Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

This fight is for everything.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

This blog will pay for itself.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

A consequence of cucumbers

Come on, man.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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  1. 1.

    mistersnrub

    Good piece by Jay Rosen on David Gregory’s refusal to practice real journalism.

    Colbert, as usual, nails it:

    David Gregory has rejected this hare-brained scheme, saying quote “people can fact-check ‘Meet the Press’ every week on their own terms.” Thank you David! It is not a Sunday host’s job to make sure his guests aren’t lying, any more than it’s a party host’s job to make sure the food isn’t poisioned. (applause..) … The host is there to tell his guests when it is their turn to talk. That is why NBC is currently grooming Gregory’s replacement: a chess timer.

  2. 2.

    Bnut

    Sometimes the random playlist just spits out a line of good shit: Joss Stone, Zeppelin, Lupe Fiasco. And the comes the stupid Rodney Carrington stand up I always forget to delete.

    If anyone here lives near New Paltz/Poukipsee in NY, my cousin is holding one of her epilepsy drives soon. This girl blows me away. Overcoming a terrible health problem, and at such a young age doing so much for others. She even had a book written about her.

  4. 4.

    Comrade Mary

    That song, from Doc at the Radar Station, tumbled me down the rabbit hole of Beefheart love. Good choice, Doug!

    EDIT: Yay for biking, debit! I’m on deadline for Monday, so no long rides for me today.

  5. 5.

    Bob K

    WTF? It’s the resident congress critter of crazy town. Shelly (Batshit Crazy Overdrive) Bachmann. “Ganstas?” Let’s see Obama is a socialist, elitist, arugula eating Gangsta from chi-town. This sounds like something Mikey Steele would say and should appeal to all those “brothers of another color” we want to vote for us. These are not to be confused with Wall Street “Bankstas” who need another helping hand from us to keep the mean socialists from taking over all the banks and enslaving us all with their so called “Financial Reform”. And here yet another new word from Bill Clinton -“Hatriot” Isn’t that special?
    Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) — also a strong supporter of the Tea Parties — refused to endorse Bachmann’s “gangster government” rhetoric: When a southern Republican says you’re spouting Bull$hit what does that say?

    http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/18/blackburn-bachmann-ganster/

  6. 6.

    Jason Bylinowski

    I’m Going To Do What I Wanna Do – Cpt. Beefheart

    The above is the title of the coolest live progrock/jazzrock album ever made. I don’t even like progrock in general, but I find some of this stuff to be just radical in a good way.

  7. 7.

    anna missed

    I was lucky enough to see the Beefheart band in a rock and roll club in Cleveland Ohio, must have been 71 or 2. It was a truly amazing show, revolutionary, even. My favorite Beefheart/youtube is this one, with just the C’ptn and Frank Zappa doing Orange Claw Hammer – a lyric masterpiece.

  8. 8.

    mr. whipple

    I never really got into Beefheart, the only one I own is TMR. But I can appreciate his place and creativity. It’s some really challenging listening.

  9. 9.

    benjoya

    the captain rules! “nowadays a woman’s gotta hit a man” is great. and “moonlight on vermont.” toally groundbreaking guitar playing, while still speaking the blues vocab. i play his tunes with a drummer who’s been playing for 40-some years. he says “now THIS is an education!”

  10. 10.

    gbear

    I ran across this story while looking around The Strangler site after DougJ’s link to the Dan Savage piece earlier. Forgive me for blockquoting so much of this story, but it starts out bad and just keeps getting worse and worse.

    Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place—wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health.

    One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold’s care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes. Ignoring Clay’s significant role in Harold’s life, the county continued to treat Harold like he had no family and went to court seeking the power to make financial decisions on his behalf. Outrageously, the county represented to the judge that Clay was merely Harold’s “roommate.” The court denied their efforts, but did grant the county limited access to one of Harold’s bank accounts to pay for his care.

    What happened next is even more chilling: without authority, without determining the value of Clay and Harold’s possessions accumulated over the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Adding further insult to grave injury, the county removed Clay from his home and confined him to a nursing home against his will. The county workers then terminated Clay and Harold’s lease and surrendered the home they had shared for many years to the landlord.

    Three months after he was hospitalized, Harold died in the nursing home. Because of the county’s actions, Clay missed the final months he should have had with his partner of 20 years. Compounding this tragedy, Clay has literally nothing left of the home he had shared with Harold or the life he was living up until the day that Harold fell, because he has been unable to recover any of his property.

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    robert green

    beatle bones n’ smokin stones as covered by the fall (only available on the mega john peel box set, a must have anyway for people WHO LIKE THINGS THAT ARE GREAT) is truly one of the greatest songs ever. out-beefhearted beefheart!

  14. 14.

    debit

    @Comrade Mary: It was just an easy 25 miles, but I loved every minute of it. Well, except the bits where I had to ride downtown. I have to find a better route home.

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