Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The revolution will be supervised.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The willow is too close to the house.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

This fight is for everything.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

You cannot shame the shameless.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

No one could have predicted…

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

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

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  2. 2.

    bago

    Just gonna say, a fast and furious movie using hovercrafts would be sweet. Talk about extreme drift.

  4. 4.

    bago

    Thinking about it, a hovercraft racing league would entirely rewrite the rules of racing. Instead of backdrafting you would have backwash. Drifting would be inevitable, and the tracks could span a myriad of surfaces.

    Screw NASCAR, I want a great lakes grand prix!

    Imagine it. A broadly open track of water, ice, sand and snow being blasted through by 400 horsepower machines, kicking up some dust. A real life F-Zero. Totally awesome.

  5. 5.

    Dead Ernest

    Thrilled that I’m ending my long day pleased that I’m familiar with what I think has got to be a pretty damn obscure reference in your post’s title Ann.
    …of course, if it is not pretty obscure, rather than pleased, I’d have to worry that I’m thinking that it is. But since its the end of the day, I won’t.

  9. 9.

    Schlemizel

    Drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait until lunchtime!

    My nipples explode with delight!

  11. 11.

    Schlemizel

    @evap:

    I have found nothing is obscure here on BJ. References from the early mists of my childhood that I have not heard mentioned since I finished High School left here get responses from many people who remember it as well as I do.

    I would like to buy a hockey jersey from a place here that sells replicas, its a 1955 St. Paul Johnson sweater with the number 5. The reason is pretty obscure but I bet you a dime someone will know who that is before we run out of thread here. No fair googling!

  12. 12.

    Randy P

    I think The Farm was the mysterious place I’d hear stories about when I lived in the DC area. There were certain back-country roads in the middle of nowhere, the rumor said, where if your car broke down, within a very few minutes a bunch of possibly-armed muscular young men would suddenly materialize out of the woods, fix your car, and send you on your way.

  13. 13.

    danielx

    @Randy P:

    That’s not the only location in the DC area where that’s true, just one of the more well-known ones.

    Now then…

    Freedom Loses One

    Is this a straight David Brooks column, an April 1st special, or an outtake from the Onion? Inquiring minds want to know.

    The best quote is this:

    But last week saw a setback for the forces of maximum freedom. A representative of millions of gays and lesbians went to the Supreme Court and asked the court to help put limits on their own freedom of choice. They asked for marriage.

  14. 14.

    bd of mn

    @Schlemizel: if you drive into downtown St. Paul via east 7th st, there is a large banner with his picture on it, it’s gotta be at least 10 years old now, encouraging him to “go for the gold”…

  15. 15.

    sherparick

    Dean Baker has column out on Truthout (also the Guardian) that you will never see (outside of Krugman) in the NY Times, and certainly not the Galtian WaPo editorial page on Social Security. http://truth-out.org/news/item/15308-senate-unanimously-votes-against-cuts-to-social-security-media-dont-notice

    It appears pretty certain that President Obama is going to propose this in his budget per Bloomberg and WSJ. So much for him giving free “stuff” to us takers in the “47%.”

    This goes into the deep divide between “liberal elites” and economic progressives. These folks find themselves in conflict with Republicans and Movement Conservatives over social, cultural, foreign policy, and (at least at one time, but not so much now) environmental issues. But their own comfortable circumstances prevent them from seeing how the other “half” (really 80%) live. The recent “This American Life” story on the Social Security Disability Program for adults and children is a good example of this, along with the growing Republican fetish for attacking SNAP (the Food Stamp Program). Although the story is a little more nuanced then its headlines (the reporter at the end “discovers” that most of the jobs in the Alabama town with 25% of the adults on SSI that only require a high school degree or less are almost all low wage jobs at as fast food server, warehouse worker, stock clerk, nursing home attendant, etc. that require the worker to stand and physically lift stuff or people, and that “a person with a bad back might be disabled for these jobs” (no shit)). But of course this was not featured in the headline.

    Instead, as Krugman noted recently on his blog, it fit the Conservative Narrative that the economy is being suffocated all this nice stuff for poor people, who are enjoying a “great vacation” at the hard working “taxpayers’ expense.” Unemployment compensation, food stamps, SSI, Medicaid, are encouraging people not to work (at least not work for the wages and in the conditions that “job creators” want to provide). As Paul Krugman summarizes a thousand Casey Mulligan columns, they “…believe that workers are being encouraged to hold out for unsustainable wages by moocher-friendly programs like food stamps, unemployment benefits, disability insurance, and whatever. And the Tea Party House has made it clear that they intend to use debt ceiling votes for more cuts (they call them “reforms”) in these programs even as poverty rises and the middle class once more becomes “the working class.”

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/the-price-is-wrong/

  16. 16.

    Schlemizel

    @bd of mn:

    I graduated from Johnson but well after he left. I don’t think I remember seeing that banner although we don’t get to East 7th much any more, Cosetta’s is about as far as we get ;)

  18. 18.

    Geeno

    Omniglot used to use “My hovercraft is full of eels” as their demo translation phrase.

  19. 19.

    Punchy

    the rumor said, where if your car broke down, within a very few minutes a bunch of possibly-armed muscular young men would suddenly materialize out of the woods, fix steal your car, and send you on your way to the hospital.

    Fixed for all those other parts of D.C.

  21. 21.

    a voice

    They tell me my father is dying. In these last hours, Rafer, will you heap scorn upon me, try to shame me now, for not believing in death?

    After death, there is either nothing or everything.

    Why should I choose to believe in nothing? While I respected your choice not to believe, you accused me of believing in fairies and unicorns.

    Will you scorn me now, Rafer, in these last hours? Do your worst. Your words, which once hurt me, mean nothing to me now. Less than nothing.

    This will be my final transmission.

    Peace be upon you all.

  22. 22.

    gbear

    @Schlemizel: I drive past that banner on the way home from work, but I’m not much of a sports fan so I don’t get the reference.

    Has Cossetta’s service gotten any better since the remodel/expansion? I always used to hate the long delay between getting your food and actually paying for it. Your food was half cold before you found a table. I haven’t stopped there in years. I used to like Grampa Tony’s up on Snelling but they’ve gone out of business.

  23. 23.

    BD of MN

    @gbear: The banner is from Herb Brooks’ brother and was put up just prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics, his last (that I recall) coaching job before his untimely passing a couple of years later. He played on the 1955 State Champion Johnson HS Hockey team, although we’ll have to take Schlemizel’s word on it that he wore #5…

    I haven’t been to Cossetta’s in years, certainly before their expansion. I’m more of a Yarusso’s guy myself…

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