Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

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

We are aware of all internet traditions.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

You cannot shame the shameless.

This really is a full service blog.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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  2. 2.

    TOP123

    Ha! My first thought on seeing that on Google was to come here, and I was not disappointed! Would love to have seen the meeting where that was decided.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    The minute I saw that Google doodle this morning, I just knew the wingnuts were going to lose their shit over it. They’re incapable of recognizing that not everyone in the world thinks and believes what they think and believe, or that more than one thing can be commemorated on the same date, or that they’re not the majority of people in the world.

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    In this Holiday spirit of love, rebirth and resurrection you choose to stomp all over mistermix’s thread?!
    Godless commie-heathen-o-fascist.

  5. 5.

    MikeBoyScout

    Bravo to Google!

    And the funniest thing about the wingnut tantrum it will bring, is like all its doodles (and most everything Google does), it was market tested as a winner prior to its posting.

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    Speaking of resurrection, I had some kind of food poisoning yesterday and I found myself resurrecting the absolute hell out of some stuff. Some possible rebirth in there too, also.

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    How is it the fault of Chavez that his birthday is also a religious holiday this year?

    My take: if I don’t get the day off for it, it don’t count.

  9. 9.

    scav

    @Corner Stone: Like a poorly cooked 3-minute egg sporting artificial dyes. If that thread can’t rise from the dead after three days, what’s it doing hanging around a farm laborer’s birthday?

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    @scav:

    what’s it doing hanging around a farm laborer’s birthday?

    Farm laborer? I was waiting for the doodle to start punching people in the face.

  12. 12.

    MattF

    Google rings quite a few bells with this one– Chavez being an organizer of mostly Hispanic farmworkers. There was the great grape boycott back in the day. I was writing for my college newspaper, and I followed a food-services bureaucrat around all day trying to get him to answer questions about whether grapes would be banned from the University cafeterias:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_grape_strike

    And we DFHs, back when we really were DFHs, were right, as usual.

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I think I’m not the only What The Fucker who posts here?

    marc maron ‏@ marcmaron 16m
    For those whose day is all about eggs, a rabbit, chocolate and a flying Jew–enjoy it.

    @scav: I gather I missed an epic “this is why I hate this blog” thread?

  15. 15.

    Corner Stone

    Ok, so baseball Opening Day! Who wants to wager on how many losses my Astros will have this season in the AL?
    I’m going with 120.

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    Question of the day is how many of the nutters will get their hackles up and post what they are sure are scathing condemnations of Google, complaining because they mistakenly think it is that other Chavez?

    Offhand, I’d say somewhere around 27%.

  19. 19.

    MikeBoyScout

    OBTW, it ain’t Easter today for all Christians.
    Don’t tell the wingnuts, else SCHISM!

  21. 21.

    Corner Stone

    My first thought was the honchos at teh Goog told the doodlers to do one on Jesus but they all thought it was Jesus.

  22. 22.

    R-Jud

    I’ve just finished a Skype conversation with my youngest sister. “Did you know I’ve been channeling angels all my life?” she said.

    I laughed. But she was serious, and went on to explain some of the messages she has had. Does anyone know someone in the NYC area who’d be willing to throw a net over a tall redhead and force her to take a logic class or some medication or something?

  24. 24.

    Corner Stone

    @R-Jud: I’d love to but,..umm..kinda still on a little bit of a thing about that other thing that one time. It was all just a big misunderstanding.
    So maybe next time.

  25. 25.

    trollhattan

    Ha! Has Stalkin’ Malkin posted a new cheer, yet?

    Tomorrow I get a paid holiday on accounta Mr. Chavez, so double-commie sin right there.

    To be fair, it was not all roses and kittens with the UFW–I worked with someone who grew up on a small farm in the southern San Joaquin, and her family received death threats from activists. It was a tumultuous period for the folks actually in the midst of it. Me, I knew about the picketers at a few of the Seattle Safeways. It all seemed rather remote and exotic at the time.

    “Harvest of Shame” is an example of broadcast journalism actually doing something positive in educating the public. Hard to envision anything similar occurring today.

  26. 26.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @MikeBoyScout: I saw a list of the Sunday show guests, Timmeh Dolan is on two, and the DC Beanie is on a third. No (professional) Protestants that I saw. Maybe sticking to my (former) tribe is a way of avoiding awkward questions about the lack of women asked to help create a state religion. Of course, we were spared free media attention for Franklin Graham’s awful progeny, so there’s that.

  28. 28.

    MikeBoyScout

    Oh, it is all just TOO good.

    Some nutjob blog identifying itself as Red Alert Politics has a blogger, Kelsey Osterman, who concludes her rant and conspiracy theory with
    “After all, it’s not like Christianity is the biggest religion in the world or anything.“

  29. 29.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @Ben Franklin: does Google really care about activists?

    This is the first time I’ve seen that sentiment expressed in any context on this thread.

  30. 30.

    TOP123

    @R-Jud: I’m assuming from your tone that you are thinking less ‘troubled’ and more ‘acting flaky’ in which case I can suggest that you take comfort from the fact that we have lots, lots, lots of distractions here that might take her in a different direction! New to the city, or…?

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    Speaking of religious observances, the High Church of Gun Fondlers held a pre-sunrise service in the Seattle suburbs this morning. Feel the Freedom!

    Gunfire erupted in the parking lot of a popular Auburn sports bar early Sunday, leaving three dead, one injured and police looking for suspects and answers.

    Auburn Police Cmdr. Mike Hirman said detectives have recovered at least two guns, are questioning a “person of interest” and are processing a “very large crime scene” at The Sports Page, 2802 Auburn Way North.

    The incident began about 1:45 a.m. when a large group of people — as many as 50, he said — were ”milling about” in the parking lot of the bar, located in a strip mall across Auburn Way North from the municipal airport.

    “Some sort of dispute erupted. You know, over a girl or words or something, and somebody started shooting and then somebody else started shooting,” Hirman said. There were at least two guns involved and Hirman said there may have been other shooters, as well. “We really are just trying to sort it out. We have a very large crime scene and there were a lot of witnesses. One thing we know we have is guns and drinking.” As many as a dozen people may have been involved in the fight, he said.

    The parking lot was mayhem when the shooting stopped, Hirman said, with three men — all in their 20s — down and dying and a fourth victim thrown in the back of a car and rushed by his friends to Auburn General Hospital. That individual suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was transported to Harborview Medical Center, where he is in critical condition.

    Hirman said one bullet-riddled car was found in Kent and another in Federal Way. Those vehicles were impounded.

    http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/03/three-dead-in-auburn-tavern-shootout/

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Ben Franklin: Sorry to pee on our Easter hero,

    No you’re not. It’s what you do. We’d all be disappointed if you gave up the whole Progressiver-than-thou thing. Well, I wouldn’t, but others might.

  35. 35.

    MikeBoyScout

    And Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him. and also at Google.

  36. 36.

    Yutsano

    @trollhattan:

    That individual suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was transported to Harborview Medical Center, where he is in critical condition.

    If you’re going to Harborview you’re about one step away from death. And Auburn isn’t exactly the nicest side of town IYKWIMAITYD.

  37. 37.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    Love thy neighbor, unless it’s Google. Then fuck them b/c they don’t affirm 100% of my beliefs.

  38. 38.

    Mandalay

    God Bless Google

    Ahh, bless google. Ain’t they sweet? It’s almost like they’re one of us. Alternatively, maybe google is playing you like a cheap violin. Do you also want to bless google for this?….

    There’s now officially no word for “ungoogleable”, meaning “impossible to find via web search” in Swedish – although there was a term until this week.

    The Language Council of Sweden, which oversees the addition of official new words to the Swedish lexicon, had lined up ogooglebar, defined as “something that cannot be found on the web using a search engine”.

    The term had become a notable new use or neologism during 2012, it decided, alongside emoji, emoticons used in instant messages; drinkorexi, an eating disorder involving barely eating while drinking alcohol instead; and conversesjukan, or Converse disease, bad feet or posture caused by wearing trendy trainers.

    Google’s lawyers, however, got wind of the council’s intentions and told it the company did not want its trademark diluted by being used to apply to all searching. Instead, the definition should be “something that cannot be found on the web using Google”. And include a trademark notification, the search giant added.

    These stinking pigfuckers are trying to control language FFS. Stop sucking their cock.

  39. 39.

    scav

    BF What a sad little life always waiting for the great perfect pumpkin that is without stain. This is just enjoying watching a deftly weilded big stick getting a bunch of easily offended to hop on cue, in an unexpected and yet undoubtedly calculated manner.

    Oh, and speaking of flying and synchronized bunnies, Richard Vranch!

  40. 40.

    raven

    @Yutsano: Eastore party down the street. I’ll have to fit it in between games or rely on the dvr for the first half of the Ville and Duke. I’m going to do a turkey for us later.

  41. 41.

    Ben Franklin

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    . We’d all be disappointed if you gave up the whole Progressiver-than-thou thing

    Oh, that’s what’s bothering you. I thought the badge of progressivism was limited to harping about how right-wingers are so far to the right.

  44. 44.

    Corner Stone

    @raven: You’re going to miss the best team in this tourny putting a beat down on the insufferable Dookies?!
    I’m not really a Pitino fan but Lville is with no doubt the best team in the country.

  45. 45.

    oldster

    Assuming this is an open thread:

    Krugman has generally resisted the temptation to attack his fellow-op-ed’ers like Rove’s minion Brooks and Cheney’s minion Friedman. I’m sure it’s a condition of his employment.

    But today he does something that is going to get him a rebuke from Bill Keller–he lays into a moronic editorial by David Stockman, even though it’s on the NYT’s editorial page.

    And he *really* lays into it. It’s a thing of beauty, and entirely justified.

  47. 47.

    Anoniminous

    @Yutsano:

    Huh.

    Auburn was a nice little town when I knew it. The downtown and the area around downtown was a 1900-era architectural gem.

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    @Yutsano:
    When I lived there [pause to oil squeaky rocker] Auburn was a sleepy town you drove through farmland to reach, from Seattle. Come to think of it, when still a kid I was, so was Belleview (not so sleepy, but there were berry farms south of town).

    Shooting sprees, not so much.

  49. 49.

    Johnny Coelacanth

    Hey, could someone do me a favor and tell me if this article in The Atlantic says what I think it says? Because I get a real “it might be time to forego restraint and bomb North Korea” vibe from it.

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    Note to self: reconsider hatred of all things Jim Carrey.

    The feud between conservatives and comedian Jim Carrey continued on Friday as Carrey released a statement slamming Fox News and making fun of the backlash against his recent music video mocking Charleton Heston.

    “In my opinion Fux News [sic] is a last resort for kinda-sorta-almost-journalists whose options have been severely limited by their extreme and intolerant views,” Carrey said in his statement. “A media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it becomes a public health issue.”

    According to the Huffington Post, Carrey has continued fending off criticism on Twitter since releasing “Cold Dead Hand,” in which he said Heston, a conservative icon and National Rifle Association advocate, had an “itty bitty gland.”

    “I would take them to task legally if I felt they were worth my time or that anyone with a brain in their head could actually fall for such irresponsible buffoonery,” Carrey wrote. “That would gain them far too much attention which is all they really care about.”

    Carrey has also been knocked by conservative pundits like radio host Laura Ingraham and Fox News host Greg Gutfeld.

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/30/jim-carrey-fires-back-fox-news-a-media-colostomy-bag-that-has-begun-to-burst-at-the-seams/

  51. 51.

    Ben Franklin

    Information warfare is the 21st Century equivalent of class warfare, with people like Aaron Swartz (threatened with decades of imprisonment, then bullied by prosecutors into taking his own life), Barrett Brown (imprisoned, awaiting trial and threatened with life imprisonment), Jeremy Hammond (same), Julian Assange (under investigation by Grand Jury) and Bradley Manning (facing life sentence in upcoming trial) as its most notable victims whom the US Government has decided to make an example of so as to deter others from following suit. Some have described leakers, whistleblowers, hackers and those that publish the information subsequently released by them as modern-day Robin Hoods, engaged in liberating information from the oligarchs of politicians, banker barons and their ilk. Today we focus on what is happening with Barrett Brown (and, in doing so, expand upon some of his investigations).

    http://darkernet.in/hammond-brown-swartz-assange-manning-information-warriors-of-the-digital-wasteland/

  52. 52.

    MikeBoyScout

    @45 Roger Moore:

    And Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him. and also at Google.

    OMG! I winned teh internets today?

  55. 55.

    Roger Moore

    @oldster:

    It’s a thing of beauty, and entirely justified.

    Yeah, I would rather not be lectured on fiscal rectitude by Ronald MF Reagan’s budget director. It’s like a lecture on chastity by Don Juan.

  58. 58.

    Irish Steel

    @Corner Stone: Welcome to the AL!

    God, how I wish you were in my division, the AL central. It is going to be a brutal year or two for y’all.

  61. 61.

    MattF

    @oldster: Well, if the NYT editors expected Krugman to pass on a prominently featured “It’s been all downhill since we left the gold standard” opinion piece, then they haven’t been paying attention. The real mystery is why they bothered to publish Stockman’s rant.

  64. 64.

    Buck

    I think RW Christians should be thanking Google for giving them this gift. They didn’t have to look far for a reason for self-righteous “persecution” today, just turn on their browser. The fact that a bunch of them don’t know the difference between Hugo Chavez and Cesar Chavez is just a bonus for us onlookers.

  66. 66.

    sharl

    @Ben Franklin: If it’s any consolation, Andrew Auernheimer (aka Weev) is tweeting from prison. From @rabite:

    Worst thing about prison? Serifed fonts with no antialiasing. On LCDs. For Quetzacoatl’s sake, it’s 2013! The new fucking Baktun!

    Good thing he’s a resilient asshole. Of course, they may kill him yet:

    They still are not serving me gluten-free meals. I am actually literally starving. I have Celiac’s disease
    …
    The first jail doctor I told about it tried to spell Celiac with an S. How did they pass med school?

    Wish Swartz had been able to receive a resilience transplant from this smart and creative jerk, who received waaay too large a prison sentence, his personality notwithstanding (if being an asshole deserves a long prison sentence, we’re gonna have to build a LOT more prisons).

    Oh, well…

  69. 69.

    Corner Stone

    @Irish Steel: More like 5 if you listen to the skinflint owner SOB.
    “Want a better roster? Fans can write me a check.”
    I’m a baseball fan, love our stadium, and want to support young talent breaking through, but goodness. This AA roster thing, combined with the assholishness of the owner, just is not doing it for me.

  70. 70.

    Woodrowfan

    so recognizing a man who helped the poor is disrespecting Jesus but posting bunny rabbits and little chicks honors Him?!?!?!

  73. 73.

    Corner Stone

    It could be just me, but when trying to sell pizza I am just not sure I would name the promotion, “The Hut Lover’s Deal”.

  74. 74.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    @raven: And this sideline guy for the game, Sager … I can’t tell which is worse, the purple Joker Jacket he’s wearing or that awful toop.

  75. 75.

    Corner Stone

    I can’t decide if I want to buy myself some bright yellow kicks or some bright orange ones.

  76. 76.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Here’s the thing:

    Cesar Chavez was far closer in political philosophy and demeanor to the Jesus depicted in the Gospels than any of the Mammon worshiping maggots who are freaking out.

    This really pisses them off because it’s so blatantly obvious to anyone with more than three working synapses.

  78. 78.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @sharl:

    What is this guy in prison for? If it’s anything to do with banking from the bankster side, my sympathies for him are, to put it mildly, minuscule.

  80. 80.

    Baud

    As much as I’d like to lionize Google here, I need some assurance that their next doodle won’t honor Richard Nixon.

  81. 81.

    Woodrowfan

    Google could have worked their logo into the scene, making one of the big Os into the stone rolled away from the tomb! Click on the “O” and it rolls away freaking out Mary! That would have made the righties happy!

    or, maybe not.

  83. 83.

    dance around in your bones

    @sharl: WereBear linked to that earlier in the Sunday Morning Open Thread: Rebirth.

    I found it very funny, and shared some of the pics with my grandkids. Lots of kids have fear/anxiety with huge costumed characters ( I have a pic of my best friend’s kid totally freaking out and recoiling from a mall Santa) and another pic of my kid at Disneyland clinging to my neck as Goofy (or Pluto?) apparently was trying to molest her.

    But some of those bunny costumes were seriously scary/weird.

  84. 84.

    Ben Franklin

    @sharl:

    if being an asshole deserves a long prison sentence,

    They are working on the legislation, as we speak.

  86. 86.

    sharl

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Auernheimer was convicted under terms of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Orin Kerr – who has agreed to represent him pro bono in his appeal – has a pretty good summary of what went down in the second paragraph of this post.

    The original aggrieved party wasn’t a bank – though I’m sure Auernheimer would have been happy to expose their security flaws as well, if the opportunity had presented itself – but rather AT&T.

  87. 87.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @sharl:

    Ah. He took on one of the most evil corporations on this planet, competing very hard with Monsanto and BP for that title.

    My attitude has changed on him.

  91. 91.

    Ben Franklin

    @sharl:

    Did you read comments? This one sounds familiar……

    Andrew Auernheimer is an actual criminal. Sorry, though you liberals think you are entitled to everything and that there are no consequences to breaking the law, you’re not and there are.

  93. 93.

    greenergood

    Sorry so late in the thread, but I’ve tried to see the Chavez Google from the UK but can’t come up with it – can anyone post a screengrab of it – would love to see it, but can’t figure out how to access it.

  94. 94.

    Corner Stone

    There was a lot of guard forearm checking going on in the first half. I wonder if the refs are going to let that go in the second half, or start calling it when the clock starts winding down.

  97. 97.

    Ben Franklin

    In the annals of national security, the Obama administration will long be remembered for its unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Since 2009, it has employed the World War I–era Espionage Act a record six times to prosecute government officials suspected of leaking classified information. The latest example is John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer serving a thirty-month term in federal prison for publicly identifying an intelligence operative involved in torture. It’s a pattern: the whistleblowers are punished, sometimes severely, while the perpetrators of the crimes they expose remain free.

    http://www.thenation.com/article/173521/obamas-crackdown-whistleblowers#

  99. 99.

    MikeBoyScout

    The wingnut Washington Times (which is totally owned & operated by good ‘ole fashioned Christians) tells us:

    Choosing Chavez over Christianity? Google shows its true colors – mud

    because “mud” is a well known color and not because of anything else.

  102. 102.

    sharl

    @Ben Franklin: I’m trying to get into the habit of avoiding comments at places other than my favorite blogs. I started following a twitter account I found just last night, to help me maintain my resolve in this matter. Typical tweet from there:

    Don’t Read Comments ‏@AvoidComments 30 Mar
    —
    When I come across a pit of excrement I usually try to step around it, but no, by all means, go wading into the comments section. Have fun.

  103. 103.

    Corner Stone

    Looks like the refs want FL to get back into this game. Not calling any shoves to the lower back.

  104. 104.

    Thlayli

    17 and 18: I’ve seen tweets to that effect.

    WhyTF are they playing basketball in JerryWorld??

    ETA: Hardaway Sr is STYLIN in his Michigan tuque.

  108. 108.

    jon

    @Yutsano: I get a day off this pay period. As a happy union worker in Pima County government, all I can say is “Thanks for the good fight, Cesar.”

  110. 110.

    Roger Moore

    @khead:

    I don’t even care which team it is – an MLB team should be able to win 40 games.

    Yeah, but those last 3 to keep their head above 120 losses might be pushing things.

  112. 112.

    Yutsano

    @? Martin: I still get Columbus Day since Congress seems less than interested in changing the holiday structure. It reallybites around Thanksgiving since the day sfter isn’t considered a holiday. I’d gladly give up C Day for Black Friday.

  113. 113.

    sharl

    @maya: Looks like lefties wise in the ways of wingnuts were scouting for this very Hugo-vs-Caesar confusion, and such an instance was found at the Rage Imp’s Twitchy site:

    twitchy.com/2013/03/31/while-google-honors-hugo-chavez-bing-delivers-easter-eggs/

    It was screen-captured before it could be deleted.

  114. 114.

    mai naem

    @dmsilev: The wingnuts did think it was Hugo Chavez. There’s a couple of tweets from wingnuts saying that. Part of the Twitchy team. I realize that whackjobs think one Hispanic looks like another but Hugo Chavez just died and his photos were everywhere, and that Chavez doodle does not look anything like Hugo Chavez.

    I just wish Google had run a doodle on Al Gore whose birthday is also today. The Twitter tubes would have collapsed under the weight of “wahhhhhhh, now Gore thinks he’s Jeezus and google thinks Gore is Jeezus too!!!”

  115. 115.

    Mike in NC

    Per my local rag, since Christmas is over with, Bill O’Reilly must bemoan the new (?) War on Easter. Save the Christians!

  116. 116.

    Jebediah

    @gnomedad:

    Bastards! Now millions of Christians will forget that it’s Easter.

    Maybe a telethon is called for. “Do they know it’s Easter-time at all?”

  117. 117.

    Sly

    I guess they’re due. Conservatives haven’t had an Easter-related political freakout since the Starr Report told them that Bill Clinton had his dick in a Jew’s mouth on Easter Sunday of 1996 (and OMG after he went to Church service!).

  118. 118.

    hamletta

    The Lord is risen indeed!

    I had a great Easter. Our service was amazing, even though an elderly gentleman passed out during the Hymn of the Day. We have many doctors and nurses in our congregation, so he was well-tended, and pastor signaled the choir to stand up and carry on with the offertory, “Worthy Is the Lamb” from Messiah. And we got through it! Not perfectly, but well.

    We baptized two babies and one teenager, and welcomed a couple who’ve spent the last six weeks in Catechumenate instruction.

    I’m so blissed out I can only laugh at the wingnuts: Do they not know that it’s not Easter for all Christians?

    Are they not familiar with Cesar Chavez’s life work fighting for justice for the poor and disenfranchised?

    Hahaha! I amuse myself sometimes.

  120. 120.

    NotMax

    @Sly

    Another diorama we’ll never see in a museum.

    The kiddies will have to learn about it the old-fashioned way: oral tradition.

  122. 122.

    Viperbuck

    Don’t think of it as just another wingnut poutrage fest. It’s the first step of conservative’s new outreach to Hispanic voters.

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