Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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

No one could have predicted…

In my day, never was longer.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Bark louder, little dog.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

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

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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How in the hell do you detonate a huge car bomb, and a suicide bomb, in the middle of a busy shopping area a couple of weeks before Christmas without killing anyone but yourself? I’m sure we’ll learn every little detail about the person who did this, and maybe there are more attacks to follow, but at the moment this looks like more confirmation of DougJ’s thesis that terrorism is for losers.

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  1. 1.

    JGabriel

    Terrorism Is For Lovers would make such a great follow-up to Love Is A Battlefield. (No link because I really, really, dislike that song,)

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  2. 2.

    Onkel Bob

    How in the hell do you detonate a huge car bomb, and a suicide bomb, in the middle of a busy shopping area a couple of weeks before Christmas without killing anyone but yourself?

    Because you were more interested in killing yourself than others?

    …Williams is among a small cadre of scholars from across the world pushing the rather contentious idea that some suicide bombers may in fact be suicidal.

    linky

  3. 3.

    El Tiburon

    Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and suicide bombs.

    Do we have enough body scanners to install at every mall across America when the first bomb is detonated inside the food court?

  4. 4.

    Baud

    As someone who likes to hear all sides of an issue, I’ll withhold judgment until I have an opportunity to assess the counterargument that Terrorism is for Winners!

    edit: /snark (for the snark-impaired – you know who you are.)

  5. 5.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Onkel Bob:

    That fits in with those crazy fuckers who want to take as many people out as they can while offing themselves.

    @El Tiburon: “Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and suicide bombs.”

    You forgot teenage love.

    I fully expect some nut to detonate themselves in a large crowd here, you just know it’s going to happen. You also know that the police state will lurch forward a few more steps when that happens.

  8. 8.

    El Tiburon

    @Onkel Bob:
    Wait, are you saying Terrorists are not in fact a group of superior beings that can melt steel with their lazer vision?

    I don’t believe it. I am told the only way to destroy a Terrorist is with a Million dollar missile shot from a drone because their super mind tricks can cause a regular human pilot to cry like a little girl.

    Why I hear the Terrorists are 12 feet tall and never sleep and hide under our beds at night and creep around our attics silent as a mouse.

    I hear stories that terrorists can turn themselves into steel-sharks and are making their way to our shores and will invade our shores and eat our women and children.

    My understanding is we should all be very, very afraid of these SuperTerrorists who never sleep. They are perfect killing machines that can travel through time and space and the New York sewer system.

    Anyway, this is what I hear.

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Last night there was some speculation that the Stockholm bombins were Assange-related. Didn’t make much sense to me: his admirers and supporters may be a lot of things, but “incompetent” nor “suicidal” are not their defining attributes.

    an e-mail to news organizations minutes before the blasts seemed to link them to anger over anti-Islamic cartoons and the war in Afghanistan.

    I get the anger over the war in Afghanistan, but has there been another wave of Scandinavian cartoons mocking Islam/Mohammad/the Qur’an recently?

    And totally O/T but I just heard that the roof of the Metrodome has collapsed because of the weight of all the snow. Holy shit.

  13. 13.

    Lavocat

    Uh huh. It sure as hell got your attention though, didn’t it? It made you much more conscious of certain things that you didn’t pay that much attention to before now, didn’t it?

    Mission accomplished.

  14. 14.

    jeffreyw

    We’re getting some snow here in Glorious Southern Illinois but nothing serious especially because I don’t have to go anywhere. Bird watching out the window, watching cats watch the birds out the window. Pot of what may be kick ass pozole simmering on the stove. Life isn’t too bad at the moment.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @arguing: Did it happen before? I don’t remember that (noit doubting you, I truly don’t remember).

    And apologies to all for the weird and unfortunate double negative in my #9 post. Can’t even blame WordPress for that one. FYSD.

  19. 19.

    PurpleGirl

    According to Wikipedia, The Dome’s roof also collapsed in November 1981 due to snow fall. There have also been a number of deflation events due to tears in the roof’s fabric. The roof is held up by pressurized air in the stadium.

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    Tim H

    I kind of suspect the non-loser would-be terrorists feel no urgency to attack, seeing as how we’re pretty much screwing ourselves over.

  25. 25.

    Honus

    “DougJ’s thesis that terrorism is for losers.”
    Just a thought, but, based on recent events, (underwear bomber, Times Square etc.) maybe they realize that you don’t send your best and brightest out on suicide missions.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    @Gian:

    Fox will call him a “homicide” bomber anyway. (and put a “D” after his name)

    I’ve always wondered — what would Fox call someone like the Unabomber who kills people with letter bombs? A remote homicide bomber?

  27. 27.

    Brachiator

    How in the hell do you detonate a huge car bomb, and a suicide bomb, in the middle of a busy shopping area a couple of weeks before Christmas without killing anyone but yourself?

    I don’t quite understand how only a death counts as success, as though bombings are a kind of video game.

    One man was killed and two other people were injured…

    Survivors are sometimes described as only injured or wounded, even if they lose limbs or sustain horribly crippling brain injuries.

    No, terrorists are not supermen, but this kind of glib cherry picking over the facts to try to “prove” that terrorists are just hapless sad sacks who only hurt themselves is a waste of time.

  28. 28.

    cermet

    Some bombers go out of their way to avoid killing people and so try to minimize possible deaths – not many but this has happened a few times – not all want to kill other people but rather, die for the cause. Go figure.

  30. 30.

    Ari

    “Log in to manage your products and services from The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.”

    My products and serivces, eh? I think not.

  31. 31.

    Cain

    @El Tiburon:

    Do we have enough body scanners to install at every mall across America when the first bomb is detonated inside the food court?

    I have smelled several such bombs in my life. Not pretty.

    cain

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