Louis CK, as always:
I love that guy.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
Second rate reporter says what?
Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.
The gop is a fucking disgrace.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.
Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers
Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
Shut up, hissy kitty!
Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.
Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.
beth
File this under either Divorce From Hell or Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned:
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140902/PC1603/140909925/1031/rep-mark-sanford-facing-new-complaint-in-old-divorce-case
lamh36
Hmm, so Obama had to answer for Rev Wright, the pastor of his church, not even his father?
Rand Paul has to answer for shh daddy Ron says.
Will Teddy Cruz have to answer for what his crazy daddy said?
Ted Cruz’s Dad: ‘The Average Black’ Does Not Know The Minimum Wage Is Bad
sharl
Former Wired writer Kevin Poulsen was rather ranty this evening about Apple and its iCloud:
John Cole +0
@beth: If he is truly endangering the kid, that is one thing. If she is using the legal system just to fuck with him, she is an awful person and probably shouldn’t be around her son, either.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@beth:
Or under Adventures on the Appalachian Trail.
beth
@John Cole +0: I bet the kid walked in on Dad and his fiancee drinking wine and having sex. I also think there’s no love lost between these two – both self-professed “family-value” conservatives.
Hal
Something is going on with Darren Wilson’s funding pages.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ferguson-officer-fundraisers-20140831-story.html
And who is valiantly raising money for this hero?
Violet
I love Louis CK.
Trigger warning: VEGETARIANS WILL FIND THIS HORRIFYING.
@efgoldman: One time I was driving home at night on a freeway. It was one of those foggy nights where the street lights seem shrouded in gloom. A light mist that made it hard to see the road ahead.
I was driving on a freeway and suddenly traffic slowed down. Through the fog I could see there was stuff on the road but until I was right on top of it I didn’t know what it was. Turns out some truck had lost a load of raw meat and it was scattered all across the roadway. The entire freeway was covered with hunks of meat. There was nowhere to go but forward through it. As we all drove slowly forward, the vehicles in front would thump-thump-thump over it and pieces of raw meat would fly up onto the vehicles behind. There’s nothing quite like thumping over hunks of raw meat on the road while having small chunks of raw meat splatter across your windshield and the entire front of your vehicle.
It was absolutely disgusting.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@John Cole +0: It could be either, but perhaps she’s concerned about another adventure on the Appalachian Trail, young son in tow.
I always said criminal law is a much more polite practice than domestic relations, and clients are far easier to deal with. I made one limited appearance in a divorce case, to brief the appeal of a ruling on attorneys’ fees; I was retained by husband’s counsel. He prevailed at the appellate level, but the amount of money they spent fighting about money was ridiculous, especially given that it was not a tremendously high income battle.
catclub
I think Glen Beck is developing sanity. or the quotes from him that end up being publicized are no longer selected to illustrate his craziness. It is hard to believe (but possibly true) that he is the eminence gris of the crazy right wing radio talkers.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/glenn-beck-hillary-will-be-president
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: the Beltway-apotheosed Tim Russert asked Obama to explain remarks made by Harry Belafontte and Louis Farrakhan, two men whom– as much as my long ago google search indicated– the then-Senator had never met. I saw his smug spawn’s smug mug on my TeeVee today, riled up all my old contempt for the old blowhard.
@John Cole +0: Nobody really knows but them, of course, but she was pretty quiet, media-wise, during their divorce and his return to politics, be weird if she turned so vindictive after all this time
catclub
@efgoldman: Curfee’s curve in Winston-Salem, on I-40 was famous. One Christmas morning ( circa 1970?) we helped try to chase cattle that had been freed from a cattle truck by the curve. I have no memory of actually catching any.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): My first job out of law school was at a small firm where one partner did divorce work. I occasionally needed to show up in family court to ask of a continuance or something like that (I could never have handled a substantive family law case – it was horrible). Not my cup of tea at all.
Violet
@John Cole +0: From what I read at the time of the Appalachian Trail incident, she’s the one who’s the real Bible thumper. And the one with the drive and determination. She was the proverbial power behind the throne.
It doesn’t surprise me that she’s upset that he’s bringing their kids into the home when his mistress is around. That would violate her morals. Plus she’s asking for records to be closed and a guardian ad litem be appointed for the kid:
So it sounds like she’s got her son’s interests at heart.
Keith G
@beth: How do you know that and why would such speculation be of interest?
That seems to me to be a cousin of the voyeurism linked to the “hacked Apple Cloud” story. Maybe in someway this type of story is worse in that a nekkid picture is just a nekkid picture, while “families in turmoil” news stories not only have no societal import, they deal in the commercialization of the spectacle of personal conflict, pain, and anguish.
I guess that peering into the personal space of others is a rather common human desire.
CaseyL
@catclub: I haven’t been paying much attention to him, but he seems to be getting less completely hateful lately.
People always said he was nuts. Not just bad, cruel, mendacious, and inflammatory, but actually nuts. His rants were described as being completely over the top, out of control.
It’s possible that he was was in fact objectively, medically insane for many years – the years he spent building up his reputation and profession as a RWNJ – and finally got some help (chemical or whatever).
If that’s so, it’ll be interesting to see what happens now.
AliceBlue
@Violet:
I wonder why he still hasn’t married his “soul mate.”
beth
@Keith G: Well let’s just file it under two wrongs don’t make a right and I should know better. Mark Sanford, as my congressman, would have a doctor peer into my uterus whether I needed it or not if I wanted an abortion and would have my employer peer into my medical records if I wanted to obtain birth control pills under the insurance plan I pay dearly for. So yeah, I should be a better person – I’ll try harder to care about his privacy when he starts to even pretend to care about mine.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@efgoldman:
Because they are wearing the “desperately trying to have fun face?”
Anne Laurie
@CaseyL:
Beck’s said many times that he’s been diagnosed as bipolar. He blames his very public substance-abuse problems on self-medicating. It’s possible he’s finally found a better, hopefully medically supervised method of dealing with his mood swings. Or then again, many “manic depressives” seem to “age out” of their worst problems in middle age (at one point, doctors were experimenting with hormones since women after menopause tended to settle down, to a degree).
Or then again, we could be seeing the point in Beck’s arc between manic paranoia and depressive suicidal ideation…
NotMax
First time this year have had the need to turn on a fan. Noticed the power cord’s insulation was flaking off and bare copper was showing through.
Took out the old (original) power cord, wired in a new one. As the fan is more than 60 years old years old, guess I grudgingly can forgive it needing repair.
hilts
OT
Gazprombank GPB, a Russian bank targeted with sanctions by President Obama over the Ukraine crisis, has hired has hired two former U.S. senators to lobby against those sanctions, according to a new disclosure filed with the Senate.
In a filing submitted Friday and effective that day, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and former Senator John Breaux, D-La., are listed as the main lobbyists under the Gazprombank account for the firm Squire Patton Boggs, lobbying on “banking laws and regulations including applicable sanctions.”
h/t http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/02/15450/russian-bank-hires-two-former-us-senators
Anne Laurie
@AliceBlue: Catty response: Guys like Sanford are never as desirable once the ball’n’chain has given them their “freedom”…
Equally unworthy comment: From what’s been made public, Sanford’s the kind of think-with-the-little-head idiot who backs out on making a new commitment, soul mate or no, because he wants to “explore all his options”.
Third possibility, his lawyers have cowed him into believing he should not acquire any more legal entanglements until the kids have aged out…
Suzanne
My new science oven is here and IT ROCKS.
I got my last paycheck from my old job. My boss is still texting me trying to figure out how to run the place without me. Hah.
kc
@beth:
Mark Sanford is a sociopath. The scariest thing in that story is the line that says he’s running unopposed for re-election.
catclub
@efgoldman: I remember the woman being interviewed saying that for a certain reason her group was treated like royalty when they visited a gambling establishment – they had all their teeth. A Mississippi gambling establishment.
Jill Conner Brown, Sweet Potato Queen
kc
@beth:
I live in the SC district just north of you. You got Mark Sanford; we got Tom Rice; who’s been running around bragging about his role suing Obama.
What a state!
catclub
@efgoldman: haha. I preemptively changed mine to gambling establishments. FYWP
kc
@hilts:
Those whores.
beth
@kc: I’m still trying to figure out what’s up with the Nikki Haley anti-bullying commercials. What a weird issue to hang a governor’s race on. And what 8 year old writes a letter to the governor when she’s being bullied at school? This whole thing smells fishy. I bet after the election we find out that girl’s related to someone on her staff.
Mandalay
@Violet:
I don’t doubt that. The question is how much vindictiveness she has for Mark Sanford in her heart. I suspect that her filing contains some volatile fluff concocted by her lawyers, but there may be a specific issue that made Mrs. Sanford blow a gasket:
We don’t know what actually happened, but if Mrs Sanford sincerely believes that her ex-husband was making negative comments about her to her son then what she is doing is entirely understandable, and good for her.
catclub
John Breaux makes Mary Landrieu look like a principled politician in the mold of Mo Udall. Or Gandhi.
Violet
@Mandalay: The anger management class request for Mark Sanford caught my eye. He seems like such a milquetoast to me. It’s hard for me to imagine him summoning up enough energy to be angry. Maybe he’s quite different from his public persona. Or maybe it’s just tossed in there by her lawyers for some reason.
kc
@beth:
I haven’t seen that yet, but from your description, I don’t get it either. Unless Haley is trying to suggest a comparison of herself to the girl? I think Haley sees herself as bravely standing up to the bullies in the legislature. She’s got a bit of that Palin victim complex.
Mandalay
It looks like Chris Christie is aiming to succeed Herman Cain as the joke candidate for 2016:
Christie is remarkably confident about the size of his fearsome dick given that he probably hasn’t even seen it in the last 25 years.
MattR
@Mandalay: @Violet: It seems to me that her first request is really the crux of the issue.
This can be a reasonable concern for young children, but not for a high school sophomore. But if she is overly religious, I am not shocked that she would be appalled by the idea of her ex-husband freely fornicating in the same house as her innocent child. It also seems to indicate that she would be OK with her ex-husband having a gay lover stay overnight while that child was in the house ;)
Comrade Mary
@sharl: From the “Oh, fucking HELL, people!” files, a list of the 500 most common passwords.
catclub
@Comrade Mary: I was impressed by these: 12 !Qaz2wsx
11 zaq1ZAQ!
Left handed typists. No similar ones on the right hand side of the keyboard.
Violet
@Comrade Mary:
Seriously, this is Number 23:
How old is that password?
Violet
@Comrade Mary: What’s also interesting is the numbers almost always go at the end. It’s not “1Football”; it’s “Football1”. That simple change might help make a much more robust password.
hilts
@catclub:
Whatever John Breaux chooses to do following his time in the Senate, Mary Landrieu is still a goddamn fucking asshole.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@hilts:
And yes vote on several important pieces of legislation.
? Martin
@sharl: Here’s a decent writeup of what’s going on.
While Apple should make it harder for these things to happen, this is effectively a massive, targeted attack on the accounts of specific individuals, not unlike what our spy agencies do. Celebrities need tremendously more security than the rest of us, and they are not inherently well equipped for doing so. Nobody wants to have to go to a security professional before setting up a personal device, but these people really do need to do that – and that professional better be 100% reliable, or they’re right back where they started.
This ultimately comes down to needing better security concepts than we employ now.
Suzanne
@Comrade Mary: “Fuckyou1” AND “Fuckyou2”.
The root cause is still patriarchy, no matter how stupid their passwords.
Dog On Porch
@beth: A disgraced politician who made a national laughing stock of his marriage lands on his electoral feet a few years later, and his ex can’t handle it. It’s understandable, but face it– if she had another weapon in her vendetta arsenal, she would have buried him by now. The moral being: some chicks just can’t let go.
Suzanne
@Comrade Mary: Didn’t mean to seem like I was saying fuck you, either with a 1 or a 2 afterward. Just laughing that both of those came up.
Of course, when a site prompts me to enter an email address, they get “[email protected]”. My ex husband did “[email protected]”.
Mandalay
@catclub:
Not really; it’s because we write from left to right.
I suspect that a lot of passwords for languages that are written from right to left, such as Arabic, would be formed from characters on the right side of the keyboard rather than the left.
catclub
@? Martin:
and apparently it sets off no alarm bells at Apple that certain accounts are being massively attacked. hmmm
They already skipped the ‘three tries and we start slowing down repsonse dramatically’ bit of code. So it looks worse for their security team. Aren’t these celebrities their customers? And wouldn’t protecting the accounts of celebrity customers be good for business?
Mandalay
@Suzanne:
I sorry that you broke up. He sounds like a keeper.
beth
@Dog On Porch: She had a chance to bury him by running against him in the primary election. She’s a pretty smart woman (Wall Street background, IIRC) and still had a bunch of sympathy going for her but she chose not to run for office, ostensibly for her children’s sake.
Suzanne
@Mandalay: He has his moments.
Mnemosyne
@Comrade Mary:
Either that list is combined from all English-speaking countries, or British sports/sports teams are way more popular in the US than I ever realized.
Hal
On Mark Sanford; as the son of a verbally abusive asshole of a father, who after taking me and my sister from school, promising us we would never see my mother again, and then attacking her car windshield with a tire iron when she tracked us down, brought a preacher to court to vouch for his loving character; I am immediately suspicious of claims of bitter ex wives just using kids because they are totes jealous. Yes I’m biased, but why on earth would Jenny Sanford want some old horndog back or be jealous of his tramp new wife? Did that sound impartial?
TheMightyTrowel
There are 7 different variants on Jesus. That is not anywhere near enough jesus and yet also too much.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@TheMightyTrowel: Bullshit, I met three in my local taqueria.
Captain C
@efgoldman:
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Captain C:
Another Holocene Human (now with new computer)
@Hal: Well said.
Aimai
@Hal: this.
Just One More Canuck
@TheMightyTrowel: two men say they’re Jesus, one of must be wrong
debbie
@Anne Laurie:
Nonsense. A couple of weeks ago, he said, “I’m not a prophet, but I see things.” Nuff said.
Danny
John, I haven’t hung out here for a long time so I don’t know if you’re on about those things anymore but if you read this, could you pls tweet Greenwald and ask him his position on Rand promissing he would bomb Iraq if he only were President? Would be so much fun!
Applejinx
Where the heck do the line-noisey ones like l6fkiy9oN come from? Dvorak keyboards?
StringOnAStick
@debbie: Beck’s current dipping of his mental toes in the pool of sanity is just something any really good showman does to keep their career going, also known as “keep ’em guessing”. It really adds that “wow, what will he say next; I simply must tune in!” bit O fun.
KS in MA
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
Most of them look like they’re not even trying to have fun.