Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

When I was faster i was always behind.

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

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

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

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Giving up is unforgivable.

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

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Sign O’ The Times

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Ross Douthat dreams of a Republican who understands and can talk about policy. Just imagine. For a change Sunday newschat shows might cover actual issues instead of serving as group therapy sessions for stupid angry people like John McCain, Eric Cantor and Joe Lieberman. The dirty little secret of DC is that nobody presses these guys on policy because they can’t possibly handle it. They oppose Obama policy because pancake rainbow phlogiston wolverines.

As long as we’re dreaming I’ll take my magical flying pony with the feature that makes it poop dollar bills. Plus flame breath to fight the dragons.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread

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I don’t know what the weather is like where you all are, but it is pretty nasty here. Not a hint of a chance of sun today, and the entire sky looks like a three day old bruise or a smoker’s cough or what I imagine it would look like in the world of Dire Straits’ Industrial Disease. Just pretty depressing.

I did have a question, though, and I am a little bit embarrassed I do not know the answer. Now that the trees have no leaves, when you look up, you just see dozens of bird nests. I know that birds come back to the same area in the spring, but do they re-use nests? Or will most of them fall down before the spring without maintenance. I suppose I could google this, but usually you all know more than google.

Also, several of you in the mint thread the other day wanted to see a picture to see if it was pennyroyal, so I grabbed some this morning. It is most assuredly mint, and some of the strongest stuff I have ever had. I took this picture on a white piece of paper so you could see how deep the green is:

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I have some stuff to take care of before going home tomorrow, so I will be back this afternoon, most likely. Use this as your open thread.

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On Centrism

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Larison:

Looked at from either side of the spectrum, Lieberman has been anything but interesting. He has been the reliable defender of the “centrist” consensus established in the ’90s that finally accepted welfare reform and insisted on U.S. hegemony abroad. In practice, this “centrism” can be used to justify the most extreme, violent and destructive policies, but it is considered reasonable and acceptable because it does not partake of “fringe” ideas and enjoys the support of respectable, “serious” people. The trouble for liberals who accept this consensus is that they feel a constant pull to align themselves with corporate and financial interests in addition to endorsing every military action and security measure imaginable.

Back when I was a full-fledged wingnut, I used to point to Democrats like Evan Bayh and Joe Lieberman as “good” Democrats.

I was (and probably still am) a moron.

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Tuesday Night Adoption Story

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The first pic I attached is of my boys when they were little, before I adopted them. They are at an adoption fair with their sister. No one ever looked at them. Sigh. Black cats are very hard to place.

The second picture shows how even with two chairs in the computer room, I have to get a third one sometimes–and I live alone. Raven is in the computer chair, and Shadow is on the hard-back chair.

Here is a link to the agency:

http://www.felinerescue.org/

I thank the cosmos every day that I adopted these two. My life would be so empty without them.

P.S. I know the pictures aren’t great. It’s also very difficult to take pics of black cats, especially when you are photography-inept such as I.

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Consider this your open thread.

*** Update ***

sorry, forgot the second pic- I’m distracted.

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Bilal Hussein, Graeme Frost, Rachel Ray, Michael Schiavo and Hundreds of Others Called

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And they said to stfu:

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The nerve of these people.

BTW- our only comment on the whole story was from DougJ: “I would still caution against assuming that this was anti-government right-wing violence unless and until more details emerge.”

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Maybe This One Will Stick

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Moran:

The Conservative Party candidate is conceding the race for New York’s 23rd District for the second time, saying he doesn’t have enough votes.

Doug Hoffman had withdrawn his first concession to Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, saying the race was close enough that absentee ballots could change the outcome in the closely watched New York Congressional race.

Now, Hoffman said he has no hope of winning.

Guy sure is quick on the uptake.

Also, Acorn.

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