Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

How stupid are these people?

Not all heroes wear capes.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

This chaos was totally avoidable.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

No one could have predicted…

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

This fight is for everything.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

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On late nights when I think I am about to spin off the planet, I like to crank this album on my ipad, throw on the earphones, lie back and relax, because it provides the kind of chaos that I need to relax. Just a spectacular album that my brother turned me on to a few years back.

I don’t know why, but audible chaos like this really calms me.

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  3. 3.

    J.Ty

    I’ve not followed any of the open threads for the night/day/whatever, but I just have to say.

    Batkid.

    As much as I usually loathe that paper, it’s a good report on an INCREDIBLE story.
    Apple polly loggies if I’m repeating other commenters’ reports. But it was a pretty fun day to be in San Francisco =D

  6. 6.

    geg6

    @J.Ty:

    I saw that on FB everywhere yesterday. Awesome.

    You people are going to laugh at me but I just started watching Downton Abbey. John will be working much of the weekend and my plan is to start getting caught up and, hopefully, get the whole series done between now and New Year’s. I have three weeks off over the holidays, so I think my goal is attainable. I only got through the first episode last night. Not enough Maggie Smith yet.

  7. 7.

    Elizabelle

    @geg6:

    Enjoy. And that’s an easier project than catching up on Breaking Bad or Six Feet Under or any American series from the get go.

    Six whole comments on the overnight thread.

    Hello out there?

  10. 10.

    Suffern ACE

    Ugh. Apparently unless I’ve gone to the moon myself, I have no proof that the US actually sent men there. Trust no one.

  12. 12.

    MikeJ

    @Suffern ACE:

    Apparently unless I’ve gone to the moon myself, I have no proof that the US actually sent men there.

    You could fire a laser at the reflectors left by Apollo 11, 14 or 15. The one on Mare Imbrium left by 15 is the biggest and thus the easiest to hit, but these days you should be able to hit any of them.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    Apparently, we’re the only survivors of a global apocalypse.

    I’m less sad than I thought I’d be.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: Not me, I’m terribly disappointed. I was supposed to be the first to go. I had that guarantee in writing. I’d complain but I’ll bet the complaint department is already gone.

  22. 22.

    Jacel

    @JohnCole – I’ve been trying to remember the name of the record label you liked that produced fantastic audio, often with collaborations between musicians of different backgrounds.

  23. 23.

    Bubblegum Tate

    3:19 on is great.

    Also great: “Bad News”:

    I know it hurts
    There is no indigestion worse
    Than that which comes from having to eat your own words
    I heard two people need not bicker in a burning hole
    But some people know how to live everybody’s life but their own
    So here’s a poem dedicated
    To the hatred propagated
    By the ill-fated
    Snakes that’s waiting in the grass
    Those who talk the most have the least to say
    But that ain’t nothing new, and it ain’t even really all that [bad]

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    wasabi gasp

    The idea of a sleepytime chaos lullaby makes sense to me as well.

    An old girlfriend, who occasionally had trouble falling to sleep, would spin an album in hopes that by the time the needle ran out of groove she’d have fallen deep into the land of sugarplums. She had a mostly radio-friendly musical taste and, while at my place one night, reached for an album she liked. Besides not wanting to hear it, I had another idea of what might unwind her mind’s knots, so I selfishly, yet sincerely convinced her to trust me as I cued up the album Song X by Ornette Coleman and Pat Metheny.

    This is an album that would make her run for the hills if I played it during the day, but shiny and fresh is how she woke in the morning, ready to greet the day with kisses and hugs, all the while praising the results of this miraculous sound tonic. It was like a NyQuil commercial or something. I lucked out. I really had no idea what I was doing. Just didn’t want to listen to Suzanne Vega.

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    MBL

    DUDE. You know Latyrx’s second CD just came out, right? Appropriately named “The Second Album.” It’s awesome. And Lyrics Born and Lateef’s solo stuff is magnificent.

    Hie thee to the iTunes store right now.

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    fuckwit

    When I was in college, I used to fall asleep with KXLU blasting dissonant, violent punk rock and post-punk madness in my ears. I found it relaxing, like they understood what was going on in my head. It synced up perfectly with my own mental noise and drowned it out.

    Likewise, I used to enjoy listening to New York Car-Crash Jazz when studying. Total dissonant chaos, but to me it was relaxing and inspiring. Can’t listen to it now though for very long.

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    BarbCat

    I think it’s funny you call this music chaotic, Cole. It’s downright calm and/or I have been living in Venice Beach CA for way too long.

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