Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

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

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

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

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

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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  1. 1.

    the Conster

    Let the pope fluffing begin! He’s humble! He’ll promote the life of the mind! He prays to Mary! He’s a breath of fresh air! He cares about the poor! I’m sure our media will focus any minute now on his relationship with the junta, amirite?

  2. 2.

    Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage)

    No love for Scott Prouty? Fellow Masshole. I knew a guy named Prouty back in the day. Even looked like our friend Scott. Maybe related, dunno.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Mary

    Meanwhile, the WFMU pledge drive with Yo La Tengo murderating all sorts of things is running NOW. It’s usually in the evening, but YLT are in Germany on tour, so on their day off, they’re holed up in a studio with a German engineer.

    WFMU home page (with streams at top and links for pledging)

    Live setlist on Google docs shows what they’ve covered so far

    And just for you, Francis, a little Monochrome Set.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Mary

    @MikeJ: Yeah, they’re pretty tight today, but not uptight, you dig? That Google doc also shows their setlists for their tour and it’s great to see how they mix things up from night to night.

  13. 13.

    bemused

    I saw a crawl on the tv this morning that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood criticized a UN report that aims to end violence against women and girls saying it is a deception. I thought, how ironic that our own wingnuts fought against renewing the violence against women act here. One item in Muslim Brotherhood’s 10 point critique is that the UN document seeks to destroy the family institution. Could any of our msm ace reporters please ask Marsha Blackburn, Cantor and all the rest of the 138 or so Republicans who voted against the VAWA how they are different from the Muslim Brotherhood? I particularly wish they would pile on the most islamophobic members. Stupid question, won’t happen.

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    Updating the BIOS on my laptop. Also found the latest iteration of FF is a massive memory hog. Sigh. I wanted to have this thing last me at least until I’m a GS-8 and can afford stuff a bit better.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suffern ACE: Aside from the idiocy of trying argue that possession of a condom is evidence of prostitution, the fact that NYC is handing the things out for free raises a giant entrapment issue.

  16. 16.

    Comrade Mary

    @Yutsano:

    Also found the latest iteration of FF is a massive memory hog.

    Oh, sweet tapdancing Jesus Christ, YES! Also, too, that new built-in PDF reader is a piece of shit.

  18. 18.

    kindness

    I for some insane reason am looking forward to the knuckle dragging/drooling/ranting coming out of CPAC today. It’ll be a nice respite from 24/7 all Pope/some Obama slaming the MSM dredges up that I’m bored with.

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    Violet

    @kindness: Isn’t Sarah Palin speaking at that thing? That ought to be good for some entertainment. And isn’t Trump showing up? How long before she’s on Celebrity Apprentice?

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    @Comrade Mary: I noticed out of nowhere my computer was dragging like crazy, so I did a couple of performance checks. Everything looked fine except FF’s memory usage was just HUGE. There must be some way of paring that down cause it’s ridonkulous.

  26. 26.

    bemused

    @Yutsano:

    If we had nice things like legitimate journalism, this would be a fantastic story to cover. Just think of the great soundbites they’d get from all those folks. Too bad it won’t happen. There is just so much more they have to say about white house tours and the hounds of wingnutville would descend upon them for unfairly picking on the Republicans.

  29. 29.

    the Conster

    @bemused:

    That’s why those same nutjobs get all worked up about Muslims in the government and shariah law – they don’t want the competition.

  33. 33.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @bemused:
    Quoting their own words is now grounds for squeals of outrage. Quoting two or more participants at a conservative event is now categorized as a “witch hunt.”

  37. 37.

    scav

    @Older_Wiser: Well, as the Higg’s Boson failed entirely to destroy the world as we know it or merely a chunk of Switzerland (yes, some breadstuffs may have suffered), I think Flatus Prolongo Flirtus I is looking much the better deal

  38. 38.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @the Conster:

    Let the pope fluffing begin! He’s humble! He’ll promote the life of the mind! He prays to Mary! He’s a breath of fresh air! He cares about the poor! I’m sure our media will focus any minute now on his relationship with the junta, amirite?

    I heard he once lived inside of a porta-john for twelve years as a testament to his asceticism.

  39. 39.

    different-church-lady

    Dear music industry: sweep filtering the vocals is no longer novel — enough.

    In the meantime… people keep asking me, “What is a hipster nowadays?” Because everyone seems to be over-using to mean, “Any person younger than I am who seems to be having more fun with their life than I am.” Now, instead of doing a bunch of tedious explaining, I can just show them this video and be done.

  42. 42.

    Steeplejack

    It’s Pi Day, people!

    I would have thought that with the geek quotient around here, not to mention how much our trolls love pie, we would have had a thread on this, or at least some acknowledgment.

  46. 46.

    nastybrutishntall

    Berlin hipsters, specifically. But it’s a little posh sounding to be truly hipster. International vocal sweeps with a side of Döner.

  48. 48.

    steverino

    The lengthy byline, though amusing, is munging the post body on my mobile devices. And this kindle fire keypad stinks.

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