Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

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

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

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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

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  1. 1.

    SIA

    Man I’ve been out of the circuit too long. What is hooch? I thought it was pot, but maybe it’s beer? Seems like a term I remember my father using after Viet Nam. Or was that what they lived in? NEVER MIND

  5. 5.

    fucen tarmal

    i have hooch, but its hard hooch, and the playoffs demand beer. i rarely drink beer, but it goes well with hockey…

    this game sucks so far however…

    c’mon pens, time to turn it on….

  8. 8.

    Jennifer

    Who knew that p*nis is a bad word on BJ.

    I repeat my last:

    At first glance, I thought that said P*nis Open Thread.

    I blame Sadly, No!

  15. 15.

    Tiparillo

    Hockey?!? Man the NBA Western Conference playoff matchups are coming down to the final games. who are my Blazers gonna be matched with???

    Don’t talk about hockey! Are you kidding me? Hockey? <- in best Jim Mora impersonation

  16. 16.

    HumboldtBlue

    Hockey — the cilantro of the North American sporting scene.

    Well, not really, I like hockey, a lot. Just keeping up appearances.

  17. 17.

    Cat Lady

    The crowd today for Palin in Boston could’ve been a free Kenny G concert, except for the flag waving. It was very very white. I’m a fan of this guy.

    I don’t know what the official turnout supposedly is, but the turnout was way less than when the Mayor declared Ray Bourque Day when he finally won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche. There were 20,000 people for that. I was there. Actually, think about that. How many cities would honor an athlete that left their beloved team to win with another team and honor them anyway? Bostonians love hockey. Also. Too.

  19. 19.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    As a Caps fan:

    Fuck the Fucking Pengooooins.

    (with apologies to the late Steve Gilliard who usta say “fuck the fucking yankees).

    You voted for the Worst. President. Ever.

    Twice.

    And you’re a Pengooooins fan. Some days, it’s tough reading this blog. :)

  21. 21.

    Les

    @beltane:

    We could ask Genghis Khan. He won in Afghanistan. Not that there was much left of the place once the Mongols went through it…

    ETA: I too thought this read Pen1s Open Thread at first.

  22. 22.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @beltane:

    What would winning in Afghanistan even look like?

    )

    Ask Alexander the Great. He was the last (and only one) to do it.

    Took 8 years and made his campaign in Persia look like a cake walk. It ruined his health.

  23. 23.

    Mark S.

    @beltane:

    No one has ever won in Afghanistan. What would winning in Afghanistan even look like?

    Who knows? Our main goal should be destroying Al Qaeda. If that means dealing with the Taliban, so be it. Karzai has been itching to make a deal with the Taliban for a while.

    I also don’t think you can control every square foot of Afghanistan. I think it was probably a good idea to get out of the valley.

  24. 24.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @Les:

    He used it as a thruway and didn’t conquor and hold it in the classical sense. Ghengis was nobody’s fool. The Mongols raided thru region, or marched thru it putting much of it to the torch. He wanted areas beyond it.

  25. 25.

    calipygian

    Doughy Pantload sez that wimmin don’t get payed as much as men-folk cuz more men=folk git themselfs kilt on da job much mores:

    Mark Perry makes a great point. One of the reasons why men make more money than women is that they’re more likely to be paid to risk their lives.

    Moar I reed Dughy Pantlood, stupider I’s getter.

  26. 26.

    Les

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage:

    Welp, mebbe that’s what a fella’s gotta to do to win in Afghanistan.

    (And I thought it took Alexander “only” about 3 years to take the area. And I think he had to make a local alliance by marriage to do so, didn’t he? Wasn’t that Roxana?)

  29. 29.

    MikeJ

    A second reason, however, was that I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major’s Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism. On the available evidence, I suspect that it is Lord Ashcroft’s idea of being a mug

    http://crookedtimber.org/2010/04/14/j-k-rowling-on-welfare-and-patriotism/

  33. 33.

    Mike S

    I’m interested in John’s take on this article in The Nation.

    For three years The Nation has been reporting on military doctors’ fraudulent use of personality disorder to discharge wounded soldiers [see Kors, “How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits,” April 9, 2007]. PD is a severe mental illness that emerges during childhood and is listed in military regulations as a pre-existing condition, not a result of combat. Thus those who are discharged with PD are denied a lifetime of disability benefits, which the military is required to provide to soldiers wounded during service. Soldiers discharged with PD are also denied long-term medical care. And they have to give back a slice of their re-enlistment bonus. That amount is often larger than the soldier’s final paycheck. As a result, on the day of their discharge, many injured vets learn that they owe the Army several thousand dollars.
    According to figures from the Pentagon and a Harvard University study, the military is saving billions by discharging soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan with personality disorder.
    snip
    Luther’s case is not an isolated incident. In the past three years, The Nation has uncovered more than two dozen cases like his from bases across the country. All the soldiers were examined, deemed physically and psychologically fit, then welcomed into the military. All performed honorably before being wounded during service. None had a documented history of psychological problems. Yet after seeking treatment for their wounds, each soldier was diagnosed with a pre-existing personality disorder, then discharged and denied benefits.
    That group includes Sgt. Jose Rivera, whose hands and legs were punctured by grenade shrapnel during his second tour in Iraq. Army doctors said his wounds were caused by personality disorder. Sailor Samantha Stitz fractured her pelvis and two bones in her ankle. Navy doctors cited personality disorder as the cause. Spc. Bonnie Moore developed an inflamed uterus during her service. Army doctors said her profuse vaginal bleeding was caused by personality disorder. Civilian doctors disagreed: they performed emergency surgery to remove her uterus and appendix. After being discharged and denied benefits, Moore and her teenage daughter became homeless.

  34. 34.

    Mike E

    jeffreyw, I’m making batch # eleventy billion of red beans and rice, this time with some left over thyme sprigs and tomato paste I bought for my shrimp bisque experiment the other night. That was pretty good for a 1st attempt, tho I didn’t have Pernod or brandy. Or ‘hooch’. Damn.

    +2

  36. 36.

    fucen tarmal

    dammit two periods in, and not looking good for the defending champs…at least we aren’t the capitals, all bags no cups.

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @arguingwithsignposts: Aww, Lady Smudge in her boudoir might not appreciate an audience.

  41. 41.

    Syndicalist

    Thought I’d float my idea here, it’s been bugging me all day. Black and white pic of Bush speaking in front of Mission Accomplished banner, with a Dana Carvey-like Bush 41 imitator reading the Earl Woods script. “What were you thinking…what did you learn.”
    Can someone please make this happen? THank you

  43. 43.

    fucen tarmal

    @MikeJ:

    which made the butler sad, but relieved, he was worried the maid would find out.

    the cook on the other hand, was smiling like the butcher’s dog.

  44. 44.

    Mike E

    @jeffreyw:
    Yours looks about right, classic with the andouille on top–I’m decidedly low budget without the sausage garnish, but I cook it with bacon/pancetta. Must be good though, my 9th grader likes it! :-)

  46. 46.

    gbear

    Pens Open Thread

    My favorite is the Pilot G-2 with a .7 mm point and blue ink.

    Winter is over. Skates and sticks should have been put into storage a month ago. Hockey this late is just weird.

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