Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it’s a trap.

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

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

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

This fight is for everything.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

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  2. 2.

    schlemizel - was Alwhite

    finished my 18th treatment yesterday – 15 left. The actual pain is minimal right now & the Dr. seems surprised by that, he says I am in better shape then should be expected. I have found that my taste is not gone, but gone to hell. Everything tastes like shit, metallic & chemical, gag inducing sludge. While I could swallow food the only way I can eat now is to drink liquids to get through it as fast as I can. Got an Rx for an anti-nausea drug that helps a bit. Lost 8 lbs last week. Not the diet plan I would recommend though.

    I’m sick & tired, can hardly stay awake for more than a few hours at a time.

  4. 4.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Today I’m wrapping up two laptop repairs, changing out the heater core and alternator on the wife’s car and then fucking off for the rest of the day.

    If it’s nice I may drag the motorcycle out and go for a ride.

    @schlemizel – was Alwhite:

    Whoa, that sounds pretty rough. It’s good that the doc is happy with your progress so far. Watch the health and eat as best you can.

    Good luck and I hope the news stays good at your end.

  5. 5.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Lee:

    Good idea, that’s what I use for nausea too. Should have thought to ask that…lol! Probably too much anti-nausea drug. :)

    Too much?! Never!

  6. 6.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    So why do I have an ad inviting me to join Ron Paul’s “Constitution Day Money Bomb” on Saturday?

    Like I’m gonna give that fucker anything but an upraised middle finger.

    (It was a rhetorical question, before anyone actually tries to answer, ok?)

  9. 9.

    schlemizel - was Alwhite

    @Lee:
    Nope – would be interested to see if it helped

    @jeffreyw:
    Oh God NO! – I can’t watch the food channel because EVERYTHING looks good. I saw a Papa Johns commercial & craved pizza so bad (and I don’t like PJs). its torture.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    @schlemizel – was Alwhite: Thanks for putting it all in perspective this morning. I hope science has progressed enough to help you beat your disease and humanity has advanced enough to care for the rest of you. Peace.

  16. 16.

    El Cid

    Jimmy Carter was on Rachel Maddow’s show last night. He thought it was a really good idea for Obama to have drafted the jobs bill and then use the “bully pulpit” to sell it directly to the American public.

    Fucking emobagger.

  17. 17.

    kdaug

    @Mino: Wanna trade? I can set you up with some (newly) sub-100 desertification…

    Putting on some insane chicken soup in the crockpot this AM. Way too much garlic, ginger, and Hatch Green Chilies. A heapen’-handful (i.e., “no, seriously, that’s too much”) of Kamfir lime leaves in a cheesecloth. Udon noodles and some leftover rice at the end. Served with tortilla chips, cilantro, and extra lime juice on top.

    If it don’t clear out your sinuses, it ain’t soup. And if you don’t like it, get the fuck out of my kitchen.

  19. 19.

    MKSinSA

    @Mino: Same here in Central TX! I think it’s called rain … just been too long since I last saw water fall from the sky.

  22. 22.

    El Cid

    @cleek: Unemployment was down ever single year under Carter until the Fed began cranking up interest rates. There was much greater income equality and distribution. And so forth. Carter was leading in the polls to Reagan pretty much right up until the Iranian Islamic fundamentalist forces in the revolution took the hostages.

    Of course, if the standard now is that Jimmy Carter is too unstable a firebrand ‘prog’, then it perhaps might be time to retire the stereotype.

    Oh, I forget — the new gospel is the absurd history that not only did “the [white] left” have its very real inept or even harmful effects, this vastly powerful force actually torpedoed every single Democratic opportunity for victory since Hubert Humphrey, so, fuck you you radical leftist / William Calley-supporting Georgia governor Carter.

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    kdaug

    @MKSinSA: No, wait… y’all are getting rain?? I’ve heard of the sky-water legends, but I have no empirical evidence to support the myth.

  26. 26.

    cleek

    @El Cid:

    Unemployment was down ever single year under Carter until the Fed began cranking up interest rates.

    so, good things are to the President’s credit and bad things are not?

    There was much greater income equality and distribution.

    and, punk rock was born! the late 70’s were a glorious time.

    i have no idea what you’re trying to say in the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs. you’re apparently speaking in some kind of code that i wasn’t trained in. my fault!

  28. 28.

    Phyllis

    Breezy and much cooler here. And we’re supposed to see skywater today and tomorrow. Gonna need the long sleeve t-shirt for the football game tonight.

  29. 29.

    BruinKid

    Saw Garfunkel & Oates in concert with Sarah Silverman a few weeks ago here in L.A. They are so incredibly awesome, beautiful, and raunchy as hell.

    And I saw a screening of the new Ph.D. Comics MOVIE last night, where the cast and crew showed up as well for a Q&A session afterwards. :-)

  31. 31.

    cleek

    @Paul in KY:
    most things are.
    cause i’m awesome.

    @Mino:

    Still have the hate on for Carter?

    “still” ? do i have a reputation for hating Carter?
    “hate” ? i don’t hate Carter. he’s just not high on my list of successful presidents.

  32. 32.

    FlipYrWhig

    @El Cid:

    Jimmy Carter was on Rachel Maddow’s show last night. He thought it was a really good idea for Obama to have drafted the jobs bill and then use the “bully pulpit” to sell it directly to the American public.
    __
    Fucking emobagger.

    Did he think that by doing so Obama would definitely make the jobs pill get passed? Because that was the key to the “bully pulpit” conversation: the “emobagger” position was that Obama got worse bills than he could have because he didn’t use the bully pulpit enough. IMHO it’s a good communications and campaign strategy, next-to-useless legislative strategy.

  34. 34.

    Mino

    @cleek: And one could argue that Reagan had a most successful presidency. He retired in good regard and his VP won election. But it rather does make a difference what the aims of their respective presidencies were, does it not? What rational economic historian, looking at our own times, would not prefer the successful one be reversed.

  35. 35.

    Mino

    @FlipYrWhig: The pattern seems to be get elected, get drawn right by the coalition of Republicans and the right wing of your own party, infuriate the left, lose influence.

  36. 36.

    schlemizel - was Alwhite

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I have this dr. approved concoction – 1 cup whole milk, 1/3 cup dry milk powder, a protein mix (the actually recommend Carnation Instant Breakfast because it is cheap) its about 400 cal. I sometimes add vanilla ice cream (Haggen-Daz has the highest cal count I could find). And a banana.

    I have casein protein powder that I am using until it is gone, supposed to be slower digesting.

  38. 38.

    FlipYrWhig

    @El Cid: F’rinstance, Carter’s speeches on energy and conservation used the bully pulpit for all it was worth. Excellent! Did it lead to legislative victories? There’s a distinction, I think, between how presidents should raise consciousness about issues and how they should shepherd legislation through a Congress where even his own party is hesitant to act on those issues.

  39. 39.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Mino: Pretty much, except that I think that you’re implying that “infuriating the left” _generates_ the loss of influence, and I wouldn’t say that. Maybe “the left” should think about their persistent state of fury and consider grading on a curve, so to speak, rather than convincing themselves that the Nth Democratic president is betraying them way worse than the N-minus-1th Democratic president ever did. President N-minus-1, that guy was a fighter who knew what he stood for, not like President N, who keeps stabbing them in the back and getting pushed into compromises.

  40. 40.

    Mino

    One caveat, just to be fair to my previous statement. I was not paying much attention to the details of polictics back in Carter’s time; in fact, a lot of Americans were exhausted by all the sturm&drang and just wanted some normalcy. Perhaps Carter was a little Blue-Doggy, himself– his background would suggest that.

  41. 41.

    flamingRedDingo

    hadn’t heard of Garfunkel & Oates before this. Thanks..

    Reminds me a bit of Stephen Lynch, but honestly, I think these two pull it off better…

    Pregnant Women are Smug is hilarious…

    Cheers.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    Plugging away on my new pre-Code movie blog, but I want to get a few more reviews under my belt before I open for business.

  43. 43.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @FlipYrWhig:

    Of course, as you know, the white left despised Jimmy Carter, giving rise to the Ted Kennedy primary challenge.

    Carter’s problems dealing with a Democratic Congress did not come from the left (white or otherwise) however. They came because he didn’t forge good relationship with the (mostly Blue Doggy) Democratic Senators needed to get legislation thru The World Greatest Deliberative Obfusticating Body, a mistake that Obama and his team have bent over backwards not to repeat. Case in point being the way that Carter mishandled his rollout of changes to federal water policy which backfired badly with Senators, especially those from the western US where the Bureau of Reclamation and its projects were a sort of concrete lined horn-of-plenty from which all goods things flowed.

    ETA: in other words Carter shot himself in the foot (when it came to dealing with a Senate controlled by his own party) by attempting to be all bully and no pulpit, and got his ass handed to him on a platter for his trouble.

  45. 45.

    TooManyJens

    @El Cid:

    Jimmy Carter was on Rachel Maddow’s show last night. He thought it was a really good idea for Obama to have drafted the jobs bill and then use the “bully pulpit” to sell it directly to the American public.
    __
    Fucking emobagger.

    Carter failed to hit on the key points of firebaggerism: he didn’t call for the President to be primaried, he didn’t gleefully predict that he would lose next year, and he didn’t call him a secret right-winger who wants to destroy Social Security and Medicare, hates gays, and doesn’t care about black people. Hell, he didn’t even call him weak and inadequate. Carter needs to step up his game if he’s going to join the Hamsherite ranks.

  46. 46.

    Mino

    @FlipYrWhig: Sometimes I feel like the infuriated left is Cassandra. They are more often right than wrong in seeing the end result of policies, and nobody listens to them.

  47. 47.

    Ben Cisco

    A very cool 58 degrees with rain inbound here in Banktown. Just got tasked for three new builds; they’re going to start sticking people on the roof soon ’cause we’re out of space.

  51. 51.

    Anonymous37

    Best correction ever:

    Correction, Sept. 16, 2011: This story originally misidentified the title of the Sir-Mix-a-Lot song that Sarah Palin sang along with. It is “Baby Got Back,” not “I Like Big Butts.”

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    Don’t know if this great send up of Ayn Rand from gizmodo has been mentioned in an earlier open thread:

    That pretentious kid from high school/college/life who cited Ayn Rand quotes about the glory of self-interest and the triumph of the free market, despite being kind of a broke-ass loser? He’s about to start masturbating: Atlas Shrugged, the app.
    __
    Now, the sterile prose and pseudo-philosophy of Ayn Rand can accompany you to the beach, or on the bus! The $15 iPad version contains the full unabridged text, with lots of talk about skyscrapers and stoic men and whatnot, along with audio and video recordings of Ayn Rand herself, should you need to perform an enhanced interrogation on someone.

    Good times.

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