Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

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

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

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

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

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

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

Trump should be leading, not lying.

We still have time to mess this up!

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

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

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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  4. 4.

    HRA

    The print here has once more gone amuck and/or skipped the borders. I thought it was only my home pc. It’s the same problem on this work pc.

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    New Yorker

    So what I call the “Michael Jackson effect” is working again. If you look at the iTunes top-selling singles/albums, when someone dies, his/her albums/songs shoot up in the iTunes sales rankings. I call it the Michael Jackson effect because after he died, his records/songs absolutely dominated iTunes for weeks afterward.

    When Ronnie James Dio died, “Holy Diver” shot up in the rankings. When Teena Marie died, her music shot up in the rankings. And sure enough, this morning, “City to City” by Gerry Rafferty is at #18 on iTunes.

  6. 6.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    The surest way to get rid of an earworm is to hum “The Girl from Ipanema”. But whatever you do, for God’s sake don’t sing the lyrics, because there’s nothing that can remove that!

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    cleek

    my goto earworm eradicator is “Waltz #2”, by Elliott Smith. i used it last week to cure a bad case of Erykah Badu’s “Turn Me Away”. being a strong earworm itself, however, requires that i use it only in extreme situations. it’s like morphine: kills the pain, but highly addictive.

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    The Grand Panjandrum

    Hoocoodanode:

    Many people knowledgeable about the federal budget said House Republicans could not keep their campaign promise to cut $100 billion from domestic spending in a single year. Now it appears that Republicans agree.

    Wow. Didn’t see that one coming …

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    gnomedad

    Just heard a piece on NPR about Florida International University’s College of Medicine’s “adopt-a-family” program. This quote struck me:

    “What we’ve become is a nation of interventionalists. If you’re dying, I’ll save you. But, it’s sort of like in America, we won’t let you die, but we’ll let you suffer. So how do we get beyond that?”

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    Benjamin Cisco

    Just got my pay stub, slightly embiggened due to the “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010” (also known as the “Hey, We Got Our Nose Under The Tent, Now We’re Gonna Drain Social Security While Continuing to Create Jobs Overseas Act of 2010”).
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    I thoroughly actively dislike oligarchs…

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    mrmcd

    Is Christie still a darling of the teatards? Because I wonder how they feel about this:

    http://www.northjersey.com/news/112791044_N_J__pressing_fight_to_seize_gift_card_funds.html

    First, how would this even work, considering gift cards can be bought and given to people outside of NJ?

    Second, between this and Christie refusing to give back the stimulus grant for a project he canceled, does Christie even understand how government works? I know the state is close to broke and raising taxes is akin to murdering adorable white babies for Republicans, but he doesn’t seem to realize that he can’t just go around abritraliy siezing money from people. There has to be legislation defining it, valid jursdiction, and it’s called “raising taxes.”

    Also, fat joke too as well.

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    Gus

    @Ed in NJ: I haven’t loved any of their albums since Separation Sunday (though I haven’t hated any either), but they’re a lot of fun live.

  22. 22.

    Ben

    I just saw the Hold Steady last week in Milwaukee for New Year’s Eve. They put on quite a show that was easily the best I’ve seen recently. BJers should totally check them out if they play a concert near you.

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