Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

People are weird.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

He really is that stupid.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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

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

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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  3. 3.

    Mustang Bobby

    I found that picture at 3:15 this morning via Hullabaloo and laughed so hard the dog next door barked. Apparently it does not appreciate the hollow and sardonic.

    Sometimes I feel I really need to talk to Starfleet. Someone really screwed up by putting me on the away team to this fuck-all planet.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    A musical interlude.

    Y’all remember that thing we were talking about a day or two ago, where a three-year-old in Oklahoma found a gun in between the sofa cushions and shot mommy in the head while mommy was changing the baby’s diapers, and mommy died?

    Well, apologies if this is tasteless, or too soon, but I’ve rewritten the lyrics to the title song of Oklahoma!

    Oklahoma! Where the guns are scattered here and there,
    Where a three-year-old
    Can grab ahold
    Of a loaded gun without a care!

    Oklahoma! Guns are made to look like shiny toys!
    Wave ’em all around,
    Make “bang-bang” sound,
    Shoot your parents, siblings, girls and boys!

    We’re NRA members, it’s true,
    And responsible citizens, too,

    So when we say
    “Three cheers for NRA!”
    You know we’re glad that we live in this Oklahoma
    Where the cray-cray
    Holds sway today
    (Thanksgiving Day) —
    Oklahoma!!

  7. 7.

    lamh36

    @Kryptik, A Man Without a Country: how the hell do you mistake 12 for 20!

    But let forget that a moment, is is normal police procedure to drive up directly upon an adult male holding a gun/weapon you suspect may be armed and dangerous?

    I mean, it takes me longer than 2 seconds to say “put your hands up”, yet the police car in the video seems to barely make it up to the kids and seconds later the kid is dead. The partner didn’t even make it out of his side of the fuckin’ car!

    Chris Hayes said “there is no reason to believe the officer was lying about thinking the kid was 20…” ….really, really..

  15. 15.

    Kryptik, A Man Without a Country

    @lamh36:

    My most charitable interpretation of that Hayes quote is the idea that the police didn’t bother to look at Rice after shooting him, and thus convinced themselves he was 20.

    Either that or they believed he, at 12, was as strong and as dangerous as a 20-year-old man. After all, an 18-year-old may as well be a Hulk Hogan-esque demon…

  18. 18.

    lamh36

    I fully admit, I can’t much abide country music, it’s just not my thing (I admit to having pre-conceived notions) but I’ve always had a soft spot for Garth Brooks.

    So reading this, makes me love him more.

    Garth Brooks cancels TV appearances amid Ferguson unrest

    “We landed in NY last night to the news of the civil unrest that was going on in our nation. To spend the day promoting our stuff like nothing was wrong, seemed distasteful to me, I will gladly reschedule any or all appearances the networks will allow. Love one another, g.”

  21. 21.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    We dodged the f’d up and terrible, driving from South PA in the snow and rain to pick up a kid at Newark Airport on the way to Thanksgiving tomorrow. Newark flight was cancelled, we stopped and picked him up after the first leg in Philly. Glad we didn’t book the flight that connected through Chicago!

  24. 24.

    Tree With Water

    I’ve never lived in snow country. But I knew a guy from Indiana who swore that every winter fights would break out between family members about whose turn it was to shovel snow, or fetch the coal, or whatever chores go with such weather. Which made sense. He also said the fights sometimes escalated to murder. That made sense, too.

  26. 26.

    Rob

    The NYT parody is priceless.

    I had a few hours of rain and a few more hours of snow, most of which didn’t stick. Tomorrow will be sunny and cold, and with family a few miles away.

    And good for Garth Brooks.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    My 14-year-old niece called to ask me to bring sparkling apple cider to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. Since she hardly ever asks for anything, I’d better do it. :-)

    Spraying Feliway on the (plastic) Christmas tree does seem to have convinced the cats to mostly leave it alone. While we were putting it up, Keaton kept trying to figure out how to climb it, even though it’s a small tree and he is a Cat of Unusual Size.

  28. 28.

    mainmati

    We have retreated en famille with other stragglers to our small, picturesque, 19th century farm in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, about 1100 ft. asl in our case. About 4 inches of snow on the ground for Turkey Day. Improvising about the stuff we forgot to pack despite the check list (sigh) but lots of good times to celebrate including a new pet (dog). And, yes, a fair number of folks around here fly the CSA flag but a lot more are really nice people – some of whom are also migrants from MD and NOVA (northern VA) so the politics here may get more purple over time. (We continue to mainly live and work in the metro DC area.)

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