Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

I really should read my own blog.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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  2. 2.

    Betty Cracker

    Aw, what a cute couple.

    I have absolutely no fucks at all to give for soccer, but my family is watching, and even I thought the American blew it in the final seconds of regulation. WTF?

  3. 3.

    PaulW

    That’s it. No more f-cking soccer.

    We can’t generate any f-cking offense might as well just f-cking not play the damn thing.

  10. 10.

    TaMara (BHF)

    You know what makes me happy? That I’m on the side of history that is thrilled with our beautiful First Couple. And that I have enough of a sense of humor to find that completely charming and funny.

    Fuck the haters.

  11. 11.

    Hungry Joe

    I’ve watched more soccer in the last two weeks than I’ve watched in my entire life. And probably more than I’ll watch in the entire rest of my life. Well, at least I tried. Back to baseball and tennis.

    Just returned from two weeks in Peru. Magnificent country, wonderful people. We were careful, but still I managed to get food poisoning TWICE. The second time it was along with altitude sickness — a combo that, in retrospect, is exactly what I’d wish on my worst enemy.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    @TaMara (BHF):

    You know what makes me happy? That I’m on the side of history that is thrilled with our beautiful First Couple.

    I think this all the time.

  15. 15.

    kindness

    Boo hoo. USA lost.

    Damn Belgians. What is the derogatory name for someone from Belgium anyhow? Damn if I know. All I know is I love their beer. No not the Stella Artois. That stuff is crap.

  16. 16.

    adepsis

    @Mandalay: Awesome!

    I want to point out that she is THE first female 4 star Admiral – period.

    She is also African American.

  17. 17.

    Patrick

    @The Dangerman:

    Did you hear 4 Americans died there? FOUR! Indeed.

    Those 4 are worth a hell of lot more than all those Americans that died in embassy attacks under Bush or the 4500 US soldiers that died in the Iraq war that was invaded under false pretenses.

    Yes, I’m sarcastic.

  19. 19.

    Pogonip

    Because of various problems taking up my time and attention, the Pogonip Weather Project was spotty at best during May and June, so I’m scratching those months and picking it up again today.

  21. 21.

    PsiFighter37

    If only we hadn’t blown that point-blank shot at goal in the 92nd minute. Goddammit.

    Oh well, back to soccer being on the peripheral edge of what I pay attention to. It sucks because it is an entertaining sport – basically hockey on a much larger playing area – but MLS games are just way worse, in terms of quality, than the World Cup is (or even the teams in Europe, I’m sure). Hard for me to pay attention to overseas leagues.

    That said, given the team has a lot of new players, I’m excited to see how much more they can improve over the next 4 years. I do wish they had kept Donovan on the team, though – once Altidore went down, they really just didn’t have the people to push the attack like they needed to.

  22. 22.

    Pogonip

    Does anyone else wonder how everyday life would be affected if the U.N. member nations got together and decided to effect regime change in the U.S.?

  24. 24.

    JPL

    Someone explain to me how the haters are using this film to ditz the first lady. I don’t get it.

  25. 25.

    gogol's wife

    @TaMara (BHF):

    Me too. I don’t know what I’m going to do when they’re out of the White House. I haven’t been able to enjoy it as much as I would have liked, given all the horrible hateful bile that’s poured on them every day, but I love them.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    @Pogonip:

    I, for one, would welcome our metric system overlords. To think we almost got that in the Carter administration!

  27. 27.

    Mike in NC

    @kindness: Some of the terms used to describe Belgians in “Monty Python” skits were Flems, Sprouts, and Waffles.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    @Pogonip:

    Does anyone else wonder how everyday life would be affected if the U.N. member nations got together and decided to effect regime change in the U.S.?

    If U.N. member nations got together, it probably wouldn’t matter as much what regime we had in the U.S.

  30. 30.

    Pogonip

    @Steeplejack: The PWP consisted of me, using a sophisticated data-storing device called a “notebook,” noting down each day’s weather with the intent of comparing it to the Farmer’s Almanac to see how right it was. So I guess they’ll get a pass on May and June.

  31. 31.

    Mandalay

    This is cool:

    Kentucky could become the first southern state to allow same-sex marriage after a federal judge determined arguments supporting a ban on such relationships were bewildering and irrational.

    U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II ruled in favor of two gay Louisville couples who challenged the state’s 2004 constitutional amendment and a similar 1998 law violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law.

    “In America, even sincere and long-hold religious beliefs do not trump the constitutional rights of those who happen to have been out-voted,” Heyburn wrote in his ruling.

    The judge sharply rejected the only justification for the ban offered by Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s lawyers – who argued that traditional marriage contributed to a stable birth rate and the state’s long-term economic stability.

    “These arguments are not those of serious people,” Heyburn said.

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    Someone explain to me how the haters are using this film to ditz the first lady.

    The First Lady is near.

  36. 36.

    Baud

    So Obama said this today:

    That’s because we know from our history that our economy doesn’t grow from the top-down, it grows from the middle-out

    Which, after the season finale of Silicon Valley, may not convey quite the message the White House is going for.

  37. 37.

    Cacti

    @Mandalay:

    “These arguments are not those of serious people,” Heyburn said

    It’s really the best they’ve got.

    Their real argument against marriage equality is “Gay people are icky and make the baby Jesus cry.”

  38. 38.

    Baud

    @Mandalay:

    “In America, even sincere and long-hold religious beliefs do not trump the constitutional rights of those who happen to have been out-voted,” Heyburn wrote in his ruling.

    Agreed. They trump the rights of the majority!

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    @Pogonip:

    How about we just make the yardsticks, oh, say, 3.37 inches longer? That wouldn’t be such a big deal, would it?

  40. 40.

    rikyrah

    From Charles Pierce:

    So there really isn’t any excuse any more.

    I occasionally get chaffed by folks for giving out civics lessons but, seriously, we get the government we deserve. The Founders, and those brave people who came later, a group that certainly includes the three Mississippi martyrs and thousands more whose names we don’t know, made sacrifices that leave us no alibis. If you live in a state that has restricted the franchise, and that has erected hoops through which you have to jump, then learn how to jump through the hoops and break down those barriers by flooding the polls. If you don’t live in a state where it has been made more difficult to vote, then get off your sorry ass.

    http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/No_Excuses

  41. 41.

    Pogonip

    @Steeplejack: Never! Give ’em an inch, they take a kilometer!

    When I was at Bedrock High School back in the day, there was a huge push on to teach the metric system because it was going to happen Any Day Now. I graduated in 1977. Still waiting.

  42. 42.

    Mandalay

    @Cacti:

    Their real argument against marriage equality is “Gay people are icky and make the baby Jesus cry.”

    Your argument is actually more plausible than that used by the lawyers of the haters. The judge was pretty brutal about their bullshit:

    …Defendant adds a disingenuous twist to the argument: traditional marriages contribute to a stable birth rate which, in turn, ensures the state’s long-term economic stability.

    These arguments are not those of serious people. Though it seems almost unnecessary to explain, here are the reasons why. Even assuming the state has a legitimate interest in promoting procreation, the Court fails to see, and Defendant never explains, how the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage has any effect whatsoever on procreation among heterosexual spouses. Excluding same-sex couples from marriage does not change the number of heterosexual couples who choose to get married, the number who choose to have children, or the number of children they have. See Bishop v. United States ex rel. Holder, 962 F. Supp. 2d 1252, 1291 (N.D. Okla. 2014) (“Marriage is incentivized for naturally procreative couples to precisely the same extent regardless of whether same-sex couples (or other non-procreative couples) are included.”). The Court finds no rational relation between the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage and the Commonwealth’s asserted interest in promoting naturally procreative marriages.

  43. 43.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Mandalay:

    These arguments are not those of serious people.

    It is difficult to imagine how pissed a Federal appellate judge must be before he or she commits something like that to the record.

  44. 44.

    Roger Moore

    @Pogonip:

    Does anyone else wonder how everyday life would be affected if the U.N. member nations got together and decided to effect regime change in the U.S.?

    It would be a lot shorter, for one thing, what with the nuclear exchanges and all.

  45. 45.

    scav

    @Davis X. Machina: or

    “The state’s attempts to connect the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage to its interest in economic stability and in ‘ensuring humanity’s continued existence’ are at best illogical and even bewildering,”

    That does somehow come out in a Spock voice.

  46. 46.

    Randy P

    @Pogonip: In New York State about that time, some of the highway signs got changed to english and metric. There was a huge outcry and the state actually spent the money to change them back.

    I think the ones on the highways to Canada still have those furrin units though.

    @TaMara (BHF): I use “do you adore the First Lady” the way I use “do you absolutely adore my wife upon meeting her”, as a basic sanity test. If you fail either of my sanity tests, I’m not really interested in your opinions on anything else.

  47. 47.

    Violet

    @Davis X. Machina:

    It is difficult to imagine how pissed a Federal appellate judge must be before he or she commits something like that to the record.

    One wonders if the decisions by the Supremes this week have had an impact on lower court judges’ opinions. The Supremes are making the judging profession look bad.

  48. 48.

    Bex

    @TaMara (BHF): The haters must have stroked out celebrating the latest SC decisions and missed the President’s reference to “Charlie and his husband.” Best of luck to Charlie and Bill.

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    @Pogonip:

    Killed by Reagan (as usual):

    In 1968, Congress authorized the U.S. Metric Study, a three-year study of systems of measurement in the U.S., with emphasis on the feasibility of metrication. The United States Department of Commerce conducted the study. A 45-member advisory panel consulted and took testimony from hundreds of consumers, business organizations, labor groups, manufacturers and state and local officials. The final report of the study concluded that the U.S. would eventually join the rest of the world in the use of the metric system of measurement. The study found that metric units were already implemented in many areas and that their use was increasing. The majority of study participants believed that conversion to the metric system was in the best interests of the U.S., particularly in view of the importance of foreign trade and the increasing influence of technology in the U.S.

    Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 “to coordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric system in the United States.” Voluntary conversion was initiated, and the United States Metric Board (USMB) was established for planning, coordination and public education. The public education component led to public awareness of the metric system, but the public response included resistance, apathy, and sometimes ridicule. In 1981, the USMB reported to Congress that it lacked the clear Congressional mandate necessary to bring about national conversion. Because of this ineffectiveness and an effort of the Reagan administration—particularly from Lyn Nofziger’s efforts as a White House adviser to the Reagan administration to reduce federal spending—the USMB was disbanded in the autumn of 1982.

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    @Davis X. Machina:

    IMO, this is one of the reasons why the state of California declined to defend Prop 8 — they looked at the “arguments” from the anti-marriage crowd and realized they would look like idiots trying to sell them to a judge.

  52. 52.

    JPL

    Gosh all this talk about courts and decisions. Although I’m pleased that some lower courts have decided to rule on the law, most and especially the Supremes rule according to their political leanings.

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @efgoldman:

    Not all of us; a large minority think the whole thing is an abomination.

    The navy isn’t an abomination; that’s the air force.

  55. 55.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Pogonip:

    When I was at Bedrock High School back in the day, there was a huge push on to teach the metric system because it was going to happen Any Day Now. I graduated in 1977. Still waiting.

    If you specialize in any sort of science, it happened long ago, which ought to be reason enough to teach it.

  56. 56.

    A Humble Lurker

    @Bex:

    “Charlie and his husband.” Best of luck to Charlie and Bill.

    I loved that little thing. Someday that’s what it’ll always be like: just something you mention off hand and with no fanfare. And FLOTUS looks good with a hair band.

  57. 57.

    Howard Beale IV

    For all of you ex-pat Detroiters of a certain age: Ollie Fretter has shuffled off the mortal coil, age 81.

  58. 58.

    jharp

    Very cool couple. I really enjoy watching them and Michelle is a real beauty.

    We are lucky to have them in the White House.

    Can you imagine having Romney running the county like he did Bain Capital.

    Yikes!

  60. 60.

    OzarkHillbilly

    For years now I have been making chili and cornbread for “Project wkends” (caving ) here in the Ozarks. And for years people have accused me of putting crack in my cornbread, as it is the best ever.

    I can not tell a lie: You will never know.

  62. 62.

    John Revolta

    America is a bombin’ nation.

    Also: it’s nice to know that on top of every other reason I’ve got to hate Reagan, it’s his fault that I have to own two sets of tools.

    Also too: Ditz?

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Recipe, please! Although I have to say my sainted mother’s cornbread recipe from the hollers of north Tennessee is pretty damn good.

  64. 64.

    mai naem

    I grew up using the metric system and then came here and had to get used to the incredibly stupid system here. Why the fuck would you not want to memorize the deci, milli and kilo and the multipliers. No, we have to know fucking ounces, inches, pounds, miles, yards WTF. Get those foam fingers out. USA!USA!USA!
    Even the way math is taught in this country is fucked up. Most other countries do not split geometry and algebra, its all combined. And, jeebus, forget elementary math. Everything’s made more difficult.

  66. 66.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @jharp:

    Michelle is a real beauty.

    Michelle is smokin’ hot.

    ps: yes I am a sexist pig. At least I wouldn’t hit on her in front of her children.

  68. 68.

    JPL

    @efgoldman: That’s what I think. It becomes such a non issue that even the republicans won’t touch it. Unfortunately, woman’s health issues never will.

  70. 70.

    JPL

    The Supreme Court rulings upset me so much that it is hard for me to forget about bush v gore. The ruling that changed everything. I really fear for our democracy. I was never a big fan of unions until I realized that non union shops were keeping up with benefits and pay in order to prevent the big bad unions from taking over. What’s going to happen when they are gone. It never dawned on me that the Supremes would tell me what type of family planning was acceptable. Palin campaigned on the fact that the current President would dictate your medical care.
    Gosh she was wrong. She is now dictating what is appropriate.

    Does any one feel as despdrate as Me?

  72. 72.

    E.

    @Davis X. Machina: As someone who practices in federal court, I can tell you it is extremely unusual to get that kind of language in an opinion. I’ve gotten one snarky opinion by a judge who was quite angry with my opponent, but he was way more subtle than that. And he was quite literally screaming at my opposing counsel during oral argument. So I would say, yeah, this judge was pissed.

  73. 73.

    schrodinger's cat

    @mai naem: Metric system is used in all scientific work. We use m/s not furlongs/fortnight. Geometry + Algebra = Coordinate geometry. Euclidean geometry and Algebra are always taught separately, why would they be taught together?

  74. 74.

    Roger Moore

    @Matt McIrvin:

    If you specialize in any sort of science, it happened long ago, which ought to be reason enough to teach it.

    I find it very strange. When I’m at home, I tend to judge things using customary units: feet and inches, ounces and pounds, degrees Fahrenheit, etc. But when I’m at work, I automatically shift gears and judge things in metric units. It’s not a conscious thing where I really work in one system or the other all the time and convert units in my head; I really think in different units at different times.

  76. 76.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I have to pause and take note: Tomorrows predicted high is 76. For July 2nd. Suck on that Texas.

    PS: and yes I know, I will pay for it next year. I paid for it last year too. But right now? I rub it in.

  78. 78.

    Howard Beale IV

    @JPL: Outsourced to J. Michael Straczynski:

    The world we have carefully constructed for you is like one of those boardwalk games of chance where if you knock down the big pins with a baseball, you win a huge prize. But the pins are weighted and positioned so that you will never, ever knock them down. Yet you’ll keep paying anyway, and keep throwing, until you exhaust yourself and your wallet. And we like it that way.

    We don’t want you to have opportunities, we don’t want you to have an education, we don’t want you to have a voice in what happens to you, we don’t want you healthy, we don’t want you to do anything but be frightened, helpless, docile consumers who will eat and watch and buy what we tell you to eat and watch and buy while we keep all the good stuff to ourselves.

    Because you’re not in our club.

    Because we are the New Aristocracy.

    And you are the New Peasants.

    And we very, very, very much like it that way.

  81. 81.

    realbtl

    I’m on a motorcycle trip to BC. It’s not that much of a PITA to multiply all of the speed limits and distances by .6 plus a bit more but come on, why can’t the US get with the program?

  82. 82.

    JPL

    @Howard Beale IV: Well that makes me feel better. So we might be able to have marriage equality but not the other nice stuff.

    Last year or the year before, I think, The Economist wrote an article that said if you want to achieve the American dream, move.

  83. 83.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Violet: Not in mapping US caves either. Fortunately there are several programs that do the conversions quite easily.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @realbtl: Hey, my car averages 126 gills per furlong. I don’t see the problem here.

  87. 87.

    Suffern ACE

    I for one now favor funding any moderate Walloon separatist militia that John McCain can identify.

  89. 89.

    realbtl

    @efgoldman: Unfortunately my Suzuki Gladius has a digital speedo/odo. There is probably a way to change it but for a 3 day trip why bother.

  91. 91.

    trollhattan

    @efgoldman:
    “Ah’m goin’ a hunnert!” (i.e., 62)

    Washington State and IIRC Oregon sprouted metric+English highway signs in the ’70s, then they went away. During the first, no wait, second gas crisis stations didn’t have pumps that handled prices over a buck so for quite a while gas was sold in liters. That blew some hillbilly brains, I tells ya.

  93. 93.

    Howard Beale IV

    @JPL: Yep. If I ever hit the lottery I’m claiming dual citizenship and leaving this godforsaken shitpile.

  95. 95.

    Baud

    If we start mucking around with our system of measurement, we’ll end up with one in which the Earth is 6000 years old. I’ll stick with what we’ve got, thank you very much.

  98. 98.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Howard Beale IV: US and I mistated it. It is furlongs per gill, not gills per furlong.

    ETA: And that is highway furlongs.

  100. 100.

    Howard Beale IV

    @kindness: If you subscribe to Monty Python: it was either “The Sprouts” or “Fat greasy Belgian bastards.”

  112. 112.

    Origuy

    The UK has gone metric for the most part except for road distances. They are still in miles. It would cost a fortune to change all of those; imagine how much to change the ones in the US. Petrol is sold in litres, though. I don’t know, do car ads give the fuel consumption in litres per mile?

  118. 118.

    scav

    @Roger Moore: But this is the 21st century and even KY is loosening up all the archaic interconvert taboos. Slugs and stones are mainstream, if a little respectively bottom and top. I’m pretty sure slug beats paper, but the slime gums up the scissor’s mechanism into a tie.

  123. 123.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Mandalay:
    I spent a quarter of my long life in the United States Navy. Goddamn if the Navy ain’t tough. Goddamn if it ain’t fair.

  124. 124.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Kropadope: I wasn’t equating efg and McMegan. I was noting that HBIV may have been doing so.

    ETA: I know that such comparisons are fighting words much like “And so’s your momma.”

  126. 126.

    gogol's wife

    We just watched the Combat! episode “The Duel.” Sgt. Saunders held off a German tank for 50 minutes while Bobby Rydell tried to change a tire but ended up under the truck. It was cool. And so to bed.

  129. 129.

    Citizen_X

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Physics fail

    Oh yeah? Then why does every lab on Earth use a scale to measure mass?

    (Off Earth, OTOH: do they have some kind of inertial-mass-measuring thing on the ISS?)

  130. 130.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Citizen_X:

    Oh yeah? Then why does every lab on Earth use a scale to measure mass?

    (

    I don’t understand your question.
    Mass = amount of matter in an object
    Weight = mass* gravitational acceleration
    You have the same mass on earth as you do on the moon but on the moon you weigh about one sixth as much as you do on the earth.

  132. 132.

    catclub

    @Citizen_X: Because the scale was made assuming the gravity (g) on earth.
    Put em on the moon and they will give wrong mass.

    also, an equal arm scale will measure mass. A spring scale measures weight, and converts.

  133. 133.

    Eric U.

    most of us that understand the distinction between mass and weight also understand why the two are indistinguishable (within a proportionality constant). That is, those of us that live a strictly terrestrial life.

  134. 134.

    Roger Moore

    @Citizen_X:

    Then why does every lab on Earth use a scale to measure mass?

    Many don’t; actual mechanical balances are still quite common. Even labs that use scales calibrate them on-site against known masses rather than depending on uniformity of the earth’s gravity. “Electronic balances”- basically scales that use strain gauges rather than spring force- usually have several built-in masses to use as part of an automatic calibration routine.

  135. 135.

    Roger Moore

    @Eric U.:

    That is, those of us that live a strictly terrestrial life.

    And don’t care about extremely precise measurement. Acceleration due to gravity varies by as much as 0.6% between major cities, so anyone who needs to measure stuff to better than one part in 200 (and who needs those results to be globally accurate) will need to worry about the difference between weight and mass.

  136. 136.

    chopper

    @Howard Beale IV:

    For all practical purposes, weight = mass. It’s only if you’re being anal does it matter.

    it’s true. butt plugs are one of the few things on earth whose weight and mass differ. it’s almost magical.

  142. 142.

    Ruckus

    @Roger Moore:
    Used to get this argument when weighing race bikes. Told them, I don’t care what your bike weighs in your shop, on the moon, at 10,000 ft or Death Valley, your bike needs to weigh x, here, today, as shown on the official scale.

  143. 143.

    Roger Moore

    @chopper:

    I don’t think most people give a shit about that level of precision.

    Depends on what they’re measuring. I bet a lot of people care deeply about a 1 part in 200 change when the thing being measured is their body weight.

  145. 145.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Scamp Dog: I am old enough that I remember the 220 as a race distance.

    ETA: Not my best event. I could never get a good start out of the blocks. Eventually, I found I was an 800 or 880 guy.

  146. 146.

    gian

    @Pogonip:

    the sun is in the east even though the day is done

    two suns in the sunset. maybe the human race is run

    – Roger Waters

  147. 147.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: I know it’s hours later and it’s likely that you won’t see my reply. The outcome of Bush v. Gore was a real eye-opener for me. I was shocked by the naked partisanship of the decision and it rocked my faith in the supreme court.

    Today’s ruling was a shock as well, even though I now know how partisan they are. This ruling feels very personal to me. Mistermix was right when he said: “The Supremes just put a hand-embossed “fuck you” into the mail to over half of the population.”

    It’s hard to be treated with such disregard, and I’m angry and I’m sad and I feel terribly discouraged.

    Perhaps a story will illustrate how I’m feeling. My best friend is a guy, and we have been close friends since 1975. HIs wife is jealous about how long we’ve known each other, and quite often she is not particularly nice to me. But I make the effort because he’s my friend and it’s the right thing to do, and he hates conflict. Last summer we had talked about all of us getting together before she left for France for a couple of months. I was trying to figure out which night might work, and she sighed this big sigh and said “I don’t even have time to do the things I want to do“. I know I’ve never been her favorite person, but that was shocking, even coming from her. She had no idea what she had just said or how awful a thing that was to say.

    That’s how I feel about this decision by the supreme court. They have no idea that they just told us exactly what they think of us, and they have no idea what an awful thing they have just done. I have not been oblivious to the war on women, but this feels personal.

    So no, I would have to say that you’re not the only one.

  150. 150.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:
    This may make this harder to take but I think the USSC men do know, they just don’t give a damn. They have zero respect for half the world’s population. It stuns me that they have absolutely zero. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me, they are the assholes you think they are. But it still does.
    If I did my job even one tenth as bad as they do theirs, I’d be fired and with good reason. That we practically can not fire them is bad. But we should tell each of our reps/senators that they need to be fired. Yes I know the term is impeached but fired gets the idea across better.

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