Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How stupid are these people?

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

This really is a full service blog.

The revolution will be supervised.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Happy May Day!

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… aka Beltane, or Walpurgisnacht, the festival to mark the start of the bright half of the year. To our agricultural ancestors, it meant the beginning of six months of hard work to ensure that the year-end festival at the beginning of November would celebrate prosperity, or at least the chance of making it through the dark winter. And if that sounds somehow political, well, we humans are a political species…

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  1. 1.

    Xenos

    kalo protomagia!

    May day in Greece is a holiday of flowers – you make wreaths of dandelions and other wildflowers, and fly kites. It is to celebrate the return of Persophone to her mother Demeter, and the six months of warmth to keep the world alive for another year.

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    WJS

    May Day in Germany means get drunk–you have a day off!

    Despite the fact that we had rain, thunder and lightning last night, pretty much all of our neighbors got drunk and celebrated May Day. And the German kids did their American counterparts proud by TP’ing the town. One thing they don’t get in America is how useful it is to have a wagon for all the beer.

    Here in Germany, you’re nobody if you can’t pull a wagon full of beer around behind you when you’re celebrating (insert random holiday on which to get drunk).

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    c u n d gulag

    How long before some troll comes here and says:

    “Comrades!
    ARISE!
    It is ‘International Workers Day!’
    Time for you Libtards to drink the blood of little Christian children!”

    Back to reality:
    Happy May Day, everyone!

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    JPL

    Growing up Catholic meant making paper flowers for Mary. I used to love those flowers made out of tissues. Today’s celebration might involve cutting a few calla lillies and putting them in a vase to brighten my home.

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    JGabriel

    Question: Orson Scott Card, Orson Bean, is there anyone named Orson who isn’t right wing freak?

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    moonbat

    I don’t know if this is an Okie only manifestation of May Day but we used to make paper cones with handles, fill them with flowers, leave them at someone’s door that we liked, ring the bell and run away. Being Okies, we usually swiped the flowers from someone else’s garden if I remember correctly

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    c u n d gulag

    @JGabriel:
    Well, there’s Orson Welles – but he’s dead.

    And he drank no wine, before it was time.
    IT’S TIME!

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    JGabriel

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    Linda Featheringill:

    Haymarket Square, Chicago, 1886.
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    Nasty business.

    Yep. Link for those unfamiliar with the Haymarket Affair.

    I think of it as America’s Tiananmen Square, because, in the same way the Chinese don’t remember Tiananmen, the world is taught about Haymarket Square while Americans have, well, suppressed it.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @amk: I would say that the campaign season has started. [Insert deity of choice or not] help us all.

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    Schlemizel

    @c u n d gulag:
    I’m up for that! Been a while since the last Christian child blood drinking. The renewed vigor would do us all some good.

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    Amir Khalid

    I have already seen The Avengers. You should too. Transformers-class big and loud, but genius smart rather than Transformers-class obnoxious and stupid.

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    Neddie Jingo

    Can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet….

    Hooray! Hooray!
    The First of May!
    Outdoor fucking begins today!

    What with the Beltane/Walpurgisnacht connection, it seems only appropriate to mention this — and encourage it….

    Grab a blanket, a bottle of plonk, and your preferred squeeze, head on out to a discreet woodgrove or pasture, and celebrate the Dignity of Labor!

    (Perhaps it goes without saying, but bring some rubber thingies, or you might wind up in a completely different sort of Labor…)

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    Hujo

    Happy May Day!

    Osama is still dead, and Jessica Simpson is still pregnant. And Mitt Romney is still a jerk (but a white one, which will earn him some votes).

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    Hungry Joe

    I’m going to out myself here: Today Simon & Schuster is publishing “Anyway*”, a middle-grade novel — my first book. On Scalzi’s “Whatever” site he has a feature called The Big Idea, in which an author writes a short essay about his new book. Well, Scalzi, an old friend from wayback, spotlights my book in today’s Big Idea.

    (The book’s subtitle: *A Story About Me with 138 Footnotes, 27 Exaggerations, and 1 Plate of Spaghetti.)

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    Hujo

    @Hujo:

    Osama is still dead, and Jessica Simpson is still pregnant. And Mitt Romney is still a jerk (but a white one, which will earn him some votes).

    Jessica Simpson is no longer pregnant–life goes on

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