Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

So very ready.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

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

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

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

This fight is for everything.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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

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

Fight them, without becoming them!

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

“Alexa, change the president.”

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The National Guard is not Batman.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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How have I missed these guys all this time?

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Also too:  this vid puts me in mind of an old Journal of Irreproducible Results paper on the natural history and psychology of editors.  The one unifying characteristic:  all of them as children, had been whacked by a book. ;)

You may consider this a completely GOP genital-invasion free invitation to an open thread.*

*Though, on reflection, one may catch a whiff of big-swingingness in the sketch above.  Ah well.  One can run; one can’t hide.

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  4. 4.

    Schlemizel

    Wal-Mart just got their pee-pees slapped again. This time by a Mexican court for trying to pay workers in script redeemable ONLY at Wally World.

    These clowns really do want to pull us all back to the Pullman-Porter days of company towns & eternal debt to the corporate masters.

    reddit.com/tb/pxr6g

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    handsmile

    Of limited interest perhaps, but this will likely be the most fascinating story I’ll read all day: “Cormac McCarthy’s parallel career revealed-as a scientific copy editor.”

    Cormac McCarthy, arguably the greatest living American fiction writer (the argument extends to Roth, Morrison, maybe DeLillo) served as the copy editor of a recent biography of physicist Richard Feynman, Quantum Man. He also provided similar service on two books written for a general readership by Harvard physicist Lisa Randall.

    While known to some here I presume, McCarthy’s magnificent body of work includes Child of God, Outer Dark, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, The Road, and the supreme Blood Meridian.

    guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/21/cormac-mccarthy-scientific-copy-editor

  12. 12.

    Samara Morgan

    @handsmile: you got me!
    that is awesome. that is a whole new perspective on McCarthy for me.

    have you read Richard Morgan?
    my absolute fave, and totally prescient. i think good scifi is how we test drive the future before we get there.

  13. 13.

    East Coaster

    Mitchell & Webb also have their way with pseudo-science. Try the one with the homeopathic emergency room doctors.

  14. 14.

    Kiril

    I can’t believe it is between 600 and 750 days since The Event, and you haven’t seen the Quiz Broadcast!

    REMAIN INDOORS

  16. 16.

    El Cid

    Mitchell & Webb’s first 2 seasons of “That Mitchell & Webb Show” (the TV series) are fucking awesome. As is the run of “That Mitchell & Webb Sound”, the preceding radio series.

    Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit. Big Talk with Raymond Terrific. Get Me Hennimore’s “Go Home Day”. And so many more.

  18. 18.

    Tom Levenson

    @handsmile: An anecdote: Both Cormac McCarthy and I are generously acknowledged in Lisa Randall’s books. In the first one, at least in the hardcover edition, I was perturbed to find my name misspelled; not a tragedy of course, but still, a little deflating.

    I called Lisa on it (in good fun, of course) and she pointed out what I had not noticed: Cormack (sic!) McCarthy had suffered the same fate.

    Lisa had caught both errors in proofs, (and probably more besides, though I don’t know that for sure) but her publisher somehow failed to fix them. (Also — as copy editor, McCarthy would have worked off a manuscript, not the typeset galleys, so he wouldn’t have had a chance to catch such foofaraw.)

    Anyway, when I saw that surplus “k” I smiled. It is, no doubt, as close as I can hope to come to keeping literary company with Cormac McCarthy.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne

    @Tom Levenson:

    Lisa had caught both errors in proofs, (and probably more besides, though I don’t know that for sure) but her publisher somehow failed to fix them.

    That is way, way, way more common than you realize. It’s so frustrating to send corrected proofs to the editors, only to have them send “new” galleys that contain the exact same errors (plus bonus new ones!)

    And it’s even worse since almost everything gets printed overseas now. We had a non-English-reading printer “fix” the punctuation in one of our catalogs because he didn’t think it looked right.

  21. 21.

    scav

    @Mnemosyne: Ow ow ow. my firm was at least lucky in that our printers (early) knew the publication as well as we did and would pass back possible errors in real time. GSD I miss them.

  22. 22.

    John Weiss

    Perhaps off topic even for an open thread: do you know how challenging operating a computer with an affectionate cat?

  24. 24.

    lord karnage

    my favorite article from journal of irreproducible results: a mathematical proof that a stopped clock has less error (in aggregate over a 24 hour period) than a clock that is two minutes off. i got a bit lost in the differential equations that described the stopped clock’s error when the time was infinitesimally close to the actual time so i don’t think i can reproduce it but it became a chestnut around my office for years.

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    Warren Terra

    @El Cid:
    Slight correction: the radio series isn’t “preceding” in the sense of having been discontinued as they moved to TV, it’s continued as the TV series has. There have been four series of the radio show (2003-2009, 24 half-hour episodes) and four series of the TV show (2006-2010, 24 half-hour episodes).

    The two series often use more or less the same scripts as the radio series. I think some of the sketches (especially Sir Digby Chicken Caesar) work better on the radio.

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    @Warren Terra:

    I think some of the sketches (especially Sir Digby Chicken Caesar) work better on the radio.

    It seemed like the TV made them really realize the implications of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, because what they came up with was unexpectedly poignant.

    Comedy about hopeless alcoholics works better when you can’t see them, I guess.

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