Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

We still have time to mess this up!

Stand up, dammit!

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

So many bastards, so little time.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

In my day, never was longer.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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

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

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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Dept. Of Bad Timing

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When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year’s emergency stimulus bill, he was ridiculed by conservative operatives and congressional Republicans.

Obey and other advocates for the spending argued, correctly, that a pandemic hitting in the midst of an economic downturn could turn a recession into something far worse — with workers ordered to remain in their homes, workplaces shuttered to avoid the spread of disease, transportation systems grinding to a halt and demand for emergency services and public health interventions skyrocketing. Indeed, they suggested, pandemic preparation was essential to any responsible plan for renewing the U.S. economy.

Maybe standing athwart history shouting “Porkulus” might have been a bad idea.

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What Is At Stake

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Frank Rich puts it on the table:

Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that our government methodically authorized torture and lied about it. But we also must contemplate the possibility that it did so not just out of a sincere, if criminally misguided, desire to “protect” us but also to promote an unnecessary and catastrophic war. Instead of saving us from “another 9/11,” torture was a tool in the campaign to falsify and exploit 9/11 so that fearful Americans would be bamboozled into a mission that had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. The lying about Iraq remains the original sin from which flows much of the Bush White House’s illegality.

BTW, something I was wondering. Didn’t one of the detainees we tortured claim to have been injected with drugs. Was that Padilla? Has that ever been verified? Were there any memos mentioning using pharmaceuticals?

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Swine Flu

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It looks like this is heating up:

Tests show that eight students at a Queens high school are likely to have contracted the human swine flu virus that has struck Mexico and a small number of other people in the United States, health officials in New York City said yesterday.

The students were among about 100 at St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows who became sick in the last few days, said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, New York City’s health commissioner.

“All the cases were mild, no child was hospitalized, no child was seriously ill,” Dr. Frieden said.

Cross your fingers.

And seriously, what is next? Locusts? Rivers of blood? Enough already.

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Saturday Night Open Thread

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The benefit dinner was fun- it was like a WV wedding with raffle tickets and fewer drunks, complete with fried chicken, rigatoni, green beans and a really painful performance of the Electric Slide. Hopefully they will make some good money.

I suppose at some point I should talk about politics, but I’m not really in the mood. Kinda sunburned and tired, and not all motivated to talk about things. I will say this, though- I watched Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann last night for the first time in a long while, and I can fully appreciate why some Republicans might think the outrage over torture is little more than a partisan witch hunt. The smugness and giggling and parade of indignant partisans from those two was overwhelming. After watching those two, I completely understand why some might think this is “prosecuting political differences.” It isn’t that I disagree with them on the facts, it is their almost gleeful tone. It was really off-putting.

In sports, the Pens sent the thuggish Flyers and their drunken reprobate fans home- the Flyers might play better hockey if they try to score instead of just skating around the ice trying to board or trip the opposing team, and Gary Bettman should get the idiots who run the sound for the Flyers to stop them from drumming up chants directed at specific players. Scumbags. The Steelers picked a man named Ziggy, meaning our long line of draft day funny names continues. Finally, Pat White went in the second round to the Dolphins, much higher than I thought he would go. Good for him.

Decided against The Wrestler, will be reading Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side and vegging. What is on your minds tonight?

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A Business Idea

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Here is an idea for a new business. I, like many other people my age, have only a cell phone. There simply is no reason for me to have a land line, so a cell phone with unlimited long distance covers all of my needs.

Here is the problem- I lose my cell phone in my apartment/car. Frequently.

I would pay cash money for a company that I could visit on the internet, pay them two bucks or some small fee via credit card, and input my cell phone number so they can call me and I can find the damned phone.

There you go, innovators. I just gave you a million dollar idea.

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Already been done. That will be all.

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