Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

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

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

“But what about the lurkers?”

This fight is for everything.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

The willow is too close to the house.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    He has handlers on HBO. He can get away from those when he’s out on tour.

    How many atheist cracks did he get in?

  3. 3.

    Mike E

    And he relishes his red state audiences, because they have lots on their minds ;-)

    I really had no expectations when he came last year to Mayberry. He slayed ’em with ease.

  8. 8.

    srv

    I remember his 2003 performance at UT Austin. First two rows got up yelling “how can you question OUR PRESIDENT!”

    Stormed out yelling and Maher said “What did you think this show was going to be, a Democracy?”

  9. 9.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @Thor Heyerdahl:

    will it reduce stenography posing as journalism?

    No. SATSQ.

    On a more serious note, there’s so much hackery in various verticals (FSM I hate that word) and it assumes that the purveyors of said hackery actually give a shit about integrity or ethics. It’s all about the eyeballs, baybee.

  15. 15.

    PsiFighter37

    Montreal is a fun city. I don’t think I could live here, but they are way nicer than the French when it comes to attitudes among French-speaking people.

    PF37 +7 (4 beers, 2 glasses of wine, 1 ‘gummy bear’ mixed drink that had almost no booze in it)

  16. 16.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    @hilts: Saw the Norwegian version (with
    English subtitles) last September at the Toronto Film Fest. Great film that didn’t fall for the Hollywood over-reliance on CGI (even though it was the most expensive movie ever made by Norwegian studios).

  17. 17.

    lamh35

    Welp, I’ve been watching some pretty good movies all evening and into the night. Just happened to stumble upon back to back goodness tonight. Never to be duplicated I bet.

    Started with Pierce Brosnan as Bond in Die Another Day. Brosnan was a pretty good Bond, and a way better Bond than a singer (have ya heard him sing in Momma Mia…woof).

    Next up was Under The Tuscon Sun starring Diana Lane and Italia! Love that movie, made me want to visit Italy just once when I first watched it, and even watching it now, it still makes me wanna go.

    After that was Out of Africa. You can’t lose with Mery Strep and Robert Redford. Just gotta say that MAN Redford was easy on the eyes wasn’t he (not that he isn’t now, but young and in his prime…ding dong).

    Lastly, I watched the original Stargate with Kurt Russell (i love Kurt Russell) and James Spsder (in is least “spader-ish” role/acting job, if ya know what I mean). Oh and of course that guy from the Crying Game movie. Would love to see a “where are they now” update on that guy.

    Hmm, but alas all good things must come to an end, I gotsa go to work tomorrow, so I guess it would be a good idea to get some sleep.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    @PsiFighter37: Heh. It’s so funny. I have a very unusual last name in the US, but if I go to Montréal I’m practically a Jones. I’m distantly related to a lot of Québecois. NOT, however, Celine Dion.

    (That I know of.)

  19. 19.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    @PsiFighter37: Can’t go wrong with a city that has a comedy museum.

    A comic from a few years ago at the Just For Laughs festival had a joke comparing if Toronto and Montreal were two men:

    One would be the drunken alcoholic flirting with your wife…
    and the other would be an accountant.

    (RIP Expos – the most talented team never to get the chance to win the World Series (1994)…tabarnac! Maudit Loria!)

  23. 23.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    I am somewhat surprised that nobody put up a WHCD aka “nerdprom” thread tonight. I follow a lot of “journalism” types on Twitter, and I have to say the tweeting tonight was embarrassing. I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to shame these lowlife scum who call themselves journalists. The village will all eventually become BuzzPoliticoPost, and I, for one, can’t say they don’t deserve it. Fuck them.

  24. 24.

    lamh35

    @Redshirt: @efgoldman: it’s such a movie if the week plotline cliche & maybe I’m naive, but does it really happen so often the boss’ spouse hits on an employer? Does it still counts as harassment if the Perron doing the harassment is not ur actual boss, or us the boss still liable since it could create a hostile work environment if you have to keep fending off the boss’ SO

  26. 26.

    Eric U.

    @lamh35: I got really close to walking out of Mama Mia. I would never have gone if I realized it was based on Abba songs, misled by family. Pierce Brosnan should have gotten singing lessons for that, I suspect a couple of hours with a coach and he would have done a lot better.

  29. 29.

    Redshirt

    @lamh35: I could write the romance novel right now about the young wife of the powerful executive who married for money but falls in love with the hot young analyst despite her best intentions.

    Happens all the time, I’m sure. :)

  30. 30.

    Violet

    Watched “Promised Land” tonight. Good acting, some good scenes, but movie doesn’t hold together. Too bad because you can see the potential for a good movie in there.

  31. 31.

    bnut

    Big ass storm here in Nashville tonight. Icing the knee and back after walking the half marathon of the full today. So stupid to do that shit, never again.

  38. 38.

    pokeyblow

    Brother Machine Gun, I misdirected a crude comment. I don’t know whether you saw it, but it’s not for you in any case.

  40. 40.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @pokeyblow: meh, I guess I didn’t see it. I stopped following that thread after T&H showed his ass.

  41. 41.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    Posting from the phone again, so this will be brief given my sausage fingers

    It’s official – John is phoning it in.

  43. 43.

    Irony Abounds

    Just got back from the local comedy club. We saw Michael Malone, and he is fucking hilarious. Just a brilliantly funny show. I highly recommend him if you get the chance.

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    Ugh. Poor G was brushing his teeth to get ready for bed when work called. Broken pipe in the building, and he’s the only one who lives close enough to go check it out. So he gets to drive in to work and hang around there for who knows how long waiting for a plumber.

    (Yes, it’s 11 o’clock on a Saturday night and we’re getting ready for bed. This is because we are Olds.)

  47. 47.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    @MikeJ: @MikeJ:

    Return of Almost Live tonight.

    Huh? No idea what that means, and I say this as someone who stalks follows Nancy Guppy on teh Facebooks.

    But then, I also have no idea what Cole means by “my boss’s wife” — Tunch is married?

    It’s all too much for me.

  48. 48.

    Death Panel Truck

    Fuck that flu-shot truther Bill Maher. He’s an anti-science knuckle dragger. He’s right on religion, but an asshole nonetheless.

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @PsiFighter37: What is your problem with the French? Parisians are like New Yorkers – polite in context. The rest are just fine.

    @Yutsano: I am distantly related to Celine Dion. I feel shame.

  52. 52.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    There are a lot of us. The Dion/Dionne/Guyenne family is the largest in Canada. At least that’s what I’ve been told.

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): @Omnes Omnibus: I think we discussed possibly being distant relations OO. And if there is a certain surname in your background (French for the sea) Max then more than likely we are too. And if you’re related at all to the Dionne quintuplets then we definitely are, as they are my third cousins. I really have a stronger claim to repatriate than I think, though my dad’s is stronger.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yutsano: I am more concerned about the Celine Dion shame spiral than the whole descent from Louis Hebert thing. As another family member once said “One ‘Aw shit’ wipes out a bunch of ‘Atta boys.'”

  57. 57.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    Trying to watch Zero Dark Thirty with Mrs. Pantload. Twenty minutes in, gritty, talky, not visually interesting. Not sure if the payoff is worth mucking through the quotidian portrayal of brutality.

  59. 59.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Redshirt:

    Well, big Catholic families, ya know? I have 60+ first cousins on mom’s side. My mom is #11 of 16. My mimere, Fidelis Dion, was #10 of 15. The pattern goes back to the man who took up the name, an engineer who came to Quebec City from Guyenne, who arrived shortly after Champlain.

  65. 65.

    fuckwit

    I’ve been reading this blog for years, but only now have really paid attention to the handles.

    Studly Pantload, etc? Brother Machine Gun, etc?

    Y’all have some pretty long-ass handles.

    Long, creative, and fully insane.

    Jeez, Metrosexual Black AbeJ seems tame by comparison.

  66. 66.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    @fuckwit: No relation to the Great Doughy One.

    But, yeah, there’s plenty of the Nom de Nets to love, here.

  67. 67.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    Also, too, it was the late Bob Loblaw, who got his li’l self banned for more douchery than even this blog can handle, that turned me on to Arrested Development. Being as I’d never really watched the show when it was on TV — yet when I googled the name and saw it was a character from the series, I immediately had to watch an ep, from which point I was bloody well hooked.

  68. 68.

    gene108

    @Thor Heyerdahl:

    the 4th estate in America rarely fills the role envisioned by Founding Fathers.

    Thomas Jefferson, while Vice President, controlled a network of newspapers, which he used to viciously attack President John Adams.

    The Founders would be shocked by a fair non-partisan objective press, as several directly controlled the content of the media outlets in their day.

  70. 70.

    Ramalama

    @PsiFighter37: I highly recommend the restaurant L’Express on St Denis, near one of the girl cross streets (Rachel? Maryanne?). The best food. And the best atmosphere of any place I’ve ever been to in Montreal. At 8-9-10pm the place is JAMMED for dinner. Everything is exquisite, tasty, cool. Things might have changed since I lived in the city, but it didn’t have a sign on the outside….you had to know it to go to it.

    If you can’t get a reservation, try going at 7, 7.30 to their tiny bar and overstaying your welcome.

  71. 71.

    Ramalama

    Me, I live with a pied noir in the party house (cottage) of Quebec’s first comedian. Known for falling down drunk in his ‘act’.

  74. 74.

    gelfling545

    Saw Maher when he was here a couple of years age. I was rather disappointed because he went off on one of his health rants (dairy is death, vaccine in dangerous, etc.) Oddly enough, I don’t go to the entertainment industry for medical advice.

  75. 75.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @gelfling545:

    Oddly enough, I don’t go to the entertainment industry for medical advice.

    What kind of demented sicko are you? /s

  77. 77.

    YellowJournalism

    @MikeJ: For that brief second that Comedy Central ran the show in the 90’s, I was so proud. One of my favorite skits was their take on West Side Story at the mall. “Clinique Girl…”

  78. 78.

    Petorado

    Cole – install the Dragon Dictation app on your iPhone. I’m playing around with it and finding it works really well (punctuation, not so much.) It’s for the everyday low price of free. A godsend for sausage fingers.

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