Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

He really is that stupid.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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  5. 5.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    Reds beat the Braves again. With a walkoff homer in 9nth

    In other news, summer is here, and the heat. It’s a trick to stay cool without air conditioning. But I been doing it for a decade in the desert. And my bones don’t ache as much, so I ain’t complaining.

  6. 6.

    amk

    mittbot: “I know how to read a balance sheet.”

    Martin Bashir: “So does Bernie Madoff, but that doesn’t qualify him to be president”.

    Slam.

  12. 12.

    Alison

    Watching soccer, like a good America-hater.

    But it’s MLS! But it’s still soccer, aka CommieBall or whatever the wingers think of it.

    I would love it even if they didn’t hate it, but the fact that so many of them do is a bonus, for sure.

  14. 14.

    Joseph Nobles

    My current Netflix find is In Search Of Shakespeare: not a Leonard Nimoy thing, but a 2004 BBC 4-episode series that follows in Shakespeare’s footsteps throughout his life. It’s just lovely.

    Also catching Season 2 of Sherlock at the PBS website. It’s available for a couple of more weeks for streaming there.

    And then I just found this:

    usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2012-05-22/free-pizza-order-in-spanish/55143404/1

    Pizza Patrón, a 104-unit, carry-out pizza chain headquartered in Dallas, is raising eyebrows both inside and outside the Latino community with a planned promotion to give away thousands of large pepperoni pizzas on the evening of June 5 to folks who order in Spanish.
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    It can be broken Spanish. It can be first-time Spanish. But it has to be Spanish.
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    …One conservative group doesn’t like it, either. “It seems to punish people who can’t speak Spanish, and I resent that,” says Peter Thomas, chairman of the Conservative Caucus, which advocates English as the nation’s spoken language. “In public areas, people should be speaking English, and that includes pizza parlors.”
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    But Andrew Gamm, brand director at Pizza Patrón, says it’s all about creating a buzz within the brand’s target market: Hispanics. He says 70% of its customer base is Spanish-speaking. “It makes perfect sense for us,” Gamm says. “We’re trying to make our bond with the Hispanic community stronger.”

    If you are upset about a pizza chain promo giving away free pizza to people who speak Spanish, it is time to check with your doctor about Xanax.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Stuck in the Funhouse: I’m not sure where you are in the desert (if I ever even knew) but I’ve spent the past week in AZ and as of today NM. It has been HOT HOT HOT, and today was very windy (60 mph) with dustouts. However did people travel before air-conditioned cars?

    Spending the night in Albuquerque, might try to get to OKC by tomorrow. I need to go up to Tulsa for a quick trip to the Gilcrease Museum, to see a painting that’s haunted my memory for the past 17 years. Back home in Atlanta by Sunday, I think, although I’m technically on vacation until June 1st.

  16. 16.

    Joseph Nobles

    Oh, crap, my edit to my comment had the X word. Could I get it out of moderation, por favor?

  18. 18.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I’m in the southwest corner of New Mexico, where at 6000 feet elevation, we are a few degrees cooler than the less elevated AZ desert. Still hot though, and windy today as you say. From now till the first week of July, when the monsoon rainy season kicks in, is our hottest time of year. And every so often in some years similar heat to AZ. One thing I’m doing this summer, is pretty much block the sun completely from all windows and the passive solar heating that makes it even hotter. I like a lot of sunshine coming into the abode, but anything I can do to cool off, is top priority. Especially since I ain’t getting any younger. :)

  19. 19.

    patroclus

    I’ve been trying to read “History of the Great Sieges of Westeros” by Arch Maester Ch’vylathan, but it’s really poorly written and tough to get through…

  21. 21.

    Suffern ACE

    No matter how hard they try, the talking heads are not going to be able to turn Biden into Obama’s Palin.

  24. 24.

    Soonergrunt

    @Cris (without an H): Just let it out that Hawking is against some imaginary reading of the law that mclaren holds, and he’ll come running with a nine paragraph screed on what a blood thirsty bastard Hawking is.

  26. 26.

    Soonergrunt

    Just a thought,
    The only lasting effect of Hustler magazine doing a piece on S.E. Cupp is that the number of people who have heard of S.E. Cupp is now up in the tens of thousands.

    Also, George Tierny, Jr. of Greenville, South Carolina seems to have taken his twitter account down again. George, we hardly knew ye. Again.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    @Soonergrunt:

    The only lasting effect of Hustler magazine doing a piece on S.E. Cupp is that the number of people who have heard of S.E. Cupp is now up in the tens of thousands.

    Honestly, I never expected it to happen to me, but…

  30. 30.

    joes527

    Just a thought, The only lasting effect of Rush Limbaugbh doing a piece on Sandra Fluke is that the number of people who have heard of Sandra Fluke is now up in the millions.

  31. 31.

    Bnut

    I just watched “Extreme Cave Diving” on NOVA. As someone who’s a certified divemaster, and done my share of tech diving, those people are INSANE. Check it out on Netflix.

    Also, have an interview tomorrow with the Tennessee Democratic Party! Going dark grey suit, but can’t decide if a flat black tie is appropriate or not? Something with color? I’m not the most fashion conscious person around.

  34. 34.

    Soonergrunt

    @Bnut: If you’re going for an accountant/researcher/IT job, go with flat black. If you’re going for a Public Affairs-type position, go with red or blue.

  35. 35.

    Comrade Mary

    @Soonergrunt: There’s also the lasting effect of making women who are not S.E. Cupp, who have no respect for S.E. Cupp’s opinions, getting really, sincerely, goddamned angry at the misogynist shitmouths at Hustler.

  37. 37.

    Soonergrunt

    @Comrade Mary: I would have thought that was already the case.

    @Bnut: Go solid tie if the shirt is piped or pin-striped, if the shirt is solid, go with a tie that either has very thin lines breaking up the dominant field color or go with a solid tie. Job interview not the place for a brightly patterned or garish tie. You want to look well put together and professional, not like circus clown.

  39. 39.

    Suffern ACE

    @Bnut: Look at mark Zuckerbergs Wedding photos. And don’t do that. Actually having everything pressed is more important than the tie. But stripes or solid is fine. I was kidding about the flag pin.

  41. 41.

    Steeplejack

    @Suffern ACE:

    Make sure it’s an American flag. Not socialist or mooslim or anything like that. Wait, he said Democrat Party? Scratch that.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    @Bnut: Dark gray suits goes well with a primary colour tie like a sapphire blue or burgundy. Def something to make you stand out, but not too wild. Flat black on gray does NOT work.

    /fashionista

  45. 45.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: @Bnut: Apparently that’s been covered. I’ve never been a fan of striped shirts with suits. Dark gray suit, white shirt, and red or blue tie. If you’re feeling adventurous you can go for a kelly green tie.

  46. 46.

    Bnut

    @Yutsano: Def gonna be a white shirt. Leaning towards a dark grey slim tie with thin well spaced black and dark blue stripes. Mostly because I just moved and I can’t find my tie bag.

  47. 47.

    Soonergrunt

    But definitely wear the USMC tie clip (if allowed to do so). It says “stable, handles stress well, hard worker, competent”.
    All things you want to come across as.
    The clothing is more about that first 15 seconds than anything else. You want to look like the guy that the interviewer wants to see his/her kid sister bring to Sunday dinner. The interview itself is about the particulars, but as I said earlier, you want to look serious, professional, and competent, not like a circus clown.

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    @Bnut: It’ll work. It’s hard for me to judge without seeing the actual tie, but the blue might just inject enough colour to show you have a personality. You’ll wow them. :)

  50. 50.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @SiubhanDuinne: How did we travel without air-conditioned cars? My family did the National Lampoon Vacation in the 60s. We drove through the desert at night.

    I did a cross-country trip in the 70s in a Triumph TR-3. Screwed up, and went through the Mojave in mid-afternoon. Side curtains (windows) off, top up (so you don’t fry). Drank four quarts of water and didn’t pee once.

    And another gallon for the radiator that boiled over every time I stopped. F**king British.

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:

    And that was back when cars had those little triangular windows that actually opened. My brother used to joke about his car’s “6 by 60” air conditioner: six windows open and keep ’er at 60 mph.

  54. 54.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Bnut: Haven’t worn a white shirt since Jefferson Airplane sang “White shirt and tie, white shirt and tie, white shirt and tie, wedding ring.”

    Powder blue works just fine.

  56. 56.

    sharl

    @Clark Stooksbury, @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    Yup, Paul Fussell has passed away:

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Paul Fussell, an acclaimed literary scholar who won a National Book Award in 1976 for “The Great War and Modern Memory,” died Wednesday morning at age 88.
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    His stepson Cole Behringer said Fussell died of natural causes in a long-term care facility in Medford, Ore. Behringer said his mother and stepfather moved to southern Oregon two years ago from Rochester, N.Y.
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    …
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    Fussell enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II and was later awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
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    “At first it was rather fun,” he said in a 1997 PBS interview with David Gergen. “It was kind of athletic and lots of fun. It was fast, and amusing, and so forth, and then all of a sudden one realized what the infantry was for. It was for killing the maximum number of young men like you.”
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    His writings would be forever influenced by the horrors he witnessed.
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    “Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends,” Fussell wrote in “The Great War,” his study of World War I that ranked No. 75 on the Modern Library’s list of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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    “Great War and Modern Memory” used the work of English poets and authors to demonstrate how war is romanticized and idealized, turned into moral and religious parable, and what happens when the reality of war overwhelms the dream of it.

  57. 57.

    Nellcote

    @Bnut:

    I always wear my Marine Corps tie clip when I wear a suit. I know, I know….

    It might give you an edge, hiring vets is high on the Dem agenda.

  58. 58.

    redshirt

    Apparently, commercial fusion power is just X years away!

    Seriously, though, there’s no more important discovery we as a species could make then to learn how to harness fusion for energy production. It would change everything. We should be throwing everything we have it. Alas!

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