Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

It’s a doggy dog world.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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

The gop couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

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

When they say they’re pro-life, they don’t mean yours.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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  4. 4.

    tripletee

    I think I’m gonna skip the thread and just come back in a few hours to see if there’s a post titled “;alkjsdfoa8uijfnjal;ksd” from John passing out on his keyboard.

  25. 25.

    Ash Can

    I’m still burned out from the last 80’s throwdown. I’m off to bed. Once again, Happy Veterans’ Day to you, John. Over and out.

  28. 28.

    Genine

    @Thadeus Horne:

    I don’t think it drifted away. It may seem that way, but things are definitely changing. I think they’re changing for the positive (in the long run). We just have to get through tough stuff.

    Rain storms are followed by rainbows.

  29. 29.

    hamletta

    I can’t pick something from the ’80s. There’s so much! I have a good 12 feet of vinyl, since I worked in the music bidness, and there was so much great stuff amid the fake drums and crapola.

    But I’ve always wondered about Donnie Darko as a Christ figure. I just saw the film on cable, and I’ve heard the director’s cut ruined everything and killed kittens.

    In one scene, he’s standing in front of a theatre showing The Last Temptation of Christ, and I have to think it’s intentional. It wasn’t a super-wide release.

    I was editing a scrubby little paper in the pre-alt-weekly days, and we devoted a whole issue to the controversy and how nobody in Nashville would get to see it. We had a picture of a marquee proudly proclaiming “Will never show ‘Temptation'” under their list of offerings.

    We had to print in a little town near the Alabama border, because our publisher (the other guy who ran the paper) had outstanding bills with every printer in town.

    He was afraid the rubes would refuse to print the issue, and I insisted they weren’t rubes, they were small-town journalists; and furthermore, we were paying cash.

    I was right. Nobody said a thing.

    Ah! Blacking negatives! How I miss you!

  38. 38.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Corner Stone:

    Ummm, +15 what?
    If I may be so bold.

    Hey, I’m just trying to keep pace with PsiFighter37’s +14 from earlier. I still feel like I’m grossly behind.

    +17 (there’s also some mar-i-ju-ana in there, I should admit. I don’t even what to know what kind of math I would have to get into with that.)

  39. 39.

    Midnight Marauder

    @JenJen:

    This came on at a pizza-and-beer joint I was at earlier in the week. It was all I could do to not jump on the table and start shakin’ dat ass!

    One of my all-time favorite “let’s get this party started, bitches!” songs. How can you not dance to when that funk starts to run wild?

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    @Midnight Marauder: Second order differential equations minus the derivatives?
    As long as you’re still dodging the scolds here – you’re fucking golden.
    Tell that little green guy I said Hi.

  46. 46.

    Thadeus Horne

    @Genine: I sure hope you’re right. I don’t want to think we just fucked it away. I’ve tried to keep to the correct way, but I think we’ve strayed from what the goal was. I try to keep that feeling in my heart, but it’s getting harder all the time.

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    @hamletta:

    I am not a big fan of director’s cuts in general, but Donny Darko is one where the director’s-cut version did actual harm to the movie. It’s a great movie; just get the regular version.

    I regret somewhat that I came late to this thread and missed the music throwdown, but I don’t know that I would have had the energy tonight to go all in. That said, I put together a bunch of ’80s music for my brother’s birthday a few weeks ago, and this is the song that surprised me the most with its staying power. Yes, it’s cheesy Spandau Ballet–but fine aged cheddar cheesy Spandau Ballet. “Only When You Leave.”

  51. 51.

    Yutsano

    I thought about posting some Nina Hagen, but there is only so much weirdness the universe can take in one night.

  54. 54.

    Joel

    @Joel: really, the key is to fast forward to the end-ish ~4minutes or so. completely bizarre, frightening and a pretty incredible parody of gangsta rap videos…

  55. 55.

    JenJen

    @Midnight Marauder: I don’t know if it’s just your song selections or the fact that I am now JenJen +7, but damn, you got my party started!

    I adore English Beat, but never heard that version… it’s terrific, and surprising from that band as I always thought they were a one-hit wonder with “Flagpole Sitta.” (From the 90’s, so it counts! Cool fan vid too.)

    And while I’m at it, one of my fave 90’s songs, from one of my musical heroes, Mike Doughty (as Soul Coughing) — Super Bon Bon!

  60. 60.

    RedKitten

    @R-Jud: Not necessarily. From what I’ve seen, some of the most enjoyable, debauched threads tend to take place at the most ungodly hours. Of course, I always miss them, being on Atlantic Standard Time.

  62. 62.

    R-Jud

    @RedKitten:

    From what I’ve seen, some of the most enjoyable, debauched threads tend to take place at the most ungodly hourswhen AsianGirrlMN shows up.

    Fixed that for you.

  69. 69.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @valdivia 7:59 am

    I’ve been checking the site and don’t even see that they’ve made the Final Four decision yet. What did youu see?

    I’m going to be purely pissed if one of those poms gets in and Bitsy doesn’t . . . .

  72. 72.

    Genine

    @Thadeus Horne:

    I’m a firm believer in that it all works out in the end. Yeah, sometimes (or a lot of the time) it looks like it won’t. But, in my experience, something good comes out.

    The world is like a beautiful pond, full of varied life. There’s just some scum on top of it.

  76. 76.

    JGabriel

    Darlin’, don’t you go and

    Cut Your Hair

    . Do you think it’s gonna make him change?

    I’m just a boy with a new haircut. (And that’s a pretty nice haircut.)

    .

  77. 77.

    soonergrunt

    Here’s one from the 80s for you:
    Come On Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
    I was 13 — girls wearing nothing but overalls.
    Or, Centerfold by the J. Geils Band. I thought that video was a better invention than the lightbulb.

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