Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Come on, man.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

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

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

When we show up, we win.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

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

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

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Two Questions

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Two quick questions:

1.) One of my big projects for this upcoming year is to digitize the family picture albums. Does anyone have a suggestion for a good scanner as well as good software that will allow you to add commentary to pictures for just this sort of project?

2.) I’m moving in a couple of months (we can talk about that later), and I think I would like to add a saltwater fish tank to the new house. Not one of those massive ones built into the wall that would make me look my place look like a Miami coke dealer’s, but just a decent sized tank to place. I’m not really much of a fan of domestic fish tanks, and the saltwater ones always seem to have much better looking fish and look cleaner. Approximately what kind of money are we looking at, and more importantly, what kind of man hours to keep a tank clean and appealing and healthy for the fish?

Also- Kennedy Center awards. I’m a big fan of Dave Brubeck- DougJ can not stand him. We both agree on Miles, though.

When Brubeck’s sons were introduced to play a medley of his songs, he gave a bewildered smile and said “Son of a bitch” and then grinned ear to ear. It was really nice.

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And 100% of Popes are Catholic

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Here is the MSM’s go-to guy on terrorism, Rep. Peter King (R, NY), on Fox News:

The fact is while the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding people, on the other hand 100% of the Islamic terrorists are Muslims, and that is our main enemy today.

We are to the point that merely exposing yourself to right-wingers makes you dumber.

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Jesus Christ, where’d you get that Cadillac

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I agree with Atrios and Bob Herbert that the so-called “Cadillac” tax on health care benefits is a terrible idea. The name itself conjures up images of welfare mothers driving Cadillacs and young bucks buying T-bone steaks with their welfare checks, and that’s no accident — the name was chosen in order to make it sound like a tax on the wealthy and wasteful when in fact it will hit a lot of middle-class people, as Herbert demonstrates in detail.

The thing is, it will be rightly seen as a tax on the middle class no matter what they call it. I know that I mock Chris Matthews and other Villagers when they base their political prognostications on what their cranky, ethnic uncles are saying, but the fact is that I find my own cranky, ethnic uncle to be a pretty good barometer of things. And his biggest objection to the Senate bill is the tax on health care benefits. He said to be, pretty much word for word “They call it a `Cadillac’ tax, but people like me are going to end up paying it too. It’s a big scam.” I don’t think he’ll be the only way saying it.

Update. Ezra Klein completely disagrees, saying that is a legitimate tool for reining in health care costs.

This goes to the one place where I sympathize with the firebaggers — there are things about the politics of the Senate bill that are deeply worrying to me.

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Otherwise Occupied

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Greg Sargent Avi Zenilman has a great observation here:

We finally found one Democrat willing to defend Obama’s national security approach from Republican attacks.

Rep. Jane Harman’s office sent us over her statement responding to the attempted bombing of Flight 253, where she raised concern about Al Qaeda in Yemen but also warned about the costs of overreaction:

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Harman also defended America’s current efforts to go after terrorist suspects in Yemen and Pakistan, which Obama also did in his speech yesterday. “I think the case can be made for surgical counterterrorism actions around the globe to prevent al-Qaida from expanding its training and equipping of people who want to attack us,” she said.

See, that isn’t so hard. What happened to the rest of the Democrats?

If elected Democrats are anything like left-wing bloggers, the reason they are not defending Obama is because they are too busy flaming him for not turning America into Utopian Commie Franceistan in the first eleven months. Or they are busy screaming at the people who try to defend him.

Also, they probably hate Rahm Emanuel, too.

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