomination papers yesterday, and unless a Kennedy decides to get in, it’s going to be hers to lose.

  6. 6.

    Fulcanelli

    Anybody wanna bet against the wingers trying to recruit this kid to join their /birther/deather/teabagger/Joe the not a plumber/”opposite marriage” silicone beauty queen/wasilla wingnut traveling anti-Obama traveling tent show revival tour and livestock exhibition?

    Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, step inside, step inside…

    It just occurred to me just how many words I’ve had to add to my Firefox spell checker because of the wingnuts, or put up with the distracting little red lines while I’m writing. Freaks, they are…

  8. 8.

    arguingwithsignposts

    I got nothin’. Here’s a little DiFranco that speaks to the day:

    now let’s get talking reefer madness
    like some arrogant government can’t
    by any stretch of the imagination
    outlaw a plant!
    yes, their supposed authority over nature
    is a dream
    c’mon people
    we’ve got to come clean

    cuz they are locking our sons
    and our daughters in cages
    they are taking by the thousands
    our lives from under us
    it’s a crash course in religious fundamentals
    now let’s all go to war
    get some bang for our buck

    i am trying to evolve
    i’m just trying to evolve

    gunnin for high score in the land of dreams
    morbid bluish-white consumers ogling luminous screens
    on the trail of forgetting
    cruising without a care
    the jet set won’t abide by that pesky jet lag
    and our lives boil down to an hour or two
    when someone pulls a camera out of a bag

  10. 10.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Face: Yeah, we’ve had some unseasonably cool weather here as well. Nice, but scary too.

    Following up on my previous musical interlude, here’s something a little softer: Anais Mitchell, “Your Fonder Heart”

    A couple of minutes ago, I was just thinking about a particular fond memory, spurred by the lyrics of the difranco song, and I am again reminded how wonderful life can be, juxtaposed with the heartbreak and craziness that surrounds us.

    What a strange life we humans lead.

  12. 12.

    asiangrrlMN

    JK, I hope you see this. I wanna both kiss ya and smack you upside the head. The former because I am listening to Cat Stevens’ Father and Son, and I am digging it all over again. The latter because I dreamed of Michele Bachmann last night, damn you!

    How is everyone else this fine morn?

    aimai, if you are ever in Minneapolis, first drink is on me.

  13. 13.

    Ann B. Nonymous

    It’s Wednesday, so what manufactured outrage do you think will drive the news cycle till the start of the long weekend?

    I’m so bored with the current trend in reality news programming. It’s so one-note: death this and death that. I am tired of death! I want something lurid and multicultural where I can feel superior to the participants.

  14. 14.

    debit

    @Face: Yep, 54 here in Minneapolis. It feels more like early October than early September. Soon the cats will cry in vain at the window, for it shall not open again until Spring.

  15. 15.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I dreamed of Michele Bachmann last night, damn you!

    I am soooo sorry for you. Next time dream you’re slapping some sense into the woman.

  20. 20.

    asiangrrlMN

    @debit: That’s pretty sweet, too. It looks like I’m an Islamofascist after all! I might have to buy me some Cat Stevens.

    Now, I will go listen to Father and Son for the sixth time in a row.

  21. 21.

    RedKitten

    Father and Son is definitely one of those songs that I could listen to multiple times.

    Moonshadow is my second-fave Cat Stevens song, purely for the nostalgia factor. (My sister took guitar lessons when she was about nine, but was too shy to sing the lyrics to any of the songs, so four-year-old me would sing along instead, and Moonshadow was one of my favourite ones to sing.)

  22. 22.

    Stephen1947

    Something I found at the Esquire site this morning:

    A Radical Solution to End the Drug War: Legalize Everything, By John H. Richardson

    http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/drug-war-facts-090109

    Main argument seems to be that we lose in the vicinity of 15,000 lives per year to the war, overdoses, etc., and waste more than $50 billion per year.

    Regulation rather than prohibition could solve many of the problems – just as quality control and sales of alcohol are regulated now, post-Prohibition, and we don’t waste the lives and resources that were expended on that failed experiment.

    I’m basically in agreement.

  23. 23.

    R-Jud

    It is a grim, grim day weatherwise here in Limeyland. So grim I am listening to Nick Drake. However, there’s some jambalaya in the slow cooker, so things should pick up this evening.

  25. 25.

    SGEW

    aimai, if you are ever in Minneapolis, first drink is on me.

    I’ll buy the second drink, if you’re ever in NYC.

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