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Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The willow is too close to the house.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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

This really is a full service blog.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

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

Everybody saw this coming.

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

In my day, never was longer.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Consistently wrong since 2002

You cannot shame the shameless.

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

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I am absolutely guttered, and I am listening to pop music for some reason. I’ve played this three times in a row, and I do, in a drunken stupor, one fucking amazing falsetto:

It won’t be long before I crank this:

So, give me your best. Not listening to the Stones or Floyd or Zeppelin or the Dead tonight. It’s all trash.

Link them and I will listen.

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  1. 1.

    some guy

    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=538489

    List of victims of Israel’s assault on Gaza
    Published yesterday (updated) 17/11/2012 22:03
    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians killed in the Israeli offensive as of Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.

    Wednesday, Nov. 14

    1. Ahmad al-Jaabari
    2. Muhammad al-Hums
    3. Ranan Arafat (child)
    4. Omar Mashharawi (child)
    5. Isam Abu al-Miza
    6. Muhammad al-Kaseih
    7. Hiba Mashharawi Turk (pregnant woman)
    8. Mahmoud Abu Sawawin (elderly man)

    Thursday, Nov. 15

    9. Habis Masmah
    10. Wael al-Ghalban
    11. Hisham al-Ghalban
    12. Rani Hammad
    13. Khalid Abu al-Nasr
    14. Marwan Abu al-Qumsan (elderly man)
    15. Walid Abadla (child)
    16. Hanin Tafish (infant)
    17. Uday Jamal Nasser
    18. Tareq Jamal Nasser
    19. Faris Basyouni (child)

    Friday, Nov. 16

    20. Muhammad Iyad Saadallah (child)
    21. Ayman al-Abid Abu Warda
    22. Tahrir Suleiman
    23. Ismail Qandil
    24. Younis Kamil Tafish
    25. Muhammad Suleiman
    26. Amjad Abu Jalal
    27. Ziad Abu Jalal
    28. Ahmad Abu Jalal
    29. Hasan al-Heilma
    30. Khalid al-Shayer

    Saturday, Nov. 17

    31. Ayman Salim
    32. Ahmad Abu Masmah
    33. Mukhlis Udwan
    34. Abdul-Rahman al-Misri
    35. Muhammad al-Lolahi
    36. Awad al-Nahhal
    37. Ali Abdul-Hakim Manama
    38. Osama Abdul-Jawwad
    39. Ashraf Darwish
    40. Ahmad al-Atrash
    41. Muhammad Yasin
    42. Osama al-Qady
    43. Ali Bin Iseid
    44. Muhammad Aydat
    45. Samahar Qidih

  7. 7.

    redshirt

    How about the Beatles? ;)

    Topic: Best “rock” band of all time. Use any metric you wish to measure. I’d argue there’s a handful in the discussion – Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin… who else?

    I’d say that cultural impact should weigh as heavily as quality of music. By this measure, The Beatles are the clear number one. But if you judge by quality, I don’t see anyone at any time better than Zeppelin.

  15. 15.

    The Dangerman

    I am absolutely guttered…

    Must not be an Alabama football fan or you hate early Christmas gifts.

    Fuck, another SEC Champion likely (Notre Dame is not for real, but Barkley is done for the year, so USC is toothless, along with many Alabama fans). That sucks.

  23. 23.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Yutsano: I only ever like Kylie when I’m drunk or at the gym. Stupid kidney issues mean I can’t get drunk anymore, and I’m not sure orchestral Kylie and the free weights will go together. Need examples. Post them!

  37. 37.

    MikeJ

    @Violet: His best of album, “If I’m a Ham, You’re a Sausage” is awesome. Includes Praying Mantis, “Teenage Suicide” (The Big Fun song he did for Heathers), and the dBs Song Bad Reputation close to the finest three minutes of pop perfection ever.

  41. 41.

    Narcissus

    Is this the George Michael video with the nipple? I remember being like 8 years old and my best friends was all like “Dude, turn on MTV! There’s a video with a boob!”

  44. 44.

    Radio One

    I hope that since we got rid of Mitt, that we cold also do away with the phrase “if you will.” I’ve puzzled over Mitt Romney’s claim to eschew big game hunting in order to hunt small rodents and rabbits and he he says “small varmints, if you will” fucking twice. After he lost the election, in his phone conference to his GOP donors, he uses “if you will” so frequently that it seems like he thinks it’s a serious talking point; that the only reason he thought he lost is because he didn’t say it often enough.

  50. 50.

    freelancer

    @Alison:

    I’ve heard it four times in the last few months. What with Revolution 30 second spots, the Danny Boyle movie The Beach, and Jason Derulo, it’s everywhere.

  59. 59.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Yutsano: It’s a conspiracy. That song is geoblocked. Where’s my tinfoil hat?

    ETA: found another upload. Stupid geoblocking.

  75. 75.

    Kris Collins

    Christina is amazing, but that is a painfully terrible song, I can’t stand to listen to it for one second. George is always fun, but I watched SNL tonight partly for Jeremy Renner, but mostly for Adam Levine, pop doesn’t get ay better than that! Don’t know how to link anything, but I’m sure YouTube has tons of Maroon 5.

  78. 78.

    fuckwit

    Hey, I just saw Marco Rubio starting his 2016 presidential run!

    This is it! Karl Rove has listened to the people! He’s looked at the demographics! He has run the numbers!

    What the people want, is a brown candidate! Someone with a name with lots of vowels in it, and who knows how to roll his “r’s” properly. Someone, ideally, right-wing and Cuban… and beholden to the Bush family.

    Here he is! Marco Rubio, the Rethug darling of 2016, on his way!

  87. 87.

    PurpleGirl

    @fuckwit: Marco Rubio ain’t brown. He just isn’t. He’s pasty white; probably doesn’t tan, just burns if he’s the sun for any length of time.

  90. 90.

    Xenos

    @TheMightyTrowel:

    Also: just spent the last hour picking a fight over email with a Discover Mag blogger about his snide treatment of archaeologists in a blog post about Neanderthal genetics. It’s fun making scientists squirm

    I wandered over there and the relevant comments seem to have been deleted. A shame, as I would have enjoyed reading that…

    (oops, you said ’email’, not comments. so of course it was not visible. need more coffee…)

  91. 91.

    PurpleGirl

    @Yutsano: Yup. I dated one of them in college. Rubio reminds me of that guy.

    (The family still had the 300 year old handmade Spanish lace wedding gown the “original” bride brought with her from Spain.)

  93. 93.

    JGabriel

    Ross Douthat:

    Consider the Hispanic vote. … {Democrats are] winning recent immigrants because those immigrants often aren’t assimilating successfully — or worse, are assimilating downward, thanks to rising out-of-wedlock birthrates and high dropout rates. The Democratic edge among Hispanics depends heavily on these darker trends: the weaker that families and communities are, the more necessary government support inevitably seems.
    __
    Likewise with the growing number of unmarried Americans, especially unmarried women.

    And more in the Democrats-Only-Win-Because-Their-Voters-Are-Loser-Sluts-And-Slurs vein.

    Thank, Ross, for continuing the fine tradition of insulting voters into the Democratic Party.

    Seriously, these guys never fucking learn. It’s really kind of astonishing.

    .

  94. 94.

    Howard Beale IV

    @piratedan: Ah, yes, The Pillows. My alarm on my phone is this, with perhaps the most selfless line ever in a anime title song, sung in english by Hyde:

    My life I’ll trade for your pain

  98. 98.

    PurpleGirl

    @JGabriel: Gee, Ross, talking about hollowed out communities, who did much of that hollowing by moving our industrial base to China… could it have been Republicans like Romney?

    Based on your own history, Ross baby, would you have been prepared to marry the woman you wanted to have sex with during college until you found out she was using birth control had she gotten pregnant? Huh, huh, well, Ross baby?

    Ross baby, you’re a creep.

  100. 100.

    PurpleGirl

    @? Martin: At the same time, there are blocks in Alphabet City (the Lower East Side), like around Avenue C and 13th St., which lose just regular phone service after it rains at any time. Verizon just can’t seem to fix the wiring.

  108. 108.

    JWR

    @Anne Laurie: It may very well be that I was first turned on to “K-Pop” right here. And since you’ve posted it again, I guess I’ve no choice but to listen to it again!

  111. 111.

    Patricia Kayden

    @JGabriel: I work, am married, have no children, make a good amount of dough. Yet I’ve always voted for Democrats. Must be because I’m Black though. Y’all know that Black folks are cursed. Thank you Repubs for letting me know why I pathologically always vote for the Democratic Party.

  112. 112.

    slightly_peeved

    For songs that make me smile, because I have the mentality of a 12 year old: ‘Yo Mama’ by Butterfingers

    Well, that’s the official title, but the full line from the song is ‘Your Mama’s on the top of my “things to do” list’.

  113. 113.

    PoliticalHack

    You want pure ear candy slash junk? Just go to Youtube and hit up Glee, and watch video after video. Sure, your mind may be mush after an hour or two, but once in a while going down that Youtube rabbit hole can be fun.

    Want a slightly more complex experience? Look for Heart’s “Dog and Butterfly”, then jump to Rufus Wainright’s version, then continue again down the rabbit hole.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-NB0GiPvh0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djehpOUI1IM

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