Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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

The lights are all blinking red.

In my day, never was longer.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

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  5. 5.

    Martin

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: You could have integrated it into the Arkansas daughter-beater and Michigan Taliban law stories and gone for a whole pray-away-gay, colon abuse, grifter, redemption-through-violence power-play. But that would have been hella work.

  7. 7.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    @Martin:

    Sarah, why do you believe Jesus is indecent?

    Because when he gives me my morning colonic, he always rabbits on about exactly what he got up to over the weekend at the Manhole Baths and Disco Emporium in Spokane Heights. Indecent doesn’t even begin to describe it.

    Wait, you meant that other Jesus.

    Sorry, no idea. I always liked “Jesus” Jesus. I suspect he would want to poke Michele in the eye with a fish fork just as much as the rest of us do.

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    If I donate, Michele, would you spend the money on a decent copy-editor?

    Ooh, snap!

    SPAT is a goddess. Anyone who says otherwise must be stoned!

  10. 10.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    In Queensryche’s “Operation Mindcrime” before the song “The Mission”, the minister on the television says “The Holy Ghost is calling out to you. I want you to reach deep into your hearts and your pocketbooks, and take His hand.” These types of letters always make me think of that.

  14. 14.

    scav

    OT even in an open thread as the theme developing is such a rich one so excuse me but Poor Ol fils Murdoch, testifying again next week and they just had to go announce another 2,000 possible hacking victims of Mulcaire (up to ~5,800) and they just arrested somebody from the Sun for Police payments. The Yetis may have had to sit down and take a breather but there’s still a solid simmer going on. Because I’ve run out of links to point to the legal evidence that a good portion of them knew about it all in 2008 and poor ol fils is going to have to come up with some industrial scale amnesia right quickly. I am so giddy and over things that in so many ways are remarkably tangent to my life. Ah well, I’ll take it.

    Ah yes, after long examination in multiple contexts, Louise Mensch is a shallow posturing self-serving politico at best, but I’m still not entirely convinced she was going easy on Murdoch, only because I don’t think she has the moral convictions to protect anyone else without it being of direct personal benefit. It was a thing of joy to watch Hislop and Merton squish her over her Starbucks blather in re: Occupy St. Paul.

    Oh my giddy aunt, I am in a state.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    OT, but this is an open thread…

    Neofeudalist buttmunch Ron Paul is running web ads now (even on this very site, via our friends at Google) about how he is the best choice for the military vote, featuring a photo of some handsome young enlisted type.

    Who happens to be white.

    I wonder why that is? Given the long history of support Paul has from certain, erm, “interest groups” in this country?

  19. 19.

    R-Jud

    @scav:

    It was a thing of joy to watch Hislop and Merton squish her over her Starbucks blather in re: Occupy St. Paul.

    Wasn’t it just? My brother, a reformed Republican, was screaming obscenities at her while we watched that. Hee hee.

  22. 22.

    ABL

    good to know that Michelle Bachmann is one of Michele Bachmann’s strongest supporter.

    Fuckin’ Elements of Style. How do they work?

  23. 23.

    ABL

    Dangling modifiers all over the place.

    Is that what Marcus calls it?

    Hmm. I reckon Michele has never seen an erect modifier.

  26. 26.

    fasteddie9318

    Hasn’t anybody had anything to say about Radley Balko’s love poem to the capitalist paradise that is, um, Nigeria? I’m getting ready to move there as soon as I can, especially since some nice gentleman there has offered to share the proceeds of some ministry or another’s surplus if I just provide him with my bank information! It’s a win-win!

  28. 28.

    THE

    If Michelle Bachmann is writing a book, I just hope there’s watercolor pens so we can color in the pictures.

  31. 31.

    jl

    What’s the difference between an ‘autographed copy’, and a ‘personalized autographed copy’? (other than the 50 smackeroos?)

    Why does the letter say ‘accidental’ political career? How is a person running for the state legislature after years of active political campaign work ‘accidental’

    Why has Sarah Proud and Tall not told the BJ readers that she is friends with Michelle Bachmann?

  33. 33.

    scav

    @Villago Delenda Est: They’re really going to love the Muslim-Christian open warfare in the Middle belt. And the Naiga police are a little more free-wheeling agents then they might be expecting based on what they expect here . . Goodluck with that Jonathan.

  34. 34.

    MikeJ

    @jl:

    What’s the difference between an ‘autographed copy’, and a ‘personalized autographed copy’?

    Your name.

  35. 35.

    jl

    @fasteddie9318: Does Balko know that a group of Nigerian con men pulled off one of the most successful and lucrative corporate swindles in history, with Big Oil corps as the marks? The swindlers said it was ‘like taking candy from babies’.

    I think I saw this on 60 minutes, so maybe the segment is available online.

  36. 36.

    jl

    @MikeJ: I don’t get it, I could buy a copy and sign it myself for no extra charge.

    uuuuuuuuuuuhhhh…. what am I missing?

  37. 37.

    Warren Terra

    If I donate, Michele, would you spend the money on a decent copy-editor?

    Sarah, are you suggesting that Michelle Bachmann isn’t one of Michelle Bachmann’s most valued supporters? Why shouldn’t Michelle Bachmann, as one of Michelle Bachmann’s most valued supporters, want to let you know about this opportunity?

  39. 39.

    Martin

    @MikeJ:

    Texas daughter beater. Aransas (no K) county.

    Christ. Texas couldn’t have gotten a bit more creative with their county names rather than stealing a neighbor state name and leaving out a letter? You don’t see us running around with Oreon, Evada, and Ariona counties, do you?

  42. 42.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Neofeudalist buttmunch Ron Paul is running web ads now (even on this very site, via our friends at Google) about how he is the best choice for the military vote, featuring a photo of some handsome young enlisted type.

    I’m fairly certain that’s a photo of Young Master Paul himself.

  43. 43.

    Culture of Truth

    @MikeJ: What’s the difference between an ‘autographed copy’, and a ‘personalized autographed copy’?

    Your name.

    “Dear Sucker,”

  44. 44.

    jayjaybear

    @ABL: That may be the very first time I’ve ever mentally imagined E.B. White and William Strunk Jr. in ICP makeup…

  46. 46.

    Warren Terra

    Now, if the same “personally autographed copy” deal arises for Santorum’s book, the temptation to pool together and buy Dan Savage a trophy copy will be strong.

  49. 49.

    Gravenstone

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent): Right before Nikki chambers a round, and shoots out the TV.

    And let us not forget the beauty that is Spreading the Disease. “selling skin, or selling God, the numbers look the same on their credit cards”.

  50. 50.

    Brachiator

    An interesting little story with many possible ramifications:

    Vatican stunned by Irish embassy closure
    __
    Catholic Ireland’s stunning decision to close its embassy to the Vatican is a huge blow to the Holy See’s prestige and may be followed by other countries which feel the missions are too expensive, diplomatic sources said on Friday.
    __
    The closure brought relations between Ireland and the Vatican, once ironclad allies, to an all-time low following the row earlier this year over the Irish Church’s handling of sex abuse cases and accusations that the Vatican had encouraged secrecy.

    Which brings to mind,

    Let’s all do the Vatican Rag

  51. 51.

    harlana

    Sarah, when you made your donation to the Bachmann campaign, were you having one of your innocent, but less than lucid moments at “the home” or was it one of those gin-soaked, free-for-all weekends where you end up with a tuxedo thong and a half-empty pack of Pall Malls in your bed the next morning and you have no idea how they got there?

  53. 53.

    harlana

    anyway, there’s a story in there somewhere and I demand the usual vivid and colorful details!

  54. 54.

    jayjaybear

    @harlana: She ALWAYS remembers how they got there. It’s just…convenient, sometimes, to appear to have forgotten. Just because she’s 92 and has done more coke than Robin Williams, more acid than Timothy Leary, more MJ than Jerry Garcia and more Chivas than Mick Jagger doesn’t mean she’s impaired…

  56. 56.

    SRW1

    $125 for at most two punds of cellulose? Gotta say I know a lot of sources for toilet paper that’s way cheaper. Not to speak of the fact that it tends to come in a far more convenient form.

  57. 57.

    harlana

    Okay, I’m looking forward to “The Night I Donated To The Bachmann Campaign” installment. It’s gotta be a doozy. I’m thinking Ukranian pool boys may have been involved.

  58. 58.

    bob_is_boring

    @Villago Delenda Est
    @Sarah Proud and Tall

    Ah. I see. Had to give it up the booze, so sometimes I forget. Or: I’m a bitter, mostly out-of-work copy editor with a hyphen fetish. I forget which.

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