Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

You cannot shame the shameless.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

T R E 4 5 O N

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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

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  2. 2.

    David Koch

    Romney leads 43-38 among Republicans in Michigan. But Dems going for Santorum 47-10. Nate Silver is projecting a tie (no joke). PPP has Santorum up 5 in Monday polling.

    Mittageddon is upon us.

  5. 5.

    kdaug

    It appears that my recent compulsion for eating unshelled sunflower seeds (David’s!) at the desk while I work has 1.) made my nails incredibly shiny, and 2.) erased all semblance of fingerprints from my left thumb and forefinger.

    That is all.

    Over.

  7. 7.

    gogol's wife

    @kdaug:

    Do it the Russian way, crack them on one side of your mouth and transfer them to the other side while you spit out the shell.

    ETA I wuv Max.

  10. 10.

    Suffern ACE

    @freelancer: Wingnuts are also going insane over the implementation of shariah in Pennsylvania. Actually making a hero of an atheist. I haven’t found a source yet outside the noise machine so I’m not linking.

  11. 11.

    kdaug

    @Warren Terra:

    Vary your digit selection, and then your crime wave can commence!

    Yeah, but I’d have to do all my crimes with my left hand – I need the right hand for the mouse.

    @gogol’s wife:

    Do it the Russian way, crack them on one side of your mouth and transfer them to the other side while you spit out the shell.

    Tried it, but ended up with sunflower seed shells scattered all over the desk. Turns out I’m a lousy spitter.

  12. 12.

    S. cerevisiae

    Colbert just did a hilarious bit skewering the 70 commercial tie-ins for the new Lorax movie. He ended it with some Seussian poetry that was inspired. Dr. Seuss is rolling in his grave when you have the Lorax shilling for SUV’s.

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    Ugh. Desperation is leading me to attempt the neti pot again tonight, despite some notable failures in the past. I got over my squeamishness and watched a WebMD video, so hopefully I’ll get the angle right this time.

    (How does one fail with the neti pot, you might ask? Having the water somehow flow into my ear instead of back out the other nostril was probably the most impressive one. Still don’t know how I managed it.)

  15. 15.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    @Mnemosyne:

    flow into my ear

    Sounds like a eustachian tube problem. If you are trying to break up a wad of congestion in the nasal cavity, an ENT gave me a fairly good remedy for doing so. I use it two or three times a day, and it works. Being make your own nasal spray using an empty sprayer, like Ocean Spray, and putting in a few drops of white vinegar and a dash or two of salt, and adding distilled water to fill the rest. You will have to adjust the amounts of salt and vinegar to where it is as strong as you can take it, to where the burning sensation is not too much. Spray it in, and keep the head tilted back to let it work.

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    @General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero):

    I got half my nose neti-ed, now I’m waiting for the rest of the water to cool off in the fridge so I don’t get brain amoebas. I may give the vinegar-and-salt thing a try tomorrow night — thanks!

    I was doing okay with the flu thing and starting to recover, and then I seem to have gotten slammed with allergies in the middle of it, because my nose started running yesterday and won’t stop (though at least the Zyrtec-D eventually slowed it down). Very annoying.

  19. 19.

    Karen

    Am I the only one who feels negatively towards a singer or celebrity if I find out they’re either ultra conservative or support ultra conservatives? I used to like Kelly Clarkson until she tweeted about how she loved Ron Paul. Then I find out today that Kid Rock is a fan of Mitt Romney. I know it’s probably better if I don’t mix my politics with my celebrities but I can’t help it. In fact, I try no to judge Republicans I know but I don’t think I can do that anymore. I’m going to Passover Seder in April with people who are anti-Obama and although I love my family (my father’s side) I may have to be excused from the table and play with my iphone…

  22. 22.

    Joel

    Apropos of nothing, I’ve been looking at buying an elliptical and came across this little blurb about John Aglialoro’s company, Cybex:

    Last week, premium exercise equipment manufacturer Cybex International agreed to pay $19.5m to a Cheektowaga woman, who was injured by a piece of Cybex equipment when she improperly used a leg machine to stretch her shoulder in October 2004. The settlement was reduced from the $66m originally awarded in the case, considered by many to be a record in Western New York personal injury cases. The settlement is also down from the $44m awarded by the appellate division in November 2011. But even the $44m was expected by many analysts to bankrupt Cybex, which had $4m in liability insurance.

    Aglialoro, you might remember, was the wignnut who funded “Atlas Shrugged”.

    P.S. In case you’re wondering about the loaded wording of that quote, it’s from some wingnut tort reform blog. I found it delicious all the same. Perhaps even more so, given that it’s being blared from the wingnut mouth.

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