Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Innocent people do not delay justice.

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

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

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

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

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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  2. 2.

    licensed to kill time

    Now why ever would a mathematician choose this particular clip? ;-)

    The sad thing about Dennis Hopper is that he seemed to be stuck playing this whacked out philosophical crazy guy in every subsequent role . Anybody watch Crash, the TV series?

  5. 5.

    Mark S.

    OT-Coates on some post Lanny Davis vomited up for the Daily Caller:

    In the instance, much of what Davis cites is the inverse of reality. Davis’s conjured Rand Paul is a libertarian. The actual Rand Paul told TIME, “I’m not a libertarian.” Davis’s conjured Rand Paul is pro-choice. The actual Rand Paul wants a constitutional ban on abortion. Davis’s conjured Libertarian party nominated Rand Paul’s father, Ron Paul, for president. The actual Libertarian party nominated Bob Barr.

    From what I can tell, Davis decided the Libertarian platform was identical to Rand Paul’s views. The Daily Caller is barely journalism, but this deserves some Pulitzer for Sloppiness.

  6. 6.

    superfly

    @de stijl: Both, i.e. loosely scripted, with plenty of ad lib, much of it riffing on various poems by T.S Eliot and Kipling (per imdb, though unclear if those exact lines were scripted, ad-libbed or both).

  7. 7.

    flounder

    I loved him in the River’s Edge, which was a movie about my teenage years in many respects. Hopper was the creepy old guy who sold a little weed to the town stoners if you were willing to go hang out and pretend to be his friend for a couple hours. I totally knew this dude…except instead of having a blow up doll as a friend like Hopper does, he had 18 cats.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    Crispin Glover certainly outcreeped Hopper in that movie, which I hadn’t thought possible.

  9. 9.

    flounder

    Glover was a nihilistic, dangerous creepy, Hopper was a leave everyone alone and hide out with his blow up doll and weed creepy. Totally underrated teen angst movie imho, and definitely one of Keeanu Reeves best performances:
    “The only reason you stay here is so you can fuck my mother and eat her food. MOTHERFUCKER. FOOD EATER.”

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    jaxtra

    boo effing hoo. everybody dies, some sooner than they should, others, not so much. good actor? sure, i agree. p.o.s repuglicant?, without a doubt an oscar winner. good riddance i say.

  13. 13.

    jimmy jazz

    If you watch the Apocalypse documentary Hearts of Darkness, Coppola hated Hopper. There’s a wonderful exchange about not being able to forget lines unless you’ve actually learned them in the first place.

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