Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

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

Innocent people do not delay justice.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

You cannot shame the shameless.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

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  4. 4.

    de stijl

    Ah, The Legend Of Billie Jean.

    Slater, Supergirl (oddly enough, also named Slater), radical empowerment through a haircut.

    The Badlands of the 80s.

  5. 5.

    Brian J

    I’m going to reprint most of what I wrote in the previous thread because I think it contains a good idea. I’d like to hear what others think of it:

    There are a couple of Republican governors who have said the stimulus funds have made a difference in their states. There are almost certainly even more Democrats who would say the same. So why aren’t these guys joining together and taking out massive newspaper ads and similar measures pleading with the federal government to give them various forms of aid? Whether it’s direct infrastructure spending, replacing sales tax revenue, insuring their debt in some way, or something else, there looks to be a lot that can be done from state to state. And while there’s no guarantee it’d work, by screaming from the roof tops that there’s more than can be done, you’d be forcing a lot of Republicans to answer for why they aren’t doing more, if done right.

    That’s the gist of what I wrote in an e-mail to Steve Benen. Who knows what would happen from state to state, but if enough of the states did something like it, would it help to make a noticeable improvement in the employment situation? If New York, California, Florida, and Illinois were to somehow get federal support, could they alone add at least 1 million jobs?

  6. 6.

    SIA

    Oh how I hate Pat Benatur. And Heart. Cut from the same cloth IMHO.

    @jeffreyw: For some reason I couldn’t view what I’m sure is a scrumptious repast, but what is a mung noodle?

    Just got done working late, again, and I’m tired and reading the HCR threads is depressing. And yet I say what I’ve said all along, there will be a bill. But it didn’t have to be this way.

  8. 8.

    williamc

    Saw the end of this movie the other night, forgetting one of my favorite Pat Benatar songs is in it. I f’ing loved the pairing of this song and this film!

    I can totally see the creep tries to molest Billie Jean in this movie as a wingnut Republican Congressman somewhere in California right now.

  9. 9.

    Brian J

    Also, just saw something on local news about George, the World’s Biggest Dog. Clocking in at 282 pounds, he eats 110 pounds of dog food each month and sleeps in his own queen size bed. Something tells me he’s a really mellow dog.

  11. 11.

    ellaesther

    Yeah yeah yeah, music. Lovely. I need help.

    I’ve been assimilated. I now have a Twitter account, have tweeted my first, pointless tweet, and am now trying to add the damn button to my WordPress (FYWP) blog. Which they assure me “couldn’t be easier!”

    Except, as you may have guessed, they lie.

    Among my problems:

    1) When I first mistakenly added a feed (rather than just a button), and then when I made a failed attempt to add the button, everything else on my sidebar disappeared. I don’t want my sidebar to disappear — I want to add a Twitter button to it.

    2) Twitter tells me to cut and paste the button’s code to my blog’s “source code,” which is meaningless to me, because I’m really just faking it in cyber-space.

    3) When I tried to add it by following the WordPress tutorial (“couldn’t be easier!”), I wound up with just the title I’d given the button in my sidebar (to the aforementioned exclusion of all else), and no button to be found.

    Pleaseohplease BJ geeks, help me out!

  13. 13.

    freelancer

    @ellaesther:

    If this were blogspot, I’d be your guy, but WP is so fucking frustrating to run. Especially on a wordpress site. I can’t get any videos other than fucking YouTube to embed, they just show up missing in the post.

    /rant

  14. 14.

    Gravenstone

    BJ swag acquired. Cafe Press decided to double up on one of the items I ordered. Fortunately it was the item I intended as a b-day present for a special young lady. Double her pleasure, double my fun?

  15. 15.

    ellaesther

    @Martin: @freelancer: Thank you for your moral support!

    I finally just decided to bother tech geek husband, who was happily watching Lost, and he gallantly came to my aid.

    He immediately separated out Twitter’s img code from the url code (the two together were the thing that I was supposed to put into my source code, but of course, it’s not actually “my” website) — which I had failed to do but which of course makes perfect sense — thus making the button appear, yet still disappearing everything else in my sidebar.

    The work around we figured out (together! I helped!) was to add the button as a link with an image (down in the “advanced” section of the “Add a Link” page), and give it its own link category (Follow me on Twitter). It’s not an elegant work around, but it’ll do. For now. FYWP! /raises fist to sky, shakes.

  16. 16.

    freelancer

    @ellaesther:

    I finally just decided to bother tech geek husband, who was happily watching Lost, and he gallantly came to my aid.

    You got a good one. I know that if a girlfriend had come to me in the middle of LOST tonight, even though not much advanced in the story, I’d be like, yeah, in a minute babe. And then once it was over, I’d be more than happy to fix her twitter widget or at least try. Guess that’s what makes him your husband and a guy like me single, but I’m working on it.

    In other news, I just cannot get enough of the Coen Brothers’ movie A Serious Man. The more I watch it, the smarter it gets, and there’s also something about the Coen Brothers and how layered and nuanced their movies are. My favorite film of theirs is Miller’s Crossing, just because no matter how many times I watch it, it is a joy to watch, every single time. However earlier tonight, I rewatched the Big Lebowski, and it struck me how much of a genre-bending noirish detective story they made it.

    The Dude is an early 90s burnout Phillip Marlowe, and just made it that much better.

  17. 17.

    Yutsano

    Okay, I am now officially massively sucked into Southland. I am really especially starting to feel for the rookie cop here. Talk about learning a lifetime’s worth of lessons in no time flat.

  18. 18.

    freelancer

    @Yutsano:

    Hey, Yuts.

    Was wondering where all the nite owls are? Today’s been exhausting, but now I’m kicking back, watching Friday Night Lights, and enjoying a few drinks. How are you?

  19. 19.

    Yutsano

    @freelancer: I agree with today being exhausting (I was busy this morning being a good chicken daddy plus full day of work) but now I can do pretty much nothing for the rest of the night. Well I suppose at some point I need to let the furballs in. Oh and the ante has been upped for my lunch tomorrow at work. I indulged in some pad thai and it was like I had brought in something from another planet. Not sure what I’m gonna do tomorrow. Oh well.

    Oh and I’m watching The Food God Alton Brown.

  20. 20.

    jacy

    @freelancer:

    Miller’s Crossing goes on my list of movies that I am compelled to watch any time I accidentally happen across it playing on TV.

    Of course, I love most of the Coen brother’s movies enough to be able to recite them, but I never get tired of that one. It’s like listening to a great piece of music.

  21. 21.

    Tattoosydney

    Was wondering where all the nite owls are?

    I is here. Waiting back at work because I have a friend’s fundraiser to go to… She is driving a $1000 car to the centre of Australia to raise money for the Cancer Council.

    How you all?

    BTW, to whoever recommended Plants and Zombies, fuck you fucker, and I want the last week of my life back! I’m addicted.

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    @Tattoosydney: That is like all kinds of awesome. I hope she does well there, especially for a cause I believe in. I’ll check the link to see if Americans can contribute.

    Come stai?

    @Tattoosydney: Heh. Should have known someone would pick up on that subtlety. I actually raise the fowl, it has nothing to do with my sex life. That runs almost 145kg for me.

  24. 24.

    Tattoosydney

    @Yutsano:

    Tudo bem, obrigado. E tu?

    I’m thoroughly over the idea of my job – since I decided that my future lies in being a novelist or a pasty chef or something else that makes people happy, and that Christmas 2010 was my deadline for ending this career, it’s (unsurprisingly perhaps) hard to give a shit.

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    @Tattoosydney: Pastry chef. Definitely. You could end up working anywhere in the world and if you make a name for yourself you could end up in some serious dinhero. Plus there’s always the threat of making your husband fat if he gets too far out of line. You also realize nothing precludes you being a novelist at the same time.

    @Tattoosydney: Eleven of them actually. Ten hens and a big black rooster (yeah yeah yeah I know) and some of the BEST eggs on the planet. If you can find a friend who raises their own chickens and is willing to share their eggs, KEEP THEM!! I can’t legally sell them here but they make great gifts for folks.

  27. 27.

    Tattoosydney

    @Yutsano:

    Pastry chef. Definitely. … nothing precludes you being a novelist at the same time.

    We are in mind meld. I love the idea of having a trade, and making people happy, plus it fits in well with the whole “move to Lisbon in four years and open a bar” idea.

    In my spare time, I can get this damn novel past chapter five.

  28. 28.

    asiangrrlMN

    S’up, bitchez? Good to see the nite owls. Cannot believe FH#1 and FH#2 are both here tonight. It’s my lucky night.

    @freelancer: I have a bet going with a guy over that movie. He guaranteed me that I would love the movie. I get to kick his ass if I don’t. I have to kiss him on the cheek if I do.

    I haz teh blues tonight. Music men, please link some good blues. kthxbai.

    P.S. I did NOT sign on to be a mama, even if it is of chicks.

    P.P.S. I love Pat Benatar. That is all.

  29. 29.

    freelancer

    @Tattoosydney:
    @Yutsano:

    You fellas crack me up. If you don’t mind, I have a slight favor to ask if you either of you is are up to it. (Is our children learning?)

    I wrote a post about homophobia at CPAC, as well as some WND jackass with a youtube channel, and being a straight writer about gay issues on this particular front, I kinda feel like I’m a just a white guy commenting on race issues when there are more edifying and erudite people like TNC out there speaking way above my pay grade.

    So if you could take a look, and tell me if I’ve over-stepped any bounds, please let me know. All too often when seeing other unhinged liberals trying to speak as if they represent me, a common reaction on my part is, “Ugh, stay off my side!”. I want to avoid that sentiment at all costs.

    Anyways, thanks in advance.

    TS, are you back from Europe yet?

  30. 30.

    asiangrrlMN

    @freelancer: I think you did a nice job with the blog entry. I was perusing craigslist (don’t judge me!), and one personal started out, “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, not two women or two men.” I didn’t have the energy otherwise I would have written back and either strung him along or sliced his balls off, figuratively, of course.

  32. 32.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I have to kiss him on the cheek if I do.

    That’s it? Really? I expected something much more risqué or higher stakes. Then again he might not be that kind of friend so who knows?

    P.S. I did NOT sign on to be a mama, even if it is of chicks.

    Awww they’re cute! You should have seen them when they were all just babies. Little peeping fluffballs. Cute does not even begin to cover it.

    @Tattoosydney: And a partridge in a pear tree…

  38. 38.

    Tattoosydney

    @freelancer:

    are you back from Europe yet?

    Yep. It seemed like we were on holidays for months, but I am back in Australia, and in the depths of post holiday whatthefuckedness….

    So if you could take a look, and tell me if I’ve over-stepped any bounds, please let me know.

    Not at all – I thought it was funny (“elaborate Ocean’s 11 type of long con to try and sodomize them?”) and pretty damn accurate.

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Tattoosydney: I have no idea. I think he has cats. Hm. I will ask him next time I ‘see’ him. It’s a make or break question.

    @Yutsano: Don’t forget my fake wifey, too. I don’t care if she did propose when she was drunk. It all counts on the intertoobz.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    @freelancer: I’m not ducking the question, mostly because I think I already gave you feedback on that blogpost (I laughed! I cried! I cheered!) and it really was teh awesomeness. Of course the cluelessness on display there is pretty priceless as well. Suffice it to say never had a convo like that evah.

    @asiangrrlMN: Menage a cinq then. Or are we just in full-fledged orgy territory now.

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    I have nothing tonight, so this is just a drive-by “hi, y’all.”

    I’m such an idiot. I picked conference-tournament week to go to China. I need to get a Slingbox.

  45. 45.

    freelancer

    I am back in Australia, and in the depths of post holiday whatthefuckedness….

    TS, I’m young (ish), but I believe that part is called life.

    And thanks for taking a look, I feel a bit more self-assured that I’m still one of the good guys without feeling like a poseur. I appreciate it.

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Hi! Have fun in China

    Thanks, but that doesn’t seem likely on this trip. This is a blow in, get your work done, and blow out trip. Leave Tuesday morning, get to HK around dinnertime Wednesday, full day of meetings in HK Thursday, full day of meetings in Dongguan Friday, and I’ll be home by lunchtime Saturday. Meanwhile, my boss is spending that week in Paris, Luxembourg, and Amsterdam. I’m not sure I got the better of this.

  56. 56.

    Gravenstone

    @Yutsano:

    Awww they’re cute! You should have seen them when they were all just babies. Little peeping fluffballs. Cute does not even begin to cover it.

    Sorry, but chicks are “cute” for 3-5 days. Then they get hideous as their feathers start to fill in, and it all goes downhill from there. The stepfather raised a few hundred every year and I got the dubious pleasure of helping him catch and crate them for slaughter. I will say though, that free lot chickens is damned fine eating – averaged out 8# dressed. No chance of finding anything comparable in todays stores.

  57. 57.

    New Yorker

    It’s kind of disappointing that Pat Benatar is the most famous person to come out of Greenpoint (my neighborhood since the summer of 2003) in the last 50 years.

    And for those of you who are familiar with Greenpoint, yes, she is of Polish ancestry.

  58. 58.

    mileslarboy

    Can someone please comment on the total ridiculousness of THE DAILY BEAST’s list of Top 25 “Left” writers, particularly putting Fred Hiatt at position #5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  60. 60.

    tesslibrarian

    Just had our first ever visit to the emergency vet last night, and can I just say that having such a service available is awesome?

    It turns out Jack will be fine, but he’d have been one very sick kitty today if we hadn’t been able to take him there at midnight. Today he’s bonkers to get outside. (Nope.)

    Though it would be nice if he’d stop getting into fights.

  64. 64.

    gil mann

    Oh how I hate Pat Benatur. And Heart. Cut from the same cloth IMHO.

    Yeah, cut from the same cloth. The Shroud of Fucking Awesomeness.

  65. 65.

    flukebucket

    My employer encouraged me to watch the special on Hannity last night about the Generation Zero documentary.

    One of the strangest hours of television I have ever subjected myself to.

  67. 67.

    gwangung

    Pat Benatur. And Heart. Cut from the same cloth IMHO.

    Yeah, cut from the same cloth. The Shroud of Fucking Awesomeness.

    Word.

    (And awesome hotness)(always remembered the interview she did where she said she was Mrs. Whatever M-F, doing bake sales and PTA meetings. Weekends—Pat Benatar, rock goddess! Pushes my secret identity buttons….)

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