Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

I was promised a recession.

No Justins, No Peace

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

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

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

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

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Usually wrong but never in doubt

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

“woke” is the new caravan.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Come on, man.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

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

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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  2. 2.

    muricafukyea

    Yea I got a tip. How about getting rid of that annoying newsmax newsfeed or paid ad or whatever the fuck on the top right. WTF is that doing there anyways? I don’t care how much they pay you. I certainly don’t give a flying fuck what the BS ultra right winger sites are spewing for headlines.

  4. 4.

    PeakVT

    Has DougJ tried to rehabilitate Sullivan again? /checks

    Ah, good. Everything is right with the blogroll, then.

  11. 11.

    magurakurin

    @muricafukyea: here’s an idea. Since the advertiser pays by the click, why don’t you just pour yourself a cup of joe, sit back, and click the living shit out of that link and have it charged to the ad you hate and the greenbacks sent to Cole….Or…you could just have a nice big cup of shut the fuck up.

    but I mean that in a nice way.

  13. 13.

    Southern Beale

    Well I had three suggestions but apparently I’m stuck in moderation for some reason I can’t discern. Let’s see, basically, add Southern Beale (ahem), and I don’t think Amygdala posts at that link anymore, Incertus is not blogging any more and Kung Fu Monkey is on permanent hiatus.

    Let’s see if that gets caught by the spam police, without the links ….

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    As the link to Nate Silver was not updated for the entirety of the years he spent blogging at NYT, surprised* when any link in the blogroll is altered.

    *In an “I’m comin’, Elizabeth!” way.

  19. 19.

    mai naem

    Not so much a dead link but I feel you should add Charlie Pierce and Roger Ailes(not that Roger Ailes)

  20. 20.

    Belafon

    @Jeff Spender: It’s based around Obama’s “If you like your insurance, you can keep it” line. Not entirely true, since, if your plan doesn’t meet ACA standards, it must either upgrade or go away. Most of these cheap plans are going away, hence, the article.

  21. 21.

    jl

    @Jeff Spender: The article is about very little. Read down to the bit about if insurance companies changed the grandfathered policies after the law was signed, they no longer qualified for grandfathering. But people churn through those crummy plans, so… the insurance companies just haaad to change them… whatever.

    I’d go look for Mayhew’s the ghost Obama made me do it post, for more details, IMHO. (Edit: I think it was last week)

    The argument of that article rests on ‘insinuation’, and says so itself.

    Edit: for Cole, no Mayhew contact info. Maybe he doesn’t want any. But thought I would mention it.

  23. 23.

    Jeff Spender

    @Belafon: @jl:

    Thanks! I haven’t been keeping up with all of this lately, but I suppose I’ve come to see you all as reasonably trustworthy for some context.

  26. 26.

    eemom

    Add a link to Charlie Pierce. Oh yeah, that’s necessary…..I mean it’s not like 99/100 of what he says is, um, reproduced here anyway.

  34. 34.

    KG

    @magurakurin: this comment should include the phrase “with all due respect.”

    Don’t know why, but recently got a bit curious about what kind of crazy was going on with the wingularity. I usually would just check Hewitt’s site to see what the “unofficial” talking points were. But decided to go to Redstate and check in on Malkin. I am in utter shock by how crazy stuff seems over there. I mean, if a writer from West Wing were to create characters based on these folks the showrunner would just say “um, that’s just not believable.” Right?

  37. 37.

    Jeff Spender

    @Scott S.:

    Pharyngula was readable before P.Z. Meyers went off the deep-end with Atheism+. I’ll still check in every now and then, but…

    I don’t like “you’re with us or against us” bullshit from people who claim to be reasonable.

  40. 40.

    MikeJ

    @Jeff Spender:

    Pharyngula was readable before P.Z. Meyers went off the deep-end with Atheism+.

    There is absolutely zero “if you don’t believe exactly what I do you’re a moron” at slacktivist. As an agnostic I find that particular christian blog far more readable than PZ.

  41. 41.

    MattR

    @Jeff Spender: Generally speaking, there is truth that millions of people will have to change plans due to their old plan not meeting the minimum standards set by the ACA. But at the same time many insurance companies are taking advantage of the law, either to end unprofitable plans and say “Obamacare made us do it” or to try and push people into more expensive, profitable replacement plans. Most of the articles don’t discuss exactly what was (and more importantly wasn’t) covered under these old plans compared with the minimum requirements of Obamacare and the free preventive care included with any plan bought on the exchange. (For example, Mediate reports that one woman who was featured on a CBS report had a policy that paid out a maximum of $50 for any procedure or doctor visit and did not cover inpatient hospitalization at all) And while some people earn too much to qualify for subsidies, many of the people who do qualify are complaining before checking to see how much of the premium the gov’t is willing to pay for. I think that is exactly why they made the decision to force complete registration on the website including income verification before you can see the costs of the plan. IMO, they could have done a better job of allowing people to get an estimated subsidy without registering while making it clear that it was just an estimate, but I can understand why they decided that showing people the full price upfront would scare away a lot of people who would not be asked to pay anything close to that full price.

  47. 47.

    Anne Laurie

    I personally sent you a list back in mid-May:

    American News Project seems to be defunct.
    August J. Pollack is “under reconstruction”.
    Fifth Column “has been deleted by the authors”.
    Focal Point hasn’t been updated “for over one year”.
    Glenn Greenwald left Salon last August.
    Greg Sargent’s link (he’s got his own WaPo ‘blog’, Plum Line) is crufted.
    Incertus hasn’t been updated since 2010.
    Nature Newsblog is “404 Not Found”.
    Ned Ragget has officially switched to Tumblr.
    Orcinus moved to Alternet (over a year ago ).
    Pandagon’s link is borked.
    Pat Lang probably *should* be moved to the “Monitor & Mock” section — if only to keep Raven from stroking out. He’s gone fullbore NRA-ngry.
    Pufferfish hasn’t been updated since 2010.
    The County Fair goes to the Media Matters main page?
    The Daily Howler moved site in Sept 2011.
    Newshoggers hasn’t been updated since Sept 2012 (and that’s a breaking-news site, not an opinion home).
    Panda’s Thumb has dropped its “The”.
    Politburodiktat “has been removed”.
    The Street has a “fatal error”.

    Blogs that should be added (IMO):

    *Charlie Pierce – http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/

    Paul Constant – http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/paul-constant/Author?oid=17693&section=Blogs

    Blue Mass Group – http://bluemassgroup.com/

    The Dogs of San Francisco – http://dogsofsf.com/ (occasional BJ commentor), also: puppy pics!)

    For the haterz: Yeah, I was trying to convince people here they should check out Pierce on a regular basis. You don’t like him, your loss.

  53. 53.

    catclub

    @MattR: ” IMO, they could have done a better job of allowing people to get an estimated subsidy without registering while making it clear that it was just an estimate,”

    Since all that would need is a simple table: Find your income, match it to the subsidy for that income.
    Or enter you expected income=> out pops subsidy. is it state dependent?

    Now subtract subsidy from insurance policy premium. Extremely subtle and complicated.

  54. 54.

    muricafukyea

    @magurakurin: You are free to sit there and click on their ads if it makes you feel better. Of course it’s not quite that simple and chances are only your first click would pay anything but you wouldn’t understand. Feel free to waste your life with your pointless pursuits and your idiotic ideas.

  59. 59.

    eemom

    @Anne Laurie:

    For the haterz: Yeah, I was trying to convince people here they should check out Pierce on a regular basis. You don’t like him, your loss.

    omg, what a masterstroke of point obfuscation.

    As though liking Pierce or not has anything to do with the fact that you copy him all the time, thereby rendering it totally superfluous to link to him.

    Well, what the fuck ever.

  60. 60.

    jamick6000

    Rand Paul fanboy and holder of the Megan McArdle Memorial ‘Seemingly Reasonable If You Aren’t Hung Up On Facts’ Chair at The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf is having trouble sleeping at night because he is way stressed out about Dronebama’s legacy and whether it will drone kill the shit out of Hillary Clinton’s chances to be the first woman second Clinton to be elected President.

    This is unreadable. Tbogg’s writing method is to cram in as many references to 5-year-old jokes as he can into a sentence. As bad as ever.

  62. 62.

    StringOnAStick

    Hey everyone, Tbogg just posted about a Connor Frierwhatshisname column that is simply bound to go to at least one Tbogg unit; go join in the fun!

  63. 63.

    MattR

    @catclub: After clicking on the link Martin provided, I learned that subsidies vary by age and location in addition to income level. If I read this all correctly, they determine the max % of your income you will have to spend on premiums based on your income. Then they determine the average (?) cost you would have to pay for a silver plan. Your subsidy is the difference between those. If you choose to upgrade or downgrade to a different level, the subsidy does not change. I am not sure if the subsidy will cover the cost between the premiums of any silver plan you choose and the max % of income or if it is based on an average of all silver plans or if that average is only used when up/downgrading to a plan at a different level.

    It is not simple, but it is also not ridiculously complex. I would think the decision not to include an estimate was made based on concerns that inaccurate estimates (or estimates based on inaccurate information) would cause confusion rather than on the difficulty in calculating an estimate based on a couple of criteria.

    From a media perspective it seems like the max % of income would be simplest way to explain how much plans will cost in the exchanges. But that would ruin the story.

  67. 67.

    Tripod

    So 2004.

    I’m working on a musical – BLOGROLL! It’s about a band of chipper, young, liberal, interweb savvy types, who have their political hopes and dreams crushed by being repeatedly thrown under the bus. THANKS OBAMA!

    Also, I love that Armando posts only open threads with football picks over at talkleft. Some might say he has given up, or is at odds with Jeralyn’s mission statement, but I say keep on chasing that dream of an offshore, online betting empire! (P.S. take the Packers and the points next week.)

  68. 68.

    handsmile

    I suspect that Redshift above (#51) may be precisely right about the proprietor’s attitude toward this thread, but to add to the earnest futility:

    TomDispatch.com is the single best aggregator of actual Progressive opinion (not the phantasms, e.g., “emoprogs,” “Professional Left,” often invoked by some commenters here). Among the authors one regularly finds there are Andrew Bacevich, Mark Danner, Barbara Ehrenreich, Chris Hedges, and Rebecca Solnit. Agree with their opinions or not, this is what constitutes contemporary Left perspective in this country.

    http://www.tomdispatch.com/

    As for the current “Blogroll,” I’m surprised that Matt Yglesias does not appear among the “Blogs We Monitor and Mock…” In the several years that I’ve participated here, I cannot recall a single instance when his opinion has not been pilloried. In fact, his post on barbers (iirc) has become a kind of infamous legend.

    @NotMax:

    Thanks for that recommendation; unknown to me and a quick check looks interesting. And btw, do you have your own blog? I appreciate the breadth of your interests and the insight of many of your comments.

  70. 70.

    JordanRules

    I feel like this roll of floss I have is never ending. On the other hand, it seems like toilet paper haven’t really been double rolls in a while. As far as the blogroll, I gots nuthin.

    Consider me off your tip JC.

  72. 72.

    handsmile

    And dammit, it’s Redshirt not Redshift at #51 above. (Not the first time I’ve made that mistake.)

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    @handsmile

    Thank you for the kind remarks.

    Blogged daily for nearly a decade (lost some early blogs when the hosts went belly up without notice), but very rarely over the past several years. Also guest blogged at another place which is no more and has been taken down.

    However, should you have any interest in going through what is there, my little tiny corner of the blogosphere is here.

    (As many of the links in my old posts are, well, old, they may or may not any longer be active links. Also has been some time since I went through the comments there to excise spam and ads, so would suggest skipping the comments entirely at the moment. Last, have neglected updating the code for compatibility with some newer versions of browsers, so the display of some elements on the blog may or may not be a bit off kilter.)

  75. 75.

    Death Panel Truck

    @Tripod:

    or is at odds with Jeralyn’s mission statement

    I don’t know what her mission statement is, but she’s a despicable excuse for a human being who thinks Trayvon Martin got what was coming to him. “Poor George…he has no life, can’t get a job.” Well, “Poor George” shouldn’t have murdered a kid in cold blood for carrying iced tea and Skittles in the wrong neighborhood while black.

  76. 76.

    Tripod

    @handsmile:

    IDK, Big Media Matt lacks some perspective and a whole lot of common sense, but it’s like picking on the well meaning slow kid.

    Ezra Klein OTOH, knows better. That guy would sell out every principle he ever had to be the next David Broder, and stay on that sweet, sweet DC gravy train.

  77. 77.

    Ripley

    I heard somewhere that MyDD is still up and running, maybe a link on the blogroll…? I think it’s about someone’s delusional disorder – sounds fun!

  78. 78.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    @Ripley: It’s “up and running”, but the last front-page post is from December 2012. The “diary” posts appear to all be spam.

  79. 79.

    handsmile

    @NotMax:

    While it won’t be tonight, I’ll be definitely exploring that “tiny corner.” Just a quick peek revealed quite an impressive “Blogroll” itself (TruthDig, Alternet, Robert Fisk et al). Thanks and cheers!

  83. 83.

    Mary G

    The League of Ordinary Gentlemen has changed its name to “Ordinary Times” in response to accusations of gender bias.

  84. 84.

    handsmile

    @Tripod:

    I’m sure BMM would appreciate such a ringing endorsement! :)

    As for Ezra Klein, I simply (but deeply) disagree that his objective is to ascend to the throne of Broder to rule the Village. Nor do I understand the animus towards Klein that is so prevalent on this blog. That said, I too am disappointed/perplexed by his recent inconsolable lamentations over the ACA website roll-out. In reading him regularly over the past several years, however, I have found too much incisive reporting and astute analysis to reject or impugn him utterly for this regrettable lapse in judgment.

    With that, I’m afraid I’m to bed. I trust we’ll have other opportunities to debate the merits of Mr. Klein. And I’ll check back here some hours after the sun has risen later this morning.

  87. 87.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    One of the few occasions where both sides really do do it. Of course, snarling mass, jackals, etc. etc. I try to remain reasonable and discuss the issues, but man, it’s HARD. ‘Try’ is definitely the operative word.

  90. 90.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    @eemom: I see you didn’t learn anything from your vicious comments in that thread where you got your ban. I hope, when you’re old enough to need help, your offspring spurn you, tell you to go fuck yourself. It’s what you deserve. You are a contemptible individual. May the Lord have mercy on your soul. He probably won’t.

  99. 99.

    eemom

    @taylormattd:

    Just for the fucking record, I’ve TRIED to be nice to this asshole. And if it wasn’t all weird enough already, I’ve tried to stick up for him when his adored AL was being an asshole to HIM.

    Got better things to do at this hour of the night than look for links, but it did happen.

    [headdesk]

  100. 100.

    Higgs Boson's Mate (Crystal Set)

    @piratedan:

    Stonekettle was already bookmarked. I followed your link to Angry Bear and added it after reading two posts.

    Thank you.

  102. 102.

    JordanRules

    Do people who pop off on here with the quickness talk like that to people in real life?

    It’s somewhat fascinating to me.

  103. 103.

    John O

    Did that trick tonight where you nod off on the couch at some silly early hour only to get near a full night’s sleep and wake up at 2 AM feeling all chipper and having nothing to do but catch up on blogs and news and sports and stuff.

    Jerome Armstrong sure isn’t talking about me. I want to see the military budget slashed, am pro-whistleblower by nature (dear departed dad was full on black-helicopter/home-schooler) and nurture, and want to see Jamie Dimon and his ilk in stocks so I can throw old fruit at them. I wouldn’t be here as much as I am if the blog’s non-existent editorial policy wasn’t pretty much in line with mine.

    Also, doesn’t everyone have their own blogroll?

    In other news, pups and kitties.

  104. 104.

    John O

    Did that trick tonight where you nod off on the couch at some silly early hour only to get near a full night’s sleep and wake up at 2 AM feeling all chipper and having nothing to do but catch up on blogs and news and sports and stuff.

    Jerome Armstrong sure isn’t talking about me. I want to see the military budget slashed, am pro-whistleblower by nature (dear departed dad was full on black-helicopter/home-schooler) and nurture, and want to see Jamie Dimon and his ilk in stocks so I can throw old fruit at them. I wouldn’t be here as much as I am if the blog’s non-existent editorial policy wasn’t pretty much in line with mine.

    Also, doesn’t everyone have their own blogroll?

    In other news, pups and kitties.

  106. 106.

    billgerat

    Con. Yankee’s Beauchamp Bugaloo is defunct. The writers have separate blogs now. We need someone else to mock.

  118. 118.

    Botsplainer

    @eemom:

    Just for the fucking record, I’ve TRIED to be nice to this asshole. And if it wasn’t all weird enough already, I’ve tried to stick up for him when his adored AL was being an asshole to HIM.

    Got better things to do at this hour of the night than look for links, but it did happen.

    [headdesk]

    I’ve GOT to have a party and get you to it.

  123. 123.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    A couple of people above have mentioned that Pandagon has moved to Raw Story like TBOGG. I may have mentioned it once or twice in the five years since it happened, too.

    And I’m mentioning it again now because the link is still to padagon.net

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