Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

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

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Books are my comfort food!

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

The revolution will be supervised.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Come on, man.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

“Alexa, change the president.”

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

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Which team better represents real America?

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In an ideal world every Super Bowl would pit Dallas against Indianapolis in a battle for supremacy over Our Republic.

I’ve had a long running discussion with a friend of mine about which team this year, the Pack or Pittsburgh, better represents Real America. On the one hand, the Steelers are owned by an Obama-loving soshulist, on the other, the Pack is community-owned, which is hardly better since all sports teams should be owned by heroic Galtian individuals. Pittsburgh has a lefty mayor, but Green Bay’s mayor is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The quarterback situation is tricky too: Rodgers is a Berkeley alum and hence a hippie while with Roethlisberger, it’s hard to say if he’s the self-indulgent product of 60s sexual mores or an upstanding victim of feminazi persecution.

Then there’s this:

Aaron Rodgers sat woozily on the Green Bay Packers’ bench after a hard hit from the Detroit Lions on Dec. 12. Midway through a ghastly loss, with the Packers’ playoff hopes in the balance, the veteran receiver Donald Driver decided that Rodgers, his star quarterback, needed some encouragement.

“I went behind him and told him that this game is just a game,” Driver recalled this week. “Your life is more important than the game.”

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“We want people to say the right things whether they believe it or not, because kids are listening,” Fink said. “The Packers have handled this wonderfully. Meanwhile, Hines Ward makes fun of the people trying to protect him.”

Real Americans don’t mind having their bell rung by a blow to the head anymore than they mind getting peppered with a little buck shot. Advantage Steelers.

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Important Notice to All Frontpagers and Commenters

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From now on all mentions of America’s favorite snowbilly and her clumsy daughter must read as follows:

Sarah Palin™ / Bristol Palin™

Our legal staff will be monitoring the situation closely and will give immediate notice when we need to change these mentions to:

Sarah Palin® / Bristol Palin®

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The New Man on the Street

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When your editor tells you to spin three sentences of news into a 25 paragraph thumbsucker, what’s a poor New York Times writer to do?:

And on the NASAWatch blog, Jsonova99 wrote, “He’s a pro and I have no doubt he’ll bring his A game to the mission.”

Still, some people questioned the choice. “The truly courageous and strong thing to do is to be an accessible partner to your disabled wife who is now relearning almost every function of her body and intellect,” one reader wrote to The New York Times Web site. “Just sayin’.”

How can the Times expect to be considered the paper of record when “Captain_Poopy” on Reddit and “hentai_lover” on 4chan were not consulted?

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

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Slept like a baby last night- went to bed right after that documentary on Showtime, popped up at 5 am bright-eyed and bushy tailed. I miss the piglets, but the night of sleep without squirming and bickering animals waking me up every hour was nice. Not being bitten on the toe by Rosie when I move in the middle of the night is also a plus. Also, waking up on my own, rather than face to face with a wailing Tunch demanding food is kind of alright. It’s always kind of disorienting and unnerving waking up face to face with him glaring at me.

I still miss them, though.

Y’all have a good day.

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Late Night Open Thread: Wholly Fool

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Grab your anodynes of choice, kiddies, because Ken Layne at Wonkette has assembled a compilation of “One Hundred Years of ReaganTube” that is too good not to share, painful though it is to those of us who had to live through the original era:

Oh can you believe it was only a hundred years ago when Ronald Reagan was born? Which side of the Civil War did he fight on, anyway? (Answer: He didn’t fight at all, but he was an extra at the Ford Theater the night Lincoln was shot, and later claimed to have played the role of Robert E. Lee in James Joyce’s movie Ulysses S. Grant.) Oh, also, back in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was actually serving as president in some weird state of constant incapacitation? Everybody thought he was a moron. Most Republicans didn’t even support him during the regular lows of his disastrous two terms. He also didn’t defeat the Soviet Union — they ran out of money on their own, just like we’ve done here in America in the past 10 years, in the exact same Central Asian country. But Ronald Reagan did delight America with his constant, idiotic appearances on film and television. Let’s remember the empty suit who led us to a Promised Land of Fox News, Tax Cuts for Multi-Billionaires and the deliberate dismantling of what had been the world’s smartest, most prosperous society in the History of the World…

Be grateful you’re getting this warning: there’s a swimsuit shot. On the other hand, the Wonkette commentariat may be second only for high-quality snark behind some blog with a rotating tag line, so you’ve got that to look forward to.

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Still Bill

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Not sure what channel it is on because the hotel channel guide is wrong, but I’m watching a fascinating documentary on Bill Withers. I’ve always liked his music, but the man himself is so much more interesting. You really need to watch it.

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