Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

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

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

T R E 4 5 O N

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Let there be snark.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

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From NYMag’s culture blog, “Learn to Speak Dothraki and Valyrian From the Man Who Invented Them“:

Bad news, Game of Thrones fans: You are mispronouncing Daenerys’s honorific, Khaleesi. But don’t feel bad. On the HBO show, her smitten man-servant Jorah has been saying it incorrectly as well; the more accurate pronunciation should be “KHAH-lay-see,” not “ka-LEE-see.” That’s according to David J. Peterson, the language creator responsible for all of the Dothraki and Valyrian dialogue spoken on the show, and he’s driven mad every time he hears it… As the architect of the language’s grammar and pronunciation rules, he’s the only one who can correct it with authority, but he lost the battle to correct the pronunciation on the show early on. “The producers decided they liked the other way better. They probably thought most people were pronouncing it that way anyway, which is true.”

Of course, Peterson did not coin the word Khaleesi. It existed in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, along with a couple dozen others dreamed up by the author. But Thrones producers decided we needed to hear Drogo and his people speaking more extensively in their native language and searched for someone to flesh out a whole language, just as Marc Okrand did with Klingon and Paul Frommer did with Avatar’s Na’vi. Peterson, who has a masters in linguistics from the University of California–San Diego and founded the Language Creation Society, spent twelve to fourteen hours a day, every day, for two months working on the proposal that landed him the Thrones job. When he was finished, he had more than 300 pages of vocabulary and notes detailing how the Dothraki language would sound and function. “The application process favored those of us who were unemployed at the time, which I was,” Peterson laughed…

Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss credit Peterson with having come up with a lot of “really, really vile things to say in Dothraki” that they didn’t write themselves, and he has tried to top himself with the more common, bastardized version of Valyrian spoken by Kraznys. “Part of the fun doing the Low Valyrian is that I could really take a bat to pretty, proper High Valyrian. Sometimes I imagine High Valyrian being a piñata of a princess castle,” Peterson said. So far this season, Kraznys’s colorful line from episode three — “And this because I like the curve of her ass” (translated: “Si kizy vasko v’uvar ez zya gundja yn hilas”) — has gotten a big reaction online…

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  2. 2.

    Death Panel Truck

    And in other news, water is wet, and I don’t give a fuck about fantasy TV bullshit.

  4. 4.

    PsiFighter37

    Whooooooooooo

    Guess who got fucking lit up like a crackerjack in Montreal tonight

    PF37 +4 dranks +poutine

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    Whew. Just in time, the FAA probs shall be cleared up so they won’t impact the teeming gazillions winging in to the new Temple of Arbusto for its public opening on May 1, anxious to buy $13 pairs of socks, $60 polo shirts, $23 letter openers, $550 bomber jackets and a $400 fountain pen at the gift shoppe.

    Oh, and a jigsaw puzzle sure to rivet the kiddies’ interest (not). Note that Nixon and the gang appear to be laughing at Lincoln; also the conspicuous absence of Hoover and a gaggle of others.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    a jigsaw puzzle sure to rivet the kiddies’ interest (not). Note that Nixon and the gang appear to be laughing at Lincoln; also the conspicuous absence of Hoover and a gaggle of others.

    That picture just reeks of Jon McNaughton, doesn’t it? Except, no Jeebus.

  11. 11.

    WereBear

    I think it’s fascinating that there are “rules” our brains expect. And that’s just the sounds made by human organs…

  13. 13.

    WereBear

    I’m in the process of recording Tristan’s vocalizations. He’s part Siamese and has been a “commenter” all his life. There’s definite grammar there; and he uses the same sounds for the same things.

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    PurpleGirl

    @NotMax: I wanted to look at the fountain pen. It wasn’t pictured on-line, so I was disappointed.

    (Of course, if I really wanted to spend $400 on a fountain pen, I’d go to Art Brown’s, the home of fantastic classic and modern, arty fountain pens. I go there to buy ink and less costly writing implements.)

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    PurpleGirl

    @PurpleGirl: I did a Google search for the pen and the one site that seems to have a picture of it sent my Avast into protection mode and won’t display. I found of picture of a pen that is supposed to be the GW Bush pen in a Google picture search. I think it’s sort of cute if you take off the G W Bush name. But it ain’t worth $400.

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    debbie

    @gnomedad:

    Sadly, the real news is even stupider: I didn’t catch the name of the Republican House member, but he denounced the FAA furloughs and shouted that this wouldn’t have happened if Ronald Reagan was president.

  20. 20.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @debbie:

    this wouldn’t have happened if Ronald Reagan was president.

    Sigh. This is why we can’t have nice things.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    @debbie:

    Technically accurate, since a mature, responsible political party controlled Congress throughout the Reagan presidency.

  27. 27.

    Hobbes

    I just figured that the pronunciation was due to Khaleesi being a load-word. I think it was used somewhere in the background material for ‘The Ice Dragon’.

  31. 31.

    Schlemizel

    @Baud:

    Well, there is the data point about the lawsuit and the other about the suicides (perhaps not specific numbers but data none the less) but beyond that he draws a logical (possible) outcome and tosses in his personal feelings that I bet are shared by many parents. What did you want?

    @Cassidy:

    Not the most erudite perhaps but nobody wants to comment on his conclusion?

  34. 34.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @Baud: It’s John Kass, who’s a blowhard known for being a blowhard in Chicago, anyway.

  36. 36.

    Schlemizel

    @Baud:

    That claim is going to be adjudicated soon but it has been documented pretty well, that he does not cite the studies is not a fault of the writing.

    @Irving:

    I do not believe he has said “This is happened already” what he is arguing is that it is happening & will happen more often as the evidence becomes better understood and more widely known. This is hardly the first thing I have read by a parent saying they will not encourage their kid to play football.

    I am surprised that nobody wants to discuss the issue he brought up, that football could be in trouble, instead we want to quibble about irrelevancies.

  37. 37.

    Cassidy

    @Schlemizel: I don’t know who the writer is but as long as there are poor black men and boys in the inner cities who can stop being poor by running really fast for the entertainment of white America, football isn’t going anywhere. Secondly, someone should mention to that asshat that MMA currently sells out arenas in large cities and get millions if PPV buys. The piece reeks of privilege and living in a bubble.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    @Schlemizel:

    Like I said initially, serious issues. But that particular piece doesn’t hang together well, and I didn’t find it credible.

  39. 39.

    Citizen_X

    @debbie:

    he denounced the FAA furloughs and shouted that this wouldn’t have happened if Ronald Reagan was president.

    Now they’re just fucking with us.

  40. 40.

    Citizen_X

    @raven:

    Where’s the brother in that shot?

    The black man is not in the scene, because he’s already served the Republicans.

    …in two elections, back to back! BOOM!

  41. 41.

    debbie

    @debbie:

    I didn’t catch the name of the Republican House member, but he denounced the FAA furloughs and shouted that this wouldn’t have happened if Ronald Reagan was president.

    Turns out it was Florida’s own, Rep. John Mica. Good grief.

  43. 43.

    sherparick

    Sometimes I wish I could hand a dragon to John Boehner, Scott Walker, and the Koch Brothers, and just say “Dracarys.” Most of our current problems would be solved.

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