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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
How stupid are these people?
When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.
Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.
Giving up is unforgivable.
Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.
Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
You cannot love your country only when you win.
Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.
In after Baud. Damn.
Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
The revolution will be supervised.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.
If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.
Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.
Not loving this new fraud based economy.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.
Midnight Marauder
What is a “Stanley Cup” and who are these “Pens” you speak of? Are you excited because you use said cup to hold said pens?
If so, I could see why that would be exciting.
JK
Dijon mustard fetishist trashes David Letterman
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/10/letterman-hypo-creep.html
General Winfield Stuck
The DSL Gods have set me free, I think. After the 3rd trip out and buying an unnecessary new modem, that though is a little faster, the tech guy today said it was just a loose wire of theirs.
And I pondered that for a while, and decided the world is currently nothing but a rather large collection of loose wires, and that’s just the way it is.
shoutingattherain
Finally. A team with a “Malkin” on it that I can cheer for.
Repeat, bitches!
Cat Lady
More paws of fury from Tunch please. Tunchmotion is needed after another Wingnut ODS Fail Day.
JK
“Sarah Palin’s new autobiography—that doesn’t come out until November—is already number one on Amazon. And if you go to the Web site, it says, ‘People who bought this book also bought…no other books in their entire lives.'”
—Jimmy Fallon
h/t http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/2/788754/-Cheers-and-Jeers:-Rum-and-Coke-FRIDAY!
General Winfield Stuck
My Flickr friend has a brand spanking new pic of Libby gets a haircut.
WARNING– cute overload could be harmful.
Morbo
Crush the Castle Players’ Pack
It’s a time waster of epic proportions, but it has a pretty finite end. If you like smashing things with a trebuchet, that linky’s for you.
freelancer
@JK:
Hahaha, Jimmy Fallon makes me laugh for the first time in my life.
Max
I will NOT be watching Bill Maher tonight. As we debated last week.. shark jumpeth for moi.
I’m loving the new tv season. Lots of goodies on my dvr. Fringe is my fav show so far. I loved it last season and it hasn’t lost its sparkle.
Other ones I likey: CSI: NY (don’t watch the others), Castle (Nathan Fillion is yummy), Curb and Bored to Death on HBO.
JK
Regional differences in the GOP image
http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2009/10/regional-differences-in-the-gop-image.html
Assessing the GOP brand
http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2009/10/the-effect-of-party-valence-on-midterms.html
JK
@freelancer:
Sarah Palin is the perfect punchline for any occasion.
valdivia
@Max:
Fringe has been very good. I just got hooked on Flashforward too.
My favorite new show though is on HBO and recommend it to anyone who has it–Epitafios Series II. Series one was creepy scary and had the most incredible totally not-Hollywood ending.
General Winfield Stuck
Why does Glenn Beck Cry. Well it’s Vick’s Vaporub, that’s why.
freelancer
@valdivia:
What’s Epitafios about? [preferably without spoilers]
valdivia
oh and I just wanted to thank Cleek for his BOB filter. I read all about pie while everyone gets upset. It has vastly improved my reading experience. Thanks Cleek.
Midnight Marauder
@Max:
Modern Family is amazing. Hands down, best new show of the fall. Also, I am a big fan of Community.
JK
Challenger Chris Christie to Governor Corzine: Keep Fat Out of it
Politicians have been called fat cats before, but now there are accusations that Governor Jon Corzine is focusing on Chris Christie’s weight in his new campaign ads.
h/t http://www.wcbs880.com/Christie-to-Corzine–Keep-Fat-Out-of-it/5354085
Walker
Wife and I are currently in the theater waiting for Zombieland. Nothing like a zombie movie to keep the romance going.
Michael D.
Man, John. You have an unhealthy relationship with Pittsbugh! Why not root for the professional teams from West Virg….never mind.
robertdsc
I can’t call him Cindy anymore. I haz a sad.
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: That dog is ridiculously cute.
And, I second Cat Lady’s demand for the Tunchinator in motion!
I’m drinking a shot of Maker’s Mark and listening to Leonard Cohen. Suck on it, bitchez!
Then I’m going to take a nap because that’s how I roll on a Friday evening.
General Winfield Stuck
@Walker:
Works better than a room full of spiders.
JK
@valdivia:
I just had a Flash Forward
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachman are holding a press conference announcing that after having carried on an affair for 2 years, they’ve decided to get married.
valdivia
@freelancer:
This is the netflix description of the first series:
The new series has Renzo tracking a new very devious serial killer. The series also has a main actress Claudia Roth of Almodovar fame (she is married to famous Argentine singer- script writer Fito Paez). Though I have seen only 3 episodes I wait with baited breath every week for the episodes. Part of what I love about it is that you get a sense for the beauty of Buenos Aires as well as for the seamier side of it. The dark pulse. And the vibrancy of it.
I hope some of you will watch it. It is the kind of series that may fly under the radar here because it is in spanish but it is really worth it.
(but hey I tend to *love* foreign clime criminal/mystery series–on this vein I highly recommend Wallander with Kenneth Branagh based on the Henning Mankell books. Superb and out on DVD).
Cat Lady
@asiangrrlMN:
I sent to see Leonard Cohen last spring. Mmmmm……
Going to see Sufjan Stevens tomorrow night. Cities rock!
Bite me, wingnuts!
valdivia
@JK:
LOL, but did I need to have that image on my head? And me just out of lye to wash my eyes out with.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
You’re not going to sleep thru the thread are you?
JK
@valdivia:
I’m confident that Republicans will provide even more disturbing imagery over the next 4 years.
asiangrrlMN
@valdivia: That’s looks fucking awesome. I’ll have to check it out. I love mysteries and such, and I love foreign movies.
@Cat Lady: I am envious. I just recently became hooked on Leonard. He suits my mood perfectly. I am listening to this song right now. I find it depressing and erotic at the same time–a perfect blend for me.
@JK: Fuck you very much for that image. And, no, I will not sleep through the whole thread. I’ll be up in time for the late shift.
General Winfield Stuck
Crosby, Stills, and Nash The Lee Shore
Dave Mason All Along the Watchtower
JK
Fuck the wingnuts
Chicago is My Kind of Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bIVjxis4W0
Throwin Stones
You just have to gloat.
/wings fan
asiangrrlMN
Damn it. Too many replies and link, I guess. Part one.
@valdivia: That’s looks fucking awesome. I’ll have to check it out. I love mysteries and such, and I love foreign movies.
@JK: Fuck you very much for that image. And, no, I will not sleep through the whole thread. I’ll be up in time for the late shift.
JK
@General Winfield Stuck:
Well done. Two thumbs up.
Throwin Stones
@JK:
This.
valdivia
@JK:
this is why I have run out of lye. They keep forcing me to use it.
In the meantime no need for a flashforward since Palin is already putting the crazy out there. And trying to make money from it.
Cat Lady
@General Winfield Stuck:
That’s just too cute. I think there is such a thing as too cute. I’m feeling funny.
asiangrrlMN
@Cat Lady: I am envious. I just recently became hooked on Leonard. He suits my mood perfectly. I am listening to this song right now. I find it depressing and erotic at the same time—a perfect blend for me.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
asiangrrlMN, where is your magnificent midwestern sense of humor?
General Winfield Stuck
CSN&Y Almost Cut My Hair
JK – Gracias Amigo!
valdivia
@asiangrrlMN:
yes, this is why I love watching these. The Walander series is great too but a different vibe from Epitafios. Luckily they are both available on netflix (just the new one is presently playing on HBO).
I also love reading mysteries from other countries. So much fun. I think I have read every foreign mystery author that has been translated into English. The swedes have some really great stuff.
JK
asiangrrlMN, Cat Lady
Leonard Cohen is great. I’d place him just slightly below Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Van Morrison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqu3U05tkAw
SiubhanDuinne
@ General Winfield Stuck 7:43 pm
You just know Walt Disney is consumed with jealosy that he didn’t draw her first.
Cat Lady
@asiangrrlMN:
Erotically depressing nails it, emphasis on erotic. He still has heap big mojo at his age of 70 something. I wouldn’t turn him down. :-)
JK
@General Winfield Stuck:
First Crosby, Still, and Nash song I ever heard and still my favorite, even if it does seem too obvious
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA7hI517FZc
asiangrrlMN
@JK: That IS my magnificent Midwestern sense of humor. Ok, not really. It’s just MY sense of humor. I would put Cohen above those three, but you know, potatoes, po-tah-toes….
@valdivia: I love Henning Markell’s books, so I will have to check that out as well. I’m stoked.
All right, bitchez. It’s nap time. I’ll be back for the open thread, provided Cole actually gives us one. Later!
MikeJ
I’m having Manhattans and Vicoden and watching Top Gear. Ow backache.
JK
Media Push False Equivalency Between Left and Right Rage
h/t http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/480199/media_push_false_equivalency_between_left_and_right_rage
General Winfield Stuck
@JK:
My favorite too. Great ears hear alike, or something.
Colette
Tonight: Palo Alto Moonlight Run – 5k in the dark with a bunch of strangers. What could possibly go wrong?
Tomorrow: a little Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, then going to the USC-Cal game in the company of a loudmouthed former Cal basketball player and a beefy USC fan. Again, what could possibly go wrong?
Sunday: a bike ride, then more Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.
Damn, I love the Bay Area.
CynDee
@General Winfield Stuck: Libby looks adorable in her pixie cut. What a beautiful cut! Just right for someone as ladylike as she.
Yes, the human world is a collection of loose wires, but the ANIMALS are completely connected and working well. They’re our lifeline. . .
Fern
@valdivia:
A cosmetics sponsorship? Just what she needs to round out her qualifications for the presidency.
JK
Vintage ASS-ociated Press Analysis: Chicago’s loss is a blow to Obama, too
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091002/ap_on_an/oly_obama_olympics_analysis
valdivia
@Fern:
yes can you imagine? Maybe we should have a contest to name her lipstick? I can think of many hilarious iterations.
Skepticat
@General Winfield Stuck: After a day like this, cute overload is the only thing that makes it worth hanging on. And that is sooooome cute.
geg6
2 goals in 68 seconds, a nice shiraz, the niece at a football game and the most wonderful man in the world cooking me dinner. Life is so good sometimes.
General Winfield Stuck
@CynDee:
True this.
General Winfield Stuck
Alvin biting off more than he can chew/
Betsy
@valdivia:
I’ve loved the Wallander books and the miniseries. I wasn’t sure what to expect, since I’d read the books first, but they did quite a good job, I thought.
Betsy
@valdivia:
Also, what other Swedish mystery writers do you like? Henning Mankell is the only one I know of, but I haven’t read a lot of mysteries. I got into him by accident, when I needed something to read on the way home from Germany and they had him (in English) in the airport bookstore.
burnspbesq
@shoutingattherain:
Win.
burnspbesq
@Walker:
No spoilers, por favor. I’m going to see it with my kid tomorrow afternoon.
valdivia
@Betsy:
I had read the books first as well and run out of Mankells to read so when I saw this on the BBC shop website I put them on my netflix queu not knowing what to expect. So hard with books you like not knowing what they will become on the screen. But not only were the adaptations good–faithful to the characters but also going their own sort of way–the were beautifully shot, with great music (the theme nostalgia was hauntingly beautiful) and also the series was soulful in some way. Branagh was just great.
As for other swedish mysteries to read:
This series (the author died but he wrote 3 books, 2 of them out already and really great)
This series too
Not from Sweden but good are the Italian mysteries of Andrea Camilieri and the American-born Donna Leon, which I am hoping the BBC will also do TV adaptations of soon.
valdivia
Betsy–a sort of PS: I read a lot for work so I decompress by reading mysteries. But if you are looking for non english language fiction I am happy to give suggestions as well, I read those too.
burnspbesq
Going to the LA Galaxy match tonight. First time in three seasons, since they became unwatchably sucky. Hopefully they will win and clinch a playoff berth tonight, taking my mind off the smoking train wreck that has been the 2009 New York Mets.
See y’all later. Have a great Friday evening.
Max
@valdivia: Thanks! Just added it to my recording schedule.
valdivia
@Max:
no prob. let me know what you think of it once you have seen it.
JK
Paragon of virtue and poster boy for moral rectitude Don Imus calls David Letterman a creep
http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/don-imus-calls-david-letterman-a-creep
Montysano
@Cat Lady:
Please do give us a report. Seems like Sufjan has been scarce lately, as have Be Good Tanyas and Gillian Welch. It’s killin’ me.
Max
Okay, so I got sucked in to Bill Maher this evening. Lisa Jackson, head of EPA was on – she’s a smart one.
Panel is: Janene Garafalo, Tom Friedman and Rep Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio).
Pretty good so far.
Walker
@burnspbesq:
No spoilers. However, I will jeopardize my geek cred and say I thought it was better than Shaun of the Dead.
Montysano
“The Maker” live, from Daniel Lanois’ “Acadie”.
Daniel and Emmylou, “Where Will I Be” from “Wrecking Ball”.
I saw Lanois debut “Acadie” live at Tipitina’s in New Orleans and it became sort of the soundtrack to our 6 years there. After Katrina, I couldn’t stand to listen to it, but it’s getting better.
Jay in Oregon
Evening all. Checking in. Hope arguingwithsignposts is doing well out there.
Life proceeds apace. We didn’t get here in a week, we won’t solve this problem in a week.
Planning to have a nice, quiet weekend around the house. Get some normal back into my life.
Every day is another chance to get it right.
JK
@Max:
Maybe, that’s because Bill Maher was never as bad as you claimed in the first place. Everyone has off nights, but I think Maher has a damn good batting average.
Will
You guys really need to keep calling out all of the conservative crowing over Obama’s defeat. It’s a real story, and it makes them look really bad, but it won’t catch on if you hit it just once and walk away.
Max
@JK: Nope. He’s as bad as I thought. I didn’t base my judgment of him last week as the result of just one show, I just finally tapped out. The quality of the show depends on the panel and how much he allows them to speak.
He’s being relatively quiet this evening.
JK
@Max:
I didn’t claim that you reached your judgement of Maher on the basis of a single episode. I disagreed with your judgment and was disappointed to see other people agreeing with you.
Max
@JK: Understood. I think the diversity in opinion is what makes it interesting around here, except for B.O.B and the Malachai guy.
By the way, to all the BJ Coffee Snobs, Starbucks has an instant coffee that they rolled out this week. It’s called VIA and it’s really not bad.
Jeffro
Gawd, the new Alice in Chains CD is good!!
http://www.aliceinchains.com
It’s…it’s like I’m 20 all over again. =)
Betsy
@valdivia:
Thanks!! I also read a lot for work, and alternate between small bites of great fiction (reading Beloved right now) and trashy fantasy etc. I’m happy to add good mysteries to my decompression regimen. I agree with you on the Branaugh adaptations, BTW – gorgeously shot.
Bad Horse's Filly
If TattooSydney shows up, his wonderful recipe is up on my blog. I’m exhausted and cannot stay awake another second. But the house looks beautiful, the food is all prepped and tomorrow at 11 am the Bridal Shower is on!
And on an even happier note, I tried on my Maid of Honor dress today for alterations and it did not suck. Pretty, elegant and comfortable. I’ll never wear it again, but at least for that afternoon and evening I’ll be happy. See you guys when I get back home on Monday.
asiangrrlMN
@Bad Horse’s Filly: I love a man who cooks! That’s why I fake-married ‘im.
Yawn. Can we haz a new open thread, mebbe with pics of Tunchie please?
@JK: I can take Maher in small amounts. I much prefer Colbert and Stewart.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Good morning asiangrrlMN
How was your nap?
I like all three, but Jon Stewart can try my patience with his increasingly lame delivery. I think Maher and Colbert have much smoother deliveries.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: Nap not good. Am tired. Am going to bed. Lost my pronouns! Aaaargh! Later, bitchez!
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
You’re more cogent and thoughtful in your posts when you’re exhausted than most people are when they are wide awake.
Colette
@asiangrrlMN: That’s Madame Bitch to you, young lady.
Sleep well! Palo Alto Moonlight Run done, personal best in 5k (not that that means a damned thing), got the T-shirt and ready for a little beddy-bye myself. A demain, BJers.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: Aw, thanks, JK. Last night, though, I had nothing.
@Colette: Oooh, getting all classy on me, are you? All right, Madame Bitch. Heh. I like.