Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

The revolution will be supervised.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Infrastructure week. at last.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    Daisy might be one of the few dogs in America who were not in a Super Bowl ad last night.

    Dogs ruled.

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    Is Daisy a member of dogsagainstromney.com? That picture would be very welcome over there, as would Daisy herself.

  7. 7.

    Violet

    @JPL:
    Cue wingnut heads exploding. Businesses have figured out that it’s an easy win for them to do something like this. Makes them seem cutting edge and pretty much everyone except reactionaries agrees it’s the right thing to do. But good for him for doing it.

  11. 11.

    Violet

    @Elizabelle:
    The Tostitos commercial with the dog bribing the owner with the bag of chips was my favorite dog commercial. That one still cracks me up.

  12. 12.

    gnomedad

    @JPL:
    Yow, check out some of the comments. But it’s YouTube, so I guess it’s hardly worth pointing out.

  14. 14.

    Violet

    @Violet:
    Okay, I think Doritos is going to be mad at me, since it was Doritos who made the commercial and not Tostitos. I guess since there’s a Tostitos bag on the desk I mixed them up.

  15. 15.

    JPL

    @Raven: I didn’t like the Doritos ad. I still want to know where is the cat????? Did they use the cat to season the Doritos?

  20. 20.

    Libby

    @JPL: One lives in hope. And thanks for the Blankfein vid. Admit I’m always a little suspicious when these guys do something good. Wonder if there’s an ulterior motive I’m not immediately seeing. But taking it at face value for the moment and glad for the sanity in unexpected places.

  21. 21.

    Redshift

    @Libby: That would be good, but I don’t think that toothpaste is going back in the tube. Everyone now has their list of five or six other wingnutty things Komen got away with quietly, and firing Handel just confirms that despite their implausible series of inconsistent stories, it was all political after all.

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    @burnspbesq:

    Loved Wego, and decided the Tostitos dog was OK.

    The dog commercials were memorable. You can recall the products.

    Vs. the kid peeing in the pool.

    And the vampires and the daylight headlights? Brilliance.

  25. 25.

    Elizabelle

    @Violet:

    You remembered chips. That’s good.

    At first, I didn’t like the dog on cat violence. But decided that commercial was way better than the kid in a sling.

  27. 27.

    khead

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I have not wanted to step on the owner’s toes by calling her “Tunchette” here, but I have used that term at home before and that would probably be the best way to describe her to the BJ crowd.

  28. 28.

    khead

    Also, I wanted to say thank you to any and everyone who has had a nice thing to say about our kittehs.

    All our kittehs were stray kittehs.

  29. 29.

    Redshift

    @Elizabelle: Yeah, the vampire one was my favorite, and it hardly got mentioned by the people I was hanging out online with, who bizarrely thought the M&Ms ad was the best of the first quarter. But then, I didn’t get what everyone saw in the Darth Vader kid ad last year. If that was the best Super Bowl ad, it just showed that it was a really weak year.

  30. 30.

    Dave Trowbridge

    I trust that Daisy, although inside the car, is nonetheless crated. Putting a dog crate on top of the car (Romney’s weirdness goes a lot deeper than that) is only a bit more wacky that having an unrestrained dog inside the car, IMO. My dog survived a bad accident because he was crated; I don’t want to think about what would have happened to him otherwise. (He was completely unharmed, I wasn’t.)

  31. 31.

    Josie

    @Raven: I’m not sure what Mr. Quiggly is, but I don’t think he is a pug. Pugs’ ears hang down instead of sticking up erect. I learned that from keeping my grandpuppy this year.

  33. 33.

    Maude

    The US isn’t joining the venture to Mars with Europe. I guess Newtie will have to run for president of Europe now.
    Newtie dropped his case about the ballot in Virginia.
    If you are reading this, Hello AWSP and the lovely Lady Smudge.
    I miss Ash Can.

  34. 34.

    Libby

    @JPL: Actually not a big fan of the school of pissing off both sides. But mostly applies to the media I guess. Like to think he did it because he really believes in equal rights and as a business decision, it certainly makes sense.

  35. 35.

    bemused

    @Redshift:

    I just ran into a friend today who hadn’t heard even one word about the Komen scandal yet until the subject of breast cancer came up. She doesn’t watch any tv and must not listen to much radio either. We and another person were talking about those plastic bracelets people wear to support a multitude of causes. One said her two teenage sons came home wearing “I heart boobies” bracelets, evidently a cause that any teenage boy can support, heh.

    Anyway, I proceeded to explain the whole Komen story to her from step one which felt surreal considering how all media was on it. I’m afraid that too many people know the story up to the Friday “apology” and now assume Komen has redeemed themselves.

  36. 36.

    JPL

    @Dave Trowbridge: That’s a good point. I witnessed an accident where a dog was not restrained. It doesn’t need to be a crate though but they should have some type of leash. imo

  37. 37.

    WereBear

    @Elizabelle: The thing was: people only laughed because it was funny enough… but it could have been so much funnier!

    Imagine the cat & the Great Dane switching places… now that is funny.

  39. 39.

    Brachiator

    @scav:

    Daniel Radcliff’s had a fair bit to say politically (and socially) and he doesn’t limit himself to the UK whatsoever.

    Interesting how the Lib Dems and Labour, who should have been allies, instead fought each other. The Lib Dems got into the coalition with the Conservatives, but find that their “victory” in getting to be part of the government is hollow, and is losing them support among voters.

    And yet, some Murikins think a parliamentary system would be peachy keen for the US.

    @Elizabelle:

    And the vampires and the daylight headlights? Brilliance.

    This morning, I had to stop and think what it was that the vampire ad was pitching. Headlights? For what car? And would someone really buy it just for the headlights?

    Aside from the geek love of the Best Buy ad, and the Clint Eastwood spot, I wasn’t very impressed by any of the ads.

    And just putting a dog (or any other animal or a cute kid) in an had doesn’t do it for me.

  40. 40.

    cckids

    @Josie:

    I’m not sure what Mr. Quiggly is, but I don’t think he is a pug.

    I think he’s a French bulldog. (thank you Martha Stewart)

  41. 41.

    scav

    @Brachiator: Really, only major difference is if you cave to be part of a ruling coalition before the primaries or after the election. Everybody compromises their principles to get into power. I’m assuming you’re going on about a multi-party system instead of that appendix of the Hours of Lords.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    @cckids:

    We rented a beach house last year owned by folks with two of them (French bulldogs). I called them the fuzzy jellybeans and they were full of the devil. One snuck into our living quarters where he and our Dalmatian turned the joint into a racetrack. It was darn funny but the whole time I’m dreading damage to the million-buck house or our dog taking a bite out of the li’l critter. I needn’t have worried because he was way more manuverable.

  44. 44.

    Brachiator

    @scav:

    Really, only major difference is if you cave to be part of a ruling coalition before the primaries or after the election. Everybody compromises their principles to get into power.

    The Lib Dems got to be a part of the government, but have no power. Their compromise of principles got them absolutely nothing.

    Clegg is Deputy Prime Minister. That is worth even less than a pitcher of warm spit, as was once said of the US vice presidency.

  46. 46.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Pete Hoekstra wants you liberals to stop being so mean:

    Kelly then asked Hoekstra, did he feel hurt or unfairly targeted by the accusations of promoting racial stereotypes?
    “Well, it hurts — we expected it, as Lou Dobbs mentioned earlier,” he replied. “There’s nothing in here that has a racial tint at all,”

    It hurts, and they expected it. That’s the fucking gob-stopper right there. “You think people will think this is racist? -Oh, just those humorless uptight liberals in their faculty lounges.”
    Hoekstra was actually celebrating the Chinese educational system.

    “Well It’s not a stereotype at all. This is a — you know, through the creative — this is a young woman in China who is speaking English. That’s quite an achievement,” said Hoekstra.

  47. 47.

    Egg Berry

    Wasn’t Hoekstra the guy who compared something in congress with the holocaust? Talk about tone deaf.

  50. 50.

    Elizabelle

    @WereBear:

    That woulda been classic.

    Watching “Foreign Correspondent” on Turner Classic Movies.

    Hitchcock. Run-up to WWII. Never seen it.

  52. 52.

    Mnemosyne

    @Elizabelle:

    Well, run-up to the US involvement in WWII. There’s a reason British expatriate director Alfred Hitchcock was interested in making a movie about how evil the Nazis were. According to IMDb, the big finale with the Germans bombing London was filmed a few days before the real-life bombing of London began.

  53. 53.

    jackmac

    Our dog is also named Daisy and she always rides INSIDE the car. And, yes, we proudly support dogsagainstromney.com

  55. 55.

    scav

    @Brachiator: They hoped for more. Doesn’t mean they went about it the right way. I’m sure there are some here who would make similar arguments about how much the hard-liberals have benefited from Dem administrations (and some on the hard-evangelicals about the delivery of past Repub admins). One bad coalition doesn’t rule out an entire political system in principle, come on.

  56. 56.

    slightly-peeved

    @39: Criticizing the British parliamentary system based on the current situation, a situation which is unprecedented in British parliament, is quite unfair. That being said, American people who prefer parliamentary systems because power is distributed more widely have things exactly backwards; the advantage of parliamentary systems and the problem with the US system is that parliamentary systems concentrate power in the Prime Minister. The problems with the US system is that a minority can shut down government in the knowledge that the majority will take the blame.

  57. 57.

    slightly-peeved

    Sorry to double post, but I think that the whole Lib Dem thing is an example of the Parliamentary system working, if it plays out as I expect:
    1. Tories and Lib Dems form coalition
    2. Lib Dems get rolled by Tories, get nothing
    3. Voters decide Lib Dems are useless, vote them out.
    That doesn’t strike me as a failure of the system, so much as a failure of the Lib Dems to act in accordance to the desires of their constituents.

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

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    But it wouldn’t let me publish because I don’t use Facebook and couldn’t find where to create an about.com login, which was the other alternative. :-(

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