Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

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

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Everybody saw this coming.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

“But what about the lurkers?”

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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  6. 6.

    MattR

    @Comrade Mary: Wow that is loud. Glad I was smart enough to turn my speakers way down before starting it. Neighbors would not have been happy at 2:30 am :)

    @Martin: Ahh, thanks. Figured the Internet had to have a “clean” version available somewhere but was too lazy to do much searching.

    (EDIT: Should I be worried that this video was one of the top “recommended for you” choices on Youtube)

  7. 7.

    Ian

    I am currently watching the killing fields. It is a movie about the genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s. What strikes me the most is the striking similarities between the Khmer Rogue and the modern tea party.
    A great quote in the movie- ‘only the silent survive’.
    Let us see which if any of the reasonable republicans survive

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    Yutsano

    If yer gonna go old school no sense in being half-hearted about it.

    And a little something for mi famiglia. If wifey ever comes for air while expanding international ape-simian relations.

    (edited cuz I fergot a word.)

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    Amir Khalid

    @Comrade Kevin:
    Haing Ngor won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Dith Pran — which, critics noted at the time, was in fact the lead role in The Killing Fields. His own story as a refugee from Cambodia was at least as harrowing as Pran’s.

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    ImJohnGalt

    While you’re on the topic of Cambodia, I remember reading this story a couple of years ago poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel in LA, and openly weeping by the end.

  15. 15.

    ImJohnGalt

    Christ, I just read the final two paragraphs (I know it’s long, but *please* don’t skip to the end without reading the whole thing), and the hairs on my arms stood on end and the tears welled up again. I remembered exactly how it ended, two years later.

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    Origuy

    @Amir Khalid: Spaulding Gray, who had a small role in The Killing Fields, made a movie, Swimming to Cambodia, about making The Killing Fields. He drowned in the East River of NYC, apparently a suicide.

  21. 21.

    Off Colfax

    That first song isn’t very bubblegummy.

    Then again, whenever I think of bubblegum music, I tend towards Aqua or Caramell. Poppy, cute, and rarely serious.

  22. 22.

    Lysana

    I’m going to be a musical pedant. I won’t use that convention of “I hate to,” because I enjoy music geeking.

    That mash-up is not bubblegum. Missy Elliott and Adele do not qualify as bubblegum pop artists. Elliott isn’t even pop, and there’s an argument that Adele isn’t, either. Add in the Swan Lake, and you’re so far outside that zone you’re looking at it from the next ballpark over. It’s a mash-up, which is its own genre and that is an exemplary sample of the form. (And Britney has I think escaped bubblegum, but she used to do it so it’s kind of a push.) And for the record, I respect bubblegum pop as much as the Ramones ever did. If you know why they did what they did, you’ll know I”m not giving a backhanded compliment. If you’re looking at me funny, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth will be an enlightening read. It was for me.

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    Paul in KY

    The PomPomPom girl needs to get together and collaborate with the Studio Killers.

    Be like taking LSD & MDMA & then washing it down with purple pixie sticks & a Mountain Dew.

  26. 26.

    HI

    Thank you, Paul Ryan’s Dirty Sockpuppet, for introducing me to School Food Punishment. I liked the songs. Then I learned that a member of School Food Punishment was influenced by a band called Spangle call Lilli line. I tried their songs like this and this and I liked them, too.

    For something a little different, how about this or this?

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