Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

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

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The words do not have to be perfect.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Everybody saw this coming.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

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  2. 2.

    Midnight Marauder

    I’m out to eat and not interested in the news, so you won’t have me to kick around tonight.

    Dubious.

  12. 12.

    JeremyH

    What does Tunch want from me, then? How do I appease an arbitrary, capricious cat if I don’t know what he wants?

  13. 13.

    paradox

    Clam fettuccini with broccoli. Chardonnay for her. Hawaiian coffee and chocolates. Lavender sex oils. (Har har, eh?)

    I get an odd burrito or box of Chinese takeout, but it’s been a very long time since I got dressed decently and dined. Casualty of frugal living, but damn I love a good restaurant, seeing all the little people.

  21. 21.

    JeremyH

    @Schrodinger:

    Oh god… Tunch and Ceiling Cat are in league? This is much, much worse than I thought.

  25. 25.

    burnspbesq

    The US men’s hockey team struggled but eventually found a way to solve Swiss goaltender Jonas Hiller for a 2-0. win earlier today. The Americans move into Friday’s semis.

  28. 28.

    Jim C.

    We still have DougJ to kick around though right? …. RIGHT? Tell me we can still kick around DougJ!!

  32. 32.

    Carrie

    you won’t have me to kick around tonight.

    Shitty, i was so looking forward to having someone to kick around tonight.

  34. 34.

    Andre

    @gwangung:

    Holy crap. Despite the “Democrat Administration” quip, that’s a platform that could be picked up by most non-US right wing political parties in the West without changing a thing.

    The Eisenhower Administration will continue to fight for dynamic and progressive programs which, among other things, will:
    …
    Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers;
    …
    Continue and further perfect its programs of assistance to the millions of workers with special employment problems, such as older workers, handicapped workers, members of minority groups, and migratory workers;
    …
    Strengthen and improve the Federal-State Employment Service and improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system;
    …
    Protect by law, the assets of employee welfare and benefit plans so that workers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful benefits;
    …
    Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;
    …
    Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards on Federal and Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts;
    …
    Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable;
    …
    Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex;
    …
    Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced with persistent and substantial unemployment;
    …
    Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public. The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration. In 1954, 1955 and again in 1956, President Eisenhower recommended constructive amendments to this Act. The Democrats in Congress have consistently blocked these needed changes by parliamentary maneuvers. The Republican Party pledges itself to overhaul and improve the Taft-Hartley Act along the lines of these recommendations.

    And the healthcare stuff is just stellar, relatively speaking.

    How far they’ve fallen, yet they think it’s progress…

  37. 37.

    jibeaux

    Well, I watched curling for the first time in my life tonight. There wasn’t any sound. Couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Looked like bowling on ice, if two guys were, say, frantically accompanying the bowling ball and blowing on it or something. Weirdest damn thing I’ve ever seen.

  38. 38.

    Xenos

    There is finally some worthwhile programming on CNBC. Canada 3, Russia 1, and the first period is not even over yet. The Canadians are out for blood. No nuclear power five times their size is going to get in the way of another chance to take down the Americans. Some beautiful hits out there.

  39. 39.

    DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio

    @jibeaux:

    I really enjoy watching curling. It has a sort of elegance to it, and it’s an activity where things happen in the fullness of time. It reminds me of a grown up form of marbles.

    A nice change of pace from the sturm und drang of events that, say, J Michael Neal would like.

    Heh.

  44. 44.

    Anne Laurie

    @jeffreyw:

    Can bluejays do a high 5? There may have been some cackling.

    I think the very existence of bluejays constitutes a high-five… or possibly a middle finger!

  47. 47.

    SixStringSlingr

    7-2 Canada over Russia, exactly halfway through the game. Wow. THIS is the team everyone expected to see from the host country.

  48. 48.

    freelancer

    Also, did anyone watch this GMA segment with the daughter of Joseph Stark calling her father a hero, and catch this nice little tidbit?

    Stark was an anti-tax psycho, and his daughter is rationalizing his insane demise by agreeing with his positions on the oppression of the IRS and taxes, but she flees and emigrates to Norway out of these same fears. That’s right, Norway, that shining igloo on a hill of Scandinavian tax havens.

    facepalm.

  50. 50.

    Anne Laurie

    I’m out to eat and not interested in the news, so you won’t have me to kick around tonight.

    If you’re not gonna discuss Lily’s respectable cloth coat booties, John, you should’ve at least announced that you were changing Tunch’s name to Checkers for the evening…

    (Yes, I am old. Not quite old enough to have witnessed Nixon’s original meltdown, but old enough to think of Tricky whenever the you-won’t-have-X-to-kick-around flag is waved.)

  53. 53.

    area man

    @Dave C:

    I was wondering if anyone was gonna mention that rather tasty bit of Repub schooling. Just watched it on Olbermann. Loved the little procedural thing where Lungren demanded withdrawal of the remarks and Weiner agrees, only to see Lungren object to the withdrawal thus allowing Weiner to repeat himself in no uncertain terms. The “deal with it” and podium slam at the end was wicked. That’s how legislators drop the mic, I guess.

    Two thumbs way up! I would recommend this Congresscritter to a friend!

  56. 56.

    RedKitten

    The Canadians are out for blood.

    That phrase alone just somehow seems so…out of place.

    I’m impressed with our boys, though — it’s like someone finally lit a fire under them. They’re hitting hard, often, and cleanly, and I’m really not seeing any stupid mistakes so far.

  57. 57.

    Xenos

    @freelancer: Norway has a shortage of black people undeserving poor, so the taxes are, like, totally cool. Shes down with social welfare for people whiter than she is.

  58. 58.

    Annie

    @Carrie:

    You are awesome…LOL…thanks!

    PS. John knows we are all lurking behind the bushes waiting from him to return from dinner. I bet when he exits the car, he looks both ways and runs into his apartment. Tunch is probably on the porch holding the flashlight so he doesn’t fall again, and Lily is inside with the leash in her mouth, and her legs crossed.

  59. 59.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    @RedKitten:

    They’re hitting hard, often, and cleanly,

    Cleanly? slugfests in Hockey are the only thing I understand about the game. The best is when two dudes stand toe to toe strip off their masks and pound on each others noggin like forever in an epic embrace, though, of course, a very manly one. It has : symmetry and choreography and a kind of primal thuggish ballet quality to it.

  67. 67.

    D-Chance.

    Looks like the Democrat House passed another bill that the Democrat Senate will bury… this one, insurance.

    But it got some guy named Weiner a chance to get some face time. Whoop-dee.

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