Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

T R E 4 5 O N

Let there be snark.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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

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

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  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    WTH is up with WVU paying a $350k bustup fee to get out of the away leg of its series with Florida State?

  3. 3.

    Alison

    I love how the segments are immediately 10 times funnier when Colbert starts to lose it :P Sometimes I’ll just be sort of grinning at the jokes, then he starts to crack up and I just bust out laughing.

  4. 4.

    Jager

    I’m not looking forward to the day when guys are curled up on the counters at Walgreens getting prostate exams from Yolanda, the ‘check-out” clerk

  6. 6.

    gogol's wife

    That really is funny. I have tears in my eyes now.

    Hey, how about those Russians, protesting in 0 degree (Fahrenheit) weather?

  9. 9.

    MikeJ

    Anybody watching the snow in the Man City match? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen them shovel the lines.

  10. 10.

    Hill Dweller

    @Alison:

    I love how the segments are immediately 10 times funnier when Colbert starts to lose it :P Sometimes I’ll just be sort of grinning at the jokes, then he starts to crack up and I just bust out laughing.

    The best Colbert crackup happened when he was still a correspondent at The Daily Show, and talking about the Prince Charles being gay rumors. I think it is still available on their website.

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    @Alison:
    “Ladies, just look for the stirrups.”

    He was cracking up as much as he usually does during “Cheating Death” while listing side effects of the latest Vaxa-whatever from Prescott. Takes a lot for Steven to break character, and it’s always worth it.

  12. 12.

    JGabriel

    I love it when something is so funny that the performers themselves crack up.

    Anyone else remember how Gilda Radner used to repeatedly send her co-performers into paroxysms of laughter on live TV?

    .

  13. 13.

    burnspbesq

    @MikeJ:

    They have snow shovels in England? I thought it was like North Carolina, where one inch of snow shuts everything down for two days.

  16. 16.

    Brian R.

    Genius.

    @cathyx:

    How could they think that Walgreens provides those services?

    I’m pretty sure Not Steve Doocy was replying to Steve Doocy’s first comment about how PP checks blood pressure — which most drug stores do too, with those automated things — but it sounded like he was agreeing with Doocy’s later comment that PP provides pap smears and breast exams. Technically, it’s Doocy’s fault for saying “exactly” at the end.

  17. 17.

    handsmile

    As this thread’s category is “Excellent Links,” here is Dahlia Lithwick’s most recent Slate column, “Colbert and the Court.” It addresses how Colbert’s SuperPAC, “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow,” mocks the notorious Citizens United decision.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/02/stephen_colbert_is_winning_the_war_against_the_supreme_court_and_citizens_united_.single.html

    Stephen Colbert is the finest, most fearless political satirist of my 50+ year lifetime. For seven years, he has sustained and refined his on-air persona of a conservative blowhard. His recent forays into the political arena (e..g, his Congressional testimony on immigrant labor) suggest to me that mere “satirist” may not be sufficient praise.

    For example, there’s this link to a conversation he held last year with Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of NYC’s Hayden Planetarium, on science education and science literacy. (N.B. 84-minute clip; skip ahead to the 6:00 minute or so mark.)

    http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2011/11/28/stephen-colbert-interviews-neil-degrasse-tyson/

  18. 18.

    Brian R.

    @JGabriel:

    I love it when something is so funny that the performers themselves crack up.

    As long as it’s rare. People who consistently do it every time (like Jimmy Fallon on SNL) are annoying as hell.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    @trollhattan:

    Takes a lot for Steven to break character, and it’s always worth it.

    The supreme, most memorable, and most touching moment where this happened was on election night 2008, right after 8PM PST. The networks called the election, and Colbert teared up.

    Priceless.

  26. 26.

    JGabriel

    @Brian R.:

    People who consistently do it every time (like Jimmy Fallon on SNL) are annoying as hell.

    Well, yeah. It’s funny because people are trying to hold it in, and then just give up. Fallon never even tries.

    .

  29. 29.

    gene108

    Just saw an Axe body wash commercial. They now have an Axe body wash for her, as well as for the guys.

    Now men under 25 won’t be able to contain their attraction to women in their age group…

    …which might not be such a good thing…

  31. 31.

    AA+ Bonds

    It was nice to watch everyone go for blood, and sink their teeth in and get some. That’s what we need in the Democratic party. We need a killer instinct. We need to stop putting up with this bullshit from these crazy people.

    TRUTH

  33. 33.

    gogol's wife

    There was a profile of Colbert in a recent Sunday New York Times magazine by Charles McGrath, in which Colbert made it clear, in talking about how he dealt with the deaths of his father and brothers in a plane crash, that he is a pretty serious Christian believer. I know that a lot of people here won’t believe it, but to my mind that is what underpins his courage and his absolutely devastating satire. That’s how he was able to stand a foot from George W. Bush and skewer him with complete sang-froid despite the obvious hostility in the room. He was living his faith. Too bad that’s not the image of Christianity that prevails in this country.

  34. 34.

    R-Jud

    @burnspbesq: Yes, it is like that. It took me two hours to get back to my house this afternoon on what should have been a 20-minute train journey.

    There was about 1/2″ of snow on the ground at that point. Now it’s about 4″. I’m glad we don’t have anywhere to go until Wednesday.

    ETA: @gogol’s wife: Fake Republican, actual Christian is certainly preferable to the other way round.

  35. 35.

    Jager

    @Villago Delenda Est: But when young Tyler is assigned the breast exams he is going to be (and get) really excited about his job. Tyler’s line will be “this is going to feel like we’re dating”

  36. 36.

    AA+ Bonds

    @gogol’s wife:

    More than that – Stephen Colbert’s a Sunday school teacher. He was raised in exactly the sort of Roman Catholic family that shows why Democrats can and do win the Catholic vote:

    TONY: You created The Daily Show religious-satire segment, “This Week in God.” How do you square your Catholicism with comedy?
    __
    SC: I love my Church, and I’m a Catholic who was raised by intellectuals, who were very devout. I was raised to believe that you could question the Church and still be a Catholic. What is worthy of satire is the misuse of religion for destructive or political gains. That’s totally different from the Word, the blood, the body and the Christ. His kingdom is not of this earth.

    I was raised in the same sort of family – and so were many, many, many Catholics.

  37. 37.

    wrb

    In addition to magic long-johns the BJ store should offer Tunch-brand pink combination beanie and cat-toy featuring a fluffy pink pom-pom should be offered by the BJ store.

    What is particularly great is that Just those two items make a complete outfit. If you see someone wearing long johns and a pink pom-pom beanie truckin’ in style along the avenue you’ll know it it is a Juicer.

    Then can duck into the nearest doorway.

    Dumdeedumdee doodley doo

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    A measure of the sad state of organized labor in this country: the NFL Players’ Association claims to be a “staunch opponent” of right-to-work laws, but theres still going to be a Super Bowl tomorrow.

  41. 41.

    GregB

    I get my colon exam at the Applebees salad bar.

    As to Colbert, he is our very own Mark Twain. A national treasure with a heart and a hell of an ability to create and stay in character.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    @R-Jud: We have too many of the opposite for my taste.

    OT: Went shopping the other day. My store has a British foods section. I know Microsoft imports talent from all over the world, but that was just stunningly amusing. THEY HAVE HEINZ BEANS!!

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    @AA+ Bonds:

    Exactly. You can tell non-Catholics that the USCCB doesn’t speak for a majority of the faithful until you’re blue in the face, and you get one of two answers: “why don’t you get rid of them” or “why don’t you leave.” The first is impossible (except by the passage of time) and the second is unthinkable.

  45. 45.

    AA+ Bonds

    @burnspbesq:

    I’d go so far as to say that the second is unethical. Catholics have a responsibility to the potential of the Church for social justice, and abandoning it to the social Darwinists and culture Nazis causes harm to the world, not the opposite.

  49. 49.

    burnspbesq

    @Amir Khalid:

    Speaking of binges, did you see what Arsenal did to Blackburn this morning (god, I hate lunchtime games, which start at 4:45 a.m. US Pacific time)? Young Mr. Oxlade-Chamberlain had himself quite the coming-out party.

  50. 50.

    Amir Khalid

    @burnspbesq:
    Oh yeah. It’s like the Gunners of old. Even Thierry Henry was back on the scoresheet today. The Blackburn fans have been wanting Steve Kean out for some time now, and today’s abject collapse won’t have helped save him.

  51. 51.

    R-Jud

    @Amir Khalid: I can’t be in the same room when my husband eats baked beans on toast. I can’t even clean the pan, or kiss him until after he’s brushed his teeth. I don’t know why this is.

  52. 52.

    Yutsano

    @R-Jud: I freely admit I did not inspect the section closely. I was just shocked that it was there. It did have some interesting tidbits though. I’ll check it out since I was planning on a quick trip tomorrow.

    @Comrade Mary: This is the first time I’ve ever seen them in the store. And it’s the traditional British black label too. Someone must be buying them, the shelf had a couple empty spaces. I’m kicking myself for not indulging!

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    @Amir Khalid:

    There’s a story on espn.com to the effect that Arsenal may ask Red Bulls to extend Henry’s loan. I’m of two minds about this. I think Juan Agudelo can benefit tremendously from being exposed to Henry’s professionalism on a daily basis, but so can Oxlade-Chamberlain and the rest of Arsenal’s kiddie corps. An odd sort of club vs. country conflict.

    ETA: Of course, in order for Agudelo to really benefit from Henry’s tutelage, Hans Backe has to actually play him once in a while. A polite phone call from Klinsmann is in order, I think.

  54. 54.

    burnspbesq

    Also too, I don’t buy the idea that Blackburn’s problems can all be laid at Kean’s feet. He didn’t screw up the Samba situation, or let Ryan Nelsen go on a free transfer.

  56. 56.

    kdaug

    @handsmile:

    Stephen Colbert is the finest, most fearless political satirist of my 50+ year lifetime.

    “I teach Sunday School, motherfucker.”

  58. 58.

    Amir Khalid

    @burnspbesq:
    True, but sacking the manager is the time-honored panic move in club football. And traditionally signaled a fortnight in advance, by the club chairman/owner declaring: “Manager X has my vote of confidence.”

  59. 59.

    Royston Vasey

    Over here in NZ we have NZBCF (New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation). From their website:-

    The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation is the country’s foremost breast cancer education and awareness organisation. It is a non-government funded charitable trust promoting awareness of breast cancer, providing information and education, and raising funds to support breast cancer related initiatives including research, scholarships, medical grants, community education and a breast cancer patient register.
    The Foundation was specifically established to educate all New Zealanders on the life-saving benefits of early detection and the importance of mammograms.

    Where does your money go?

    RV in NZ

  61. 61.

    delphi_ote

    @Brian R.: Colbert wasn’t cracking himself up. If you watch the video again, you can tell the writers actually got him. He starts laughing BEFORE he says the line. He reads it off the teleprompter, and it just kicks his ass.

    The writers on that show are damn good.

  62. 62.

    ruemara

    @gogol’s wife: If you are a real Christian, the false kind make you smiting bad and you have already figured out that everything you have on this earth is worthless, if you won’t do what is right.

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