Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The lights are all blinking red.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

“woke” is the new caravan.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

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

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

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

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

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

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

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    Corner Stone

    Cole seems to have gone off the deep end on his twit stream. He’s either partying with college students, which never ends well for men of his age, or about none of it is true.

    ETA, I’m going with the latter.

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): Some friends have seats right behind the Purdue bench section for the Purdue @ Rice game today. They’re all wearing old school Rice jerseys and plan to be as obnoxious as Rice alum can be. I declined to join them.

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    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    @Corner Stone: I’ve got my Illni on the btn2go and it looks like the 11am start and the Jackrabbits as an opponent have the crowd way down.

    Athens is out of fucking control.

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    Joseph Nobles

    Oh, I’m loving this. Ed Morrissey has cooked up a wacky conspiracy theory to celebrate 9/11.

    Obama made a little gaffe when he went off script the other day. He called Lincoln the “founder” of the Republican Party. Common enough mistake. But the remark wasn’t in the text as prepared for delivery and released by the White House.

    Enter PBS. They published the text as prepared for delievery (noting it as such) and labeled it “Transcript.” It was pretty close. They also embedded a video of the full remarks.

    Now comes Ed Morrissey. He and other RWNJs have been busily distracting themselves from the subject of the speech and laughing at Obama’s mistake. Seems that Jay Carney himself corrected this mistake when Mike Huckabee said it back in 2008, Carney writing in the pages of Time Magazine, no less. Ha ha! Does Carney ever talk to the President? Does Obama clear adlibs with Jay?

    And worse yet, PBS (and thereby all of the lamestream media) is then accused by Mr. Morrissey of trying to cover up the President’s Lincoln gaffe! Somehow. Because the verbatim transcript with Obama’s gaffe has always been what’s available on the White House website. I know, because I followed along the second time that CSPAN aired it (the first time being live). So somehow PBS is covering up something for the POTUS that the White House isn’t?

    And, yes, PBS has now published the verbatim transcript under Transcript. A tempest in a Tea Party pot. God, what a lovely day. Ed Morrissey throwing out a CT worthy of 9/11 Truth, and defending it with the same kind of logic.

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    Woe is me. Liverpool FC conceded a needless penalty in the first of their match away to Stoke City, and despite a relentless onslaught over the rest of the match could not get an equalizer. Woe is me! Woe! Woe! AAAGH! et cetera.

    In somewhat happier news, rain over the past couple of afternoons has cleared away some of the haze over the skies here in Kuala Lumpur. Now if only those damn Indonesians would quit setting their jungles on fire every year …

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    Corner Stone

    I just noticed but in the Brett Favre jeans commercial the first pass he throws looks like an INT. The guy in the blue shirt with his arms stretched out is behind the guy in green who ends up tipping the ball one handed and making the grab.
    Looks like Favre underthrew his receiver.

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    lamh32

    I know it’s probably too late, but I just have to tell ya how much I kinda hate this song. I can’t really articulate it well enough, I’ll just link to a Black Snob post on this subject and let her speak for me.

    Kreayshawn & V-Nasty: The Unholy Thing Rap Created

    There’s an episode of the cartoon South Park that parodies the film “The Day After Tomorrow” and hysteria over Global Warming where the citizens of South Park run around fleeing the “warming” while screaming, “We didn’t listen!” While this was simply a delicious Hollywood film cliche satire, I couldn’t help but think of it when I read Darth Kriss’ recent post on Insanity Report about the advent of Kreayshawn and some person called V-Nasty in the world of hip hop…

    Please read the whole post, it hilarious and yet def true for me and fans of hip-hop.

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    Phylllis

    @Corner Stone: We’ve been ‘working on’ the frozen libations for an hour or so here. Go Cocks indeed, Babee!

    On a side note, my alma mater plays Florida State today. Thank you for the beating sir, we’ll take our check now and go home to Charleston, SC. While y’all get to stay in…Tallahassee.

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    fuckwit

    Does anyone remember this?

    ne month before the 2008 Presidential election, Obama, then a senator from Illinois, squared off in a debate against John McCain in an arena at Belmont University, in Nashville. A woman in the audience asked Obama if he would be willing to pursue Al Qaeda leaders inside Pakistan, even if that meant invading an ally nation. He replied, “If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable, or unwilling, to take them out, then I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush Al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national-security priority.” McCain, who often criticized Obama for his naïveté on foreign-policy matters, characterized the promise as foolish, saying, “I’m not going to telegraph my punches.”

    I don’t recall anyone of the chattering heads on TV even mentioning this in the hoopla over Bin Laden’s death. Or giving credit that, yep, Obama was right, his approach worked.

    Now Bush wants credit for it. Fucking right.

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