Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

I really should read my own blog.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

The National Guard is not Batman.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

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

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  1. 1.

    J. Michael Neal

    The IOC is considering kicking women’s ice hockey out of the Winter Olympics since no one but the US and Canada have ever won the gold.

    So when do both men’s and women’s pituitary ball get kicked out?

  3. 3.

    Hal

    Really enjoying some unseasonably cool whether this weekend. I am so sick of sweating, I can’t wait for real fall/winter. I think I have the opposite of seasonal effective disorder. I get more depressed the higher the temp goes.

    Also, fucking Roku player. Works fine for weeks on end, then all of a sudden it stops/starts over and over again. Wireless connection is excellent, speed is fine. Looks like I’m going to have to factory reset it again, and re-register the device. PS3 works way better. I almost wish I would have saved 80 bucks and started with the PS3.

  4. 4.

    Violet

    @Hal: I’m with you on that. That’s why I’m not out working in my garden, even though it desperately needs it.

  8. 8.

    Dennis SGMM

    It’s 105 and humid as hell here in the San Gabriel foothills. Many miles to the East of us they are suffering flash floods from the torrential rains. We don’t get the rain, but we do get the humidity. One of my neighbors (Another old coot like me) asked me how I liked the weather. I told him that it was like being in South Texas only way more expensive.

  9. 9.

    John PM

    You should have said stories!

    The only places I have looked at Romney-Ryan stories have been here, Maddow blog and Charles Pierce at Enquire. I refrained from reading Andrew Sullivan because I figured nothing good could come of it.

    I was thinking of renting the new Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey; is it worth the $1.20?

  11. 11.

    Hal

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    For some reason I always think of airplane II before space Odyssey. I think the latter just did not make any sense to my child brain when I first saw it, but an old white lady snorting cocaine made total sense.

  12. 12.

    gnomedad

    @J. Michael Neal:

    The IOC is considering kicking women’s ice hockey out of the Winter Olympics since no one but the US and Canada have ever won the gold.

    As long as curling is safe.

  15. 15.

    Josie

    @Dennis SGMM: Funny you should mention South Texas. It has hovered between 102 and 105 here for the last two weeks. We are supposed to have rain and cooler temps Tuesday – 97 degrees (shiver).

  16. 16.

    Libby Spencer

    I’m down with ignoring Rmoney and the Granny Starver for the moment. Let the dogs have their day. Still a long way to November.

  18. 18.

    Lojasmo

    Lovely here in Minnesota. I spent all summer goading myself to run (single track, in the woods) and did pretty good, 5 days a week or so. This weekend was the first time I ended without being a sweaty mess.

    Lojasmo +2

  20. 20.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Mad Props to the Mexican soccer team winning the gold today, a new giant is rising in soccer. I would love to hear Brazilian sports radio, the coach of that team is toast, the players will be shamed by having their last names given back to them.

  21. 21.

    Josie

    @cathyx: Oh, yes, and the humidity is so thick you could cut it with a knife. It heats up here in May and doesn’t really cool off until late October or early November. The difference for me is that I am currently working at a birding center and teaching summer day camps for children, so am out in the heat for half the day four days out of the week. I am learning to live with sweating a lot; the upside is that I have lost fifteen pounds since starting to work there (7 months).

  25. 25.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    I have all the rage I need against Mittens & Eddie Munster. I’ll skip it for a little while.

    A picture of Tunch, Rosie, & the incomparable Lilidog would be helpful, John.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    This morning I found my new cat, which disappeared shortly after arrival yesterday.

    I thought she was hiding behind the washing machine, but, since I heard absolutely no sound and couldn’t lure her out with wet food, I had a nagging fear that there might be a hole back there that would give her access to the innards of the building.

    Worst fears confirmed today when I was standing in the kitchen, just about to go down to the basement storage area to check out the innards of the building and see if perhaps she was down there. I heard a meow from under the sink. Opened the cabinet and found her head sticking into the cabinet from a cutout in the wall. She was very nervous and skittish, but eventually I lured her halfway into the cabinet with food, applied the kung fu grip and put her in lockdown in the bedroom. Spent the afternoon with her, talking to her and petting her. She was hypervigilant and nervous, pacing around as if looking for an exit but always managing to accidentally bump into my hand when she came by me. And purring about half the time.

    It was all so restful and such a relief that I took a bit of a nap myself, and I woke up a while ago to find her dozing under the covers down by my feet, just barely making physical contact. I left her in there and came out quietly. I’m sure she’s exhausted after her big adventure, and before that she was parked in a PetSmart for a couple of weeks.

    So, a good outcome. I am thinking about what nice thing I can have for dinner, and I might get some champagne to celebrate our delayed meeting.

    She is a small brown tortoise/tabby, supposedly 11 or 13 years old, but she looks much younger to me. Current name Sketcher, but that may be revised. Picture to follow when I can get one.

  29. 29.

    Josie

    @cathyx: There are a number of reasons why the job has been a positive for me – being with the kids, learning more science than I ever have before, seeing tons of birds and bunny rabbits. The weight loss is the icing on the cake.

  31. 31.

    gogol's wife

    @Steeplejack:

    You’re making me nostalgic. Ten years ago our darling Masha and Sasha spent the first few days behind the washer and dryer. Then Masha came out, gingerly, only to retreat to a closet, while Sasha started living on a bookshelf behind the books. They soon became cuddle bugs.

  34. 34.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Violet: Sure. Sports come and go. What really rankles is that they’re using a bullshit excuse. The reason they want to get rid of women’s hockey is because it’s not a big draw. However, they don’t want to look like they’re picking on a women’s sport by getting rid of it due to lack of popularity when they’re keeping the men’s version of the same sport.

    So they’re hiding behind an excuse of a lack of competitiveness. Which is complete bullshit, because they will clearly tolerate sports that are a lot less competitive. The U.S. has now won five consecutive gold medals in women’s basketball (and seven of the last eight) and four of the last five men’s tournaments.

    They got rid of softball and baseball together, so they avoided the gender problem.

  35. 35.

    Lojasmo

    Oh, and my eldest cat probably has cancer or something. Liver/gall bladder related. He’s on steroids, and some other stuff. If his weight hasn’t stabilized in 30 days he’s going in the landfill.

    Fucking pets.

  36. 36.

    Waynski

    now I am going to settle in and catch up on my shows and not think about Rmoney and Ryan.

    Enjoy, brother.

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack

    @WereBear:

    I’m a cat wrangler from way back. Adopted my first stray almost 40 years ago. (Yikes!) This is my first in about eight years, though. Didn’t have enough room in the previous place.

  39. 39.

    J. Michael Neal

    @efgoldman:

    The CCCP could probably win hockey on the men’s side, if they were allowed to compete as an entity instead of a bunch of smaller countries.

    Russia is perfectly capable of winning the men’s hockey tournament on their own, and reunification probably wouldn’t help that much. The hockey system has all but collapsed in most of the other former republics. About the only players from any of the other national teams that might make the Russian roster are the Kostitsyns and Mikhail Grabovski from Belarus and they wouldn’t be much more than fourth liners.

    Latvia is the only other former republic whose national team is even in the IIHF Championship division and their roster is almost entirely made of of players from Dinamo Riga, consistently one of the bottom feeders in the KHL.

  40. 40.

    PurpleGirl

    @Steeplejack: Oh, that is so good that she came out and you found her. Nice that you got to have some quiet time with her. Hope the rest of the day goes well for you.

  42. 42.

    cathyx

    I just want to say that if you’re saying ‘home crap home’, you must have had a great time.

  46. 46.

    Corner Stone

    Could someone please stick a fucking German sausage down Tom Brokaw’s throat? Shut the fuck up you hoary Boomer glorifying hag!
    Thanks

  48. 48.

    cathyx

    @trollhattan: I’m having the same problem in Oregon. Usually I would start having ripe tomatoes about now, but they’re still green. But I’ll take a cool summer over red tomatoes any day.

  50. 50.

    Hill Dweller

    @Corner Stone: As if Brokaw’s hour long vanity project wasn’t bad enough, I’ve also got to endure the same Americans For Prosperity anti-Obama ad during every f’n commercial break.

  53. 53.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Lojasmo:

    If his weight hasn’t stabilized in 30 days he’s going in the landfill.

    That’s really harsh, but I laughed anyhow.

  54. 54.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    Please forgive me if I’m addressing something that was brought up in another thread, but did anyone find Ryan’s voice to be very similar to Bobby Jindal’s (in his ill-fated State of the Union response blather)? He struck me as condescending, phony, and dull.

    I suppose his voice may grate a little less than did Palin’s shrill tones. We’ll see.

    Christ, doesn’t it seem like just a few months ago that we were all complaining about McCain’s constant reliance on “My friends….”?

  56. 56.

    Hill Dweller

    What was Brokaw rambling about when in studio with Costas? There is nothing analogous between WWII and the current financial crisis.

  57. 57.

    PurpleGirl

    The post WWII baby boom is generally taken to have started in 1946 and to have lasted until 1964.

  58. 58.

    Hal

    On why Romney picked Ryan, mystery solved, via Kos, via the atlantic:

    theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/mitt-romney-would-pay-082-percent-in-taxes-under-paul-ryans…

    Under Paul Ryan’s plan, Mitt Romney wouldn’t pay any taxes for the next ten years — or any of the years after that. Now, do I know that that’s true. Yes, I’m certain.
    Well, maybe not quite nothing. In 2010 — the only year we have seen a full return from him — Romney would have paid an effective tax rate of around 0.82 percent under the Ryan plan, rather than the 13.9 percent he actually did. How would someone with more than $21 million in taxable income pay so little? Well, the vast majority of Romney’s income came from capital gains, interest, and dividends. And Ryan wants to eliminate all taxes on capital gains, interest and dividends.

  60. 60.

    sacrablue

    @trollhattan: My north Sac county backyard thermometer made it to 106. My backyard tomatoes are pathetic this year, too. Hardly any fruit setting, very small when they do. Peppers are very sad and limited as well.

  63. 63.

    Corner Stone

    There’s just no fucking call to have a London Blitz fucking anthology for an hour.
    WWII happened at least longer than five minutes ago. So just shut the fuck up you old POS.

  64. 64.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @PurpleGirl: And it looks like anyone born in say 1955(probably 1960) and after will be SOL when it comes to Social Security and other retirement benefits.

  65. 65.

    suzanne

    It’s still hot and dusty as fuck. Spent much of the day running errands and cleaning. I wouldn’t say my house is “clean”, but it’s a whole lot less unclean. So yay.

    Will be volunteering for my prospective Congresscritter of choice this week. I could really use another vacation. I could also really use a raise and a bonus. Sigh.

  69. 69.

    dance around in your bones

    @raven:

    Ever see “Hope and Glory” Boorman’s movie about kids in London during the Blitz?

    That is such a great movie.

  70. 70.

    Corner Stone

    @Citizen_X:

    Birding in south Texas: yay! Sweating in south Texas: yuck.

    Oh man. Birding in ST is definitely awesome. But some of the best times I had as a kid were on a 2500 acre lease a friend of mine’s dad had access to through his work. We went there in Summer to do all the scut work for the pre-hunting season, and “earned” our way into getting to be onsite during the Fall hunting season.
    Just a magical place for a kid to escape to.

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack

    @Corner Stone:

    Until that one summer Dick Cheney shot Grandpa in the face. Not so magical.

    ETA: Snark aside, I spent a few magical years (aged 12-14) tramping around the west Texas desert outside Del Rio. My father was stationed at Laughlin AFB, a pilot training base with a lot of empty space for the pilots to crash in, and all we had to do to go camping or hiking was to fill a canteen, walk two streets over and step off into the brush. Miles of empty space, all enclosed inside the base perimeter fence. Good times.

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