Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Bark louder, little dog.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

“woke” is the new caravan.

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

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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The contractor finally arrived to fix the giant hole where our concrete stairs used to be before the water company tore it up to fix the sewer leak/subsidence problem, but only my duplex neighbor knows whether the contractor is supposed to fix the sidewalk as well as the stairs and my neighbor is in Central America. Our puppy is frantic because he can’t reach my lawn because of the concrete work and my wife, who stayed home for a week to take care of the new puppy, is frantic because the puppy is pooping on the floor. I haven’t had meaningful sleep in four days (five? can’t remember) and my experiments have stopped working.

I do not want to know about your day. Yell at each other about Rahm or something.

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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    My day? It’s been asi asi, thanks for asking. Working from home today and my mom’s over playing with my son so I’ve been doing this really interesting experiment with using a new search paradigm to separate factors relevant to interpolation of the basic model related to…
    Oh. You said “do not”. My bad.

  4. 4.

    wilfred

    Finally, Idealism and Materialism come together:

    Now a particularly enduring Catholic practice is on prominent display in, of all places, Florence’s history of science museum, recently renovated and renamed to honor Galileo: Modern-day supporters of the famous heretic are exhibiting newly recovered bits of his body — three fingers and a gnarly molar sliced from his corpse nearly a century after he died — as if they were the relics of an actual saint. “He’s a secular saint, and relics are an important symbol of his fight for freedom of thought,” said Paolo Galluzzi, the director of the Galileo Museum, which put the tooth, thumb and index finger on view last month, uniting them with another of the scientist’s digits already in its collection. “He’s a hero and martyr to science,” he added.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Mary

    So this is the thread where we post our Rahm slash? OK, just give me a few minutes here to get started.

  8. 8.

    ruemara

    too little coffee, too much work and I’m hosting students come saturday night. Oh well, they will learn that chaos is American, fuck yeah!

  10. 10.

    me

    @wilfred: That’s an really good museum. All kinds of ancient scientific instruments. If you’re ever in Florence, it’s behind the Uffizi, most people miss it.

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    Punchy

    Maybe if you showered with Rahm he’d fix your sidewalk and your wife at the same time. No, wait…maybe she should shower with Ra….no, that cant be it…..

  12. 12.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    I’ve been reading Daredevil (v2 106-114) and hoping that the weather here in Chicago would make good on it’s threats and start raining. Not much work being done at this desk.

    And now Randi Rhodes is on.

  13. 13.

    jeffreyw

    First real tomato harvest has been juiced out and is now reducing on the stove with a buncha herbs and garlic. Mmm…smells good already and it’s just now at a simmer.

  15. 15.

    wilfred

    @me:

    I just found a new business – the relics of secular saints. What about indulgences?

    Brecht would have had a joy with this.

  16. 16.

    Culture of Truth

    Galileo’s finger has been on display for a long time, though. I believe at one time my blog was top hit for googling galileo’s finger

  24. 24.

    LGRooney

    Tim F., it’s more interesting if someone steps in it, a la JC.

    @Zandar: Wonderful!! I hope it’s the multi-dimensional chess I hear so much about. I mean, it’s not like 9 of the past 10 years have been the hottest on record or anything.

    Heat index of 111 forecast for DC on Saturday!! Wonder if there will be any H2O in the Potomac or Shenandoah at Harper’s Ferry so I can go swim up there since our pool will offer no relief in that heat.

  25. 25.

    Martin

    @QuaintIrene: I’m guessing it’s a study of wife and dog behavior and the presence of stairs. I’d test to see if booze is able to counteract the effects. My hypothesis is that it should in high enough quantities.

  26. 26.

    Leonard Stiltskin

    For those of you that care, that paragon of small-government conservatism, Gov. Chris Christie (R-Fatass), has announced, by executive order, a government takeover of Atlantic City’s casino district and dismantling of the state horse-racing industry.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    Just getting ready to go out in the boiling heat (94) to pimp some media for the Man at the store (which at least has good AC). Back before midnight, I hope.

  28. 28.

    Culture of Truth

    Small government Christie also wants to give $2 billion to Xanadu, , which I believe means “Land of the Corrupt Contractor” in Algonquin.

  29. 29.

    Kirk Spencer

    Trade you. Tomorrow is my two year anniversary of starting unemployment. I’ll spare you the interesting details of a frozen industry and living in the donut of too much to get assistance but too little to ignore the problem.

  30. 30.

    EDantes

    I do not want to know about your day. Yell at each other about Rahm or something.

    Is it alright if I tell you this made me smile?

  32. 32.

    New Yorker

    Can I tell you about my day yesterday? I visited Gettysburg for the first time, and for as much I bitch about how messed up this country can be at times, there’s something to be said about progress when the two states with the biggest monuments on the Confederate side, Virginia and North Carolina, both helped elect Barack Obama in 2008.

  33. 33.

    ellaesther

    I can’t pick a winner!

    Is it Michael with
    Blame Obama. It is all his fault that your wife is stuck indoors with the puppy. ?

    Or maybe Punchy, with Maybe if you showered with Rahm he’d fix your sidewalk and your wife at the same time. No, wait…maybe she should shower with Ra….no, that cant be it….. ?

    Or is it, possibly, Culture of Truth, with Rahm threw a whale on my sailboat!! ?

    Oy, spoiled for choice, and laughing too hard to make one!

  35. 35.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Bnut: Oh God, how it starts…

    I have a long and complicated history with Elizabeth Warren, so allow me a moment to offer my long and complicated thoughts on her. Really long. So long that I had to break it into two parts–scholarship and public life–in order to prevent the nausea, daytime sleepyness, and intracranial bleeding that might otherwise result. Consider yourselves warned.

    I’ll take “Signs You Need an Editor” for $1000.

  36. 36.

    PurpleGirl

    I want to compliment the NYS Dept. of Motor Vehicles. My non-driver ID card expired in November 2009. The letter/form fell into a pile of paper and I’d forgotten about it. I was sorting that pile of paper for tossing and found the form two days ago. Today I went to the License Express office and was in and out in about 35 minutes. I get the new card within 10 days. I made one clerk laugh, explaining to her how the envelope got lost and I found it when cleaning out some paper. All the DMV people I talked with today were nice and pleasant. And the time passed since I should have renewed the card wasn’t even a problem. So I had a good day.

  37. 37.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Sentient Puddle: And I’ll add that she at least wasn’t kidding about it inducing sleepiness. I tried to read the article, and couldn’t make it through more than a few paragraphs of faux-wonkery before I thought to myself “Fuck it, I’ll skim to see if there’s anything that looks like a reasonable point,” and came up with nothing.

  38. 38.

    QuaintIrene

    Small government Christie also wants to give $2 billion to Xanadu,

    Oh, for fuck’s sake. That hideous boondoggle should have been given up a couple years ago, and sunk into the meadowlands marshes.

  39. 39.

    Lurker

    Here’s pictures of costumed geeks counter-protesting the Westboro Baptist Church at the San Diego Comic-Con today. My favorite so far is the Trekkie holding up a “God Hates Jedi” sign.

  40. 40.

    Ash Can

    @Sentient Puddle #35: The girl’s a marketing genius. It sure sounds like she wants people to actually, you know, read her article, doesn’t it?

  42. 42.

    PurpleGirl

    @Bnut: I think you meant to respond to me, PurpleGirl. And I’ve lived in NYC for my whole life. I was just renewing the ID card and I went to the License Express office on 34th St, off 8th Avenue. All they do is process license renewals and non-driver ID cards and a few parking ticket situations. No new licenses, no tests… just the simple renewals. When I went in I got number B200 and they were in the middle of the B140s. It took about 20 minutes to get to B200. I know some offices are horror shows, but since I just had the renewal, I decided to go to the License Express office and not to one of the full service offices like Jamaica (in Queens where I live) or Herald Square.

  43. 43.

    JohnR

    “my experiments have stopped working.”

    Hey, I had an experiment work today! We broke for a 2-hour lab party in celebration..
    Otherwise, hot; glittery, glary, hazy, “He was such a quiet neighbor – I didn’t even know he owned a 36″ chainsaw!” kind of hot. Good thing I work in air conditioned splendor.

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