Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Ah, the different things are different argument.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

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

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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

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

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

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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

This blog will pay for itself.

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

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

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

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Never done meth or heroin or crack myself, but I hear they are very addictive, which is one reason (among many others- I don’t want to die, don’t want to use needles for anything other than blood tests, I’ve seen meth mouth, I’ve watched the Wire, and so on), but this fucking True Blood is seriously like crack rock.

And you know what? I never, ever, ever thought Anna Paquin was hot. And by hot, I mean by Hollywood standards, not my own personal standards. I’d see pictures of her and think compared to most starlets, she is kind of “meh.” But with each and every episode, she gets more and more attractive.

Now Tara on the other hand, RAWWWR.

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  1. 1.

    Hunter Gathers

    Is Jason Stackhouse not the dumbest character to ever have existed in the world of fiction? He makes Frito Pendejo look like a Rhodes Scholar.

  5. 5.

    Suffern ACE

    O.K. let’s play hypothetical. Say your boss is Aaron Hernandez and he shoots you one night. Why on earth would you not tell the police? Would you think “hey, maybe he’ll let me keep my job? He’s an otherwise good boss except for the shooting?”

  6. 6.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I am pretty sure, on this very blog, that I described True Blood in the same manner years ago.

    I drifted away after season 4 I think. But man, season 1 was television crack for sure. HOT SUMMER FUN. Like a good beach read*

    *if by good beach read you mean hot sweaty erotica, which I do.

  7. 7.

    James E. Powell

    But with each and every episode, she gets more and more attractive.

    It’s all about the make-up and the lighting. Sometimes plastic surgery, but mostly make-up and lighting.

  9. 9.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @James E. Powell: The SF Valley varient:

    But with each and every episodemovie, she gets more and more attractive.

    In Pron, it’s all about the make-up and the lighting. SometimesMostly plastic surgery, but mostly make-up and lighting.

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    Ms.B

    @BillinGlendaleCA: In this case. I’d say it’s a stylist helping it all along as Paquin goes from “little gal with no sex appeal” to a young woman who goes for it. Unless she wants character actor roles. Make-up and lighting help, of course, too.

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    mouse tolliver

    If Sam turned into a chicken, could he lay his own eggs. And if he can lay his own eggs, and he fed those eggs to a human, would that be cannibalism?

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    @James E. Powell

    It’s all about the make-up and the lighting.

    Plus general bearing.

    Good example is Lenora Crichlow’s ghost character (ex. 1 – ex. 2 in the British (original) Being Human*, all the more impressive as she is essentially stuck in the same blah, gray outfit for eternity.

    Seasons 1&2 highly, highly recommended. Season 3 reluctantly recommended. Seasons 4&5, probably best skipped.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    Fixed errant italics gone wild.

    @James E. Powell

    It’s all about the make-up and the lighting.

    Plus general bearing.

    Good example is Lenora Crichlow’s ghost character (ex. 1 – ex. 2 in the British (original) Being Human*, all the more impressive as she is essentially stuck in the same blah, gray outfit for eternity.

    Seasons 1&2 highly, highly recommended. Season 3 reluctantly recommended. Seasons 4&5, probably best skipped.

  15. 15.

    Joey Maloney

    I never, ever, ever thought Anna Paquin was hot.

    My problem is that I’m old enough to remember her in The Piano and that movie about teaching the geese to migrate, whatever that was?

    Whenever I start thinking about her in “that way” it’s like thinking about one of my daughter’s friends that I’ve known since they were all running around in diapers. (Insert descending slide whistle.)

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    C.S.Strowbridge

    I’ve always liked Anna Paquin. I think the gap in her teeth makes her stand out so she doesn’t look like another cookie-cutter starlet.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    An update on the haze situation. The worst effects are still concentrated in S’pore, and Johore state at the southern tip of the peninsula. There, the air would feel and smell as though you were walking through the smoke from burning garden refuse. The 200 or so schools closed by the Ministry of Education, as reported by the BBC and others, are all in Johore. The sky here in KL — a few hundred Km to the north — looks overcast, but the air still feels breathable.

    The mutual fingerpointing is still going on: Malaysians and Singaporeans blame Indonesia for not policing its environment, Indonesians blame the Malaysian and Singaporean corporations that own all the big plantations in Southeast Asia. Given the relatively small footprint of the haze this time, it seems that there isn’t the vast acreage of forest in flames over in Sumatra that there was in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) back in the great haze of 1997-98. So there’s progress in that regard at least.

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    sm*t cl*de

    I hear they are very addictive
    Meh. Alcohol is the dependency where withdrawal can be lethal.
    Nicotine withdrawal will fuck you up and the dependency starts quickly.
    Opiates… it takes a while to get dependent, but it’s not much fun when you stop.
    Amphetamines… hardly addictive at all in terms of physiological dependency; it’s just that you don’t want to give it up.

    Or so I hear from a friend.

  23. 23.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    I blame Oblamer bin Lyin’. I love reading right wing blogs to learn new nicknames. They are just so clever.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    FYWP has been eating my comments for some time now. What did I do?
    ETA: I gripe about it, and my comment appears. Typical.

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    Keith

    Damn, Tara’s my absolute least favorite character on the show. Terrible actress with a terrible accent.

  29. 29.

    TheOtherWa

    I’m a hetero female and I think Rutina Wesley, who plays Tara, is simply gorgeous. True Blood is just good, clean, hot, sweaty fun. What’s to dislike? ;)

  30. 30.

    Randy P

    @Chris: Fly Away Home is the only thing I know Anna Paquin from. I watched that movie as a dad of a daughter about the same age, and it absolutely destroys me every time.

    She and Jeff Daniels did another movie a few years later which I didn’t see. He’s a professor and she’s the student he has an affair with. In interviews they both said “What? We’re actors. It’s not like she’s actually his daughter.” But I’m still too squicked out about it to watch.

  31. 31.

    OmerosPeanut

    The first two seasons amused me greatly, but the ridiculous camp of it all overwhelmed the storytelling by season 3, at least for me. I haven’t tried watching further.

  33. 33.

    Frowny

    I have watched the entire series, because I am a television masochist, and the new episodes keep giving me new reasons to say this show is among the dumbest shows I have ever seen, and I watched the entirety of Britney and Kevin: Chaotic. Do yourself a favor and quit after three. Season four and beyond you watch at your own peril.

  34. 34.

    Cassidy

    Sounds a little like Supernatural. It was a great show until Season 3 (I think). After that it just got clunky and weird.

  35. 35.

    Roger

    Having been foolish enough to watch 5 seasons back-to-back and being too OCD to stop myself when the show jumped several different sharks each week I am not a fan.

    But I will say that once they finally realised they were just making Carry On Buffay the Vampire Layer and started playing up the comedy it almost redeemed itself (‘you drained the whole fairy – go to your room!’ the sublime Teenage Dream sequence with Russell the Reverend and a house-full of drained fratboys, pretty much anything Jason or Pam ever does or says….).

  36. 36.

    Roger

    @Keith: I started out liking Tara but found her more and more annoying til season 5 when they finally worked out a clever way to save her character.

    And yes bizarre that the woman from Las Vegas who must have grown up amidst every US accent going has a far worse Louisiana accent than the Brit, the Canadian, the Australian (I won’t count The Swede as he’s not even trying).

  37. 37.

    hungrycaterpillar

    @Randy P: The movie was The Squid and the Whale. It would have been squicky even without the parallel to Fly Away Home. Fairly good movie though, if you’re into uncomfortable family dramedy.

  38. 38.

    Mousebumples

    Season 5, for me, was very meh, but I really liked 1-4. 6 seems to be off to a good start, but I think they changed show-runners (from what I’ve heard) so that may have something to do with it. We’ll see on Sunday if the “promise” of Season 6 continues or goes into crash-and-burn mode.

  39. 39.

    Jay C

    What I like about True Blood is that it has a little something for everyone (well, if you define “something” as being blatant sex and overt nudity, etc.) : it’s a family viewing tradition here chez nous: I can leer at appreciate the exhibited pulchritude (Anna, Rutina, all those hot naked werewolf girls), while Mrs. Jay can slaver over admire the prime beef on display: every episode we view generates a debate on who’s sexier: Alexander Skarsgard, or the (astonishingly buff) Joe Manganiello. So far, the answer has turned out to be “both”….

    @mouse tolliver:

    If Sam turned into a chicken, could he lay his own eggs[?]

    Of course not, dumbass: cause he’d be a rooster…..

  40. 40.

    jibeaux

    Never seen it, so I’ll just chime in that I love that Tina Fey prayer for her daughter which includes something like, “and when the crystal meth comes out, may she remember her parents who cut her grapes in half, and stick with beer.”

  41. 41.

    Jen

    If you’re not fully in the tank gay for Eric Northman/Alexander Skarsgård by the time you’re caught up I will never read this site again, John Cole.

  43. 43.

    hartly

    @Narcissus: You’re thinking of Jerry Stackhouse. Last I remember he was with the Dallas Mavericks in 2007 as a shell of his younger self. He’s probably retired by now.

  45. 45.

    mouse tolliver

    @Jay C: You realize that was a Jason Stackhouse reference, right?

    Also too, shifters can immitate the opposite sex. It’s happened a few times.

  46. 46.

    Nazgul35

    As with any addiction, you will find yourself self loathing and despondent that you fell for this addiction and will consider ending it all (by not watching that lame ass show any more).

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    Anonymous At Work

    I haven’t watched True Blood for the same reason. Anna Paquin in on the short list of people for whom I will kill.

  48. 48.

    gopher2b

    If I live to be 85, I’m trying heroin. I had to take Vicodin once and it was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. So, on my 85 birthday, I’m doing it. Don’t care what you think.

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