Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

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

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

In my day, never was longer.

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

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

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Shut up, hissy kitty!

This fight is for everything.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Giving up is unforgivable.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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  3. 3.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Don’t get Showtime, and from the quick peek I took at the page for that show on their website, thank goodness for that.

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    suzanne

    For some reason, even mediocre comedians are so much more painful to listen to than mediocre musicians, or than watching a mediocre movie or TV show. So when the comedian is actively bad, it’s agonizing.

    Having said that, my husband is monopolizing the TV by playing the 389th round of Halo of the evening, so even bad TV sounds pretty good.

  8. 8.

    R Johnston

    It’s so bad I’m tempted to make a #douchebag tag for this website

    Douchbages are a fact of life and have been both here and in your midst forever.

  9. 9.

    freelancer

    I got Deadwood on DVD for my birthday so I started that. Good so far. This guy Timothy Olyphant is pretty talented. I bet he’s gonna have his own show one day.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    So did a) Obama cause the Secret Squirrels to fuck up so bad they got sent home or b) they didn’t fuck up at all and are being persecuted by the muslin in chief?

  13. 13.

    Calouste

    Man Class? That’s where Chuck Norris went for a refresher course after he heard about Corey B00ker?

  14. 14.

    Jewish Steel

    @MikeJ: I think you need to channel some Norman Mailer, Savage-Negro-made-’em-do-it action to take this RW meme to where it needs to be.

    @Hill Dweller: When I finish that 5th season of the Wire I’m gonna burn my TV.

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    This morning I got in the car to go to work and the college radio station was playing Tom Waits’ “Downtown Train” followed by the Roots’ “Make My.” I found out that the two assistants I requested have been approved; I even got the two specific people I asked for. Finally, my office got moved to the other side of the building and I now have a window with a Capitol view. It was a good day.

  21. 21.

    Jewish Steel

    @eemom: You’re damn right, cuz I’m killin’ it on some older threads. But how folks gonna know? Shame.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Honeymoon in Madison for us! That’s your turf, yes? Any recommendations?

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jewish Steel: Rightio. Drinks on the Terrace at Memorial Union are always fun. Nice terrace on Lake Mendota. Genna’s or Maduro near the Square. One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpieces, the First Unitarian Church, is near the University Hospital. How long will you be in the area? FLW’s Taliesen summer home is a half hour or so west of town. Several good music clubs. Shit, man, it’s a liberal college town. There will be stuff for you.

    ETA: Someone should be staging a protest for or against something. I can look at who is playing in some of the clubs and let you know if you want.

  26. 26.

    Jewish Steel

    @Omnes Omnibus: Two or three days at least. We’re going to play it by ear. If we’re having fun we’ll stick around. Definitely hit the FLW as my betrothed is a big arts and crafts/prairie/mission fan.

    This is awesome. I am copying this to my bride. Thanks!

    ETA: Yes, do let us know!

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jewish Steel: The Unitarian Church is a don’t miss. Just outside of downtown. It fits in to the landscape almost unnoticed until you start to look at it and then, damn.

    Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. Congratulations.

  28. 28.

    Carolinus

    Is it just me or have some of the CNN folks been the most insufferable during this whole ‘Rosengate’ idiocy?

    They took up the Bay Buchanan / Peggy Noonan talking point about how horribly disloyal the White House was being to poor Rosen and ran with it. When interviewing Stephanie Cutter, Axelrod, Plouffe, etc, the question from John King or Wolf Blitzer is always, “How could you!? How could you throw her under the bus?”

    Axelrod almost responded brilliantly by saying she was “CNN’s employee not ours”. He just needed to take it a bit further with something like, “If you take such offense at what’s happening to your coworker, how about you stop covering this rightwing-manufactured BS story and actually cover something of consequence. You’re the gatekeepers — stop giving it oxygen and it will go away.”

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    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: Have you been out to Taliesin West in Scottsdale? One of my favorite places on Earth. I’ve never been out to Spring Green, but someday….

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jewish Steel: You and she are welcome.

    @suzanne: I haven’t been to AZ since I was 4/5 in 1969 and, the way things are going out in your neck of the “wood” lately, I don’t see the state being graced with my presence soon.

    Spring Green is lovely.

    Or the TL;DR version: No, I haven’t.

  34. 34.

    Jewish Steel

    @Omnes Omnibus: I have been contenting myself with making notional setlists for the cover band I won’t let myself start rehearsing for until I get some classical guitar stuff down. They’re not a million miles away from Elizabelle’s post in temperament, so maybe I’m on the right track.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jewish Steel: I listened to this version of the Sam Cooke. Fuck. I have it on vinyl. Just fucking amazing. I find it interesting that I love the day drinking soundtrack and the soundtrack from Trainspotting. I have the music taste of a moral degenerate. Oh, I am pretty sure Vivaldi was into BDSM.

    @suzanne: I am a pale northern creature and I wilt in the heat.

  37. 37.

    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: I am also pale and spend all summer inside, in a bad mood, praying for deliverance. Come in December sometime, though. It’s pretty fuckin’ rad. The snowbirds are on to something.

  38. 38.

    Jewish Steel

    @Omnes Omnibus: Damn, where’ve gotta sign to get a voice like that?

    the courts ruled that Cooke was drunk and distressed, and that the manager had killed Cooke in what was later ruled a justifiable homicide. Since that time, the circumstances of his death have been widely questioned.

    ca plus change

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @suzanne: My dear, winter is for skiing. The southwest is not for me. My brother and his family did just go out there over spring break. They had a great time.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jewish Steel: My mother has said that her Crossroads moment would be for Joan Baez’s voice. Mine would be for Sam Cooke’s voice on that. It is perfect.

  42. 42.

    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well, your loss. The politics may suck, but the architecture is great. And the sky is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. Pablo Soleri built an arcology about halfway between Phoenix and Flagstaff. So cool.

    In case you didn’t realize, I’m trying to remind myself why I live here more than I’m attempting to convince you. There are times I need reminding.

    However, between Casey Anthony, George Zimmerman, and Marco Rubio, I think Florida has surpassed us in the States That Suck Sweepstakes.

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    Jewish Steel

    @suzanne: I moved to Phoenix in 1976 as a kid but I can still remember just standing in the hotel parking lot and gawking at the crazy blue of the sky.

  47. 47.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jewish Steel: As opposed to Sam Cooke’s? Dude, please. Or are you suggesting that a Duran Duran voice is the best deal for which you could hope? You don’t seem that appalling. Have you been strangling puppies recently?

  48. 48.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @piratedan: It is a starter list for bartender rock. At my first legal job I was taught this phrase: including, but not limited to. I believe it applies here.

  50. 50.

    Jewish Steel

    @Omnes Omnibus: Nah, you got me. I’m trying to play myself off as a bigger reprobate than I ever had the energy to be. I could probably swing Toots Hibbert’s voice if I sweetened the deal somehow. Double damnation for two eternities maybe? That’s for the suits to figure out. I’ve got croonin’ to do.

  51. 51.

    Yutsano

    @suzanne: Last time I was in the Valley of the Sun was for my friend Amanda’s wedding (which made me extremely happy that she found someone and there will be a murder if she gets hurt) and I keep thinking I need to get back down there. Even with all the crazy. If not for the government I could honestly live in Phoenix if I had to.

  58. 58.

    piratedan

    @Omnes Omnibus: my apologies, but I did state that it was from an anime and I did state that I am musically all over da place tonight. I’m sitting up late in a hotel room missing family, exhausted, can’t sleep and I’m rambling… follow my links at your peril. Guess I should have chimed in when I was working thru Wilbert Harrison and Buddy Holly earlier.

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    Double-DVR’ing Juno and One False Move, so the TV is occupado–unless I want to watch something else on the DVR. But nothing live.

    That comedian doesn’t sound too appetizing anyway.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack

    Now I’m jonesin’ for the “recent comments” list. Is this blog on?

    Listening to “Distant Sun” by Crowded House. I was looking for the Felice Brothers’ version and found this instead. Weird that I can’t find the Felice one at all, except for a one-minute live snippet. Didn’t think it was that obscure.

    . . . Spiraling down into a maudlin YouTube music wallow. BoDeans, “Good Things.”

  68. 68.

    Death Panel Truck

    Isn’t Bryan Callen one of the has-beens on “The Smoking Gun Presents” World’s Dumbest” along with other A+ list celebs like Tanya Harding, Todd Bridges and Danny Bonaduce?

  70. 70.

    gaz

    @Steeplejack: Yes. it is good.

    I’ve got it on divx. But Walton Goggins > Timothy Olyphant, IMNSHO.

    The character, Boyd Crowder is pretty much why I watch that show. (No commercials for me of course, I’m not ashamed to pirate TV shows)

  71. 71.

    Jacquie

    Oooh, not to Jezebel the thread or anything, but pro-tip, John: “partial birth abortion” is Evil Republican Framing Language. “Late term abortion”=more medically accurate+less inflammatory.

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