Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

You cannot shame the shameless.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

We’re not going back!

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

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Second rate reporter says what?

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

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  3. 3.

    Alexandra

    John, not sure whether you’ve posted more on this, but at one stage you said that, for various reasons, you were having second thoughts about keeping Rosie and may have been thinking about returning her to a shelter. Have you changed your mind?

  9. 9.

    maye

    does anyone know if the guy responsible for Obama’s stitches today got called for charging? I like a president who can take a charge.

  12. 12.

    stuckinred

    @maye: Hard to get a bow in the chops on a charge/block. Guy from Notre Dame got his nose whacked good by his own player last night in their game against the Dawgs. Wonder if this was friendly fire?

  13. 13.

    stuckinred

    Upon further review

    The elbow belongs to Rey Decerega, who works for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. According to White House aides, Decerega went up for a shot and turned into the President, who was playing defense and accidentally got hit in the mouth.

    “I learned today the President is both a tough competitor and a good sport,” Decerega said in a statement released by the White House. “I enjoyed playing basketball with him this morning. I’m sure he’ll be back out on the court again soon.”

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    :: looks around the room for asiangrrlMN ::

    :: does not see her anywhere ::

    TUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!!

  28. 28.

    General Stuck

    @jeffreyw:

    never ate at Alice’s Restaurant, but I did tell the Afees doc I had the crabs and couldn’t be a soldier in Uncle Sam’s army. He just laughed and gave me a tube of cream, and that was that.

  31. 31.

    Keith G

    Treating this as an open thread, I need some blogoshereic recomendations.

    Balloon Juice is my home page and will stay so, but for the next 30 days I want to pare down my intake of political news before I Grinch out. I want to bench some of the other political blogs for a bit and and put some lighter fare into the rotation.

    Therefore:

    I am looking for some blogs that that deal with “slice of life” and culture (high or low), but none of the Lindsey Lohan to William and Kate stuff. Roger Ebert’s Journal is dead center of what I am interested in. Any other suitable runners up to his great efforts? Also, poetry or literary would be cool.

  32. 32.

    Josie

    @jeffreyw: Homer seems to be a very busy little cat. How are the other animals taking to him? I know Annie mothers him, but what about everyone else?

  33. 33.

    General Stuck

    @Linda Featheringill:

    From Arlo’s song AR. If I remember correctly, when he goes down to the draft station, though I don’t remember the Group W bench, but the “father rapers” were the undesirables in that group, or something. I’m too lazy to look it up. though considering the source, I should have figured it had something to do with rape and anuses/

  34. 34.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @stuckingreen #16: Y-y-y-yes-s-s-s.

    I had to fill my tank* tonight. Those few moments of hand-on-metal-pump-hande pretty well crippled my fingers for the next half hour.

    *Oh grow up.

  40. 40.

    jeffreyw

    @Josie: Well, Toby almost plays with him. Well, sorta plays, if you count smacking the holy shit outta him whenever he comes too close. At least he doesn’t cede the room to Homer like Bea does. Bea slaps him then runs off. Buddy and Jack pretty much ignore him, tho Jack isn’t above the occasional snap and short chase. Annie can stand Homer longer than any of them, but she gets a “rescue me” look in her eye after a while.

  48. 48.

    Cat Lady

    @stuckinred:

    The trailers look amazing, and Jeff Bridges! The Dude abides as John Wayne channeling John Huston. And Tron II is coming out at the same time. That’s some ground he’s covering.

  49. 49.

    Anne Laurie

    @Keith G: Lance Mannion. Who does political commentary, along with the literary / popcult / slice-of-life material, but thoughtfully. And his commentors are great, usually as thoughtful (and sometimes discoursive) as Mannion himself. Only problem with Lance’s blog is that it can suck up a lot of spare time and thought… which may be a net positive if you’re trying to wean yourself off the quick-hit your-mamma-so-moonbat stuff that raises your blood pressure.

  52. 52.

    General Stuck

    @Cat Lady:

    Yep, in my top ten. Loved the line from Walsh, and I am paraphrasing some. Where he talks about how folks do things with help in other places, “but down here in Texas, you’re on your own”

    That and Frances Macdormand nailing his hand to the window ledge, great scene.

  56. 56.

    Cat Lady

    @General Stuck:

    The light shining through the bullet holes Walsh shot through the wall at her. Genius. Many years later I read that the Coens invented that effect – it had never been filmed before. She never knew who was after her, or why. No wonder she married one of the Coens after that. She wanted to have one of their babies. ;-)

  57. 57.

    Mike in NC

    OT: BBC America is running a new show called “Law & Order UK”.

    Jesus, what’s next for Dick Wolf and his money machine, “Law & Order Uzbekistan”?

    Though “Law & Order Wasilla” does have a certain sleazy appeal, like “Cops: Arctic Circle” might.

  58. 58.

    Cat Lady

    @General Stuck:

    “The world is full o’ complainers. An’ the fact is, nothin’ comes with a guarantee. Now I don’t care if you’re the pope of Rome, President of the United States or Man of the Year; somethin’ can all go wrong. Now go on ahead, y’know, complain, tell your problems to your neighbor, ask for help, ‘n watch him fly. Now, in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else… that’s the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas, an’ down here… you’re on your own.”

    Courtesy of Teh Google.

  59. 59.

    Yutsano

    @Mike in NC:

    Though “Law & Order Wasilla” does have a certain sleazy appeal, like “Cops: Arctic Circle” might.

    There already is a show about Alaskan State Troopers, though I watched an episode and it’s a snoozefest.

  60. 60.

    General Stuck

    @Cat Lady:

    Thanky you Cat Lady. I got the google lazies tonight. And BTW, has anyone checked out Netflixe’s new rating system to ferret out flicks you would likely like. It is so cool, and am getting to watch one called.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Cat Lady #54:

    short on words, long on action and piercing stares, and violent as all hell

    Wait, are we still talking about Tunch?

  64. 64.

    asiangrrlMN

    Tuuuuuunchie! Yeah, I’m late and SiubhanDuinne beat me to it, but still. TUNCHIE! I almost skipped out on BJ tonight (I am behind on my personal NaNoWriMo goal), but something told me I should visit. Maybe Tunchie?

    @jeffreyw: Tunchie-in-training Homer is such a doll-baby.

  66. 66.

    Platonicspoof

    @Cat Lady:
    Orrrrr . . .

    Paws of Furry – the Big Tunch Sumocat.

    As you can see in the photo, in an emergency several layers of these high quality calendars can be used to prevent warping of floor joists, as during this unexpected holiday visit by Sumocat.

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