Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans don’t trust women.

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Everybody saw this coming.

This really is a full service blog.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

T R E 4 5 O N

People are complicated. Love is not.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The revolution will be supervised.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

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  1. 1.

    Felonius Monk

    A real Coal Miner’s Daughter doesn’t worry about such shit.

    ETA: I’d also be more interested in a Fried Chicken cannon.

  6. 6.

    Suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: seriously, it is another language. One time when we went to visit Mr. Suzanne’s family in Arkansas, his grandfather asked me to look at a story in the newspaper, and he asked me what I thought. The story was about an interracial couple, and I think one of them assaulted the other. His grandfather then proceeded to say that he thought black women were unattractive. But i could barely understand what he was saying. He sounded like I do when I go to the dentist and am trying to talk with my mouth still numb. Anyway, I told him my cousin is married to a black man and that he’s a great guy and we love them both and think they’re great together.

    I have politics fatigue. The AZ Superintendent race was called, and it makes me want to vomit.

    I made an upholstered slipcover for my headboard today. That was nice.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Omnes Omnibus: It took me 6 or 7 tries, and all the clues were there and everything. It’s as far removed from the English I speak as Shakespeare is.

  11. 11.

    CanadaGoose

    “It’s called Twanglish, developed by people who found grunting too complicated.” — seen on Twitter today

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The Breitbart people are all just utter scum.

    Just like their thankfully (blessed be FSM, ramen) dead founder. They continue in his vile Leninist tradition.

    May they all join him in Gre’thor as soon as possible.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Villago Delenda Est: The upside of that article is that GWB said he was “all in” for Walker for president. First, the man is wrong by definition. Second, it is lovely quote to use against Jeb if he runs.

  20. 20.

    Morzer

    Looks like the rightwing paranoiac mob is getting their money’s worth:

    http://www.salon.com/2014/11/09/mass_surveillance_out_of_control_uncle_sams_limitless_spying_database_partner/

    After telling him to step outside with his hands in the air, the officers lowered their guns and explained. They had received a report — later determined to be unfounded — that a suspect in a domestic disturbance had fled into Gill’s house. The police officers asked the then-26-year-old if one of them could do a sweep of the premises. Afraid and feeling he had no alternative, Gill agreed. One officer remained with him, while the other conducted the search. After that they took down Gill’s identification information. Then they were gone — but not out of his life.

    Instead, Gill became the subject of a “suspicious activity report,” or SAR, which police officers fill out when they believe they’re encountering a person or situation that “reasonably” might be connected in some way to terrorism. The one-page report, filed shortly after the May 2012 incident, offered no hint of terrorism. It did, however, suggest that the two officers had focused on Gill’s religion, noting that his “full conversion to Islam as a young [white male] and pious demeanor is [sic] rare.”

    The report also indicated that the officer who entered the house had looked at Gill’s computer screen and recalled something “similar to ‘Games that fly under the radar’” on it. According to the SAR, this meant Gill “had potential access to flight simulators via the Internet.” Gill suspects that he was probably looking at a website about video games. The SAR also noted earlier police encounters with Gill, in his mosque and on the street. It recorded his “full beard and traditional garb” and claimed that he avoided “eye contact.”

    God only knows what they’d make of my taste for Civ V and the Total War franchise. They’d probably imagine that Fallen Enchantress is a reference to Sarah Palin. Or maybe HRC.

  21. 21.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The clowns at Noisemax strike again:

    Study: Liberals More Emotion-Driven

    Right. This from people who need to inculcate fear at all times.

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Morzer: Ask him about the turtle on its back in the sun. That ought to be amusing.

    “Governor Romney, I’m afraid you did not pass the Voight-Kampff test.”

    “Norman co-ordinate!”

  24. 24.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Morzer: I’ve had MS Flight Simulator for the last 30 years, so I guess I’m in trouble. Then again, I found out the Google Earth also has a flight simulator(CTL-SHIFT-A); so there are probably alot more folk that are in trouble as well.

  25. 25.

    PurpleGirl

    Flight Simulator was the first program I had on the Commodore 64 a friend gave me. I explained to my father that I could use the program to learn how to fly a plane. He wasn’t interested in what it could do. To him it was a waste of time. It was a time waster but it was also fun.

  28. 28.

    Tommy

    @PurpleGirl: I knew there was something I like about you. Of all my computers, the Commodore 64 might have been at the top of the list of my favorites. You could play all the old school Atari game I used to pay a quarter to play. The numbers of hours I spent in front of that machine is hard to imagine.

  29. 29.

    Tommy

    @Quaker in a Basement: Rodgers is really, really good. There are so many good QBs playing now it is hard to comprehend. Manning. Brady. Brees. But when Rodgers is on his game not sure there is anybody better. Fun to watch.

  30. 30.

    Morzer

    @PurpleGirl:

    I remember that game. Did you ever play Elite? I loved that game far too much – and it is now being remade and is due to be available on December 16th IIRC. Yay, er.. capitalism?

  31. 31.

    Morzer

    @Tommy:

    For me, Rodgers have masked some pretty mediocre drafting by the Packers over recent years, much as Brady has done with the Patriots. I’d pick Mr Discount Doublecheck as the best QB currently playing without too much hesitation.

  32. 32.

    Tommy

    @Morzer: Agreed. The list of QBs I listed seem to be able to turn an average receiver into an All Pro. To me that is a definition of a great QB. They just put the ball where they can catch it time and time again.

  34. 34.

    Tommy

    @Morzer: Not even heard of that game, but so in my wheelhouse according to my Google search. I have no idea how I didn’t hear of it. I am sure you could call me a “gamer” but never much of a first person shooter. I like to build and explore worlds. Not blow shit up.

    My favorite games now are on my phone and tablet. Both introduced to me by six-year-old niece. Dots and Cut the Rope (many versions). I note this cause I find it somewhat strange I enjoy the same games she does :).

  37. 37.

    Morzer

    @Tommy:

    Elite was one of the first real classics ever made for a personal computer, back in the early, early days, when 64k seemed like all the computer power one could ever desire and you had to play cassette tapes to load anything and everything. It also had one of the most sophisticated early anti-pirating devices, plus a halfway decent game novel by Robert Holdstock of all people. There’s quite a bit of backstory about how the two men who developed Elite fell out over the years, which is why David Braben is running the show for Frontier and Ian Bell is apparently out of the picture.

    I remember getting up really early in the morning before going to school so I could play Elite for a couple of hours. As Billy Wordsworth had it in the Prelude:

    “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
    But to be young was very heaven.”

    IIRC there are a few ported versions of the old Elite out on the internet. Ian Bell used to maintain listings at his site:

    http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/

  39. 39.

    Morzer

    @Tommy:

    Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when the hardest part of playing computer games was knapping the flints to replace any part of the computer that burned out at an unhelpful juncture.

    Another classic I remember from Ye Days Of Ye Olde Ones: Jet Set Willy.

  42. 42.

    Warren Terra

    Now that our salmon cannon is fully operational, no force in the general vicinity shall defy the might of this hydroelectric station!

  45. 45.

    raven

    (CNN) — Northern central states are astute at fighting driving snow and subzero chill, but the early cold snap this week could hit them like a boxer’s punch thrown before the opening bell.
    This blast, reminiscent of last January’s deep freeze, comes too early for comfort. Leaves are still on the trees, and a snow dump is coming — a foot or more in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

  48. 48.

    raven

    This will probably be a front pager

    REDEFINING THE WORD
    EXAMINING A RACIAL SLUR ENTRENCHED IN AMERICAN VERNACULAR THAT IS MORE PREVALENT THAN EVER.

    This season, the National Football League is attempting the impossible, a reasoned but dubious mission that has already tripped up an institution as venerable as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, municipalities as large as New York City and countless parents of teenagers across the land. The goal: banning the n-word within the chalk-lined borders of its purview.

  50. 50.

    Woodrowfan

    the the “New Black Panthers” were actually at that polling place to protect voter,s not to prevent people from voting. But big black men with big sticks MUST be up to no good so…..

  52. 52.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    @raven:

    kind of pissed. Minneapolis is getting up to a foot today. 80 minutes to the southeast it’s going to rain all day, and will only give us 3-4 inches.

  54. 54.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @AliceBlue: Having a name similar enough to that of Loretta Lynch, Obama’s AG nominee, to confuse the wingnuts with the Google.

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