Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

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

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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

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

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

We will not go back.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Second rate reporter says what?

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

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

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  6. 6.

    beltane

    This would have been better if it was Megan McArdle’s error and correction. Who is Amanda Hess?

  9. 9.

    John Cole

    @beltane: Megan wouldn’t correct it, she would just blame her spell checker and the people who pointed it out. And then she would explain that this was central to her point, anyway.

  10. 10.

    Irony Abounds

    Fine, so now the question of how many black men who have sex with Amanda are HIV positive is back on the table. Not that I’ll lie awake at night wondering mind you.

  13. 13.

    Brachiator

    @John – A Motley Moose:

    Hilarious until the consequences of that statistic sink in.

    Even the corrected headline leaves more questions. The main study is about D.C. It makes you wonder what statistics are like in other parts of the country.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    I have had the crappiest day, but I laughed out loud at this. The “oh, my” from John Cole was the icing on the cake.

  23. 23.

    Amir_Khalid

    Oh, what I would give to have seen the blush on Amanda Hess’ innocent-looking face when she noticed the typo …

  24. 24.

    EconWatcher

    OT, but for you guys who thought maybe the Ohio Nazi reenactor was just an innocent history buff, you have some new info to contend with. He doesn’t think we can judge members of the SS, because we haven’t walked a mile in their shoes:

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/rich-iott-defends-nazis-he-dresses-up-as-they-were-doing-what-they-thought-was-right-video.php?ref=fpa

    Unbelievable. He was floating a somewhat exculpatory story line (“educational purpose,” “make sure we never forget,” “I also did it for other sides and other wars,” blah blah blah). But when he had a full chance to explain himself, he basically confirmed the worst suspicions.

  25. 25.

    gogol's wife

    This amusing item inspired me to go to Sullivan for the first time in a long time, and this was at the top:

    “I’ll be on CNN’s new 8pm Parker-Spitzer show tonight, ripping the president and the Republicans a new one on gays in the military.”

    Sorry I said something nice about him yesterday.

  26. 26.

    El Cid

    @EconWatcher: Look, haven’t people already said enough bad things about the SS? Everyone experiments with running concentration camps in high school.

  27. 27.

    John O

    My inner statistician has informed me that the most important aspect of this post is that 99.9999999% of the American public doesn’t know who Amanda Hess is. If the commenters here haven’t heard of her…

    …too lazy to look it up (plus don’t give a sh*t), but the name Amanda Hess rings of Clownhall to me.

  28. 28.

    Amir_Khalid

    @EconWatcher: He’s on his — what, third or fourth? — explanation by now. And they aren’t even mutually consistent.

    It’s not fair. You Americans are hogging all the entertainingly crazy politicians.

  31. 31.

    Martin

    @gregw: My son is 12. She’s a stretch even for 12. He had girls in his class when he was 10 that looked like her.

    But what’s creepiest is that she looks almost exactly like my neighbor’s 5 year old son – just bigger. I’m not one to judge people on their looks but just a little work on the hair would go miles toward keeping her from looking like To Catch a Predator bait.

  32. 32.

    josefina

    I thought this was about Amanda Hesser, which I found baffling in many ways. But it’s not.

    So I join the vast majority of humanity in saying, “Amanda Hess? Who she?”

  37. 37.

    Marvin Piffpaff

    one in three black men who have sex with me..

    Which is ZERO men, black, white, magenta or any other color.

    The pre-adolescent look is dyke, totally dyke, what I call Baby Butch.

    No way in hell is any post-adolescent hetero female is gonna try to look like she’s a pre-adolescent boy. No. Fucking. Way. Think about it.

  39. 39.

    Porlock Junior

    Looks a bit like Tintin, doesn’t she?

    PLEASE don’t tell them at Sadly No! that I said this. Might be misunderstood.

  40. 40.

    Porlock Junior

    BTW, never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
    it tolls for them.

    (This actually happened, but I’ve lost the cite.)

  42. 42.

    Chris

    Just FYI–Amanda Hess used to write a column for the Washington City Paper called ‘The Sexist.’ It dealt with sex and gender issues in Washington, D.C. When City Paper editor Erik Wemple departed to start TBD.com, she and several other CP staffers (then-current and former) went with him, including Dave Jamieson, Sarah Godfrey, and Andrew Beaujon. Her blog at TBD mines similar territory to that of her old gig. Full disclosure: I was once a CP staffer as well, but got out of the newspaper business altogether a few years ago, and never had the opportunity to work with Amanda.

  43. 43.

    Badtux

    In other words, yes, she’s baby butch, and no, she doesn’t have sex with black men, white men, purple men, or little green men from Mars, which is one reason the typo is so hilarious. She’s actually grown her hair out a bit since that photo, going for the whole Justin Bieber look now ;).

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