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If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

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

Second rate reporter says what?

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

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

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Because I know not everyone checks the Great Orange Satan, I take the liberty of reposting this awesomely wonderful bit opening the Tony Award broadcast:

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Like the theater, everyone is welcome to this thread.

Oh — and feel free to fill in the “they” of your choice as to who just might worry about the freedoms celebrated above.

 

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  3. 3.

    WereBear

    Neil Patrick Harris and Hugh Jackman both RULE.

    Especially NPH; all Hugh Jackman had to live down was Wolverine; who is cool.

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    Violet

    Oh my, how I love NPH. Hugh Jackman too. I hadn’t seen this yet. Thanks for posting.

  7. 7.

    Violet

    Hey, Tom, just wanted to let you know I bought your “Newton” book for someone as a gift.

  9. 9.

    Ellie

    You should also watch the wrap-up rap that was written on the fly incorporating stuff that happened during the show. Awesome. LAT link.

  10. 10.

    Violet

    OMG, someone linked to this in a previous thread, but I only just took a look at it. Tags on Amazon for Newt’s latest book. Bwahahahaha!

  12. 12.

    Little Boots

    bitches gotta stop. that’s all I’m saying. bitches gotta stop. meaning Wisconsin. It’s getting really, really annoying, this crap. ABL,please tell me I’m right. You know what I’m talking about.

  13. 13.

    Little Boots

    and that’s a wonderful thing, tom, but seriously, Republicans have to stop doing what they do. it’s annoying.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Violet #7: I bought Tom’s “Measure for Measure” (for me) a couple of months ago. What a swell writer. And thinker.

    Tom L: did you ever give your brother the scotch, or wine, or whatever you had promised him, for the title?

  15. 15.

    nitpicker

    Reason #13,245 that I like being a liberal: If Neal Patrick Harris had said anything similar to his “liberal intellectuals are jews and homosexuals” line about conservatives, Memeorandum would be clogged with whining today.

  16. 16.

    Little Boots

    and incidentally, at Eschaton, they do Adele. which is more awesome. not that it matters, but it matters.

  19. 19.

    lamh34

    @Kristine:

    seriously. If I had the time I’d so google stalk Hugh Jackman, but my google-stalking schedule is full with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Chayanne (Puerto Rican superstar), Rain (Korean superstar) and now Michael Fassenbender (X-Men: First Class)

  23. 23.

    Tom Levenson

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m glad you got and enjoyed that book — it was my second, it has flaws (that bother me, if no one else) but I do love it. I bit off more than I can chew, but learned so much writing it.

    And yes, I paid my debt to Bacchus and my bro.

  27. 27.

    Spaghetti Lee

    Since it’s an open thread, can anyone tell me any alternatives to PayPal that they think are trustworthy? I want to try to start selling some of my art over the internet, but I’ve heard awful things about PayPal’s customer service, and I’m not sure I want to give money to anything that Peter Thiel is even remotely involved with.

  28. 28.

    Comrade Kevin

    So, apparently, someone decided to release Duke Nuke’m Forever, and Ars Technica savages it. There are some rather disturbing comments attached to the article, too, though most seem to agree with the author.

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    Chad N Freude

    NPH is great. Hugh Jackman is great. The opening number is excellent. But for me, the piece of resistance is the number from Copany, the absolute best musical of all time. I saw it during its opening week on Broadway (yeah, I’m old enough to have done that) and have never returned to earth.

  31. 31.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

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    Fortunately, notwithstanding language in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, President Obama’s war on habeas corpus and the 4th Amendment, among other former American freedoms, continues in an audaciously fierce manner.
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  32. 32.

    Tom Q

    @Chad N Freude: I saw it a little bit later — in fact, after Larry Kert had taken over for Dean Jones — but I still view it as the most ground-shaking night I’ve ever spent in a theatre. Changed my whole view of what was possible (something I’ve tried to live up to, as a playwright myself).

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    @WereBear: Am I wrong for wanting them to kiss at the end? It’s not like Hugh hasn’t done gay for pay before and NPH, well…BEST. GAY. DAD. EVAR!!

  41. 41.

    daveNYC

    That video was worth dealing with the Tony’s fracking with the traffic in my hood.

    I assume the people who write for the Tony awards are not the same ones who write for the Oscars?

  42. 42.

    opie jeanne

    @jeff: My daughter saw him in Rent when it played in LA. She stood in line with a bunch of impoverished students in order to get tickets at a discount, and they were in the front row.

    She and the other students were invited backstage for a cast party, and the actors told them that they could see them weeping during the show which made the actors feel wonderful that they had been so moved.

  44. 44.

    Rihilism

    @Chad N Freude: My personal preference was Raúl Esparza’s stint as Bobby in 2006 (saw it on PBS). Afraid I don’t think anyone can top his performance though I love NPH (except HIMYM, which I loathe). I plan on seeing the film version of Company tonight (Colbert in Company! I’m wetting my pants already!)

    BUT (don’t hate me), no musical can surpass Sweeney Todd which I saw as an impressionable youth…

    Nothing’s gonna harm you, not while I’m around.
    Nothing’s gonna harm you, no sir, not while I’m around.

    Demons are prowling everywhere, nowadays,
    I’ll send ’em howling,
    I don’t care, I got ways…

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