Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

Everybody saw this coming.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

You cannot shame the shameless.

This fight is for everything.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Not all heroes wear capes.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Bark louder, little dog.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

This blog will pay for itself.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The revolution will be supervised.

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  2. 2.

    quaint irene

    Newt, if it’s possible, has gone even further off the rails. How do these lunatics (Angle, O’Donnell, etc.) still get a free pass on the bullshit they spew? Newt is still booked on news shows as a political ‘pundit.’

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    The rain in Seattle is wrong. It’s raining at a rate of .75 inches per hour. It’s supposed to be this light drizzle. The rain is broken. Please fix it.

  6. 6.

    gizmo

    I don’t bother with burning holy books. I download them to the hard drive, then delete ’em….

    Teabaggin’ in the digital age !

  7. 7.

    MikeJ

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oddly enough, the rain has now stopped. The sun is out, the sky is a weird color like green with all the yellow taken out. If you step outside, it sounds like it is raining because of the water falling off the trees, but none is falling from the few clouds that remain.

    I guess I turned the valve too far.

  10. 10.

    Susan Kitchens

    Wow, between my *cough* version of the good news and reading of those who are troubleshooting the Seattle rain valve (which, you know, takes brains), I’m half tempted to draw conclusions of religious belief.

    But only half tempted. (Plus, I’m resisting it)

    @MikeJ, glad you got it fixt.

    And @gizmo, I like your solution… I call the place that deleted files go “file heaven”

  12. 12.

    Martin

    @MikeJ: Green with all the yellow taken out is blue. Not weird for sky. Well, unless you’ve come back in time from post-apocalpyse America, or you’re from Seattle. Oh yeah…

    I wonder what kindergarden refrigerator pictures look like in Seattle?

  14. 14.

    Bruuuuce

    @Martin: Green with all the yellow taken out is blue.

    For pigments, sure. But not in pixels. Neither RGB nor CMYK (not to mention systems like HSB) work that way.

    @asiangrrlMN: At least the Rays also lost, what with the Yankees throwing away another game. (That is what you’re talking about, right? Ain’t nothing else going on that matters until after the World Series ends. :-)

  16. 16.

    Susan Kitchens

    And other examples of using religious language to describe digital phenomena:

    10 years ago, I freaked out my mother by spending, in her presence, $200 to purchase a 64 MB compact flash memory card for additional space on my digital camera. (location: Panama’s Zona Libre, one big duty free area.)

    Earlier this week, I helped her buy a digital camera, and then grabbed a 4GB SD card. I told her she needed this to hold the pictures. “It’s like the film, Mom.” She asked, “how much is it?” with wariness in her eyes. “Oh, around fifteen bucks,” I said. Was she remembering that huge expense for memory from before? I didn’t want to bore her with all the minutiae of Moore’s Law, so I added, “The thing about digital memory is that as time goes on, they regularly double the number of digital angels who can dance on the head of a pin.”

  23. 23.

    jwb

    @asiangrrlMN: Didn’t see any of the game today. Please tell me that Favre played poorly enough that he may be in danger of losing his job.

    Actually, I’m more upset about the Twinks losing to Oakland. Home field advantage throughout the playoffs would be awful nice.

  24. 24.

    Davis X. Machina

    @MikeJ: My brother and his wife are in Seattle on vacation. Figures. He spent his childhood in detention and the ER. Crap follows him. He has his own personal crap-cloud over his head, like a South Pacific atoll or an Aegean island.

  36. 36.

    Joseph Nobles

    Oh, man, the Republicans may yet destroy themselves…

    Karl Rove today took Christine O’Donnell’s spot on Fox News Sunday and explained several problems with her candidacy (and also challenged Palin to get her rear to Delaware and defend her candidate), and O’Donnell fought back at the Sussex County GOP picnic:

    Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell responded to old clips that surfaced over the weekend where she said she had once “dabbled in witchcraft,” clarifying at a GOP picnic in Delaware Sunday, “I was in high school, how many of you didn’t hang out with questionable folks in high school? But no, There’s been no witchcraft since, if there was, Karl Rove would be a supporter.”
    __
    The jab at the former President George W. Bush senior adviser came after Rove had cast doubt on her ability to carry the state for the GOP and said there are too many questions about her past.

    You know, her comeback doesn’t even make sense unless you’re calling Karl Rove a demon or a devil. Sure, you’d do that if you were on the left, but from the right? It looks like popcorn time.

  38. 38.

    MikeJ

    I think Rove would rather appear smart than loyal. He knows she’s going down in flames[1] and he doesn’t want to be seen backing a loser.

    [1] an activity that happened when I dabbled in witchcraft. Not recommended unless you like getting your face singed.

  39. 39.

    Ash Can

    @Cacti: Maybe Rove figures that if he hasn’t been sent up the river for war crimes by now, he’s invincible. It does make we wonder what Limblow’s going to do this time. Talk like that can’t possibly make him happy.

  40. 40.

    Cain

    @Ab_Normal:

    @MikeJ: You sent the rain to Spokane, thanks a bunch. ;)

    If you ask me, it was O’Donnell doing her wiccan thing and sending rain over to the northwest.

    We just started rain again here. Bah.

    cain

  41. 41.

    RedKitten

    @Comrade Mary: What a shame. If the shirt had TRULY read “I’m Gandalf and Magneto AND Gay. Get over it,” I think global warming would have been utterly cancelled out from the sheer amount of cool emanating from that one spot.

  42. 42.

    drkrick

    The first panel isn’t so far off. When a local controversy about a Saudi-funded school popped up in the DC suburbs (Loudoun County, VA) about 15 years ago, the proprietor pastor of one of the local megachurches did a little research into Islam and reported to the county council in surprise that “these people aren’t Christian!”

  44. 44.

    West of the Cascades

    Anne,

    thanks again for calling these ratfuckers “Christianists.” They’re not Christians.

    WotC + 4

  46. 46.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Ab_Normal:

    Yer is in Spo-kane? My condolences. We moved out of that shithole in ’92 and fortunately only return to visit family who insist on staying there. Ok place to visit but wouldn’t want to live there again.

  49. 49.

    Bruuuuce

    @Comrade Mary: How unfortunate that it wasn’t worn that way in RL. Thanks for the tip.

    It’s still awesome, though. (And if his characters fought each other, which would win? :-)

  51. 51.

    Ab_Normal

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Thanks for the condolences. :D Staying here through the spawn’s high school; fortunately, she’s a senior this year. ‘Course, there’s the issue of staying employed so we can afford university…

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