Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The revolution will be supervised.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

No Justins, No Peace

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

It’s a doggy dog world.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

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

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Let’s finish the job.

The willow is too close to the house.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

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I was surfing the Youtube machine for some stray tunes to accompany a global e-mail purge when I came across this bit of both very cool performance and what my son calls Old People’s Music in a true old-folks setting:

 

I greatly enjoy James Taylor, and Mavis Staples is the bees’ knees, and I’ll do nostalgia w. the best of them, but the true moment of ecstasy in this video comes with the sudden glimpse of Dr. Emilio Lizardo at about 3:10. Colin Powell swaying to the tune ain’t bad either.

Talk about whatever unholy intersection of disparate realities has informed your day.

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  6. 6.

    Anoniminous

    The unholy intersection of disparate realities that informed my day was (First Reality Alert!) reading how some people think Google Glass* is a piffle because what we really need is a direct wire computer to brain interface and then (Second Reality Alert!) that Glass has already been hacked and rooted*.

    * and if you don’t know what that is, be grateful

  7. 7.

    Poopyman

    Moved on to Sweet Baby James, clickable at the end.

    Long days ago, all of those songs.

  8. 8.

    BGinCHI

    I was surfing the Youtube machine for some stray tunes to accompany a global e-mail purge when I came across Can’t access Pr0n at work so…

    Fixed to give Tom some street cred.

  13. 13.

    pokeyblow

    Colin Powell certainly deserves lots of fun nights out on the town, after the solid he did us all during the Iraq War run-up.

  14. 14.

    Bill Arnold

    @Anoniminous:

    direct wire computer to brain interface … has already been hacked and rooted*.

    Futurized it. (I know it’s a (somewhat obscure) sci-fi trope, but still, if one is a worrier, one should worry big.)

  15. 15.

    Schlemizel

    Yeah, I’m old enough to remember when Paul was “the cute one” Thats long past isn’t it?

    Too many wrinkled old people attempting to rock out & that includes the shrieking sharpei that pops up on stage after the tune starts.

  21. 21.

    Mary G

    OK, remember how we watched all the Tea Partiers in their Medicare scooters screaming about keeping government out of their Medicare?

    I have had rheumatoid arthritis since 1979 and was told in 1983 that it was so severe and all that I would just have to buy the wheelchair I was renting during a flareup as I would never walk again. Didn’t listen to that and instead got a better doctor who kept me walking for years and years.

    But all good things must come to an end and after a series of falls and realizing I was circumscribing my life too much, I decided to give in. I went to a store who told me that due to excess fraud, Medicare was really cracking down and would no longer cover scooters at all and were being such pills about wheelchairs that they no longer handled the claims; they recommended the Scooter Store as knowing how to get Medicare to cough up. I went ahead and bought a cheap used scooter, which has been great for running errands, but they don’t really work in a small house with small bathrooms. Power chairs are more expensive; I got one off Craigslist for a couple of hundred dollars, but the size is all wrong for me and the battery won’t hold a charge.

    So I called the Scooter Store. Everything was going fine until evidently some ex-employee published a book about how they had a database of doctors who would write an RX for a chair for any old body. The FBI raided their offices and they laid off all their employees. End of my claim.

    All the ads with old people in their wheelchairs and Hoverounds that used to be so ubiquitous on TV have disappeared and everywhere I look on the web suggests I just buy one myself. Sure, I have $4,000 lying around.

    Frustrated. I wonder if my Representative, Darrel Issa, would help me?

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mary G: Have you contacted a disability rights organization in your area? Someone there may be able to help you shepherd through a claim.

  23. 23.

    JWL

    Hereabouts in Sonoma, Ca., a guy who once worked for the local Safeway stole a woman’s purse in the same store (but only after first warning her: “I’m going to take your purse”). He was tackled outside the store, dropped the purse, and is now being pursued. The video of the theft indicates he was wearing the same Oakland A’s cap that he’s seen sporting on his Facebook page.

    Just another poor, pathetically stupid, schmuck.

  25. 25.

    mai naem

    @Mary G: First you need to get a new Rx. Then have the doc’s office recommend who they work with because they’ll know he’s writing you a legit RX and with the right diagnoses and medical history there is no reason you shouldn’t be able to get one. A new RX should start a new claim and the other one should be dead. The company you go with should be able to look up whether the scooter store got paid for it or not. I think if you call medicare they should be able to tell you. Also you should be getting EOBs anyway so you should know pretty quick whether the Scooter Store’s claim went through already. BTW, some cities have places that people donate used medical equipment and you can rent the equipment at a super reasonable amount – $5.00-$10.00/mo.

  26. 26.

    PeorgieTirebiter

    Dr. Emilio Lizardo

    a man that would just as soon kill ya’ as go fishin’.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @PeorgieTirebiter:
    Perfect Tommy: Emilio Lizardo. Wasn’t he on TV once?
    Buckaroo Banzai: You’re thinking of Mr. Wizard.
    Reno: Emilio Lizardo is a top scientist, dummkopf.
    Perfect Tommy: So was Mr. Wizard.

  30. 30.

    ? Martin

    So, here’s an interesting test of where we are. Will Jason Broussard still be employed next week?

    “Personally, I don’t believe that you can live an openly homosexual lifestyle or an openly, like premarital sex between heterosexuals,” Broussard said on ESPN’s Outside The Lines. “If you’re openly living that type of lifestyle, then the Bible says you know them by their fruits. It says that, you know, that’s a sin. If you’re openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, whatever it maybe, I believe that’s walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. So I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I don’t think the bible would characterize them as a Christian.”

  36. 36.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @? Martin: Who is Jason Broussard?

    Also, is it just me or is FYWP borking for everyone?

  38. 38.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @? Martin: Who is Jason Broussard?

    Also, is it just me or is FYWP borking for everyone?

  42. 42.

    gravie

    Loved seeing noted iconoclast and choreographic genius Bill T. Jones singing along. And Schlemizel, wrinkled old people still have souls and the right to groove too, you know. You’ll be one someday, if you’re lucky.

  46. 46.

    scav

    @? Martin: ” . . . because I don’t think the bible would characterize them as a Christian.” So the Bible now works like the Sorting Hat?

  47. 47.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @raven: No, Jason Collins is the gay player. I’m asking about Jason Broussard.

    Apologies for the double/triple posts.

  48. 48.

    ? Martin

    @Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): ESPN sportswriter. That statement was in reference to Jason Collins.

    The test is whether a sportswriter/sportscaster judging a player for his sexual orientation will rise to the same sort of standard that has gotten countless sportswriters/sportscasters fired for the same judgement regarding a player’s race.

    I’m sure if he is fired, we’ll get endless histrionics over religious persecution. I’m skeptical that it is yet a firing offense, but it should be as this is part of the reason why so few athletes have ever publicly come out before. Certainly nobody in the MLB/NFL/NBA.

  51. 51.

    ? Martin

    @Violet: Fox Sports is an entirely different animal and one that bears little resemblance to Fox News. Consider too that Glee is a Fox produced show.

  58. 58.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @Omnes Omnibus: I was going off Martin’s posting. I don’t know Chris Broussard, either. And FWIW, what the fuck does it matter what his religion believes about Collins’ sexuality when it obviously has nothing whatsoever to do with his on-court performance. Broussard should be fired, but, as mentioned above, that would only elevate his status in the persecuted talibangelical community.

    Pathetic is what he is.

    And don’t even get me started on his poor exegesis of the bible.

  59. 59.

    wonkie

    Also those suits holding up lighters creeps me out. I remember smoking pot to this song back when listening to rock was, at least for some people, a politica statement. I wish the mainstreaming of songs like this meant that more counter culture ideas were on the ascendency, but, instead, we are in a new Robber Baron age, probably at the end, just before voting restrictions, gerrymandering and corporate citizenship turns us into the pretense of a representative democracy.

  60. 60.

    PsiFighter37

    A very solid party tune if you’re young enough to be into that kind of thing. #ageist

    Back home after a great weekend in Montreal. Drinking a Bronx Pale Ale and getting fat eating delicious cookies and other goodies from north of the border. Also brought back a case of St. Ambroise IPA, which our bike tour guide said was the shit. I’m excited to try that later this week.

    Also too, who wants to meet up in L.A. on May 10th? I’m going to bug DougJ to post something official in a few days.

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @raven: Basketball just isn’t a sport I follow. I wish Collins well; even though society is becoming more sensible, it took some courage for him to come out. Broussard appears to be an ass; I would say he could kiss mine, but he might misinterpret the remark.

  68. 68.

    raven

    @Gwangung: Here’s what comes to mind:

    No, I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace
    If I was a master thief, perhaps I’d rob them

    And now I know you’re dissatisfied with your position and your place
    Don’t you understand, it’s not my problem

    I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
    And just for that one moment I could be you

    Yes, I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes
    You’d know what a drag it is to see you

  69. 69.

    SiubhanDuinne

    This is an Open Thread, right? And there is a sub theme of being Old, right?

    Good.

    Just learned today that I need cataract surgery. Not a total surprise, and it could certainly be a lot worse, but I’m apprehensive. Somebody want to hold my hand for a minute, say “There, there,” and help me feel a little more okay about this? Has anyone here, or someone close to them, gone through the procedure?

    (It won’t happen until July anyhow — I’m traveling too much between now and the end of June to be reliable for all the follow-up visits. So I have a couple of months to work myself up into full-blow panic.)

  70. 70.

    PsiFighter37

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s a good one.

    I will say that the new Star Wars movies have me worried, mainly because there’s a lot of good EU stuff out there already, and the next movie is going off an original script – which I think means they are going to absolutely blow up a ton of the EU shit once it’s published.

    I feel like the purist fans would’ve been happy if Han always shot first (which HE DID) and if the first trilogy was the only one made (which I’m not; yes, Lucas sucked ass at directing the prequels, but I’m glad they were made nonetheless).

  72. 72.

    greennotGreen

    @SiubhanDuinne: When I was going through chemo, I often found this blog community to be a source of comfort. Whether it will be a source of useful info is another matter.

  73. 73.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @SiubhanDuinne: I had a colleague have cataract surgery last year. Outpatient, and he was back to work the next week (happened on a Friday). Best wishes.

  75. 75.

    jeffreyw

    @SiubhanDuinne: Mrs J had both eyes done a couple of years ago. Piece of cake. She went with upgraded lenses but I’m unsure what the details were. She needs reading glasses but can see fine otherwise.

  77. 77.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @SiubhanDuinne: My grandmother had the surgery a few years ago. She had almost perfect distance vision following the surgery; she had been nearly blind before it. She had no problems and no regrets about doing it.

  78. 78.

    greennotGreen

    Re: unholy intersection of disparate realities

    Didn’t inform my day, but it stuck with me. Just a few years ago when the local Home Depot was briefly open 24 hours a day, I was there pretty late at night and the store was playing “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane. And I swear I wasn’t tripping!

  79. 79.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I posted a similar plaint on Facebook and the responses I’ve had are universally encouraging. I’m almost looking forward to this! Thanks for your input, my birthday twin.

  80. 80.

    NotMax

    @SiubhanDuinne

    While any surgery carries some risk (duh!) the risks with professionally done modern cataract procedures are quite small. Ask your eye clinic (or whatever provider you are using) if they provide contacts of patients who have had the same procedure done there (or perhaps they have a ‘review’ section on their website).

    If you’re going for an outpatient laser procedure, can be in, have it done, and back home within an afternoon.

    Also too, if you are still skittish about it, can opt to have just one eye done to see how it suits you.

  81. 81.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @SiubhanDuinne: I do have to say that it freaked me out a bit. She had glasses since before I was born, so it always seemed weird to see her without them. I adjusted eventually.

  82. 82.

    Mandalay

    Sanford and Colbert Busch just finished their debate. Maybe I am biased but I thought she used Sanford as a floor mop.

  83. 83.

    scav

    Second-hand detail eye stuff. When my aunt had it (went entirely well), they wanted her to have / strongly suggested she have some other work done at the same time which did slow recovery time down. Also because she wore glasses before, there was a period while her eyes were readjusting and she couldn’t get new prescriptions yet. Still, end result, fine.

  85. 85.

    Hill Dweller

    Is Colbert-Busch a wingnut? Is it a clever ruse? She’s been saying some crazy shit.

  86. 86.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    That’s a great idea, to check with former patients.

    I am having only the left eye done. For some reason, it has “ripened” at a much faster rate than the right eye. I expect to continue to wear glasses, but as I’ve never been without them since age 6 (I am now almost 71) this will not be a major adjustment for either me or Omnes.

  87. 87.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    @Hill Dweller: She’s from South Carolina. It’s pretty much required to say crazy shit to get elected (with a few notable exceptions).

  97. 97.

    Mandalay

    @Hill Dweller:

    Is Colbert-Busch a wingnut? Is it a clever ruse? She’s been saying some crazy shit.

    She comes across as worthy, pleasant, dull, sensible, and highly competent. Certainly less wingnutty than Sanford, but that bar is set pretty high.

    Sanford blathered about taxes, unions, Pelosi and the Congress of 1994. Living in the past is one thing, but he is campaigning in the past. It’s like he’s trying to win the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012.

  98. 98.

    Ben Franklin

    @? Martin:

    That’s your story and you’re stickin’ to it, eh?

    The bald-faced ignorance you promote makes you a credit to your peers.

    Still think all the holes came from inside the boat? That boat will float as well as your pov.

  102. 102.

    burnspbesq

    @David Koch:

    Colbert-Busch crushed Gov Bunga-Bunga in her closing statement

    Wait, what? Berlusconi is running for Governatore della Sud Carolina?

  106. 106.

    YellowJournalism

    @greennotGreen: Had a Muzak version of it play on my dentist office years ago. I was about to go under while they pulled wisdom teeth. If his hand hasn’t been in my mouth applying some thing to keep me from biting down during aurgery, I would have asked if that was a joke. Too woozy to remember to ask afterward.

  107. 107.

    danielx

    Tebow cut by Jets.

    Screams of evangelical anguish heard throughout the land. But y’know, there has to be an NFL team that can use a guy whose forward passing style looks like a moose trying to fuck a refrigerator.

  108. 108.

    wonkie

    @SiubhanDuinne: I had catarract surgery. It was out patient with a pleasant medication that put me in a good mood. Other than going to bed earlier than usual, I had no bad effects. Really, it was no big deal. I’d rather have another surgery like that than get another root canal. Or a filing, for that matter.

    So don’t get too stressed about it!

  109. 109.

    Yutsano

    This thread is close to dedded, but I can’t hold it in any longer. My interview for New Mexico is Wednesday morning. I’m a bit nervous but I’ve also been getting awesome advice. This will be exactly where I want my IRS career to go, so I’m focusing on all my positives and the honest questions. I might need to be talked down from the ceiling however.

  110. 110.

    David Koch

    @? Martin:

    “Personally, I don’t believe that you can live an openly homosexual lifestyle or an openly, like premarital sex between heterosexuals,” Broussard said on ESPN’s Outside The Lines. “If you’re openly living that type of lifestyle, then the Bible says you know them by their fruits

    what a fucking joke.

    he’s a sports reporter and he’s offended by pre-marital sex? athletes from Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle to Joe Namath to Magic Johnson to Derek Jeter have a girl in every town.

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