Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Peak wingnut was a lie.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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

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

In my day, never was longer.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Second rate reporter says what?

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  1. 1.

    raven

    I’ve been watching The Fall with Gillian Anderson on Nexflix Goddamn the brits (Northern Ireland in this one) are some murderin people.

  2. 2.

    Viva BrisVegas

    Longmire deserves a look.

    Lacks the wry humour of the books, but still good.

  4. 4.

    pokeyblow

    @raven: Hey raven, what’s shaking? Anything exciting going on in your life these days?

    … ha ha, just kidding.

  5. 5.

    Chris

    As said in previous thread: discovered Continuum this weekend and so far, like it quite a bit.

  6. 6.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    My boss alerted me to “Family Tree” on HBO on demand, it is absolutely hilarious and so absolutely British that it cannot be stated enough. Especially when Dad says “geneology is just like any other ology, best left to the scientists” It is really funny. Check it out.

  7. 7.

    BGinCHI

    @Viva BrisVegas: We’re really enjoying it. I think the episodes are a bit truncated, but I do like the vibe and the location. Also really like the dude who plays Longmire.

    Oh, and Katie Sackhoff. Hubba squared.

  8. 8.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @raven: It absolutely busted my butt when I learned that Gillian was British, and when she accepted her award in her native accent I was even more blown away. Having been a total X-Phile I just could not imagine that she was a home girl. I was the same when it came to John Barrowman in Dr. Who. Whocouldaknown that he was born in Scotland?

  9. 9.

    El Tiburon

    True Blood and Californication are two shows I once enjoyed but now really can’t stand. Oh sure in time in sometimes to just see
    The complete idiocy. Both are so over th top and ridiculous.

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    Longmire deserves a look.

    Watched a couple episodes of that yesterday. I like some of the quiet understanding the characters represent in some scenes.
    Not sure how they can maintain suspense in such a strange and relatively desolate location.

  13. 13.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    Coincidentally, I just watched a couple of episodes of “Longmire.” Three-dimensional characters and excellent acting. .

  15. 15.

    tofubo

    other than cyndi lauper’s true colors and tom cruise’s young blood and ice-t’s just plain ol’ colors, i got nothing, never seen it

  16. 16.

    James E. Powell

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Gillian Anderson is an American who spent part of her childhood in London. She seems to vary her accent with the location and the audience.

  17. 17.

    Mike in NC

    Won’t miss any of the TV shows that were recently cancelled except for ‘Southland’.

  18. 18.

    gussie

    The very first scene of Jack Taylor makes me root for the gobshite minister instead of the out-of-control alcoholic cop. I think I’m watching it wrong.

  20. 20.

    brendancalling

    just because I know it got buried in the previous open thread, I will be playing at the East Side showroom in Austin Texas tonight at 10 p.m. with woody pines. I’m the guy climbing on the upright bass.come out and buy a some beers, or enjoy vintage cocktails.

  21. 21.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    @James E. Powell: my mom’s Irish accent fades in and out depending on where she is or who she’s talking to. If she’s visiting family back there, and I talk to her on the phone, she sounds quite different from when she’s here.

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    Is every one else as nuts out excited as I am for the Denzel and Wahlberg buddy cop movie?

  25. 25.

    Fluke bucket

    It seems like forever since I have seen an update photo of the Cole godson. Have I missed one?

  26. 26.

    BruceJ

    New “Inspector Lewis” tonight!, and later this summer more “Endeavor”; Morse as a kid…

  27. 27.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Barrowman spent a good portion of his childhood in America. The only time I can tell he’s not from here is when he says shedule, not scedule.

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    Since this seems to be a thread full of folks who like British comedy, drama, and the combination of the two, I’ll recommend a movie, Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. It’s a circuitous story about the (semi-) fictional troubles of Steve Coogan while making a movie version of Tristram Shandy.

    I thought of it because Gillian Anderson has a small part and one of the best lines in the movie. She’s also had a piece of moviemaking equipment named after her, which is alternately called a “Gilly box” or a “Scully box.”

  29. 29.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    I’ll keep the politicking in this to a minimum: Go read the first four LGF threads.

  30. 30.

    Carolinus

    RE: https://balloon-juice.com/2013/06/16/another-shoe-drops/

    CNET’s sister site ZDNet:

    http://www.zdnet.com/nsa-can-allegedly-listen-to-phone-calls-without-warrants-report-7000016864/

    Update at 2:50 p.m. ET on June 16: We’re pulling the plug on this story, following Rep. Nadler’s comments that debunk CNET’s story. In a statement to our sister site, Nadler said: “I am pleased that the administration has reiterated that, as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans’ phone calls without a specific warrant.”

  31. 31.

    Mousebumples

    Alexander Skarsgård is unbelievably hot.

    And that? Is totally why I watch True Blood. Yummy.

  32. 32.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    Guilty pleasures? My current one is “The Glades.” It’s just another cop show yet I find it engrossing.

  34. 34.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @BruceJ:

    New “Inspector Lewis”? I loved that show. I think that it was the first one that I binge watched.

  35. 35.

    gogol's wife

    @BruceJ:

    Hathaway is so great. The mystery was preposterous but I just enjoy his acting so much. Lewis too, of course.

  36. 36.

    mouse tolliver

    @Mousebumples: Yes. Just hanging on for the gratuitous male nudity. (Big Joe, hello!) And Pam.

    Nice to have a show without fairies, though. And Rutger Hauer as a creepy ancient vampire. He was Ann Rice’s first choice to play Lestat when Interview With the Vampire first went into production.

  41. 41.

    Cacti

    @Comrade Jake:

    LOL. No wonder our friend Constant Drone has disappeared for the evening:

    I wonder how Anne Laurie’s going to walk that one back.

    Serves them all right for cribbing stories from Paultards and LaRouchies.

  42. 42.

    ? Martin

    Just saw a very nicely done commercial for California’s food stamp program. Not everyone is on the fuck-the-poor bandwagon.

  43. 43.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    While watching the ass-whipping the Spurs put on the Heat, saw a powerful documentary on Netflix called Hitler’s Children, about the life experiences of the children and grandchildren of some of the Nazi leadership, the most powerful stories were the ones of Rudolf Hoess'(commander of Auchwitz)grandson and the son of Hans Frank(the Nazi ruler of Poland). I recommend it.

  44. 44.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Comrade Jake:

    I’m not defending anyone here. I do think that it’s pretty easy to fall for these stories and I doubt that this one will be the last. Maybe everyone will be more careful going forward.

  46. 46.

    Hal

    @mouse tolliver:

    He was Ann Rice’s first choice to play Lestat when Interview With the Vampire first went into production.

    Man Hollywood messed up what should have been a slam dunk movie trilogy. Even better, I really wish HBO had taken the books and made them into a miniseries. Now that could have been spectacular. As it stands, I guess the stories are too old for anyone to want to make what’s obviously the source material for many of these other Vampire stories.

  48. 48.

    Keith

    @Comrade Mary: How did they get away with calling it the second half of the last season? It seems like about a year since the end of “the first half”. I want to say The Sopranos did it with S4 or so where there was this huge break in the middle like they wanted to do a short season (even by HBO’s standard) but not own up to it.

  49. 49.

    MikeJ

    Anybody who can’t make money off Sports Night should get out of the money-making business.

    Sorry, just finished season 2.

  50. 50.

    mouse tolliver

    @Hal:

    Man Hollywood messed up what should have been a slam dunk movie trilogy….

    No one could have imagined that when you try to adapt two 500 page novels into one 90 minute movie, it would end up being an incoherent box piece of shit.

    Whocouldaknowed?

  51. 51.

    piratedan

    @Cacti: we report, you decide…..

    tbh, I don’t blame the FP’ers for posting stuff. If it turns out that the stuff that they’ve linked to sucks balls, well, we find out about it, argue it out and move on. No need for vendettas is there? What matters is staying on top of stuff and talking about it and if we don’t agree, not showing up at someone’s door with a firearm. Didn’t agree with AL on this issue, I like her stuff on other threads but hell, she’s only human and we all make mistakes.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack

    @MikeJ:

    That was a great show. I haven’t watched it since it was on the air. Probably time to watch again.

  53. 53.

    Tehanu

    So happy to see Inspector Lewis back! We’ve been waiting for ages! And in this episode, the husband, Sanjeev Bhaskar is the actor’s name — we recognized him from “The Kumars at No. 42” which was one of the funniest shows we’ve ever seen, even though we only got to see a small number of them (it was on for 7 years in Britain, but we just got a few eps. on BBC America a few years back).

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