Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

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

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

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

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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  1. 1.

    the fugitive uterus

    I do not want an echidna on my pants!

    good morning!

    also, I do not approve of the exploitation of monotremes in general! where will it end??

  4. 4.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @NotMax: 2 weeks after moving down under I watched a huntsman car surf at 80km/h for 25 minutes. In the end the driver pulled over and used a stick to chivvy it off the window. impressive feat. also, ICK.

  5. 5.

    the fugitive uterus

    Mitt says, “what if the federal gov’t was the sole supplier of cell phones?” blah, blah, blah – Apps Czar – blah, blah, blah

  6. 6.

    MikeJ

    BBC is showing Pat Robertson’s BFF testifying at Den Haag right now. Charles Taylor says that since he apologized to the Liberian people they should let bygones be bygones.

  8. 8.

    Schlemizel

    echidna because eh like na
    .
    I realize its early so translation for those foolish enough to read BJ before coffee
    I kid na because I like na

  9. 9.

    the fugitive uterus

    Great news from Kristine on another thread! Those angels, Thymzone and Rome Again, will be taking IrishGirl’s kitty!

    YAAAAAAAAY! happy times!

    everyone tell them how effing awesome they are!

  10. 10.

    the fugitive uterus

    really, is that all republicans can do is whine, cry, masturbate, complain and lie?

    to quote Patsy Stone. “Oh for God’s sake, just go ahead and die!”

  13. 13.

    Joseph Nobles

    Just found out Tim Minchin is going to be playing Judas in the new London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    IT’Z A BEBEH ECHIDNA!!

    I think the platypus has better marketers is what it is hon.

    And FYWP, I wasn’t done with my comment yet.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yutsano: Shouldn’t you be surgerizing?

    Also too, venomous and duck-billed > ant-eating and toothless. Just saying.

  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @the fugitive uterus:

    For one thing, we’d have one standard that would allow people to switch networks without changing hardware, much to the disgust of the CEOs of the various wireless services, as it would cut into their hookers and booze slush funds.

  23. 23.

    Linda Featheringill

    For those who have old people they care about:

    I found a medical description of dementia.

    If you forget something, even if you have difficulty findings words, but remember it a few minutes later, you’re forgetful. Your brain failed to find the desired item on its first search.

    The brain of someone with dementia might also fail to find the target on the first try. But the demented brain doesn’t conduct repeated searches, doesn’t continue looking. It just drops the whole search and goes off to think about something else. Tra-la-la.

    You’re welcome.

    Your forgetful commenter. :-)

  24. 24.

    Suffern ACE

    @the fugitive uterus: I’d assume that the rules would be written such that only heterosexual phone calls would count as in-network and every call by an inner-city black youth would somehow be a roaming call.

  25. 25.

    dmsilev

    Oh my.

    “Dreams From My Real Father,” a 97-minute film narrated by an Obama impersonator, weaves the narrative that Obama’s grandfather wasn’t a furniture salesman but an undercover CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry his teenage daughter to hide the fact that she was impregnated by a 55-year-old communist named Frank Marshall Davis.

    (via)

  27. 27.

    Linda Featheringill

    @dmsilev:

    “Dreams . . . ”

    That is just too funny.

    Aside from the sheer fantasy of it all, why do they care who his daddy was? Political opinions are not genetically encoded, are they?

    But of course you don’t care about genetics if you think that all science is suspect.

  29. 29.

    handsmile

    @MattF: (#20)

    Oh my, Krgthulu brutally shaves the Moustache in that post; thanks for the link! It’s so good as to be un-excerptable: each and every sentence is lethal.

    He seems to take an especial delight in defenestrating his fellow NYT op-ed columnists. Chunky BoBo must be grateful that he is simply beneath Krugman’s pitiless gaze.

    The wingnut hive has quickly infested the comments section there. General Stuck appears as well however to fight the good fight.

    As long as Krugman continues to write such pieces, he refutes Yeats’ in “The Second Coming” that “the best lack all conviction.” He battles valiantly against the “rough beast.”

  31. 31.

    canuckistani

    You can’t call them forgotten when they get a mention in the They Might be Giants song “Mammal”.

  33. 33.

    Nutella

    I don’t remember seeing this about Sully when it happened in 2009. Nice to have friends in high places.

    I like how indignant the federal prosecutor got when the judge called out their corruption. The nerve of that judge to even mention equality before the law!

    via @nignog63

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @dmsilev:

    I’m not sure the birthers have thought this through since right now, the only halfway viable claim they have is that the problem with the president’s citizenship is that his father was not an American citizen. If they’re now saying that his real father was an American citizen, then he’s 100% American and they just wasted 4 years screaming about his birth certificate.

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