Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Come on, man.

Second rate reporter says what?

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

In my day, never was longer.

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

The revolution will be supervised.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Bark louder, little dog.

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  1. 1.

    lamh35

    @efgoldman: you and be both. never saw and ep and don’t really have a glaring need to ever watch one.

    But people do seem to love both

  3. 3.

    Johnny Coelacanth

    Just started watching the first season of Mad Men, so I’m catching up on Netflix before I watch the current season. GoT, on the other hand, I’ll be streaming as soon as I get home.

  5. 5.

    burnspbesq

    I’m waiting to seen Glen and Sally sneak off to Woodstock together, after which we learn that the whole seven seasons of Mad Men was a bad acid flashback.

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Real progressives are watching Mad Men. You suck, Cole. Delete my userID

  12. 12.

    SFAW

    @efgoldman:

    And then he kills JR.

    And then wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette, who’s holding a Norman Lloyd-autographed Sno-Globe, which has a sled named “Rosebud” inside it.

  16. 16.

    YellowJournalism

    @JPL: Haha, I was sure Glen was Megan’s heavy breather last season, until it turned out to be some other sexual deviant.

    Glenn is going to become a less charismatic or successful Larry Flynt.

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    @efgoldman:

    But Mrs. Huffnagel really was crushed as the hospital bed folded on her – best episode of the series.

    I don’t remember her being in Newhart. And why would there be a hospital bed in that show?

  18. 18.

    Comrade Mary

    @efgoldman: I didn’t watch Doctor Who in the 70s because of the cheese factor, and even some of the reboot episodes from this century are a big heap of aged fromage. (I caught The Runaway Bride recently: I liked Donna well enough, but holy shit, that villain was straight out of a mid-twentieth century B movie.)

    I got hooked with the launch of the Eleventh Doctor, though. You might take a look at season 5 to get a feel for it. Effects are much, much better, there’s lots of fast talking and some genuine wit, and some decent acting.

    Mind you, not every episode is a gem, and you have to accept some wibbly-wobbly timey wimey shit, but overall, I’ve liked this run.

  19. 19.

    AA+ Bonds

    Top trending on FoxNews.com Opinion, Christians, here’s why we’re losing our religion:

    You see, religion alone can only take a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about Jesus.

    In order to become a new person, we need Christ. Only through an active ongoing relationship with Jesus can we become transformed and overcome the labels that bind us.

    On a completely unrelated note from why more and more people are reluctant to self-identify as Christian, the author is identified as “the pastor of the nation’s second largest church, LifeChurch.tv“.

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    @efgoldman:

    (replacement for the ailing, soon to be dead Selma Diamond on Night Court.)

    There’s a “Dead End, Kids” sick joke to be made, somewhere in there.

  22. 22.

    AA+ Bonds

    (When anyone says that they do not have a religion, but a close personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I usually check to make sure they haven’t lifted my wallet)

  23. 23.

    different-church-lady

    Cole: I wish to praise you for the little community you’ve created here. Because I am about to do something I never thought I’d be doing — I’m going to use an open thread to ask for tech advice due to a family thing. (Yikes…) And I find it quite amazing that I now trust you all so much that BJ is the most logical place to start.

    Short story: estranged family is no longer estranged, due to my father’s recent bout with pneumonia. He’s recovering nicely, but it means I’m going to be making regular visits to the house for the first time in years. My brother, who lives with him, is the paranoid sort, and they have no internet. And I have no smartphone, which will put me out of touch for most of some days. And that could be the difference between getting a few days of freelance work or missing it.

    So, what I’m wondering is: does anyone do semi-affordable wireless hotspot plans that aren’t linked to phones? Because I absolutely cannot afford a smartphone plan right now.

    And if any of you offer me the endless amounts of ordinary, natural, human sympathy that are understandably proffered whenever family illness comes up, I will reach through this screen and dope slap you…

  24. 24.

    SFAW

    @AA+ Bonds:

    Relationship is about Jesus.

    Jesus? I knew the suckah. I told him, “Don’t you go fucking with no money lenders.”

    [Yeah, OK, it’s not an exact quote. Sue me.]

  25. 25.

    AA+ Bonds

    @SFAW:

    It’s a weird little byline on that story because you’d think that the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion would have NewEvangelicalAppDownloads.Com beat but I guess “church” means “Web site” nowadays?

  26. 26.

    AA+ Bonds

    I still can’t get over all the solemn Beltway stories in 2012 about how religious South Carolina is because of the large number of people who said they go to religious services “once a month” on that Pew survey; if I had gone to Mass “once a month” as a kid I would have been grounded 365 days a year…

  27. 27.

    lamh35

    @Comrade Mary: I am too young to have watched the original Doctor Who. I didn’t really watch the new re-launch either, but somehow I got caught up during the David Tennant years (mainly the Martha Jones and lil bit of the Catherine Tate companion years). After Tennant, I just haven’t really been able to get behind the new series, plus I got so much more TV on my plate anyway

  28. 28.

    Boudica

    Does Bobby ever get any older on Mad Men? Shouldn’t he be about 12 now? He looks 7.

  30. 30.

    Dan

    Best Buy has a beautiful smartphone on sale this week for $64. The lg optimus lyric. This phone does everything a 700 dollar phone can do. And through net 10, I only pay $50 a month.

  32. 32.

    dance around in your bones

    Well, I’m starting with Mad Men, then moving on to Game of Thrones. I’m eating green chile/cheese tamales and drinking wine to boot.

    @different-church-lady: I’m afraid of getting dope-slapped, so…..no, I do not know the answer to your question.

  34. 34.

    Redshirt

    I’m in a new Nielsen demographic: The “No TV” demo.

    Describing those of you who live on the Internet and watch your tv/movies that way.

    Except I have no TV at all, unlike you fancy Internet people with your Netflix and Roku and such.

    I’m entertained instead by puppet shows and jug bands. I’m part of the “jug band” demo.

  36. 36.

    mai naem

    @Dan: I’m assuming that since you have net10 it’s a cdma phone. Why don’t they ever have decent GSM smartphones on sale?

  38. 38.

    different-church-lady

    @HinTN: More details: the point is that I’m in the house watching my father so my brother can leave the house for a break. It’s like I’m taking a day-long shift.

  39. 39.

    ? Martin

    @Redshirt:

    I’m part of the “jug band” demo.

    You mean like hillbillies and strumming washboards, or girl bands with big tits? Or both? Actually, both could be pretty entertaining, yeah.

    But I don’t watch any of the shows that get commented on here either.

  44. 44.

    ? Martin

    Oh, and since I brought up jugs. In local news, Jenna Jameson was arrested for battery.

  48. 48.

    the Conster

    Peggy’s Kick Ass, and who is that handsome guy in the nice suit and what has he done with Don Draper?

  49. 49.

    Redshift

    @different-church-lady: My wife has had a pay-as-you-go Virgin Mobile MiFi for two or three years now, and we generally like it a lot. That exact device doesn’t seem to exist any more (not surprising), but there are some current equivalents. They have a coverage map that you’d definitely want to check if you’re going to be outside of metro areas and interstates, though.

  52. 52.

    Chris

    @AA+ Bonds:

    Ah, yes. I’ve heard that conceit before. Some true believers disdain the term “religion,” which they reserve for all these other, shallow, pitiable superstitions and falsehoods. The Truth(TM) is far beyond that.

  54. 54.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    I have just watched the 2012 version of Total Recall, anybody who says that this is a better version than the Schwartzenegger version (and Ronny Cox as Cohagen) needs an ass kicking, I need to get my ass kicked for renting this.

  55. 55.

    Chris

    @efgoldman:
    @lamh35:

    Ditto. Never watched either show. Also never watched Downton Abbey. And in the previous decade, I never could get into either Lost or Alias.

    It’s gonna be interesting if I ever have kids and they turn out to enjoy old TV shows as much as I do. “But DAD! This is from YOUR TIME! This DEFINED your generation! You REALLY never…” “Nope.”

  57. 57.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @AA+ Bonds: Perhaps Christians can save their church if they applied a little more of Matthew 25:40 into their lives and less an adjunct for the Republican Party.

  58. 58.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Watching 60 Minutes right now; the first segment, with an interview with some of the Newtown relatives, is simultaneously very sad and enraging.

  60. 60.

    Suffern ACE

    @AA+ Bonds: evangelical Protestant believes that all of our problems would be solved if everyone became an evangelical Protestant. Next up, Catholic bishop finds that restoring the authority of the Church is critical if society isn’t to fall apart.

  63. 63.

    Redshirt

    “The Exorcist” morality question: If your daughter is spewing green vomit, crawling on the ceiling, and twisting her head in 360 degrees, would you stay in the house or move out?

  65. 65.

    Heliopause

    How come there aren’t any open threads for the stuff on the four big broadcast networks? What is it with you liberal elites?

  66. 66.

    kindness

    GoT was good. I’m glad they followed the other Stark kids around. No dragons though….I like those.

  67. 67.

    MazeDancer

    @different-church-lady:

    T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile both have pretty cheap mobile hotspot and pre-pay plans. If you’re just checking emails every hour, that might work. TMobile has a refub one that’s 52 bucks.

    You’ll have to check if either of those carriers cover your area. And I have no personal experience with either carrier’s mobile hotspot devices to be able to say if they work at all.

    Though I did buy a $120 T-Mobile Samsung Smart Phone. It has WiFi. And if I bought a prepay data plan it could surf the web. It works fine in big cities. Not where I live in the country though, which is why I prepay because I rarely use the phone.

  70. 70.

    arguingwithsignposts

    Neither for me, thanks. I remain blissfully unaware of them, and also Downton Abbey and Walking Dead. I finally saw Breaking Bad, which was good.

    I mostly ignore these threads.

  71. 71.

    mouse tolliver

    @Litlebritdifrnt: They need to save the “everybody sing” resolution for the Christmas specials. Hated this last episode. But the premiere was a good start. The spoon heads were cool.

  72. 72.

    Redshift

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Yep, that’s the current equivalent of what we have. When we need it, be buy the $35 plan that gets you 2GB and one month. Even when I was using it to connect to the office with my laptop, we rarely used more than a fraction of it. (As long as you avoid streaming video and such, of course.)

  73. 73.

    Steeplejack

    @different-church-lady:

    Bring this up with Jeffreyw the next time he’s around. He has a little hot-spot gizmo that he uses and is apparently very happy with. I’m blanking on the name. He would know prices, etc.

  75. 75.

    YellowJournalism

    @Mr Stagger Lee: I wasted valuable time on that movie when the kids were gone last summer. It’s not the money it cost to go that pisses me off, it’s the fact that Hubby and I don’t get to go that often without the boys. I forgot most of the movie before we even left the theatre.

    Mad Men was great tonight. Slow to start and a little confusing regarding the date and some new people, but it was all worth it for the funeral scene and another wonderful gut-punch ending.

    Betty is still boring. I don’t care what color her hair is.

  76. 76.

    Hill Dweller

    @YellowJournalism:

    Mad Men was great tonight. Slow to start and a little confusing regarding the date and some new people, but it was all worth it for the funeral scene and another wonderful gut-punch ending.

    That ending came out of nowhere. I was anticipating a completely different angle.

    Rogers Sterling’s therapy sessions, especially the last one, were also great.

  77. 77.

    lojasmo

    Too many assholes IRL to get started on Mad Men. Looking forward to GoT when it shows up on Netfux. (got rid of cable a while ago)

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