Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

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

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    Doesn’t Cole pretty much cry himself to sleep every night? Or cry himself to non-sleep, in his case.

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    Jerzy Russian

    I used a dirty word to complete the phrase in the title, so my first comment is in moderation. I wonder if words like “Texas Hold ’em” and “five card stud” have the same effect. There is only one way to find out…

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    Citizen_X

    Doesn’t West Virginia let you shoot someone who insults your quinoa now? Don’t take any invitations, mistermix.

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    Suffern ACE

    @raven: umm. That wasn’t this Penn Station. This one has always sucked and made travers feel like moles. I think they were thinking of the Penn Station it replaced.

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    beltane

    @Suffern ACE: The old Penn Station was supposedly modeled after the Baths of Caracalla. The current Penn Station seems to have been modeled after one of Rome’s catacomb complexes.

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    PsiFighter37

    @Suffern ACE: I wish I was old enough to have seen the old Penn Station – it looked majestic on its own, and no doubt was far and away better than the piece of subterranean crap that it is now.

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    Punchy

    On my way to see Cornmeal and Hot Buttered Rum pluck some ‘joes and mandys. Could be the tittiest bluegrass show this side of Harvest Fest. Booyah.

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    Corner Stone

    @Citizen_X:

    Doesn’t West Virginia let you shoot someone who insults your quinoa now?

    I’m just wondering where someone in WV gets the water to boil the quinoa.

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    Corner Stone

    @Jerzy Russian: I hate it that you beat my first comment, and I hate it even more that you didn’t even get the quote right.
    It’s “pokeher in the rear”.

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    Corner Stone

    @Jane2:

    “crying in his quinoa” is going to be my go-to phrase for the food faddies.

    He’s been trying to lose weight.

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    NotMax

    @PsiFighter37

    It was a structure of both grandeur and utility, eye-catching and pleasing both inside and out. Its destruction in order for Madison Square Garden to move to new digs (rather, move again as that venue had not been in the actual Madison Square for quite some time) was truly an urban tragedy.

    The train and subway area below street level of the new Garden was given the shortest shrift possible and represented absolutely the barest minimum such facilities require. Many an hour spent drenched in sweat in the sweltering, supremely ugly and depressing, non-air conditioned Long Island Railroad waiting room.

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    raven

    @NotMax: It was torn down because the Pennsylvania Railroad was failing and they couldn’t afford not to sit on the property. I knew nothing about this until tonight but they said that it was the beginning of serious historic preservation.

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    NotMax

    @raven

    One small saving grace that came out of it was that the public soon realized what they had lost and rallied to save Grand Central Terminal when that was similarly threatened.

    The streetside synergy and harmony of the old Penn Station along with its neighbor behind it, the still standing columned neo-classical Post office building was something else lost.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Is this kind of an open thread, ’cause I found this hilarious, from Politico via Alex Pareene at Salon:

    Calling Leno his favorite late-night host, McCain said Leno would do little things like making sure there were cupcakes in the green room (McCain’s favorite) or show the senator around his car collection.
    “That’s just the kind of guy he is,” McCain said. “Another reason I like him so much is he uses humor but he doesn’t have the sharp edge that some others do, the kind of put-down that is popular with some others.”

    John McCain does not like “put downs”, and at least he doesn’t plaster on the make up like a trollop

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    NotMax

    @raven

    Something else you might enjoy viewing when time permits (no link handy, but should be findable):

    PBS’ American Experience aired a documentary on Coney Island which was also very, very well done.

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    Botsplainer

    Do I want a new watch? Amazon has a Victorinox I want for 400, and a Hamilton manual for 550.

    Oh, and I bought a car last week without consulting the spouse…

    +5 doubles

  46. 46.

    Cervantes

    @raven:

    they said that it was the beginning of serious historic preservation.

    It was. And it was thereby also the beginning of the end for Robert Moses.

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    Corner Stone

    This movie Zero Dark Thirty is a real bitch to try and watch. Who put this latter day Blair Witch Project jumbletron POS together and thought it was a movie?

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    Corner Stone

    @NotMax: Meh. Could be relevant if it was a really good pokeher game going on.
    I’ve lost pots before to make it out alive of not so nice places.

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    Jasmine Bleach

    @Bob In Portland:

    That’s quinoa pronounced “queen-o”?

    Don’t know if you were just joking (in which case please just ignore me), but I believe officially it is pronounced “keen-wa”.

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    dww44

    @raven: It was indeed. Saw it a few nights ago. That’s one aspect of the American form of capitalism that I abhor. Throw away public spaces and best exemplified these days by sports stadiums which achieve their expiration dates in less than 20 years and must be replaced by the next bigger and more costly thing. Mostly on the backs of those who can’t afford tickets to get in anyways.

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    Stella B.

    I had a salad today that had some quinoa. There couldn’t have been more than a tablespoon in the entire salad. The salad, however, was delish. It had arugula and roasted brussels sprouts which were just fabulous together. There was some other stuff too, but the greens were the key. I haven’t been successful roasting brussels sprouts in the past, but I think I’ll try again. Probably skip the quinoa though.

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    John Revolta

    As I recall the Fields quote it was more like:

    “I’ve got an open mind; I don’t mind nine aces in a deck. But when a man has five aces, and I dealt myself four aces, and besides which, I know what I dealt him…………………..!”

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