Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The lights are all blinking red.

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

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

We still have time to mess this up!

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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I’ve had my fun if I don’t go well no more

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I’m back and somewhat ready to start blogging again. But my brain is a bit fried from work, so I may not be too blog-active for a while.

Thanks to Libby and Elias for filling in for me (and feel free to write a farewell post before you go). And I’d also like to thank all you underground motherfuckers for keeping it real. I don’t read blog comments much when I’m busy, because they’re engrossing, and hard to tear myself away from. But I do need a fix of some kind, so I read a bit of the serious stuff in the Times and WaPo the past few weeks. It’s genuinely awful — not just wrong and self-absorbed, but boring, predictable, and badly written. So it’s good to be back.

What’s gone on the last few weeks that I should be aware of?

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  4. 4.

    arguingwithsignposts

    I read a bit of the serious stuff in the Times and WaPo

    Where is this stuff?

  6. 6.

    Kathy

    Glad to see you back Doug J. Loved both of your subs, I would be happy to see them back anytime!

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Kathy: me too

    This may get some attention:

    Mitt and Ann Romney were easily able to afford a $12-million La Jolla home. But that didn’t insulate them from the winds buffeting the real estate market in the months following their purchase in 2008.
    After paying cash for the Mediterranean-style house with 61 feet of beach frontage, they asked San Diego County for dramatic property tax relief.

    Romney’s a chiseling money-hoarder, I imagine even a few country-club-Cadillac types who delude themselves that they’re Romney’s financial peers will find this offensive. Keep giving’em hell, Harry.

    And has anyone virtually, bloggily smacked the crap out of that sad old sack of wet brownies, Bob Schieffer, for comparing Harry Reid to Joe McCarthy?

  8. 8.

    Gadsden Flag Burner

    Welcome back, Doug. Yopu going to adopt the Doug Jarvis Green-Ellis moniker for the upcoming season?

  9. 9.

    cmorenc

    Why should Libby and Elias go at all? They definitely both add amply worthwhile substance to this joint.

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    techno

    Most interesting thing while you were gone, IMHO, is that a killer drought has wiped out most of the crop in USA heartland. Weatherfolk and climate scientists, led by James Hansen are finally dropping the “no specific weather event can be traced to global warming” line and finally saying that yes, this is climate change in action.

    Folks are going to be really unhappy when food prices start going up this fall. I wonder how it will impact the election?

  12. 12.

    arguingwithsignposts

    Just to break up the Libby Spencer/Elias Esquith lovefest a bit, the masthead here is getting a bit crowded, and there are too many TL;DR posters here already.

  23. 23.

    catatonia

    @mazareth:

    I listen to Bobby Bland when I need to be calm. I listen to Howlin’ Wolf when I want to be pissed. (I never need to be pissed, or want to be calm.)

    Both work well.

  24. 24.

    Zagloba

    DougJ @0: What’s gone on the last few weeks that I should be aware of?

    G.H. Hardy proved the Riemann Hypothesis the night before flying to New York, but his solution perished with him when the plane went down.

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    mclaren

    One of the biggest developments that none of the obots here will talk about is Obama signing off on a draconian new law that effectively criminalizes non-violent peaceful political demonstrations and punishes them with 10 years in federal prison.

    This destroys the first amendment’s “right to peaceably assemble” clause.

    As you might imagine, the obots are eager to ignore these increasingly brutal extensions of Bush-era totalitarianism in their craven desire to praise the dusky Dubya clone in the Oval Office.

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