Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

He really is that stupid.

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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

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

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    FL has two colors: green and dead.

    Guessing you saw that Charlie Pierce picked up your “Witness 40” catch, yes?

  5. 5.

    shelley

    Getting ready for a snowstorm due tomorrow. Seems to have popped up all of a sudden, and the Weather channel keeps upping the accumulation. Rather dreading this coming winter.

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    So my interview seemed to go pretty well yesterday — at least, I assume they don’t start talking about when the group interviews will be scheduled if you totally blew it. The executive assistant I would be working with was excited to see I was interviewing, so that’s in my favor as well.

  9. 9.

    The Dangerman

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    This is just fuckballs.

    That could be the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard*…

    ….unless Obama also invites Stone Cold Steve Austin to apply a Stunner on Wilson on the South Lawn. Then, it might make some sense.

    *any ideas from Sarah Palin or brain damaged individuals are automatically disqualified

    ETA: I see Wilson has already been interviewed by George Streptococcus at ABC; given jeopardy hasn’t kicked in yet (IANAL, so I could be wrong), he could be the stupidest fuck ever

  10. 10.

    Steve from Antioch

    We were finally tearing out our tomato plants so we could plant winter greens and we found two small ripe tomatoes.

    Fresh tomatoes for Thanksgiving – crazy.

  11. 11.

    Linnaeus

    I’ve been thinking about the Michael Brown case and what conversations I will have about it when I visit my family in December.

    And it’s kind of depressing, because I can predict how most of them will react, and it will be a very different reaction than my own. My mother’s opinion will likely be the most disappointing to me, because I think on some things she’s gotten nastier over the years. In fact, my father, who has never been a paragon of racial egalitarianism, will probably have a more sympathetic (to Brown) take on the case than my mom will. That’s weird to me.

  14. 14.

    Iowa Old Lady

    I heard two twenty somethings talking about the Ferguson case in Barnes and Noble today. Both white Iowans, a man and a woman. The woman was more outraged, but they agreed the lack of indictment was wrong. I thought that was encouraging.

  15. 15.

    Trollhattan

    I didn’t think yesterday’s story of the four year old shooting the three-year old with daddy’s special friend (“as safe as collecting stamps”) could be topped. Of course, I was wrong.

    An Oklahoma woman was accidentally shot and killed Monday evening by her toddler son.

    Neighbors said the 26-year-old east Tulsa woman, whose name was not released, was home with her 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter when the boy found a high-caliber handgun underneath a couch. The child managed to pull the trigger, police said, and his mother was shot once in the head as she changed the baby’s diaper.

    The woman’s mother-in-law, who also lives with the family, returned home to find the woman had been shot and called for help. She was taken to an area hospital and listed in grave condition, but she died shortly after 5:30 p.m.

    Police said the boy kept saying, “Mommy shot,” as officers buckled him into a squad car. The boy apparently tried to escape the house before his grandmother arrived.

    Life goes on. And suddenly, not.

  16. 16.

    Trollhattan

    @The Dangerman:

    That could be the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard*…

    The book remains open until the other King, Iowa’s Cantaloupe Steve is heard from. I’m certain he has opinions and thoughts. Although, let it be noted that Iowa isn’t terribly thrilled by their neighbors to the immediate south.

  17. 17.

    another Holocene human

    Npr right now system to address rape on campus a failure. Students ‘not competent’ to judge. States both rape going unpunished and false claims being validated.

    I suspect youth inexperience unformed brains of youth make them gullible vulnerable to narcissists and liars. And they misjudge reactions of victims. Hope someone is listening.

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Trollhattan:

    When does the DA announce they’re going to charge the three-year-old as an adult — before or after Thanksgiving?

    (Sorry, but I’ve got to let some of this pitch-dark snark out somewhere or I’ll start screaming on street corners.)

  22. 22.

    Redshift

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Excellent! That does sound promising.

    When I interviewed for my current job, my (now) boss took me on a tour of the building and facilities afterward. When I got home, I told my wife that even though I didn’t have an offer in hand, I was pretty sure I’d gotten it, because he didn’t seem like the kind of guy who would do a “here’s everything you won’t be getting!” :-)

  24. 24.

    Trollhattan

    Also, too, can I get a hearty “No shit, Sherlock” on this finding?

    The study found that people who saw the winter of 2012 as warmer than usual were right – it was, on any time scale. But that conclusion did not affect their views on the science behind climate change.

    The results further undermine a fundamental assumption that has driven science communication since a U.N. panel first announced, in 1990, that evidence pointed toward an increasingly warming Earth due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. People may be hesitant to accept the consensus view now, scientists and policy makers have since assured, but that will change when their local climate starts changing.

    “There’s really little to no evidence of that” in the U.S., said sociologist Aaron McCright of Michigan State University, lead author of the study. McCright found that Americans’ perceptions of aberrant weather patterns matched the data. But he found that those individual perceptions did little to drive how strongly people believed climate change was underway, caused by man, and constituted an immediate threat. Nor did that personal experience with abnormal climate influence whether Americans thought the scientific community agreed on those counts.

    It’s no surprise to anyone – least of all social scientists – that America is deeply divided along party and ideological lines about climate (and healthcare, among other topics). But a growing body of evidence now suggests that ideology interferes with the assessment of science.

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    ruemara

    @Trollhattan: Aww man. Grace to her family. I’ve been battling FB people all morning, had an informative webinar for animation software I try to use and found out my good friend will be staying for Thanksgiving. I suppose I should make the place look much less like the chief occupant had been spending most days um, animatin’ and less vacuumatin’. The lack of compassion and the persistence of the lies in the Brown case are breaking my heart. MB reached in and attacked the cop. No, that’s what he said, most witnesses said the cop pulled brown to the vehicle door, which he also slammed onto himself. He stole cigars. No, he may *MAY* have tried to pay for more than he could afford. But he did pay for his cigarillos, got into a shoving match and the cops were called by someone who wasn’t the store owner. Brown went for the officer’s gun. No, he didn’t. He died from shots consistent with attacking the cops. According to who? He died 153 feet away from the car, so teleporting bullets? Man, fuck these people.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Trollhattan:

    Jeez. At this point I hardly even feel sorry for these pitiful excuses for human beings. Okay, the kid who pulled the trigger — he was just playing with a shiny toy. I feel sorry for him; he’s going to carry around a load of unearned guilt for, maybe, the rest of his life. But the mother who was killed? If she had lived, she should have been brought up on child abuse and endangerment charges for leaving a FUCKING LOADED, UNATTENDED GUN lying around the house. FFS.

  28. 28.

    Redshift

    @shelley: Weather Channel has been saying all day that we’re going to get either 3-5″ or (now) 1-3″ of snow tomorrow, and simultaneously saying that the temperature isn’t going to go below 33°.

    Either their model has no sanity check, or the hype/marketing department has ordered it turned off for the big holiday weekend…

  29. 29.

    Kryptik, A Man Without a Country

    Arrived home for Thanksgiving, and glad to see my mom recovering from surgery after having a lesion removed from her jaw. Small mercies. Also glad to see that, politically, I am still very much my dad’s son, even as he lamented how much his friends and classmates have lost their immigrant’s perspective.

    EDIT: Also glad I left today rather than tomorrow. 55 degrees and sunny is much more agreeable than half a foot of snow far as travel weather

  30. 30.

    Mike J

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    When does the DA announce they’re going to charge the three-year-old as an adult — before or after Thanksgiving?

    Is the kid white or black? He did only shoot a woman after all. Wouldn’t want to ruin a white man’s life over that.

  31. 31.

    Trollhattan

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): If only we knew the kid’s skin color we could divine an answer. The street corner idea might not be such so bad. There’s a vast amount of negative energy that needs letting out and until that happens I’m out of room for much of anything positive.

  32. 32.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Congrats on your mention at Pierce’s place Betty. I’m finishing my CLE powerpoint for tomorrow. I’m collecting the most outrageous ethical violations of the last couple of years. Currently Mr. Fine of Lorain County OH is leading the competition. There’s a motion for an emergency interim suspension. He was hypnotizing female clients and molesting them. A suspicious client recorded her meeting and then went to the police.

    If anyone has odd legal ethics stories, shoot me a citation.

  33. 33.

    beth

    Well I think I got through to an old friend on FB today. She had posted a rant about “the animals” in Ferguson burning down their town and how she had no sympathy for “those people” when they do that. I suggested she replace the quoted phrases with the phrase “the criminals” and then see how she felt about the residents of Ferguson and whether she felt personally resonsible for stopping all the criminals in her town. She messaged me later that she was glad I spoke up and gently showed her another way of thinking. I feel a little better about that.

  38. 38.

    another Holocene human

    @ruemara: Is it progress that they now have to lie through their teeth?

    The murderers used to French kiss on camera (no masculine insecurity here! ) or at least brazen it out confident a white jury would acquit.

    I don’t know if it is progress or if they’re more paranoid now. They could have hung Wilson out to dry and white supremacy would continue.

    MO will be red state now. Thanks, feckless, racist Mo Dems. Truman spoke your epitaph. Gop is the white power party, ain’t nobody gonna vote Republican lite.

  39. 39.

    Kay (not the front-pager)

    Autumn in Fla, ha ha! I remember driving north for Thanksgiving when my sons were little and we lived in Veto Beach. Somewhere around South Carolina I started to hear my sons conferring in the back seat. Then the older one asked, “What’s wrong with the trees here?” I didn’t know what he meant, so he explained, “the leave are all yellow and orangey. Why?”

    I didn’t realize till then that they had never seen leaves change.

  40. 40.

    SatanicPanic

    @Trollhattan: That’s how it is! People organize their beliefs based on what team they’re on, not the other way around. This is why I am constantly harping on the fact that it’s not a matter of the Democratic having better ideas or appealing to voters based on an improved economy or any of that crap.

  44. 44.

    another Holocene human

    @beth: Well done. U have more patience than me. Imo the animals are in the STL County prosecutor’s office.

    Also, D Wilson is a fabulous who has no business being allowed near sharp objects, never mind weapons. I humbly suggest it would be best for everyone for him to say Dennis within the confines of a rubber room.

  45. 45.

    another Holocene human

    Darren Wilson’s right cheek, wing cheek bruise is the backwards B of 2014.

    But we knew this. That is if you listened to witnesses. Surprised those assholes released the shots.

  51. 51.

    Jebediah, RBG

    @The Dangerman:

    given jeopardy hasn’t kicked in yet (IANAL, so I could be wrong),

    He hasn’t been tried for anything, not even indicted. I am pretty sure jeopardy only applies if he has actually been put on trial.

  54. 54.

    JPL

    @SiubhanDuinne: King who previous supported terrorists who bombed Britain, might be on to something. He, himself, could go to Ferguson and walk down the street of Ferguson, hand and hand with Wilson. all the while singing kumbaya my lord. I like it.

  56. 56.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @efgoldman:

    So before Thanksgiving is what you’re saying, what with it being Oklahoma and all.

    Also, I’ll be the first to predict a prediction — a family member will say that the gun was under the couch so the mother could protect herself from scary intruders while she was home alone with the kids. Because it’s ALWAYS safe to leave a loaded gun laying around where kids can get to it.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Sitting at the gas station, where a quick (I thought) safety inspection has turned into a fiasco. Need a parking light replaced, and apparently that involves dismantling the front of the car. CNN is on the TV, which isn’t helping.

  59. 59.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Steeplejack (phone): CNN is fucking trauma porn, I hate those fucks right now.

    I’m really angry at them for replaying Mike Brown’s mother’s anguish from Monday night so they can fap to it. I was in a spot where I was stuck in front of CNN for a few minutes today, it was watch or touch the magazines and then get germs all over my hands.

  60. 60.

    Trollhattan

    Oh please oh please oh please let this be true.

    By the end of this week, be sure to start battening down the hatches.

    Weather officials on Monday updated a rain outlook for the month of December, saying now that there will be above-normal rainfall moving toward the New Year that will have a significant effect on the drought outlook.

    Logan Johnson, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Monterey, said above-normal precipitation is expected across the entire state during December, and that for central and southern California, the wet stuff is likely to keep coming throughout the rainy season, which runs through February.

    “This very welcome news and should improve drought conditions statewide,” Johnson said.

    In fact, according to Rich Tinker of the Climate Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the above-normal rainfall this season is knocking the Central Coast down a notch on the U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook.

    Up until Friday, the majority of California was listed as an area where “drought persists or intensifies.” Now, because of soppy month ahead, the Central Coast and most of the rest of the state is listed as “drought remains but improves.” Temperatures, however, are expected to remain warmer than normal, which will further support this year as one of the warmest on record.

  65. 65.

    Trollhattan

    @Another Holocene Human:
    Thanks, we’ll take all the pulling-for we can!

    Measured the distance between Buffalo and California, and it just didn’t pencil out going there and shoveling snow into shipping containers.

  66. 66.

    Another Holocene Human

    @JPL: Provocateurs were on DKos last night suggesting “IRA-style” violence. No. Shut your fucking face. It took years to put an end to that shit. Fuck the IRA, fuck Sinn Fein, fuck Peter King, and fuck police provocateurs.

    You know what stopped all that shit? US stopped funding and winking at Sinn Fein and Britain stopped winking and supporting the Ulstermen. The US with British cooperation got directly involved. This following a decade of Irish nationals begging Americans to stop fucking funding terrorism.

    All the bombing and stuff? Didn’t accomplish the first fucking thing for the Irish people.

    Fuck that idiotic noise. Violence is a tactic that works for the strong, not for the weak. ETA: oops that’s ambiguous, I mean those in power and likely to stay that way not the powerless or those lacking deep institutional power for example a majority gov’t that lacks power in other institutions such as military, courts, church and is thus vulnerable to rightist violence

  68. 68.

    Another Holocene Human

    @beltane: I wrote fabulist dammit! God you can’t break your vigilance posting from that goddamn phone for a minute!!!

    Thanks for catching that and getting what I was going at.

    Fabulist. Liar. Fantasist. Axis B Personality Disorder. You get the picture.

  69. 69.

    Hal

    I will say that the one thing I just love (eye roll) about the Ferguson grand jury decision is all the lecturing today from white people I see on social media about how to act right and totes not get shot by police. Let’s focus on the selected individuals rioting and not the peaceful protests that have been happening for months in the face of a heavy militarized police force. Let’s post videos on Facebook of black people talking about non-violence as a solution while we sit back in our all white communities in some upper middle class suburb tisk tisking at “those” people.

    I especially love MLK quotes, which only seem to pop up when someone wants to criticism black people. Something I think MLK himself would find funny. Oh, and let us all forget that in the face of non violent protests and the continual urging of all people to come together in peace and harmony, MLK had his head blown off. But pull your pants up black boys!

  70. 70.

    Another Holocene Human

    @another Holocene human: Fucking shit, I meant he is a FABULIST who should be let loose to SLAY DEMONS within the confines of a rubber room

    damn, what was I thinking?

    oh yeah, scarfing down a meal and soccer was on. my bad.

  73. 73.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @ruemara:

    The thing to know with the Giant Evil is that it’s always “hurry up and wait.” They want to start interviews right away so you hear from them pretty quickly if the recruiter likes your resume, but it takes for freakin’ EVER for the decision to be made.

  79. 79.

    Mike in NC

    The drive to Savannah took 9-1/2 hours vice the expected 5. Horrible weather, terrible traffic, bad roads (I-95 in South Carolina has thousands of potholes to keep taxes down), and plenty of construction delays. Just uncorked the first bottle of wine…

  80. 80.

    redshirt

    @efgoldman: You southerners don’t know how good you got it.

    I had a localized ice storm last week – local, as in, my mountain. Drive down the bottom of the mountain, no ice. At my house, iced in for a week.

  82. 82.

    Cckids

    @Hal: I’ll confess to posting a MLK quote; I thought it was apt for Ferguson. “Riots are the conversation of the unheard”

  83. 83.

    Pogonip

    I did not know Florida had leaf changes!

    Had I been organizing the riot (is such a thing possible?) I would have had most of the personnel yell, throw things, all the traditional riot stuff, to keep the authorities occupied, while a small group quietly went to the police station and let the air out of the tires on all the police cars. :D

  85. 85.

    Hunter

    And in Chicago for the past few weeks we’ve had trees gone completely bare, trees in full fall color, and trees covered in green leaves — until the barely double-digit temperatures early last week froze them.

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