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

No one could have predicted…

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

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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  1. 1.

    General Stuck

    in real life, those are wise rules of thumb. In the blogosphere, no one can hear you scream.

  2. 2.

    licensed to kill time

    Just spell-checked Mellencamp in Firefox-it offers Encampment, Mellicent, Excellence and Excellency, all capitalized :)

  4. 4.

    General Stuck

    @Stooleo:

    I wonder how much trouble you’d get in having a vegetable taped to your leg?

    this isn’t Spinal Tap, and that’s no vegetable

  6. 6.

    Carnacki

    I don’t care. I like John Mellencamp. Also AC/DC, Queen and … okay, my musical tastes have changed little since I was 16. Some might call it immaturity, I call it consistency. ::Smooches::

  8. 8.

    Hal

    I can’t survive the next two years if it’s all Palin, all the time.

    I was watching HGTV the other day, and this couple moved to some remote island in New Zealand. I’m thinking of doing the same until Nov 3rd, 2012.

    PS, I do think it’s cool if there were riots in the street if Bristol wins Dancing with the Stars tomorrow.

  13. 13.

    Carnacki

    @blahblahblah: Considering the ombuds at The New York Times and the WaPo were pretty much worthless, maybe he used the correct word after all.

    I confess I don’t dislike the Kainster as much as many here do, but I don’t have much time for libertarians who don’t seem to understand the difference between their theories and the real world. (Re: garbage collection)

  14. 14.

    srv

    “No one they have encountered in their lives — from their parents to their teachers to their president — wanted them to feel bad by hearing the truth,” she writes. “So they grew up convinced that they could become big pop stars like Michael Jackson.”

    I just can’t stop laughing at Caribou Barbies rant on the cult of self-esteem. I can survive this, as long as I don’t laugh so much I choke to death.

  15. 15.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    @Hal:

    PS, I do think it’s cool if there were riots in the street if Bristol wins Dancing with the Stars tomorrow.

    I’ve got to give her props, win or lose. At least she didn’t quit half way through.

  16. 16.

    arguingwithsignposts

    if kain quits and takes his ball home because of the weekend fooferall I will lose all respect for the dude. otoh, if he stays, he should keep the infighting in house. but that’s just my opinion. so suck it.

  17. 17.

    BGinCHI

    OK, I don’t want to be the guy with the target on his back who defends JCM, but “Jack & Diane” is a pretty great song.

    If you grew up in the rural Midwest (or anywhere non-urban), and you don’t see the beauty of “Jackie gonna be a football star, Diane debutant back seat of Jackie’s car” then I’m just sorry for you.

    Plus I always loved the title of that record “Nothing Mattered and What If It Did.”

  18. 18.

    Suffern Ace

    @srv: Because we will definitely rally behind any candidate who will point out how generally worthless our children are, and will tell their parents to quit all the fussing since your kids won’t amount to anything most likely anyway. (Sorry, no. I won’t be kissing that baby. It’s ugly! Yuck.)

  20. 20.

    Jim C

    @BGinCHI:

    If you grew up in the rural Midwest (or anywhere non-urban), and you don’t see the beauty of “Jackie gonna be a football star, Diane debutant back seat of Jackie’s car” then I’m just sorry for you.

    I did and I don’t. I’m okay with that.

    On the other hand, I was sort of fond of “Pink Houses.”

  22. 22.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    That cartoon was funny, but I think today’s guest xkcd was way more meta-funny.

  24. 24.

    LanceThruster

    @Stooleo:

    I thought the same thing in regards to hiding non-weapon, non-contraband items under my clothing. Would the fact that it was concealed put me in some sort of legal jeopardy (would it be considered “smuggling” if it was legal to bring on board regardless)? Would having something that registered with the porno-scan-tron and require a secondary inspection also subject me to fines or other unpleasantness?

    Would anything non-metal, non-volatile, non-prohibited (like dirty pictures) be legally OK to conceal under garments or in orifices? Like Lewis Black said recently on TDS, “New York to LA in six hours *AND* I get my junk fondled? Sign me up!”

    I prefer the UK response to the 7/7 Tube bombing attack (i.e. the “I am not afraid” campaign”) – Instead, we’re stuck with “Please don’t start a police state on my account.”

    Who wants to bet that there’d be a TSA black market in “nekkid” scan photos of celebs and other “oddities” of the “hidden world” (Q: would crossdressers and transgendered people be given further “scrutiny” for being seen as being “deceptive” in a sense? There’s already issues on which bathroom they should use. Furthermore, would they need a TSA agent of their particular “status” to be “non-offensive/non-intrusive”?)

    Just as there’s already been much abuse of the Patriot Act infringement of rights, this will undoubtably be no different.

  26. 26.

    jwb

    @arguingwithsignposts: Well, that’s ED’s real problem, isn’t it? He says one thing here, another thing there, and you just get the sense that he’s talking out his ass to please whichever audience he happens to be facing. Of course, he’s free to do whatever he wants to, and I’m free not to take him seriously.

  27. 27.

    Mike G

    @Jim C:

    I’ve noticed in recent years Pink Houses has been co-opted by Repukes too stupid to actually listen to the lyrics as another unidimensional anthem to “How great Jesus-Heartland-Murka is, and how great I am for thinking how great Jesus-Heartland-Murka is” — much like ‘Born in the USA’ was.

  28. 28.

    Brachiator

    The New York Times has an interesting article about how some upstart writer, by the name of Mark Twain, has been an unexpected success with his recent autobiography. Not too bad for a feller who’s been dead for more than a few years (Mark Twain’s Autobiography Flying Off the Shelves).

    In advance of the holidays, here’s Twain on the meaning of Thanksgiving:

    “Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side, consequently it was proper to thank the Lord for it.”

  31. 31.

    General Stuck

    Just finished reading Krugman’s piece again, and in it’s entirety. He is spot on, and IF he stays on directing his fire towards the wingers, he could be a powerful warrior in the MSM for dems, and the dem/liberal cause.

    The wingnuts are not going to let up until one of two things happen, either bring the country to it’s knees, or Obama agreement to repeal or gut HCR. Passing HCR is the bee in their bonnet, and Obama done pissed in their conservative punch, by passing the last leg of The New Deal, or universal health care they had managed to defeat from every liberal great white hope, every time it was tried, up until recent.

    I don’t think Obama will pay that price, because if he did, it would mean the end to the dem party. It is going to be all existential party warfare all the time for the foreseeable future, with House wingnuts threatening to use their Doomsday Budget Ceiling Device, at least in rhetoric right now.

    A republic madame, if you can keep it.

    cue wildythang Obama fail 3….2…..

  32. 32.

    trollhattan

    @Scott:

    Our Very Own BOB is rather proud of his stalking and accosting drivers (female, naturlich) of coexist-bestickered cars. Yeah, a sick fuck is Our BOB.

  37. 37.

    WyldPirate

    I saw a clip this morning of Palin shooting skeet with Bristol and some other ass clowns from Alaska.

    It is easy as hell to tell that Palin has next to zero experience with handling firearms given her unease with the shotgun she had in her hands. She looked like a complete fucking n00b with that thing in her hands. Awkward grip and stance. No swing and lead on the target. It was as if it was the first time she has ever had a shotgun in her hands.

  38. 38.

    WyldPirate

    @General Stuck:

    I don’t think Obama will pay that price, because if he did, it would mean the end to the dem party. It is going to be all existential party warfare all the time for the foreseeable future, with House wingnuts threatening to use their Doomsday Budget Ceiling Device, at least in rhetoric right now.

    Your biggest problem is that you don’t think and don’t see what is happening before y9our very eyes.

    Obama isn’t going to have much choice in the matter re:HCR. The Rethugs will take the White House and the Senate in 2012 before the part of HCR that will be really impactful takes effect.

    Secondly, President Foldbama is probably going to go with hat in hand to make nice with the very assholes that are out to knife him in the back– the US Chamber of Commerce.

    Why? Because deep down Obama was never what progressives thought he was as Krugman aptly points out:

    As Ferguson explains, this is a right-wing smear. What actually happened was that during the interregnum between the 1932 election and the1933 inauguration — which was much longer then, because the inauguration didn’t take place until March — Herbert Hoover tried to rope FDR into maintaining his policies, including rigid adherence to the gold standard and fiscal austerity. FDR declined to be part of this.
    But Obama buys the right-wing smear.

  40. 40.

    General Stuck

    @WyldPirate:

    Why? Because deep down Obama was never what progressives thought he was as Krugman aptly points out:

    LOL, right on cue with the Obama fail. Why don’t you just rig up some kind of troll bot for yourself, to deposit the same nonsense without having to type it over and over and over again.

    Though you are right that fake progressives didn’t recognize a real progressive Obama, and just skated on by his many times declaring his pragmatism. I blame it on the bossa nova with its magic spell.

    I will say this for you wildythang, you will stay and fight, unlike most of your leftist wilting flowers. You have that going for you. Even if dumb as a fencepost.

  41. 41.

    General Stuck

    Secondly, President Foldbama is probably going to go with hat in hand to make nice with the very assholes that are out to knife him in the back—the US Chamber of Commerce.

    You say he won’t fight, you and the other genius progs. Then when he is willing to go into the belly of the beast in person, you claim it’s just because he is sucking up to them. He can’t win with you fuckwits.

    We heard all the same shit when Obama showed up to the wingnuts retreat and ate their motherfucking lunches during the HCR debate, in person, in real time. Chicken little has nothing on concerned progressives.

    And BTW, the Chamber of Commerce despite their 86 million efforts to defeat HCR, and Obama. They FAILED , It passed, you moron.

  42. 42.

    monkeyboy

    “♫♪ Anything you can do, I can do Meta ♪”
    “♪♫ I can do anything meta than you ♫”.

    I would like to personally punch those who misuse “meta”. “Paradigm” too, also.

  43. 43.

    Sly

    Salon’s Alex Pareene is running a series on the thirty worst political pundits in America. Bobo comes in at number thirty, his contributions summed up thusly:

    He is simply the laziest smart writer on the planet.

    Pat Caddell at number 27:

    His Op-Eds with Schoen are generally so insipid and divorced from observable reality that they’re practically guaranteed publication in our major newspapers.

    Jeffrey Goldberg at 26:

    There’s a special circle of hell for the journalist whose mendacity or incompetence directly leads to actual war.

    And the Mickster comes in at 25:

    Mickey Kaus has been blogging about politics for what feels like 100 years (at Slate for most of that time, until he decided to run for office at around the same time that the editors realized he was disastrously overpaid) and in all that time he’s never stopped claiming to be a Democrat despite his obvious hatred for the Democratic Party and all of its horrible supporters and politicians.

  45. 45.

    Suck It Up!

    President Foldbama

    omg that was so lame. you sound like a jealous high school kid making fun of the popular guy.

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