Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Let there be snark.

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

Bark louder, little dog.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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

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

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

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

All your base are belong to Tunch.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

In my day, never was longer.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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

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  3. 3.

    Poopyman

    @hilts: Your first link started with a commercial for this product, which I was sure was a joke, but evidently not. (Watch the vid at the link to see what I saw.)

    I suppose I’m the last person in the first world to hear about this. I ain’t gonna use it, either.

  15. 15.

    OldBean

    I’m not sure how many people here would be at all interested in something that can be roughly labeled as post-rock/progressive metal, but if anyone is, Cloudkicker — a one man, home-recorded, independently distributed, non-touring “band” with a pretty significant following for such an entity — recently released a new album called “Subsumed”, and it is no joke. Heavy, dense, intricate, beautiful and just generally fucking impressive music.

    http://cloudkickermusic.com/

  17. 17.

    fuckwit

    Hmm, is our resident medical insurance expert around?

    I has a question.

    I need to have a skin tag removed. Turns out Obamacare doesn’t start on Oct 1, ENROLLMENT starts on Oct 1, and coverage doesn’t start until Jan 1 2014 (California).

    So I want to get this skin tag among my eyelashes removed. It’s growing rapidly and it stings and is uncomfortable, feels like something stuck in my eye.

    No insurance, of course.

    Opthalmologist quotes $200 to remove it. Not bad, I can do that, I mean, it’s my eye, FFS. But then says it might need to go out to biopsy. How much will biopsy cost? THey don’t know, ask the hospital pathology lab. Christ. So I’m waiting for a callback from them. Of course they say “it depends on the medical code”. Christ. Who determines that? The doctor does! SO back to the doctor. Which medical code? I dunno, depends on what it looks like. Christ. ALL I WANNA KNOW IS HOW MUCH WILL THIS FUCKING THING COST AND CAN I EVEN AFFORD IT SOMEBODY GIVE ME A MOTHERFUCKING BALLPARK JEEEEBUS!

    So, in the Bay Area, what should I expect to pay out-of-pocket for pathology lab fees to microscopically and expertly examine a tiny skin tag on my eye (probably looking for cancer cells, I’d guess)?

    That is, if a biopsy is even necessary. Maybe it won’t be, and I’ll walk out of there all better and only lighter by the cost of, say, a dental filling. I can handle that. But I live in MORTAL TERROR of getting a bill for say $10k or something for some deluxe fancy biopsy I can’t afford.

    Any ideas or words of wisdom?

  18. 18.

    celticdragonchick

    The Royksopp song was great.

    The “What does the fox say?”…er…thing reminds me of the people from the original “the Wicker Man” after ingesting acid.

    Really bad acid.

  38. 38.

    Mike with a Mic

    @Suffern ACE:

    I know. It was more a joke that my young ass with my electronic music is probably vastly different than the majority here. I’ve seen these threads and what music is posted here before. I’m a young buck with my devil music.

  44. 44.

    Steeplejack

    @fuckwit:

    Here’s my experience, for what little it’s worth:

    My last couple of visits to the dermatologist were paid out of pocket, since I’m currently uninsured. I have a history of basal cell carcinoma (the very best kind of skin cancer to get, if you must—slow-growing and almost never malignant!), so I have to go in regularly to get checked. The doctor biopsied a very small discoloration on my leg last autumn, and about three months later I got a bill for the biopsy that was about $300. I can’t imagine a simple skin tag would be much more than that, although in our current health-care system nothing would surprise me.

    I will add that this is a perfect example of how fucked up our health-care system is and how it is impossible to “shop” for health care, in any meaningful economic sense. The last few times I have been to the dermatologist I have informed them that I’m not on insurance and need to pay cash. They never “remember” the information—they always have me down as being with the insurance company from my previous job—and it is a huge ordeal for them to come up with the amount I need to pay. And, as you discovered, it’s just as bad trying to get an idea of costs ahead of time.

    The last time I went all I had was a simple body scan, where the doctor examines your skin from head to toe to see if there’s anything going on. That’s got to be about the simplest, most basic thing he does, and still it was an ordeal for them to determine the amount owed. It ended up being $155.01—I remember the specific number because the one cent was a ridiculous flourish—and even then a month or two later I got a bill for “unpaid fees” of about $75–100. WTF?

    I think their whole model is built around (semi-automated) billing to insurance companies for amounts determined after the fact. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that their bureaucracy billed my old insurance company anyway, it got kicked back because I’m no longer a client, and then the rest of the bill got sent to me as an “unpaid balance due”—even though I had been prepared to pay my total bill on the day of treatment.

    Needless to say, I am in the process of looking for insurance under the new Obamacare framework.

  45. 45.

    MikeJ

    DVR Alert: TCM is showing A Boy and His Dog at 10:30.

    She certainly had marvelous taste, Albert, if not particularly good judgement.

  47. 47.

    Suffern ACE

    The sad thing is that I had a video that I wanted to add that I knew would drive ms. Sarah wild, and its been so long that I can’t frikin remember what it was.

    Also, in terms of sad things, I’m drinking in the dark at home because I enjoy my cocktail, but it turned out pink so I don’t want to admit that I drink pink cocktails, and can’t be seen doing so even when it’s just me and the cat. I think it’s time for talk therapy.

  54. 54.

    Redshift

    The Ms. and I saw the Pet Shop Boys last week, and they put on a spectacular stage show as always. Fog machines and lasers and dancers wearing freaky cow-skull masks, yay!

  59. 59.

    max

    It ate my post and there were only three goddamn links. Take two.

    @Mike with a Mic: It was more a joke that my young ass with my electronic music is probably vastly different than the majority here. I’ve seen these threads and what music is posted here before. I’m a young buck with my devil music.

    Maybe like this? Grendel – Soilbleed Redux (2006) – Soilbleed (V.3)

    Sarah: And… well, I have no idea what the fuck these people are on, but I want some.

    They’re from Bergen! The Normann are like that. Particularly folks from Bergen.

    max
    [‘One link, dammit.’]

  62. 62.

    max

    @max: I’m beginning to gather the impression that WordPress doesn’t like Skinny Puppy, which means WordPress and I must have words.

    max
    [‘Grrrr.’]

  67. 67.

    dollared

    @hilts: Loved that. So many songs from glitter were like that – anthems, group identity music. “We like dancin’ and we look divine…”

  73. 73.

    MikeJ

    @dollared: My college roommate described it as an hour and a half set up to a one liner joke. Thank you Geoff, where ever you are, for renting it. Although he did insist on stopping whatever movie we were watching to make sure we all understood it. It was years before I saw more than 15 minutes of Alphaville at a time.

  80. 80.

    Suffern ACE

    84-82 was the final football score tonight at one if my former high schools. Omnes, I think Wisconsin teams need to work a bit on stopping the pass.

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    @MikeJ

    You’ve inadvertently given me a task for tomorrow. There was an obscure rock group called Kangaroo in the 70s. Always liked one of their songs, Goin’ Frog Giggin’, and have it on a reel-to-reel tape. Now feel compelled to drag it out and give it a fresh listen.

  89. 89.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Suffern ACE:

    That’s what I was thinking, too.

    The suggestions attached to your link brought this to mind:

    Solomon Linda’s Original Evening Birds Mbube

  90. 90.

    Yatsuno

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall: I TOLD you to be careful with that Google thing! Do we want a repeat of the Vanderbilt family tree incident?

    Hello dear. You were missed, but I see Portugal is more or less still intact.

    @MikeJ: Jeebus. Ya coulda warned the guy with perfect pitch there’d be that much bending in the tune.

  91. 91.

    MikeJ

    @NotMax: Please upload it somewhere we can all hear it. I’m a big fan of stuff that causes people to say, “what the fuck is that?”

  92. 92.

    trollhattan

    @MikeJ:

    Jayzuz, that would be weird to see again. Watched the only episode I’ve ever seen of “Southbound and Down” last night and was flummoxed to see Don Johnson and Lily Tomlin. What must he have been when he did “Boy and His Dog”? Fourteen?

    Waves to Sarah.

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    @MikeJ

    Exposing my ignorance, don’t have the slightest conception of how to go about doing that. But I’ll ask some more tech savvy friends at our weekly shindig on Sat. night.

  96. 96.

    Elizabelle

    @MikeJ:

    Just settling in to watch “A Boy and His Dog.”

    Phoenix leveled by nuclear blast, it’s 2024. Don Johnson and a telepathically communicating dog. Jason Robards in there somewhere.

    “They Only Kill their Masters” follows.

    TCM was good earlier today. One Joel McCrea western after another. Looked like he used the same wardrobe in 4 of them.

  98. 98.

    Elizabelle

    dog to human (Don Johnson): “You’re so funny when you’re sexually frustrated.”

    Wonder what our dogs actually would say to us.

    Or maybe not.

  99. 99.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I managed to avoid hearing “The Fox” until now. Dayum. It’s like the lyrics came pre-Yankovic’d. The musicians seem nice enough from what I’ve heard about them, although I can’t believe that they had never heard of furries before making that video. I mean holy fuck.

  105. 105.

    Suffern ACE

    @? Martin: it would have been a much better film if they hadn’t played with the facts to make it ‘dramatic’. They try to make that As team into the bad news bears, and it certainly wasn’t. I found that to be childish.

  106. 106.

    MikeJ

    @? Martin:

    Moneyball is a better movie than you remember.

    Especially in a year when the A’s are vying for the AL crown.

    Major League payrolls / records:
    New York Yankees $228,995,945 / 83-77
    Los Angeles Dodgers $216,302,909 / 92-68
    …
    Oakland $68,577,000 / 95-65
    …
    Houston $24,328,538 / 51-109

    Looks like there’s a lower bound to moneyball

  107. 107.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @MikeJ:

    The Astros are singlehandedly an argument for relegation in American sports. Yes, yes, I get that the trendy thing now is to tank as hard as you can so you get the best draft picks, but they (and the Marlins and the Cubs) are an embarrassment. Somehow, the Cards and Braves have managed to consistently replenish their rosters without stripping themselves bare and tanking for half a decade.

  109. 109.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Holy shit! There is Carol King pornstep. I don’t think it works except as a way of tying together some of what has been posted earlier.

  112. 112.

    Suffern ACE

    @Suffern ACE: I mean, do they bother to show that other half of the stadium where there would have been banners of Zito, Mulder, Tejada, Chavez and Hudson?

  116. 116.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @OldBean:

    Very eenterestink. I like my music a bit more synth-y (and lyrics-y) but the one-man-band thing is impressive no matter what. Might have to give it a few more listens.

  119. 119.

    Gravenstone

    This is a teaser, so pardon the chat intercut with the song, but I’m looking forward to seeing where this project goes.

    And here’s another three piece all-star project that works pretty well. Although the sound on this track seems a bit compressed to me.

  123. 123.

    piratedan

    @Yatsuno: I agree, sadly concur on the second count. What is so strange, is all of that debt is actually coming down, at least in the ratio between revenues and outstanding spending and despite all of the wingnut claims, the economy is stoill barely limping along although, not so strangely, profits are still managing record highs for those that can afford to own stock, color me unsurprised….

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