Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

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

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

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

Republicans in disarray!

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Not all heroes wear capes.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

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

Let me file that under fuck it.

Consistently wrong since 2002

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

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  1. 1.

    burnspbesq

    The kid is taking the SAT today, so I’m just being supportive.

    Lots of work to do, but it all stops at 5 p.m. on Sunday, because we have tickets to see Buffalo Springfield Sunday night.

  2. 2.

    stuckinred

    @burnspbesq: I know Buffalo Springfield is your primary draw but have you seen Gillian and David? They have a new album coming out, first in many years. I hope they play “Throw Me a Rope” for you. Keep on Rockin in the Free World!

  3. 3.

    kdaug

    Plan is to take the dogs to the local lake this morning, then cook steak&pepper stir-fry and some wonton soup, maybe a nap, then head to a couple friend’s joint 40th celeb on a party barge at the big lake around 5.

    Pretty sure if I check in later, “sunburned” and “dehydrated” will be accurate descriptors.

  4. 4.

    PeakVT

    If my jackass neighbors go out, make some construction noise in peace and quiet. Otherwise, make some construction noise.

  5. 5.

    Jebediah

    Big plans to single-handedly jump-start the economy by buying two pairs of trousers and a used Mesa/Boogie 1×12 cabinet.

  6. 6.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    The Jane Hamsher’s of the Left are going to very unhappy. Barney Frank:

    The trouble with new media is the fact that there’s no screen. Anyone can publish anything. We still have the notion that if it’s printed it has some validity. Previously, you had to convince at least one other person that it was worth printing. Now, anyone can print anything in this medium. In general, there’s a lot more gossip and fragmentation. People are starting to just get reinforcement in the media. On the left, it’s MSNBC, Fire Dog Lake and The Huffington Post. On the right, it’s Fox News and the talk radio hosts. People interpret facts differently through these parallel universes. It’s what makes compromise so hard because your partisans just think your selling them out because that’s what everyone they know says. It deepens and sharpens a partisan and ideological divide.

    FDLon the Left and Fox News on the Right. Ouch!

  8. 8.

    burnspbesq

    @stuckinred:

    I’m familiar with Welch/Rawlings. I own some of their stuff, but I don’t consider myself a big fan. We’ll see whether that changes tomorrow.

  9. 9.

    Phyllis

    Weekly grocery run, then settling with the Kindle to finish ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court’. From that, it’s on to Moby Dick. Oh, and watch the Braves work over themstinkinmets.

  10. 10.

    jayackroyd

    For @Mutant Poodle re Ezra, Aaron and premium support.

    First, here’s the Ezra/Aaron interview you referred to a couple of days ago:

    http://wapo.st/jfejU1

    And here is Aaron on the health policy site he contributes to explaining why a shitty premium support plan is not really a premium support plan. http://bit.ly/m2XYuE

    But note that in the interview with Ezra (and elsewhere) he renounces premium support, saying PPACA should be allowed to operate–that the various cost-reducing innovations should be evaluated before (he doesn’t say this explicitly) shifting more of the costs onto the senior population in order to reduce “utilization,” through a premium support system.

    Bold is Ezra. Aaron afterewards
    ================================================
    The argument Ryan would give you, I think, is that he can use inflation because making seniors into consumers will make them much more conscientious shoppers and they’ll hold down costs in ways that government could never dream of doing. Is he wrong?
    The idea here is the competition imposed by just the elderly and disabled is going to bring about these changes. But we have a lot of choice already in Medicare, due to Medicare Advantage. If we were going to get these terrific results, why haven’t we seen them yet?

    The other point is we’ve just enacted the Affordable Care Act. It includes, in my view, just about every idea for reining in the growth of spending that analysts have come up with, though it doesn’t go far on some of them. So here we are, we’ve just enacted a piece of legislation under which we might mobilize the potential of the Medicare program to leverage changes in the delivery system and payment systems, and just at that moment, we now have a call to scrap all that and turn to the possible power of just a fraction of health insurance buyers to rein in the growth of spending.
    =================================
    Last day in mountains. No yellow-bellied sapsucker yet. But a scarlet tanager yesterday. And my best look at a blue-headed vireo ever.

  11. 11.

    demkat620

    @Phyllis: I am a confessed Kindle addict. Greatest thing evah!

    I got a new pool book this morning however, my daughter has a softball game at 11 and my son has soccer at 3. Then we are headed to a Susan G. Komen fundraiser.

    Don’t know when I will have time to read.

  13. 13.

    J.W. Hamner

    Pretty excited to go to the USA-España soccer match today at Foxborough. It’ll be pretty cool to see the World Cup champs on US soil. We’re going to tailgate and I’ve got sausages, burgers, and Golden Monkey… so it should be a good time.

  14. 14.

    harlana

    I got nothing. All these people on here in healthy relationships, making plans, engaging in healthy activities, what’s that all about?

    I guess I should be encouraged that in today’s America, such things still exist.

  17. 17.

    El Tiburon

    High school graduation ceremony. Oh, not for me.

    I’d almost rather watch bill orally while giving limbaugh a reach around.

  18. 18.

    Phyllis

    @demkat620: I got it the first of May and have already read Grant’s memoirs on it. I don’t need my glasses to read on it, and don’t get a headache after an hour or so of reading. Totally into the free books through Gutenberg.

  19. 19.

    jeffreyw

    As little as possible. Spent hours on my little tractor yesterday moving rock around, replacing that which was washed away in the big rains we had last month. Hot and bumpy. Some excitement last night in the gully below the house, Jack and Buddy both in a tussle with some unseen critter. Much yelping and screeching. Both dogs finally coaxed away from the battle though Jack seemed to really have his dander up. We’ve never heard quite the like as sounded last night. Eerie, blood curdling, etc.

  21. 21.

    Jazz Superluminar

    So I was bored earlier with everything on the interwebs, and decided I’d see what this blog’s old friend Sully was up to. After scrolling down through some boring shit, I came across this. I’m just going to quote without comment:

    I am a 60 year old sexually repressed woman.  One of the reasons that I read your blog is because it pulses with sexual energy.  This morning I had a dream and you were in it.  We were dancing, you and I, and I had my feet on your feet but I was somehow draped over your back, rather than in front of you.  You were somehow carrying me piggyback, but still, my feet were on yours.  We were in an old house, dancing around through the rooms.  Other people were there partying.  

    it gets worse.

  22. 22.

    jwb

    @Southern Beale: I actually think the Dems understand the problem. The issue is that no one has a clue about how you get the politics to work when the other side has effective control of the media, We the People are very susceptible to the scare tactics of the right wing media machine, and you need shitloads upon shitloads of money to be competitive.

  24. 24.

    JCT

    Dropped the youngest off for his SAT II tests, about to head out into the wilds of NJ for an all-day meeting.

    In the process of cleaning out our house for sale, room by room, husband got ahead of me last weekend when I was at work, so tomorrow I attempt to catch up by tackling the attic. This is going to be no fun, but it has to be done.

    At this moment the dogs are out back playing “tag” with the cat. I think lots of fun is being had by all. That is, until someone tags the cat “too hard” and he gets mad…

  27. 27.

    WereBear

    @Brian S: Good luck! Mazel tov!

    If at all possible, let this mortal plane go for the nonce. Don’t get worked up about finishing stuff on this important day.

  29. 29.

    Jazz Superluminar

    @Brian S
    yes good luck dude, enjoy your big day!

    @Suffern ACE
    I think I may have to make available a large quantity of brain bleach after posting that. I also want to know who here trolled him so well with that. I once tried something similar, but gayer, and it never got published :-(

  31. 31.

    PurpleGirl

    @Brian S: Many wishes for a long and happy married life, to you and your intended.

    In general, today I’m doing some preliminary work on the novel conversion to an e-reader format. I’m hoping I can build the experience into a new specialty skill with which to sell myself into a job. Thanks to everyone to who answered my question the other night. Your advice was very helpful.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I’m having my 1998 Saturn serviced. It’s closing in on 200,000 miles and looks pretty much like a beater at this point but it has served me well and I mean to keep it going as long as I can.

  34. 34.

    Mark B

    @The Ancient Randonneur: The trouble with comparing FDL and Fox is that FOX is a huge corporation with multibillion dollar backing which is blasted into hundred of millions of people’s home with 24 hours of video content focused on brainwashing people to buy into their dystopian world view. One might argue that FDL also has a dystopian world view, but being a web site with a couple of posts a day and a relatively tiny following, they just aren’t even close to comparable.

    Plus, IMO, they’re more similar in their viewpoints than either one of them might want to admit. Both outlets are rabidly anti-Obama, they just come at it from different directions.

  35. 35.

    demkat620

    @Phyllis: I know the ability to change the font size is great and I love being able to read in full sun.

    I got Game of Thrones for it and that has taken me a while to finish.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    No special weekend plans. Resting up before work at 3:30 today. Back home before midnight, hopefully. Over to the bro’ man’s house tomorrow to hang with the dogs and issue a Wii golf beatdown. On Monday scheduled to see Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (again) with a friend who hasn’t seen it and really wants to. It is very good, so it won’t be a pain to sit through it again.

    Need to run a few errands sometime, including an overdue haircut and procurement of an exotic lightbulb for my little desk lamp, which died Thursday.

    In short, the good life, as per usual.

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    Dad’s birfday, so heading to the ranch like I was supposed to do last weekend but my body had other plans. I do fully intend to have no skin left on my face by about 4 pm or so. Border collies are good like that.

    @Brian S: KEKKON O OMEDETO GOZAIMASU!! And I say that as a fiercely anti-marriage person. But only for me. :)

  38. 38.

    Carol from CO

    Pet sitting my son’s wonderful black lab and cat from hell with my own dog who hates cats.

  39. 39.

    Phyllis

    @demkat620: Yeah, I love being able to sit on the porch and read without having to either have my contacts in or put sunglasses on over the specks

    @Steeplejack: I think we’re gonna have to break down and go see that. I’ve read good things about it and Owen Wilson comes across so charmingly in the trailer.

  40. 40.

    dsc

    early and out into the garden and trying not to have a heat stroke–6 straight days of NO RAIN Blasting 90+ sun down (without a cloud)–at least 7 to go.

    WTF it’s JUNE!

    the Cumberland Plateau had a healthy dose of late spring rain, but everyday I have to dig an inch deeper to find dampness. This does not bode well for summer veggies.

  41. 41.

    Origuy

    Scottish dance in Santa Cruz tonight; kilts with tie-dyed or aloha shirts are the traditional dress code for this one. Tomorrow I’m going to see the copy of the Magna Carta that is on display at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

    If it clears up, there’s the San Jose Greek Festival this weekend; loukaniko, souvlaki, and loukoumathes. Opa!

  42. 42.

    skippy

    mrs. skippy and i are going to see x-men first class tonite. i saw thor on (coincidentally enough, thursday) but i was underwhelmed. bear in mind that ironman blew me away and ironman 2 was great, too. but thor was, at beast, meh.

    i have high hooes for x-men, tho.

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