Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

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

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

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Open Thread – Who Put the Nembutal in Mr Murphy’s Overalls?

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Here’s the only song I know that mentions Nembutal (pentobarbital), the drug that those European socialists won’t let us use for our Jesus-approved executions.

Update: As many of you pointed out, how could I have forgotten this classic? (Of course, Valley of the Dolls is another pop culture reference, but it isn’t music.)

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  3. 3.

    bettypageisablonde

    “Nimbutal numbs it all, but I prefer alcohooolll” – The Right Profile is a great song!

  6. 6.

    Knight of Nothing

    @S-Curve: maybe, but I suspect he is perfectly aware that there are plenty of folks here that are of an age that slavishly followed The Clash, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Buzzcocks, Squeeze, The Jam, etc. ;-)

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    Mars Volta – Halo of Nembutals
    Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses) – Sno Cat
    Snow buries Whitehall
    White powdered Nembutal
    And I can’t think anymore

  15. 15.

    shelly

    (Of course, Valley of the Dolls is another pop culture reference, but it isn’t music.)

    It was in the original Mad Magazine parody of the film.

    (God, I’m old. But Bart Simpson would appreciate the reference.)

  17. 17.

    catclub

    @MikeJ: ” not be the one creepy old guy there. ”

    So, one of many creepy old guys there? I bet the plural is ‘a codgering’, maybe a grampede.

  21. 21.

    kindness

    Back in the early 70’s drug stores were apparently a lot easier to break into. My high school regularly had several barbituates (downs as they were called) for sale. Reds (secondol), blues (tuinol) and yellows (nembutol). Nembutol was always my favorite even though they all acted almost identically. Thank god I lived through that period of my life because doing those things was the closest I ever came to death. I am very lucky.

  24. 24.

    Poopyman

    @burnspbesq: Holy crap! It’s not just the first comment, either. Reminds me of why I’m rather happy to have gotten out of Western PA 30+ years ago. All those wingers are still there clinging on.

  28. 28.

    MomSense

    @burnspbesq:

    Great news!!

    Judging by some of the comments, they are really paranoid about illegals voting. Do you suppose they have convinced themselves that the only way Barack Obama could win election twice was through massive illegal voting? That is all I can come up with to explain the recent obsession with voter id.

  29. 29.

    Suffern ACE

    @MomSense: The people who are voting are not interested in screwing around in mideast lands, do not have a sense that things work out best if white men are automatically placed in charge of things, and expect that the elderly should be taken care of. That’s a problem. Too many folks who don’t share the right vision of the world.

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    @MomSense:

    I actually think it’s broader than that. They’d like to deny the vote to anyone (including us white folks) who’s not going to vote the right way. But in the absence of any kind of “Minority Report” technology to get into the heads of prospective voters, they use race and ethnicity as proxies.

  31. 31.

    shelly

    Do you suppose they have convinced themselves that the only way Barack Obama could win election twice was through massive illegal voting

    Yup, that and Gov. Christie saying nice things about Obama after SuperStorm Sandy

  32. 32.

    Davis X. Machina

    @MomSense:

    Do you suppose they have convinced themselves that the only way Barack Obama could win election twice was through massive illegal voting?

    In a word, yes. Charlie Summers, the state GOP chair for Maine (the whitest, or second-whitest state in the union) was convinced that roving buses full of black people, foreigners mostly, were going from town to town voting Democratic, because that’s what they do.

    “I’m not talking about 15 or 20. I’m talking hundreds,” he said Wednesday. “I’m not politically correct and maybe I shouldn’t have said these voters were black, but anyone who suggests I have a bias toward any race or group, frankly, that’s sleazy.”

    And of course, nobody noticed. Which is what you’d expect if a bus full of 40-50 Somalis turned up at the Grange hall in East Vassalboro, rarin’ to vote.

  33. 33.

    chopper

    Jets To Brazil’s Conrad

    houndstooth coat pockets are bulging
    with nembutal bought from some doctor
    who also was bought to keep those pockets full

  39. 39.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Goblue72:

    Appalachia – there is no greater hive of scum & villainy.

    I disagree. Four words:

    Dick Cheney’s undisclosed location

  41. 41.

    PIGL

    I’m pretty sure that Loudon Wainright III’s “Wine with dinner” also contains a reference.

  42. 42.

    rikyrah

    Wonderful clips…..just a suggestion for posting.

    Clip 1
    Michelle Obama shares her college struggles

    The first lady and President Obama joined college sophomore Troy Simon in D.C. to talk about the importance of helping every student thrive in college. Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Troy Simon, Joy Reid and Harvard sophomore Justin Porter.

    http://on.msnbc.com/1dVQ3rd

    They continue the conversation:

    http://on.msnbc.com/1dVQfXr

    The First Lady’s Remarks at the White House. This is why they hate the First Lady, because she keeps it real, and is honest and inspirational.

    http://youtu.be/XsF9Vs6RE-g

  44. 44.

    drkrick

    A song in the musical “Applause” mentions nembutal. I think it’s “Welcome to the Theatre”, but my stint in the pit orchestra for that one was several decades back.

  45. 45.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    Of course they did. I bet they transferred all of their assets to a different part of the corporation before they even picked up the phone to report the leak. That’s what PG&E was doing in California so they could claim they were going to go “bankrupt” if the state didn’t pay them even more for electricity.

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