Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

The revolution will be supervised.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

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

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

How stupid are these people?

When we show up, we win.

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  1. 1.

    burnspbesq

    Have a great weekend, y’all. If you’re the praying type, a prayer for those who live along the Gulf Coast would not be out of order.

  2. 2.

    gbear

    I just read this and now I am feeling ill.

    Governor Tim Pawlenty has signed a deal to publish a memoir in 2011.

    The fucking wingnut welfare queen doesn’t have enough interesting anecdotes to fill a tweet.

  4. 4.

    burnspbesq

    @gbear:

    How does the same state produce Paul Wellstone, Al Franken, Tim Pawlenty, and Michelle Bachmann? Is there some weird shit in the water?

  5. 5.

    asiangrrlMN

    @gbear: Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! You always bring the bad MN news to BJ! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

    @burnspbesq: We tend to vote conservatively locally and liberally nationally. Michele Bachmann’s district is a weird pocket of its own.

    P.S. I was just stopping by for a bit before taking a nap. Now I am gonna have nightmares of Ratface Pawlenty.

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I would recommend not sleeping. If you insist upon it, then you need to drive to Illinois and pick up that adorable basset hound puppeh. I bet he goes fast though.

  7. 7.

    gbear

    @burnspbesq: The weird shit is called ‘the suburbs’. The donut around the Twin Cities is full of toxic I-got-mine conservatives. The donut became the slight majority of the state’s population right before Pawlenty’s first term.

  8. 8.

    Calming Influence

    The world could be saved by the emergence of a science-friendly form of paganism. Many people need the spiritual belief system, others need the emotional release of fire ceremonies, and the rest of us just love a good party. Isn’t “God created the earth” enough reason to revere it? Worry less about your own or your neighbor’s sins, and worry more about the sins committed against the planet.

    I wax rhetorical; perhaps because today I completed week 2 of the C25K program. It’s remarkable that after only 2 weeks of regular exercise I’ve noticed a remarkable reduction in my craving for alcohol. Who would a thunk it?

    +12

  9. 9.

    IndyLib

    Did anyone else do the May Basket thing when they were kids – you know put candy and flowers in baskets and leave them on people’s front steps?

    My mom and I did that every year until I was about 10 or so. It was always special because it was also my mom’s birthday. She’s been gone now for 12 years and May Day always makes me miss her more than usual.

  11. 11.

    HE Pennypacker, Wealthy Industrialist

    Isn’t May Day some kind of communist conspiracy? We’re all just Stalinists now in Obama’s marxist utopia.

  13. 13.

    HE Pennypacker, Wealthy Industrialist

    It’s remarkable that after only 2 weeks of regular exercise I’ve noticed a remarkable reduction in my craving for alcohol. Who would a thunk it?

    I’ll drink to that.

  14. 14.

    Linkmeister

    “May Day is Lei Day in Hawai’i.”

    Except, not as much as it once was. Used to be every woman downtown would be wearing a lei on May 1.

  15. 15.

    ruemara

    Happy Beltane Everyone! May your oiled up Nekkid Pagan rites be fun and fabulous. I will be slow smoking a lovely pork butt in celebration. And candles, yadda yadda.

  17. 17.

    fucen tarmal

    as soon as i buy the replacement lapper i am gonna decomission this one in style…i’m gonna get some beers and try to make it through the endless maze of surveys and spyware, malware, femalware, trannyware whatever else they got…

    i have to know if it is at all possible, by sheer force of will, to get that 1000 dollar walmart gift card….

    yes, i know its a scam, but how much of one, i am intrigued, its like the licks to the center of a tootsie pop, climbing everest, digging a hole in the backyard to china type challenge of it all.

  19. 19.

    Mark S.

    re: the proposed Biometric Enrollment national ID card

    I was wondering, how many people accidentally hire an illegal immigrant? I’m sure it happens occasionally, but I bet the vast majority of the time the employer knows damn well the person he or she’s hiring is illegal. Biometric cards aren’t going to stop that, but they will be a pain in the ass for everybody else.

  20. 20.

    middlewest

    Michelle Bachman’s (and my) hometown, Stillwater, MN, is home to some of the biggest assholes on the face of the Earth. Until I left there, I honestly believed it was normal for people to be complete shits all the time. The existence of general human decency came as quite a shock! That’s why I laugh when people try to analyze the teabagger hoax: are they racist? Populist? Libertarian? Shall we make common cause?!

    Nahhh, they’re just a bunch of assholes, man.

  21. 21.

    fucen tarmal

    @middlewest:

    i can’t imagine a world where michelle bachmann is typical of anything. i try to imagine everyone, even those who’s causes she advances, realize how completely full of shit she is…

    you may say i’m a dreamer.

  22. 22.

    Seitz

    If you’re really going to celebrate the Beltane, you really need to post either this, or this. Dude was a genius.

  24. 24.

    Yutsano

    @Platonicspoof: Crap. I’m certain she’s asleep but she did specifically mention that she gave SamKitten Motrin. It looks like it’s fortunately just a quality issue as opposed to something that would potentially cause adverse effects, nevertheless I hope she sees this.

  25. 25.

    Wile E. Quixote

    Ah, Men Without Hats. I heard that they’re getting together with their fellow one hit wonders Men at Work to form a new band called Men Without Work. Badoom Boom! Thank you, I’ll be here until Thursday, try the chicken, it’s wonderful…

  27. 27.

    Platonicspoof

    @Yutsano:
    I read their explanation for the recall a couple of times, but since I don’t know which company department writes their press releases, and individual responses vary even if the amount of active ingredient is correct, I had to mention it.

    Likewise, there’s no point in going to bed if I’m going to lay there wondering what if I hadn’t typed those few words.

  28. 28.

    Yutsano

    @Platonicspoof: Poor SamKitten. He’s going to have more aunts and uncles in more places on this planet than he’ll know what to do with. Suddenly I can’t wait until RedKitten and spouse are ready to try for number two!

  29. 29.

    Platonicspoof

    @Yutsano:
    Redkitten’s website link is to her Flikr account, don’t know how often she checks it, but I copied my first comment here over there with a full explanation and a hope that they’re just playing it safe with the recall.

    I directed her to this thread as well because when I tested the McNeil recall link from her (Canadian) Flikr page, I got a 404 error saying the webpage was for U.S. use only.
    I don’t see links for other countries to use, which is beginning to irritate me.

    Redkitten, I don’t think WP will let me copy and paste the recall page with the lot numbers here, so if they don’t let you furriners see the page for some dogawful reason, the number to call should be 1-888-222-6036 .

    Again, I hope this is all for nothing.

  32. 32.

    asiangrrlMN

    @gbear: In addition, there are many people who believed that Pawlenty was a moderate when he ran. Which he the fuck isn’t. Never was, never will be.

    @Yutsano: Which basset hound? jeffreyw posted another pic? I’ll have to look. I did sleep. I shouldn’t have as you pointed out, but WTF.

    ETA: Yutsy, found him. You’re right. TBogg would be all over “George”! Such a cutie.

  33. 33.

    Ron

    I suspect the Vera Baker ‘scandal’ will soon start percolating the right wing blogosphere, leading the mainstream media to report on it because, well, hey, the Enquirer got it right about Edwards!

  34. 34.

    RedKitten

    I saw the recall this morning — I woke up to my husband waving a printout of the recall in my face. Of course I had given him Motrin last night, where he was a bit feverish again. From what I understand of the recall, there have been no adverse health effects, but some bottles contain too much of the active ingredient, while others contain an active ingredient that is basically non-active…useless, in other words.

    So I definitely won’t give him more, but I’m not going to freak out about the small amount that he was already given — I had just bought the bottle, and he’s only had two doses out of it.

    It’s damn frustrating, though. It seems like every fracking week there’s another recall on a baby product. Are they TRYING to give us all stress-induced heart attacks?

  35. 35.

    Platonicspoof

    @RedKitten:

    Are they TRYING to give us all stress-induced heart attacks?

    Part of their marketing campaign to sell 81 mg. aspirin.

  36. 36.

    New Yorker

    Ah, the Safety Dance. That video reminds me of the “Beavis and Butt-Head” episode where they watched (and hated) it. They said that “this guys keeps saying he can dance, but he, like, can’t dance”. “Yeah, they should go to a Pantera concert and learn to dance.”

  37. 37.

    Carol

    @Mark S.:

    It depends. I suspect a good deal of the undocumented issue involves domestic help like nannies and cooks. When was the last time you’ve even heard of domestic domestic help? These employers wouldn’t even bother to ask for a card-just pay in cash and let them sleep in the extra room upstairs.

    A biometric card only helps with jobs where anybody and their cousin can see the folks actually coming to and from work. If your maid never comes out of the house except to buy groceries and hang around the shops, who’s going to ever even going to ask for one?

  38. 38.

    pharniel

    I”m sad, the only years I was in edinburgh for beltine the weather was rotten or the local police chief was being grumpy about those damned kids

    oh well, glad to see they gots the fire back.

  39. 39.

    Comrade Bukharin

    Happy May Day to all.
    Another Minnesotan here. Our GOP just endorsed Sarah Palin approved Tea Partier creationist Tom Emmer for governor. He may well be to the right of Michelle Bachmann. What a state.

  41. 41.

    Phoebe

    Hey.
    Didn’t that song begin with “S S S S A A A A F F F F” etc.? That was my favorite part.

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