Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

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

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

When I was faster i was always behind.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    What a wonderful video! Gave me goosebumps of happiness.

    One more day off work for me, and the weather forecast for Atlanta is wet ‘n’ wetter, all day, so I think I will just stay in, do some tidying, read and listen to music and be lazy. Back to the office tomorrow for a similar year-end purge of old files and general clutter-clearing.

  4. 4.

    amk

    @SiubhanDuinne: That’s how she gets away with everything including the heavy pampering by my mom, wifey and kidz. I get to play the role of disciplinarian and have utterly failed so far.

    Bitch.

  5. 5.

    BruinKid

    So after I wrote about Ron Paul’s racist newsletters and his dissembling over them (I think only Chad can actually access the link), my Ron Paul friend was compelled to chime in. As usual, this is their reasoning.

    lol don’t you feel pathetic in the fact that this is ALL you can try and get on him? Obama and all the other candidates are way more racist through their policies than Paul will ever be. Btw if all the pathetic people bashing on Ron Paul ab…out this knew anything about libertarianism, they would know that we don’t look at people as groups, but individuals….the anti drug laws Obama enforces are far more racist than anything Ron could do.
    __So saying Ron Paul is a racist cuz of this….again, pathetic.

    And then he links to a video “proving” that black people looooove Ron Paul.

    I can’t reach these people. No matter what I say, there’s like this Ron Paul forcefield around their heads that acts as a barrier to any logical discussion about his past, or how his policies would actually affect poor people in the future.

    Of course, these people also have money. They’re not in the top 1%, but they’re certainly in the top 10%. It’s a lot easier to be libertarian when you don’t have to worry about where your next meal is going to come from, or paying next month’s rent.

  12. 12.

    jeffreyw

    Ordered the Logitech Revue, a digital media machine that features Google TV. Looks interesting. Runs Android. Anyone know much about Google TV aside from the ad blurbs?

  17. 17.

    jeffreyw

    @Raven: Good review, thanks. Hope the Netflix search problem is resolved with my unit. They are now touting the android marketplace as available. Hah, angry birds on the big screen.
    I have a Sony blue ray machine with the Netflix app that I can use the keyboard on my iTouch to search with, but the full keyboard is a much nicer solution.

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    Maude

    @Raven:
    I’m a member of tech republic. CNET is the best. Brothersoft is also good. THe wondrous Source Forge is also not to be sneezed at. We are supposed to get some serious wind and rain tonight. I read that Texas got a bit of snow. Keep your feet dry. And, hello to your beautiful bride.

  21. 21.

    hilzoy

    Wow. — When I was in Rwanda, the silverback unexpectedly cut across our path within about four feet of me. That was sort of miraculous. I can’t even imagine being groomed by one.

    That said: the guides usually try to keep this from happening, since gorillas, being our close relatives, are susceptible to many more human diseases than e.g. dogs and cats. Also, while the gorillas in the tourist parks are habituated to humans, and the parks try to employ locals to provide an alternative to poaching, poaching is still a problem, and so no one wants them to get so comfortable around humans that poaching gets easier.

    There’s actually a very good group of vets that treats human-caused diseases and injuries (i.e. from traps) in mountain gorillas. I believe they dealt with a fairly serious outbreak of what was thought to be measles at one point; that’s the kind of thing that can happen given close human contact. (Mountain gorillas do not normally get measles, so they have no immunity to it.)

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