Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Everybody saw this coming.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

Innocent people do not delay justice.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

So many bastards, so little time.

People are weird.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Come on, man.

Consistently wrong since 2002

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

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  1. 1.

    hep kitty

    I hope someone will address my question about Brown accusing Warren of representing asbestos companies denying claims, something like that.

    WTF was he talking about? I cannot see from skimming her bio where she has ever worked in that capacity whatsoever. Maybe I’m missing something?

  2. 2.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    I didn’t come here for the open threads. I came here to watch the Republicans implode.

  3. 3.

    EconWatcher

    That’s the one with Barbara Bach, right? I fell in love with her when I saw this movie in the theater, aged about 11.

  4. 4.

    Chris

    TSWLM wasn’t one of my favorites, but yes, it did have Barbara Bach and it introduced General Gogol, so there’s that. And that fantastic submarine car, the most ludicrously awesome one Bond ever owned.

    Don’t know if “they don’t make them like this anymore,” but I for one am quite looking forward to Skyfall.

  5. 5.

    ding dong

    i think those bonuses that mittens campaign big dicks got were actually given by the obama campaign for doing such a spectacularly good job they have done for the obama campaign.

  6. 6.

    shoutingattherain

    Speaking of they don’t make ’em like that anymore, here’s Tim Pawlenty’s resignation letter. Allegedly:

    And it’s too late, baby, now it’s too late though we really did try to make it. Something inside has died and I can’t hide and I just can’t fake it. There’ll be good times again for me and you but we just can’t stay together, don’t you feel it too? Still I’m glad for what we had, and how I once loved you.

  8. 8.

    Teddy's Person

    In Ann Romney is unpleasnat news, her’s what she said in a radio interview in response to Mitt’s critics:

    “Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring. This is hard and, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”

  9. 9.

    Forum Transmitted Disease

    They just don’t make them like this anymore, do they, btw?

    Ahhh, the days when women were either mothers or sex toys for the amusement of men. Yeah, I’ll be honest, I miss those days. Only a little.

  13. 13.

    dan

    I’ll hijack. I haven’t seen many (or most) of the big 80s comedies. I am making a list of dvds to get from Netflix so that I will be completely fluent in 80s comedies. These are the ones that I can think of. What else should I get?

    Pretty in Pink
    Risky Business
    Say Anything
    Breakfast Club
    Sixteen Candles
    Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
    Weird Science
    Real Genius

    No crap – like anything with C. Thomas Howell or any Andrew McCarthy movie not already on this list.

  14. 14.

    BC

    So Paul Ryan went to AARP and tried to sell his Medicare plan – and got booed. Don’t think optics of being booed by a lot of white senior citizens is going to have the panache of being booed by the NAACP.

  16. 16.

    NobodySpecial

    So I’m gonna pimp my friend’s Kickstarter again. We’ve got a few gamers on the site, so I thought I’d bring it here for a looksee.

    The game’s called Specimen.

    If you know whereof I speak, think Munchkin meets Alien on a board.

    If you don’t, ummm..it’s a combination card/dice/board game. The premise is straight from any number of horror movies: The creature is loose on the ship and is trying to eat the crew. The crew, of course, objects. It’s a two player game – one plays the alien, one plays the crew.

    I got to playtest this last year, and if the Kickstarter is successful, the game will be published next May. This thing was hella fun with my buddy; it’s made for trash talking and MST3K/Rifftrax style voiceovers. Please give it a look for Joe and Steve.

  18. 18.

    MobiusKlein

    Space Shuttle is doing it’s loop around San Francisco right now, as we gab. Go out, look if you can see it.

  22. 22.

    red dog

    No one has ever bullied little Annie R. before. I wonder if her household help and stable hands no how hard this stuff is. What a whiney bitch with no knowledge of anything hard.

  25. 25.

    Hill Dweller

    @BC:

    So Paul Ryan went to AARP and tried to sell his Medicare plan – and got booed. Don’t think optics of being booed by a lot of white senior citizens is going to have the panache of being booed by the NAACP.

    ThinkProgress is reporting they were also loudly yelling ‘liar’.

  26. 26.

    Nom de Plume

    Sorry to beat a dead horse, but you just stepped on your own post. Why does this crap happen here?

  28. 28.

    Forum Transmitted Disease

    Cain Says He Would Have Substantial lead Over Obama

    In the “women I’ve forced to fuck me and who didn’t like the experience much” group, yeah, I think Cain’s got the lead there.

  29. 29.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    @dan:

    No crap – like anything with C. Thomas Howell or any Andrew McCarthy movie not already on this list.

    Get Secret Admirer with C Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin and Kelly Preston.

    And get Heaven Help Us with Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson and Kevin Dillon

  31. 31.

    piratedan

    @dan: in addition to the others already mentioned…..

    Big Trouble in Little China
    The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
    Hiding Out
    Used Cars
    Adventures in Babysitting
    Some Kind of Wonderful

    naturally, ymmv

    Lebowski was 1998

  32. 32.

    Ann Rynd

    I missed the Jennifer Rubin mock-fest that happened here this morning. Could we continue it here for a while? She deserves more than one thread. This woman exemplifies the kind of neo-com fanaticism that is feeding the O-hatred that floods the entire Romney messaging apparatus. She’s relentless and is too obsessed to know when she is being rolled.

    Let’s spend a little more time making fun of her.

  33. 33.

    Todd

    @red dog:

    Ann pictures herself as Evita, but without any of the sex or connection with average folks. Mitt better get to work on hiring actors and building a fake White House. she is likely to go unhinged if he loses.

  34. 34.

    gogol's wife

    @J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:

    I hope they front-page this AARP appearance so some of the ageism in the comments on this blog can be countered. There are a lot of well-informed older people who are concerned about the younger generation. They have children and grandchildren, after all.

  35. 35.

    quannlace

    In Ann Romney is unpleasnat news, her’s what she said in a radio interview in response to Mitt’s critics:

    When I first read that, I thought someone was doing a parody. She even mentions her horse. But, nope, truth is stranger…..
    Man, the sense of entitilement just drips from this woman.

  41. 41.

    quannlace

    om Netflix so that I will be completely fluent in 80s comedies

    You need to rent Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? That’s on TV more than the Shawshank Redemption.

  42. 42.

    Raven

    @rlrr: He also advised Sydney Pollack on who to use to dub “Jeremiah Johnson” into different languages. It was the beginning of a long friendship that saw Pollack with a role in Eye’s Wide Shut.

  43. 43.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    @dan:

    Oh and nothing with Patrick Dempsey.

    Patrick Dempsey had a small part in Heaven Help Us with Andrew McCarthy. If you’ve never seen this movie, check it out some time.

  45. 45.

    dmsilev

    Holy Shit. TPM:

    The Romney campaign just announced that it will be releasing the following documents this afternoon online at 3 p.m.:
    __
    2011 tax returns for (a) Mitt and Ann Romney; (b) The W. Mitt Romney Blind Trust; (c) The Ann D. Romney Blind Trust; and (d) The Romney Family Trust.
    __
    A notarized letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers summarizing the tax rates paid by the Romneys for the 20 years from 1990-2009.
    __
    Physician letters about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan “making public their current state of health.”

    How bad are things going for the Romneytronic that they’re releasing tax information as a distraction? Note, of course, that we’re only getting one return and just a “summary of rates paid” for the rest.

  52. 52.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @dan:

    Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

    And you’ve never seen “Back To The Future”? (1985) Fantastic film even after repeated viewings.

    Don’t watch the sequels.

    Oh, and while it’s a documentary, it’s also hysterically funny:

    Roger and Me

    And finally, I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

    The “teenager in heat” film by which all teenager in heat films are judged. Plus there’s Phoebe Cates topless. Everybody wins!

  53. 53.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @dmsilev:

    we’re only getting one return and just a “summary of rates paid” for the rest.

    __
    The theory that Mitt took advantage of the 2009 tax amnesty and can not admit to having done so in public is looking pretty solid at this point.

  55. 55.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ:

    The theory that Mitt took advantage of the 2009 tax amnesty and can not admit to having done so in public is looking pretty solid at this point.

    And the number-crunchers have already worked out that had he taken the full charitable deduction, he’d have had an effective tax rate for 2011 of around 9%.

  56. 56.

    Teddy's Person

    Will the doctor give us official word on Paul Ryan’s body fat? My money’s on .000006%. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  57. 57.

    burnspbesq

    @dmsilev:

    A notarized letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers summarizing the tax rates paid by the Romneys for the 20 years from 1990-2009.

    “Lame” doesn’t seem to adequately express how I feel about this, but it will do for now.

  58. 58.

    quannlace

    ‘My Favorite Year’ 1982. With Mark-Linn Baker and Peter O’Toole.

    “I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!”

  59. 59.

    General Stuck

    Pretty cool meme, if you’re desperate and barely tethered to reality. Seems like John Kasich has done such a bang up job governating Ohio, it has made it hard for Romney to to do well there, or something.

    Boehner was asked why Obama is leading his opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, in the polls in Ohio. Boehner chalked it up to Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), his former House colleague, for getting the economy moving again there.

    “It’s been a close race in Ohio; it’s going to be a close race in Ohio,” Boehner answered. “One of the things that probably worked against Romney in Ohio is the fact that Gov. Kasich has done such a good job of fixing government regulations in the state, attracting new businesses to the state, so our unemployment rate in Ohio is lower than the national average.”

    So apparently, Kasich has fixed the shit, and there is nothing left for Romney to do. So therefore, naturally, people are going to vote for Obama rather than Romney.

  60. 60.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @dan: Sorry, but “Easy A” doesn’t make as much sense if you don’t see “Can’t Buy Me Love.” Plus, it’s far far far better than the remakes.

  61. 61.

    trollhattan

    We just had a Shuttle flyover this morning. They opened up our building’s top floor so we worker bees could watch it fly over downtown. Awesome sight.

    IIUC with today’s flight, Endeavour is the last shuttle to ever be airborne–it’s headed to LA where it will be towed to the museum for permanent display.

  62. 62.

    catclub

    @burnspbesq: Notarized simply means that the signature is from the person who it claims to be from.

    Is there any perjury threat if the letter is full of lies?

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Todd:

    Ann pictures herself as Evita, but without any of the sex or connection with average folks. Mitt better get to work on hiring actors and building a fake White House. she is likely to go unhinged if he loses.

    I would pay cash money to watch that.

  69. 69.

    Linda Featheringill

    @gogol’s wife: #34

    I hope they front-page this AARP appearance so some of the ageism in the comments on this blog can be countered.

    Hooray! I’m not the only one who sees this!

  73. 73.

    Rampant Yeti

    Scanned the list of ’80s teen comedies and think I missed two essentials:

    Valley Girl — Early Nic Cage, outre 80s hair & clothes

    The Sure Thing — Early John Cusack, Rob Reiner

  74. 74.

    hep kitty

    @eemom: Okay, thank you. That certainly clears that up for me. Lots of law school graduates got/get jobs in insurance defense. They have to start somewhere. But the ultimate moral responsibility lies with the insurance company since an attorney has to represent their client zealously and to the best of their ability.

    Most people can’t just start out as a sole practitioner trial lawyer. You have to cut your teeth first and anybody worth their salt will be hired by large insurance defense firms.

    This was a way for her to advance her career. Many attorneys have to start out this way. Had she made it a lifelong career, that might be a more valid point. Brown was a lawyer and he would understand this, but of course, he’s going to attack that for political purposes.

    Anyway, too complex for the stupid voters to understand so I don’t know why I even bother.

    Oh well, at least she didn’t show her naughty bits for $. Being a woman, can you imagine how that would be received by the public?

  75. 75.

    Cassidy

    @dan: You need to look up John Cusack’s filmography. He was in many an 80’s comedy. Also, don’t neglect The Goonies, Monster Squad, etc. and all the comedy/ horror films from that period including one early Jim Carrey movie. Don’t be afraid to watch the cheesy action films as the dialogue will provide all the comic relief needed. I mean, “I lied”! How is that not hilarious? You’ll also be surprised at the number of Jim Belushi movies from that time frame that are watchable.

    Oh and Some Kind of Wonderful. One of my favorites.

  76. 76.

    The Red Pen

    @dan:

    Weird Science
    Real Genius

    I wish I had [some sum of money]* for every time that someone has said, “You went to MIT? Weird Science must be your favorite movie!” No, I hate that movie. I hate The Big Bang Theory, too. Real Genius is the movie I like.

    * If not a sum of money, at least permission to punch them in the throat.

  81. 81.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    Hey, Todd @ #33: Don’t cry for me, Massachusetts… the truth is I never loved you….

  83. 83.

    Bruuuuce

    @dmsilev: Got to wonder what key information is in the actual returns that are being summarized. Could it be…residency status? Could we be dealing with a man who committed felony voter fraud during that time? It would be irresponsible not to speculate, of course.

  85. 85.

    Suffern ACE

    @dan: I’m assuming that you’re only going for teen comedies.

    But I would add
    Ruthless People
    A Fish Called Wanda
    National Lampoon’s Vacation
    Better Off Dead
    Raising Arizona
    Tootsie
    Airplane!
    Fast Times at Ridgmont High
    9 to 5
    Crocodile Dundee
    Trading Places

    If you were going for a broader range of 80s comedy fare.

  88. 88.

    FlipYrWhig

    @The Red Pen: I saw Real Genius in the theater, and liked it, but felt kind of meh about it when I saw it a few months ago. The defense-industry plot just doesn’t feel at all necessary. And there’s too little Lazlo Hollyfeld.

  89. 89.

    The Red Pen

    @Cassidy:

    So you’re an Anthony Michael Hall fan?

    Yeah, but he wasn’t in Real Genius.

    I’m a Martha Coolidge fan. She made really smart films out of Real Genius and Valley Girl which was no small task. This is especially true of Valley Girl which got shoved on the B-list after its only big-name star, Nicolas Coppola changed his name to Nicolas Cage.

  90. 90.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @Suffern ACE:

    Oh crap, how could I have forgotten “Fish Called Wa-wa-Wanda”. Must see film.

    And “Raising Arizona”:

    “You’re young, you’ve got your health, what do you need a job for?” Rallying cray for today’s moocher class.

    Again, another must see film.

    “Airplane!” is a film you need to watch about 20 times in order to get everything, dialogue and visually, that’s in the film. They put *that* much stuff into damn near every second of film. It’s still amazing to watch.

  93. 93.

    Bruuuuce

    @FlipYrWhig: Conversely, I loved Real Genius then, love it now. It’s one of a group of videos that make it onto all of my devices (along with 1776, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Raiders of the Lost Ark</i<, Kiss Me Kate (the most recent stage revival), and Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog). Not enough Hollyfeld, sure. But any movie that can singlehandedly inspire an episode of Mythbusters is awesome.

  95. 95.

    The Red Pen

    @FlipYrWhig:

    And there’s too little Lazlo Hollyfeld.

    Word.

    The one-liners are still good.

    “Your mom puts license plates on your underwear?!”

    “‘Rue the day’? Who talks like that?”

  97. 97.

    kindness

    @dan:
    70’s schtick:
    Just about any Mel Brooks movie. Blazing Saddles is a must.
    A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum
    Any Monty Python movie (although Jabberwoky isn’t a comedy)
    C grade drive in movies:
    Kentucky Fried Movie
    Flesh Gordon

    Yes I was a teen in the 70’s if you can’t tell.

  100. 100.

    Gravenstone

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage:

    “Airplane!” is a film you need to watch about 20 times in order to get everything, dialogue and visually, that’s in the film. They put that much stuff into damn near every second of film. It’s still amazing to watch.

    First time I saw Airplane, I was in a room full of pilots and student pilots. They were giving a running commentary on the various aviation jokes.

  101. 101.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    Uploading a video to YouTube of the Endeavor flyby this morning, went *right* over my head.

  104. 104.

    Amir Khalid

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
    A bit of celebrity trivia from Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Bruce Springsteen’s baby sister Pamela was in the cast. She met Sean Penn on the set, as noted by both their IMDB profiles, and was his fiancee for a while. Pamela Springsteen is now a photographer. She’s shot album cover photos for her brother as well as for people like Alison Krauss.

  108. 108.

    Frank

    Nobody did title sequences better than Maurice Binder. Sometimes, they were the best parts of some of the worse Bond movies. He left a great legacy that I am glad the current films have followed.

  109. 109.

    Suffern ACE

    @dan: O.K. last set, since someone mentioned stripes and dirty rotten scoundrels.

    Princess Bride
    Midnight Run
    Big Trouble in Little China
    Cocoon
    Roxanne
    Hopscotch
    Throw Manna from the Train

    Now I have to work. I can’t think of a John Candy movie. There needs to be a John Candy movie.

  119. 119.

    kindness

    @Wag:

    re: Jabberwocky…I beg to differ, Dark? as night. Funny, yes!

    Well you have to consider the circumstances. When I went to see Jabberwocky, myself, my room mate and two other friends were dosed out of out minds and had been drinking tequila. It’s a wonder we made it into the theater. Some of that movie scared the shit out of me.

  122. 122.

    Steeplejack

    @The Red Pen:

    Actually, in line with Dan’s question, Coming to America (1988) is a good comedy. Also, in the Eddie Murphy oeuvre, 48 Hours (1982),Trading Places (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984). A good run, but then the funny died, at least for the rest of the ’80s.

    Dragnet (1987) with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks is surprisingly funny.

    This thread appears to have died, so I will exert myself no further.

  127. 127.

    Steeplejack

    Couldn’t resist adding more titles as I read down the thread. Sorry for the dupes.

    Also, Zelig (1983). The Woodman has to be in there somewhere.

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