Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

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

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

People are weird.

Come on, man.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

You cannot love your country only when you win.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    Alinsky, Benghazi, Chicago… the beginning of the wingnut alphabet song.

  3. 3.

    PsiFighter37

    Goddamn, what the fuck is wrong with Roger Goodell’s thinking? 2-game suspension for Ray Rice clocking his then-fiancee cold in an elevator?

    This is why I really, really find it hard to get worked up about sports – it’s mostly filled with people who are underdeveloped from a maturity standpoint and are earning way too much money for being in good shape. I hate sports reporters even more, because it really seems to take zero talent to write the fawning paeans that those shits get paid to spit out daily.

    Stephen A. Smith should get banned by ESPN for those really stupid-ass comments he made, but they probably don’t care because attention = viewers = $$$. How fucked up is that?

    To me, this just reveals what a sham the whole monthlong breast cancer awareness shtick in the NFL is about – MONEY. They couldn’t give two damns about it; they just want more fans, and there are less females who are fans of the NFL than men. Can’t imagine that will improve with a fucking 2-game suspension for a little domestic violence. You get twice as much if you get caught with a baggie.

    Totally fucked up.

  7. 7.

    Suffern ACE

    Hmmmm. So instead of “what would we do if Mexico were launching missiles at us”, the question would be what would we do if Mexico decided to form a government with Cuba.

  10. 10.

    PsiFighter37

    @Suffern ACE: I’m in NY, and I am going to be busy as hell. Visiting our wedding venue due to a last-minute change in event coordinator, going to a friend’s birthday brunch in LES, then meeting a prospective wedding officiant in West Village. That’ll be my day from 8 AM-4 PM or so. Maybe once I get home, I can think about putting together an e-vite for second-tier wedding guests, as well as packing to move out.

    I’m going to be very happy once I get on a plane after the wedding and leave for 3 weeks. Until then, the weekends are not going to feel like a break from work at all…if anything, it’s more stressful.

  11. 11.

    A Humble Lurker

    For those of you that like reading online comics (there are some good ones out there) might I recommend one I just discovered called Broodhollow? It’s like if Peanuts shacked up with a Lovecraftian horror. Story telling and art are both superb. Check it out if you can.

  12. 12.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    My boss came in at 930 am this morning and left at 1140, he told me as he was walking out the door to come in at 1030 on Sunday. Would it surprise you if I told you that I am getting tired of this shit?

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @PsiFighter37: Have you read Dave Zirin on this? He completely agrees with you. I do, too.

    last-minute change in event coordinator

    I’m pretty sure there’s a story there.

  16. 16.

    Roger Moore

    @Suffern ACE:
    This is about what I thought. If Hamas had kidnapped a few Israeli teenagers, their established pattern would be to keep them as hostages and try to use them as leverage for the release of Hamas prisoners held by Israel. They wouldn’t keep it secret, and they wouldn’t kill them. This was obvious to me and should have been obvious to anyone who has paid even cursory attention to events in Israel, a group one would hope would include senior members of Likud. The government was blaming Hamas because they wanted to blame Hamas, not because there was a shred of evidence pointing in that direction.

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    @Suffern ACE:

    I thought there was no way I could have even less sympathy for Israel than I already have but, once again, they managed to sink below even my expectations.

  18. 18.

    PsiFighter37

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, just a generic “Oh, she’s moved on!” kind of thing. I don’t mind much, unless she had forgotten to tell us some important shit that we should’ve done a long time ago.

    Either way, busy weekend. I just want to veg out one day and just sleep…but I can’t do that. And next weekend is the bachelor party…so I really need to get some sleep now to compensate for the upcoming party rocking…

  19. 19.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @WaterGirl: WG, do you have a link? Zinn’s site’s most recent column is on LeBron James (who ESPN abbreviates as “LBJ” which it should not…LBJ means Lyndon Baines Johnson, dammit…).

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The final sentence of Zinn’s column in The Nation linked above:

    They (the pink “breast cancer awareness” jerseys) are symbols of a monstrous joke that sees women as either revenue streams, cheerleaders or collateral damage to what takes place on the field.

    Well isn’t it always in this Ferengi culture of ours about the revenue stream? At all times? No other value even comes close to the reverence paid to the almighty dollar?

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @Villago Delenda Est: I’m not a big sports person, but I really like that Dave Zirin tells it like it is. (Or at least tells it like I see it!)

    It felt like he was the only person talking about the awful things that were happening in the host country for the World Cup.

  28. 28.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @WaterGirl: Yeah, I glanced at some of his writings from Brazil, which are a totally different take on it that you’d ever see on ESPN. By all means, let’s bulldoze people’s homes to make room for the Olympics!

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    If WereBear or other sleep hygiene discussers are around, I ordered the sleep mask she recommended yesterday but also stumbled across this for my iPad Mini. We’ll see if it actually makes a difference.

  31. 31.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Ah, Bamberg! A friend of mine from college has relatives in Bamberg, and I spent the Christmas of 1980 with them. It was a great experience…watched It’s a Wonderful Life on ARD in the original German (yuk , yuk) and saw The Empire Strikes Back in German (“Das Imperium Schlagt Zurruck”) as well. Where they give away “there is another” by using the feminine indefinite (“es gibt eine andere”)

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Villago Delenda Est: Odd fact from Bamberg – My battalion’s motor pool was the stable and motorpool area for Claus von Stauffenberg’s cavalry regiment between the wars. I was an escort officer at some official function for his son who a Bundeswehr BG at the time.

  37. 37.

    Mike in NC

    I finally saw an SUV with a bumper sticker that read “Remember Benghazi” at the local Food Lion. Where can I buy that shit?

  41. 41.

    Concerned Citizen

    @Roger Moore: But how? Fucking Cole posted a picture of my dog 5 years ago and I was pumped. Are you really just manually checking the site to see if people responded to you?

  42. 42.

    Roger Moore

    @Concerned Citizen:

    Are you really just manually checking the site to see if people responded to you?

    Yes. When a thread is really active, I can reply to somebody else’s comment, and by the time I’m done writing it, there will be enough new comments to find something else worth replying to. Lather, rinse, repeat. When the posting is slower, like it is right now, I’ll hit F5 to refresh once in a while to see if there’s anything new to respond to, or any new posts to read.

  45. 45.

    magurakurin

    @Jose Arcadio Buendía:

    Hamas starting missile attacks was a response to operation Brother’s Keeper, which included the arrest of a Hamas members in the West Bank and incursions into Gaza.

    But you knew that. Look around, Israel is rapidly running out of friends as a result of this latest round of “mowing the lawn.” And that incredibly fucked up and wrong on several levels moniker is used by the Israel officials themselves. For fuck’s sake the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Moshe Feiglin is proposing ethnic cleansing as a solution in Gaza. Not sure why anyone who wasn’t actually an Israeli would want to go to bat for Israel anymore. But, have at her, chief.

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