Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Second rate reporter says what?

Fight them, without becoming them!

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    I want our great tax accountants and tax attorneys to find something juicy in the Bain documents.

  3. 3.

    EconWatcher

    Let’s say the Obama folks know that the Mittster was part of the Swiss banks amnesty in 2009. Not because they used illegal access to the IRS, but because a little birdy told them. How do they get this out, without being accused of using illegal access? How do they force the Mittster into a corner?

    Perhaps some of the fine minds on this site (no snark intended) can answer that one.

    I think their emphasis on his tax returns is like Chekhov’s gun on the mantle: if it’s displayed in Scene One, then it must go off by Scene Three, or the audience’s expectations will have been unreasonably disappointed.

  12. 12.

    Origuy

    Rush Limbaugh is claiming that Obama is behind the National Hurricane Center’s forecast that Isaac may hit Tampa next week.

    “They are talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing,” he reportedly said. ” We, who live in south Florida, become experts on it and we don’t need the National Hurricane Center — we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us.”

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    @LGRooney: Why? Have you seen the freakin ginorm melon on that guy Cole? It’s like someone brought Mr. Potatohead to life but then undersized his ear parts.
    And does the word Cameo mean anything to you?

  14. 14.

    taylormattd

    I have a feeling there will be many photos and videos. Possibly too many, especially when everyone is around +4 or so.

  18. 18.

    ET

    So this is news to me… It seems that there is going to be a move made of some book D’souza wrote. It’s title is “Obama 2016” and I saw the TV commercial for the first time. More crap from the fevered swamp that is Tea Party / paranoid America.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    @Mark S.:

    She may have destroyed a painting, but she’s launched a meme.

    And I do feel for the artist’s descendants. It will be many a moon before they, too, laugh at this.

    I wanna see Gimenez’s Washington crossing the Delaware. Or American Gothic. Or Nighthawks …

  22. 22.

    Schlemizel

    The poor delusional evangies that never fell away really can’t witness because they were never born again. I’m sort of that way for liberalism. I have been a leftist all my life so I have never had to be born again to progressive beliefs. That makes me a poor witness.

    I believe in the power of liberalism to free us all from the sins of capitalism! Walk in the sunshine of equality with me my brothers & sisters – freedom and a secure future can be ours! Halleluiah!

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    @ET:

    Maybe Niall Ferguson will write a review. Or is featured.

    Whatevah. Same scrupulous accuracy.

  24. 24.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    @Origuy:

    weather dolts

    I LOLd. That’s so Rush. Never change, big guy. Yes the meteorologists are out to get you. Boo!

  25. 25.

    Poopyman

    @Violet: He’s probably upset that the Dominican Republic is under the gun right now, and we all know he has a special fondness for the DR.

  26. 26.

    Jay in Oregon

    @Origuy:
    That’s awesome, Rush.

    Tell ya what, you stand on your roof wearing a parasail, and if you’re still anywhere in the state when Isaac has come through, I promise to vote for Romney and Ryan.

  29. 29.

    Violet

    Re: Mitt and his taxes, I know it’s been discussed in the previous thread, but I didn’t see this tidbit there:

    Romney also jokes in the Parade interview about the high cost of paying tithes, though Ann Romney notes how important it is to them.
    __
    “I love tithing,” Ann Romney tells the magazine. “When Mitt and I give that check, I actually cry.”
    __
    “So do I,” Mitt Romney adds, “but for a different reason.”

    She cries? WTF? Is this a parody? And right on the heels of Ann pretending to be all moved by giving money to their church, Mitt undercuts her and “jokes” about how he hates giving the money at all.

    What a bunch of entitled, rich, out-of-touch horrible people. The whole family. Ugh.

  30. 30.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    Open thread? Okay.
    1) death in my wife’s family this week and one loose cannon relative is making things very complicated for the dozen sober and rational ones.
    2) I start an important new job next week and I’m terrified.
    3) just confirmed: have a summer cold and feel like ass.
    ETA:
    4) tomorrow I have to pack and ship a live turtle 1,250 miles. Because I haven’t given myself enough to worry about.

  31. 31.

    raven

    Hawaii woman reels in half-ton marlin after FOUR HOUR battle that lost her a world record after help from crew

    ‘The question was only can I land the fish or not,’ Palmer told The Associated Press. ‘I didn’t come here to set world records. I didn’t even really come here to win money. I came here to catch fish and that’s just what we were there to do.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192500/Hawaii-woman-Molly-Palmer-reels-half-ton-marlin-FOUR-HOUR-battle-nearly-caught-world-record.html#ixzz24POgImRx

  32. 32.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Origuy:

    ” We, who live in south Florida, become experts on it and we don’t need the National Hurricane Center—we don’t need all these weather dolts analyzing this for us.

    I’m with Rush on this one. He should stay right where he is every time there’s an NHC forecast. Don’t do anything to prepare. In fact, go out on the beach and stand in the surf you bloated sack of shit.

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @Elizabelle:

    I don’t know that it’s fair to call it a “restoration” since apparently the 80-year-old woman who did the work isn’t an actual artist and wasn’t hired to do it by anyone. Though I am more than a little horrified that apparently the priest in charge told her, “Yeah, do whatever you want.”

    “Vandalism” is a lot closer to the situation even if she did have some kind of approval from the parish.

  36. 36.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    Rush should ask some Galveston residents if the NWS and NOAA are needed. The surprise hurricane that devastated the town in 1900 killed 8,000 people.

  37. 37.

    EconWatcher

    @Schlemizel:

    I really wish Larry Flynt or somebody would hire a top-notch PI to tail Limbaugh for a while. Something career-ending would almost certainly turn up.

    OTOH, maybe Rush has some kind of sophisticated counter-surveillance people working for him. He certainly has the money and the motive for it.

  38. 38.

    hueyplong

    If those Soshulist bureaucrats tell Rush Limbaugh to take weather related precautions for his safety, I hope he’ll defy them in the name of FREEDOM!

    That’s teach them libruls, leftards and feminazis.

  40. 40.

    Schlemizel

    @RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: funerals are the worst. Sorry to hear you have to put up with the nutbages. I had to do that with my dads memorial and it pushed to pretty close to violence. Hope you can find peace despite them.

    I have a job interview tomorrow. Its for a job with a ton of security, not any creativity not any work joy but it will be a regular paycheck and I am sure they will offer. Its tough when you have to admit you are no longer a valuable commodity just a whore.

  42. 42.

    Arm The Homeless

    I have come across a 6th gen iPod Nano. I need to find a strategy or an accessory that will keep it safe when I am on the trails. I am afraid of sweating all over this thing in my pocket.

    Anyone have experience with this thing that can give me some good tips for making it into something that can be used daily?

  43. 43.

    Schlemizel

    @EconWatcher: I think the evidence is there but his sheep will not care. If he got caught 3 inches deep (all the way for him) in a 12 YO colon they would love him even more.

  45. 45.

    EconWatcher

    @JPL:

    If what we suspect about Rush’s trips to the DR is actually true and could be exposed, that would certainly be the end of him.

  49. 49.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    @Schlemizel:

    I have a job interview tomorrow. Its for a job with a ton of security, not any creativity not any work joy but it will be a regular paycheck and I am sure they will offer. Its tough when you have to admit you are no longer a valuable commodity just a whore.

    I feel for you. I went from neckties and status to name badge and vacuum cleaner in just a few years due to loss of demand for my skills. I took that job for the security, too. Hang in and keep an eye out for better. All of my best jobs have come through personal contacts. People remember you and what you can do.

  52. 52.

    Elizabelle

    @Meg:

    I still am. It’s especially good on an iPhone, scrolling from original to Sra Gimenez’s efforts.

  53. 53.

    R-Jud

    @Arm The Homeless: My husband bought a cheap velcro wristband and clipped his to that, like a watch. The band is adjustable so he can wrap it around his arm when he wants to wear the headphones.

    No mishaps so far.

  54. 54.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    @Maude:

    When you start a job, they don’t expect you to be brilliant the first day. You will ease into it and you can do the job. It’s change and it is exciting.

    Thanks for the encouragement.
    To the extent that terror and excitement are similar, yes, exciting. I have to be crammed full of training for a few weeks, then I’ll be shipped overseas to be crammed even fuller by Germans for 14 days. The learning curve will be steep and unending. The worst part is you know the bulk of your life is about to change and have no idea what’s going to happen. But it’s interesting work and I’m really motivated.

  55. 55.

    SteveinSC

    From Kos. Anne Romney gives the latest reason Mitt does not want to release tax forms is

    …he doesn’t want to release his taxes because he doesn’t want to talk about how much he’s given his church.

    Well, we’re dancing around it and no one will come out and say the other possibility: He’s been laundering the Mormon Church’s taxable income.

  56. 56.

    Warren Terra

    @EconWatcher:
    Dude came back from a trip to the DR with a few hundred illegal V1agra. Dude got his maid busted for supplying him with illegal 0xycon+in, abuse of which cost him his hearing. Dude has been through something like five wives in ten years. I suppose a PI could catch him doing something really career-ending, but given the things that weren’t career-ending, I shudder to think what that might be.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    @Cris (without an H): Damn you! I am eating pizza in a restaurant and I clicked on your link from my iPad. Now here I am crying in a public place. Had to stop reading, saving for later.

    Thank you, lovely article.

  58. 58.

    Jay in Oregon

    @Violet:

    What a bunch of entitled, rich, out-of-touch horrible people. The whole family. Ugh.

    And here I thought tithing was supposed to be one of the great privileges that a Mormon can do for his church:

    http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/mal/3.8-10?lang=eng#7

    8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
    __
    9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
    __
    10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

    I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that he’s a miserly POS.

  60. 60.

    kindness

    @Elizabelle:

    I wanna see Gimenez’s Washington crossing the Delaware. Or American Gothic. Or Nighthawks

    How ’bout dubya’s official portrait?

  62. 62.

    Calouste

    @Jay in Oregon:

    Tell ya what, you stand on your roof wearing a parasail, and if you’re still anywhere in the state when Isaac has come through, I promise to vote for Romney and Ryan.

    Careful. I don’t think Isaac is forecast to be Cat 5, and I doubt anything less would be able to able to lift the half-ton radiohost from solid ground.

  65. 65.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    @WaterGirl:

    I didn’t realize your new job required a move.
    They say the average person retains 25 percent of what they are told their first day at work. My money is on you, for at least 30 percent. You’ll be great!

    The Germany trip is just for training. Though by January I’ll be a field service tech and my ‘field’ will be all of North America. So lots of planes, hotels and rental cars.

  66. 66.

    Maude

    @RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:
    Ah, how wonderful. It’s a new life. You are excited and that feeling is hard to discern after rough patches.
    I hope you comment when you are in Germany.
    You know you are able. You just went through a job that made you use other abilities.
    Enjoy this time and say hello to Mr. Turtle.
    About the funeral, family a..hat, there’s usually one in the crowd.
    My relatives, some were real cuties. If they drank, OMG.

  68. 68.

    Roger Moore

    @RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:

    To the extent that terror and excitement are similar, yes, exciting.

    I like to say that there’s a good kind of exciting and a bad kind of exciting. A new job is usually the good kind of exciting, even if there’s a bit of the bad kind lurking in the wings.

    ETA: Field service of what, or are you allowed to tell?

  69. 69.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    @Roger Moore:

    Field service of what, or are you allowed to tell?

    Industrial lasers, a field about which I know only what’s available to the public. Effectively nothing. I’ll need to be completely educated, and fast. It’s intimidating but I’m really motivated.

  70. 70.

    Elizabelle

    @kindness:

    You know, it gives me a physical pain to see W’s portrait in the American Portrait Gallery. He just does not belong there, even in oils.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    @RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: You sounded really jazzed when you first got the job, so I know you’re excited. Excitement can just be a little tough to notice when it’s mingling with trepidation.

    I hope you like to travel!

    New jobs can be tough, though, for six months or a year, that’s been my experience anyway. In my last job, I can recall bursting into tears in my car, about 6 months in, because the job was nothing like I thought it would be. I cried for awhile, then went back to work and asked my boss if we could talk in the next week or so. At our meeting, I told him how I felt (minus the tears) and we made some adjustments.

    Let us know how Mr. Turtle fares on the trip. Will someone be there to meet him at the airport when he arrives?

  74. 74.

    Fluke bucket

    @ET: Neal Boortz was all over that movie today. He calls Obama a despot. Boortz is not a stable person.

  75. 75.

    brantl

    @Jay in Oregon: With our luck the parasail will rip, trying to lift that gargantuan butt off the roof, he’l make a huge impact crater after flattening a Motel 6, and the depth of the crater will stop him being lifted out of the state.

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