Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Books are my comfort food!

Not all heroes wear capes.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

All hail the time of the bunny!

I really should read my own blog.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Republicans do not trust women.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

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

Bark louder, little dog.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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  2. 2.

    DougJ

    @MikeJ:

    It’s just me, based on a cellphone pic. I was very flattered that the producer thought I was late 20s or early 30s!

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    patrick the pedantic literalist

    Question about scotus and the health care bill.

    I don’t understand the relationship of compelling someone to buy something and the commerce clause. Are those two separate issues? If the health care business is clearly covered under the commerce clause it would seem to me that any part of that law that is necessary to the aca and otherwise be constitutional would be allowed.
    So, are they contending that the mandates are somehow not allowed under the commerce clause?
    Or, are they making the broader contention that mandates are unconstitutional more fundamentally because the government can’t compel you to buy something?
    And, if the second, wouldn’t Massachusetts mandates also be unconstitutional (similar to the federal government can’t prohibit free speech, and if Massachusetts tried it would also not be constitutional)?

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    Dee Loralei

    I spent yesterday in Nashvegas in an all day OFA-TN meeting. 70 folks signed up from all across Tn 110+ showed up for the training session! So that was good, and fun.

    Today, my desktop came down with virus,malware/trojan, etc. My son though he had it cut off, and convinced me to move to Chrome. I spent 6+ hours transferring all my bookmarks and favorite places from several other web browsers into Chrome (100s of them). Had a bunch of new folders set up, so I didn’t have to scroll through all the miscelaneous crap to get to everything. Deleted each as I went through, so I wouldn’t duplicate. Shut down the pc, came back later and all of my hard work was gone. I feel like crying. I remember most of my daily visit political websites, but I had a bunch of stuff, like a hundred recipes, cooking sites, cookbook publishers, favorite music videos, screenwriting web sites and more obscure liberal web sites I don’t visit daily, but do visit every once in awhile. Sciency blogs and article for work,some pet and nature stuff , great individual articles I wanted to return to at some time in the future. And those are all gone. And I’m just overwhelmed with what it will take to recreate that. (all my local OFA folks, plus the regional and state people too.)

    And then, this evening, I was supposed to be on an OFA webinar with the main folks in Chicago and the visual wouldn’t work. I listened for about 20 minutes, and gave it up as a pain in the butt. Hopefully one of our other team leaders managed to stay on and learn something, because they’re gonna have to teach me, before I can do any outreach.

    And I had to try to remember all my passwords for my different accounts. And then re-set them.

    I did get my son a nice keyboard for Christmas.For the money I was willing to spend, the Casio seemed to have more bells and whistles than the Yamaha.But they didn’t have it in store and had to charge me extra to bring it in from Chattanooga. (So much for buying local and not online) Oh and I picked up some guitar strings for his stocking while I was at the music store.

    Just a damned frustrating day. And I think I’ll watch Leverage and Once Upon a Time on my DVR and drink something warming.

    And I’m not sure my virus/trojan whatever problem has been solved, just that it’s been contained for a bit.

  11. 11.

    Dee Loralei

    @DougJ: Thank you, I needed some guidance. Oh and Congrats on the Blogging Heads thing, I used to listen years ago, I might tune in to hear you.

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    Mark S.

    @patrick the pedantic literalist:

    Only idiots are arguing that health care doesn’t fall under the Commerce Clause. The smarter ones are arguing that compelling a person to buy a product from a private company violates something, probably substantive due process. If the Court ruled the federal individual mandate unconstitutional, I doubt the Massachusetts one would last long.

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    patrick II

    @Mark S.:
    Thanks for your reply.
    That is the way it seemed to me, but I haven’t read the possible impact on the Massachusetts law anywhere.

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    sfinny

    @patrick II: My understanding is that Mass law wouldn’t be impacted because the commerce clause objection relates to interstate activity, which the federal govt can regulate, versus state activity.

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    Sherry Reson

    Thanks, Doug! I’ve just been messing with your avatar. No tail, no wings, just an appealing guy in sweater and jeans. (Tom Levenson tells me we have to accept a certain amount of glamour). We’ll take a look tomorrow and see if you like it. Changes are possible.

    Virtually Speaking is talk radio on the web, amplifying progressive voices, with a digitally present studio audience using the Second Life platform and IRC (#VSpeak) to comment and pose questions in real time. The podcasts are archived on BlogTalkRadio and in itunes (free).

    Tonight, after talking with each other for 67 minutes, the brilliant Dahlia Lithwick and Culture of Truth stayed ‘inworld’ for nearly an hour, discussing the Court with the folks who stayed on.

    I post a weekly schedule up at FDL > http://bit.ly/u15gC7%20 Here too, if you like.

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    eemom

    from what I’ve read of Dahlia Lithwick, I REALLY don’t get the “brilliant” thing.

    But it’s cool to be on the radio I guess.

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    Platonicspoof

    @Dee Loralei:
    I haven’t had to suffer through a data loss like yours
    (I back up to an external harddrive), but a quick google of “data recovery” brings up links like this one for DIY data recovery software from Seagate, an established company:
    https://services.seagate.com/diysoftware.aspx

    You can also google “data recovery reviews”.

    Maybe if one of the front pagers related your story, I expect the commentariat would have many similar stories and best solutions.

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    Platonicspoof

    Will let it go now, but info for the common browsers comes up on the first page of results if you google
    “recover bookmarks”.
    Again, I can’t speak from experience.

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    Brachiator

    Good to know that the broadcasts are archived on iTunes. I’ll be travelling at 9PM Eastern Time, and will be looking forward to checking it out later.

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