Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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

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

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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  2. 2.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Be careful John! I was at Logan Airport last week and I can assure you plenty of potential terrorists were lurking about the terminal! I mean anyone who looks like they work on Wall Street should have a wary eye cast upon them, no? Didn’t those Wall Street banksters and terrorists almost bring down our economy? Brooks Brother suit. Attache. Shined Gucci’s. Power Tie. Where’s the TSA when you REALLY need them. Be afraid. Very afraid.

  4. 4.

    Guster

    I’m self-employed and was thinking of enrolling in my local community college part-time, just to get health insurance for me and my family. It’d save us thousands of dollars a year, even after paying for the credits, but the insurance itself it pretty weak.

    Are there any other ways to get health insurance without a job? Apparently some alumni organizations offer group purchasing, but not mine. Was just hoping someone had an idea …

  5. 5.

    cmorenc

    @John Cole:

    Off to pick some friends from undergrad up at the airport. I’ll check in from time to time, but you are basically on your own. You kids behave.

    He’s gone! Pass the word…PARTY!
    We’ll be taking up a collection for the keg.
    And yeah, stick around to help us clean up before he gets back.

  9. 9.

    Professor

    Let’s be cerebral for a moment: Are people stupid because they are poor OR people are poor because they are stupid? This is known as the Euthyphro dilemma. Discuss.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    After a very frustrating 36 hours (and probably several frustrating days to come), I can say with some certainty that I hate superfluids.

    dms

  11. 11.

    Rosalita

    You kids behave.

    I guess that all depends on what flame-posts get put up today.

    I call Green Balloons on the Juan Williams epic saga.

  16. 16.

    Anya

    @JonathanW: I saw that at BWD’s diary at GOS and thought it was a good thing. But then this morning saw Gawker commenters, who are usually on the O’bot side of the spectrum criticizing the presiden and accusing him of making things harder for gay kids because of his lack of action on DADT. I must say that annoyed the hell out of me. I mean nothing this man does is satisfactory. It’s always, well you didn’t do this my way so you’re like Bush. I am always shocked at the vitriol and criticism directed at President Obama from the left. Is it because he is a blackety black that we have to expect perfection from him and supper human ability to get shit done? Or because we wanted our own magical negro and all we got was a pragmatic president who cared about process and other boring shit? I am really at a loss.

  18. 18.

    Dennis SGMM

    It’s drizzly, overcast and rainy here in sunny Southern California. Naturally, I woke up at six, filled a thermos with coffee, grabbed a couple of bagels, and drove up into the San Gabriel mountains – in the Miata – with the top down. It was all fog and mist and the smell of damp pine woods until I got above the cloud layer. I found a nice turnout, stopped, and just soaked in a silent, Japanese brush painting world of lonely peaks poking up out of the fog below.

  19. 19.

    Sour Kraut

    Off to pick some friends from undergrad up at the airport.

    Odds of John Cole waking up Sunday morning lying naked in an unexplored region of New Zealand: 1 in 3.

  20. 20.

    El Tiburon

    but you are basically on your own

    I guess DougJ, Mistemix, Kay, Anne and ED are just potted plants.

    I hope you guys (and gals) understand what Cole thinks of each and everyone of you.

    May be time for a hostile takeover. Cole has really lost his mojo after all. “Get off my lawn!” is so done.

  22. 22.

    Erik Vanderhoff

    Wait, West Virginia has airports? Next you’re going to tell me you have indoor plumbing.

  23. 23.

    Guster

    @The Grand Panjandrum: Thanks! I’ll look into that. Much appreciated.

    It’s gotta be better than surfing a thousand community college sites to see which offer health insurance to their distance learning students!

  24. 24.

    shortstop

    How old do you have to be before someone telling you to behave in their absence doesn’t make you sit up and look around for interesting off-limits shit to do? Dead?

  29. 29.

    Suck It Up!

    @Anya:

    yeah, its DADT that’s making it harder for gay kids. Not the fear mongering and homophobia that’s promoted in churches and used to win elections.

  32. 32.

    TheOtherWA

    You know what I haven’t heard in all this mortgage mess? Any involvement by credit unions. Could it be that they’re doing things the old fashioned way, (the right way)? Think I’m gonna call them and ask if they really have my note.

    I bought my house in the late 90’s with a bank mortgage, but when I refinanced went with the credit union I was then using. Haven’t had any problems that couldn’t be solved with a phone call or email.

    The bullshit banks are pulling is inexcusable.

  36. 36.

    R-Jud

    @Dennis SGMM:

    It was all fog and mist and the smell of damp pine woods until I got above the cloud layer.

    For most of my 10k this morning, I had a gorgeous view of the Malvern Hills and the Worcestershire countryside, all golden trees and country lanes. Wish I could have smelled damp pine woods instead of cow poo, however.

  37. 37.

    Brighton

    Krugman wrote today about Britain’s belt-tightening as an excuse to destroy the welfare state. Predicts it will be the final glorious failure of Thatcherism, barring some freak miracle. Home economics doesn’t work with a broken home. Read here on why “paternalistic” countries have fared better in the recession, and the US resembles the family in the Ramones song “We’re a Happy Family”

  39. 39.

    matoko_chan

    @Suck It Up!: i dont know what effect it will have.
    it could bring out more youth vote…..remind people of how much they hated bush….close the enthusiasm gap by stirring up outrage?
    i really dont know.
    i do know there are televised stories made from the intel that the media has been working on for the last 3 months…they are supposed to be very bloody….people love gorror.
    there may be youtubes that go viral.
    there are magazine and newspaper stories.
    i just know it isnt raw data files.

  40. 40.

    matoko_chan

    @Corner Stone:IMHO its pretty stupid to pay mercs to kill Afghans with taxpayer monies while building schools for their daughters. kinda counterproductive, like giving taxpayer monies to the ISI to fund the Taliban to kill American soljahs.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @matoko_chan: Okay, I’ll bite. You obviously think that it will, why is that? What’s in these documents? Will it get play in the news? If so, will people care about things that already happened in a war that is winding down or are they more interested in the economy?

  42. 42.

    R-Jud

    @Brighton:

    Krugman wrote today about Britain’s belt-tightening as an excuse to destroy the welfare state. Predicts it will be the final glorious failure of Thatcherism, barring some freak miracle.

    Yes, when the government eliminates jobs for 1% of the population in one fell swoop, it’s only going to make things worse. Fuck you, Nick Clegg.

  43. 43.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Dennis SGMM: Good for you. Everything sucks here but the hold music I’ve been listening to for the last fifteen minutes is very beautiful.

  44. 44.

    Poopyman

    @Dennis SGMM:
    Thanks for my moment of zen. It really helps as I sit here in a windowless office with the old partitions and dirty carpet.

    But I’m busting out of here for the weekend in about 5 minutes, so there’s literally light at the end of the -doorway- tunnel.

  45. 45.

    Anya

    @Suck It Up!: That’s what I said in Gawker but my comment did not appear because I never comment. How hard is it to acknowledge that the President is not the freaking enemy. The enemy is those who demonize and use gays and other minorities to gain political advantage.

  46. 46.

    Corner Stone

    I didn’t think it was possible to find a semi-celeb I cared less about than Juan Williams but I have.
    Maybe I should start a pay for subscription news service, where actual news was reported but you never heard a word about Lindsay Lohan.
    How much would it be worth to never hear her discussed on your teebee?
    Other categories could be added for different Premium Packaging.

  48. 48.

    matoko_chan

    @Omnes Omnibus: unknown.
    we will have to wait and see.
    the most interesting thing….is that the Unipolar Power declared war on the Hacker Nation…..and couldn’t stop the signal.
    i have been sayin for 2 months that Oct 25 was the release date.
    if could figure it out, so could the gov.
    they slimed Assange with false rape charges, shut down his Moneybookers account for donations, bullied other countries to not give him refuge, did everything they could.
    they could not stop or delay the release.

    it is a new world. Obama will have to make a state secrets act to stop Wikileaks…..but its already too late.
    the intel has left the building.

  52. 52.

    matoko_chan

    incoming
    @Suck It Up!: well…this is raising Nate’s uncertainty quotient……let there be chaos!

    the warpimps tried to stop it and failed, and now they are trying to spin it.

    “By disclosing such sensitive information, Wikileaks continues to put at risk the lives of our troops, their coalition partners and those Iraqis and Afghans working with us,” said spokesman Geoff Morrell.

    He said the documents were “essentially snapshots of events, both tragic and mundane, and do not tell the whole story.

    but…..snapshots of tragedy sell…..sell verry well.
    so the snapshots of tragedy at least will be seen.

  55. 55.

    matoko_chan

    should some one be live blogging this???…its coming fast.
    i said two days ago …

    the wikileaks site is still down for maintenance…..decrypting the “insurance” file? or quarantined to prevent attack?

    the Wikileaks site has been under attack from US gov paid hackers (snitches).
    so they decided to release the data early.

    presumeably the snitches were going to cyberbomb the Insurance file and knock down Wikileaks site before Monday.
    we are living in Neuromancer.

  57. 57.

    matoko_chan

    what is wrong with you people?
    u have your heads stuck up Juan Williams but?
    Assange said 40 warcrimes suits on torture have been launched
    thousands of iraqis tortured

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