Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

In my day, never was longer.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

I really should read my own blog.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

The lights are all blinking red.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

When they say they’re pro-life, they don’t mean yours.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

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The guy who sent me this video said he’d be so happy that he’d “start running topless in circles” if I posted it. Start running, brother.

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  1. 1.

    Schlemizel

    video is verboten so I have no idea why he is running topless. OTOH – I moved more than a couple of chickens from perch to plate and ‘running around topless’ is something you see hens do when you remove their tops.

  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    Cant find it right now ( site not loading properly on iPhone), but DeLong linked to a 1956 photo of a 5 MB hard drive being unloaded from a cargo plane. Using a forklift. Fifty-five years later, you can stick a hard drive with 200,000 times the capacity of that old box in your pocket.

    We have made progress in some areas.

  3. 3.

    4tehlulz

    @burnspbesq: OH!?!!111 Well, we would have quantum computers in our minds by now if it wasn’t for the heavy hand of the Jews Mossad blocking innovation.

  6. 6.

    RossInDetroit

    @burnspbesq:

    a 1956 photo of a 5 MB hard drive being unloaded from a cargo plane.

    But could they use it to put captions on pictures of cats? Didn’t think so. Progress!

  8. 8.

    Mark S.

    I was reading an article about how Paul is a shitty legislator and this stuck out:

    This year, for instance, Paul has sponsored 47 bills, including measures to withdraw from the United Nations, repeal the federal law banning guns in school zones and let private groups coin their own money.

    What the hell is that third one about?

  10. 10.

    burnspbesq

    @4tehlulz:

    “Well, we would have quantum computers in our minds by now if it wasn’t for the heavy hand of the Mossad blocking innovation.”

    I had no idea. Thank you for enlightening me.

  11. 11.

    burnspbesq

    Interesting piece in the Times today. They cross-referenced North Carolina’s concealed-carry permit list against criminal justice records. Whodathunkit: minor altercations turn deadly when one of the participants is packing, and a lot of folks who shouldn’t be allowed within a mile of a firearm have no trouble getting permits.

    http://nyti.ms/tOXmmi

  13. 13.

    Kirk Spencer

    @burnspbesq: I’m not sure it proves what the article’s lede implies.

    240,000 permit holders.
    2,400 non-traffic crimes.
    200 felonies.

    Some of the felonies included weapons use. Some of the misdemeanors including ‘brandishing’, but a lot more were things like DUIs.
    100 of the felonious convictions did not result in revocation of the permit.

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    @srv:

    Meh. Sears has been in financial trouble for years, and they didn’t help themselves by buying Kmart when it was on the verge of going under. The only thing keeping them afloat is Land’s End.

    Of course, I’m prejudiced — Sears has treated their employees like shit since at least the 1980s (which was when I had friends who worked there) and I haven’t shopped there since.

  15. 15.

    Ash Can

    Mistermix, just stopping by to tip my hat to you for your Christmas Day essay on Mary. One of the best on the subject that I’ve ever read. Kudos, and Happy New Year!

  16. 16.

    Roger Moore

    @Mark S.:

    What the hell is that third one about?

    Gooooold! In case you hadn’t noticed, Ron Paul is a huge goldbug, and he apparently has invested almost all his money in gold. I’m betting he wants to be able to issue his own coins.

    @Kirk Spencer:

    I have pointed out numerous times that the average smart-phone has more capacity and capability—and almost as much screen—as my first computer (a Kaypro II).

    Hah. My first computer didn’t come with any kind of storage when we bought it; everything disappeared every time you power cycled. That wasn’t as much trouble as you might think, though, since it had only 4K of RAM. Some of that was devoted to system stuff like the screen buffer, so there was more like 2.5K of usable memory. If you really wanted to keep your work, it was vaguely practical to write it all down longhand!

  17. 17.

    Cris (without an H)

    @Mark S.: What the hell is that third one [let private groups coin their own money] about?

    The Federal Reserve is a bugbear of conspiracy groups, and alternative currencies are one of their protective totems.

    Basically, their position is that federal currency allows the Feds to increase their money supply without adding value to the economy, thus causing all currency to devalue. So their solution is to go for the Gold standard and trade in hempscript or Emperor Norton notes.

    Plus the dollar has Masonic symbols on it.

    Fiscal localism isn’t insane, but many of its adherents are.

  18. 18.

    RossInDetroit

    @Roger Moore:

    My first computer didn’t come with any kind of storage when we bought it; everything disappeared every time you power cycled.

    My first was a KIM-1, in around 1976 – 1977. We used portable cassette recorders to store programs after we had hand-assembled the code and typed machine language in in hexadecimal on a keypad.

    I need to see the population on my lawn drop drastically right about now.

  20. 20.

    Professor

    @Mnemosyne: Some GOP idiots keep on saying wealthy people are the job creators, they don’t realise that job creation is DEMAND led! Jesus, Have they ever read an economics book or do they understand APPLIED ECONOMICS?

  21. 21.

    Mnemosyne

    @Professor:

    They don’t care about the overall economy. Really, they don’t. All they care about is being able to keep as much of their income as possible, and they’ll make whatever stupid, illogical, and/or contradictory arguments they need to so they can do that.

    They really seem to think that their wealth somehow exists outside of the global economy, and if we have an economic collapse, they’ll still be rich. Yet another lesson of the Great Depression that they’ve refused to learn.

  25. 25.

    Hill Dweller

    Sen. Ben Nelson is retiring. It would have been nice if the a-hole had done it a bit earlier, giving the party time to recruit another candidate and build a campaign organization.

  27. 27.

    Kirk Spencer

    @Hill Dweller: But the bad polling numbers weren’t obvious till recently.

    Basically, he’s retiring rather than running and losing.

    Besides, it’s Nebraska. 90% chance his replacement would be a Republican regardless of what Nelson did.

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