Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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

Bark louder, little dog.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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  3. 3.

    The Dangerman

    This week prior to the Holiday, I’m giving thanks for the pathetically weak Republican field of candidates…

    …as I expect the word “lazy” to be placed around Obama’s neck, just as malaise was placed around Carter’s.

    Yes, it’s taken out of context; doesn’t matter. They have the money and the mouthpieces.

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    Swinging dicks in the Pacific. Methinks this Australia deployment announcement deserves more attention than it’s getting.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15715446

    Also, too, zinfandel es muy bueno.

    [Edit: sometimes I love the intertrons. Right after I post this, I get a rotating ad with Wilma Flintstone selling Fruity Pebbles…in Spanish.]

  8. 8.

    Steeplejack

    Night shift checking in. Just got home from work, after closing with the slowest of the slow managers. Excruciatingly, painfully slow. I will be up for at least two or three hours as I decompress.

    ESPN is on in the background. I found myself wondering today what they are going to do to fill up the time if they don’t have the NBA for the next six months. Makes you think.

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    @Steeplejack:

    I found myself wondering today what they are going to do to fill up the time if they don’t have the NBA for the next six months. Makes you think.

    Sweet jeebuz deliver us from hockey and subtropical golf. Amen

  13. 13.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @hamletta:

    I suspect he, or at least someone working for him, knows it’s stupid, so when Pelosi says “What kind of moron are you?”, the wingnuts can run screaming “COWARDLY LIB PELOSI REFUSES TO DEBATE PERRY” headlines. It’s like the equivalent of 3rd graders daring each other to eat dog poo.

  17. 17.

    Hill Dweller

    @The Dangerman: I suspect they’ll try and hang “lazy” around Obama’s neck, but Romney said something nearly identical in his book(which Politico pointed out), and Perry the half wit is largely ignored.

    Moreover, it will give Obama to explain the context, which was Us businesses not selling America hard enough.

  18. 18.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    @eemom: Me? I couldn’t care less about the NBA. Anyway, ESPN don’t show the NHL, so it’s not like they’re going to show more of it.

  20. 20.

    hamletta

    @Spaghetti Lee: You are very wise.

    You also seem to have gotten all the way to junior high school, unlike Perry’s campaign advisors.

    Also, too, unlike Governor of Texas, Minority Leader is a real job.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    @eemom:

    Fie, woman! We are sophisticated men of the world who can interest ourselves in the full panoply of life’s rich tapestry, not just professional sports. Why, we even read and comment at cutting-edge intellectual blogs such as this one.

  24. 24.

    Jay in Oregon

    @hamletta:
    He can’t even punch in his own weight class with the jokers in the GOP primary race, and he’s going to try to debate someone with real policy experience?

    As George Takei would say, “Oh, my.”

  25. 25.

    Redshift

    @Spaghetti Lee: It’s clearly designed to appeal to the Rush demographic, for whom Pelosi is the evil puppetmaster even though the Republicans control Congress. Unfortunately, it comes at the cost of making him look like an idiot to everyone else.

    Personally, I hope she accepts, because it would be a prime opportunity to explain what Congress could be accomplishing if we didn’t have a broken Republican “status quo” and almost certainly either make Perry look like a dumbass again, or further alienate women from Republicans if he acts like a bully (or more likely make him look like a gutless coward as he finds a way to weasel out of it.)

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: Is it a bad sign when you have to get coffee just to get you through the night? Even though my day tomorrow will be hella longer and more exhausting?

  27. 27.

    Atticus Dogsbody

    @trollhattan: The Chinese and Indonesians are a bit iffy on the idea.

    Also, the Marines that get posted to Tindal will probably by a bit pissed at being stuck in such a shithole (Google maps: Tindal, NT). Oh well, at least they won’t be getting shot at… much (it is the Northern Territory).

  28. 28.

    MikeJ

    @Yutsano: I’m trying to decide if I can take a nap and wake up for a two am skype or just stay up, and I’m already tired from getting up at 0 dark thirty today.

  30. 30.

    mclaren

    Had some stuff to take care of. Now it is too late to do anything.

    Succinct summary of the Obama administration.

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    [. . .] have to get coffee just to get you through the night?

    How does the coffee help? Do you have to stay up tonight? Or does coffee somehow calm you down and help you get to sleep?

    My pathology is that I get home between 11:00 and 12:00, can’t go to sleep before about 2:00, then have to monitor myself carefully to make sure I don’t overshoot into full night-owl mode and stay up until 4:00 or 5:00 a.m. Then, no matter what time I go to bed, I wake up between 7:00 and 8:00 and can’t go back to sleep. So I get up, putter around, do some chores and then, if I’m lucky, grab a short or long nap around noon before going back to work at 3:00 or 4:00 p.m.

    And then my circadian rhythms get really screwy when they change up my schedule without much rhyme or reason: e.g., I opened yesterday (Tuesday)–7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.–but now I’m closing the rest of the week. And often my schedule is screwier than that.

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    @MikeJ:

    One good metric I have read, which seems to be true for me, is that the human sleep micro-cycle is about 90 minutes, so if you are going to sleep for less than your usual full time you should do it in 90-minute increments. E.g., you will feel better after sleeping for 4½ hours than after 5 or 5½ hours.

  34. 34.

    Atticus Dogsbody

    @MikeJ: Very true, although his bombs did. I made it to Darwin and in two years managed to do probably as much damage. I could never understand how the boys and I never drew the ire of the coppers until a few years later when I found out that my boss (a former cop and a Darwin bigwig) had told them to let us be, bless him. Heady days.

  37. 37.

    Linkmeister

    @Atticus Dogsbody: It’s interesting to me that the Marines aren’t going back to the old NCS site (Harold Holt) at the Northwest Cape (Exmouth, I think). The mission dictates where they go, but there are already facilities that were once US-used. One of the guys I worked with at NCS Japan had been stationed there; met and married his Aussie wife there, too.

  38. 38.

    MikeJ

    @Mnemosyne: *That* is handy advice. Of course I need to be alert for my call and then be able to sleep after so I don’t screw my schedule.

    Who had the bright idea of making the earth round and fucking us up with time zones any way?

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack:

    How does the coffee help?

    It fixed my headache, so now I can get stuffing done (accomplished!) and settle in for the night.

    Do you have to stay up tonight?

    Nope. But I do have to get up early and do some more cooking before work. It’s my fault: I overbooked myself tomorrow.

    Or does coffee somehow calm you down and help you get to sleep?

    It dilated the blood vessels around my cranium, so I could actually concentrate enough to cook. After that burst of productiviteh, I can calm down for the night. Caffeine never has kept me awake. But I don’t get sugar rushes either. I r an odd duck.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    @Mnemosyne: That might explain why Vic odin does virtually nothing for me. Whereas Perco cet definitely gets me feeling next to nothing. The funny thing is I’ve never been diagnosed because psychologists are cat toys to me.

  44. 44.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @MikeJ:

    Who had the bright idea of making the earth round and fucking us up with time zones any way?

    You can blame Physics for a round earth: maximum volume with minimum surface area. Time zones are the fault of the railroads, who had to keep a schedule but couldn’t make it work when every midwestern town and city was on its own solar-based time.

  45. 45.

    Mnemosyne

    @Yutsano:

    The only thing Vic odin did for me was make me violently ill after a couple of days — didn’t do much for the pain. I had to seek out the ADHD diagnosis after suspecting it for years. G was skeptical until he read this thread on Ask Metafilter and was like, “Holy crap, that’s what I married.”

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    Are all the site add-ins refreshing themselves in the dark of night? They’re breaking my balls right now, taking forever to load. I’m looking at you, e.change.org and something something sitemeter.

    ETA: Also pts.lockerz.com. WTF?!

  48. 48.

    Joe

    Loving WP department: I read this on an iPad. The change.org ads on the left sidebar (the ones that use Flash) overflow the column and block whatever perspicacious commentary might be that far down the page.

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