Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

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

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Come on, man.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

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

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

75% of people clapping liked the show!

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

No one could have predicted…

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

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  1. 1.

    Suffern ACE

    Apparently the UN arms treaty will ban all people over 55 from owning a gun. It must be true. I read it on the Internet.

  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    You sure you don’t want to ask for help writing letters in cursive? Or maybe tying your shoes? Clothes get wet in the “washing machine” and then you put them in the “dryer” or in WV maybe a “clothesline”.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Mary

    How many days until the next GoT? Six sleeps. Six terrifying sleeps filled with direwolves and nipple slicing.

  6. 6.

    David Koch

    Not to worry, the po’ wingers found something else to freak out about:

    Presidential Pastor Rev. Luis Leon slapped the religious right for their hate:

    “It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back . . . for blacks to be back in the back of the bus . . . for women to be back in the kitchen . . . for immigrants to be back on their side of the border,” Leon said.

    hilariously the wingers attacked Rev. Leon for …. wait for it…. politicizing religion.

    They must suffer from a collective genetic defect that blocks their self awareness.

  8. 8.

    joel hanes

    I’m really looking forward to Diana Rigg as the Queen of Thorns.

    It will be interesting to see how they handle Dorne.

    If you can’t wait, you might well hunt down the non-graphic-novel version of Hedge Knight I and II, or its two-part serialization in Robert Silverberg’s Legends and Legends II anthologies. The stories of “Dunc and Egg”, Ser Duncan the Tall and his improbable squire, are set in Westeros about a century before the death of Ned Stark. (When Bran is healing, bedbound, Old Nan offers to tell him stories of Ser Duncan The Tall, which Bran rejects in favor of stories of the coming of the White Walkers in the Long Winter. I wish there’d been a bit more screen time for Old Nan).

    Unless I’m mistaken, we have already met one of the characters of the Hedge Knight tales, still living, in the Game of Thrones episodes to date.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    google really missed a chance to troll wingnuts today with a doodle of Sarah Palin on April Fools Day.

    and apparently it’s Rachel Maddow’s 40th birthday. Go figure.

  12. 12.

    Citizen_X

    @Suffern ACE: If the Klingons (ST TOS version) landed in Westeros, they’d say, “OK, which faction here is the most conniving, underhanded, barbarically cruel group? That’s who we’ll throw our support behind.” After a few days, they’d conclude, “Screw it. All these people are snakes,” and beam up to nuke the place from orbit. Only way to be sure, you know.

    (Note: In the first season, whenever the Dothraki appeared on screen, I couldn’t help but think, “Ah, here are the Klingons again.”)

  13. 13.

    Helen

    Jesus Christ. My wingnut sister is here. And she’s crying every time I point out an effing fact. And her answer to “seriously, is it better or worse since Bush?” is “I don’t know”

    Somebody save me. She’s here till Friday.

    Also “Is the retired Pope a Nazi?” Answer “I don’t know”

  14. 14.

    dollared

    Somebody had a nice Google doodle with Michelle Malkin in it. Lovely. “I still think Hugo and Cesar are the same guy.”

  16. 16.

    Calming Influence

    Your previous lament about peeling hardboiled eggs? TL/DNR. So this may have been answered, but your eggs are too damn fresh. Not a problem for the rest of us, since our eggs go from factory farms in Arkansas to packaging plants in Xiangxiang before taking a slow boat back to our local Piggly Wiggly. They peel much better if they’re a week or more old.

    Alternatively, fresh eggs can be steamed and will be easier to peel.

    Either way we keep the hardboiled eggs in a bowl of water in the fridge; I thinks this makes peeling even easier.

  17. 17.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Looks like San Rafael are trying to surge ahead of Berkeley and Santa Cruz as the nastiest anti-homeless-people place in the Bay Area.

  19. 19.

    MikeJ

    @Yutsano: Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

    Ever see Zero Hour, the serious drama Airplane was based on? There is dialog that is lifted directly from ZH that become howlingly funny. IIRC, “wrong week to give up smoking” was in the original.

    It’s impossible to watch Zero Hour without laughing yourself silly if you’re an Airplane fan.

  20. 20.

    Yutsano

    @MikeJ: Checking teh Netflix. I don’t think it’ll be in my local Redbox kiosk.

    EDIT: not on streaming anyway.

  21. 21.

    max

    After Chavez Easter Sunday, google really missed a chance to troll wingnuts today with a doodle of Sarah Palin on April Fools Day.

    They were too busy trying to troll Microsoft. But maybe they can now put up a doodle of a hard-boiled egg.

    max
    [‘Thanks to the internet, the first gets unfunnier every year.’]

  24. 24.

    scav

    After Chavez Easter Sunday, google really missed a chance to troll wingnuts today with a doodle of Sarah Palin on April Fools Day.

    As though she could confine her foolishness to the confines of a single month, let alone day.
    Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety, nor can the ages upon ages contain the bornes of her foolishness. Finally, proof of an infinitely expanding universe.

  25. 25.

    Alison

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: I used to hang out on 4th Street in SR a lot as a teen. No idea what it’s like now, but I do think they’re probably in sort of a bind. I mean, most of the homeless folks I’d see back then were fine, didn’t cause trouble, weren’t a nuisance in any way…but there’s always a few who do cause problems and make it worse for all of them. I did definitely witness some scary and gross stuff, and for business owners it can become an issue.

    But…while the city has to do something, I do wish they could do it in a way that wasn’t so…tone-deaf and shunning. Even the hard cases are still humans.

  27. 27.

    fuckwit

    I have a question. Everyone I meet on the street, seems to be having conversations that indicate they expect massive inflation. What the fuck? Little comments, at the checkout at the supermarket, waiters at restaurants, I mean, it’s WEIRD! And it started suddenly, in the last few weeks.

    I’m confused. Where the fuck is the meme coming from? Is it the TV news? FAUX and the wingnutosphere? Is it just that gas prices are going crazy again? What’s going on?

    I personally see no economic signs of inflation, the Fed is at negative interest rates, and I read Krughthu and DeLong. I do not know where people on the street are getting some sudden fear of hyperinflation; it seems the opposite, deflation, and a depression/lost-decade/austerity, is more likely.

  28. 28.

    Amir Khalid

    I just finished reading The Hunchback of Notre-Dame last night. (Its French title is Notre Dame de Paris, so why isn’t it titled Our Lady of Paris in English?) I’m amazed that the Walt Disney Co decided there was a kid’s cartoon in this medieval tragedy.

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    @Yutsano:
    And they completely ignore that she wound up being convicted and hanged for the murder of a guy who was alive and well.

  31. 31.

    OmerosPeanut

    It really annoyed me that Selmy presented himself directly to Dany, and to a less extent the absence of Strong Belwas. I can understand writing Belwas out for narrative economy, but by removing Selmy’s “trial analysis period” with Dany and removing his vote to not assassinate Dany when he was on the small council, his reasons for wanting to make the switch aren’t as well developed. It’s still possible to read him in a good light, but HBO has introduced ambiguity into his character that I don’t think improves the story.

    Five sleeps to go!

  32. 32.

    Schlemizel

    @fuckwit:

    Yes, the cable business and investment shows are pushing the meme very very hard. They have convinced people that we will have Wiemar levels of inflation unless we gut the Federal Government. People are stupid enough to believe it.

    In an economy where 70% of GNP comes from consumer spending there will be no inflation as long as people have nothing to spend simply because rising prices will reduce spending killing the economy. But the Chicago school is winning the VSPs and the cable cripples. The forecast is for a lot more suffering

  34. 34.

    xian

    @OmerosPeanut: I think they had to do that because televisual storytelling has some limitations that narrative written storytelling does not, like the difficulty of masking a familiar character with the ignorance of the character’s new companions.

  35. 35.

    kindness

    How come there are no cats on GOT? There’s the wolf/pups. No cats.

    My guess is that every house in that era and world will one day have their own dragon. I can just see it now:

    ‘Dear, would you go over to the neighbor and tell them to come here and clean up the dump their dragon left in out back yard AGAIN!’.

    or a modern twist:

    ‘Excuse me sir but I will need to see a license and the vaccination records for your dragon or we will have to impound him’.

  37. 37.

    joel hanes

    @kindness:

    There are many cats in King’s Landing, and even in the Red Keep: Syrio Forel sets Arya to chasing them as part of her training.

    And, in the book, thereby hangs a tale.

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