Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans in disarray!

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

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

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

I really should read my own blog.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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  1. 1.

    mai naem

    I watched Alan Grayson on Bill Maher. How come the Dems aren’t getting him to run for senator? I think he’d give the Repubs a run for their money. Also too, I think Gary Shandling is doing some illegal substances if you catch my drift. Still very very funny.

  4. 4.

    Anne Laurie

    Dammit, DougJ, I swear this wasn’t here when I hit the POST button! And I’m not taking mine down, because it would make LauraW cry.

    Also: FYWP!

  6. 6.

    superluminar

    Please don’t…….scan……
    teh documents….
    otherwise…..
    teh helicopters….
    will……………………cry
    that is……….
    all

  7. 7.

    madmommy

    The 5th Dimension! Marilyn McCoo has the voice of an angel. And those 60’s outfits are made of win!

  10. 10.

    Something Fabulous

    @madmommy: SERIOUSLY. And look at how her two-different colored dress coordinates with the tights legs and the sh— wait, no stop myself– footwear! Two different colored “footwears”! FAN-TAS-TiQUE.

  11. 11.

    Chuck Butcher

    @mai naem:

    I watched Alan Grayson on Bill Maher

    He’s pretty good and he did a fine job with Mahr which is not a simple thing to do. I’m a pretty smart guy and pretty hard core, but going up against Mahr unscripted would scare me.

  17. 17.

    madmommy

    @Morbo:

    Judging from the exorbitant level of crazy from that post, he’s going to be busy for a while! That thread was the funniest thing I’ve read in quite a while. It was an honor to merely observe the trollery and responses thereto.

  20. 20.

    madmommy

    @AhabTRuler:
    Ha! I have one, and there is plenty funny about a six year old. When I first saw the video from the Great Balloon Debacle yesterday, I knew immeidately that: a) that kid was not in the balloon. No way that thing could lift a kid, nor could that basket hold a kid. b)the older brothers were in on it, either by hiding the youngest, or putting him up to messing with the balloon in the first place. As a mom of little boys, these are things I just knew.

    To find out that hours were wasted following this balloon floating across the sky was just amazing!

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    @madmommy:

    When I first saw the video from the Great Balloon Debacle yesterday, I knew immeidately that… the older brothers were in on it, either by hiding the youngest, or putting him up to messing with the balloon in the first place. As a mom of little boys, these are things I just knew.

    That was my first thought also, just from having grown up with younger brothers. What we did not know, then, was that Daddy also has a mental age of approximately twelve.

  22. 22.

    AhabTRuler

    To find out that hours were wasted following this balloon floating across the sky was just amazing!

    The sublime part was finding out that CNN decided to double down today by playing the 911 tapes!

    Head+Desk!

  23. 23.

    R. Schmidt Orren

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Aw shit. This is why I read this blog. Even the jackassery is high quality. That youtube link was great.

    Er, or should I say….(ellipses ad nauseam)….even the jackgassery is high quality.

  25. 25.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    If you want to complain, please scan in the appropriate documents.

    Now you’ve done it… I have all of the necessary documents… but they are all… in long form… and my scanner… is a shortbed scanner. I could scan them… in two parts… and then Photoshop them together… but then you will just allege that the whole document is a forgery.

    You knew  that this would happen… you commie liebrul…! Oh, right… No complaints… without the necessary documents. Please see above…

  26. 26.

    Comrade Baron Elmo

    Ah, the glorious Fifth Dimension, one of the great underrated pop ensembles of their day… and they still sound amazingly groovy, even now. Hell, they were the living embodiment of the word “groovy.” Did you know that they were originally conceived as a black version of The Mamas and the Papas?

  27. 27.

    scott

    Amazingly enough, this was on the very first album I ever bought (Age of Aquarius) when I was about 10 yrs old. I think it was because of Marilyn(hotness!)
    Fortunately, I moved on.

  29. 29.

    bey

    We were required to memorize the Declaration of Independence in order to pass 7th grade. Seriously, you could have a straight A average up to that point, but if you couldn’t recite the Declaration, you were stuck in 7th for another year.

    Thank you, 5th Dimension, for releasing me from the hell of Lincoln Jr. High.

  30. 30.

    Victory

    DougJ’s post is exactly why I hate youtube putting the title on top of every video.

    As it used to be, you could lead a person into a video, as Doug does here, and the person had to actually play the video to find out it’s meaning and connection to the topic at hand. It added mystery and surprise, and in this particular case, humor to every youtube link.

    Now?

    That mystery and surprise is gone. And youtube just got one less click on their site.

    Don’t get me wrong, I still l think the humor in Doug’s post is there, it just used to be all that more effective before the titles on top.

  31. 31.

    matoko_chan

    Sully has a interesting post up.

    The maddening thing about reading Hayek is that I come away thinking, “If only leftists had a proper understanding of economics and society, they would stop their infernal meddling and let people be about the business of living productive lives.”
    Then I think that perhaps I’m being just as muddle-headed as I think leftists are. Admittedly, I was a leftist before I read any economics, but maybe I read the wrong kind. Maybe there’s some whole other set of thinking and philosophy out there that will bring a right-thinking person to a leftist point of view.
    This got me wondering what books thoughtful leftists and small-c conservatives/small-l libertarians might recommend to one another.

    I can recommend these–
    Winter and Nelson– An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
    Dosi– Innovation, Market Organization and Economic Dynamics: Selected Essays
    I think…..the right/left breakdown on book recommendations would segregate into tradition(conservative) vs technology(liberal)……

  32. 32.

    Gindy51

    I saw them live in the 60’s at Disneyland before they’d made it big. They were just great in the eyes of a nine year old kid who heard nothing but freaking Lawrence Welk at home.

  33. 33.

    DougJ

    As it used to be, you could lead a person into a video, as Doug does here, and the person had to actually play the video to find out it’s meaning and connection to the topic at hand. It added mystery and surprise, and in this particular case, humor to every youtube link.

    Yeah, I know. It ruins a lot of things.

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