Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Most of you should go to bed and try to be better Jackals in the morning.

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

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

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

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

“But what about the lurkers?”

All hail the time of the bunny!

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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We are all Dan Riehl now?

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A rather strange exchange in today’s Kaplan reporter Q&A:

Blacksburg, Va.: Does the Right-Wing have so shame?

–Was Census Worker Bill Sparkman A Child Predator? Was Census Worker Bill Sparkman A Child Predator?

Ed O’Keefe: Note what this author says at the outset of his piece:

“I have no idea what happened, but from the reporting I’ve seen, neither does anyone else.”

This is why — in regards to the previous question — we cannot say he was targeted because of his federal employment or for any other reason.

No condemnation of the Riehl rumor, just a suggestion that everyone is in the same boat as Riehl? I guess this must be part of the new teabagger-friendly guidelines the ombudsman suggested.

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Green Shoots

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Here:

Federal regulators expect bank failures to cost the deposit insurance fund about $100 billion in the next four years and the fund to fall to a negative balance this month.

That is higher than an earlier estimate of $70 billion in failure costs through 2013.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation made the projections Tuesday as its board proposed requiring banks to pay in advance an estimated $45 billion in regular insurance premiums for 2010-2012.

At this point, another 100 billion to fix the incompetence of the best and the brightest who are our banksters seems like almost chump change.

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I smell a reality show

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Kaplan is hiring (via MY):

Use the entry form to send us a short opinion essay (400 words or less) pegged to a topic in the news and an additional paragraph (100 words or less) on yourself and why you should win. Entries will be judged on the basis of style, intelligence and freshness of argument, but not on whether Post editors agree or disagree with your point of view. Entry deadline: Oct. 21, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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The ultimate winner will get the opportunity to write a weekly column that may appear in the print and/or online editions of The Washington Post, paid at a rate of $200 per column, for a total of 13 weeks and $2,600. Our Opinions lineup includes a dozen Pulitzer Prize winners, regulars on the national political talk shows and some of the most influential players inside the Beltway. We’ll set our promising pundit on a path to become the next byline in demand, the talking head every show wants to book, the voice that helps the country figure out what’s really going on.

This means Liz Cheney said “no” to the gig. My guess is that we get either a McArdle-style “independent” or a full-blown tea-bagger.

The good news is that this is easier than getting a job teaching SAT prep classes. The bad news is that it pays less.

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Global Recession Apparently Hitting PR Professionals The Hardest

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The Vatican’s new official defense makes you wonder who thought it would be a good idea to revive the story. Only about one in twenty priests touched children in their private parts!

Protip: when, say, a political candidate admits he had sex with “between 1 and 5” farm animals, you can discard one through four.

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Celebrity

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For whatever reason, I’ve seen a lot of discussion of this piece by Nancy Snow on the intertubes today:

Today’s Google News has the wedding of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian and Los Angeles Lakers’ forward Lamar Odom getting more hits than the passing of New York Times columnist, William Safire. Now granted, Khloe and Lamar have more blogger followers, including Perez Hilton’s “wedding deets” to share with those not privy to be in Los Angeles.

This suggests, albeit unscientifically, that the death of an esteemed giant in American journalism is less newsworthy than a second-tier celebrity wedding. The media weren’t reporting the wedding of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, but two people who have been dating for a month and decided to get hitched before basketball season begins.

I find this pretty comical. I have nothing against William Safire. He was, by all accounts, a kind and charming man. His opinion columns were quite reasonable by the standards of right-wing punditry (though crazy by just about any other standard). His pieces on language were witty and entertaining (though they perpetuated outdated notions about the nature of language). Is that all it takes to be an “esteemed giant in American journalism” these days?

It’s hard for me to see how Safire was any less of an unjustly famous celebrity than Lamar Odom is. The primary differences between celebrity pundits and celebrity athletes are that the athletes can be benched or traded if they perform badly and that the children of celebrity athletes must display some kind of talent before being handed million-dollar contracts.

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