Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

The lights are all blinking red.

You cannot shame the shameless.

T R E 4 5 O N

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

The revolution will be supervised.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

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

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Let there be snark.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

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Random questions

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I have a couple random questions that some of you may know the answer to:

1) A friend of mine has a dog who is constantly jumping the fence, digging under the fence, making holes in the fence and escaping (it’s a typical metal fence). What would you recommend for keeping the dog in the yard? Would an electric fence be a good idea?

2) Can someone recommend a good historical account of the Spanish Civil War? I just finished reading this (which was discussed and linked to in the comments). I’d like to expand my knowledge beyond “Spanish Bombs” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.

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Best Possible Comment on Glenn Beck’s “9/12”

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Today Alex Pareene is my hero:

On 9/12, people in New York (and DC) did not feel as “great” as Glenn Beck. They just felt like shit. They felt scared and confused and depressed… And only an idiot or an actual terrorist would want to always feel like it was 9/12/01. And eight years later, normal people, with brains and souls, have decided that some emotional distance from that disaster is healthier and wiser than trying to recapture the dread.

So thank fucking christ that the Commander in Chief is no longer subjecting the nation to death porn.

No, this year it’s limited to a nutty little cult leader on basic cable who is encouraging his radicalized band of fanatical followers to invade the cities where the tragedy actually happened in order to shock the populace back into fear.

Glenn Beck is an actual terrorist, and the people attending his rally in DC tomorrow are al-Qaeda in America.

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Smart shoppers

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Humor my Broder fixation. He pans Obama’s speech in Sunday’s Post:

But Obama does not tell people: “I want you to get used to the idea that eventually you may not get your coverage from your employer, and you will have to be a smart shopper, looking for the best deal you can get from competing insurance firms.”

Honestly, why stop here? Why not tell people that they need to be smart shoppers, looking for the best deal you can get from competing private police forces and road-builders? Yes, I know some libertarians do favor this, but I doubt Broder does.

Broder has pushed this idea before. What’s especially aggravating is that he pretends to be neutral in the debate, when he’s essentially taking the insurance industry’s side.

And what’s most troubling is that he’s actually accepted accommodations from the Western Conference of Prepaid Medical Service Plans, in violation of the Post’s rules on speaking engagements.

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From Fort Sumter to the filibuster

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The Times RoomForDebate blog has an interesting, if seriously flawed, series of opinions about what makes South Carolina such a screwed up place politically. First to secede, Strom Thurmond filibustering civil rights, Joe Wilson, etc.

The interesting? A bunch of history professors describing all of this. The flawed? Freaking Armstrong Williams, pimping for Wilson:

In many respects, Joe Wilson’s outburst last night was more from the gut as it was from the heart. I know Joe Wilson. He’s a self-effacing, humble man, like many in his district. He’s not prone to such antics, which is why I was shocked to discover listening to the president’s speech that his was the voice that screamed those words.

Poor taste? You bet. But to many in the Palmetto State, Congressman Wilson’s lapse reflected weeks of pent up frustration from the thousands of constituents he and several of his colleagues heard at their own town halls.

He’ll be regarded as a hero in some circles; not for his disrespect, these are, after all, gentrified southerners. But rather, Joe Wilson will be viewed for doing the right thing — for calling out the falsehoods of the Obama message machine, there and then. No dawdling, no delay.

It’s quite possible that Joe Wilson paid Amstrong Williams to write this. Why the fuck would the Times turn to a man at the center of the biggest pay-to-fluff media scandal of recent times? Good God. There are times when I wish that all of these papers, all of them, would hurry up and go bankrupt.

Looking on the brighter side, at least nothing like this has happened recently in Senate:

Perhaps the most famous of such precedents occurred in 1856 when South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks, a nationalist, entered the Senate chamber and caned Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner after the latter had given a speech attacking slavery and insulting South Carolina politicians. Sumner was temporarily disabled by the beating and missed many months of senate duty; Brooks resigned his seat but received a hero’s welcome in South Carolina for defending the honor of the state.

The Republicans may use the death of a Massachusetts Senator as an opportunity to filibuster over the next few months, but at least they didn’t cause that death themselves.

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