Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

This blog will pay for itself.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

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

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

The willow is too close to the house.

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Tuesday Night Open Thread

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Couple of quick things:

1.) Not sure what is going on with Daylight Savings, and maybe my memory is just fading, but I don’t recall it getting pitch black at 5 pm in previous years. Am I just not remembering?

2.) I’m a big fan of fruit, and every fall I am more and more turned off with apples. They just don’t taste as good as they once used to- red delicious are red as hell, but gone is the sweetness I remember as a child. I’m working my way through some Braeburn’s and some Sonya’s, but I would kill for something that tastes like the Red delicious I had as a kid.

3.) My macbook has a cd stuck in it. Do any of you have experience with the geniuses at the Apple Store (and that is there name, genius, and not an insult). Will I have to pay or is it covered by the warranty (the macbook is only a few months old). Are they allowed to take the laptops apart on site, or will I have to go without for days? IF I have to pay, how reasonable are their prices?

4.) On a side note, the current version of Dreamweaver from Adobe is just awesome. Really like some of the changes and the additions from GoLive, now that Adobe and Macromedia are one and the same.

5.) Still really enjoying Dragon Age. Such a great game. I’m losing two-three hours a night and staying up too late.

6.) Need a new caffeine free tea for night. I’ve temporarily lost my taste for the Stash Peppermint I used to have every night, and I’m bored with chamomile.

Finally, a pet pic:

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Enjoy.

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And he said “The boys just call me Camouflage”

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We’re simply doomed as a nation:

Alexios Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting the U.S., got lost in Tampa and tried to stop and ask directions from Marine reservist Jasen D. Bruce. But instead of offering help, “Bruce struck the priest on the head with a tire iron.” The reservist believed Marakis, who spoke limited English, was an Arab terrorist. Bruce chased the priest for three blocks, “and even called 911 to say that an Arabic man tried to rob him.”

Did you all see David Horowitz calling for General Casey’s head the other day for not attacking Muslim soldiers after the Ft. Hood shootings?

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Iron nails ran in

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What the fuck is she talking about?

In addition to the suggestion that government officials would consider hastening the death of the infirm or handicapped, she began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coins.

Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

“Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?”

She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”

Update. I see the next two paragraphs answered my question

Unsaid but implied was that the new Democratic White House was behind such a move to secularize the nation’s currency.

But the new coins – concerns over which apparently stemmed from an email chain letter widely circulated among conservatives – were commissioned by the Republican-led Congress in 2005 and approved by President Bush.

It’s fun to hate on Politico, but Jon Martin’s understated arch tone here is perfect.

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Parochial issues

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Once upon a time, the conventional wisdom was that “all politics is local.” Now, it’s conservative heterodoxy to, suggest, as Larison does, that

defeating Crist will be a hollow victory so long as the movement conservative alternative to the Crists of the party seems increasingly pre-packaged and crafted by national activists who are oblivious to and uninterested in local conditions around the country.

Granted, Tip was not a conservative, obviously. So I ask: have conservatives always though that some broad, vague, Randian, Burkean vision superseded any and all local, “parochial” issues? Or is this something new?

Update. Some point out that conservatives used to talk a lot about “federalism”. I always thought that people just talk about states’ rights when their party has no power at the federal level. So it seems strange to focus on a top-down, unified national message when you are completely out of power at the national level.

But maybe that is the central lesson here, that despite the fact that there are few Republican elected officials in Washington, the city is still wired for Republican control in a way that makes conservatives act as if they were in power. When the Politico says you’ve got a headwind at your back, the pundits say it’s a center-right nation, and you’re enjoying a Balzian resurgence , why not run cookie cutter conservatives in every district in the country? The conservative philosophy has never failed and whatever happens will be some form of good news anyway.

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An Object Lesson on Not Being Jerks

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The closing of this WaPo piece on the NY-23 affair really sums it all up:

Scozzafava, who was stripped of her Republican leadership position in the New York State Assembly on Monday, says she has no regrets and even leaves open the possibility of running for the seat again as a Republican. She sees herself as a champion of local expertise over ideological purity.

“How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can’t answer some basic questions,” Scozzafava asked. “Do these people even know who they are endorsing?”

Those conservative forces now descend on Florida, where former House speaker Marco Rubio, who on Monday received the endorsement of the Club for Growth, might shove aside centrist Gov. Charlie Crist, who was once on John McCain’s short list for running mate. And Scozzafava has a warning.

“There is a lot of us who consider ourselves Republicans, of the Party of Lincoln,” she said, her face now flush. “If they don’t want us with them, we’re going to work against them.”

The funny thing about all of this is that no matter how bad all their ideas are, no matter how disastrous their governance has been, no matter how many horrible things they have done to the economy and this country, what really is killing the Republican party is that deep down, they are just complete assholes. You see it in the way they treat women, you see it in the way they treat minorities, you see it in the way they treat homosexuals, you see it in the way they treat anyone who is not a white Christian, and you see it in the way they treat anyone who disagrees with them slightly about anything. They just have no respect for anyone, and it shows. People don’t like to be treated like crap, and grown-ups don’t want to be associated with people who yell “You lie” or scream “socialism” or “Hitler” or accuse you of being a terrorist whenever they don’t get their way.

If you read the Corner or the Weekly Standard, or listen to any talk radio or any of the mouth breathers on Fox, or read any right-wing blogs, you will instantly know what I am talking about. You can’t help but notice that they are just loudmouthed jerks, stubborn bully boys, and insensitive and insecure cads. James Wolcott once wrote that Eric Cantor looked like the “pricky proprietor of the Jerk Store,” and that could be applied to the majority of the prominent Republicans out there. I guess that should be suspected from a movement in which the only thoughts are “Fuck you, I got mine.”

Seriously, how much time would it have taken for Hoffman to call Scozzafava after she withdrew from the race? But he didn’t, because he was a petty wingnut outsider thrust onto the scene by teabaggers and national loudmouths, and the people who were nice to her got the endorsement and the win. There is a lesson here.

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