Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

The lights are all blinking red.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

This fight is for everything.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

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

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

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

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

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  3. 3.

    freelancer

    @Yutsano:

    Here’s a fun fact, Yuts:

    I live two blocks from the aforementioned Saddlecreek Rd. and went to HS with Conor Oberst (I was a freshman when he was a senior, but still).

    I was livin’ in a Devil Town,
    Didn’t know it was a Devil Town
    Oh Lord it really brings me down,
    about the Devil Town.

    I was in an old record shop downtown two days ago, and I saw a shirt with the outline of the State of Nebraska on it and on the Eastern edge it said “emOmaha”. That made me laugh.

  5. 5.

    LM

    There’s a good documentary about Saddle Creek Records, mostly about him.

    I don’t love his stuff, though I’ve been to his concerts (almost got crushed by his super-fanatical fans). I do like his new band, Monsters of Folk’s, Say Please, a lot though. Skip to the 1:10 mark, that’s when the song actually starts.

  7. 7.

    Misha

    My wife, who grew up in Lincoln, Neb., loves these guys. I finally saw them live at the Concert for Equality in Omaha last month. They put on a good show, though I favor some of the other Saddle Creek bands over the Conor core. (Super-jazzed about the upcoming Azure Ray album, for example.)

  13. 13.

    MikeJ

    @Bhall35: Even funnier that he hates Lily Allen’s song of the same title. She’s not pissed at a former lover, she hates Bozell and his ilk:

    Look inside, look inside your tiny mind
    Then look a bit harder
    ‘Cause we’re so uninspired, so sick and tired
    Of all the hatred you harbor

    So you say it’s not okay to be gay
    Well, I think you’re just evil
    You’re just some racist who can’t tie my laces
    Your point of view is medieval

  20. 20.

    MattR

    @morzer:

    I could have picked House of the Rising Sun.

    Forgot who mentioned it recently, but here’s the Blind Boys of Alabama doing Amazing Grace to that tune. (and a performance from the UNited Nations taboot)

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: You’re so cute when you’re mock-huffy. I think this calls for Pedro tongue and a large jar of Vegemite. And yes I will go there. :)

  24. 24.

    morzer

    @asiangrrlMN:

    It’s also one that has a long history, and probably goes back to a genuine folksong. The Animals have the most famous version, but theirs is an adaptation of what I think was a superior original. The original is in the voice of a woman, (probably) lamenting how she came to be in a brothel, whereas the young man in the Animals’ version seems to have followed daddy into gambling away all he owned.

    There’s a small scholarly cottage industry in identifying what and where the “House of the Rising Sun” was.

  27. 27.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: With Margaret Cho as the Elvis lookalike! I really dig this group. I have a crush on Doris–she of the lovely long black locks. She’s lead singer on this–my favorite song by them.

    @morzer: I had to Google that acronym! Sheesh.

  28. 28.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: You should have a crush on Doris. She has the more sonorous voice of the two. YMMV of course, but I think she has better vocal stylization meself.

  31. 31.

    morzer

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Well, everyone else says New Orleans, and some say the house was owned by a Madame LeSoleil Levant. I think that’s unlikely in the extreme. To me, it’s just where the girl wakes up with regrets every day.

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    @morzer: At this point, I want to inform you that even though I am her fake husband, I can no longer offer you any protection. You are gonna have to deal with the full force of her wrath from here on out. May Allah be merciful upon you.

  35. 35.

    asiangrrlMN

    @morzer: You, Sir, shall fry with the intensity of a thousand burning suns! Yes, you shall! You have impugned the honor of my team (even though I’ve been told again and again that I am not a real fan because I do not fluff Favre), and for that, you must pay! #Slaps face with glove#

    @morzer: No wonder I resonate with the song so much.

    @Yutsano: Only you can restrain me! And yet, you have unleashed the hounds within!

  39. 39.

    asiangrrlMN

    @morzer: You better get used to it, buster. When you least expect it, I’ll be there.

    @Yutsano: Ooooh! Shiny thing! Sooo pretty! And, where the fuck is FH#1? Damn him, I oughta…sigh. Kylie.

    Sorry. Had to go back to this. Nude boys in pink peacock feathers! And, sigh, Kylie. My guilty pleasure.

  46. 46.

    morzer

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Rest well, venerable lady! I am overcome with delight that my humble bagatelle could have titillated senses jaded by so many years.

  51. 51.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I technically stayed in the Commonwealth, so there’s that. I also just realized he might be tied up in the whole election mishegas they have down there as well. I’m not entirely certain how he’d get tied into all that, but if his work can wring billable hours out of him they’ll do it. Bastas.

  55. 55.

    Egypt Steve

    I pray to the Four Winds — my god is the Everlasting Sky. Your god lives beneath him.

  56. 56.

    tomvox1

    Conor Oberst is a prodigy and musical genius. Period.

    He’s been unfairly tagged with the “New Dylan” and “Poor Man’s Gram Parsons” monikers (opposite sides of the laziest form of rock criticism) but to have written the songs he has by 30 in terms of both quantity and quality is genuinely astonishing. Along with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, he is arguably the most talented and compassionate singer-songwriter of the decade, only more overtly political. And I have even higher hopes for him going forward, as Oberst’s occasional penchant for self-indulgent displays of petulance and drunkenness become tempered by maturity (one hopes). The songs might not all be great…but most of them are. I’d follow Oberst down many more musical roads without hesitation before I gave up on him. He’s that damn good.

    Just listen to “Danny Callahan” all the way through (as well as Bright Eyes greats like “Four Winds,” No One Would Riot for Less,” “Poison Oak,” “Nothing Gets Crossed Out,” etc) and tell me if you don’t think I’m right:

    youtube.com/watch?v=BWRhwJ6p1yg
    (audio only)

  57. 57.

    Gus

    @tomvox1: Yeah, the “new Bob Dylan” tag is unfair both to Oberst and Dylan. I’m not a big fan of Oberst’s but I see the talent, and I have enjoyed the shows I’ve seen him play both with Bright Eyes and Monsters of Folk. Political music has to be done very well to work, and I think his work is often successful but not always. When it isn’t I don’t care for it. There’s a reason Dylan left the overtly political work of his earliest work behind and got more surreal and poetic (while maintaining a political edge). When he did his music got better.

  58. 58.

    ThresherK

    @MattR: I didn’t know they did that until it was played at last Saturday’s Providence Waterfire extravaganza.

    Whoo-hoo! Great stuff, especially seeing as how my nearby city has walled off its waterway with eleventy bajillion metric tonnes of concrete autospace.

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