Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

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

šŸŽ¶ Those boots were made for mockinā€™ šŸŽµ

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, theyā€™re gonna use it.ā€

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Iā€™m more christian than these people and iā€™m an atheist.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white manā€™s imagination.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Museums are not Americaā€™s attic for its racist shit.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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  3. 3.

    lamh36

    Another possible shady killing in Ferguson, the media has a new shiny penny to play with (back to the damn SS Cartegna again, who’ll be the first to say that Obama KNEW rather than some WH aide, might have known), Darren Wilson still at large and Leon Panetta and now Jimmy Carter out here saying Obama has no idea what he’s doing. Oh and Ebola!

    Ugh and we still just a little over 1 week into October…ugh.

    I’m trying my best to ignore as much as possible, I’m going back to planning my trip to Hawaii.

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    After getting a car inspection and doing a couple of other errands today, I grabbed a folding chair, a bottle of water, a book and drove to the beach. It was 12:30 and there were no free parking spaces. WTF? There must have been hundreds of people there. It’s almost the middle of October and all the tourists should be gone by now.

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Why are all of your cats fucking huge? If it is some form of feline experiment with HGH, no good can come of it. Please stop. For the love of all that is good in the world, please stop.

  6. 6.

    Violet

    That’s a great picture! Has Steve’s personality changed since his day out on the town? Or has he recovered and he’s back to his old self?

  9. 9.

    kc

    @Mike in NC:

    Which beach, if you don’t mind my asking?

    I went to the beach here (Huntington State Oark) Sunday; not many people out at all. Of course it was kind of chilly.

  10. 10.

    CaseyL

    Steve’s muzzle looks so fine and delicate, esp. against that gorgeous mane. I just want to scritch his cheeks and see his whiskers flare. (Never yet met a kitty who didn’t love to have their cheeks and chin scritched.)

    Open thread: I have found a new job! I’m a staff member of UW Law School, and couldn’t be happier. This is my first week, and it’s a little tiring because I’m learning new systems, culture, people, subject matter, database, etc. The people are lovely, the environment is intellectually lively, and everyone is very focused on public service.

  18. 18.

    Violet

    @kc: Thank you. I’m doing better. Not the best I’ve ever been but I’m better. People have been so kind in their comments. I really appreciate it.

  22. 22.

    fleeting expletive

    For some reason I’m watching the movie “28 Days Later”, only mildly interesting because of that guy who was the 10th doctor. It, however seems to track the current media meltdown over Ebola. One guy. And he says “because women need a future.” I don’t know what that means.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @suzanne: Just lucky, I guess.

    ETA: On the thread below, I have someone who has decided that I oppose everything that that person opposes for this point forward.

  29. 29.

    mclaren

    So this is how democracy ends in America, eh?

    Hillary’s our next president and she loves the financial crime lords and wants more endless unwinnable foreign wars, and nobody cares.

    Obama has stopped participating in the governance process and pretty much devoted himself to sketching out his memoirs for that double-digit-milionaire payday he’s going to get when he leaves off, and nobody cares.

    We’ve gotten ourselves mired back in Iraq, and nobody cares.

    Global warming has spiraled so far out of control nobody is making suggestions to deal with it anymore, because basically it’s GAME OVER. And nobody cares.

    And the Republicans have settled down into a safe lethal game of “the worse, the better,” like the Leninist Bolsheviks bombing people and creating chaos and shutting down the provisional government in Russia in 1917, and nobody cares.

    Yes, it’s just another day in late Weimar America.

    And nobody cares.

  35. 35.

    kc

    @Mike in NC:

    I remember that as being the most beautiful beach. Haven’t been there since they built the big bridge. I hope it hasn’t changed too much.

  38. 38.

    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: I am sitting here with bentonite clay and cocoa on my face, trying to have it slurp all of the oil out of my skin. SLUUUUUURP.

    So my three-year-old heard the word “douchebag” today (NO I WASN’T THE ONE WHO SAID IT), and now she is saying it a lot. It’s bad, and yet funny.

  43. 43.

    kc

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    The one where you went on and on and then said you didn’t feel like engaging? I did read it. I didn’t engage. Now you’re starting up again in another thread.

    Give it a rest. Please?

  46. 46.

    ? Martin

    Still trying to process that Jon Stewart was the preferred host of Meet the Press.

    Clue to every other political journalist: proof that everyone else thinks you suck too.

  48. 48.

    Carolinus

    @lamh36:

    Darren Wilson still at large and Leon Panetta and now Jimmy Carter out here saying Obama has no idea what heā€™s doing.

    Don’t forget John Stewart. After previously covering the new Iraq / Syria intervention as a huge mistake, tonight he had a segment bashing the admin for failure to stop the siege on the Syrian town of Kobani, and then he had on Panetta for his interview and used him as a springboard to further trash white house leadership and strategy to his democratic voter viewership.

  50. 50.

    kc

    @lamh36:

    Another possible shady killing

    This sounds awful: I’m reading that an off duty St Louis cop moonlighting as security guard shot an 18-yr-old to death earlier tonight. Cops are saying the kid was armed; witnesses say otherwise.

  52. 52.

    mclaren

    Stewart and Colbert are the only journalists out there who can speak the truth in public without getting censored, like Chomsy or Hedges, and Stewart and Colbert can only do it because the mainstream perceives ’em as clowns and doesn’t take them seriously.

    Looks like it’s about time for performers to shoot up heroin onstage the way they did in Weimar in the 1920s.

    Let’s hope The Onion doesn’t write a satirical headline about Hillary’s upcoming presidency, because it’s gonna come true.

  54. 54.

    Tenar Darell

    @Violet: NYMag had it earlier today.

    (Also, very pleased to see you back here, and to hear that you’re taking good care of yourself).

  61. 61.

    Mike in NC

    @kc: Not much. The island is a bird and turtle sanctuary with very little room for commercial development. One motel and no restaurants except for the fishing pier.

  64. 64.

    Anne Laurie

    @Tenar Darell:

    Drill bits in pink, really!?

    Drill bits are disposable, like women consumers. In the compound eyes of our Jerb Kreators, we’re nothing more than passing fads.

  72. 72.

    Tenar Darell

    @Anne Laurie: oh yes, but the frackers & Susan G. Komen didn’t see this picture. Apparently none of them watched BSG, have my dirty mind or any minds really. (Looks more like an alien pink tip…) /grin

  73. 73.

    ? Martin

    @kc:

    Stewart really isnā€™t ā€œdevastatingly effective interviewer,ā€ in my opinion. Then again Chuck Todd probably isnā€™t either.

    No, but Colbert is. Too bad that’ll be wasted on Late Night.

  81. 81.

    mai naem

    @kc: Actually Chuck Todd can be a devastatingly good interviewer. The problem is that he only does that with some Dems. Never with Repubs. I caught a good bit of the interview with Dan Pfeiffer this weekend and I was taken aback at how really tough he was on Pfeiffer. Almost as tough the Brits are with their pols.

    I am really po’d at Leon “the asshole” Pannetta. What a POS. Who the fuck is he talk about anything when he gave away the store when he was COS for Clinton.
    ,BTW, how come nobody’s front paged the Hank Greenberg/AIG lawsuit against the feds? WATB thinks the feds mistreated him by saving his company. OTOH, it appears that Hank Paulson did use AIG to launder money to Goldman Sachs during the bailout. I know everybody here in shocked about that astounding finding. Apparently, a lot of people in the know think that there’s a good chance that Greenberg will win the lawsuit.

  82. 82.

    Amir Khalid

    This may be worth a moment or two of outrage. Salon seems to be coming down on the side of Maher and Harris in their recent dispute with Ben Affleck about good Muslims and bad.

  83. 83.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: Salon can’t decide whether it wants to be TNR or HuffPo, so it keeps dabbling in the worst habits of both. I, personally, don’t think they’re important enough — even in the ‘progressive blogosphere’ — to do them the honor of highlighting their Hipster Atheist posturing after hate-clicks.

  84. 84.

    Amir Khalid

    @Anne Laurie:
    Agreed. We’ve already been over this very matter at Balloon Juice, and it’s not worth another rehash. A moment of “I’m cancelling my (nonexistent) subscription!” is really all it deserves.

  85. 85.

    d58826

    Now that is what I would call a picture of regal supreme indiffernece to the humans around him

  86. 86.

    J R in WV

    @mclaren:

    Lots of us care about every serious problem you listed (except the stoopid [sic] remark about our President) – I’m working to try to keep the Senate in Democratic hands in 3 different state races with contributions, phone banking and door-to-door work, even though I am totally shy and dislilke working with strangers a lot. What specifically are you doing to help with anything you listed?

    And suggestions for action? Any? No?

    Then STFU glassbowl!! And stop dissing the President, he’s doing a heroically good job in the face of more racial prejudice than I could have imagined when he was elected.

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