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The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Republicans in disarray!

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let’s finish the job.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Everybody saw this coming.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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Even apart from making Limbaugh’s head explode, I say the first requirement for a good James Bond is a proper degree of self-mockery — which Mr. Elba obviously possesses.

And speaking of mockery, via Dave Weigel, the sorriest “victim” of the great Interview kerfuffle to date. Per Variety:

… A man in Ohio tried to cash in on the buzz surrounding Seth Rogen and James Franco’s new comedy when he purchased $650 in tickets or 50 passes at $13 each to the movie.

According to WCPO in Cincinnati, Jason Best learned that a local theater in Clifton was among the 300 theaters to play the controversial film on Christmas Day and hoped to resell the tickets online at a higher price (i.e., he wanted to scalp them)…

But the plan backfired once Sony announced it was streaming the film online for half the price on sites like YouTube, Hulu and Netflix…

It turns out Best had purchased the tickets from movietickets.com, which specifically warns on its website that theater owners reserve the right to withhold refunds for special events.

Plus the manager said that scalping tickets was illegal…

Though, if only Mr. Best had 49 friends with no other plans that evening, he could’ve thrown quite the party.

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  2. 2.

    JenJen

    Oh, Cincinnati. That theater he’s talking about, The Esquire, is right around the corner from my restaurant. It’s a mainstay in the community and knowing the owners is not exactly a conservative film house. I get why they showed it, but wow, scalping movie tickets to an art house in a rather urban area of my beloved city?

    I can’t stop laughing. Also, props to Weigel because this angle is getting exactly no play in Cincinnati.

    Also too, Steelers Dey. Congrats. Bengals are off to Indy. We’re still alive!! (that game hurt)

  7. 7.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @jl:

    something inside Limbaugh’s head exploded long ago.

    Limbaugh should be the new poster boy for a drug free america, “This is Your Brain on Drugs”.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    Something about the whole ‘we were majorly hacked, so please give your credit card number to see the movie online’ thing is ironic.

  11. 11.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: It’s going to get colder for New Years Eve for those (fool)hardy souls that sleep out for the Rose Parade. I did it one year; I was in college and young and I had plenty of, eh, antifreeze.

  12. 12.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Violet:

    I think he’d be a great Bond.

    I agree, but I thought the problem with Daniel Craig was that he was getting too old for Bond at 46. Yet Idris Elba is 42.

    If they were serious about a new Bond, they would be looking at someone in their early 30s. Connery was 32 for Dr No.

    Chiwetel Ejiofor is also talked about, but at 37 even he is probably a tad old for the part.

  17. 17.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Viva BrisVegas: The problem with Craig isn’t that he’s getting too old, it’s that he’s feeling too old (doesn’t want to do it anymore). Or at least, that’s the version I’ve heard.

  22. 22.

    raven

    @Tommy: RE convoys. Here’s what they looked like. Wasn’t that hard, you loaded the truck, got in line and headed out. We’d leave before sunup and get to the Phu Tho Racetrack on the South side of Saigon. Then we’d wait for the MP’s to sweep the road and we’d haul ass. Sometimes we’d get loaves of fresh french bread in the villages we’d pass through.

  23. 23.

    Tommy

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I use GoDaddy with most of my clients because I refuse to charge them $5.00 a month for hosting. Set up emails and do that stuff. GoDaddy might have the best customer support I’ve ever dealt with.

    With that said you shouldn’t pay more than about $4.99 a month. Intro plan and more than you need.

  30. 30.

    Tommy

    @raven: I was not there. I have no idea how hard that must have been. My father tells me he is ashamed that he couldn’ got to Vitemem. Broke both his legs jumping out of plane in military high school. The Army would not take him. I’ve said to him over and over again when others walked away you tired to server.

  33. 33.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven:

    Wasn’t that hard,

    Heh… Made me think of a carpenter I’ve worked with a few times… Last day in country in Iraq (’06 I think) he pulls turret duty for Tail End Charlie on a convoy across Baghdad. About the halfway point their Humvee starts coughing and spitting and the radio won’t work for some reason or other and they are all screaming at the driver and watching the convoy disappear around a corner, and my buddy keeps saying to himself, “My last fvckin’ day, my last fvckin’ day, I’m gonna die on my last fvckin’ day…”

  35. 35.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: Ha, I had to run one when I had about a week left and it sucked. We’d always say that you wanted to get killed early in your tour so you didn’t have to put up with all the bullshit and then die!

  36. 36.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: He sure did have a long list of things we should do in Afg. These folk, really need to reduce their goal set. We CANNOT remake that “country”, we CANNOT make the Taliban go away(they live there).

  37. 37.

    Woodrow/Asim

    @Alex S.: I suspect you mean it as a joke, but I would love to see Ming-Na Wen playing James Bond — no joke at all. I’m sure a clever enough script can manage the “but you’re a woman?” issues, and she’d be amazing in the role.

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    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Why host at all?

    Bitnami has local install packages available. Very easy to install and use. Most of the “learn wordpress/drupal/joomla” books I’ve seen start with installing a local stack of some sort.

  41. 41.

    ThresherK

    Bought some shea butter this summer, and wow, does my part-Irish skin, in New England, need it now. Can’t believe how much I slatered on my face just to have it sink right in.

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    Finished up day 4 of leftovers from holiday din-din: French onion soup, prime rib and fixin’s. Still have a little less than half the standing rib roast to get to. Been trying to get one particular friend to come over and share the bounty but he keeps coming up with excuses; his loss.

    If I could afford eat this stuff every day, wouldn’t make a peep of complaint.

    Monday afternoon shall be spent spending way too much scratch for groceries to prepare for New Year’s party, an annual budgetary indulgence.

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    @NotMax

    Should add that after going 12+ years without a working stove and full-size oven (two burner hotplate and countertop oven did yeoman service), going all out with the proper equipment is a distinct delight.

  45. 45.

    PurpleGirl

    Taking a second look at Idris Elba’s picture, I like the self-deprecation of his comment. He has a good sense of humor.

  48. 48.

    Dave

    @Tommy: I can’t speak for what Raven did but the reality is it’s surprisingly easy. Even if you are in small fights almost every patrol, IED’s, mines, even casualties.. I suspect people imagine it’s harder than it is because it’s so far outside of the experience of a safe existence. The sad truth is that just about anything can be normalized. Now depending on the duration and intensity of experiences it can fuck you up something good but at the time it seems fairly normal. Or other times just too tired to give a rats ass.

    I don’t like the fetishizing of the military especially when those serving buy into it. Especially when they haven’t really seen the shit or their time was spent drinking coffee in the Green Zone (and not to denigrate everyone has a job and isolation etc etc can certainly cause issues itself). I like it even less for the police; who when they act decently certainly deserve respect (but so do social workers, EMT’s, etc people that deal with same crap but don’t have the option to resort to force) but really aren’t living in a war zone day after day. It boggles my mind that people don’t seem to understand that police are civilians, that an organization empowered to use force against fellow citizens needs more oversight not less (and that’s as someone whom is fairly forgiving of errors made in ambiguous circumstances).

    Addendum for military and hell police if people are hurt physically emotionally whatever we so have a responsibility to take care of them. Now take that advocacy with a grain of salt if you want cause I’m one of them so benefit from that but I think it’s a fairly defensible position. Responsibility and whatnot.

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