Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

In my day, never was longer.

“But what about the lurkers?”

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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  3. 3.

    Linda Featheringill

    Just chilling with The Old Man [elderly cat], taking in music and looking at a modern marvel, the internets [a series of tubes, I think].

    Have a happy holiday, everyone. Don’t let the sun get you.

  4. 4.

    Slugger

    What about Whitney Houston? She actually hits all of the notes in this hard to sing song.

  5. 5.

    gnomedad

    Amidst all the BBQ and fireworks, let’s not forget that this is the day Jesus gave “Atlas Shrugged” to George Washington.

  10. 10.

    The Sailor

    @Slugger: If you’re talking about Whitney at the Super Bowl, she recorded it IIRC the day before in the empty stadium and lip synched it.

    Hendrix was the best of a bad song. Seriously, the song sucks big time.

  11. 11.

    skjellyfetti

    I remember Lou Rawls back in the ’70s doing some amazing anthems at Rams games.

    Ahhh… Nixon, how we miss thee

  12. 12.

    Chad

    In Obama’s America you can make love to the sounds of the national anthem sung by Marvin Gaye nightly.

  13. 13.

    the Conster

    The national anthem as far as I’m concerned is This Land is Made For You and Me.

    A version of the lyrics that Woody wrote is my favorite:

    As I went walking I saw a sign there
    And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.”
    But on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
    That side was made for you and me.

    RIP you subversive real American.

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    Marvin Gaye is the only singer I know that would make women wanna throw their panties after hearing the national anthem.

    LOL

  15. 15.

    rikyrah

    For Daughters of the American Revolution, a New Chapter
    By SARAH MASLIN NIR
    Published: July 3, 2012

    Olivia Cousins can trace her family in the United States to a soldier who joined the rebelling colonists when he was just 17. But when a friend suggested she join the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization whose members can prove they are related to someone who aided the rebels in 1776, Dr. Cousins nearly laughed

    Dr. Cousins is black. And the D.A.R., as it is commonly called, is a historically white organization with a record of excluding blacks so ugly that Eleanor Roosevelt renounced her membership in protest.

    Yet last week, in a circa-1857 stone chapel in Jamaica, Queens, Dr. Cousins was named an officer in a small ceremony establishing a new chapter. Her daughter took photos. The pictures documented a singular moment for the D.A.R., founded in 1890: 5 of the 13 members of the new chapter are black.

    Perhaps more strikingly, the Queens chapter is one of the first in the organization’s nearly 122-year history that was started by a black woman: Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly, from Rosedale, who is also its regent, or president. Ms. Kelly traces her origins to the relationship between a slaveholder and a slave, who appear to have considered themselves married, and her new position is part of a remarkable journey for both her family and the organization.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/nyregion/for-daughters-of-the-american-revolution-more-black-members.html?_r=3&nl=nyregion&emc=edit_ur_20120704

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    PurpleGirl

    @the Conster: In 2001, Pete Seeger was the special entertainment guest at the Opening Meeting (think rally) of The NYC School Volunteer Program. Laura Bush was the special speaker. Seeger sang that verse of the song.

    Today’s Google doodle uses the title.

  23. 23.

    Hill Dweller

    A different song, but I’d take Ray Charles’ version of “America the Beautiful” over any rendition of the national anthem.

  25. 25.

    sb

    I vividly remember that performance and vividly remember the letters to the editor in the Los Angeles Times decrying it as un-American.

    He was killed a few years later, IIRC. I was the game when they replayed the anthem in his memory and I cried. God, what a voice and what a performer.

  27. 27.

    elftx

    @sb:

    I am sooo with you…it made me cry again!!

    His voice was such an exceptional musical instrument..
    never even went sharp on this…simply beautiful.

    and I usually hate hate hate when people change the notes..they all seem to think it is suppose to be some kind of babtisty spiritual hymn and NOT in a good way

    but his was just so very pretty..and a capella…not easy by any stretch with all the background noise

  28. 28.

    gnomedad

    @PurpleGirl:
    I’m so used to embedded search and going straight to the various tools that I never see the Google Doodle any more unless someone calls attention to it.

  29. 29.

    PurpleGirl

    @gnomedad: I have several friends who bypass Goggle completely and I need to tell them when to look for logo doodle. So I figure it makes sense to call it out in comments.

  31. 31.

    Julia Grey

    A different song, but I’d take Ray Charles’ version of “America the Beautiful” over any rendition of the national anthem.

    Oh, yes. Gives me goose bumps just to think of it.

    I’m with those who would like to see the anthem changed to the peaceful “Beautiful” from the exploding bombs of the “Banner.”

  33. 33.

    Blue Shark

    Q:
    What did Marvin Gaye Sr. say to Marvin Gaye Jr. just before he shot him to death?

    A:
    “Son, there’s a 45 I want you to hear.”

  34. 34.

    JWL

    @Hunter Gathers: You mistyped. Marvin’s version is the runner up, it’s Hendrix by a nose.

    Hendrix version was performed at the height of the Vietnam protests. He reclaimed the anthem for an entire generation, which were then being told that because they were anti-war, they were anti-America.

  35. 35.

    JWL

    @Julia Grey: Damn near anything this side of the Horst Wessel song has got our national anthem beat (up to and including “Chopsticks”).

  36. 36.

    Argive

    Let’s not forget what happened on this day 149 years ago. Take it away, General Grant:

    This news, with the victory at Gettysburg won the same day, lifted a great load of anxiety from the minds of the President, his Cabinet and the loyal people all over the North. The fate of the Confederacy was sealed when Vicksburg fell. Much hard fighting was to be done afterwards and many precious lives were to be sacrificed; but the MORALE was with the supporters of the Union ever after.

  37. 37.

    JWL

    @Argive: As well, Confederate General Pemberton, who surrendered Vicksburg, was a West Pointer from Pennsylvania. He believed that if he surrendered on the 4th, Grant’s terms would be more lenient. He was quickly disabused of that notion. Still, Grant did parole his army, rather than send then North into the prison camps.

  38. 38.

    Suzan

    Does anyone know if there is a “clean” version of this song. It would be great to play at an event (like tonight’s bbq) but it is odd with the cheering and the guy who won’t stop talking at the beginning. Ugh.

    Chills, tears . . . I vote someone post this every July 4.

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