Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Republicans in disarray!

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

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  4. 4.

    aimai

    Why doesn’t a huge hook come out of nowhere and grab Mary Landrieu and simply throw her to the wolves while she lies to our faces on the Senate Floor. “No one said it was safe…” right after “the environmentalists are wrong?” Hell, she should be defenestrated into a pool of bubbling crude just for wearing that jacket.

    aimai

  6. 6.

    Linda Featheringill

    I understand the desire to avoid blame for this mess. But that doen’t mean I think the guilty parties shouldn’t be blamed. We can’t allow the deniers to get off Scot-free.

    Now, however, we have other things to tend to. I suggest that we ignore the not-my-fault guys for now and try to stop the flow of oil.

    I don’t know what the most recent news is. I’ll have to check up on that.

  7. 7.

    Napoleon

    @Niques:

    Trivia fact, when the reports of problems in Kent first came into the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s newsroom they sent cub reporter Joe Eszterhas (of Basic Instinct and other movies fame), who was standing around the newsroom, down to cover it.

  8. 8.

    WereBear

    Nothing says “meaningless paranoia” quite like the right wing meme claiming environmentalists caused this disaster… to protect the environment.

    Granted, it’s the way their pointy little heads think.

  10. 10.

    New Yorker

    @Folderol and Ephemera:

    Oh, he’s Pakistani and not some disgruntled white dude. Expect the wingnut chorus to demand waterboarding now that we know he’s not a real ‘murkan.

  11. 11.

    cleek

    @WereBear:
    ah… but environmentalists, you see, don’t really care about the environment, they just want to destroy the American Way Of Life ™ in order to bring on the commie revolution. the environment is just their assigned method of attack. other groups attack capitalism (unions, regulators), other groups attack Traditional American Values ™ (teachers, musicians, Hollywood). each group attacks America ™ in a certain way, but it’s a concerted effort; they all work together to weaker our Moral Fiber ™ . this is why yu must oppose them – not because you want pollution, but because so-called “environmentalists” are actually a commie advance group.

    /birch

  12. 12.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @cleek: I have worked with a couple of people who stated, more or less, exactly that as an explanation of why “liberals” do anything. As a bonus, these people said it to my face with full knowledge of my beliefs and political outlook, explaining to me that I was just too naive to understand.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Niques: 124 years since the Haymarket Affair and tomorrow will the anniversary of the Bay View Tragedy in Milwaukee. People were killed to get the eight hour workday; they should be remembered as well.

  16. 16.

    David

    On this week’s special one hour episode of Family Guy, Brian eats some sh*t, then eats some vomit, and then confesses he voted for John McCain.

  17. 17.

    ErinSiobhan

    From Upstream Online:

    “Measuring 14 feet by 24 feet by 40 feet, the dome has been completed at a yard neat Port Fourchon, Louisiana, and will be mobilised within the next 24 hours.

    BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said it could be over top of the main leak and begin pumping the oil in a week. ”

    upstreamonline.com/live/article213982.ece

    They also report that a second drilling rig will be there in 10-12 days to start drilling a second relief well. And they may try installing a second BOP above the existing BOP.

    BP say that they have triggered all six rams on the BOP but none of them have stopped the flow. The failure of the BOP is the most alarming thing in this disaster because of the implications for other drilling sites.

  18. 18.

    kay

    @WereBear:

    Maybe conservatives caused the disaster to turn the gulf into a dead zone so they can treat it like they perceive it, as some pesky water covering up their oil.
    Seems equally likely, and I try to be bipartisan.

  19. 19.

    The Endless Sheriff

    @aimai:

    Defenestration should just be the first step–kind of a softening up, followed up by a lopping off of ear(s) and nose and branding of the forehead.

    I want to know why there is a cap on financial responsibility. Some senator is pushing for a higher cap. Why should there be a cap? If this oil screws up our coast, that’s bad enough, but what if it ends up on the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas? Who is going to pay those people for the loss of their livelihood?

    There ought to be a way to trace stock holders and confiscate their income from BP until all the people’s lives who were damaged by this are compensated.

  20. 20.

    SpotWeld

    If a Navy vessel the size of the USS Iowa caught fire and went down in clam weather I really doubt anyone would be satisied with “it’s everyone’s fault”.

  22. 22.

    Gregory

    I’m just curious, has anyone signed up to play EVE Online from the ads here? I’ve been playing more than two years and have noticed a Web ad blitz over the past couple of months. If you’ve signed up, what are your impressions?

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