Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

All hail the time of the bunny!

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Come on, man.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

No one could have predicted…

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

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

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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  4. 4.

    Morzer

    Yes, I’m still watching.

    I knew that enormous fiery eye glaring out over the world from a dark tower in West Virginia had to mean something.

  5. 5.

    gbear

    …but we were still having so much fun talking about booze that made us toss our cookies in the last thread.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    I gave up when she turned out to be a fairy. Not sure why that was my breaking point after all of the other supernatural stuff, but it was.

  9. 9.

    Morzer

    @ulee:

    The only god in that household is Steve – and he hasn’t actually devoured Cole’s corpse yet, so I guess we can assume his benevolence until proven wrong.

  10. 10.

    Keith G

    I am soooo behind. Thanks to Amazon Prime, I am now working my way through the first season.

  11. 11.

    Mike in NC

    Watching “The Last Ship” on TNT. Based on a book that was published 20-25 years ago. Pretty cringe inducing if you were ever in the Navy. The captain of the ship likes to go around carrying his cover (hat) so as to not mess up his perfectly gelled hairdo. Everybody salutes each other uncovered, which never is done.

  13. 13.

    Bob In Portland

    Let’s have martial law!

    Over 1,000 protesters led by the Ukrainian army’s Donbass Battalion fighters gathered for a rally in central Kiev on Sunday. The demonstrators are demanding that President Petro Poroshenko end the ceasefire and impose martial law.

    The Sunday rally was organized by Donbass Battalion Commander Semyon Semenchenko, who told the pro-Kiev protesters on his Facebook page to gather near the presidential administration building. Some Azov Battalion fighters also reportedly took part in the demonstration.

    A Donbass Battalion representative read out a petition to President Poroshenko on behalf of Ukrainians, with a demand to “stop the truce, impose a martial law in the country, provide the military with necessary armaments and measures to destroy terrorists and request the EU and the USA to impose a third round of sanctions against Russia.”

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    * Incredibly mild, inoffensive spoiler contained below. *

    It’s Endeavour for me. I did a spit-take when I saw in the first minute that Morse apparently is coming back from a gunshot wound. I beat it to IMDB to see if I missed an episode from last season. I didn’t, so presumably all will be made clear.

    I really like the “I’m not quite Tim Curry” guy who plays Morse’s boss, D.I. Thursday. (Roger Allam; thanks, IMDB.)

    And Alan Cumming is a good actor, but why does he need to pointlessly Brit-splain us into each episode of Mystery!? It was kind of endearing when Alistair Cooke did it for Lord Peter Wimsey 40 years ago, but not anymore.

  16. 16.

    ulee

    @WereBear: There was no island, no moon landing, no Iraq invasion. Cole doesn’t write this blog, Emmanuel Goldstein does. It’s all fakery.

  21. 21.

    ? Martin

    @Mike in NC: Not the fact that the ship was hit with missiles what, 3 times and shows nary a scratch, or decided to shoot down a helicopter with the 5″ gun rather than the R2-D2? Or the random nuke incident that only serves to show how bad-ass the captain is and is then ignored and forgotten? And of course, all of these impossibly unlikely things all happen to one ship in a 3 day period. It’s like stumbling across a bigfoot fucking a unicorn while santa claus watches from a UFO. What are the odds of discovering them all at the same time?

    No, you’re right: it was the improper use of hats that ruined the show.

  23. 23.

    SuperHrefna

    @Mnemosyne: that was when the books completely broke down too. I love Charlaine Harris, but she let the Sookie Stackhouse series get way too complicated. She couldn’t handle all the ins and outs and the whole thing crashed and burned. She’s at her best with a small, well defined cast, I loved her latest book, first in a new series that ties all her previous series together.

  24. 24.

    ulee

    ISIS declares caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Our overlord muslin Obummer is succeeding in his agenda.

  27. 27.

    ulee

    16 shot in violent night in all 5 boroughs of New York. This American gun carnival is working out just swell. This is going to be a super summer.

  28. 28.

    Roger Moore

    @ulee:
    Since they’re now claiming to be the Caliphate, they’ve declared that they are now just IS (Islamic State) rather than ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria). Got to get the PR right.

  29. 29.

    gbear

    @ulee: Anything to do with this being Pride weekend? NYC’s been having a rough time with violence against gay men recently.

  30. 30.

    gogol's wife

    @Steeplejack:

    Thanks — I was wondering what I had missed last season too.

    It was great, although the plot was ridiculously convoluted! But Allam rules, Evans is also quite good, and I love the guy playing Strange.

  33. 33.

    hildebrand

    I am far more worried about the Caliphate of the Supreme Court – those bastards are quite likely to gut public unions and declare that corporations have religion beliefs tomorrow – those two decisions frighten the piss out of me.

  35. 35.

    Nicole

    You’re not alone. I’m still watching, too. After the magnificent scenery chewing of Russell Edgington, I figure I owe the show my eyes until the end.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    @gogol’s wife:

    I’m still in the middle, watching on the DVR.

    Strange is such a colossal dick! Puts me teeth on edge. Which means a great acting job by whoever that guy is.

    ETA: The thing that kills me—not only about this show but a lot of cop shows—is how the hero never gets any respect for his “hunches” or insights. Morse has solved everything in the vicinity—including things that they didn’t even think were crimes at first—but they’re still always “Oh, you and your wacky theories!” any time he says anything. Never “Hang on, maybe we should check this out.”

  37. 37.

    SuperHrefna

    @brettvk: Yes, I loved that. And my favorite character from that series, Manfred Bernardo, plays a big role in the new series as does my favorite character from the Lily Bard series, Bobo Winthrop.

  38. 38.

    Morzer

    @hildebrand:

    I almost feel that giving ISIS.. well, say Arizona, in exchange for them taking Scalia, Alito, Thomas, Roberts and Kennedy off our hands would be a reasonable bargain. Mind you, what use ISIS would have for those rabid, misogynist, ignorant, religious fanatics is hard to say.

  40. 40.

    hildebrand

    @Morzer: Done. I will make the trade tomorrow. We will need to do it quickly, as anybody with a pulse will figure out that we are dumping crap, but maybe it will work. Lets do it!

  41. 41.

    Keith P

    I feel like watching True Blood at this point is work. Kinda like getting through the last season of Sex and the City just because I saw it from the beginning.

  42. 42.

    Steeplejack

    @gogol’s wife:

    Strange absence of gold slacks for 1966.

    Ha! I believe they were introduced later in the year in that seminal movie the name of which I can’t remember.

  44. 44.

    CaseyL

    Cole, you are not alone! I still like True Blood; it’s completely over the top, has left sanity and coherence behind, and I respect that.

    Caught an episode of Masterpeice/Morse in progress, without knowing what it was. Kinda surreal: I couldn’t figure out why I saw so many vaguely-familiar character actors in a show apparently filmed in the 60s. I was relieved when it turned out to be Masterpiece Mystery rather than a very localized time warp.

    @Steeplejack: Um… Velvet Underground?

  45. 45.

    John Revolta

    @gbear: Actually, he punched the guy in the face for calling him “a coward and a liar”.

    Now, what’s the legalities of this? How much shit do you have to take before you’re allowed to paste a guy? Because it seems to me that that’s what this jerk was angling for all along.

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    @Steeplejack:

    I’ve been re-reading Sherlock Holmes (nice before-bed reading) and it’s a big part of those stories, though it’s mostly because Holmes is officially an amateur and the police detectives have a vested interest in him failing.

  48. 48.

    brettvk

    @SuperHrefna: I’m in queue for the audiobook from my public library, aithough I might get impatient and buy it. I like authors that worldbuild in various ways and then bring characters together– growing up on Marvel Comics and Heinlein will do that to you.

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    @Mnemosyne:

    Inspector Lestrade was another small-minded dick.

    I know the whole “detective thinking outside the box” thing is a big trope of the genre, but the whole “colleagues snorting in derision” sidebar has gotten really old. It rarely serves to advance the plot, and after the first go-round we get it: detective X sees things the others don’t. And he gets results. How can the others not see that?

    We don’t have to have their utter disbelief repeatedly pounded into our heads, and it just makes them look stupider than they are (or than they need to be). Like tonight: D.I. Friday could have said, “Well, I think you’re clutching at straws, but tread carefully and keep me apprised.” It gets across the skepticism without making Friday (a good guy) seem like a dolt.

    Now there are characters that are dolts, like Superintendent Strange, but it is conveyed in other ways: his hidebound class worship and blinkered blindness to 90 percent of real life.

  52. 52.

    big ole hound

    @Mike in NC: The white hat miscues are a small part of the shipboard mistakes from my time at sea. The biggest screw up is how no ship ever rolls or pitches or has the bow drop when just kinda cruising along.

  53. 53.

    J R in WV

    My ship was a sub tender, a huge flat-bottomed thing with every kind of repair/rebuild facility, we carried huge sheets of steel, hundreds of thousands of gallons of bunker fuel and diesel fuel, 600 spare torpedos, a floating rebuild base. But we never saw the captain walking around the ship, never. Mostly the officers stayed in officer country and we didn’t.

    Once we put to sea to avoid a tropical storm, the ship was ptiching and yawing, and there was rampant sea sickness. The movement didn’t bother me so much, but the constant puking all around me finally got to me the one time. After I hurled the once, I was OK the rest of the trip. Which meant I got to work double time, as so many guys were really incapable of doing their jobs from the misery.

    This was the first time I was out to sea after schools at Great Lakes. All the rest of the voyages were really quite fun, even though there was a huge amount of work to prepare for putting to sea with a ship that was usually building 16, moored with 2 or 3 subs alongside for repair work.

    I enjoyed most of my short hitch in the Navy, and was in the best shape of my life when I got out.

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