Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

How stupid are these people?

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

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

People are weird.

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  3. 3.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    I haven’t seen that flick in eons. Right now I’m recovering from doing my husbandly duties; pulling the living room apart and rearranging it for my wife. I remember when this used to take an afternoon to do, now it takes nearly a week. It doesn’t help that our entertainment center, stereo systems, computer systems, network, musical gear and I think the toaster, are all tied together.

    What’s sad is that I enjoy the electrical work and hate everything else…lol!

    AV nerd to the end.

  4. 4.

    Steeplejack

    Anyone else do crosswords on line? The USA Today puzzle is stuck at last Thursday for me, and I’m wondering if it’s because I let Java upgrade itself.

    Just go to this link and see what date puzzle comes up. There should be puzzles available for Friday, Saturday and (now) Monday, but I can’t get past Thursday. If this happens for anybody else, I’ll quit trying to fix it and start cursing the darkness.

    ETA: I think that link plays a brief ad first. I use Ad Blocker, so I didn’t think about that. Apologies.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    @Geoduck:

    When you say “works,” do you mean the puzzle comes up with the one for today?

    What I meant in my previous post is that, although the puzzle “works,” it comes up with the puzzle for last Thursday, and I can’t navigate past that with “Next puzzle” or “Today’s puzzle” (or by manually changing the URL).

  8. 8.

    jl

    As a helpful aid to anyone’s insomnia, here is Kruguam, who just decided to move the scary Great Depression analogy from 1937 to 1931.

    The Great Abdication
    Kthug, NYT
    June 25, 2012
    http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=966454&f=28&sub=Columnist

    Edit: Spoiler Alert!

    ” Among economists who know their history, the mere mention of certain years evokes shivers. For example, three years ago Christina Romer, then the head of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, warned politicians not to re-enact 1937 – the year F.D.R. shifted, far too soon, from fiscal stimulus to austerity, plunging the recovering economy back into recession. Unfortunately, this advice was ignored.

    But now I’m hearing more and more about an even more fateful year. Suddenly normally calm economists are talking about 1931, the year everything fell apart. “

  16. 16.

    Freemark

    Blues Brothers is one of those movies I watch almost every time I see its on TV. Anytime my old friends want to get together we just send messages that ”we’re getting the band back together”

    The sad is that way to many 20 somethings and younger have never seen it. And of course don’t get my references making me feel old.

  20. 20.

    j

    If you are interested, this guy (Herve Attia) has a hobby of redoing movies shot for shot and comparing how the backgrounds have either changed or stayed the same. Here is his “Blues Brothers” video. This guy is good! He even inserts himself into some scenes. For some scenes he added comments in a box explaining plot devices and what happened to all the buildings.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_SbLi-X8JI

    He also did “Home Alone” “Ferris Beuler’s Day Off” and other movies.

  22. 22.

    redshirt

    I bet they got “SCMODS”.

    Love this movie so much, and it seems to get better with time.

    Fun theory: At the Church scene with James Brown, the Blues Brothers are anointed with HOLY LIGHT and from that point on, they are invincible. No matter the obstacles or efforts, they are untouchable.

    IE – Blues Brothers is a Christian Super Hero movie.

  24. 24.

    slag

    My big plan was to go to bed after Newsroom, but once again I got sucked into a complete viewing of the Blues Brothers.

    My big plan was to go to the store this morning, but I ran out of gas. I… I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    My brother had a black cat with a white spot on his chest. His name, of course, was the Rev. Cleofus James (though mostly we just called him Cleo).

    Also, too, The Blues Brothers was the first R-rated movie I ever saw without adult supervision. Our parents had gone out for date night, and my brothers (who were old enough to get into R-rated movies) decided that we should all go see it.

    So we’re standing in line waiting to get into the theater, and walking out from the previous show are … my parents.

    They look at me. They look at my brothers. They say, “It’s a good movie,” and they keep going.

    Because, come on, I lived in a house with four older brothers. It’s not like I was going to hear any bad language I hadn’t heard before, and there’s really nothing else in the movie that gets it an “R.”

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