Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

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

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

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

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

So many bastards, so little time.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

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

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

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

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

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  3. 3.

    robertdsc

    I deleted Jane and her Firebaggers from my bookmarks today. No more of her shit.

    It took 4 tries but I got the car smogged and tagged for the next year, 12 days until the deadline. In between the 3rd & 4th smog tests? $1500 in repairs to the engine. /eyeroll

    How’s this for a pickle? On March 1st, I sent in my continuing claim form for unemployment. On March 11th, when my first check was due, I received a letter from the EDD notifying me of a telephone interview. No check. Not happy, was I. I dial in to the federal court last Sunday night to check my availability for the jury duty and it was HELD OVER for a week. So I have gone 18 days without any new source of funds and I’m entirely tapped out. The kicker? I can’t look for work until the jury duty summons has been fulfilled and I either get on a panel or get released. My unemployment insurance terms dictate that I must look for work but I can’t because of the jury duty. I’ve about had it with everything. The car hijinks were solved with a loan from friends, but it’s a terrible drag to not be able to look for work.

    Oh, and PTFB. Please.

  4. 4.

    jibeaux

    I can be kind of a sap, but I’m finding

    the flickr photostream

    pretty moving. I imagine there’s a story behind each one of those names. I am literally tearing up looking at cards with names on them. I am such a liberal, and such a girl. But there are worse things.

    Edit: ooh, you like the inadvertently blockquoted link? I’m a trendsetter, too.

  5. 5.

    jibeaux

    @robertdsc:

    Ugh, that blows. I think you’re going to want to avoid getting seated on a jury. You should maybe watch a little Fox until you feel crazy enough.

  6. 6.

    kth

    Not really a Deadhead, but that’s a great song. And Garcia totally deserved his iconic status as an unrepentant hippie. May we all age so gracelessly.

  7. 7.

    Brian J

    Completely stupid question that might belong in the “Get Off My Lawn” thread: when did razors become so damn expensive? I mean, I get that they aren’t really cheap, but just the replacement cartridges are like $15 for 4 of them. It’s almost enough to make me investigate options to take hair off my face on a more permanent basis.

  8. 8.

    ajr22

    John Stewart just did a 15 min segment impersonating Beck, and giving him shit for his “progressives are a cancer” bull shit. It was pretty great.

  10. 10.

    Kryptik

    Bad day for the Big East. G’Town gets massacred by Ohio, ND comes up short against Old Dominion, Marquette blows it against Washington, and the only team to win needed ref calls and a FT streak to put away Robert Morris, and even then, RMU looked like the stronger team in everything but the scoreboard.

    Much as I do not like Louisville or Pitt, I want them to win just to salvage the conference’s standing. Oh, and WVU win, of course.

  11. 11.

    jibeaux

    @Brian J:
    This is a subject you do not want to get my husband started on. Nor the tendency of the manufacturers to discontinue razor models so that you can’t buy refills anymore, have to start over with a new one. The corporate conspiracy rants can go on for a very long time. An old trick, find the 800 number on the back of the package and call them and politely complain about something, the price or the switching or the whatnot. They send coupons, good ones.

  12. 12.

    jibeaux

    Also too, I am keeping my child from wandering around the thread, see? Of course I have given her a hippie shirt and a kitten so she’ll be like crack to you…
    I have posted it before, but it just seems the most appropriate one for this blog.

  13. 13.

    Kryptik

    @Brian J:

    The price is why I’ve gone the ‘cheap rechargable electric’ route. I keep a cheap disposable on hand as well for when I really need to look completely bare.

  14. 14.

    Brian J

    @jibeaux:

    Hmm, maybe I should do that.

    @Kryptik:

    For some reason, I never got into electric razors. I thought about buying the one that dispensed the good a couple of years ago, but I think that was right about the time Gillette came out with the triple blade razors.

  15. 15.

    Corner Stone

    @Brian J: I can’t do electric either.
    I buy the disposable Mach 3’s, use each one for two shaves and just eat the cost.
    Buy them 52 pkg at a time from Sam’s Club.

    But my whiskers are soft and not too hard to deal with so that may not work for others.

  16. 16.

    Corner Stone

    @robertdsc: Man, bag that damn jury notice and go job hunting.
    They aren’t ever going to get you for ditching jury duty, and I will go way out on a limb and say if a judge ever asked you about it and you said it was either the job or prostitution he’d probably go easy on you.

  17. 17.

    vk

    i’m hoping hcr passes. i have one question. whose taxes will be raised according to the bill that is likely to pass? tried reading all the articles but didn’t see it. and i’ve been following this for what seems like forever. i know that at one point it was people making over 1 million, then i think it was 500k under the house bill. has this been figured out yet? thanks in advance.

  18. 18.

    OriGuy

    McLaren Park is the second-largest park in San Francisco, named after the man who made the largest, Golden Gate Park, what is is today. It’s tucked into the southeast corner of the city; tourists and other-towners often never have heard of it. The amphitheater there was renamed Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in 2005.

  20. 20.

    JGabriel

    C&L takes a special moment to appreciate Sarah Palin’s hair on Hannity tonight. In addition to the hair, I would like to also draw attention to her jewelry. Frankly, the whole ensemble looks like a mom, or maybe a kindergarten teacher, from a particularly low quality Alaskan production of the ABC Afterschool Special circa 1977.

    It really is: a sight to behold.

    .

  22. 22.

    trollhattan

    @ ajr22

    Yup, Stewart was on fahr tonight with the Beck thing.

    (Of purely personal interest he has Commerce Secretary Locke on, who went to my high school.)

  23. 23.

    eemom

    I love Ripple. One of my favorite songs evah, anywhere, anytime, by anybody. God that’s a beautiful song.

  24. 24.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I see the odious Mary Matalin is on Colbert– I’ve got some weird delay with my cable system so it’s still a couple of hours off. I hope he’s in a bad mood, but I have an odd feeling he’ll let the evil wretch off easy.

  25. 25.

    eemom

    oh and btw……THAT is a fucking HIPPIE.

    Now perhaps you can see why the bullshit “hippie punching”phrase that gets tossed around with respect to people who are NOT fucking hippies……..who are, in fact, as fucking far from fucking hippies as you can fucking get……..UPSETS some of us literalists.

  27. 27.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    @eemom: This has been annoying me lately also, not only not hippies but also certainly not progressive either. Not the best way to build any credibility when you start off calling yourself what you aren’t. Oh well, it is the blogosphere.

  29. 29.

    trollhattan

    Comedy night part deux. Colbert rips the shit out of Mary Matalin. She reminds me a little of Dowd after a humor and looks-ectomy. This was no match for Colbert.

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @trollhattan: ah, you make me happy, now I can watch it.

    She reminds me a little of Dowd after a humor and looks-ectomy.

    Her head and face have shrunken along with her soul.

  33. 33.

    PHinSD

    @robertdsc

    I don’t know what state you live in, but being on call for jury duty does not disqualify you from receiving unemployment compensation in California. I even had to postpone an EDD telephone hearing because I couldn’t guarantee that I wouldn’t be required to report to the court on that day and it was not a problem. Check your state’s EDD website.

  34. 34.

    gwangung

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck: I’ve ALWAYS been annoyed with it. Disagreement on tactics is not punching someone; the goals are the same, the values are the same—the disagreement is about how to get there. It’s just self-aggrandizing, phony martyrdom to call it hippie punching, particularly when the so-called puncher has been at it longer and has spent more time on progressive causes than the “punchee.”

  37. 37.

    Corner Stone

    @gwangung:

    particularly when the so-called puncher has been at it longer and has spent more time on progressive causes than the “punchee.”

    Like Cole, mayhap?

  39. 39.

    Brian J

    @jeffreyw:

    Oh man, I could never do that. I’m pretty sure I am going to shave my head in more of a military-style cut in the next week or two. It’s short now, but not short enough. I also can’t stand having a lot of hair on my face. And not that it’s related, but I also can’t imagine having a tattoo unless I was in the military at some point.

    Funny, as liberal as I might be, I am pretty conservative when it comes appearances.

  40. 40.

    robertdsc

    @PHinSD:
    Until the summons has been dealt with, either by discharge or seating on a panel, I have to keep my days open. I can’t commit to any applications due to the possibility of getting selected for a panel next week. What killed me was the layover for jury selection until next week. I’ve had my days free for 18 days now. It’s nerve-wracking.

    Corner Stone, I could skip out on the summons but the Court sent me a letter on March 3 strongly stating I reply to their questionnaire for eligibility because I’d let the original questionnaire slip my mind. The wording was strong enough that i don’t want to chance skipping out, especially since my previous excuse, that I would lose my job if I took time off to serve, no longer applies.

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    @Brian J:

    but I also can’t imagine having a tattoo unless I was in the military at some point.

    This End Up with an arrow?

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    @robertdsc:

    strongly stating I reply to their questionnaire for eligibility because I’d let the original questionnaire slip my mind. The wording was strong enough that i don’t want to chance skipping out, especially since my previous excuse, that I would lose my job if I took time off to serve, no longer applies.

    Yeah, that sounds ugly. I don’t know anyone who’s been boned on this before but, um, I agree you should make your best decision here.

  46. 46.

    PHinSD

    robertdsc

    I was on call for federal jury service for the entire month of January.

    Here’s what California state law says about it:

    California Unemployment Insurance Code Section 4554 ( c )
    An individual shall not be disqualified under this section for
    any week solely because the individual is before any court of the United States or any state pursuant to a lawfully issued summons to appear for jury duty, or the individual is hospitalized for treatment of an emergency or life-threatening condition.

    Check your state’s laws.

  47. 47.

    Comrade Kevin

    Awesome, after day 1 of the NCAA tournament, looks like I’m in last place! woo-hoo!

  48. 48.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Comrade Kevin: Really? I just assumed I was. I should go check, I suppose. Once Georgetown lost, so did I my interest in the brackets.

    OK, I need some blues music, plz. Kthxbai.

    Oh, and Tuuuuuuuuunch!

  49. 49.

    burnspbesq

    @Brian J:

    If you’re going to start shaving your head, you’re definitely going to want to start springing for higher quality cartridges, shaving cream, etc. My fave shaving cream is from L’Occitane, but it only comes in a metal tube that is bigger than what TSA allows you to carry on, so I use The Art of Shaving’s shaving cream when I travel.

    You’re also going to want to exfoliate your head periodically. Kiehl’s makes a pineapple-papaya scrub that’s really good for that purpose.

  54. 54.

    Gravenstone

    @JGabriel: My first thought was, “wait, that’s Tina Fey made up as Palin again, right?” Of course, she’ll now be howling for the next week about how all the mean old liberals were mocking her working mom ‘do. **sigh**

  55. 55.

    Mark S.

    Interesting post on the constitutionality of “deem and pass”:

    The text of Article I would seem to require a vote on the bill, and language in two Supreme Court opinions, INS v. Chadha and Clinton v. New York (the line-item veto case), would seem to interpret the bicameralism requirement in a fairly rigid and formalistic way. This is the legal authority that gives even many supporters of health care reform great pause.

    There’s some case law on the other side: an 1892 Supreme Court case and a recent DC appellate ruling.

    I think it would be pretty risky to pass the bill this way, because I think there’s a pretty good chance the Court would follow the Chadha and Clinton line of cases. And there will be challenges to it.

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