Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

The revolution will be supervised.

People are complicated. Love is not.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Brett Kimberlin is still at large, causing Michelle Malkin to give birth to five litters of kittens over the past 24 hours.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    Sent you a link earlier about Buddy, Buddy. Will not continue to stalk you about it.

    Watched Super 8 tonight; hadn’t seen it before. It was pretty good, and, damn, Elle Fanning is a good up-and-coming actor.

  7. 7.

    John Cole

    @Corner Stone: Was this the DWS thread, where a figure of speech gave her the vapors?

    If history is any guide, if enough people refute her babble, she’ll disappear for a few days, then come back to tell me I am horrible person on about the 29th.

  10. 10.

    Donald G

    Sorry to derail so early, but now Patterico claims it wasn’t a SWAT team that showed up at his door.

    http://patterico.com/2012/05/26/what-a-day-friday-was/

    Writes Assistant District Attorney J. Patrick Frey:

    I’d like to correct one thing that I wish I had corrected in that interview. It was not technically a SWAT team at my front door, but rather several uniformed sheriff’s deputies. Nobody was in body armor; they had no battering ram; they had no rifles that I saw — none of the accoutrements of the typical SWAT raid. My memory is seeing several patrol deputies with handguns. They knocked on my door within 18-19 minutes of the call, and my house is in a remote area, so they evidently just sent whoever was on patrol when the call came out.

    How many days until he shows up on one of the friendly rightwing outlets flogging his tale of unbalanced liberal atrocities against him with a backwards BK scrawled on his cheek with a Sharpie marker?

  11. 11.

    EvolutionaryDesign

    Heading out for birthday shennainigans downtown. Then probably coming back and drunkenly playind Max Payne 3

  12. 12.

    Polish the Guillotines

    Just got back from a bbq. What is going on here?

    Well, Nuke’s scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man’s here. We need a live… is it a live rooster? We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose’s glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.

  13. 13.

    MikeJ

    @Donald G: Who said what now? Some nutjob makes a pronouncement that his previous unhinged announcement was less than factual and I’m supposed to pay it any more attention than I would the ravings of any other lunatic mind?

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    @John Cole:

    You can do a quick Google by brand/model. Divulge, and I’ll do it for you. Also, your computer DVD drives should be able to handle it, with the software mentioned.

  15. 15.

    Corner Stone

    @Donald G: That whole scene by Patterico left me wondering what the hell. I read through it at least mumble mumble times and it was just jibber jabber.

  17. 17.

    schrodinger's cat

    Made a vegetarian dinner tonight. Black Chick pea salad, Yogurt cheese with dill, olive oil and garlic, grilled corn on the cob and grilled summer squash, grilled flat bread, gin and lime to drink and for dessert, strawberries with cream.

  18. 18.

    Alison

    Watched the USMNT kick some Scottish arse. I doubt the scoreline will be similar against Brazil on Wednesday BUT if they play as well as they did today, we should at least have a respectable showing :)

    Feeling a mite better tonight than last night, which is all I can ask for. Now just to decide between a couple of movies, or more reading…hmmm…

  19. 19.

    Donald G

    Re: Patterico: Forget I said anything. The original account linked here yesterday specified sheriff’s deputies, but with the commentary over the past day, people (including me) had gotten the impression it was SWAT. Nevermind.

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: What’s funny is on the pedant scale here you’re one of the more mild scolds. That’s a positive statement just in case of ambiguity.

    At one point today I had two border collies snoozing away on my bed. There was no way in Hades I was gonna disturb that blissful moment. And they had a good hour long nap. And lots of scritches.

  23. 23.

    freelancer

    @John Cole:

    How do I know if my Bluray supports PAL format?

    Was your Bluray player made for play in North America? No? Yeah, like everyone else’s? Well then it won’t play PAL. SATSQ.

    I’m watching the 1968 Disney classic The Love Bug, which I haven’t seen since I was a little kid and back then we watched it so much we wore out the tape. Aside from the random ethnic stereotype humor (the dirty race in Mexico from Tijuana to Tecate), and the subtle sexism, it still holds up. Fun movie.

    ETA: +2

  24. 24.

    Cacti

    @Steeplejack:

    “a social gathering especially in the open air at which barbecued food is eaten.”

    All due respect to the folks at Webster’s, but barbecue is cuts of pork, or a whole hog, slow cooked over aromatic wood.

    If it ain’t pig, it ain’t BBQ. Suck it Texas. ;-)

  26. 26.

    Shinobi

    Just finished fact checking a republican e-mail from my father. Apparently if you say things about what committees some senators are on with lots of CAPS!!!! It makes the recession all their fault and means the democrats are ebil.

    So now I’m playing League of Legends and dealing with the resulting rage.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Yutsano:

    Yuts, are you recovering comfortably? Feeling better? Mom taking good care of you, PAMPERING you?

    I expect you’ve said somewhere along the way, but I’ve been traveling and havent tried to stay on top of every thread.

    Anyhow, hope all is going well for you.

  29. 29.

    RalfW

    Awesome AA convention (a.k.a. a “Roundup”) in the Twin Cities this weekend. 6,500 people had registered by 2pm today, in a mid-sized convention hotel. Bikers, nerds, gays, club kids, people with walkers. All together, whooping it up but, natch, w/o booze. Fun!

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Donald G:

    Oh, great. He’s backtracking already.

    Eventually it will be a couple of mall security guards who knocked on the door to return one of the kid’s books that was left on a bench.

  31. 31.

    freelancer

    @damn good mr. jam:

    BULLOCK: What business of that is his?
    __
    SWEARENGEN: You mean what business of mine is that.
    __
    BULLOCK: Don’t tell me what the fuck I mean.

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    @SiubhanDuinne: I woke up really hurting this morning, but fortunately it wasn’t anything two Percocet couldn’t solve. I just wandered to the kitchen for a bit, walking is improving but I can’t do it for very long before the back starts protesting. And Jill the border collie is having a case of the itchies on my bed right now. All in all not much to complain about.

  35. 35.

    freelancer

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    but I’ve been traveling…

    You leave and the temp drops to 80. It’s gorgeous out now. I’m sleeping with the windows open tonight.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    @freelancer:

    More and more of them do. Last I checked, NTSC/PAL Blu-ray players were down around $250. And I have an all-region NTSC/PAL non-Blu-ray player that I got for about $50. Useful for when you want to get stuff that hasn’t been released here yet (or ever).

  37. 37.

    freelancer

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Too bad he was mortally injured. The face-chewer might have had stand your ground protection if he is white. 20 years in the poke if not. We’ll never know.

  38. 38.

    amk

    Twitterdom

    Romney’s jobs are in China, his homes are in CA, MA, NH, his money is in Switzerland and his tax returns are nowhere to be found

  40. 40.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Hmmm well I can’t insert this into my previous comment now, FYWP obligatory.

    It was not technically a SWAT team at my front door, but rather several uniformed sheriff’s deputies.

    Oh. So he WAS NOT “SWATted”, he was “Uniformed Sheriff Deputied.”

    So much for the iota of credibility he had before. Good grief, he screamed about this from the fucking rooftops.

  42. 42.

    Steve in DC

    I can see the Iwo Jima from my window here, this weekend will suck. Place turns into a mess. I don’t mind some of the tourists, but the fat asses with their fanny packs and ball caps are obnoxious.

  43. 43.

    amk

    Heh cole. Reading Zero Day by David Baldacci. A multiple gruesome murder mystery set in in the coal country of WV. Thought of you.

  47. 47.

    freelancer

    Goddamn, one more post in quick succession and I’ll feel like Little Boots:

    “John, why are you ignoring us ME? Doug? Oh DOUG? Oh that’s okay, Doug is annoying. This is for you Steeplejack for acknowledging me! O Muse. O Rage! Where is everyone?!”

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    At one point today I had two border collies snoozing away on my bed.

    Well-known fact that pet love dramatically shortens your recovery time. You can look it up.

    Unless you’re going to die. In which case they’re there to see you across to the other side.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack

    @freelancer:

    Heh. You’ve got the tone about right. Not sure about the Laurie Anderson. Might be too edgy, not oldy-moldy enough.

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: I have Jack, Jill, and Lexie here. I definitely got lots of the furry wuv going on right now. Hell my mom’s Siamese has bothered to acknowledge my presence. The only issue I have is I haven’t gotten a nuzzle from the horses, but one step at a time and all that. It will be interesting to see what the doc says on Tuesday. I’ve been really good about the not bending and twisting and stuff.

  54. 54.

    Steve in DC

    @Steeplejack

    As a kid our dog loved to kick the crap out of me when I was hurt. It wasn’t good physically, but it was good for the spirits. A good part of healing is all in the head.

  55. 55.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    Well, this one blew by on one of the Canadian poliblogs I follow: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/26/judge-sends-honor-student-to-jail-for-missing-school/

    It was referenced thanks to some of the new criminal justice and corrections stuff contained in the new “omnibus” budget bill before the House of Commons right now, plus Loi 78 which is causing such a ruckus in Quebec, in a “this is where our leaders are trying to take us” sort of way.

    Stay classy, Texas.

  57. 57.

    freelancer

    @Steeplejack:

    Not sure about the Laurie Anderson. Might be too edgy, not oldy-moldy enough.

    Yeah, that was released in 1981. I wasn’t even born yet. That’s a track that I feel has some edge, but is still kind of “oldy-moldy” (Whatever the fuck THAT means). I have taste enough to think that this is still cutting edge and amazing.

  59. 59.

    freelancer

    @Corner Stone:

    You are the next generation Brick Oven Bill, except without the interesting anecdotes or humor.

    And you are BJ’s broken fucking clock in this instance.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    @Steve in DC:

    As a kid our dog loved to kick the crap out of me when I was hurt.

    Probably because you were hogging too much of the bed.

  62. 62.

    Steve in DC

    @Steeplejack:

    Nah he was hyper. If you were laid up he’d try to cheer you up. Normally involved a lot of jumping all over and around you and a lot of barking. After a while he’d sit down and whimper.

    When you’re sick and the only one at home it took forever for him to calm down.

    It’s not good to mess with sick people but it was great to know he cared and he was a nice friend.

  64. 64.

    freelancer

    @Corner Stone:

    Listen you emopantshitting gadfly. Get a new schtick you fucking hump.

    Yes, because it’s my tone and style around here that is unbefucking-tiresome.

    Smooches.

  68. 68.

    freelancer

    Okay,

    Earlier, I mentioned that I was watching The Love Bug, and aside from the racial tropes that it indulged in at the time, it is still a fun flick. Just got to the Mr. Wu part, and the El Dorado through Yosemite. The Asian “humor” is REAAALLY fucking racist. Like Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s racist. It’s enough of a wet blanket that I feel like I’m watching Mad Men without the sense of irony and modern commentary.

  69. 69.

    The Sailor

    @Steeplejack: “Unless you’re going to die. In which case they’re there to see you across to the other side.”

    Well, they are Border collies.

  70. 70.

    Steeplejack

    @freelancer:

    I was going to mention earlier that the Lindsay Lohan remake of The Love Bug is actually pretty good. It’s Lindsay Lohan before she became, well, Lindsay Lohan, and it’s got that Apple Mac ad guy in it. (Remember him? The ads with John Hodgeman as the PC?)

  74. 74.

    Corner Stone

    @freelancer: Hey, I’m not the one crying in my beer here all the time.
    Waaa, I’m so lonely. Waaa, I moved and shit’s not the same.
    Grow up.

  76. 76.

    Steeplejack

    Might as well throw this in here. I keep seeing the program note on the TV listings for a movie that shows up every few months:

    Savage Pampas (1966): An Army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw’s gaucho gang.

    There is no way this movie can measure up to the image I have created in my mind. (Hint: It involves a semi-Bollywood dance number.)

  77. 77.

    freelancer

    @Corner Stone:

    Hey, I’m not the one crying in my beer here all the time. Waaa, I’m so lonely. Waaa, I moved and shit’s not the same.
    Grow up.

    Seek help. Your obsessiveness over what is posted here doesn’t lead to anything any sane person would label good. You have a talent for seeing any vulnerability that anyone shares and instead of recognizing it as something that consumes you yourself, you manufacture venom, combine it with inanity, and spit it out radially like some kind of malicious poison sprinkler.

  80. 80.

    amk

    @Corner Stone: Your posts are not dickish but also idiotic.

    I’m pretty sure I didn’t ask for any comment from you in this thread.

    You sound just like that moron from SC or NC or whatever who was briefly famous on teh twitter.

  81. 81.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @amk:

    He’s from Texas so that makes him a legend in his own mind. Don’t mess with Texans, they’re enough of a mess already.

    Everything’s bigger in Texas, especially their assholes.

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