Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

This blog will pay for itself.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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  1. 1.

    Elliecat

    Just kind of funny. The ad at the top of this page says “Help us Break the Liberal Grip on Power.” But from all the comments and such I’ve read today, clearly Liberals have no Grip on Power.

  2. 2.

    Mark S.

    All right, with all the shitty news the past couple days that made me laugh out loud. Thanks Anne!

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    Dead Ernest

    Anne, having grown up with that quote; “Home is where…” frequently repeated, your conclusion slays me. Only upset that I didn’t think of it to say back then.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Left you a note about Eddie at the end of the last Open Thread. Shorter me: There’s a lot of us suffering from ‘winter itch’ right now, but more oil in his diet & maybe a HEPA air cleaner (the Spousal Unit found a powerful model at the local Lowes for $50) could maybe help.

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    Yutsano

    I don’t mean to brag…waitaminute, yes I do. My house smells fucking AMAZING right now. And I think it’s only gonna get better. Italian sausage and bacon with potatoes and kale.

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Teh Fuckhead winz!

    (And trust me, make it yourself. I guarandamntee you it’ll be ten thousand times better than the restaurant version. I took a few interesting detours with the basic ripoff recipe. Me likey the results so far.)

    PS: I may drop my method over to BHF just because I’m damn happy with how things are shaping up.

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    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Night shift checking in. Just got home from work after working the annual store-wide fuckfest inventory. But I digress.

    I’m feeling you on the Italian. This last weekend a CIA friend (Culinary Institute of America, not that other one) made a spaghetti Bolognese that I am still having flashbacks about. Unbelievable.

    I have to leave for the airport in 11 hours. This is not shaping up to be a good day.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    Anne Laurie:

    Home is the place where / When you have to go there / They have to take you in . . .

    How appropriate. I’m leaving this afternoon for a family funeral that will be the first all-family get-together in two years. Good times. At least it’s in Las Vegas.

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    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack:

    This last weekend a CIA friend

    I lurve that acronym. My brother came this close to going there but then he fucked up his knee bad at work. Right now he’s enjoying the life of a house husband while my SIL works her tail off.

    I’m leaving this afternoon for a family funeral that will be the first all-family get-together in two years. Good times. At least it’s in Las Vegas.

    I can’t even be snarky about this.

  13. 13.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Yutsano: I make it every coupla weeks. I trust you killed it with garlic and crushed red pepper?

    My guy pal Scott lurrves it.

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    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Yutsano: Yeah, ya can’t get too much garlic in it. While I’ve made it with fresh garlic and garlic powder, I prefer a tube of garlic paste.

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    Yutsano

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Three huge fat cloves off the tightest head I could find in the store. Thick skins on those bad boys like no tomorrow. Not a huge fan of paste, but I’m not evangelistic about it.

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    R-Jud

    @Yutsano: Serendipitous: I just clarified about a gallon of chicken stock. I think I have new dinner plans.

    Do you recommend any specific recipe? It basically sounds like a richer, creamier caldo verde to me, but everything teh Google returns has “just like the Olive Garden!” somewhere in the text, which I’d like to avoid.

    I will activate some yeast while I wait for your reply, because this calls for fresh bread.

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    Yutsano

    @R-Jud: The base recipe I used is this, although I deviated in several important areas. I used about half a kilo of linked hot Italian sausage, roasted them in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 200 degrees, while that went on I sweat the onions, used six small Yukon golds cut in half moons and cooked them for a few minutes with the onions, then sweat the garlic for a minute or two before adding the stock. Then after the potatoes were done and the sausage was cooked, I sliced sausage into rings, added the bacon, and simmered for a good 20 minutes covered. Tomorrow right before work I’ll re-heat it, skim off the fat, then finish with the kale and cream. It’s not very complicated, I might even grind up part of my reggiano block too.

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    Yutsano

    @R-Jud: Oooh dammit I didn’t have one of those! But oh yeah that will wake up the flavour of this soup to no end!

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    kerFuFFler

    So, does this blog have any control about the ads that get posted? It’s rather odd to see a “defund planned parenthood” ad right along the actual posts decrying Republican legislation making it difficult if not impossible for women to get abortions. The “defund planned parenthood” spot is pretty annoying , spreading the misinformation that “our dimes” are funding abortions through the organization when Planned Parenthood is already prohibited from using federal funds for such procedures.

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    JPL

    MSNBC has an article that is interesting and please read the entire thing but I found this paragraph timely.

    U.S. management practices “make it easier for employers to avoid adding permanent jobs,” says economist Erica Groshen, a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “They have temporary help they can hire easily. They’re less constrained by traditional human resources practices or by union contracts.”

    link

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    geg6

    One thing I always appreciate, AL, is that you post a lot of political cartoons. Which brings me to a bit of news that made me haz a happy. Tom Tomorrow is moving to the GOS and has been given his own editorship over a new political cartoon section. IMHO, political cartooning is the most honest form of journalism we have today. I eagerly look forward to it.

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