Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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

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

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

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

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

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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  1. 1.

    Michael

    I’d like to go on a side tangent to mention how worthless our Department of Defense is in promoting a fatbody web commenter (who does an incessant amount of internet posting during duty hours) to SFC. You’d think that Our Valiant Warrior Officers would smack the shit out of a chubby DJ and expect real work, instead of enabling him doing conservative posting on the internet.

    http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:txradioguy/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

    http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=42116.15

    I don’t think thats the whole of it, either.

  5. 5.

    thefncrow

    Jim Webb may have been preferable to George Allen, but he should have absolutely no support after writing something as stupid as this

    I could quote passages from it, but the title suffices to show what sort of bullshit Webb’s spewing: “Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege”.

  6. 6.

    KG

    I really don’t have anything more than contempt for what is left of the conservative movement. It annoys me to no end that I bought into a lot of their bullshit enough to actually be somewhat a part of the movement while I was in law school. Maybe I had scales on my eyes, but I honestly don’t remember them being so fucking insane back then – sure I heard a few people talk, theoretically, about trying to repeal the 17th Amendment but I don’t remember anyone thinking it was anything other than a pipe dream. Now I watch them and am simply disgusted, perhaps that’s what I get for staring into the Wingularity like the Master staring into the Untempered Schism.

  7. 7.

    Corner Stone

    Sure, now we get an open thread! I’ve been posting Open Thread Gold all day!

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    @thefncrow: His whole argument seems to be that in the old south they had the white elite, the white trash, and black people, in that order. Now there’s nobody for the white trash to look down on and IT’S NOT FAIR!

  9. 9.

    lamh

    Saw “Inception” last night. No review, cause I don’t wanna spoil it, but a few things.

    1. I’ve finally found a Leonardo DiCaprio movie that I actually liked. I’m not a fan, it just kinda freaks me out that he still looks about 25 even though he’s gotta be over 33-35. maybe it just bothers me cause we are ’bout the same age, and I sure don’t look 25!!! Damn me and my love of food.

    2. Joseph Gordon-Levitt steals the show for me. He’s come a long way from “3rd Rock from the Sun” and “Angels in the Outfield”. The other actor named Tom Hardy (google it) was def a scene stealer.

    3. OMG!! Dream fight sequences are da bomb!!!!!! I’ll leave it at that!

    Forewarning, the movie is 2hr 30min long. If you have a small bladder, you might want to go before the movie, cause I’m told that if you leave the movie for an extended time, you WILL miss something.

    Anyway, I def recommend “Inception”. Next up Angelina Jolie and “Salt”

  11. 11.

    KG

    @thefncrow: granted, he sounds like a tool for obvious reasons. But, I for one wouldn’t mind seeing affirmative action type programs, particularly in the academic world, but based more on socio-economic status than race. A poor white kid growing up in a poor neighborhood is going to face the same problems as a black or Latin kid in those neighborhoods. Basing such things on something as fungible as race seems stupid – I’m half-Cuban, half-gringo; let’s say I have a kid with a girl who is half-Asian and half-black, what race is the kid other than human? Actually, stupid isn’t the right word. It probably made sense in the 1960s when a lot of these programs were first designed. But today? I think relying too much on race or ethnicity is taking the easy way out.

  12. 12.

    Mark S.

    I do this with the phone sometimes:

    Vital warning systems on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were switched off at the time of the explosion in order to spare workers being woken by false alarms, a federal investigation has heard.

    Though when I miss a phone call it usually doesn’t result in an environmental disaster. Usually.

  13. 13.

    KG

    @lamh: you didn’t like Catch Me If You Can? That film was the first DiCaprio film I saw where I didn’t think of him as annoying. And whoever thought of the Romeo & Juliet interpretation should be beaten with hard bound versions of the collective works of the Bard.

  15. 15.

    ...now I try to be amused

    Cartoon Breitbart looks like he’s about to drink from the Atwater Cup. Ha!

  16. 16.

    David in NY

    Speaking of funny things, this sentence from Felix Salmon’s piece on why Obama will appoint Elizabeth Warren to the new financial consumer protection agency made me lol:

    Megan McArdle doesn’t like the methodology in [Warren’s] research papers; again, this is not a big deal.

    McCardle was having trouble doing long division the other day, you may recall.

    Ed: As so often, understatement wins.

  17. 17.

    PTirebiter

    @MikeJ: I’d suggest that you and thefncrow try rereading the article.

    @ thefncrow

    but the title suffices to show what sort of bullshit Webb’s spewing

    And you’re calling someone out as stupid?

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    @Mark S.:

    Cripes, BP’s (and Deepwater’s) multi-faceted disregard for safety makes them seem more like murderers with each new day. I wonder if they’ve hired Don Blankenship yet?

    Of course on the good ol’ Oil Drum comments along the lines of, “Well, it’s either turn them off or endure continual false alarms” are par for the course.

    Perhaps a new motto is in order: “Safety: now, more than just an annoying joke.”

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    Amanda in the South Bay

    I just bought an iPod Touch, so I don’t expect much in the way of my programming homework to get done tonight.

    4:30 can’t come soon enough.

    Money has been tight lately, but that’s mostly cause I’ve been helping friends out (which I don’t regret at all). Its just nice to pamper myself for once.

  20. 20.

    Warren Terra

    I don’t mean to diminish Danziger in the slightest when I say that while Tom Toles and Tom Tomorrow are in business it’s not going to be so easy to name the best editorial cartoonist in the country.

  21. 21.

    Amir_Khalid

    @lamh: Seconded. This movie really makes you work to follow it, but it’s well worth it to see such a meticulous construction.

    And after all the levels of the characters’ dream come to a more or less simultaneous end, the movie itself ends. The viewers wake up together from their own shared dream, and leave the theater. Nice touch, that.

    And is Ellen Page cute, or what?

  24. 24.

    Culture of Truth

    I mean, when Garafolo was younger, of course. Especially a certain acerbic tone in their voices.

  28. 28.

    lamh32

    @KG:

    I didn’t hate it, I just can’t get past how young he always looks to me. It’s superficial I know, but it is what it is…smh.

  29. 29.

    lamh32

    @Amir_Khalid:

    She is a cutey. I know she’s gotta be like 22 right, but she could still play younger, if she wears here hair diff.

    If I was lesbian, I totally have her on my to do list…lol

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    I got to take Mr. Keaton to the vet today since he seems to have caught Tunch’s ass boil (though in this case, the boil was on his chin, not his ass). Hooray for the new 10-day antibiotic shot that means I don’t have to try and pill a 13-pound cat who has all his claws! Huzzah!

    Then he rubbed his chin so fiercely on his carrier during the 10 minute ride home that I had to mop up blood when I got home. Fun.

  33. 33.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    What is it with cats and boils recently? My cousins’ cat developed a nasty infected boil on her side a few weeks ago. But that kapow antibiotic shot seems to have done the trick. I know the last time she (cat) had an infection, they had to deal with the pills, which was messy and unpleasant for everyone, plus Widget lost her appetite as a side effect. She’s close to 20 years old now, so this is a much easier way to deal with it.

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