Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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

T R E 4 5 O N

All your base are belong to Tunch.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

You cannot shame the shameless.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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  1. 1.

    Sam Houston

    And I would like to personally testify that The Funny Times, in which Keith Knight’s work appears, is worth every penny.

  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    Joining Book of Faces has been revealing for showing how many of my old college friends have become educators. It’s quite the revelation and honestly makes this shit personal for me. One is even a teacher in Wisconsin. I haven’t inquired yet as to whether he participated in the protests. He is the fighter type however.

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    Yutsano

    @Omnes Omnibus: I know she’s from WI and that she wanted to move home after going to Wazzu. It would be strange for them to up and move unless the opportunity was too great to pass up. Which is possible.

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    Amanda in the South Bay

    ah, finally an open thread and I’m home and able to post something.

    So, I’m bitching about the changes made to the Post 9/11 Bill made by the last Congress. You know, Nancy Fucking Smash and all that. Starting this Fall, breaks in between quarters will no longer be paid as they were previously, so veterans who went to school full time, will have to either really tighten their belts, or have to find temp work for short periods (good luck in this economy). Thanks a lot, last Democratic Congress.

  12. 12.

    RossInDetroit

    I was shelving CDs the other day and discovered one by Keith’s band The Marginal Prophets. I vaguely recall buying that. I wonder what it sounds like.

    Insomnia again. maybe today’s the day to give it a spin.

  13. 13.

    RossInDetroit

    Speaking of BTS, Tuesday’s the day for us. Many of my colleagues in Facilities are working this weekend to get their buildings ready. I could have volunteered, but to hell with that. They screwed around all summer instead of getting their tile waxed and that’s not my problem. The first 2 weeks of school are hellish for building management. I need the rest.

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    Mnemosyne

    We’re catsitting Charlotte’s sister Olive right now, which means I’ve spent the better part of the evening playing the Boss of Cat Town. What’s really suprising to me is that Annie, who’s usually low cat on the totem pole, is really throwing her weight around (all 8 pounds of it). At one point, she even tried to tackle Olive on the litter box. Not good. But it’s pretty much all been growling and hissing and posturing with no actual fighting yet.

    (If the names sound familiar, yes, we named them after Charlotte Charles and Olive Snook on “Pushing Daisies.”)

  17. 17.

    gene108

    Teacher’s still use chalk? I thought they used markers on dry-erase boards these days.

    Man, am I out of it…

  18. 18.

    WereBear

    @Mnemosyne: What’s really suprising to me is that Annie, who’s usually low cat on the totem pole, is really throwing her weight around (all 8 pounds of it).

    Yes, but New Cat is always lower… until proven otherwise. Annie has some confidence!

    As someone who went to college, twice, 20 years apart; I am never going to stop having those dreams every September where you show up with no pants and the 300 page term paper unwritten.

  19. 19.

    Donut

    @MacKenna:

    I believe the laugh tracks from “Married, With Children” will be featured, as some additional simian hooting is required to adequately season the punch lines for this group of candidates.

  20. 20.

    Mino

    That cartoon is no joke here in Texas. A couple years back I was in line in a K-Mart behind a teacher buying supplies for her pupils, not just herself. I gave her $20 and then the guy behind me did the same.
    That is why there are so many minimum wage jobs in Texas. Industry knows we don’t support education, so high wage jobs don’t come here.

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    It’s simply wrong to make teachers pay out of pocket for classroom supplies. There would be a public outcry if it ever happened in Malaysia.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Amir Khalid: There is an up to $250 tax deduction for educators on federal income taxes. This is, of course, less than most elementary school teachers spend on supplies and gifts during a school year. I do agree that it is wrong to make teachers pay out of pocket, but at least there is some recognition of it at the federal level.

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    PurpleGirl

    It is ironic(?) to remember back to when I was in elementary school in the 1950s and the NYC public schools had so many supplies in warehouses that paper went yellow before it was used. They had pencils, crayons, paints, and many kinds of crafts supplies. Into the early 1070s, procurement of textbooks and lab supplies was a study in planning for the future… at the high school I went to they overbought textbooks one year so that they would get a larger or the same budget the next year to buy books. If you didn’t buy books one year, the next year your budget would be cut because you obviously didn’t need books. (Of course, that would be the year you needed new books.) It’s amazing how we do not support our schools, teachers, and students now.

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    Ron

    We got our school supply list for our son starting kindergarten this year. Most of the stuff we were asked to buy was obviously generic ‘classroom supply’ stuff. (crayons, colored pencils, glue, scissors). I don’t really mind having to buy it because we could easily afford it. on the other hand I’m sure there are families that have a hard time having to come up with that $20 or so for the supplies. (and if they don’t have a backpack for their kid already it would be more). I personally find it a little bizarre that the school district doesn’t buy all that stuff. And a little sad too.

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    RossInDetroit

    Several of my job sites are elementary schools. The PTA groups take pre-orders for a standard package of student supplies at a fixed price. They buy in bulk and make up a supplies kit for each pre-ordering student to pick up. They make a few bucks on each one due to volume buying. The profit funds PTA activities for the school for the year. This frees up the parents from shopping and ensures that the child has all of the supplies that the school says they need.

    Teachers do have a budget for room supplies but by the end of the year they’re all spending out of pocket for some things.

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    gravie

    Love Keef! And I agree with Sam Houston, The Funny Times is one of the best sources of humor and politics around. We went to their 25th anniversary celebration in Cleveland a few years ago, to which they invited all their subscribers. It was a hoot.

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