Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I really should read my own blog.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

This really is a full service blog.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Celebrate the fucking wins.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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  1. 1.

    beltane

    Days like this remind me how much I love my studded tires. The wind is whipping that snow around like crazy.

  4. 4.

    beltane

    My husband is going to be so pissed about Tiger going on hiatus. Traumatized, even. I can’t wait to tell him.

  7. 7.

    Keith G

    Come on John. Get in the holiday spirit. I am expecting a photo of Tunch and Lily side by side in matching Santa hats.

  10. 10.

    Blue Raven

    Keith G, I realize Lily tolerates the Steelers collar, but getting Tunch involved in the pet attire thing is just begging for him to put his plans in motion. John wouldn’t live to see Kwanzaa.

  12. 12.

    arguingwithsignposts

    Well, shit, I’ll admit I’m depressed. This week sucked. This weekend is promising more of the same.

    Michael D. might like me again because I’m just looking for a bright note for the evening.

  14. 14.

    JenJen

    Oh, delightful. From The World’s Worst Website, The Daily Beast, a new Reihan Salam Obama-bashing piece, but this one is specially-tailored for the PUMAs:

    Hillary was Right: Obama Wasn’t Ready To Be President

    You know who was right? JenJen. When she said “Reihan Salam is an insufferable, predictable assknob.” I’m sure I’ve said that before, somewhere, to someone. (I should probably mention that I didn’t bother to actually read his argument. Couldn’t get past the thesis title.)

  16. 16.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Hanukkah samayach to you too (and Ella if she’s about!), kitchen is more or less clean and I’m going on strike as far as cooking goes.

  17. 17.

    Linkmeister

    US Customs and Border police go rogue, turn noted Canadian SF writer out in Ontario’s winter night in shirtsleeves after punching him several times, confiscating computer, flash drive.

    Oh, this was done as he was returning to Canada from a visit into the US.

    I feel so safe.

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    @Linkmeister:

    I liked Customs a lot better when they were part of Treasury. The people who work for US CBP at Pearson Airport in Toronto are the biggest tools on the planet, bar none. Dumb as rocks, lazy, and with a bad attitude.

  23. 23.

    General Winfield Stuck

    This week sucked.

    First the Browns beat the (cough) you know whozze (cough) and today got a new buddy. Nolo complaints from this compound.

  24. 24.

    Max

    @JenJen: OMG! The PUMA’s are lighting it up on this one.

    Sadly, none of them have any idea what a douchebag the author is.

    Frankly, I find myself more and more inching towards the middle because the wackjobs on the left give me agida.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Linkmeister:

    Years ago when I lived in Michigan I would cross into Canada at Port Huron-Sarnia, and even though it was two decades or more before 9/11 it was always a huge PITA to deal with the border officials there. So this story really doesn’t surprise me.

  27. 27.

    Nicole

    Pretty hilarious Gawker article on the demise of the 25 cent, self-cleaning toilets in NYC. This made me laugh out loud:

    Perhaps Europeans are willing to part with their heathen coins in exchange for a tepid, neutral bladder evacuation, but here in America we know the value of a quarter, which is: One stunningly satisfactory pee and/ or poop.

    “Poop” is just a funny word.

  28. 28.

    JenJen

    @General Winfield Stuck: My week was rather good as well, and last night’s game was a nice bit of a capper. ;-)

    @Max: Any more I don’t even know where I am. My lefty cred was good and well challenged during the 2008 primary process, and these days a lot of the people who used to be “my people” and with whom I agreed on most important things just kind of confuse me and leave me shaking my head.

  29. 29.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Max:

    Frankly, I find myself more and more inching towards the middle because the wackjobs on the left give me agida.

    I have those urges also, and several times a week decide I am leaving the dem party and re-register as an Independent Druid, but then I think, that I will still believe what I believe, and changing that because others piss me off is letting them live rent free in my head. So I just blog on to the next liberal meltdown that turns out to be ill informed and ill advised.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @burnspbesq: ain’t it the truth! As much as I love Canada, and visit frequently for both personal and professional reasons, I always dread the US officials at Pearson. They seem to take joy in treating their fellow citizens like criminals. Or doggy doo-doo (Lily, Bitsy and Charlie doo-doo excepted).

    Siubhan +2

  35. 35.

    Max

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    @JenJen:

    I am proud to be a Dem, but I feel like our party is being hijacked by the far left and they are claiming they are “the base”. That just doesn’t feel right to me, no pun intended.

    My positions seem pretty moderate to me:

    1. I don’t mind eating animals, or wearing leather.
    2. I believe Roman P should be in jail forever more.
    3. I think people should work hard and that welfare should be a path to self-support.
    4. I don’t have an opinion on if pot should be legal.
    5. I think that the gays should have all the rights of the straights, but I also think the singles shouldn’t be punished for being smart.
    6. Not everyone should have children and if you can’t afford to have children, don’t fucking have them.
    7. I think I should be able to claim my dog as a dependent.

    EDIT – @ John Cole: I don’t mind the lefties screaming, but why are they screaming at the figurative me?

  37. 37.

    ellaesther

    @asiangrrlMN: MY (decidedly non-Latino) KIDS SING THAT SONG AT THEIR ANNUAL ALL-SCHOOL SING ON THE DAY BEFORE WINTER BREAK EVERY YEAR!! Along with various non-religious carols and the odd “Dreidel Dreidel”.

    I THOUGHT NO ONE ELSE ON EARTH HAD EVER HEARD OF IT!

    It’s a very fun song!

  40. 40.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: You’re not Latino, are you? Yay for a clean kitchen. Now, come clean mine.

    ellaesther, um, it started with sweater puppies (Mine are basset hounds) and a friend said her boobs were bagels and sent me that link, and the rest was history.

    And, I am pretty far left, and I am not screaming at anybody right now.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    @ellaesther: Moi aussi, although I need dinner and to run to the store at some point. I’m thinking good Chinese sounds like a plan but gotta lean on my bros to make that happen. Plus my car isn’t technically legal right now, got new plates but they’re sitting in the back seat. Oh well, I’m not required to drive right now!

  44. 44.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: You’re already getting cookies outta me what more do you want? Fair warning though, it has happened that after I clean a kitchen I do cook in it afterwards, so be very careful what you wish for. Or maybe you’re manipulating me into that exact result. :)

  47. 47.

    Emma Anne

    @Linkmeister: I liked the comments by Jo Walton about how maybe it (border thuggishness) wouldn’t have happened if he had just “cringed more”, but what does that make this country? I am tired of the police state attitude.

  48. 48.

    JMY

    Why is Tiger Woods’ infidelity such a big deal to people? There are people who are really mad that this guy cheated on his wife – didn’t murder her, abuse her, rape her, molest a child, – cheated. That’s it. They hate the guy now, are no longer fans, claims he should be a better role model, and owe them an explanation. What is with the TMZ-ification of this country. Now you got fellow golfers talking crap about him after he’s whooped their asses for over 10 years. They wait til the man’s down. People are really out to destroy his career. And people and the media are blowing this to heights that it shouldn’t.

  49. 49.

    Emma Anne

    @John Cole:

    Fuck that. If there were no screamers on the left, the only screamers would be on the right. See also, Overton Window.

    Thanks for that John. I am going to endeavor to stop being embarrassed and instead bask in how reasonable I seem in comparison.

  50. 50.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Inasmuch as that would be entertaining alas no. He does look kind of like the big white booty shaker on the right though, although he’s about five inches taller. I don’t remember who gave me that vid now, I just know I HAD to keep it. Did you watch the other one? I call that pretty damn classic, plus I was kinda wishing for a towel accident…

    I would KILL for a Taiwanese restaurant around here! As it is I’m stuck with Americanized blasé Cantonese. It’ll do though, especially since I’m calling a moratorium on cooking in my kitchen right now. This house has too many stray dishes running around and I’m sick of it. So I’m deciding to be a hardass and no cooking until it’s all cleaned up period. I’m just breaking it up over two days because, well, the dishes aren’t up there yet. Plus this is severely delaying my cookie preparations. I’m not exactly a happy camper.

  51. 51.

    debit

    @JMY: I really don’t get it either. I don’t care how many women he screwed, when, why or in what manner. He was stupid, he got caught, now let him deal with the fall out as best he can in peace. Geez.

  52. 52.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: I watched the other one, too, but I thought yours was funnier.

    I am Taiwanese, and we have one authentic Taiwanese restaurant here. My mom says it’s authentic, so it is.

    You have stray dishes running around the house? Ew.

  53. 53.

    JMY

    @debit:

    And watch how those same people who hate him now, jump right back on his jock strap the minute he wins a major…so fickle. Quite frankly I don’t have an opinion on whether he was stupid or not, he did what he did, it is what it is. He’s like that geek who wasn’t good with the ladies because he was the nice guy and always in the friend zone, and now that he got fame and the fortune, he’s living out his high school fantasies.

  54. 54.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: The stray dish situation has me quite miffed. Mostly because for once I want to have all the dishes caught up. I’m still going to split it up over two days but still it makes my Scorpio side come out rather nastily I must say.

  57. 57.

    SGEW

    @Max:

    Ooo, lists. I love lists.

    1. I don’t mind eating animals, or wearing leather.
    2. I believe Roman P should be in jail forever more.
    3. I think people should work hard and that welfare should be a path to self-support.
    4. I don’t have an opinion on if pot should be legal.
    5. I think that the gays should have all the rights of the straights, but I also think the singles shouldn’t be punished for being smart.
    6. Not everyone should have children and if you can’t afford to have children, don’t fucking have them.
    7. I think I should be able to claim my dog as a dependent.

    1. Vegitarianism/Veganism, while (mostly) found on the left side of the dial in the U.S., isn’t necessarily a political position. See, e.g., Hindus.
    2. I sure as hell hope that this isn’t a “leftist” position. Remember: Hollywood elites are not representative of the left; they are weirdos who happen to be (mostly) liberal (what this says about the “liberal” philosophy is a different matter).
    3. Everyone thinks this. Or at least says so, out loud.
    4. Marijuana legalization need not be a left/right policy difference. Both “right” leaning “libertarians” and the moderate coalition government of Portugal support decriminalization.
    5. I have no idea what you mean by “singles shouldn’t be punished for being smart.” ?
    6. Do you think that this should be an official, legal policy? In that case, it’s neither left nor right; it’s, uh . . . well, there’s probably another word for it. Let me just say that it would be a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to deny people the right to have children. Or you’re being cynically snarky.
    7. That’s just tax fraud. Truly bipartisan.

    Congratulations! I can’t figure out a reason why you can’t be a lefty.

  59. 59.

    debit

    @asiangrrlMN: Heh. I’m a Pisces and I roomed with a Scorpio once. It didn’t work out well at all. I’m not a slob, but her overly controlling ways made me decide to be one out of retaliatory stubbornness.

    @Yutsano: You will never get caught up on dishes. I instituted a zero tolerance for dirty dishes in my house once. It lasted until the first big holiday meal of the year. The first time you say, “Oh I’ll just let this pan soak.” it’s over. They breed in the dishwater.

  60. 60.

    asiangrrlMN

    @SGEW: I know #5. Married people get tax breaks and other perks (healthcare) that singles don’t get. Plus, couples/families get better deals at hotels and such for being multiples. It’s one reason I have a hard time with gay marriage because I don’t intend on marrying anyone, and I don’t see anyone throwing ME any kind of ‘give me gifts’ party to celebrate my singlehood.

    debit, I am an unrepentant snob. I only clean when it starts to bother ME.

  62. 62.

    debit

    @asiangrrlMN: As it should be, really. I like a comfortable clutter and if there’s stuff that needs washing, well, that’s what the weekend is for.

    And my week finally catches up to me. ‘night all.

  65. 65.

    Max

    @SGEW:

    Or you’re being cynically snarky.

    Maybe a little. I totally don’t think it should be a legal thing, I’m just saying that I don’t think that Octomom is a shining example of procreation.

    I have a friend, who has a son, who is 26 years old and has 5 kids, none of which he can afford on his Denny’s fry cook salary.

    This, I am against.

  67. 67.

    Betsy

    @Yutsano:
    @asiangrrlMN:

    There’s a Taiwanese place somewhat nearby where I live, and it is AMAZING. SO good. I’d never had Taiwanese food until a few years ago. The bean curd with dry bean sauce was a revelation.

  68. 68.

    SGEW

    @asiangrrlMN: Ah. I suppose that should go in the “lefty” column then, no? Sounds antithetical to “family values,” and all that, which the “right” prefers to keep a lock on. But from what I’ve seen, the “abolition of governmentally regulated marriage” movement is a creature that exists only on internet comment threads, and is outside of the normal political spectrum.

  69. 69.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Betsy: You have a Taiwanese restaurant? Yum! Yes, it’s tasty fare, indeed.

    @SGEW: Yeah, probably a lefty thing. Very against family values and such. Except, we can be a bit less circumspect about our two wetsuits and a dildo.

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