Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Second rate reporter says what?

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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  1. 1.

    funluvn

    Doug, you have to check out Use Me that was recorded by Better Than Ezra. I’m a believer in the idea that no cover tune can ever be better than the original, simply because of the passion put into the original. Musically? I’ve heard a lot of better covers in mah day.

  5. 5.

    DougJ

    Doug, you have to check out Use Me that was recorded by Better Than Ezra.

    I like the original better, but it’s damned impressive for a bunch of white hipsters. I don’t know what they put the in the gumbo down there, but whatever it is, it works.

  10. 10.

    licensed to kill time

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    McKenna said the forum was never intended to be a clash between the 42nd and 43rd presidents — “the hottest ticket in political history,” a news released called it — but rather a moderated panel discussion.
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    “It’s unfortunate that an overeager promoter ruined the opportunity to hear a serious discussion of the issues between two former presidents who have a great deal of respect for each other,” he said.

    Boy howdy, would’ve loved to see that serious discussion. The saying “You can’t have a battle of wits with an unarmed man” comes to mind.

  11. 11.

    JK

    Sarah Palin gets crazier by the day

    In addition to the suggestion that government officials would consider hastening the death of the infirm or handicapped, Palin began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coins.

    Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins. “Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?” She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”

    h/t http://rawstory.com/2009/11/palin-speech-abortion-opponents-mocked-describes-weighty-topics-bogus-awesome

  13. 13.

    Bubblegum Tate

    That might be the finest Bill Withers video, but the finest Bill Withers song is “Kissing My Love.”

  16. 16.

    Anoniminous

    With the “BJ, the Swimsuit Edition” ad on the upper left hand and the “Tunti Toy Store” ad on the upper right hand I’m beginning to wonder if this is a blog with which I should have well been associated to.

    Also.

  17. 17.

    gocart mozart

    Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins. “Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?” She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”

    I’m gonna guess that it was the coin Czar.

  18. 18.

    gocart mozart

    Wasn’t it always on the edge?@gocart mozart:
    Wasn’t it always on the edge? At least he didn’t change it to “In Allah We Trust” because that would be theocratic.

  23. 23.

    Neutron Flux

    @JK: Ya know, when all the hoopla was going on about letting JL keep his Chair status, caucus with the Dems, Harry Reid is weak stuff was going on I thought hey, everyone should just calm down,

    Man oh man. I was wrong. Huge wrong. Gross conceptual error wrong.

    My apologies.

    I will try not to be fooled again.

  24. 24.

    Xenos

    Great tune – the only version I had ever heard was Grace Jones’ cover. What a shame it is not on youtube.

  25. 25.

    Comrade Baron Elmo

    Full-on music geekage, from this record store lifer:

    Bill Withers’ first two albums (1971’s Just as I am and 1972’s Still Bill) are absolute masterpieces of intelligent soul, and can be found back to back on a single CD (as an Australian import on the Raven label) in better music emporiums.

    And his 1973 double album Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall is easily one of the finest concert recordings ever, with a stellar band and several killer songs that Bill never took to the studio. Great sound, compelling stage patter… even the audience singalong part is awesome. And you can get it on CD for less than ten bucks.

  26. 26.

    freelancer (itouch)

    I take 20 minutes to check back in with politics and the world. I’m gonna go back to blowing shit up. It seems downright utopian compared to what’s going on out there.

    On xbl, my gamertag is sxfreelancerxs, in case anyone else is taking a break to catch up on their BJ.

  27. 27.

    RedKitten

    No disrespect to Depeche Mode, but Cash owned that song once he did it.

    Cash was great for that — putting his own indelible stamp on anything he covered. (Exhibit A: “Rusty Cage”. Exhibit B: “Hurt”)

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