Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Optimism opens the door to great things.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

T R E 4 5 O N

Giving up is unforgivable.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

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  1. 1.

    JGabriel

    Now that Jeffster’s on the road and on the run, maybe they’ll do a cover of The Load-Out.

    It’s a little before they’re 80’s-lovin’ heyday, but it’d be awesome to see Jeffster trash that fucker (even though the sappy dork in me secretly kinda likes it (don’t tell anyone else on the internet) despite how sentimental and cliched it is – maybe because Browne actually knew how to write a decent lyric, as opposed to Fogelberg and most of the other self-involved 70’s emo asshats).

    .

  2. 2.

    lamh32

    Ok,

    sorry for the politics, but Keith just showed video of Christine O’Donnell actually saying on the O’Reilly factor that scientist are putting human brains in mice!!1

    Someone’s gotta find it.

    Oh, and BTW, I got an email today from OfA asking me to call my Senator about the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Vote” tomorrow.

  6. 6.

    JWL

    I’ve never seen Chuck, and tonight will find out what the Niners are really about this year.

    But I did watch Boardwalk Empire last night. A 4 star, thumbs-up production. Those unfamiliar with its historical personages need only google about them to get up to speed with the story.

    At this point, I must have seen Big Jim Colosimo assassinated (while listening to Caruso) in at least a half dozen films. But last night’s version was by far the most poetic. Directed by Scorese, Big Jim’s blood flowing onto-and-across the tile floor was part Godfather, part Goodfella’s montage.

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    Gimmie a MNF thread, muthaforker. Dont know who this Charles character of whom you ref, and dont care. It’s time for a brew with Drew, a Busch with Bush, a Smithicks with Smith, and hope the Gore dudnt bore while shooting the Brees with TVs.

    Duh dun dun DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  10. 10.

    stuckinred

    @JWL: I thought that montage was a bit much, I mean if you’ve seen one murder-with-dago music montage you’ve seen em all!

  16. 16.

    lamh32

    @Corner Stone:

    Yeah, I noticed that too. I was almost worse than listening to Eugene Robinson when he starts to stuttering and I agree with Gene 9x out of 10! Weigel…meh. I can live with him or without him

  19. 19.

    JWL

    “Hey, what was with Capone’s “I was with the lost battalion” statement”?

    Yeah, it jumped out at me, too. My guess it will set up a “this guy is full of shit” moment by his partner in hijack (and WW1 combat veteran), Jimmy. Or perhaps it was a contrivance by the writers to expose Capone’s sense of bluster.

    Go Niners…

  21. 21.

    eemom

    don’t know no Chuck and don’t watch no football, but anyone reading this who is as depressed as I am by everything else that has been discussed on this blog today oughta get their TBogg on NOW:

    http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2010/09/19/when-logic-and-proportion-have-fallen-sloppy-dead/

    he’s just as fucking brilliant with O.D. as he is with Palin. Indeed, the crazier shit gets, the brillianter he is.

    wtf he’s doing at Lake Batshit I’ll never know, but I guess I have to give Lady Jane some credit for getting one thing right.

  25. 25.

    Punchy

    Wife gets me laid if Bush stays under 10 fantasy points (she’s up by 10 and change). Can we all just hope he breaks his toe running out of the tunnel?

  26. 26.

    Southern Beale

    I’m forced to watch Chuck because my husband loves this show but I simply don’t get the appeal. I thought Chuck was supposed to be some kind of nebishy, nerdy Everyman with a crappy job who becomes a spy. But now he’s got pecs and a hot girlfriend and is Mr. Superspy in tight jeans.

    Don’t get it. Like any other lame spy TV show.

    And that has been today’s TV review …..

  30. 30.

    JGabriel

    debit:

    Somewhere David Gates and Bread are crying. I hope you’re happy.

    Ecstatic! As long as they don’t write a fucking song about it. Does that make me mean?

    Then I am mean. I can live with it.

    .

  33. 33.

    El Cid

    OK, via Digby, a ‘holy shit’, and a ‘holy friggin’ jeebus fucking cripes my god what have we come to’ capture.

    First, Tingly Leg Matthews gets all excited to fit himself into the new GOP dominated Congress:

    In response to Eric Boehlert’s assertion that the right wing media has no adult supervision, Chris Matthews said, “what about John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, who have lived their lives in the center?”

    Unless he meant the center of Washington DC, geographically, fuck you again, you pathetic fucking dumbass villager asshole. Why don’t you tell us a-fucking-gain what you used to do in Irish-American politics when you were just a working class kid again and how this describes all American politics today?

    Also, a Republican New York Congressional candidate specifically, literally endorses the need for EUGENICS to keep all the darkies from infecting our kids and diluting our precious white bodily fluids with their Mandingo / Old Spice sexual allure, which was caused by school integration, as proven by what happens to finches adopted by other species.

    There is now afoot a conscious effort to de-Europeanize and to re-Judaize Christianity, through scriptural revision, internal treachery and external pressure.
    __
    The importance of applying eugenic measures in the West becomes evident from Richard Lynn’s recent work on Dysgenics and his just-released seminal work Eugenics: A Reassessment.

    The problem with this is that some liberal will bring the notion of ‘race’ into it and therefore play the race card to destroy our ability to hold a good conversation about race, and maybe de-integrating the schools and for best effect sterilizing the darkies.

    I just hope that Democrats will someday be willing to work for the best interests of the country by learning from the centrists of the other side.

  35. 35.

    mr. whipple

    In other news, read today that Leonard Skinner, namesake for Lynyrd Skynyrd, died.

    Ooo, ooo that smell.

  40. 40.

    JPL(formerly demo woman)

    Chuck is off to a good start. It was nice to see Harry Stanton as the Repo Man and the sexting scenes were hilarious.

  41. 41.

    Anonymous

    Mostly a lurker but I haven’t seen any mention of the super creative fund raising antics of Wil Wheaton and John Scalzi in the creating of “Clash of the Geeks” electronic chapbook. Electronic file downloads and donations can be found here: http://unicornpegasuskitten.com/ I figure the community here would embrace this and appreciate the geekiness involved.

  42. 42.

    BR

    Bat Signal to Tim F. Bat Signal to Tim F.

    Balloon Juice phone calling brigade needed:

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/meet-the-democrats-who-will-decide-whether-or-not-the-gop-wins-the-tax-cut-fight.php

    We need folks who live in or near (and can pretend to live in) these districts to be calling their congresspeople and telling them that rich folks don’t need no stinkin tax cut.

    The one thing that got me through the depressing periods of January and February were Tim’s calling threads. Let’s do it again to get through this period.

  47. 47.

    Stav

    That is good entertainment. Nothing complicated, but good stories, well written and an excellent cast. Show kicks off Season 4 better than it left off. Very few TV shows can claim that (Mad Men, Curb, any others?).

  48. 48.

    Anne Laurie

    @Southern Beale:
    __

    Oh I got a comment moderation demerit. What the heck did I say?

    ‘Casino’. FYWP does not look favorably upon games of chance, unlike those Gettysburg developers.

  50. 50.

    eemom

    @El Cid:

    In response to Eric Boehlert’s assertion that the right wing media has no adult supervision, Chris Matthews said, “what about John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, who have lived their lives in the center?”

    yeah, I had the misfortune to hear that while I was fixing dinner. Was kind of clinging to the hope that maybe I heard it wrong. “Center? Boehner and McConnell? Naah, not even Tweety could be THAT stoopid….”

    GOD that man is an asshole. The problem is that once every 25 shows or so, he turns his assholedom on some truly reprehensible target, and then he seems remotely tolerable again, so that the vicious cycle of leaving the channel on Hardball while fixing dinner begins anew.

  51. 51.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @JGabriel: Ugh, he really makes me sick

    The electronic lynch mob that has attacked and harassed me — you should see the emails sent to me personally!

    Dear Privileged, Slow-Witted Douchebag with a Persecution Complex,
    Being called a privileged, slow-witted douchebag in an e-mail is not a lot like being lynched. Really and truly, it is not.
    Best,
    Jim

  52. 52.

    lamh32

    Anybody here watch “How I Met Your Mother”?

    Tonight’s season premiere was good. It started with a wedding. I have my suspicions on who’s wedding it was.

  54. 54.

    morzer

    Chris Matthews said, “what about John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, who have lived their lives in the center?”

    The obvious response would be to ask for the name of Matthews’ dealer, because he clearly has access to some other reality.

  55. 55.

    dmsilev

    @eemom: So, what did his guests say in response to that? I guess “Chris, you ignorant slut” would be too much to ask for.

    dms

  62. 62.

    El Cid

    @sven: Funny thing is, apparently a number of people have been both fundamentalist creationists and racial eugenicists.

    It’s not that exceptional, given that plenty of fundy creationists understand animal breeding, dogs or birds etc.

    Like some of them say, they believe in “microevolution” but not “macroevolution” (though apparently macromiracles are more believable and down to Urf).

  63. 63.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @debit:

    Somewhere David Gates and Bread are crying. I hope you’re happy.

    I’ll say to them what I’d say to Glenn Beck, “You want something to cry about? I can give you something to cry about.”

  64. 64.

    Yutsano

    Night two of the grand kitteh experiment. He’s emerged from under the bed and I think is starting to recognize this place is his new kingdom. I let him venture on the balcony some, leaving the door cracked until I can get the damn cat door unlocked somehow. Purring happily on my bed now, plus he got bacon tonight. I may yet live to see another morning.

  65. 65.

    JWL

    Well… fuck. There were a couple of coaching errors, sure. But it was the players who lost this game.

    I’ll tell you another thing. I’ve no idea what team will win the NFC, but it won’t be the Saints.

    Go Niners..

  66. 66.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: YAY! I’m glad kitteh is adjusting and that I won’t have to find replacement fake hubby!

    @Omnes Omnibus: Agreed. There are some people who do not know when to quit. It’s a feature, not a bug, of the internetz apparently. That said, Professor Law Dude is still a clueless asshat. And, no, I did not read the latest link because I’ve had enough of his idiocy.

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