Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

“They all knew.”

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

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

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Come on, man.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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  9. 9.

    Schlemizel

    Its almost as if they are trying to see how bad they can be and still have people watch. I gave up.

    We did have a great evening watching the UofM Womens Hockey team defeat The North Dakota Fighting Wouix in 3 OTs. The Wouix played the cheap shot dirty hockey UND has become known for but still could not beat Minnesota, The Gophers are 39-0-0 on the season and 47-0-0 since February 2012. #10 had to be helped off the ice after a vicious crosscheck that came after she scored the winning goal. Cheaters never win.

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    FlipYrWhig

    It’s a rerun of a weak episode. The Timberlake one was OK. Kevin Hart, before that, was awful. Melissa McCarthy next week, I think, has potential.

  11. 11.

    smike

    No SNL wisdom here, since I am watching golf (the ONLY way to watch golf is dvr’ed – much quicker and much less painful). I’ve just been wanting to say that I recently realized this has become one of my favorite sites and thought y’all might like to hear that. Thanks, John. Kudos to Betty, too. I followed her over here (I hadn’t been here in a while) and decided that it was worth the trip.

  12. 12.

    Suffern ACE

    @FlipYrWhig: Do they still call those SNL reruns “Encore Presentations?” I always thought that made no sense when the episode was bad.

  13. 13.

    ruemara

    just came back from a Liberalia/St. Paddy’s fest. Am now quite fat and planning to diet strenuously to achieve my preferred gaunt shape. It’s amazing how chunky one gets working out 5x a week and eating 3 meals a day.

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @smike: Dude/Dudette, run. Run for your life. This blog is full of crazy people and it will suck up your spare time. Save yourself while you still can.

  17. 17.

    dance around in your bones

    Gads, I remember watching SNL waaaay back in the day when it had John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase…ok, you get the picture.

    We used to smoke the doobs and laugh our asses off. SNL has never seemed that funny to me since.

    {{except for Tina Fey…ok, maybe Andy Samberg, too. ok Jimmy Fallon.}}

    Ok, I am an old.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yutsano: The only birds I trust are the raptors. They are upfront about wanting to tear one to pieces. The rest are just waiting for Tippi.

  20. 20.

    FlipYrWhig

    @dance around in your bones: weed has a distorting effect on humor, apparently. To wit, all of “Adult Swim.”

    @Suffern ACE: I almost always miss the first two or three minutes, so I couldn’t tell you. I suppose from a marketing perspective calling old episodes “Stale Topical References and Yelling” wouldn’t be a smart move.

  26. 26.

    Librarian

    I stopped watching SNL when they fired Norm McDonald. That’s when it ceased to be funny.

  27. 27.

    smike

    @efgoldman: Ah, as we all do, efgoldman. Thanks for the reference, which has prompted a thorough review of the story, which I last visited 30 or 40 years ago. Over time my memory of Smike was clouded by no details – just a feeling of pleasure in watching his portrayal. It was on PBS, I believe. Masterpiece Theater.

  28. 28.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @dance around in your bones:
    Same here. I’m surprised that we still have all of our limbs after doing endless stoned and/or drunken Belushi samurai imitations.

    Though I’ve dropped in on SNL a few times since those days I had the misfortune to drop in on the nights that it sucked.

  29. 29.

    dance around in your bones

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    Samurai Delicatessen

    He used to make me almost pee my pants laughing.

    Ok, maybe the doobies helped. But SNL used to be much funnier back in the day, IMHO. Plus, it was rather unprecedented humor in the days of Johnny Carson and etc.

    I still remember one episode where the police busted into an apartment and hassle a couple (innocently smoking a joint) so much that they jump out the window. Whereupon the cops say “Another marijuana related death”. I think that was Ackroyd and Belushi.

    I just about died of laughter.

  30. 30.

    BD of MN

    If you’re in an area where you can occasionally see the Northern Lights, you may want to go peek out the window (I’m too close to the big city and too tired to go driving now, so take a pretty picture for me…):

    The Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) observed in conjunction with an R1 (Minor) solar flare radio blackout in the early hours of March 15th has arrived (detected at the ACE spacecraft just upstream of Earth at 5:28 UTC (1:28 am Eastern) on the 17th). G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storming is possible throughout the 17th as a result. Aurora watchers across the northernmost states in the lower 48 may have the opportunity to view the aurora early on Sunday morning, clear skies permitting. Additionally, the small S1 (Minor) radiation storm associated with this event is currently hovering near the event threshold. Stay tuned for updates.

    NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center

  32. 32.

    dance around in your bones

    @YellowJournalism:

    I loved the bit where Aunt Edna croaked in the car. And Clark tied her to the roof until he could leave her on the porch at a relative’s house.

    Then the “service” on the porch:

    Oh Lord, ease our suffering in this our time of great despair. Admit this good and decent woman into thine heavenly area up there. The flock. And Mohab laid down by the band of the Kingonights and although the Hindues speak of carma, I implore you, give, give her a break…Barookatah, Hallalooyah.

  34. 34.

    Elizabelle

    I liked Ana Gasteyer and Will Ferrell a lot.

    Is it the writing? What’s going wrong with recent shows?

    (I saw Django Unchained again last night. Much better use of time.)

  35. 35.

    kyle

    @FlipYrWhig:

    from a marketing perspective calling old episodes “Stale Topical References and Yelling” wouldn’t be a smart move.

    Now that’s fucking funny.

  36. 36.

    kc

    I think SNL has been pretty funny for the last few seasons. Not ALL the bits are good, but hey, whaddaya expect.

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