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Late Night Open Thread: Leaden

by Anne Laurie|  February 9, 201112:16 am| 47 Comments

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Seems like the stupid is almost as thick as the snow out there.

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  1. 1.

    asiangrrlMN

    February 9, 2011 at 12:18 am

    Thicker. Same as it ever was.

  2. 2.

    RossInDetroit

    February 9, 2011 at 12:25 am

    I’m amazed and depressed by the dumb factor in the USA. Do people in other countries also lack the remotest idea how their tax dollars are spent? Tell me we aren’t the only ones.

  3. 3.

    Cliff

    February 9, 2011 at 12:44 am

    It’s very windy.

    I wish it would stop.

    I want to sleep.

    edit: detail:
    http://www.neclimbs.com/index.php?PageName=weather_history

  4. 4.

    hamletta

    February 9, 2011 at 12:55 am

    Took me a while to get that cartoon. I think “leaden” is the perfect description.

    In happier news, 54° on Sunday! Break out the guitars with whammy bars! Scumberland beach party!

  5. 5.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 9, 2011 at 1:00 am

    Is it cool if I punt on the whole Stalin thing? The neighbors are from Georgia, you see and, gosh, I’d just hate to make a big fuss over all that.

  6. 6.

    Chris Grrr& trade;

    February 9, 2011 at 1:07 am

    @hamletta: I’m still not sure if I get it, or if I’m imagining extra-stupid layers that aren’t really there.

  7. 7.

    General Stuck

    February 9, 2011 at 1:10 am

    Republican family values ain’t what they used to be. And I for one, applaud this woman for lending her magnificent attributes to public service .

    Tennessee state Rep. Julia Hurley (R) told Hooters Magazine that her experience as a waitress at Hooters “helped prepare her for a run for public office — even when opponents tried to make a campaign issue last summer about her past employment and photos from her modeling career.”

  8. 8.

    jnfr

    February 9, 2011 at 1:14 am

    My weather addon is telling me that it’s three degrees outside but helpfully adds “it feels like minus two”. I am always sick of winter come February, but this year more than most.

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    February 9, 2011 at 1:14 am

    @Chris Grrr& trade;: To quote Jim Rome: “Oh I get it. It’s just not funny.”

    @Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): One should never mess with one’s ethnic food supply. Which has me curious as to what composes Georgian cuisine.

  10. 10.

    Ija

    February 9, 2011 at 1:16 am

    Hilarious poll at the League in response to DougJ’s question on evolution and global warming. Aren’t these people clever? They are soooooo clever and brilliant. DougJ should be ashamed of himself for calling them out. They are brilliant and reasonable people, damn it, how dare DougJ imply anything else?

  11. 11.

    Cliff

    February 9, 2011 at 1:16 am

    I wish the wind would STFU already, but I guess it’s supposed to be here for a while.

    I was hoping to get some sleep before Europe opens, but it sounds like that’s not happening

    aaaaarrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!

    sigh.

  12. 12.

    piratedan

    February 9, 2011 at 1:16 am

    favorite political cartoonist? Torn between Tom Toles and our local lad David Fitzsimmons.

    http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/fitz/image_40d7347c-32f5-11e0-93b6-001cc4c002e0.html

    http://www.gocomics.com/tomtoles/2011/02/06/

  13. 13.

    Cliff

    February 9, 2011 at 1:20 am

    @piratedan:

    Toles. By Far.

  14. 14.

    J. Michael Neal

    February 9, 2011 at 1:21 am

    I didn’t get the auditor job I interviewed for last week, fuck it. I sent out a bunch more applications today. And I’m mostly over a cold.

  15. 15.

    hamletta

    February 9, 2011 at 1:22 am

    @Yutsano:

    Which has me curious as to what composes Georgian cuisine.

    Me, too. They aren’t known for their barbecue.

  16. 16.

    suzanne

    February 9, 2011 at 1:28 am

    @J. Michael Neal: I’m sorry. :(

    I can’t get the baby to sleep at a sane and reasonable hour. This is Teh Suck.

  17. 17.

    Suffern ACE

    February 9, 2011 at 1:31 am

    @RossInDetroit: I’m assuming that we are relatively unique in that average folk (and even reporters) can find out for the most part where the money is spent at all levels of government. Generally speaking.

  18. 18.

    piratedan

    February 9, 2011 at 1:39 am

    @suzanne: if you have a bassinet Suzanne, try placing the babe in the basket and place it on the dryer and set it for fluff cycle….when my kids were small we found that or driving in the car the best way for them to calm down from sensory overload of the day

  19. 19.

    hamletta

    February 9, 2011 at 1:40 am

    @General Stuck: To be fair, she worked at Hooter’s to work her way through Maryville College, which is one of those good little librul arts schools you’ve never heard of.

    But then she got knocked up.

    And then her manager at Hooter’s hired her back and worked with her until she worked off her baby weight. Which is really heart-warming and not at all slutty because…shut up, that’s why!

    She’s probably pretty smart and hard-working (say what you want about Hooters, but waitressing is hard enough without the meat parade), but I can’t help but think she’ll shut off avenues to help young women who find themselves in similar situations.

    Because it’s what Republicans do.

  20. 20.

    Yutsano

    February 9, 2011 at 1:45 am

    @suzanne:
    Poor puplet. Poor mama. No advice, just hugz.

  21. 21.

    Malron

    February 9, 2011 at 1:47 am

    As political cartoonists go, Pat Oliphant is legendary.

  22. 22.

    Chris Grrr™

    February 9, 2011 at 1:47 am

    @Yutsano:

    To quote Jim Rome: “Oh I get it. It’s just not funny.”

    Ah.

    I write a lot of things that aren’t funny, though they’re supposed to be… and no one’s currently paying me any ducats at all.

  23. 23.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    February 9, 2011 at 1:48 am

    @Ija: good grief. That’s what passes for funny @ LoOG? ‘Cause I know some 6yos. They know some knock-knock jokes. Blow the doors off that joint for reals.

    I think you’re right. A straight poll would reveal things about their readership they’d prefer not to know. Better to sway to the siren-song of their fawning, cheeto flecked commentariat.

  24. 24.

    goblue72

    February 9, 2011 at 2:01 am

    Sully’s glibertarian stunt doubles are at it again. This time, the argument is that since Social Security was so effective at reducing elder poverty so that seniors don’t wind up eating catfood anymore, its evidence that…wait for it…we don’t need social security:

    http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/what-if-we-scrapped-social-security.html

    These guys couldn’t be bigger idiots if they tried. There’s a reason the best jobs they can hope for are Koch-licking glibertarian pundits.

  25. 25.

    goblue72

    February 9, 2011 at 2:03 am

    Yeesh…and then there’s the “union bashing isn’t union bashing if its PUBLIC sector unions we bash. Because. Shut Up. That’s why.”:

    http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/public-sector-unions-are-different.html

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    February 9, 2011 at 2:07 am

    @goblue72:

    The limited time I’ve spent covering public employee unions makes me think that Wilkinson is right

    When your own damn words are telling you to STFU, then maybe, just maybe, you should heed that instinct young Conor.

  27. 27.

    matt

    February 9, 2011 at 2:17 am

    @hamletta:

    Here’s a Georgian stew I tried the other day. Yum.

  28. 28.

    MikeJ

    February 9, 2011 at 2:24 am

    If all these public sector young bucks employees are driving Cadillacs and eating t-bone steaks why hasn’t Conor signed up?

  29. 29.

    Origuy

    February 9, 2011 at 2:25 am

    @hamletta: I’ve read that in Soviet days, the best restaurants in Moscow were the Georgian ones. And they are know for grilled meat; mitsvadi or shashlik is a kind of shish kebab that is common in Russian restaurants here.

  30. 30.

    Dr. Psycho

    February 9, 2011 at 2:31 am

    Seems like the stupid is almost as thick as the snow out there.

    Liar! There is nothing unusual about the snow falling outside! There is nothing unusual happening in the planet’s climate, you revisionist swine!

    Quit looking out the window! If Fox News tells you that there is nothing of interest in the weather, then there is not!@matt: @suzanne:

  31. 31.

    Dr. Psycho

    February 9, 2011 at 2:34 am

    @suzanne: Try rubbing the soft part of the abdomen in a gentle clockwise fashion.

  32. 32.

    Blackfrancis

    February 9, 2011 at 2:39 am

    Oh yeah!

    http://teapartyreview.com/

    The first national magazine for, by and about the
    Tea Party Movement
    NOTE: Please be advised that Explore is not showing our webpage correctly. Use Firefox, Safari or Googlechrome.

    What the hell is Explore?

    The video on their page is priceless as well.

    “We will give you the truth, the facts, and the best way to respond.”

    (You can’t think for yourself, let us do it for you)

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    February 9, 2011 at 2:42 am

    @Blackfrancis: Look at the poll. These people aren’t serious about anything but pissing off libruls, or at least what they think pisses libruls off.

  34. 34.

    Blackfrancis

    February 9, 2011 at 2:43 am

    @Yutsano: I saw that poll and it made me immediatley think of “you cut.” All of the choices are wrong.

  35. 35.

    Dr. Psycho

    February 9, 2011 at 2:53 am

    @Blackfrancis: And unfunny. And not very well-conceived to piss lie-bruls off, just bore us.

  36. 36.

    Mark S.

    February 9, 2011 at 2:56 am

    @goblue72:

    Conor quoting some other dipshit:

    For example, we could enact something like a Guaranteed Minimum Income and abolish Social Security entirely, saying, in effect, we’d rather not provide lifestyle insurance at all (if you want a comfortable retirement, then you’d better plan for it) but we don’t want anybody to live in conditions of true poverty, elderly or not.

    Christ, if you’re living on Social Security, you’re probably not having steak dinners every night.

    It would be nice if Sully could get some guest bloggers who have matured enough to have descended testicles had at least some fucking life experience, or, barring that, have at least talked to some people who have. Cause I sure know some old people who aren’t living high on the hog, and I sure as hell don’t think they need their benefits means tested.

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    February 9, 2011 at 2:57 am

    @Dr. Psycho: I wonder if you hold a mirror up to their faces if they actually see a Republican staring back. I doubt it. But I bet you don’t see criticism one of Republican policy in that rag.

  38. 38.

    goblue72

    February 9, 2011 at 3:03 am

    @Mark S.: They’re unmitigated selfish pricks. I mean, sheeeee-it, if only we had something like a “Guaranteed Minimum Income” – you know, a check every senior got in the mail every month with just enough money to make sure they could pay the rent and not live off catfood. Wouldn’t it be just great if we had something like that?

    Balls out morons. Wouldn’t survive one day in a real academic discipline.

  39. 39.

    JGabriel

    February 9, 2011 at 3:15 am

    @Ija:

    Hilarious poll at the League in response to DougJ’s question on evolution and global warming. Aren’t these people clever?

    Snooze. That place is a sausage fest. Boys clubs are boring.

    That said, the poll itself is about as funny as a Fox News joke. I knew conservatives couldn’t write a decent joke if their lives depended on it — which, to be fair, isn’t the ideal joke-writing environment — but I thought libertarians were supposed to be at least semi-competent at it.

    Guess I was wrong.

    .

  40. 40.

    goblue72

    February 9, 2011 at 3:22 am

    @JGabriel: Comedy requires empathy for the Everyman, the Other, the Oddball and the Profane. Empathy your average liberal has in spades, but your average conservative does not.

  41. 41.

    JGabriel

    February 9, 2011 at 3:23 am

    @Yutsano:

    I wonder if you hold a mirror up to their faces if they actually see a Republican staring back.

    You know how Dorian Gray’s painting gets older? Republicans keep a similar painting in their attics, only instead of getting older, it grows red horns and an evil black goatee. And once in a while, it cackles.

    .

  42. 42.

    goblue72

    February 9, 2011 at 3:25 am

    @JGabriel: I just assumed being vampires, they didn’t have reflections.

  43. 43.

    Boudica

    February 9, 2011 at 7:05 am

    @Mark S.: Perhaps this is referring to people like my in-laws who have quite a comfortable retirement income and don’t need social security but take it anyway. (They paid into it, they earned it.) He would have Guaranteed Minimum Income paid to those who need it but cut it off to those who have other pensions/savings.

  44. 44.

    BruceFromOhio

    February 9, 2011 at 7:09 am

    @Blackfrancis: I have signed up for the newsletter and look forward to the Tea Party news on “Conservative Woman.”

    Regrettably, the free market solution selected by the site owner has resulted in a remarkably shoddy site presentation. I conclude that the Tea Party also hates WordPress.

    Move America Forward has these clowns beat by a countrified mile.

  45. 45.

    Josie

    February 9, 2011 at 7:27 am

    Means testing of a sort already exists. My late husband paid into social security for more than 40 years, but, because I receive teacher retirement (wow, I’m so wealthy) I cannot access any of his social security. An official told me that it was Reagan who did that when he “fixed” social security.

  46. 46.

    Emma

    February 9, 2011 at 8:43 am

    Mark S: I used to laugh at imbeciles like this but lately I’m a little less forgiving. My parents saved for their retirement. They worked hard and did the best they could, until my father’s job disappeared and all he could get for the last seven working years of his life (well, sir, you have all this experience and we know we could get a good solid job out of you, but, see, there’s this 23-year-old right out of school with no experience at all but we can pay him about 1/3 the actual going rate for technical translators with expertise) was part-time work. Amazing how soon all those savings dribble away, especially if you’re without health insurance.

    They’re Ferengi without the funny.

  47. 47.

    Paul in KY

    February 9, 2011 at 10:55 am

    @J. Michael Neal: Sorry to hear that. Keep on keepen on…

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