Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So many bastards, so little time.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

He really is that stupid.

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

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

The willow is too close to the house.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

A consequence of cucumbers

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Let’s finish the job.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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Wyoming. “Where men are men, and the sheep are nervous” (sit down, Sen. Cochran*).

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Apart from wishing all the happy couples well, what’s on the agenda tonight?

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  2. 2.

    lamh36

    since this is a “good news” thread, just wanted to share that I got an email lfrom CDC today regarding my eligibility for the GS12 job I applied for.

    Notice of Results…Please be advised that the rating contained herein is based solely on your self-rating. This rating reflects your eligibility only and once your application has been reviewed and/or adjudicated by a specialist you will receive further notification regarding your status….

    Eligibility Rating… ELIGIBLE!!!!

    This is the position that has starting salary at least $20,000 more than my current salary!!!!!

    Now we just have to hope that HR Specialist at CDC agrees.

  3. 3.

    KG

    @ranchandsyrup: a song about killing a cheating wife/girlfriend is pro second amendment and pro family? I picked the wrong week to stop drinking (as much as I gave in the past)

  6. 6.

    Morzer

    @KG:

    ASHTRAY INFOWAR ‏@RobotCommission 57m
    @GroverNorquist @Bro_Pair Haha. Awesome how “shooting my wife for screwing around” is “pro-2nd, pro family”. That is just fantastic.

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Somewhere along the line I’ve evidently missed a meme. What’s this whole thing about Cochran and sheep? I keep seeing references, but I don’t know what it’s supposed to refer to. (And why do I want to turn it into some kind of “no true Scotsman” thing? I always heard your Wyoming joke as S:wmamasan.)

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh36:

    YAY! Let us Atlanta BJians know when you come for an interview, we’ll show you a fine old time.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    Is there supposed to be some significance (or snarknificance) to adding an ‘e’ to the end of Cochran’s name?

    Have noticed several people here consistently doing so, but don’t get it.

  15. 15.

    Morzer

    @NotMax:

    I think auto-correct is operating in mysterious ways. Or it might just be the invisible hand doing its thang.

  17. 17.

    Comrade Dread

    Darn, I’ve been married 10 years, and because gay folks can now get married, I guess my marriage… is… still perfectly fine. Huh… funny how that works.

    Almost like it’s none of my business what folks do or who they build their own families with.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    @Morzer: I was going to make some crack like “so he was going for the xx vote”, but I couldn’t recall the name for people who have sex with animals. For half a second I thought about googling for it, and then immediately thought, nope, that is a very bad idea!

  19. 19.

    Comrade Dread

    @SiubhanDuinne: Probably because of this old joke:

    A Scottish old timer in Scotland, in a bar, talking to a young man.

    The Old Man says, “Lad, look out there to the field. Do ya see that fence? Look how well it’s built. I built that fence stone by stone with me own two hands. I piled it for months.”

    “But do they call me McGreggor-the-Fence-Builder? Nooo…”

    Then the old man gestured at the bar. “Look here at the bar. Do ya see how smooth and just it is? I planed that surface down by me own achin’ back. I carved that wood with me own hard labour, for eight days.”

    “But do they call me McGreggor-the-Bar-builder? Nooo…”

    Then the old man points out the window. “Eh, Laddy, look out to sea…Do ya see that pier that stretches out as far as the eye can see? I built that pier with the sweat off me back. I nailed it board by board.”

    “But do they call me McGreggor-the-Pier-Builder? Nooo…”

    Then the old man looks around nervously, trying to make sure no one is paying attention.

    “But ya fuck one goat…”

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    What’s this whole thing about Cochran and sheep?

    Too lazy to google right now, but last week Cochran was speaking off-the-cuff and made a “joke” about growing up a young lad in the True South and taking advantage of barnyard animals. One of those “WTF? Senility, or are the rules just different in MS?” moments that had a lot of the not-so-DFHs I follow (people like Weigel & Ed Kilgore) rolling their eyes. Especially since his opponent was already notorious among us lie-brals for speaking up in favor of the ancient & honorable Suthrun tradition of cockfighting…

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Morzer:

    Thanks! Don’t know how I managed to miss that, but miss it I did.

    I wish now that I could return to those innocent, halcyon days.

  23. 23.

    Morzer

    @WaterGirl:

    people who have sex with animals produces 145 million search results. I had no idea Thad Cochran’s constituent services were so readily available.

  24. 24.

    Anne Laurie

    @NotMax:

    Is there supposed to be some significance (or snarknificance) to adding an ‘e’ to the end of Cochran’s name?

    In my case, it just means everyone else I’ve known by that name spelled it with a silent ‘e’ at the end. Thanks for the correction!

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @Morzer: Soccer moms are so yesterday, hello guys who like to have sex with animals. This micro-targeting thing must be really paying off. Maybe that’s what put Cochran over the top.

  28. 28.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl: it’s based on questions I answered as part of the initial application.

    I believe it’s scored by a program first? The application is being forwarded for review by HR specialist to verify my info and compare to documents I provided (resume, transcripts, etc)

  29. 29.

    gbear

    It’s my 60th birthday today. I called in sick to work and I’m still in pajama pants at 9:00pm. Over the course of the week I bought myself a book about St. Paul architecture, a cool plate from a local potter, and a batch of CDs. I need to listen to the new Joe Henry record yet this evening. I actually don’t turn 60 for a couple more hours. I was born sometime between 11:00 and midnight.

    The local MPR music station is making a huge deal out of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ being released 30 years ago today, so for today I am exactly twice as old as ‘Purple Rain’.

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    @gbear

    Happy happy, joy joy.

    and I’m still in pajama pants at 9:00pm.

    Forgetting how to dress is just the beginning…

    ;)

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    @Betsy: Wow. If you really think there’s no difference between screwing a human and screwing a sheep, I’d have to say you’ve had the wrong human partners!

    When my mom told me it takes all kinds, I don’t think she meant stuff like this.

  38. 38.

    Ash Can

    @Betsy: I’m seriously thinking that one of the main requirements of being a Republican these days is an inability to understand the concept of “consent” (unless it’s your own, in which case it supersedes any and all laws of the land).

  41. 41.

    ultraviolet thunder

    I happen to be in Mississippi this week. I tried discussing the GOP primary runoff with a few people because it seems to be the big Mississippi news. Nobody knew what the hell I was talking about. Not one person. It’s in the papers here so it’s not like the subject fell into a black hole. I just can’t find anyone who gives a damn.

  42. 42.

    Little Boots

    @ultraviolet thunder:

    that’s so weird but seems so true.

    the same shit keeps happening, and some of us care, but most of the country just accepts the shit.

    and truly doesn’t care, at all.

  43. 43.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Over the last week I’ve been read through a handful of stories about the revived IRS scandal, and I can confirm what Lawrence O”Donnell is saying now: Not one of them mentioned that none of the Repubilcan groups applying for 501-3 (think I got that code right) status was denied. You’d think that would be worth mentioning in say the third or fourth paragraph

  46. 46.

    Morzer

    Something to gladden the hearts of the Thad Cochrans among us:

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/pornography-soviet-union-secret-collection

    It was the kinkiest secret in the Soviet Union: across from the Kremlin, the country’s main library held a pornographic treasure trove. Founded by the Bolsheviks as a repository for aristocrats’ erotica, the collection eventually grew to house 12,000 items from around the world, ranging from 18th-century Japanese engravings to Nixon-era romance novels.

    Off limits to the general public, the collection was always open to top party brass – some of whom are said to have enjoyed visiting. Today, the collection is still something of a secret: there is no complete compendium of its contents and many of them are still not listed in the catalogue

    .
    .
    .

    The collection got its biggest boost from librarian Nikolai Skorodumov, who began collecting books while at school and eventually became the deputy director of the Moscow State University library. Skorodumov led a quiet personal life, taking on his maid as a common-law wife, but his appetite for books was voracious. Interested in rare Russian material as well as foreign acquisitions from France, Germany, the US and beyond, Skorodumov kept collecting until his death in 1947.

    Among Skorodumov’s treasures was a portfolio of drawings and watercolours by the avant-garde titan Mikhail Larionov. Made in the 1910s, they are no less scandalous in today’s Russia. One pencil sketch features a happily panting dog standing in front of a human, who is engaged in much more than petting. A watercolor depicts two soldiers having an intimate encounter on a bench.

  47. 47.

    Mike in NC

    @gbear: Happy birthday. Mine was two days ago and I’ll never miss working for scumbag corporate toadies ever again.

  50. 50.

    max

    @gbear: The local MPR music station is making a huge deal out of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ being released 30 years ago today, so for today I am exactly twice as old as ‘Purple Rain’.

    Happy Birthday.

    @lamh36: Now we just have to hope that HR Specialist at CDC agrees.

    I’m keeping my fingers crossed for ya.

    max
    [‘Someday the rain will stop.’]

  53. 53.

    Mike in NC

    @Morzer: isn’t the Vatican the repository of the world’s biggest collection of pornography, or is that an urban rumor?

  55. 55.

    Morzer

    @Mike in NC:

    I am sure I can’t imagine why you would think that a group of sexually repressed men used to living lives based on a book of fantasies and stories about the things done to humans by an all-powerful being would have any interest in building up the world’s biggest collection of pornography.

  57. 57.

    Morzer

    @Mike in NC:

    Joking aside, the world’s largest collection of porn can apparently be found in John Cole’s penthouse suite *cough* the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research in Bloomington, Indiana.

    The Vatican supposedly has not much more than a few risque Michelangelo drawings.

  58. 58.

    MikeJ

    @Mike in NC:

    Given the choice of setting foot in Mississippi or Chernobyl, I’d go with the dosimeter.

    I’ve been to the crossroads. Still can’t play for shit, but I gave it a good effort.

  59. 59.

    max

    @efgoldman: If a Dem had said that, he’d have had to resign, take on sackcloth and ashes, and have himself shot into solar orbit beyond Neptune.

    I would bet money Cochran was making a self-effacing joke about being a farm boy. If a D made a joke like that, I wouldn’t care (and why should I?). The R’s would make hay out of it (they are skilled at making hay out of anything including doing good deeds and charitable acts), so why the usual D suspects persist in thinking respectability is theirs if they just roll over and play dead often enough is beyond me.

    max
    [‘Win the day, lose the war.’]

  60. 60.

    Morzer

    @max:

    Cochran certainly comes across as joking with the audience on the Youtube clip of the incident. It’s like watching the Zombie Stand-Up Comedy Hour.

  61. 61.

    catclub

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think the only groups actually denied it were liberal groups.
    501(c)4

    The IRS ruling that turned something like ‘public interest’ into ‘predominantly public interest’ was fucked up and should be revoked.

  63. 63.

    SFAW

    @efgoldman:

    In a move that I am sure will warm your heart: there are rumors that Buddy C will run for Mayuh again.

    Can’t keep a good man down!

  64. 64.

    Bobby Thomson

    @NotMax:

    Is there supposed to be some significance (or snarknificance) to adding an ‘e’ to the end of Cochran’s name?

    No. Many people go by the name of Cochrane, others don’t use an e. People either hear the senator’s name and spell it the way they are accustomed to seeing it, or just don’t bother noticing the different spelling. Or a simple typo. Nothing more.

  69. 69.

    lamh36

    @Yatsuno: it really is the most obnoxious part.

    I’d still like to go to Hawaii in Nov. which means I’ll need to start paying for my flight and stuff. but I’d hate paying for all this stuff and then boop, I can’t go.

    so I’m gonna hold off at least one more month then I’m booking the trip.

  72. 72.

    J R in WV

    @Morzer:

    The Vatican supposedly has not much more than a few risque Michelangelo drawings.

    And if you really believe that, I’ve got an old, used, but perfectly good priesthood you can have, cheap.

  73. 73.

    Arclite

    @Mike in NC:

    @Morzer: isn’t the Vatican the repository of the world’s biggest collection of pornography, or is that an urban rumor?

    I think it has been superseded by this new place called “the internet.”

  74. 74.

    Arclite

    @ranchandsyrup: I can’t believe Grover is so stupid as to think “Hey Joe” is pro gun and pro family. It must be a joke. Here’s the thing though. You can’t have Grover’s creds, and make that joke. TNC could make it. Even Radley Balko. But not Grover.

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