Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

No one could have predicted…

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

You cannot shame the shameless.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Infrastructure week. at last.

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

This fight is for everything.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

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

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

Everybody saw this coming.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Mary

    I have finally, FINALLY finished the book this season is based on. I still warm up my torrenting finger and get the download ASAP after broadcast because I need to SEE things.

    (Hey, I buy Doctor Who and Breaking Bad and everything else I want to see from iTunes. I subscribe to Netflix. But HBO won’t make GoT available to me unless I spend several hundred dollars on cable fees over a few months or pay for a DVD over a year later? Fuck you, HBO.)

  2. 2.

    PeakVT

    Caught a bit of Huckabee this evening while I was getting my helping of sinful fast food for the month. The show was all Benghazi spin, with ex-General Boykin as a guest expert, no less. The liars at Faux really have done an incredible job of taking a minor incident and fabricating enough lies around it to make it seem like the crime of the century. Disgusting.

  3. 3.

    Calming Influence

    I hate to start off an open thread with bad news, but in the previous thread Comrade Jake let us know the Paul Simon is dead.

    We didn’t even have a chance to track down his home [sniff] address!

  7. 7.

    BGinCHI

    The Kingslayer is my favorite character now, along with Tyrion Lannister.

    Cole, you’d make a good couple with that blonde giantess swordswoman.

  10. 10.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    There is nothing on the Twitters about anyone being dead s I call bogus.

  12. 12.

    TooManyJens

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Well, Twitter did break the news of Lena Horne’s death the other day. Sure, she died in 2010, but you know how people on Twitter want to be really sure someone’s dead before they post.

  16. 16.

    PeakVT

    They killed Soledad O’Brien? Thought she only got fired.

    There’s nothing CNN won’t stoop to at this point.

  18. 18.

    max

    Fuck the fucking Lannisters.

    I bet they love NewsMax!

    max
    [‘Nope, wasn’t complaining, because I hadn’t noticed.’]

  19. 19.

    BGinCHI

    Breaking News:

    Aaron Burr has fatally shot and killed Alexander Hamilton.

    A nation mourns.

    Note: it was a duel, so both sides do it.

  21. 21.

    Calming Influence

    @PeakVT: Look, I did my time at Soledad and it’s behind me. I’d appreciated if you didn’t KEEP. BRINGING. IT. UP. You’re making me very angry.

  23. 23.

    Suffern ACE

    @BGinCHI: oddly, I just walked past the grave of an Alexander Hamilton at trinity church today. It didn’t look like a freshly dug grave. Are you sure it wasn’t Jason Alexander?

  26. 26.

    Calming Influence

    @Scamp Dog: Scamp Dog (if that’s your real name), just watch your step, OK? First warning, that’s all I’m saying.

  27. 27.

    Calming Influence

    @YellowJournalism:

    “Brian Boitano died? Must have been a terrible skating accident or a leotard malfunction.”

    It was in fact the worst type of leotard malfunction. He went to slip into it (as one does with leotards) and it turned out to be a leopard. Quite grisly. I almost had to look away.

  34. 34.

    YellowJournalism

    @BGinCHI: I adore nomenclatures! Personally, I prefer the little ones that stand in the garden with the adorable beard and pipe.

  36. 36.

    Suffern ACE

    @Calming Influence: speaking of slips, for the second time in two days I was confronted by the fact that women no longer wear them. I’m wondering if I could start the equivalent of the “young men wear their pants too low now get off my lawn!” Movement to bring them back.

  39. 39.

    Darkrose

    So a little freaked out. Around 3 am, someone knocked on the door. It was the Sacramento police, telling me that they’d recovered my car. I hadn’t known the car was missing. Turns out that we must have left the front door unlocked when we both went upstairs around 7, and someone came in and took both sets of keys, the wife’s purse, and a 9″ chef’s knife from the kitchen, then ran outside and clicked until he found our car. He got pulled over speeding well north of town.

    The car’s fine. He dumped out Telesilla’s purse and must have kept her wallet and the purse itself; everything else was in the car, including her phone and iPod. I had four messages on my phone, just rambling aimlessly. The only charge to Telesilla’s debit card was $9.03 at Jack in the Box. It’s mostly just annoying, except for the whole creepy part about some meth head wandering around our house while we were asleep.

  44. 44.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Comrade Mary: That is why I can wait, F–K HBO, I am about to watch Titanic, Blood and Steel on the Netflix, is this series good? Saw season 2 of the French TV series Spiral, very intense.

  45. 45.

    pat

    @Darkrose:
    What do you want to bet that you will never again forget to lock the front door. Either that or get an AK 17 with a 100-round magazine to protect yourselves.

  47. 47.

    ulee

    I like to walk the cemeterys with my dogs. One marker reads FreeLove Doe born 1825 died 1905. Another marker reads Experience Small. Not sure of the dates on her because the marker is so weathered. These stones are in Augusta, Maine.

  48. 48.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @efgoldman: When was the last time the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup? Judging from that outdoor crowd, I bet it has been more than two generations.
    Update:45 years!!! Yikes

  54. 54.

    Poopyman

    @PeakVT:

    @cathyx: Richard Burr is still alive, so he could have very well killed someone.

    Yeah, but isn’t he still in a wheel chair?

  55. 55.

    max

    @Comrade Mary: (Hey, I buy Doctor Who and Breaking Bad and everything else I want to see from iTunes. I subscribe to Netflix. But HBO won’t make GoT available to me unless I spend several hundred dollars on cable fees over a few months or pay for a DVD over a year later? Fuck you, HBO.)

    Because if HBO allows everything a la carte, not only would people not stick around for their other shows and/or not get the premium package for HBO (whcih is where they make the money) but the cable providers would scream, which means less money for them. Less money == no GoT in the end.

    (It’s not a good situation, but there’s a reason for it.)

    max
    [‘And it’s not really Jaime & Tyrion that are the problems, it’s Tywin, and his monster daughter, and her monstrous little son.’]

  56. 56.

    Anne Laurie

    @Suffern ACE:

    speaking of slips, for the second time in two days I was confronted by the fact that women no longer wear them

    Young ladies in your neighborhood are Behind the Times. Jezebel tells me the Kewl Gurls are all buying slips to wear around the house instead of sweats. Retro!

  57. 57.

    Suffern ACE

    @Anne Laurie: it makes no sense to wear a petticoat in the house, yet go outiside on a sunny day to show your underpants to the crowd.

    I guess it’s the end times.

  59. 59.

    MattR

    @Redshirt: This is the #2 reason I got a dog. Not so much for actual security, but to ease my paranoid fears. Now I just get paranoid that my dog will be as oblivious as me while it happens.

    EDIT: If anything, my biggest paranoia is locking myself out while walking the dog (which is why my front door is rarely locked. ssshh, don’t tell anyone)

  60. 60.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @max: Plus Time Warner, who owns HBO, is also a major cable TV provider So they want to be PAID!!!!

  61. 61.

    ulee

    Don Draper is drinking a bitter drink. Though he hasn’t yet started staring at sunsets and ruminating that he has ADHD.

  62. 62.

    Comrade Mary

    @max:

    Because if HBO allows everything a la carte, not only would people not stick around for their other shows and/or not get the premium package for HBO (whcih is where they make the money) but the cable providers would scream, which means less money for them.

    So how do AMC and BBC America/Space et al. manage to make shows available a la carte online? What’s different about their situation?

  63. 63.

    Anne Laurie

    @Suffern ACE:

    it makes no sense to wear a petticoat in the house, yet go outiside on a sunny day to show your underpants to the crowd.

    Young women today don’t get enough practice wearing anything-not-jeans. Remember the old ads warning about ‘VPL’ (visible panty lines)? Back in the day (pre-thong) part of the training for teenager girls was figuring out what kinds of fabrics, and which styles, would “show” one’s lingerie (or lack thereof). Today, even if the kids think to stand between a mirror and the lightsource, they probably haven’t been introduced to the solution (slips, halfslips or ‘skirt liners’) — you have to go to old lady stores to buy such things.

    I don’t understand why the stores that sell prom dresses don’t make more of a fuss about such details, though. Bridal stores make a mint on fussy lingerie designed to maximize one’s photogenicity — not talking boudoir, but the sort of bras & corsets designed to make bodies look best in formalwear. From what I hear, a teenage girl will spend several hundred dollars on a prom dress, another couple hundred on hair & professional makeup, even pay for professional photography… but nobody points out that formalwear requires specialized understructure!

  64. 64.

    MattR

    @Comrade Mary: I think it’s three factors. First is what Mr Stagger Lee said, that Time Warner owns HBO so wants to push HBO subscriptions, especially among its customers. Second those other networks are newer and smaller and trying to do whatever they can to attract viewers and increase awareness of their brand. I think Breaking Bad topped out at about 3 million viewers (and Dr Who is about 1.5-2 million) while Game of Thrones just hit 5.5 million and the Sopranos were over 10 million for a while. Which brings up the third factor, that people just won’t call their cable company to bump their service up to the next tier in order to get AMC or BBC America to watch one or two series, but they will pay $10 a month for HBO. (I think part of it is that they see the other channels they get on the new tier as a waste that they will never watch while it is possible that they will tune into HBO for a movie or some other programming) So HBO doesn’t have an incentive yet to accommodate potential customers with a la carte. This will change at some point in the future if the a la carte pricing remains prevalent , but those like HBO who can force subscriptions will do so for as long as they can. (EDIT: Or at least that is my completely amateur opinion)

  65. 65.

    Tonal Crow

    And in today’s installment of “Banning guns won’t make any difference because people’ll use hubcaps instead”:

    http://news.yahoo.com/nineteen-shot-orleans-mothers-day-parade-001138827.html

    Nineteen people including two young children were hubcapped on Sunday when three people threw razor-edged hubcaps dozens on times at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, police said.

    The throwing began at 1:45 p.m. local time as the second line of the parade passed the 1400 block of Frenchmen Street in the city, New Orleans Police Department spokesman Garry Flot said.

    Ten men and seven woman were hit by the hubcap, along with a 10-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy. The children were grazed and are in good condition, Flot said in a statement.

    “Many of the victims were grazed some by the hubcap as it ricocheted,” he said.

    Two victims are undergoing surgery, according to Flot.

    New Orleans police superintendent Ronal Serpas told reporters at least one other person was injured as spectators fled the scene.

    …

    Officers saw three suspects running away, one described as dark-skinned male aged 18 to 22 with short hair, Serpas said. No arrests were made.

    Photographs of the hubcapping aftermath in the Times-Picayune newspaper showed a man lying on his stomach beside a pool of blood, being helped by two bystanders…

    “He just kept throwing that hubcap again and again and again, hitting person after person! It was like a scene from a sci-fi movie!” said one bystander….

  67. 67.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @MattR: We had two dogs many years ago when someone slid open a dining room window in the middle of the night. Our 35-lb mutt was downstairs in a flash, barking like mad. My wife followed her to see what was up. I finally got out of bed, ’cause all the noise woke me up. Our “fierce” 80-lb German Shepherd followed me down the stairs.

  70. 70.

    patroclus

    Man, that Kingslayer’s got some serious cojones andis the most honorable man in all of the seven kingdoms of Westoros!! Majot kudos for saving Brienne from Bart the Bear! I’m impressed!

  71. 71.

    Joseph Nobles

    Favorite tweet of the night:

    “I hope Don Draper gets eaten by Bart the Bear.”

  73. 73.

    brashieel

    @patroclus:

    He’s brave, and he has a code that he mostly follows. He would also kill someone for their shoes. Or just for being a potential risk.

    That said, he’s one of my favorite characters, and the show is doing an excellent job with him so far.

  74. 74.

    ruemara

    @Darkrose: Holy Moly. Stay safe and always check your locks. I guess it’s the NYer in me, but I’m in the outlying areas of West Sac and I can’t sleep without checking windows and doors. And then I lock my bed door too. Paranoid? No, NYer.

    @Poopyman: Aaron Burr died in a wheelchair? But he was so young.

  75. 75.

    MattR

    @ruemara: Even when I lived in NYC I was pretty lax with the locks. But then again, I was on the Upper East side of Manhattan in a 7th floor walkup. We always figured that anyone up to no good was going to choose one of the thousands of significantly more convenient options immedaitely available at his disposal. If they made the effort to take our shit, they must have really neeeded it more than us.

  76. 76.

    Xenos

    @pat: In La Bohème, Mimi sings quite sweetly as she expires from consumption. Rather neat trick, that.

  79. 79.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    Look on the bright side – there’s a few weddings coming up on Game Of Thrones – that should calm things down for everyone.

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