Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Come on, man.

I really should read my own blog.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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  3. 3.

    bkny

    can we designate halliburton, transocean and bp terrorist organizations, seize their leadership and torture them by stranding them on their million dollar yachts positioned on top of the deepwater horizon.

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    Penguins may make you sad tonight, but consider you’re a Cleveland Fan and you’re watching the Cavaliers stink up the playoffs … holy shit, Cleveland should be one one huge suicide watch. This had to be the year (even if the King of Chokers stays, Shaq ain’t getting any younger).

  5. 5.

    Kathy

    I know I am venturing into shaky territory here but there is another game featuring another Pennsylvania team on tonight and the Penna team is winning this one :)
    I never would have thought that the Flyers would outlast the Red Wings. Do I get to sign off Kathy plus 2 since we are coming off of a sports thread? I am not aware of all BJ traditions :)

  7. 7.

    Brian J

    I don’t know if someone posted these links when they first appeared, but they’ve already been discussed, just move on.

    1. The (Potential) Intern From Hell

    As someone who is 25 and has yet to embark on his career, I feel slightly encouraged by this. If these are the types of people I am competing against I think I will be fine.

    But as someone who cares a lot about the shape of this country and realizes he can’t shoulder the burden by himself, I am ready to cry. If these are the types of people I will need to work with, I might as well kill myself.

    2. Why I Got Kicked Out of a Restaurant on Saturday Night

    In this writer’s defense, if he’s never worked in a particular type of restaurant, or never worked in a restaurant at all, he probably didn’t know how bad it was to step into a chef’s kitchen. Still, that’s not really a reason to bash Lieber. The fact that the guy was berating someone so forcefully and so loudly that he disturbs a guest’s dinner doesn’t do him any favors. The chef comes across as a gigantic douche, and if there’s any justice, he’ll receive a ton of bad publicity for his behavior.

  9. 9.

    Violet

    The “Soylent Green” tagline reminded me of my trip to the supermarket today. So I went to Whole Foods to get a chicken to roast for dinner. (Yeah, I’m an elitist. I like organic chicken.) And they’ve got this new HD monitor behind the meat counter with rotating images of happy cows in pastures and so forth.

    I made my usual comment about how stupid I think the expensive plasma monitor is and how I think the money would be better spent either paying the employees more or saving the customers money. This comment always gets the employees chatting because they think these screens (one behind the meat counter, one behind the fish counter) are really stupid. The employee I was talking with today says, “It has this pastoral photo that reminds me of the euthanasia scene in “Soylent Green.” And we had a big discussion about what if that’s really what these screens are all about and should I worry about what the meats really are.

    It was all in good fun, of course. But you should have seen the face of the lady next to me. She went white as a sheet, and could hardly stutter out her order when it was her turn. I felt a little bad. But not that bad. Heh.

  10. 10.

    PurpleGirl

    TNT was scheduled to show a basketball game…. instead they are showing Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring. I haz a happy.

  16. 16.

    Mumphrey

    O.K., so I don’t know shit about hockey, so I have to ask, who are the Habs? What is a Hab?

  17. 17.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    @Proper Gander: So these guys could all end up with felony convictions for being nosy. Seems about right when you consider the banksters got seven years BIG bonuses for fucking up the entire financial system and helping the economy tank.

  18. 18.

    Brian J

    Has nobody noticed that John Cole is advertising a $400 soccer cleat on his blog?

    What an elitist.

  19. 19.

    Dave Ruddell

    O.K., so I don’t know shit about hockey, so I have to ask, who are the Habs? What is a Hab?

    From wiki:

    French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens (or Le Canadien), Le Bleu-Blanc-et-Rouge, La Sainte-Flanelle,[2] Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux (or Nos Glorieux), Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. In English, the team’s main nickname is the Habs, an abbreviation of “Les Habitants”. (Note: Even in English, the French spelling, Canadiens, is always used.)

  21. 21.

    mcd410x

    “Organic” has to be the dumbest moniker I know. As opposed to “inorganic” food like … rocks.

  22. 22.

    mr. whipple

    @The Dangerman:

    Penguins may make you sad tonight, but consider you’re a Cleveland Fan and you’re watching the Cavaliers stink up the playoffs … holy shit, Cleveland should be one one huge suicide watch.

    Sports radio in Cleveland today has been, er, entertaining.

  23. 23.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    @Geoduck:

    Has Andrew Sullivan confirmed the emotional orientation of Jamie and Adam on MythBusters? I mean that is one well groomed mustache.

  24. 24.

    Calming Influence

    “Rex, can you point to the place on the doll where Cesar touched you…? Very good! Who’s a good boy! Have a biscuit!”

    Peace, fellow animal lovers.

  27. 27.

    Violet

    @mcd410x:
    I don’t really care what they call it. It tastes better than ordinary supermarket chicken, which is filled with a lot of water or chicken broth and loaded up on antibiotics.

  28. 28.

    TooManyJens

    @Brian J: I have to admit, I find it perfectly hilarious that Lieber thinks Forgione would have reacted better to a woman confronting him. He’d have seen that as even more of an affront to his masculinity, if that indeed was the issue here.

  30. 30.

    Brian J

    @slag:

    Neither did I. I clicked on the link thinking it was a some sort of running sneaker or cross trainer. Perhaps the picture of Christiano Ronaldo should have tipped me off.

    @TooManyJens:

    That’s a good point.

    I found it amusing that Jodi Kantor, another Times reporter and also Lieber’s wife, announced this via twitter. Why? I am not sure.

  32. 32.

    John O

    The stars are aligned for my beloved Blackhawks, John, and I for one appreciate the crappy Pens performance.

    Gotta get past the Sharks, but with the Caps and Pens out I’ll take my chances. 1961. I have Cubs fan disease even with the Hawks; grew up with the great Hull and Makita.

    So, you know, as someone of a certain age and a big fan of the Steel Curtain/Bradshaw Steelers, try to get over it. It’s tough to repeat.

  34. 34.

    demo woman

    @Brian J: Amazing amount of comments for the Diner’s Journal. I saw it yesterday and the comments have doubled since then. If I’m dining out the last thing I want is to hear the chef yelling at an employee.

  36. 36.

    Roger Moore

    @mcd410x:

    As opposed to “inorganic” food like … rocks.

    There are some completely inorganic ingredients. Salt’s the most obvious example, but people also use calcium oxide in traditional corn processing, and various calcium and magnesium salts in coagulating tofu. Not to mention all of the nutritional additives like reduced iron.

  37. 37.

    RedKitten

    Yeah, my Facebook feed is currently full of people losing their freaking minds (one of those people being my dad.) Personally, while I enjoy hockey, I really don’t give a sweet shit about any particular NHL team. I don’t understand the antipathy towards Crosby, though. Dude’s a good hockey player, and while he’s probably grown some ego, he doesn’t seem to be a total dick about it, anyway.

  38. 38.

    Cat Lady

    @mr. whipple:

    Sports radio in Boston. Also. Too.

    The favorite conspiracy theory here is that coughKingcough James has given his two week notice on his way to NY, and he’s not one of the ones who goes to work every day during those two weeks.

  39. 39.

    Comrade Kevin

    @RedKitten: I think an awful lot of the antipathy comes not from anything Crosby himself has done, but the way the media have fawned all over him since came into the league. He has been talked about like he is the second coming of Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky combined.

  40. 40.

    Lurker

    @mcd410x:

    “Organic” has to be the dumbest moniker I know. As opposed to “inorganic” food like … rocks.

    If I remember Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma correctly, “organic” popped up as a protest against “industrial” farming in the 60’s. Industrial farms treat plants and animals like machines to be plugged into a factory system.

    So, “organic” farms are supposed to treat plants and animals like organisms.

    That said…yes, it is a dumb name.

  41. 41.

    Sentient Puddle

    Fuck TV. There’s free Portal!

    (I originally played it on the 360 because my PC at the time was a piece of crap. As soon as I got one that wasn’t a piece of crap, I remedied this problem with Team Fortress 2, but never Portal.)

  44. 44.

    BobS

    @John O: I would have preferred a Wings-Canadians finals, but Hawks-Canadians would be alright (it’s looking more and more like the Bruins are going to blow it). I don’t think anyone wants to run into Halak right now. On the other hand, Nabokov is the weak link on the Sharks.
    You have my sympathies having your second straight series on the west coast. Hockey needs an Original Six division in the Eastern Conference. Not only do fans in Detroit (and Chicago) have to watch the Blue Jackets or Predators every other week (and the Leafs and Canadians every other year), games out west end the following day and the 10000 miles traveled before the finals takes its toll on the teams.
    Hockey fans everywhere should take some comfort knowing that Gary Bettman is crying himself to sleep tonight with the Penguins elimination.

  47. 47.

    mr. whipple

    @Cat Lady:

    Among others I heard today:

    -everyone is dogging it to get the coach fired.
    -LeBron is leaving, so it will be easier for the fans to take if he’s a quitter.
    -LeBron’s elbow is so bad he’ll need surgery and be out for a year, and this inner turmoil is messing with his head.
    -LeBron hates the needle, so instead of shots he’s taking pain killers that are making him a slug.

  51. 51.

    mr. whipple

    I don’t know how I managed to make a strike out in my own post.

    The internets remain a mystery to me.

  52. 52.

    Jennifer

    This whole “Pens” nomenclature gets me every time. It must be my filthy, juvenile, puerile mind…though it does make the comments more entertaining, such as the Grand Panandrum’s comment: Stick a fork in the Pen*s. Much more provocative, eh?

    That said, wtf is up with the internets being so boring today? I was finally forced to post something at my own crappy blog, just to deal with the ennui.

  54. 54.

    Corner Stone

    Listen. If you haven’t seen that kid doing the Lady Gaga song you really need to take 3 minutes to watch it.
    I’ve never listened to a Lady Gaga song in my life but that was incredible. I don’t normally give a damn about internet “buzz” sensations but my 5yr old and I just watched it about 5 times in a row.
    And if I could bottle the expression sauce of the girls in the audience behind him I would be a multi-millionaire.

  55. 55.

    Comrade Kevin

    @BobS: Apart from that awful 7-1 game, Nabokov surely has not been the “weak link” for the Sharks.

    The people on the west coast who get to deal with games starting at 4pm are playing the world’s smallest violin, just for you.

  56. 56.

    Violet

    @Jennifer:

    That said, wtf is up with the internets being so boring today? I was finally forced to post something at my own crappy blog, just to deal with the ennui.

    The internets are very boring at the moment. Are the internets suffering from spring fever or something?

  58. 58.

    kdaug

    @ricky: Oh, that’s swell.

    Ever notice the jihadis tend to be highly-educated professionals? Medical doctors, engineers, etc? Now we have this stomp-my-foot, I’ll-shoot-ya-ifin’-ya-come-on-my-land BS from JDs? Hell, I know we’re crazy down here in Texas, but I don’t think David Koresh had an advanced degree in anything but narcissism…

    Doesn’t help that I live in Pflugerville.

  62. 62.

    binzinerator

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck:

    In Kenner, La., where a separate hearing is being held as part of a U.S. Coast Guard and Interior Department investigation, Michael Saucier of the Minerals Management Service testified the government isn’t required to inspect the BOPs [blow-out preventers] as they are built and when installed. Operators are required to test the devices every two weeks, and Saucier said the MMS monitors those tests. He said the agency relies on drillers to ensure the device is working properly.

    Ah, another success story of industry self-regulation.

    A 2001 report by Transocean, which bought the BOP from Cameron, indicated there can be as many as 260 failure possibilities in the equipment, which is supposed to be the final safeguard against a well blowout by clamping down and sealing a gushing oil well, said Stupak, chairman of the panel’s investigation’s subcommittee.
    __
    “How can a device that has 260 failure modes be considered fail-safe?” asked Stupak.

    Well, gee, Stupak I dunno. What fool can sit there in congress while business gets to thumb its nose at regulatory oversite and not see something like this was bound to happen?

    Maybe ’cause during all those years while Dubya and his Club Growth Cretins were busy gutting regulation and dismantling oversight guys like you were too busy making mountains out of molehills and frothing the fundies over what a woman can and cannot do with her own zygote to give a tin shit about what corporations can and cannot do with our water, food, air, medicines and economy.

  64. 64.

    Jennifer

    Also too, WTFF is up with the strikethrough? I didn’t use a dash in anything, and I’ve got a strikethrough on everything starting with mr. whipple’s comment.

    Dog-riding tortoise much appreciated – I’m sure it’s a relief to that crazy Texas Republican (I have a hard time telling them apart) that it didn’t feature any man-on-boxturtle.

    There’s a whole load of dashes, now let’s see what that does.

  65. 65.

    robertdsc

    LeBron hates the needle,

    Have these people seen his tattoos? Geez. Talk about “get a brain, morans”!

  66. 66.

    The Main Gauche of Mild Reason

    Cocktail of the Week–The Sazerac: Muddle a sugar cube with a little water and 3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters, then add 1.5 oz Sazerac rye. Chill and rinse another glass with 1/2 tsp Kubler absinthe and then add the rye/bitters. Garnish with orange peel.

    And for historical dweebs here: yes, I know it was originally made with Herbsaint instead of Absinthe; Absinthe is just infinitely better. Accept no substitutes.

    Random trivia: the Sazerac was the first “commercial” cocktail. Other examples include the gimlet (which was invented as a way to drink Rose’s lime juice)

    +2

  67. 67.

    binzinerator

    @Corner Stone:

    Two Evony ads on the same page has convinced me there is in fact a God.

    Wife went to bed with a migraine and I didn’t get even one stinkin’ Evony ad. There isn’t even any booze in the house. God is dead.

    I think I’m just gonna play some sudoku now and call it a night.

  69. 69.

    ellaesther

    @Jennifer: Nothing. It did nothing! The ways of WordPress canna be understood by us mere mortals.

    My blog is WordPress and whenever I copy and paste something that is italicized, WordPress thinks I mean for everything to italicized for the rest of forEVAR!!1! I have to resort to actually keying these passages in myself. (I know! The humanity!) Bugs the crap outta me.

  70. 70.

    BobS

    @Comrade Kevin: I’m glad to see you agree with my point about series that cross too many time zones.
    Nabokov isn’t the same goaltender that won the gold medal. He’s fighting the puck too much.

  72. 72.

    Little Boots

    Have the ancient rites in abomination of WordPress started? Cause I want into that.

  73. 73.

    Tazistan Jen

    @mr. whipple:
    I believe if there is a space between the dash on either end and the text, you don’t get the strike-through. Maybe returns break the incipient strike-through? Test:

    – this should not strike through –
    – nor this-
    -nor this –
    -but this should-

  74. 74.

    The Main Gauche of Mild Reason

    I think this blog needs some front pagers on the west coast. Anyone with me?

  75. 75.

    Martin

    @ellaesther: Cool. I have a dog and a tortoise, though the corgi really wouldn’t fit on the CA desert tortoise. They’re buds though.

  79. 79.

    Tazistan Jen

    @kdaug:

    Barnes is still able to practice law. According to a state bar spokesperson, an attorney must be convicted of a serious crime of moral turpitude in order to lose their license.

    WTF? Only in Texas.

  80. 80.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    You used the dash. WP hates the dash and turns it into a strikethrough.

    You have to be a fucking mystic to keep from killing this blog. “WP hates the dash”. Reminds me of the monster animals on Aliens figuring stuff out.

  83. 83.

    patrick II

    Lewis Black on the Daily show just did the best I have ever seen him taking down Glenn Beck.

  84. 84.

    mr. whipple

    @Tazistan Jen:

    “I believe if there is a space between the dash on either end and the text, you don’t get the strike-through.”

    I will never be able to remember these rules. I shall never dash again.

  88. 88.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    My only observation about the game is, “in your face, Vancouver!”

    Bwahahahaa….

    I lived in Montreal for a good stint. It’s a great town.

    I’m sure I know some long faces tonight; I’ve got some buds on the west coast. I’m equally certain there’s a lot of drinking going on downtown right now.

    Sorry it had to go down like that for you, John, but… I guess it had to go down like that. Better you than me, and all that.

    Sid handled the post-game interview really well, I thought.

    I think Montreal totally solved him; it was the real key to their victory. They held him to a third of his points against Ottawa. Well, that and Halak is totally on fire.

  90. 90.

    ellaesther

    @Martin: Made me way happier almost than I’d care to admit. I think it’s the entirely deadpan expression on the dog, and his (her?) apparent rock solid stability on the back of a moving tortoise.

    Maybe your tortoise could ride your Corgi? Now that would be quite a YouTube.

  91. 91.

    ellaesther

    @mr. whipple: But will you dart? Will you bolt? How about rushing? Or sprinting? Can we expect any of these in your future?

    I believe none have any rules attached, unlike the /patooie!/ dash.

  92. 92.

    Ash Can

    @John O: I can’t believe how good it looks for the Hawks this year. It’s scary. I mean, I realize that they have to get past the Sharks to even get into the finals, but it really looks like they have the horses this year.

    Yowza.

  93. 93.

    Martin

    @ellaesther: I’d be a bit worried for the tortoise. Corgis are pretty low-slung critters, to say the least, but it’d still be a big fall for the tortoise. We’re not sure how old he is but he’s getting a little slow and is developing a bad habit of flipping himself over. Not exactly the best survival skill, that.

  96. 96.

    Comrade Kevin

    @BobS: In the Sharks’ first year in the playoffs, they had to play Detroit in the first round, and Toronto (!) in the second. That was back in the days of the Campbell and Wales conferences.

    Without more teams in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, there isn’t a whole lot that can be done.

  97. 97.

    Corner Stone

    @Corner Stone: Fuck all of y’all if you haven’t watched this yet.

    I’m your biggest fan
    I’ll follow you until you love me
    Papa-papparazi

  102. 102.

    Martin

    @trollhattan: Meh, I’ve about had it giving these guys so much money for TV, getting treated like shit and having ads on top of it. A change is gonna come.

  103. 103.

    Corner Stone

    @freelancer (itouch): Just sayin’. As a parent, that’s some powerful good shit. That young man is throwin’ it down and should be recognizzzed.

    It’s funny. My 5yr old pointed out the tight lipped blonde in the middle row to the right side and said, “She doesn’t want to be there. She’ll look at anything but him.”

    True, true.

  105. 105.

    Comrade Kevin

    I’m just waiting to hear one of the “progressive” Kagan-haters start quoting approvingly from Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.

  106. 106.

    Mike Kay

    I’m watching Countdown and keith is insulted that the republicans are saying Kagan is harriet miers, to which I have to laugh cuzz it was keith, himself, who was floated that crap on monday night.

    oh, keith, have some grace and say you’re sorry or say you agree, don’t whipsaw.

  107. 107.

    Martin

    @trollhattan: Oh, and nice bird. We’ve got a nice assortment of birds here in SoCal. I see peregrines fairly regularly and every now and then you can spot a buzzard sitting on a light pole. A neighbors cat was seen getting carried off by one a few months back – maybe hit by a car or something first.

    When I was a teenager my dad an I were off hiking in Wyoming and we had just climbed a hill (maybe 2k feet) and I had gotten about 200 feet ahead of him and was looking back waiting for him to catch up. His expression suddenly changed and a few seconds later this enormous hawk flew past me. It approached me from behind and passed probably no more than 5 feet over my head. It must have had a wingspan close to 10 feet. I nearly shit when I saw and heard it (it made a surprisingly loud ‘whoosh’). I suspect that had I been a fair bit smaller, I might have ended up as its dinner. I sure as hell made an easy target, standing there clueless, boy from NY who had never seen anything bigger than a pigeon other than the ostriches at the Bronx Zoo.

  108. 108.

    Mike Kay

    omg! Ezra just said john roberts was a stealth candidate.

    thank you, Ezra. Atleast one liberal blogger not engaging in revisionism and ignoring the gop strategy of nominating stealth candidates (kennedy, souter, thomas, roberts).

  111. 111.

    Corner Stone

    @Mike Kay:

    omg! Ezra just said john roberts was a stealth candidate.

    Anyone who says he was a stealth candidate should be blocked from public discourse. He’s a member of the Federalist Society. Done.

  112. 112.

    Martin

    @Mike Kay: I have to admit that I didn’t read Roberts well. Still a bit embarrassed about that. Hope I’m not misreading Kagan.

  115. 115.

    Corner Stone

    @Yutsano: Hey, just cuz you’re a pre-op trans, don’t knock those of us who have kids the old fashioned way.

  116. 116.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    Kathleen Parker pulls the “ordinary citizen” card on Kagan because she is from New York city and everyone knows only liberals live there (cough), and ipso facto she fails Obama litmus test of relating to said (ordinary citizens).

    Shiver me timbers. My absorbtion limit on concern trolling has been saturated for the day, and I am going to retire for the eve and hopefully conjure Kate Beckinsale to my dreams.

  117. 117.

    Corner Stone

    @Martin: He’s 5. Sorry to burden you with that.
    If I had a dog I’d share some stupid petstory with you?

  120. 120.

    Mike Kay

    @Corner Stone: then you didn’t pay attention to the hearings. no one could expose any of his opinions.

    fuck, even constitutional attorney (same title glen uses) Coulter said the same thing. in fact this column, from 2005, in tone, is a mirror image of glen et. al.

    “Finally, let’s ponder the fact that Roberts has gone through 50 years on this planet without ever saying anything controversial. That’s just unnatural.”

    “Apparently, Roberts decided early on that he wanted to be on the Supreme Court and that the way to do that was not to express a personal opinion on anything to anybody ever.”

    “It’s as if he is from some space alien sleeper cell. Maybe the space aliens are trying to help us, but I wish we knew that. If the Senate were in Democrat hands, Roberts would be perfect. But why on earth would Bush waste a nomination on a person who is a complete blank slate when we have a majority in the Senate!”

    “Conservatism is sweeping the nation, we have a fully functioning alternative media, we’re ticked off and ready to avenge Robert Bork … and Bush nominates a Rorschach blot.”

    “Even as they are losing voters, Democrats don’t hesitate to nominate reliable left-wing lunatics like Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lifetime tenure on the high court. And the vast majority of Americans loathe her views.”

    “And Bush responds by nominating a candidate who will allow Democrats to avoid fighting on their weakest ground — substance. He has given us a Supreme Court nomination that will placate no liberals and should please no conservatives.”

    “Maybe Roberts will contravene the sordid history of “stealth nominees” and be the Scalia or Thomas that Bush promised us when he was asking for our votes. Or maybe he won’t. The Supreme Court shouldn’t be a game of Russian roulette”

    http://snipurl.com/w6trs

  121. 121.

    Martin

    @Corner Stone: It was a compliment to your kid. My daughter (9) is similar. She knows how to read people well. She knows when she’s getting to you, when you’re going to give in – she knows exactly how far to push you without going too far. If she wants to get a classmate in trouble, she knows exactly what button to push for each kid and how to push it while looking perfectly innocent. She knows how to trade her cheese sandwich for your cupcake and make you think you’re getting the better end of the deal.

    It’s a good talent to have, so long as they’re headed down an acceptable path.

    My son (12) is terrible at it. He’s getting better, but socially it works against him unlike my daughter who is extremely popular.

  122. 122.

    Mike Kay

    @Corner Stone: then you didn’t pay attention to the hearings. no one could expose any of his opinions.

    Even constitutional attorney (same title glen uses) ann coulter said the same thing. in fact this column, from 2005, reads as a mirror image of glen’s current arguments.

    http://snipurl.com/w6trs

  124. 124.

    Corner Stone

    @Martin: I’ve never thought of being someone’s bitch to be a positive.
    But I do love my son, and want so much for him. And have no problems singing his praises. He remembers things he shouldn’t. And puts crazy shit together 2+2 style like it’s supposed to be.
    So, meh.

    *As a P.S. – the reason this performance made sense to me is that it’s a really strong support for the young man’s parents. In this day and age, not everyone could get behind their male child and let him work this song so damn hard.
    And he does rock it. Period.

  125. 125.

    Corner Stone

    @Mike Kay:

    then you didn’t pay attention to the hearings. no one could expose any of his opinions.

    No. This is stupid. No motherfucker alive had to “unearth” his god damn opinions.
    Anyone with a brain knew who he was. The shit he wrote for the Reagan admin? Federalist Society. Done. What more needs to be said?

  127. 127.

    Martin

    @Yutsano: I think the jury is still out on that. In addition to that skill, she can look you in the eye and lie like Sarah Palin. Fortunately, she’s pretty sensitive so she doesn’t get too far out of shape, but it’s a scary combo.

    I pegged both of our kids personalities before they turned 2. My daughter would throw a tantrum and then check out of the corner of her eye to see if it was working or not. My wife didn’t believe it for the longest time, but I kept telling her that the 2 year old was working her. She does a cool divide-and-conquer thing with relationships. She prefers to work with people one-on-one and will find a way to work herself into an existing pair of kids playing and then get one of the pair to push away the other. She’ll then play with the one until she’s had her fill and then go console the other one and play with them. She winds up being hailed as the peacemaker by everyone, including the parents.

    It could go either way with her…

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    Mike Kay

    @Corner Stone:

    “President Bush appears to have intentionally nominated Roberts because he has avoided taking a public position on almost everything. Such persons are known as “stealth” nominations, because they are selected on the theory that they can be more easily confirmed if there is less for the other side to quote and criticize. It is that strategy that is perhaps most troubling to Bush’s supporters.” ~ Phyllis Schlafly

    Activists from both sides viewed him as a stealth candidate. Google has all columns.

    Now if you want to call the ACLU “motherfuckers” for saying the same thing, that roberts was a stealth nominee, cool. I’m happy there are people to the left of ACLU.

  129. 129.

    Martin

    @Corner Stone: It’s not a positive for you, which is why I put it out as a warning. But the ability to read others is a very valuable one. It’ll give him the upper hand in many situations.

  130. 130.

    Martin

    @Mike Kay: The only reason we think the ACLU is ‘left’ is because the right has gone so fucking far down the authoritarian rabbit hole.

  131. 131.

    Corner Stone

    @Mike Kay: I understand you’re an idiot. But lemme break this down real simple like for you.
    FED-UH-REH-LIST SOH-SY-EH-TEE

    There is NO MOTHERFUCKING DOUBT ABOUT WHO HE WAS/IS.

    And anyone who claims discrepancy is a ridiculous motherfucker. And I couldn’t give a shit less about who it may have been because it wasn’t me who said it.

  133. 133.

    Mike Kay

    @Corner Stone: I know ya not a member of the reality based community, but facts are facts, even if they’re 5 years old.

    John Roberts is an example of how one can maximize one’s chances for confirmation to the court by minimizing any provocative thoughts or utterances. ~ jonathan turley

    Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington Law School, where he teaches courses on the Constitution and the Supreme Court.

    lotta mutherfuckers – even uber civil libertarian johnny boy turley!

    Oh yeah, murtherfucking pat leahy and … gasp… mutherfucking russ feingold (da da duumm) voted for him. Thank goodness black bush, barack obama voted against him.

  134. 134.

    Mike Kay

    @Comrade Kevin: other way around. I put up a comment about ezra, and he jumped in to say ezra is an idiot, to which I replied it was opinion of both sides of the spectrum that roberts was stealth, to which I attached columns as substantiation. my point isn’t whether they were right or wrong, but rather that’s what they held at the time. at the time they all viewed him as a stealth candidate, to say otherwise, now, is revisionism, which is what some bloggers are doing (ie saying roberts was a flaming winger, singing hitler youth songs, at his 2005 confirmation hearing).

  135. 135.

    The Main Gauche of Mild Reason

    @Mike Kay:

    Thank goodness black bush, barack obama voted against him.

    Only barely. Remember, that’s when Obama was making a big deal about “it’s the President’s prerogative to nominate whomever he wants to the Supreme Court”. It was basically only a big threat from the leadership that convinced him otherwise.

  137. 137.

    Mike Kay

    @The Main Gauche of Mild Reason: what threat? what, was harry reid gonna make barack stay after school? And this so called threat “by the leadership” — somehow it wasn’t made on Leahy and Feingold or did they just buck the “leadership” cuz the BOTH who voted for roberts? this is ridiculous, try again.

  138. 138.

    Mike Kay

    @The Main Gauche of Mild Reason:

    Here, I just looked up the vote on something called the internet.

    http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00245

    the vote was 78-22, with 23 of the 45 democrats voting for roberts. see, the leadership didn’t whip this vote, the majority of the caucus (23-22) voted for the stealth mr. roberts.

    fuck, libs like chris dodd, wyden, patty murry, levin joined Leahy and feingold and voted for roberts.

  139. 139.

    Corner Stone

    @Mike Kay: I understand it’s a foreign concept for you, as you clearly demonstrate day in and out, but I enjoy forming my opinions. Hell, sometimes I even come to my own conclusions!
    Just as I do not need GG to tell me anything about Elena Kagan now, I did not need Schlafly, Coulter, Turley or any other punditariot to tell me about Roberts then. I spent a little time doing my own research, in real time, and knew pretty conclusively he was far to the right of the mainstream (or what I considered mainstream for the last few years).
    As I’ve stated, it is my opinion that anyone who is a member of the Federalist Society holds a viewpoint that is enough to end discussion on elevation to SCOTUS. Roberts served on the steering committee. I also knew people at Hogan and Hartson, and gathered a couple quick conversations. And after reading a few of the cases/issues that came before him on the DC Circuit, I knew his confirmation should be filibustered. Watching some of the hearings where he non-answered or “balls and strikes” his way through solidified that opinion.
    So, as most things in this life, this wasn’t too tricky. And I will reiterate that anyone who claimed him to be a “stealth” candidate is ridiculous and should have their public proclamations scrutinized very fiercely.

    I also find it instructive that you will use Schlafly and Coulter now as some weight or validity in your comments but absolutely slander anything Greenwald has to say as a default position.

  140. 140.

    BobS

    @Comrade Kevin: You’re complaining about the inconvenience of playing the Wings and the Leafs in the Sharks first playoff year? Most hockey fans, mindful of the games history, would be thrilled to play two Original Six teams in the same playoffs, despite being forced to watch hockey at 4pm. I wasn’t alive when either of those teams played for their first Cup, but the first finals I got to see was the Leafs beating the Wings in 1963. There’s still a buzz on the too rare occasions when the Leafs visit Detroit (that preceeded and succeeded the fleeting ‘rivalry’ with the Avalanche), regardless of the standings. It’s the only time there’s enough visitor sweaters in the seats to be noticed.
    Hawks in seven.

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