Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

White supremacy is terrorism.

You cannot shame the shameless.

The lights are all blinking red.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Not all heroes wear capes.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

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  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    Blargh. What an annoying day. What an annoying week. You’d think, naively, that when your workplace purchases a piece of equipment that cost as much as a small house, said equipment wouldn’t leak. Further, you’d think that once the manufacturer fixed the leak, it would stay fixed. You’d be wrong.

    Gaah.

    (equipment in question is a hyper-fancy refrigerator, capable of getting to within 0.01degrees of absolute zero. When it doesn’t leak)

    -dms

  5. 5.

    pcbedamned

    Did I miss the “+”, or am I just reading this title wrong?!? Time to lay off the cold meds methinks…

  6. 6.

    D-Chance.

    OK, this may top everything stupid today…

    In short, 30 Republicans voted against an “amendment that would prohibit the Department of Defense from contracting with companies that require employees to resolve workplace complaints — including complaints of sexual assault — through private arbitration rather than the courts”.

    According to Politico‘s Manu Raju, this could be very bad news for… Al Franken. I kid you not.

  9. 9.

    paradox

    I had a good day, a good Veteran’s Day yesterday, tomorrow is a cruise at work. Then the weekend.

    I suppose I could be happy, I can’t think of a god damn thing that would prevent it. Now what the fuck am I going to do?

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    @dmsilev:

    You’d think, naively, that when your workplace purchases a piece of equipment that cost as much as a small house, said equipment wouldn’t leak.

    Naive is the right word. My experience is that the more expensive a piece of equipment is, finickier and less reliable it is. Stuff that costs a few hundred to a few thousand dollars can be trusted to work right the first time you try it and to be repairable by cheap technicians if it breaks down. Stuff that’s a few tens of thousands of dollars requires an engineer to install but will usually keep working reliably. Equipment in the low hundreds of thousands may well be reliable, but is expensive to fix when it breaks. Anything much more expensive than that is a nightmare to keep running unless the gods love you.

  14. 14.

    Alan

    I’ve now tried the honeycrisp apples and they’re very good. They are very large apples–at least the ones at my grocery.

  16. 16.

    freelancer

    @pcbedamned:

    It’s okay, I’m 27 and am making great strides in the genre of not cool for my generation.

    But I could honestly give a shit about the idea of cool. I think anyone that is over 23 still gives a shit about trying to be cool, they need to grow the fuck up. So no worries.
    /rant.

  17. 17.

    ellaesther

    Ahh! An open thread! I want to sing the praises of a Congressmember who did a good thing. And I have decided that when I want to post what will (ultimately) amount to a blog pimp, it’s ok on an open thread…. This works for my guilty conscience, and I can only hope it works for y’all.

    Ahem:

    Yesterday, Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) made a bold and inspiring statement on the House floor, calling for changes in American policy on the issue of Israel/Palestine — specifically re: the war in Gaza and the Goldstone Report. As he put it, speaking before a picture of Palestinian toddlers who had been killed in the fighting: “Those children deserve to have someone ask why they were killed.”

    If you live in Washington state and support a just and peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, please thank Rep. Baird for taking a principled stand in a place where such opinions are usually shouted down. Hell, even if you don’t live in Washington, send the man a note! You’ll find a video of his statement, contact information and a sample letter at my place.

    (Necessary full-disclosure, in case you’ve forgotten: I’m an American-Israeli Jew and advocate for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lived there for 14 years, have a Masters in ME studies, have researched/written about the conflict for about a quarter of a century).

  18. 18.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @D-Chance.:

    This is how it’s done. Slip a clever little decode into the Borg collective, then sit back and watch it all come apart.

    Nice bit of clever politicking Al and dems!!

    Got three movies to watch. One about Bosnia with Richard Gere, Thirteen Days with Costner, and Once Upon a Time In the West.

  20. 20.

    Roger Moore

    @pcbedamned:
    There’s an upside, too. Not being in on all the internet memes means that you’ve probably avoided a number of really disturbing ones, like goatse.cx and Two Girls, One Cup. You may never have been Rickrolled. So count your blessings.

  21. 21.

    Colette

    A friend just called me with tix to see Leonard Cohen tomorrow night! I saw Cohen in April, and he was awesome. Squee!

    /fangirl

  22. 22.

    pcbedamned

    @freelancer:

    Exactly what I tell my own teens – even the people who seem to be ‘so cool’ are uncool to someone else. Hell, even Fonzie was only ‘cool’ in the 70’s :)

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    AkaDad

    @ellaesther:

    I’m an American-Israeli Jew and advocate for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Lived there for 14 years, have a Masters in ME studies, have researched/written about the conflict for about a quarter of a century).

    To quell my skepticism, could you e-mail John Cole your certs?

  25. 25.

    pcbedamned

    @Roger Moore:

    Actually, having 2 kids who use the internet means that unfortunately I do know what those memes are (or least I least I try to know before they do – internet monitoring is KEY in this house). Their computer is right beside mine and I have parental controls established, as well as constant monitoring of their activities. They know that if I ever go to check a page and they have not provided me with the password, computer privileges are gone. Again, I love being mean mom!

  26. 26.

    ellaesther

    @AkaDad: I have them — don’t you think for one minute that I don’t have them! — but the noise of the helicopters is making it very hard for me to gather them together just now.

    Not that I read any of those comments. Or know anything about that commenter. Or anything.

  27. 27.

    dmsilev

    @Roger Moore: Oh, I know. This thing is a plumber’s nightmare, with a whole mess of joints that have to be leak-tight even while being thermally shocked through several hundred degrees, etc. I just didn’t think a bad weld would be the failure point.

    Fortunately, it’s still under warranty.

    -dms

  29. 29.

    Anne Laurie

    @Colette:

    A friend just called me with tix to see Leonard Cohen tomorrow night! I saw Cohen in April, and he was awesome. Squee!

    If you’re trying to make me jealous, you’ve succeeded! I’ve been a Cohen fan since the 1970s but never seen him perform. Although this is probably a good place to reiterate that Live in London is an excellent introduction to Cohen’s amazing poetry / performance skills, and deserves a place in his every fan’s collection.

  30. 30.

    Anne Laurie

    P.S. I will post the Thursday Night Menu in an hour or so, after people have the chance to read Soonergrunt’s front-paged Afghanistan essay.

  32. 32.

    ellaesther

    @AkaDad: (Also, just for serious for a minute, if anyone wants to learn more about why I feel free to go on about this stuff, they can go to the About page on my blog, and then google me until the cows come home. My certs are waving in the breeze for all to see, I promise!)

  34. 34.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @ellaesther:

    Some of our most frisky threads, to put it mildly, have been on the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. And I am sure we will have more of them when events dictate.

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    Hurley and Laettner are excited that the new season starts tomorrow night. They are hoping that when the top prospect in the high school class of 2010, Harrison Barnes from Ames, Iowa, makes his announcement tomorrow, he picks the real color blue and not that weak shit from down the road.

    They have also discovered a new playground – the roof. The access route is a palm tree by the front corner of the house.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/burnspbesq/hurleyinpalmtree08nov09.jpg

  39. 39.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    John, I’m gonna say this because BHF is too nice to say it. You are totally failing her.

  43. 43.

    Laura W

    @Laura W: Ahab! I originally spelled his name “Henri” but corrected it based on the photo I linked to and if I had a 5 min edit window like I USED to have before that last big “upgrade” (ie, downgrade) and the purchase of the one year “maintenance” (ie, huh?) contract, I coulda corrected it.

    I seriously hope John is suing those people. Or at least yelling at them in his most stern outside voice and writing a very terse letter.

  46. 46.

    Martin

    Make sure you all check your cellular statement carefully:

    The phone is designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill. Around the OK button on a typical flip phone are the up, down, left, right arrows. If you open the flip and accidentally press the up arrow key, you see that the phone starts to connect to the web. So you hit END right away. Well, too late. You will be charged $1.99 for that 0.02 kilobytes of data. NOT COOL. I’ve had phones for years, and I sometimes do that mistake to this day, as I’m sure you have. Legal, yes; ethical, NO.

    “Every month, the 87 million customers will accidentally hit that key a few times a month! That’s over $300 million per month in data revenue off a simple mistake!

    “Our marketing, billing, and technical departments are all aware of this. But they have failed to do anything about it—and why? Because if you get 87 million customers to pay $1.99, why stop this revenue? Customer Service might credit you if you call and complain, but this practice is just not right.

  47. 47.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @pcbedamned:

    Time to do for BJ like we did with Beitsy.

    Invest ourselves emotionally before swallowing the bitter pill of loss?

    I’m sorry, but my well has run dry.

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