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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

White supremacy is terrorism.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Come on, man.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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  1. 1.

    dedc79

    I have never been divorced, nor has anyone in my immediate family, but I forget that fact every time I listen to The Grand Tour.

  2. 2.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    One of the things I always liked about Jones’ singing was the little baroque-like flourishes he’d put at the end of phrases…

    Bordered on scatting, but in a country setting…

    Very classy… very sweet…

  4. 4.

    Cris (without an H)

    There is no more perfect country artist than George Jones. If you think Johnny Cash is it, you are not hipster enough for me. I was into George Jones when being into George Jones wasn’t cool.

    This is my dad’s country, the country of my childhood, and though I have always been fundamentally a rock-and-roll fan, this style of C&W makes me feel at home.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    Ah, an Open Thread tag at long last.

    Hot stuff.

    …the hockey stick model has been one of the main targets of climate skeptics. After all, if the current global warming is unprecedented in the past 1,000 years, that would signal the need to do something to reverse it. The scientists involved have been under constant attack….

    However, a string of subsequent studies by a number of scientific groups from around the world have all yielded essentially the same result. Most recently, a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience this week — co-authored by 78 experts from 60 scientific institutions from around the world — found yet another hockey stick. Their temperature reconstruction shows a slow slide into a future ice age ending abruptly with a sharp rise in temperatures in the 19th and 20th centuries.…  Source

  6. 6.

    Violet

    I just love this type of country music. Feels so authentic and real and tied to real lives lived. Just listening to this song gives me chills. RIP George.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    @raven

    You must have been long-distance reading what’s left of my mind. Thanks.

    BTW, did your Cap’n Fuzzy swag ever show up?

  19. 19.

    C Nelson Reilly

    @raven: He’s played here in Tulsa every April around his birthday for the past 30 years or so. 71 years old now – has to use a cane to get to the piano but can still bring it

  23. 23.

    JWL

    In 1962, I wore the exact same haircut as Jones sports in that video. Me, and damn near every other little boy in the country, and at least half of all American males. Gives folks who weren’t around a better idea why the Beatles “long hair” caused such a ruckus in 1964.

    A brilliant singer/songwriter, a beautiful gift he shared with the world. RIP, George.

  26. 26.

    A Ghost To Most

    Time to put on “George Jones Talkin Cell Phone Blues”

    “You’ll be singin duets with Tammy again”

  27. 27.

    JWL

    @raven: It’s no big deal, but is of some interest to 20th century anthropologists, as it pretty much disappeared from the planet after 1965 for 30 or 40 years.

  28. 28.

    Tonal Crow

    And in today’s installment of “if we ban guns, murderers’ll just use hubcaps”:

    http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Mother-injured-in-accidenta-204779431.html

    Police say a teenager accidentally hubcapped his mother at their Oakville home Thursday evening.

    The incident occurred at the woman’s home on Wickershire Lane around 7 p.m.

    According to the victim’s sister-in-law, the father had a hubcap pulled out so he could add a new piece to the device.

    Police said the victim’s 18-year-old son picked up the hubcap to clean it when it allegedly went off, hitting his mother in the leg.

    The victim was rushed to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries….

  31. 31.

    gogol's wife

    I have to go look up that video and see who the other guy is. What a beautiful voice.

    No Jonathan Winters either . . . .

    But George Jones does have a great voice too.

  37. 37.

    mvr

    I just knew Doug J would catch this in an appropriate way.

    George Jones and Rosanne Cash along with a few others made the local country music stations the best choice on the AM radio in my VW squareback in the early 80s. Never got to see him live. Never will now.

  38. 38.

    The Other Chuck

    That is a great voice, and I normally can’t stand country. Maybe it’s the artifacts of the video combined with the haircut, but am I the only one who thinks his head looks just plain weird?

    I think I know why … he has an uncanny resemblance to Bert.

  42. 42.

    Steeplejack

    @gogol’s wife:

    Don’t know if you’ll check back, but that other singer is George Riddle. He was a long-time Grand Ole Opry performer who worked with a lot of the big stars.

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