Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

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

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

All hail the time of the bunny!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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  5. 5.

    McGeorge Bundy

    As a leftist person diagnosed with bipolar II, I am highly offended by this new tag! Outraged! Exuberant! Now sad…

  6. 6.

    DougJ

    That’s the way of the world, isn’t it?

    I’ve been thinking of putting that up too, but I can’t find a live version I really like.

  11. 11.

    Kryptik

    @DougJ:

    People begged for an open thread and now they ignore it when I do.

    Hey, I was away trying to force myself from chugging a bottle of Advil to take care of the migraine today’s given me.

  13. 13.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @MikeJ:

    You can hate the nyms without hating the message. Listen to Biafra today and hear his messages against Reagan, and they are spot on. It’s not the nym, it’s the message. We can diss that all we want, but realize that in doing so, we’re also dissing a lot of those “colonial superheroes” that we tend to support. (cough – federalist papers – cough)

  14. 14.

    DougJ

    I’m very pro Dead Kennedies, FWIW. But I’m a childish nihilist.

    They’re not the Clash, but who is?

  17. 17.

    Kryptik

    Sadly, the Dead Kennedys were kinda before my time. My brief foray into punk fandom started and ended really with Face to Face.

  20. 20.

    Kryptik

    @jwb:

    Was that commercial as terrifying back then as it is now?

    And I’m quite sane enough to avoid chugging Anvils, thank you very much (though the song is very much a welcome flashback to the days of Looney Tunes).

  21. 21.

    sparky

    @DougJ: TWO (or maybe even three) things i agree with you on. or about. crap–what is the world coming to?

    /reels, yanks modem an–

  22. 22.

    jwb

    @Kryptik: I don’t actually remember that particular ad from my youth—though I remember the jingle. I best remember the “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” campaign.

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    Listen to Biafra today and hear his messages against Reagan, and they are spot on.

    Of course his most famous attack on Reagan was originally an attack on Gov. Moonbeam himself, Jerry Brown. Because there’s no difference between Jerry Brown and Ronald Reagan.

  28. 28.

    DougJ

    Gosh, didn’t the 60’s have just the best music? :)

    If you include the early 70s as part of the 60s, yes. (And I think that they sort of are.)

  29. 29.

    jwb

    @DougJ: If you include later part of the 1970s, the 80s, 90s, 50s, 40s, 30s, 20s, 10s, 00s …. well, yes.

    Seriously, I guess I should have said “green balloons.”

  32. 32.

    Tattoosydney

    Dammit – I posted and then the Rescue thread died. Reposting, with apologies.

    I’m reading Ian Banks “Transition“.

    Three quarters of the way through, I am hooked, and driven to sing its praises on an open thread. The writing, particularly in the third quarter, is phenomenal. It’s an odd, fragmental book (which has received mixed reviews) about multiple universes, travel, assassins and torturers, as told by an Unreliable Narrator. Definitely worth a read.

    In other news, today I finished making a Portuguese liqueur called Licor de Leite.

    Mix (in a sealable container) a bottle of vodka (or, even better, Portuguese aguardente or cachaça), an equal amount of milk, 2 cups of sugar, a block of grated dark chocolate, a whole lemon chopped up and a little bit of vanilla. Put the lid on, shake, and store in the fridge for 10 days, shaking it every day. It looks disgusting. After ten days, strain out the chunky bits with a cloth (apparently, Portuguese mães make some other dessert with the remains). Put four or five coffee filters into a sieve, put the sieve on a jog, and pour the liquid in, topping up as it drains through over the next couple of hours.

    Filtered, you are left with a clear, light amber drink that is smooth and caramelly with hints of lemon and chocolate. I’m drinking it with ice, but I think it would be best straight out of the fridge.

    Next time I will halve the sugar, and use cachaça, to make something a little less sweet and with a bit more bite, but it’s truly lovely.

    Tattoosydney + 4 (on my first day of holidays and finding it impossible not to broadcast the fact).

    And no, I’m not sure what “fragmental” means, either, but it’s a good work for the book.

  33. 33.

    Ron Beasley

    A German album referred to him as the brown lion from Seattle but as a former engineer for Fender Musical Instruments I can say he made me proud. Yes I’m that old!

  34. 34.

    DougJ

    Next time I will halve the sugar, and use cachaça, to make something a little less sweet and with a bit more bite, but it’s truly lovely.

    Could I try it with no sugar or just add simple sugar to taste at the end?

  35. 35.

    Tattoosydney

    @DougJ:

    Could I try it with no sugar or just add simple sugar to taste at the end?

    I’d tend to throw in even a little sugar if I was making it, to smooth the taste a bit and bring out the flavour, but I imagine you could get away with, say, even a quarter of a cup or a little less.

    The above recipe doesn’t taste sugary, just very sweet, so adding sugar at the end would give you a different taste.

  39. 39.

    burnspbesq

    No rock’n’roll for me tonight.

    Just got the DVD of Dudamel’s inaugural concert as music director of the LA Phil.

    Of late, John Adams has become my favorite contemporary composer, and his “City Noir,” which was premiered that night, is teh wonderful.

    I’ll save the Mahler for another night and wallow in the Adams.

  40. 40.

    burnspbesq

    And just to stir up some controversy, I say, unhesitatingly and with full conviction, that this is the best rock’n’roll record of the ’00s.

  41. 41.

    Yutsano

    @wmsheppa: Welcome to my universe. Coupled with the fact I don’t get off until 9 PM PST (GMT -8 for my fellow espoused) and I’m always the latecomer. Fortunately my wifey is a night owl.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    @Tattoosydney: Not too shabby, have almost all my shopping done (vast majority of it online) and I’ve somehow obligated myself to making cookies at work. How’s Bangkok? I hope you’re getting off the beaten path and going where the Caucasoids fear to tread.

  44. 44.

    wmsheppa

    @Yutsano at least I get off at 6… but yeah, seems like all the open thread goodness happens while I’m either at work or trying to make/eat dinner and deal with the cat.

    @burnspbesq might be, but it’s not John Doe’s best album… Country Club with the Sadies is better.

  45. 45.

    Yutsano

    @wmsheppa:

    seems like all the open thread goodness happens while I’m either at work or trying to make/eat dinner and deal with the cat.

    You seem to be under the illusion that cats can be dealt with. They are your lord and master of the household. All you can do is attempt to please them however they choose to be pleased. Trust me I have four of the beasts in my house.

  46. 46.

    wmsheppa

    @Yutsano no illusions. I only have one and she runs the place. When I say ‘dealt with’ I mean mandatory sit on the couch so she can sit on my lap for at least 45 minutes before anything else happens time.

    On a fun side note, I’m flying her cross country tomorrow night as I’m moving east. The best part? Going through security when I have to carry the cat through the metal detector in a busy airport. I’m sure that’ll go over great. They don’t make sleeves thick enough to stop those claws.

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    On a fun side note, I’m flying her cross country tomorrow night as I’m moving east.

    You will never be forgiven. She will forever treat you even more like a piece of garbage than now.

  49. 49.

    wmsheppa

    @Yutsano probably not. I’ll be sure to update on the delicious revenge she takes on me sometime on Friday. I’m sure she’ll be creative.

    On the plus side, I fly enough and the flight is empty enough that I got a free upgrade to first class. Does taking a cat in cabin on a cross country red eye count as class warfare? If not, I’d like to know what does.

    @burnsqbesq Wilderness is definitely a better rock album, and I’m hard pressed to name a better one in the decade. Country Club is not a rock album, so it doesn’t really fall into the same category. As far as John Doe albums go though, I have a slight preference for Country Club, but can understand Wilderness instead.

  51. 51.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    Oh, and GOP.am blocked my IP address so I used a proxy to get ‘er done. :)

  52. 52.

    Tattoosydney

    @Yutsano:

    Flying out to bangkok tomowwor morning Sydney time… never been, so not sure what we are going to do. Wander out the front door of the hotel and see where we end up, I suspect…

    Then off to Amsterdam where it is snowing!

  53. 53.

    Ripley

    @DougL: Funny, thanks. I ordered a Monday Night Rehabilitation t-shirt from a GOP-sponsored link. I feel clean and dirty at the same time.

  54. 54.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @Ripley:

    GOP.AM, it haz electrolytes!

    For some reason, Brawndo and the GOP seem like a natural and that link confirms it. Maybe toss a Fox News logo in to make it perfect…lol!

    Pretty lame blocking the IP address when there are thousands of easy to use proxies. If anyone else is having problems getting to gop.am, I used filterkill.org to make (and view) that link. Should work fine until they block it. ;)

    Plenty more proxies where that came from…lol

  56. 56.

    A Mom Anon

    Sigh.

    I have a question. There is no actual Health Care Bill yet,is there? Don’t the House and Senate versions have to go through conference committee where the final version is crafted using parts from both? If that’s the case then why is everyone losing their damned minds right now?

    Lieberman is an ass beret,and right now,he’s in a pissing contest with those DFHs from the blogs who backed Ned Lamont. Or at least that’s what it looks like to me. High School with more money.

    Which brings me to something that’s been bugging the crap outta me for awhile now. It seems to me that for a country that’s really well off compared to most of the world,we sure have a whole lot of miserable,mean,spiteful,petty,angry people running about. This society seems to think that punishment and deprivation are the only solutions to major social problems. It’s ok to be violent and angry,but it’s weak and “gay”to care about people or anything of substance. Every time I hear someone say that no one has the right to decent healthcare I cringe. I can’t STAND this horrendous amount of spite.

    My grandma used to tell us when we were kids that we all had the right to be a little asshole if we wanted to. BUT,we had to do it all by ourselves,away from people. Once we got over ourselves and decided to work and play well with others,then we could re-join the family group with open arms. If someone persisted in being a jerk then they didn’t have a seat at the table anymore. That approach usually worked,but Grandma had a way with people that usually made it look easy. I’ve had it with assholes and I’m tired of seeing them rewarded and coddled.

    This spite and hate is why we can’t have nice things.

  57. 57.

    sam

    Of late, John Adams has become my favorite contemporary composer, and his “City Noir,” which was premiered that night, is teh wonderful.

    D’ya know that when Adams was at Harvard, he wrote the Rock Crit column for the the Crimson? He loved the music.

  59. 59.

    Demo Woman

    @A Mom Anon: In order to make it through the holiday season without becoming a raving lunatic (actually I might have already crossed over that line), I’m avoiding the news and most blogs.
    Your comments were great and your grandma was very wise.
    Unfortunately, it appears that children are now being raised by that old scrooge Boortz and Limbaugh who spout Rand’s topics all day.
    Ezra Klein explained that changes can be made to the bill assuming the they can get the Senate to pass something. Add ons to the bill can occur through reconciliation which then would require 50 votes (plus Biden). Changes would have to be made next year.

  61. 61.

    SGEW

    Ah, well, music. I’ll just throw some Fugazi up, as is my wont (“Cashout“, from The Argument; a song about gentrification in D.C. circa 2000). Why isn’t there more Fugazi love ’round here, eh?

    OT, and to act as more DougJ-bait, another Niebuhrian evaluation of Obama’s political philosophy as the antithesis to Bush’s (via Patrick Appel at Sully’s Mega-Auto-Blog, to boot): “An Unexceptional Nation,” by Damon Linker, at TNR.

    Key quote:

    The point is not that patriots and politicians should abandon their faith that American power can play a positive role in the world. It is that they should act with caution in applying that power. Above all, they need to take the lessons of humility closely to heart and resist the temptation to view themselves as God’s agents in history. To do otherwise—to view their policies as having been personally authored or approved by the divine—is foolishness that will tend to distort their judgment, inspiring the distinctly American over-confidence that Niebuhr warned against so powerfully.

    Whole thing’s worth a read, I think.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @burnspbesq

    Thanks for the Dudamel heads-up. I had meant to pre-order that from ArkivMusic.com, but didn’t get around to it. Love John Adams, though, and am excited to hear City Noir. And I never ever tire of listening to the Titan. Anyhow, just ordered the DVD and will happily compare reactions with you after it arrives in the next few days.

  63. 63.

    Malron

    Damn, I go to bed frustrated and wake up to see this. Not that I feel any less frustrated, mind you.

  65. 65.

    Svensker

    Can’t beat Jimi. I was around when his first stuff came out and I liked it then, but my appreciation of him has just grown through the years. The local college station has a great blues show on every afternoon and on Wednesdays the DJ — Jimmie Blue — plays a load of Hendrix, including tracks where Jimi played as part of the band. If you’re interested, it’s WFDU 89.1, they stream live.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack

    @Tattoosydney:

    Iain M. Banks

    I’m just about to pick up Use of Weapons again. I zoomed through Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games earlier this year, then got about 70 pages into Use of Weapons and beached. Can’t really say why, except that it just didn’t grab me as much as the other two. (And The Player of Games is really good.) Gonna give it another go. Although you’ve got me thinking that I should detour through Transition first.

    In other news, I just finished Michael Connelly’s Nine Dragons and found it disappointing. I have really liked the Harry Bosch series, but this one felt sort of slapdash. And–no spoiler here–I found the premise very flimsy, especially in the context of the earlier books. I will say that Connelly’s two previous books about the lawyer Mickey Haller, The Lincoln Lawyer and The Brass Verdict, are very good. (Haller makes a cameo appearance in Nine Dragons.)

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