Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

Second rate reporter says what?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

“woke” is the new caravan.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

The revolution will be supervised.

Wait, what?

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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

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

So many bastards, so little time.

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  1. 1.

    RolloTomasi

    I loved the Hurt Locker , but did not catch the significance of the phrase “Hurt Locker”. Anyone have an insight?

    Sin Nombre and Where the Wild Things are were overlooked.

  2. 2.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    LOL. just skimmed the article, but sounds like Burkett is hard to please. Her documentary wins an Oscar, but she’s disappointed cause it wasn’t made the way she envisioned. Puma? absolutely, but nothing a personal plastic Unicorn won’t fix.

  3. 3.

    Zifnab

    Sounds like a solid pair of assholes to me. I mean, yikes, they’re just completely after each other.

  6. 6.

    demo woman

    It was definitely an awkward moment but I thought that Williams handled it as best he could. At the end he made sure to point out that Prudence was in the audience.

    OT The NYTimes now has the story that will be in Sunday’s magazine section.. The Limits of Rahmism
    Please make it stop… gee

  11. 11.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @demo woman:

    OT The NYTimes now has the story that will be in Sunday’s magazine section.. The Limits of Rahmism
    Please make it stop… gee

    Heh. I saw that too. Guess what the Sunday shows will be about. “Senator McCain, do you feel the President made a mistake in hiring Rahm Emanuel? -Well, David, it’s not really my place to say, but as I learned while a prisoner of war….”

  13. 13.

    Shalimar

    The film that won was very different from the film she wanted to make, by her own admission, so I don’t see how Burkett thinks she should be the one person to accept. How does she know the one she wanted to make would have even won?

  15. 15.

    LuciaMia

    Ya gotta watch out for those cane-wielding 87 year olds! My mom is nobody to be trifled with.

  16. 16.

    geg6

    I don’t know if she’s a PUMA or not (though my experiences with PUMAs suggest that yes, yes she is). But I do know that she is a classless bitch.

  17. 17.

    CalD

    Should be an easy enough question to answer. Check the FEC filings for Clinton and Obama. All that stuff is available online. One couldn’t really be a true PUMA without contributing to Clinton in the primaries but not Obama in the general, right?

  20. 20.

    geg6

    OT, but here is Chapter 3,485 of Why I Love the Rude Pundit:

    In other words, when Dick Cheney’s daughter, Liz, and her bullshit organization, Keep America Safe, go the full McCarthy in slandering Department of Justice attorneys, simply because they did abided by the Constitution and the Supreme Court in providing a defense for Gitmoites, and condemning them as terrorist abettors, she should probably ask dear old dad, “Umm, why the fuck did you arm al-Qaeda and help make 9/11 possible?”

    rudepundit.blogspot.com/

  23. 23.

    Fergus Wooster

    But I would bet any amount of money that this woman is a PUMA

    When she came on, my first thought was, “Hey, what the hell is Harriet Christian doing at the Oscars?”

  28. 28.

    Annie

    OT, but so juicy…….

    The former half-term Alaska governor was in Calgary over the weekend, and talked a bit about her family’s history with the country.

    “My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse. Believe it or not — this was in the ’60s — we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn’t that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada.”

    So Palin and family benefitted from the Canadian health care system…one that neither Palin nor her family helped support…

  31. 31.

    kay

    @Annie:

    She’s a lunatic. Here’s how she described it in 2007:

    “Palin drew from her Skagway past to illustrate her point. Her brother burned his foot badly jumping through a fire, and her mother had to take him down to Juneau on the ferry to the hospital. “All these years later, that’s still what people have to rely on here in some instances,” she said.”

    Ferry, train, Alaska, Canada, she doesn’t know what the hell went on.

    Does she have a brother?

  32. 32.

    MikeJ

    @kay: What went on is whatever is most convenient at the moment. Nobody’s ever going to call her a liar, that would be impolite. So why not jazz up the story?

  36. 36.

    kay

    @MikeJ:

    “Palin has also told an alternate version of the story that had her family traveling south by ferry to Juneau from Skagway for treatment of her brother’s burned foot, rather than to Canada, according to a 2007 report posted by the Skagway News.”

  37. 37.

    Annie

    @jacy:

    LOL. Part of me hopes yes — always good for a few screaming posts…

    Part of me hopes no — can’t take a few more screaming posts…

  38. 38.

    licensed to kill time

    I just have to say “Palin” and “Skagway” in the same sentence is pretty funny.

    Also, the fact that she pulls assorted stories out of her brain and reshuffles them to fit the talking point du jour is rather reminiscent of Reagan. I’m sure she’d be pleased to hear that, though it is hardly a compliment.

    (reposted from Sully thread because no one is there at the moment.)

  39. 39.

    Joey Maloney

    Speaking of grifters, I wish I had thought of this scam.

    As we’ve written in the past, Base Connect’s business model appears to involve using direct-mail appeals to a well-honed lists of national Republican donors to raise a lot of money on behalf of long-shot candidates — for instance, Deborah Honeycutt, a black Republican who has challenged Rep. David Scott (D-GA) in the last two cycles, both times losing by 38 points. The firm then charges the candidate nearly the sum total of what it raised, for expenses related to the fundraising effort itself. Each campaign not only allows the firm to turn a hefty profit, but also helps it further hone its master list for future use.

  41. 41.

    MikeJ

    One person, one time, referred to an “alternate version”. Do you think we’ll ever hear about this again, even if she brings it up? Compare with, “invented the internet.”

  43. 43.

    fraught

    For god’s sake let a white woman, born in Rhodesia, have her say. Why are people ganging up on her when she obviously knows that black men are not up to task of speaking for a white woman.

  44. 44.

    demo woman

    Folks, Before we get carried away with Sarah and alternative stories or lies, let’s remember an important fact, her brother has two feet. Just like Jesus had two feet her brother had two feet also.
    I must add that I do assume that her brother still has two feet but I have not verified that fact yet.

  45. 45.

    geg6

    @moe99:

    Well, as a childless person who has had to endure more from friends and the people I work with who have children than anyone ever should, I won’t hold her hatin’ on the privileges given to those who bear children in this insane society against her. I simply can’t disagree with many of the things she bitched about there (though I draw the line at name-calling). Being rude and taking credit for shit she shouldn’t, however, definitely makes her a loser of the highest degree.

  48. 48.

    geg6

    @Rhoda:

    Yeah, Massa has completely lost it. I mean, just lost it. Wonder how DougJ is feeling about him today.

  50. 50.

    slag

    @Will: I believe the word you are looking for is “inadequate”. And I only mention it because, in this usage, “inadequate” has so much more poetry than “unqualified”, and I wouldn’t want us to do the PUMAs any injustice.

  51. 51.

    Joel

    i chased around some links on salon and realized why i don’t read that place anymore…

    yikes.

    i did like the guy who called out barbara streisand for trying to steal bigelow’s limelight.

  52. 52.

    Annie

    @demo woman:

    Yes, but did he take notes with and keep notes on either one of his two feet, one that apparently was saved by the gracious Canadian government-supported health care system. I think God and Sarah wrote about this on their palms…

  54. 54.

    slackjawedgawker

    @gbear:

    He’s no longer interested in credibility – he wants to be cast on a reality TV program. Cable news publicity tours are the essential next step toward this goal for disgraced public servants (see Blagoyevich, Delay, Palin, etc.). If he had been outed a few years later, McGreevey might have ended up sharing a hottub with The Situation on Jersey Shore.

  56. 56.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    Salon? Fuck you, I’m having a shitty enough day as it is — the DHCP server issued a different IP address for my VM since it was shut down all last week, but the DNS server won’t update itself and still returns the old address, so nothing fucking works anymore. Can’t mount the VM drives on Windows, can’t run the CM software, can’t use PuTTy terminals to connect to the VM, nada.

    Going to Salon would just be shitty icing on the shit cake.

  60. 60.

    Tax Analyst

    @Annie:

    I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing

    Anybody know where Sarah was when this little “accident” happened? She was probably standing by with an empty can of gasoline and a half-used book of matches.

  62. 62.

    Corner Stone

    @Rhoda:

    This guy is a crazy mofo who is determined to bring the democrats down for not covering for him like the Republicans covered for Foley. And since he can’t do that; he’s going to screw with them as much as possible.

    I’m not sure we have all the facts yet, or even enough to make much of a reasonable conclusion about Mr. Massa.
    It seems he has something to say.

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