Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

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

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

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

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Let there be snark.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Come on, man.

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

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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Open Thread

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getsmartin, GG Bridge.

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G.M., Toronto Skyline.

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We are all Bob Cratchit now

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Some glibertarian fun, just in time for the holidays:

No doubt Cratchit needs—i.e., wants—more, to support his family and care for Tiny Tim. But Scrooge did not force Cratchit to father children he is having difficulty supporting. If Cratchit had children while suspecting he would be unable to afford them, he, not Scrooge, is responsible for their plight. And if Cratchit didn’t know how expensive they would be, why must Scrooge assume the burden of Cratchit’s misjudgment?

As for that one lump of coal Scrooge allows him, it bears emphasis that Cratchit has not been chained to his chilly desk. If he stays there, he shows by his behavior that he prefers his present wages-plus-comfort package to any other he has found, or supposes himself likely to find. Actions speak louder than grumbling, and the reader can hardly complain about what Cratchit evidently finds satisfactory.

I’m sure Slate or TNR must have done something like this before, but I’m too lazy to google it.

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Dirty Chinese-wannabe hippie

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James Fallows responds here to Chuck Todd’s claim that Fallows and other Asia-based journalists should stop whining about NBC’s shitty coverage of the president’s Asia trip. Fallows shows altogether too much tact and restraint for my tastes, but it’s worth reading.

When Glenn Beck complains that the press didn’t pay enough attention to a video of college students dressed up as pimps and hos, the Washington Post and New York Times performed acts of contrition and assigned reporter to keep track of whatever Beck was saying in the future. When an acclaimed journalist (and one even working for an Official Publication in this case) criticizes coverage of meetings between the United States and the most populous nation on earth, that is politically-motivated whining that should be mocked and ignored.

That’s where we’re at as a country right now.

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Long, strange trip

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I’m not sure that I think this is 100% true, but I really, really like the idea:

Maybe we need a new name for these people: Palinheads. To be sure, the drugs are different…But maybe Palin really is the Grateful Dead of the 21st century — not just someone to whom certain people want to devote a few hours of their time every so often, but a way of life, a central organizing principle of their existence.

Update. I don’t like the weight-and-food mockery either. I just like the idea of the Palin-followers as Dead Heads. I’ll clip the quote to take out the offending parts.

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