Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

No one could have predicted…

Infrastructure week. at last.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

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

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  3. 3.

    Yatsuno

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall: Haven’t met them yet. Odds are it will be a female, as physio is slightly woman dominated in the US. However, there was one PT at the hospital I wanted to throw my legs up for. Built, handsome, no ring, and an ever so slight lisp. I only got to play with him twice, but I definitely enjoyed those sessions.

    EDIT: drugs are kicking in and sleep is calling. Night my dear heart.

  7. 7.

    srv

    Just too uptempo from that other Finordswedenerwomyn Enya.

    Arkansasans wanting to impeach their Lt. Gov.

    Satanists wanting to display Baphomet at the Oklahoma State Capital.

    This country is just spinning out of control.

  8. 8.

    John Cole

    How come none of you assholes told me how good Arrow is? Why the fuck do I have this website? Y’all are as fucking worthless as my cats and dogs, who only sleep, shit, and shed and only pay attention to me when they are hungry or the litterbox is full.

    You people suck.

  9. 9.

    srv

    @John Cole: I saw the first episode, and it’s not bad, it’s just one of those shows that is like on the old UHF channels. Some of just don’t have time to sit around all day watching the tube.

    Watching the second season to Longmire. First is on Netflix, pretty good.

    Boondocks Season 4 arriving any minute… was supposed to be this week, but all mysterious.

  10. 10.

    jl

    @John Cole: Excuse me, I do not shed (at least as much as a sheep). A little respect, maybe, sometimes, would be nice.

    I do bleat, however.

  12. 12.

    Comrade Mary

    My litter box is fine, but my tub needs cleaning, John. Here’s the mop. Do your best.

  15. 15.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    Auto-Tune. Feh.

    ETA: Signora Sarah, it’s delightful to see you, and Yatsuno, all the best, especially with cute P-therapists. (Mine is a 20-something, gorgeous, blonde Swedish diva – sadly, I don’t bend that way.)

  16. 16.

    max

    @John Cole: How come none of you assholes told me how good Arrow is?

    Because the parts I saw weren’t that good? Supernatural seemed better. (Not great or anything, but better.)

    Why the fuck do I have this website?

    Fuck if *I* know. I’ve always figured you just needed extra people to hate on within easy reach that don’t actually come over to your house.

    Y’all are as fucking worthless as my cats and dogs, who only sleep, shit, and shed and only pay attention to me when they are hungry or the litterbox is full.

    The premiere Justified was pretty good tonight, but I have to say, Boyd is going to extremes here. On the other hand, Dewey Crowe is always funny. Also, the dogs haven’t eaten your face yet, so you got that going for you.

    You people suck.

    You coulda asked, although it wouldn’t have helped much, because superheros in the movies are generally everything bad about comics without the interesting bits plus some CGI – and superheros on TV are pale imitation of movies.

    max
    [‘On the other hand, you’ll anything, which means everything, so we could just say, ‘Randomly change channels John until you stop and then watch that – you’ll like it!”]

  20. 20.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Little Boots: When I was in college, approximately One Million Years BC, the Muzak in my place of employment played a Muzakified version of “Whiter Shade of Pale” in heavy rotation. I think they had it confused somehow with “White Christmas.” Ruined it for me, it did.

  22. 22.

    jl

    Speaking of TV, whatever happened to test patterns? Some of those used to be good, Especially if you were high, or boozed up, and played with the settings.

    So, Cole can’t complain that I never gave the young cranky premature old geezer some TV advice. OK?

  27. 27.

    John Cole

    @Little Boots:

    john, why are you awake and awesome?

    Isn’t that kind of redundant? I mean, I’m pretty much awesome awake or asleep, no matter what time of day.

    In all seriousness, a major project went live at midnight and I am monitoring things until I go to bed around 4 or so.

  31. 31.

    Hal

    I’m working a straight through 16 hour shift after my co-worker called in because of the weather. Granted, I almost killed myself driving in white out conditions on the thruway to get here myself and I live three times the distance.

    I wouldn’t even mind so much if my co-worker wasn’t obviously telegraphing every move with all day facebook posts. Oh noes! Buses aren’t running. Wait, you have a truck remember? Oh yeah! Oh noes! Truck won’t start! OK, well buses are running again. Wonderful! I’ll be there. Oh wait! I tried to get to the bus but the police made be turn back around! Oh well.

    Now from slog, here’s a preacher mistaking the old Wonder Showzen for a real kiddie tv show:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTdOGsWq9oM#t=156

    http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/01/07/preacher-discovers-wonder-showzen-mistakes-it-for-real-kiddie-show

  35. 35.

    MomSense

    @John Cole:

    Ha! I just started watching it with my youngest (he got a bow and arrow for Christmas) and even though it is predictable it is still fun.

    Glad you are enjoying it.

  38. 38.

    something fabulous

    Sorry if this is common knowledge that I’ve just missed somehow, but whatever happened to Dance Around in Your Bones? I was not such a frequent reader as usual this fall, and realize I don’t see her hearabouts anymore. Formal leave-taking? Just change of nym? I enjoy(ed?) reading her comments and stories!…

  39. 39.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Wikipedia informs me that today is a big holiday in North Korea.

    It’s Kim Jong Un’s birthday! Huzzah!

  40. 40.

    MikeJ

    @jl:

    Speaking of TV, whatever happened to test patterns

    I was watching a show about background cosmic radiation the other day and knew it was written by an old. How? They said that when you turn your TV to a dead channel, 1% of the static is background cosmic radiation. I haven’t had a TV that would show static rather than a blank screen in over 20 years.

  42. 42.

    Comrade Mary

    @Villago Delenda Est: One guess who’s jumping out of the cake!

    But this has to be the definition of WTF were you thinking:

    Rodman is also getting some resistance from his own team of ex-NBA players.

    Former NBA star Charles D. Smith says he feels remorse for coming to Pyongyang with Rodman for a game on the North Korean leader’s birthday because the event has been dwarfed by politics and tainted by Rodman’s own comments.

    Smith and other former NBA players are scheduled to play with Rodman against a team of North Koreans on Wednesday that organizers say leader Kim Jong-un is expected to attend. Many of the players on Tuesday privately expressed second thoughts about going ahead because of an outpouring of criticism back home in the United States.

    Smith, who played for the New York Knicks, said the North Korea trip has been dwarfed by politics and Rodman’s frequent boasts about his close friendship with Kim.

    “What we are doing is positive, but it is getting dwarfed by the other circumstances around it,” Smith told The Associated Press. “Apparently our message is not being conveyed properly due to the circumstances that are much bigger than us, and I think that has to do with politics and government.”

    YOU WENT TO A COUNTRY FULL OF STARVING PEOPLE RUN BY A CABAL OF CRAZY, CRUEL MEN. YOUR MESSAGE IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK YOUR MESSAGE IS.

    /facepalm

  43. 43.

    Amir Khalid

    @Comrade Mary:
    I suppose it’s possible to get a university education, go through a lucrative career as a professional athlete, and then into retirement, without ever coming out of the cocoon. And yet, Smith is a basketball person. He can’t not know about Dennis freaking Rodman, who back in the day was the Lady Gaga of the sport.

  45. 45.

    NotMax

    @jl

    Speaking of TV, whatever happened to test patterns?

    Infomercials.

    Also too, studio cameras no longer need be kept on to avoid long warm up.

  48. 48.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Comrade Mary: They should be ashamed of themselves for agreeing to play basketball in front of such a horrible human being, who has no problem imprisoning, torturing and executing his own people. Would they have played in Apartheid South Africa? North Korea should be shunned by civilized people.

  49. 49.

    raven

    I’m sorry but it seems like Joe AND Nicole are siding with Obama on the Gate’s book!

    eta, Whew, that is better Wallace “He has been wrong about every major policy incident”.

  50. 50.

    Patricia Kayden

    @raven: Is Wallace the one who couldn’t vote for Palin — even though she was partially responsible for picking Palin as the VP candidate in 2008? No credibility whatsoever.

  51. 51.

    Schlemizel

    @raven:

    What I thought about Gate’s nomination to SecDef: “Allow the dog to lay down with you and you’ll get fleas”

    Yet another attempt to be bipartisan by Obama that will end up cost him (and the rest of the country) more useless cycles of bullshit. Its one thing to be stabbed in the back by ab allie, Dems seem to be good at that, but this need ‘centrist’ Dems have to hand the knife to goopers is maddening.

  53. 53.

    Schlemizel

    62 today – I should be retiring. But the job creators stole my pension so a job that should go to some deserving young person will instead be kept by a cranky, miserable, misanthrope for another 8 years.

  56. 56.

    Josie

    @something fabulous: The last comment I read from her mentioned something about a health issue in her family that kept her from commenting more often. That was about a month ago, I think.

  57. 57.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    Wut, Nicole went to Cal? My mom was right when she told me to not go to Cal(it was my second choice of campus).

  58. 58.

    Sherparick

    I think it is time to call or write your Congress critters of whatever party and express how you feel about the Menendez Iran sanction bill whose sole purpose seems to be to provoke a war with Iran.

  59. 59.

    Schlemizel

    @Sherparick:

    Gee, a nice war with Iran would be good for viewership which would increase the value of my News Corp shares – I’ll get right on that.

  61. 61.

    Baud

    @Sherparick:

    the Menendez Iran sanction bill whose sole purpose seems to be to provoke a war with Iran pander to certain interest groups.

    Fixed.

  64. 64.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Teen at center of Maryville, Mo., sexual assault case attempts suicide

    Daisy Coleman, the northwest Missouri teen whose alleged 2012 sexual assault in Maryville has garnered international attention, is in stable condition following a suicide attempt, a family friend familiar with the situation told The Kansas City Star on Tuesday.

    Will she ever know peace?

    Got a funeral to go to. Have a good day all.

  65. 65.

    raven

    Gates opened the piece by writing that in the numerous times he testified before Congress, he found himself “tempted to stand up, slam the briefing book shut and quit on the spot” because of the “rude, insulting, belittling, bullying and all too often highly personal attacks” one has to endure during congressional testimony. He said if he had done so, he would have told Congress, “I may be the secretary of defense, but I am also an American citizen, and there is no son of a bitch in the world who can talk to me like that.”

  66. 66.

    Schlemizel

    @raven:

    Apparently their are 435 SOB that CAN talk to him like that. The little toady talks a good game but since he didn’t do it he obviously couldn’t do it.

    “I’da totally kicked that guys ass in the bar laat night but then I remembered I had to be at work by 8 today & I didn’t want to sprain my typing wrist!”

  67. 67.

    rikyrah

    Arctic blast compels escaped Kentucky inmate to ask for return to prison
    By Agence France-Presse
    Wednesday, January 8, 2014 7:27 EST

    An Arctic chill kept the United States and Canada in the deep freeze on Tuesday as a record-breaking cold front saw temperatures drop lower than those recorded on the surface of Mars.

    All of Canada and every U.S. state – except tropical Hawaii in the Pacific – recorded temperatures below freezing on Tuesday, even usually warm and sunny Florida and California.

    It was so cold in Chicago that the polar bear at the Lincoln Park zoo was brought inside.

    And an inmate who escaped in Kentucky, one of the usually temperate southern states, asked to be returned to prison after spending the night shivering in an abandoned house.

    Officials said 42-year-old Robert Vick walked into a Lexington motel and asked the clerk to call police.

    Vick, who was serving a five-year term for burglary and a six-year sentence for criminal possession of a forged instrument, was treated at a hospital for frostbite on his toes and fingers

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/08/arctic-blast-compels-escaped-kentucky-inmate-to-ask-for-return-to-prison/

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