Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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

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

The willow is too close to the house.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Second rate reporter says what?

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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

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  2. 2.

    General Stuck

    I might mix me up a nice Hemlock toddy. Otherwise, freezing my arse off in a blizzard of sorts.

  4. 4.

    suzanne

    I’m making my mom an album of photos of my daughter for Christmas. I’ve been going through thousands of photos in iPhoto to pick out the ones I’m gonna have printed.

    Damn. Let me tell you: my kid is a prizewinner. What a cutie patootie.

    The fetus is apparently 6.5 pounds as of this morning, and that’s with four weeks to go until she’s due. Oi.

  6. 6.

    WyldPirate

    Wondering what President Obama–the Capitulator in Chief– is going to bend over and bargain away next.

    My bet is that he won’t say a peep in support of the middle class tax cut only vote that Pelosi is proposing to have this week. Kinda like he hasn’t said much of jack shit about extending the unemployment benefits.

  13. 13.

    Zifnab

    @WyldPirate:

    My bet is that he won’t say a peep in support of the middle class tax cut only vote that Pelosi is proposing to have this week. Kinda like he hasn’t said much of jack shit about extending the unemployment benefits.

    Please don’t confuse “What the President says” with “What the President said that gets echoed over the 24 hour news networks”.

    I’ve been getting a steady stream of DREAM Act and START Treaty blurbs via the White House and Obama Facebook updates.

    There’s a serious communication problem between Obama and his constituents, but I can’t help think half the problem is the persistent desire of so many Americans to get their news from Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews.

  17. 17.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    @Comrade Jake:

    heh!

    you remember the Hillary Nut Cracker

    after the ’08 primaries, someone on GOS put up a post on the sexism Hillary faced, symbolized by the Nut Cracker.

    Some then posted a wry joke about the Nut Cracker actually was flattering because it portrayed Hillary with slim hips and thighs that she hadn’t had since high school. Well, he might as well have set off a bomb. About dozen women freaked out and attacked the guy over joke. You could see the purses flying in cyberspace. Gawd, freak outs are funny.

  21. 21.

    Cat Lady

    I got this emailed to me by my Republican brother today, which he tagged “Must See!”. The last time he sent me something he thought was important, it was something he wanted me to read from Geert Wilders’ ravings. Yeah. No. Anyway, I clicked on it with trepidation, and it’s wonderful! I happen to have tix to the live version at Symphony Hall next weekend, so the link is safe and fun for liberals too.

  23. 23.

    WyldPirate

    @Zifnab:

    There’s a serious communication problem between Obama and his constituents…

    You got the first part right. Some of his constituents see through his—to steal a line from the GOS—his bullshit gimmicks, and negotiating with himself to give away the farm before he even does anything else.

    You wannna make a dent in the goddamned deficit other than the BS symbolic gimmick of freezing Federal pay? Don’t make non-security related spending the only area you will cut. Sack the fuck up and pull the fucking troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq ASAP. They’re wasting their time, American lives and treasure. Then you pull the troops out of fucking Europe, too and let those motherfuckers protect themselves.

  27. 27.

    Bruuuuce

    On tap: back to work. Three more work weeks left this calendar year (with the week between Christmas and New Year’s being used to clear the time the company “gives” me that I can’t roll into 2011).

    The last time I saw that many moons at once, I was looking at Jupiter.

  30. 30.

    Ross Hershberger

    On tap; Packing and shipping vintage electronics stuff from eBay sales. Why does all of Asia have such long postal addresses? Country, province, post code, city, district, street, lane, alley, development, building, floor, room, name, etc. Nobody lives at 123 Main st. Except maybe in Hong Kong or Kowloon.

  31. 31.

    PurpleGirl

    Resting this evening, trying not to get upset with politics and society. Tomorrow is my birthday and a friend is taking me out for the day. I’m trying to put off facing my economic crisis until Wednesday. (Unemployed two years now.)

  32. 32.

    Ash Can

    @trollhattan: That’s phenomenal. My theory is that the people who depart this earth with the fullest life experiences win. She’s clearly established herself as not just a winner, but as a one-woman dynasty. Brava.

  35. 35.

    Alison

    Finishing up at work, then buying Hanukkah cards on the way home. (Yeah, I’m a little late, as far as getting them there on the first night. It’s still surprising and frustrating to me how difficult it can be to find Hanukkah cards in San Francisco – most stores have either none or like, one box, and the one box is fucking stupid. There are plenty of Jews in this damn city, what the crap…)

    Then I’ll be home and lazing around with the cat, reading this (2/3 of the way through!). Yay for slow nights…which all of mine are. :)

  36. 36.

    Joseph Nobles

    It’s the Steve King hour on C-Span! He started out talking about our “sacred dollar.” Didn’t Jesus say something about God and Mammon? Oh, well.

  37. 37.

    junebug

    Where can I go on the internets that doesn’t blame Obama for everything?

    It seems that this blog turned when it came to the TSA. If most posters were less modest, they would admit that the tax thing affected them and that is why they are mum on the subject.

    Of all the things to get worked up about . . . my god . . . even DougJ chose this.

    I think there is no place for me. Perhaps I am an anomaly.

    While people online chase that Drudge link, and get all worked up about it, the real story is: everybody got to and from their destinations ok.

    But people here want to damn Obama for every little nit picky thing.

    Where do I go to discuss anything with reasonable people?

  39. 39.

    Mike Kay (Democrat of the Century)

    @junebug: the blogosphere may be a lost cause. In general, most people are moved to write/type when they’re angry, not happy.

    I mean, how many people write a letter to the editor in appreciation of an article they liked. How many people write a letter to their congressman/senator in appreciation of a law they liked. No, they only jump on a keyboard when they’re angry. Then by definition, must people who type on blogs are angry about something/everything.

    on the bright side, the blogosphere, for all their huffing and puffing, does not represent the democratic base. The proof is in the primaries. The overwhelming, vast majority of the blogosphere pledged their undying love for john edwards in 2008, and the best he could do is 17% of the vote in New Hampshire. Hillary, who everyone hated with a passion, actually won New Hampshire. In short, there’s no direct relationship btwn the blogosphere and universe of Democrats who actually vote.

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