Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We’re not going back!

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

“woke” is the new caravan.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

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

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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willie hrc doobies by gary miller via texas monthly
(Garry Miller, for Texas Monthly)
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Texas Monthly has an exclusive interview with foxy grampaw Willie Nelson:

TM: But to be clear, you think everybody should be able to get married?

WN: Absolutely. I never thought of marriage as something only for men and women. But I’d never marry a guy I didn’t like.

“Images available for download… for use as avatars on your Facebook or Twitter account” available at the link.

And here’s the title song, which is probably NSFW under strict high-corporate standards.

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  3. 3.

    Seonachan

    Ned Sublette, who wrote the song 30 years ago, recorded a brilliant version of it that was never released, with a full Texas swing backup. This version is a much more acquired taste.

  6. 6.

    GrammyPat

    Annie, Good on you for reading Tx Monthly. IMHO, it’s a world-class publication. Framed on my wall is its May, 2008, cover with Willie embracing his beloved Martin. Both are very well worn and, in the photo, their relationship appears akin to the love of a marriage. Willie is beyond awesome.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    So Sen. Portman’s son, a junior at Yale, penned an essay for the paper there attempting to lay out his and his father’s positioning.

    Frankly, from a junior at an Ivy League school I’d expected something more meaty than what reads like a humdrum bar mitzvah speech or a 9th grader’s boilerplate effort to touch all the buttons he surmised those grading it are expecting. I don’t begrudge him not being a masterful writer, but I am taken aback at the rudimentary level of competence in the composition.

  13. 13.

    ant

    @Seonachan:

    Ned Sublette,

    Thanks fer that link.

    I didn’t grow up with country music, so I don’t care for it, but I think I like that version better than Willy Nelson’s remake. It’s very well done.

    I don’t mind a good country song every once in a while.

  15. 15.

    MikeJ

    @Mustang Bobby: Why is it that white guys always feel like they’re the perfect arbiters of precisely how seriously other people should take things said about them?

  16. 16.

    fuckwit

    For some reason, I always think of when he was on SNL and did a sketch “Great Moments in the History of White Trash”.

    Also, Bill Hicks doing his schtick about Willie as the star on the new reality show “IRS BUST!”

  17. 17.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    @Mustang Bobby: one of the striking things about that interview is that the article from that Ketchikan radio station had nothing on the “wetback” comment, they just coasted on by it.

  18. 18.

    Maude

    @Steeplejack (phone):
    Had forgotten you were traveling. Wondered if you were okay. Back on east coast, housecat needs the cat command center turned on every day. Still a bit chilly for shutting down the heat.
    Enjoy yourself.

  20. 20.

    Schlemizel

    Remember the doofus at CPAC who thought slaves should have been grateful for the food & housing NOTE: he forgot to mention the great motivational efforts of the masters! Today people spend big bucks to go to motivational seminars those slaves got it for free! anyway, turns out the clown is a student at a university in MD and he has a student organization with a very important role on campus:
    http://jezebel.com/5992735/insane-white-student-union-patrols-campus-in-face-of-perceived-black-crime-wave

    Seriously, their goal is to save the white women from black crime. I just want to weep, this shit may never end

  23. 23.

    RedKitten

    Good for Willie! He definitely won’t change the minds of any hardcore homophobes, but it’s great to hear a country music legend speak out like that, as the genre’s fan base tends to lean rather rightward, in my experience.

  24. 24.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Schlemizel: Wow, Jezebel is slow with the news. That’s been posted on the front page.

    Also, pet peeve time: “Texas Monthly has an exclusive interview …” I really wish people would throw the term “exclusive” under the bus. It’s exceedingly rare these days that anyone gets an “exclusive” interview with a celebrity. It’s meaningless.

    ETA: If you want something else to worry about, this has been making the rounds in the tech world the past two days: The FBI is hoping for more “real-time” monitoring of Internet chat, etc. I can’t see how this would get abused. /snark

  25. 25.

    amk

    WN: It never came up. Gay or straight? Married, not married? It was never a question. And now there’s fussin’, fightin’, and arguin’ over it? Let’s get off that and talk about guns.

    Gotta love this guy.

  26. 26.

    Linda Featheringill

    I can testify that “wetback” was an insulting term as far back as 1950. It probably was rude and racist a long time before then. Just how old is this guy that’s throwing that term around? 150?

  29. 29.

    JPL

    Good Morning America celebrated Sam Champions marriage and the Today Show spoke about the pregnancy of Jenna Wolfe. Both people are gay. If the homophobic group, want to boycott stations with openly gay people, they will have few choices.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Yutsano:

    Been in Las Vegas since Monday night. Going back Saturday night.

    And I am now awake at 4:40 in the morning.

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Maude:

    The housecat is at my brother’s house, and those bastards have refused to send a proof-of-life photo.

  36. 36.

    Schlemizel

    @JPL:

    I’m gonna guess he never discusses it though and the folks who watch FAUX are big on denial. Let me know when they let him talk openly about his chosen life style ;)

  37. 37.

    NonyNony

    @NotMax:

    Frankly, from a junior at an Ivy League school I’d expected something more meaty …

    Why? Because you still have the illusion that the reputation that the Ivy League schools have is one that they’ve actually earned through the kinds of students that they actually produce and not because they happen to be an intricate part of the social network for rich Americans?

    You get very good students who graduate out of the Ivy League schools – you also get a lot of duds. Just like any other university on the planet (Let’s not forget that both Yale and Harvard gave George W Bush degrees after all). The primary purpose of the Ivy League schools is as a networking center for the wealthy elite and those who are trying to break into the wealthy elite. Portman, as the son of a US Senator, is in that first class and so his skills don’t have to be any better than those of a typical college junior anywhere else. (That second group though – to get in as part of that group you need skills. And it’s probably mostly from that group – where there are no “legacy admissions” – that the Ivy League gets its reputation for being a place for the best and brightest students.)

    ETA: Not that young Portman is a legacy admission, but his father is a US Senator and has been part of the political class for much of his adult life as well as being rich. There are other strings that can be tugged as needed when such folks come calling.

  40. 40.

    kdaug

    @fuckwit:

    Also, Bill Hicks doing his schtick about Willie as the star on the new reality show “IRS BUST!”

    I will contribute to the Bill Hicks statue. Seriously.

  41. 41.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @NonyNony: so i went to Yale and i do alumni interviews now. these days even most of the ones with giant bank accounts and famous parents are pretty damn outstanding – not all mind, but most. FWIW my money is on sen portman’s staff having ghost written this article.

  43. 43.

    RaflW

    We could use a bit of Willie Nelson humor up here today. Minnesotans for Marriage released a “sermon starter kit” that includes making the assertion that pro-freedom to marry folks use Goebbels-like Nazi propaganda techniques.

    Yes, the same MN4Marriage folks who apologized publicly for making that spurious Nazi claim less than 6 months ago.

    These folks are desperate and shameless.

  44. 44.

    mai naem

    @NotMax: I had the same thoughts when I read the piece. I am assuming that he’s in the sciences and not in an area where writing skills are as important. Assuming it but wouldn’t be shocked if he got in as a legacy, what with Portman being Bush’s budget guy.

  45. 45.

    The Moar You Know

    Willie Nelson’s more of an American than almost any American I know. For freedom. For equality. Cheats on his taxes. Wears his hair long and doesn’t give a fuck. Plays a Martin.

    Not a Gibson, which is for fake cowboys
    Not a Taylor; which is for insufferable “singer songwriter” types

    No, he plays a motherfucking Martin, God’s own guitar.

  46. 46.

    drkrick

    @Linda Featheringill:It’s not that the term wasn’t insulting when he was a kid. It was that white people didn’t have to care about insulting those people. That’s what they keep forgetting.

  47. 47.

    Jebediah

    @The Moar You Know:

    Not a Gibson, which is for fake cowboys
    Not a Taylor; which is for insufferable “singer songwriter” types

    I’m afraid to ask where mine (Simon and Patrick) fits in…

  49. 49.

    Mary Jane Leach

    So nice to see my friend Ned Sublette getting some credit. He’s an important part of the NYC experimental music scene, as well as now being a huge advocate/expert for/on Cuban music.

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