Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

How stupid are these people?

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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  1. 1.

    jharp

    Where’s the best place to get a Devonshire in Pittsburgh?

    Damn those are good. I had one somewhere around terminal way some years ago. Great city.

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    Cat Lady

    You know what makes me crazy about the reporting from these places devastated by natural disasters? The reports of “looting”. Desperate people who’ve lost everything aren’t looters. I know it matters what color the “looter” is. From Katrina to Chile, that one loaded word gets trotted right out and changes the dynamic of the reporting and response. Seriously, it isn’t that hard to imagine losing everything and taking anything you can. I know I would. Anyone would.

  6. 6.

    jharp

    “I love spicy chile with black beans”

    I’ve been eating black beans, onions, chili sauce, peppers topped with cheese and two poached eggs as my everyday breakfast routine.

    It’s damn good and damn good for you.

  7. 7.

    gwangung

    You know what makes me crazy about the reporting from these places devastated by natural disasters? The reports of “looting”. Desperate people who’ve lost everything aren’t looters. I know it matters what color the “looter” is. From Katrina to Chile, that one loaded word gets trotted right out and changes the dynamic of the reporting and response

    You’re in a place. Disaster hits. Everything you have and everything your neighbor has is smashed flat and gone. Some stuff is left. Isn’t it just kinda stupid to let it just lay there and not put it to use??

  9. 9.

    BombIranForChrist

    Suddenly, out of the blue, Dana Milbank writes a glowing, unsourced article about Rahm Emanuel.

    What Milbank doing? Is he:

    A) Signaling to Rahm that if Rahm needs someone to fluff him or take dictation from him, now or in the future, Milbank is his man.

    B) Milbank is already an Official Rahm Fluffer / Stenographer.

    C) Milbank is writing an objective news article.

  10. 10.

    Bob K

    Maybe we could send more money to Chile if we didn’t give 138 Billion to the over priveleged rich in this country by doing away with inheritance taxes and we could send an additonal 10 Billion from the unemployed that we should just let starve. We SO deserve to be the third world nation that we WILL be when we drown government in the bathtub. FUCK THE RICH

  11. 11.

    Elisabeth

    So, apparently Bunning and the Senate leadership have reached an agreement…that’s exactly what Reid offered the douche last week. This whole week did nothing but delay unemployment checks, furlough thousands of people, and lead to more government dysfunction.

    Thanks a$$hole Bunning.

  12. 12.

    jacy

    @Cat Lady:

    There’s a difference between taking things you need to survive and taking things you don’t need that don’t belong to you. I’ve seen picture of SOME people in Chile taking appliances and TVs and all manner of luxury goods. That, by any definition, is looting.

    The thing that pissed me off about Katrina, was pictures of white people taking things from grocery stores were tagged as “foraging,” but pictures of black people in same situation were tagged as “looting.” Made my blood boil.

    That said, there’s always looting in disaster areas, and speaking as someone who actually lived through Katrina, people who are REAL looters should be charged with a federal crime and locked up for as long as the law will allow.

    I don’t care if you take all the loaves or bread, water, hell, even caviar, but when you break into your next store neighbor’s house or the corner store and start lifting jewelry and TVs, that’s looting. Taking advantage of human misery to commit a crime is about as low as you can go.

    I personally know several people in New Orleans who stayed in their homes rather than evacuate, because everything they had was there, and they were terrified that the minute they left it unattended, somebody would take everything they had.

    So I agree with you that people who are just trying to survive have been unfairly tagged as criminals, but that doesn’t excuse real criminals who take advantage of a situation.

  13. 13.

    ellaesther

    @Cat Lady: I did hear some use of the word “scavenging” re: Haiti, and that just makes more sense to me. I’m sure some are exploiting the situation and trying to benefit — people being people and so on — but I’m equally sure that I can’t know from this distance who they are, vs. the much greater number of people who are just trying to survive. Scavenging.

  14. 14.

    Linda Featheringill

    To Bob K:

    We are dependent on the rich people to dole out salaries or capital to start a little business, etc. etc.

    What we really need is to figure out how to meet our needs without depending on the greedy little bastards. But I haven’t figured that out yet.

  15. 15.

    Keith G

    I have a request.

    I would like to be pointed to a site or a blog that does a thorough, critical analysis of the climate change debates and related sideshows.

    I would love it if such a site(s) was not grinding a particular axe, just following the science.

    I am getting ready to ride into combat and I need to sharpen my sword and know that it can hold up.

  18. 18.

    Tim F.

    @Keith G: Try RealClimate from the science section of our blogroll, at right. They have fantastic info if you can handle the relatively high academic level.

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