Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

“woke” is the new caravan.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

No one could have predicted…

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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  2. 2.

    TenguPhule

    And Obama gets a boost from Pelosi on HCR.

    No thanks to the Blue Dickless in the Senate.

    Will it finally get passed this time?

    We can only hope.

    And phone in.

  4. 4.

    weaselswords

    Saw this while scanning Google News. Lady Lynn, wanted to let everybody know that “I told you so, America”. Apparently Obama is a big phony who isn’t serious about bi-partisanship, and that’s really important to her because she’s been a life-long Dem, and… 18 million votes, and…and… that’s about as far as I got. It was just awful.
    So then I went down to read the comments and they were great. They just ripped her to shreds. It was pretty funny, all-in-all.
    Ah, good times.

  5. 5.

    gnomedad

    No thanks to the Blue Dickless in the Senate.

    Yes, it’s true. These Dems have no dicks.

  6. 6.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    This seems like a pretty good idea to counter the teabaggers and I hope it spreads. The name they chose doesn’t carry the ‘baggage’ that the teabagger moniker does but with the use of coffee by some in enemas, I would have chosen another description.

    The Coffee Party Movement? Oh well, beats the hell out of being called a teabagger.

  7. 7.

    Halteclere

    I have a hell of a day ahead for me.Not only was I up late last night due to work, but I woke up at 3:00am with my heart racing due to stress. So I spent an hour sending off more e-mails before finally became drowsy.

    Then at 5:45am the project manager called to say the alarm was going off at our regional facility, and that I needed to check it out.Which I did, and which was caused by another employee’s badge not being set up to deactivate the alarm.

    But the kicker? I have to be on the jobsite sipervising one crew of subs from 8:00am to 6:00pm, then supervising a second crew of subs from 8:00pm to 6:00am. Tuesday the first crew is back, which I’ll need to supervise, but by the afternoon someone to take over from me will have flown into town.

    Fun, fun

  8. 8.

    Xenos

    @weaselswords: The nerve of this woman to expect people to use her title ‘lady’ is just ridiculous. Call her by her real name, ‘Mrs. Roth’.

    Although it pains me to associate her with one of my favorite novelists.

  9. 9.

    kay

    @TenguPhule:

    Pelosi gets no credit from the media. It’s starting to piss me off a little.
    If she were a Republican male she’d have a nickname like “velvet hammer” by now.
    Instead she’s the object of snickering and something close to ridicule from the morons in the punditry, none of whom could do her job with anything close to the competency with which she does it.
    I think they’re all rigidly conventional people who can’t handle the fact that her job isn’t held by a man, preferably a man with a southern accent, and from somewhere “American” like Texas.

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I’ve been defaulting to NBC the past couple of weeks because of the Olympics, and this morning I turned on the TV with the Today Show underway, and guess what they were talking about? NATALIE HOLLOWAY!!

  11. 11.

    Nicole

    For the Canadian B-Juicers- our Canadian-born local news anchor did the intro to the hockey segment wearing a CANADA jersey. And up popped a bar on the screen, saying, “The views of this anchor do not necessarily reflect those of NY1.” Heh. It’s not often the local news makes me laugh on a Monday morning.

  14. 14.

    Keith G

    @SiubhanDuinne: Upper middle class blond young woman disappears/is hurt/murdered (whatever) and the world stops. And morning news will be on the scene.

    On Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, Stephenopolis was the guest. As he talked about his career change to AM, he said he only did it when it was clear that ABC was going to take the news component seriously (or words to that effect) and there was a quite audible wave of laughter flowing from the live audience. Priceless.

    The news programs are making prominent note of looting taking place in Chile. Like that is their biggest issue?

    To make matters worse, Cokie Roberts is on blathering on about reconciliation. Oh, happy Monday.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Keith G: I heard that on Wait, Wait! Snicker. Also just heard Cokie on Morning Edition. I used to have C-SPAN’s National Journal on each morning but so many of their callers these days seem to be utterly deranged that I can’t bear to listen to them. Really, I’m not sure where to turn now. Maybe just stick to BJ for what’s happening, and listen to string quartets instead of (air quotes) “journalists and reporters.”

  17. 17.

    Ash Can

    I’ve seen that sheep video before, and it never ceases to amaze me. What a clever thing to do, and those herding dogs are something else.

    @Nicole: That’s adorable. I would have roared if I’d seen that.

  18. 18.

    nancydarling

    There is a god! Just heard on CSPAN that Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is entering the primary against Blanche Lincoln. I emailed to volunteer. I don’t know a lot about him, but he has to be better than Blanche.

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    Punchy

    Read this, and really, really wish I could try an experiment:

    First, take 3 old white men with guns strapped into the Starbucks. Watch the probably muted reaction.

    Next, take 3 young Black men with guns strapped into Starbucks. Watch the cops called, the place empty, and lawsuits fly. Guarenteed.

    Seriously, coffee houses now allowing peeps to stir their mocha with their thirty-eight? Holy Jeebus.

  20. 20.

    robertdsc

    The Playstation Network has been down since early yesterday evening. My fat 40 GB PS3 can’t connect. I’m bummed in a major way.

  21. 21.

    arguingwithsignposts

    As he talked about his career change to AM, he said he only did it when it was clear that ABC was going to take the news component seriously (or words to that effect) and there was a quite audible wave of laughter flowing from the live audience. Priceless.

    Oh, you mean THIS ABC news?

  24. 24.

    Eric U.

    @Punchy: I overheard a shop owner arguing on the phone with a customer. It just so happened I came back later having forgotten something, and in comes that customer with a pistol prominently attached to his belt. It’s just a way of threatening and bullying people.

  25. 25.

    Keith G

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Now if only Baba Wawa was on that list.

    And Jake Tapper – from his Twtter feed:

    In these last few steps in his push to pass #hcr, POTUS faces more hurdles and obstacles than Super Mario

    I need drugs.

  26. 26.

    Nicole

    @Punchy: Why don’t these open-carry fanatics save themselves some money and just get a cheap tshirt from Cafe Press that says “I have a tiny wee-wee”?

  27. 27.

    matoko_chan

    Here is another smile…this is so genius that it almost brought tears to my eyes….
    still, I imagine this will be spun as Obama shunts Real Amurrican “conservative” kids into voc-ed.
    If there is one thing the philoprogenitive teabaggers demand it is their unalienable right to reproduce teh Stupid.

  28. 28.

    gogol's wife

    OT whatever the T is, but my Tunch mousepad is making Monday morning a whole lot more fun.

  29. 29.

    Quackosaur

    @robertdsc:

    That sucks, especially since it doesn’t seem to be affecting all PS3s. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the problem has something to do with the phat PS3s not understanding what comes after 2/28/2010.

  32. 32.

    Keith G

    @jeffreyw: Thank you.

    And thank a rural jr. high sch in the early 70s.

    Enrolled in a speech pathology class (I had a lisp, and was gay – who knew!) the teacher has us read a pared down version of Julius Caesar. I read the lead role. That inspired instructional choice helped start my love of the Bard and of drama – something that came in handy as I became an older gay teen.

    And I still remember those lines.

  35. 35.

    Ash Can

    @matoko_chan: I’m coming around on this idea. I think it’s the notion of 9th and 10th grade students really having an incentive to put their noses to the grindstone to do the 10-and-out thing. If the board exams are constructed well, I can see how this idea can have real benefits.

    Another program that just might be in the works is all-year school. If I recall the neighborhood scuttlebutt correctly, Arne Duncan had begun to consider this idea while he was still head of the Chicago Public Schools. Like 10-and-Out, it would start out by being piloted in a few parts of the country (including ours). Instead of having a 10-week-long summer vacation, the ten weeks would be broken into two-week intervals and interspersed throughout the year — a couple of two-week vacations in the summer, extended vacations around the holidays, extra time off during the cold months when people like to take warm-weather vacations, that sort of thing. And the teachers are in favor of it because it means they wouldn’t have to spend whole weeks in September reviewing all the stuff the kids learned in the previous grade and forgot over the summer.

    On a purely emotional level, the idea of summer vacation being a thing of the past makes me wistful. But on the far more important practical level, I hope it happens, since it looks like it can give the kids a real educational boost.

  36. 36.

    Brian J

    @nancydarling:

    Well, even if he’s somewhat worse, isn’t it better if we keep the seat and thus the majority (or stay one step closer to 60)? As bad as Lincoln may be, I wouldn’t be surprised if her Republican placement is far worse.

  37. 37.

    Brian J

    @Ash Can:

    Ehh. Perhaps there could be one extended vacation over the summer, four weeks instead of two, perhaps in July, or something like that?

    Maybe it’s just because I’m a homebody, but I think a lot of people would get over it after a while. After all, they won’t really have a say in the matter, and while it might take some kids who had already experienced a few summer vacations a while to get used to it, within a few years, kids who only know the new system would be students.

  38. 38.

    martha

    @Punchy: I read that story this morning and wondered if, for parts of the country (the relatively “sane” ones), this will become like the “smoking”/”non-smoking” issue.

    People who aren’t comfortable shopping/eating/drinking in establishments where people wear guns will take their hard-earned dollars to establishments who cater to them.

    It may take awhile in some places, but it will be an interesting example of “the market” at work…

  39. 39.

    Svensker

    @Halteclere:

    , but I woke up at 3:00am with my heart racing due to stress

    Up your magnesium intake if that’s happening. Seriously. You’ll be amazed. Stop when you start to get the runs.

  41. 41.

    Anonymous

    Allow to rant for a second. I currently live in Switzerland but am back in the States for a couple of days for interviews.

    This morning I went to deposit quite a few Swiss francs into my Citibank account so I didn’t have to pay the international wire transfer fee. The exchange rate is currently .92 Swiss francs to the dollar. Meanwhile, Citibank tells me that, with their conversion fees, they will only buy my francs at .80 to the dollar. Seriously, they’re going to charge me a 13% fee to convert currency?!!! That makes airport exchange rates look like the best bargain ever. I’ll take my money back to Switzerland and just pay the damned wire fee which is only about $25 (versus the nearly $700 I would have lost using their exchange rate).

    They’re a bunch of fucking parasites and I’m closing my account as soon as I move back permanently. The only reason that account is still open is because I was overseas when the financial crisis hit and it would have been way too difficult to try and open a new account (and switch all my bill payments) from across the Atlantic. It should be fun too. When I come back, the Swiss will transfer my pension as a lump sum payment to my bank account, so I’ll have a very handsome looking account (even though I’m not going to touch a cent of it) which I will promptly close. Yeah yeah, they’re probably won’t care, but it will still feel nice…

    Again…bunch of fucking parasites they are.

  42. 42.

    matoko_chan

    @Ash Can: this is a way…..of making vocational college as cool as 4 years of lib arts, which not all students need. Jump start on earning a wage, leveraging the deferrred gratification of a 4 year degree into 18 year old skilled potential.
    The euro-model segregates students into vocational track or college track….this levels the playing field without rigid structural determinism in the career path….
    Obama’s plan is pure genius for the gifted-n-talented too…they can move into jr. college courses instead of having to take AP classes….localized education economic boomlet too.
    :)

  43. 43.

    Keith G

    @Ash Can: A point that bothers me, a small point, is that most 16-17 yr olds still do not have the abstract thinking capacity to fully internalize the thought processes that are, in my mind, the hallmark of a college education.

    I taught seniors in high school for years. Love ’em. Still, their cerebral wiring is not yet complete. Oh, they will jump through the hoop diligently, but will they really be learning the things our society needs them to in a meaningful way?

  44. 44.

    bystander

    This video always nearly brings me to tears. It’s knowing this breed of dog, and sharing the work with them. It’s hard to describe how closely you come to know them, and they come to know you. And, a well trained dog actually does a better job of keeping the livestock (sheep or cattle) safe than if they’d been herded by humans. An experienced dog can “read” the intention of the livestock a hundred times better than a human, and their ability to anticipate can prevent a lot of wrecks. Of course, an untrained dog, or a poorly trained dog – to say nothing of an idiot dog handler – can create the wrecks of legend.

    That this choreography was achieved, in part, by the skills the handler with his/her whistle – all the commands for go-by, way to me, easy, etc – are all associated with a specific whistle pitch – is pretty extraordinary as well. And, one assumes that, given the number of dogs that would have been required to pull this off, each dog had to recognize/discriminate his/her handler’s whistle and whistle commands.

    If you’re ever inclined to frustrate yourself by doing something that looks like it ought to be really, really easy – but isn’t – you could learn to blow this kind of whistle.

  45. 45.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @matoko_chan:

    I have been saying this for years. The whole “everyone has to go to college” thing has been burning at me ever since my DH became a teacher. If you take it to its logical conclusion (everyone is a professional with a four year degree or higher) then where are all these professionals going to live? What are they going to drive? On what are they going to drive? What will they eat or wear? I am not sure what it is like in England now but we had a thriving vocational education system which at about age 14 would have you choose your “options” for your intended career path, whatever that may be. I wanted to be an actress, but knew I needed a back up plan, so my options were business studies, commercial arithmatic and statistics, typing, short-hand etc., others chose perhaps catering as a career and went from school a couple of times a week to the local technical college to take classes. Hell you can even go to technical college to become a waitress (Silver Service). Fact is that without those hard working “non college educated” folks in society the college educated among us would be well and truly fucked cause they sure as hell are not going to grow their own food and make their own clothes. JMHO.

  46. 46.

    Corner Stone

    @Keith G:

    I taught seniors in high school for years. Love ‘em. Still, their cerebral wiring is not yet complete. Oh, they will jump through the hoop diligently, but will they really be learning the things our society needs them to in a meaningful way?

    And this is a little of what my argument is with the proposed approach. We, as a society, do not do this kind of thing well. We like to tinker round the edges and address just one aspect of a problem, and never seem to anticipate other ramifications.
    I can see pros and cons but I still maintain that the real issue is not effective / ineffective educational goals but rather maturity / social skills of the younger work force.

  47. 47.

    Nicole

    All right, I know I’m being a poopy and will blame it on being sick, but we do all know a lot of the video is CGI’d, right? The legs on the sheep and the Mona Lisa (which is not to take away from what the dogs and their handlers do, which is still really amazing).

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