Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

In after Baud. Damn.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

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

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

So many bastards, so little time.

All hail the time of the bunny!

“But what about the lurkers?”

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

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

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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I learn via the igNobel’s Marc Abrahams* of a singular achievement from the great minds at the Max Plankton Institute in the Netherlands.  This result, according to the researchers, “sheds a whole new perspective on the origin of live music.”

Watch:

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Over to the snarling mass.  Y’all know who you are.

*also the man behind the Annals of Improbable Research.

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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    Jason Dufner is absolutely spent. Nothing left in the tank.
    That’s what getting married will do to you.

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    Kristine

    the Max Plankton Institute in the Netherlands

    Shouldn’t that be “Max Planck Institute”? Or did I miss the joke?

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    Yutsano

    @jeffreyw: I so love the Maillard reaction. It makes cow pretty and tasty. Tomorrow we’re having prime rib. Tonight is lasagna. Yum.

  7. 7.

    Lojasmo

    Have been meaning to get a haircut for two weeks, but have been too busy. Got to the barbershop two minutes after they closed today. Promptly came home and shaved my head.

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    inventor

    @Kristine:
    I think you missed the joke. The Max Plank Institute is concerned with sub-atomic physics while the Max Plankton institute seems more interested in the musical proclivities of tiny aquatic fauna.

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    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    this is impressive, in a pre-jellyfish morton kind of way.

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    Amir Khalid

    @jeffreyw:
    My, that does look pretty. Alas, my health now precludes my eating big chunks of meat except as a (very) rare treat.

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    gaz

    Apparently John Stossel’s mustache figured he’d attack the poor again on “Fox and Fiends” with that same line – 99.6% of the poors have refrigerators.

    Again with this shit? Seriously?

    In this country, a refrigerator is NOT a luxury item. In fact, unlike John Stossel’s mustache, a poor person is likely to NEED a refrigerator because they CANNOT EAT OUT ALL THE TIME.

    What does he suggest as an alternative? Starvation? Oh wait…

    And cue the response about “people in the 3rd world don’t need ’em” so we can get to the stratification of the poor, and ignorance of the fact that our country is simply not equipped for this type of living – our diets, our food delivery networks, EVERYTHING sort of requires one – here in the USA.

    Jesus wept.

    If there were any justice in the world, John Stossel would be homeless… In Michigan.

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    Roger Moore

    @gaz:

    And cue the response about “people in the 3rd world don’t need ‘em”

    Wait, so you’re suggesting that the US should not base its policies on the way they do things in the Third World? That sounds like dangerous commie pinko territory. Next you’ll be suggesting that we should only start wars when we have a good reason, that poor people deserve the same rights as rich ones, and other crazy talk.

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    Larkspur

    Okay, I am taking advantage of this Open Thread opportunity to share an incredibly cool obituary with y’all. It appeared today in the San Francisco Chronicle. At the link there’s an old photo of this remarkable woman. Somebody needs to make a movie of her life. I’m sorry she died; I wish she’d had more time. But I’m really glad I read about her.

    Blanca McGee – Died May 25, 2012 of cancer of the pancreas. She did not suffer; she had an ice cream at 3 that day and died that night at 1 am. Blanca had an unusual life. Born in the Philippines, 1931, one of six sisters. Father, a journalist in Manila, was told by a Japanese colonel (a Harvard graduate) during the occupation in 1942 to leave Manila. So 6 girls had hair cuts and became boys. They traveled 500 miles into the mountains, farmed the land, fed the American guerrillas, and lived near the head hunters. She could ride bare back and shoot; in several encounters with males she never lost. She was the real superwoman. Her main talent was a gourmet cook and mother to everyone. Her husband Joe and 3 daughters, 7 grand children 4 great grandchildren will miss her and never eat well again.

    I added a bit of punctuation, but that’s all. What a story.

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    Roger Moore

    @gaz:
    I dunno. I thought real radicals were supposed to bomb and shoot people, not cut them. If you’re not conspiring to overthrow the government in the name of some massive international conspiracy, what kind of radical are you?

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