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Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

All hail the time of the bunny!

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Let there be snark.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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The National Guard is not Batman.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

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Being a child of the 80’s, shit like this just happens after a couple drinks:

It sounds really good with tequila.

*** Update ***

Never let you down with the stereo sound:

Rooster:

I just love the Talking Heads, but what is it about this song that just makes it so likable:

And just like Kaiser Soze, he was gone. I have so much yardwork and gardening to do tomorrow, I have no idea what I was thinking staying up this late tonight. I guess it just had to be done.

Off to spoon Lily.

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  3. 3.

    Martin

    Oh, don’t go get me wrong. Cole’s fine people, a good American. But he’s content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57, maybe kick back a cool, Coors 16-ouncer. He’s a good, fine person, Stuart. But he doesn’t know … what the queers are doing to the soil!

  5. 5.

    JenJen

    Apropos of 80’s shit, the other day, for the first time in years I was listening to Joy Division, a band I thought I used to adore, and couldn’t help but think, “Was I completely crocked the first time I heard this, or what?”

  7. 7.

    Yuppers

    Joy Division requires a certain mood.

    And I was really happy to hear some Dead Milkmen that wasn’t Punk Rock Girl on KEXP the other day (specifically, it was “At The Moment” from the long out of print Soul Rotation album).

  8. 8.

    WyldPirate

    It sounds really good with tequila.

    That’s not important. Can you dance naked to it with a mop is the number one requirement.

  16. 16.

    freelancer

    It’d be great if more people in my RSS feed did posts like this. Could you imagine shitfaced, self-indulgent, fun posts from TNC, Steve Benen, or LGM?

  17. 17.

    Will

    Since I know she’s popular in these parts, I thought I’d share with you folks that I met Elizabeth Warren today. Got a handshake, a hug, and a photo. Plus some embarassing “I admire you so much…!” Didn’t get the nerve up to ask about her Senate intentions. Anyway, she is an extraordinarily friendly person. Also brilliant.

  18. 18.

    ruemara

    We used to crank the audio up on the Todmann Soundstage of Love back at NYU while Big Lizard in My Backyard played. While no one was filming, of course. Love that album.

    @Will:
    Oooo, kinda jealous. Congratulations.

  22. 22.

    Suffern ACE

    @Martin: Now that I think of it, no one has ever told me exactly what I was supposed to do to the soil. They did tell me to buy Joy Division, but I only played it a couple of times.

  27. 27.

    Billy K

    @JenJen:

    I was listening to Joy Division … and couldn’t help but think, “Was I completely crocked the first time I heard this, or what?”

    I don’t see how anyone could hear anything but greatness in their music. I pity you.

  30. 30.

    John Cole

    but Beastie Boys are, and always were, worthless.

    Blasphemer. I will fucking choke you out with a strap-on.

    Listening to Zappa now, though.

  31. 31.

    Rihilism

    @John Cole:

    I will fucking choke you out with a strap-on.

    Whaaaaaaaaat? Am I missing an inside joke here or has Cole had way too much to drink? Either way, that’s highlarious…

  33. 33.

    FlipYrWhig

    From memory…

    “What’re you gonna do at the Shore?”

    “Oh, ya know, play some video games, buy some Def Leppard T-shirts.”

    “Don’t forget your Motley Crue shirt. Ya know, all proceeds go to get the lead singer out of jail.”

  35. 35.

    kdaug

    @Rihilism:

    “Am I missing an inside joke here or has Cole had way too much to drink?”

    Is this a joke? Have you not been paying attention?

    What part of the Fat White Man+Pretty Feet++Tequila (and yeah, that ++ was intentional) equation did you miscomprehended?

    (And for the record, I’m an utter and complete hypocrite, seeing as how I’m stuffing boiled bite-sized chicken/cilantro wontons down my gullet and can’t type worth a shit.)

    Whiskey, not tequila, but at least I’ll feel better in the morning.

    ETA: Ah-Ha! I CAN still properly unbungle a quote. Now let’s see if I can still properly find a pillow.

  41. 41.

    Rihilism

    @kdaug: Well I assumed he might be wasted by now but I wanted to cover all my bases. Never been up this late on a drunk thread so I’ve never heard John say anything like that before. Live and learn…

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    @kdaug: Meh. Half the time I wish I didn’t share a planet with you straight folk. You sure like to muck things up a lot.

  48. 48.

    Rihilism

    @kdaug: Fuckin’ Vulcans, always so damn non-judgemental.

    Whelp, it’s rollin’ after 2 am here which is way past my weirding hour. I’m off. Night everyone…

  49. 49.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:

    It’s not a matter of purity so much as it is that the Dead Milkmen were more of a novelty act than anything else. It’s like being in 1968 and thinking that The Strawberry Alarm Clock is psychedelic when there’s Pink Floyd around, being kinda ignored.

  51. 51.

    Xenos

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:

    even though i can’t personally believe anyone thinks green day was ever punk

    What category is Green Day? I assumed they were some sort of California Mod, what with all the mid-60s Who harmonies on American Idiot. That is a long way from punk. I started listening to Green Day because my kids loved it when they were toddlers.

  52. 52.

    Xenos

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:

    even though i can’t personally believe anyone thinks green day was ever punk

    What category is Green Day? I assumed they were some sort of California Mod, what with all the mid-60s Who harmonies on American Idiot. That is a long way from punk. I started listening to Green Day because my kids loved it when they were toddlers.

  53. 53.

    Martin

    @Xenos: Green Day would be called pop punk along with Offspring and Blink (I had trouble telling the three apart years ago). Probably drop My Chemical Romance in that category as well.

  54. 54.

    Amir_Khalid

    In case anybody was wondering about me, I just spent a day in hospital for observation: a bad reax to the antibiotics they gave me a week ago, after my previously reported collision with a motorcycle (couldn’t hold down any food for five days because of the stuff; as you might guess, that can really weaken a diabetic with a bum ticker).

    Still resting up at home, with feline overlady Bianca providing me TLC.

    @Xenos:
    Don’t sweat the question. In the end, categories matter far less than the music.

  56. 56.

    kdaug

    @Amir_Khalid:

    In case anybody was wondering about me

    Wasn’t before, am now.

    Take care, friend. I enjoy the perspective from the other side of the globe.

  57. 57.

    Martin

    @Amir_Khalid:

    In the end, categories matter far less than the music.

    And the categories are fairly arbitrary, particularly for bands with longer careers as they tend to float around a fair bit. Personally, I think the most interesting bands are the ones that push at the edges anyway.

    Hope you recover well. Getting over a case of shingles myself. This illness shit sucks.

  59. 59.

    JWL

    “Child of the 80’s”. Sheeit.

    You fuckers should kiss the feet of the late ’60’s and early ’70’s crowd that gave you breath.

  61. 61.

    J.W. Hamner

    Wow, it’s late/early. Finally watched Kick Ass: Hit Girl 4evah.

    As for music videos, if I were hammered, I’d go with Age of Consent.

  62. 62.

    Yutsano

    @JWL: Feel free to tell us when we should get off your lawn. We most likely won’t listen, but hey.

    @Amir_Khalid: Tomodachi wa ki o tsukete kudasai. At least you’re listening to yourself ad hopefully they switched up the cocktail.

  63. 63.

    Amir_Khalid

    @J.W. Hamner: Kick Ass is a better movie than Ebert gave it credit for. It nails the inherent absurdity of comic-book superheroing without missing the point that comic books are supposed to be, above all else, FUN. (Ebert’s a good man, and his writing on movies is an ongoing education for the loyal reader, but you can’t really expect him or anyone to be hip to everything in popular culture.)

    @Yutsano:
    My late mother learned some Japanese in school during the Occupation of Singapore in World War II. Alas, she forgot most of it and didn’t pass on what she did remember. But thanx to you, and all BJers, for the kind thoughts this past week.

  65. 65.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:

    the dead milk midgets never sought, nor would they accept, if chosen, they would not run, if elected, they would not serve, the office of punk band.

    Well, they were marketed that way. And therein the problem: They were marketed.

    @Xenos:

    I’m going to disagree with FPFWT. I thin Green Day, early on, was great melodic punk, harkening back to The Damned and The Clash. I think that at some point they just got bigger than the genre.

  67. 67.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    One before I go to sleep:

    Black Flag Forever Time

    Loves me some Greg Ginn guitar. Makes me think of Albert Ayler.

    Man Utd-FC Barcelona at 2pm EDST. Gotta get some rest before they kick off.

  68. 68.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @stuckinred:

    Not cold, really. Lower 60s the last couple of days. We’ve hit 80 a few times already this spring. I’ve gone to and from work in shorts and t-shirt the last few days and been comfy.

    Shit-tons of rain, though.

  70. 70.

    jayackroyd

    At Cacapon State Park as part of a week visiting WV’s scenic wonders. Supposed to be in the 90s, which is not MY idea of the end of May.

    Will keep peepers peeled for a black and white and dog streaking by.

  71. 71.

    Yurpean

    Interesting articles on Bradley Manning in today’s Guardian. It sounds like he was pretty mentally unstable (to the extent that they removed the bolt from his rifle while in Iraq because he was thought to be a danger), even before he got to Iraq and the army knew – the way the article reads he was an accident waiting to happen but due to the shortage of recruits the army didn’t discharge him.

    Information security also seems to have been a joke. The common computer rooms had access to the classified SIPRNet network, and apparently access passwords were taped to the computers. People would watch videos on the network for entertainment in their downtime.

    guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/27/bradley-manning-wikileaks-mentally-fragile

    guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/27/bradley-manning-us-military-outsider

  72. 72.

    Steve M.

    I just love the Talking Heads, but what is it about this song that just makes it so likable

    I always thought “This Must Be the Place” was written with Al Green in mind. The Heads don’t do it the way Al would, but it sounds as if it was written as an Al Green homage. Try to imagine Al singing it and Al’s band playing it.

  73. 73.

    JPL

    I’m glad that McCain will be on a Sunday show. I was beginning to think he had vanished in thin air.

    Meet the Press: Sens. McConnell, Schumer
    Fox News Sunday: Sen. McCain; Reps. West, Edwards
    This Week: Daniels, Pawlenty
    Face the Nation: Reps. Cantor, Wasserman-Schultz
    State of the Union: Sen. Murray, Gen. Chiarelli

    copied and pasted from The Page.

  74. 74.

    Amir_Khalid

    @Yurpean:
    It boggles the mind that the US Army kept a mentally unbalanced man they couldn’t trust with a rifle, let alone that they gave him a job in intelligence with access to sensitive communications.
    I guess the real story is that Bradley Manning is a canary in the coalmine: an indicator that the US military is broken in a number of ways not immediately obvious to people who look only at big-budget items like fighter planes and combat systems.

  77. 77.

    zzyzx

    Naive Melody is the 3rd tier jamband cover song of choice. I’ve seen like 5 different bands play it and I love it every time.

  79. 79.

    beltane

    @JPL: It’s not Sunday morning without John McCain being all over the TV. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz schooling Eric Cantor should be interesting, though.

  80. 80.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Yurpean:

    If true, this indicates some serious problems.

    However, I find it difficult to believe a word of it.

  82. 82.

    khead

    I promise to never make fun of the 60’s and 70’s again.

    Ok, well, maybe never is too strong… at least until the last two threads are off the front page.

  85. 85.

    Maude

    I tried to send a contact email at Wiley Cash’s website and ran into captcha fail. I got the letters, but the email wouldn’t send. I wanted to offer congrats.

  88. 88.

    Bill Murray

    @JWL:

    You fuckers should kiss the feet of the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s crowd that gave you breath.

    You mean by ending up sucking so bad that something had to be done to get music back on the right track.

    @piratedan — I figured that was Pylon even before opening it.

    One for John this morning Replacements I Bought A Headache youtube.com/watch?v=NQDUIycuipc&feature=related

    and one for me Zeitgeist (later became The Reivers) on The Cutting Edge youtube.com/watch?v=FVlL8hhiM30

  91. 91.

    Lojasmo

    John: “Home” sounds so good because of the weed.

    Doo doo doo doo dooee dooee dooee dooo doo dooo.

    Serious.

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