Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

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

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

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

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The lights are all blinking red.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

We still have time to mess this up!

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Everybody saw this coming.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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  4. 4.

    Bystander

    Ayn Rand II just told us about how angered Biden is over the treatment his BFF Chuck Hagel got from Barry. She segued into a list of all the things Hagel effed up, starting with being poorly prepared for his confirmation hearings. Do these MSNBC shills have no shame?

  11. 11.

    Betty Cracker

    @Mike in NC: Is he really? Wasn’t the last shitty Rambo movie subtitled “Last Blood”? Maybe this one will be “Rambo XIXL: The Transfusion.”

  19. 19.

    FlyingToaster

    Done shoveling for a while (there’s a ~30 foot stretch around the corner that needs it, but it’s capped by plow leavings so fuck it).

    We went sledding on the lower half of the hill (below the tot lot) because the big kids were sledding uphill on the PD’s snow mound. Good, since WarriorGirl likes to eat snow, and that stuff wasn’t clean.

    Depth is about 22 inches in Watertown, most channels through the snow are in the neighborhood of 30 inches high right now. The mound uphill of our driveway is 6.5 feet high, and downhill is about 4 feet. My neighbor’s non-crazy son put a plow on the end of his truck and cleared out their driveway, and didn’t cover up the sidewalk cuts from either side (yay!). The crazy* son tried shoveling yesterday with less-than-stellar results.

    (May not be crazy but the local PD thinks he is, so they don’t arrest him, but send him to Mount Auburn.)

    School is back on for tomorrow.

  22. 22.

    kindness

    When I was growing up in the NY suburbs in the early 70’s, I was warned by all my friends never to buy tickets to a Sly & the Family Stone concert. He never showed. That isn’t completely true, he showed at Woodstock and apparently one time at Madison Square Garden after keeping the crowd waiting for them for over 2 hours, Sly ran up on the stage, announces someone was trying to kill him and left. I bought the albums because that was some good stuff. Never bought a concert ticket though.

  24. 24.

    Bystander

    Gogol’s Wife is correct. IIRC Mitchell was once a reporter. Now, she interprets Biden’s random facial expressions in public meetings to provide insight into what a terrible POTUS Barry has been and how terribly they have treated a guy. Then she tells us of all the ways in which Hagel was not up to the job. She not as sickmaking as Jonathan Karl but she comes close.

  25. 25.

    Schlemazel

    @jeffreyw:
    Cool! I made “Mexican Lasagna” when the kids were little. It was just way to do something different for them from time to time. I would always crumble tortilla chips on top for crunch.

  27. 27.

    Schlemazel

    @Bystander:

    Maybe Randism is a sexually transmitted disease that ultimately causes brain damage. Ayn had it & gave it to Al, Al has given it to Andrea now.

  30. 30.

    Tommy

    Oh Sly. Got me thinking how much I am geeking out on this guy named Stevie Wonder. I guess no relation other than the same time frame. Pandora is suggesting I download Sly because I bought everything from Stevie.

    Just in case people have not seen this, well Stevie Wonder:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

    This is in the studio. 1973. I always knew him as an older man. Nothing wrong with aging, but seeing him at this age is just amazing. Thank you Internet.

  31. 31.

    Schlemazel

    @kindness:
    I saw Sly on a couple of chat shows (Carson & Cavet) and he did not seem well anchored in reality. Loved his music & still have his albums but it does not surprise me to hear he flaked out on performances or ended up living in a van. I hope he gets the money & gets on track, a heck of a talent.

  32. 32.

    buddy h

    Andrea Mitchell should always be introduced as Andrea Greenspan, and before she’s allowed to speak, they should show clips from Frontline of her husband and his role in the Collapse.
    Then they can say, “proceed, Mrs. Greenspan.”

  35. 35.

    JPL

    @BGinCHI: Erick is a goat f.ucker. Just saying. The second link is just disgusting and in a perfect world the whackos would receive the punishment they deserve.

  37. 37.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @BGinCHI: You are really quite unkind.

    As to the 2d TPM link, if I were the violence wishin’ type, I’d wish intense and lengthy violence on the beer pouring fuckwads. In fact, I think I do anyway.

  39. 39.

    scav

    @BGinCHI: and @? Martin: And in my case it’s a side effect of a massive aucoustic neuroma (eta so is on one side). Personally, I find it sometimes handy not to have to live with the baseline human characteristic, but then, I sometimes look at baseline humans uncharitably judging them on their performance. Also, truth in advertising with my face.

  40. 40.

    beth

    @? Martin: He always had the droopy lip and chin from that but now, decades later, the paralysis has traveled up to his cheeks, eyes, and forehead, erasing all wrinkles and leaving them motionless. Poor guy.

  43. 43.

    Jacel

    @Tommy: Back in 1973 everyone was amazed how much his music had developed through a decade since his first releases (at age 11) as Little Stevie Wonder. Great, great, music…and if you like that, you’ll probably really like getting to know Sly and the Family Stone. Pandora is right, this time.

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    Kristin

    @BGinCHI: The only professional victim I know of is Sarah Palin, and I doubt she’d take “queer studies.”

    (Point taken on the reading of those articles in order, also.)

  45. 45.

    nellcote

    Is it legal for me to shoot down a drone flying over my own property? asking for a friend…

  46. 46.

    Tree With Water

    Perhaps the most ‘ripped out of my mind- and loving it’ I ever got in my life was at a Sly & The Family Stone concert at Winterland, soon after Scorcese had immortalized them in his film Woodstock. It was a memorable night. Yeah, I hope Sly collects every cent, too.

  47. 47.

    BGinCHI

    @Kristin: It’s possible her poor reading skills would cause her to see “Queen Studies” and she would jump at the chance to study up on how to be a princess while learning more about “We Are the Champions.”

  51. 51.

    Mike J

    @nellcote: In most places discharging a firearm is illegal. If you believed it posed a threat in some places you could do it.

    49 U.S. Code § 40103 covers airspace use, for the most part says it’s open to everyone, and only the government can declare no fly zones.

  52. 52.

    raven

    Sly in Grant Park

    In July 1970 Sly and the Family Stone were to appear at a free concert in Grant Park in downtown Chicago. While waiting for Sly to arrive a riot broke out. 150 people were arrested, 25 were injured including 10 policemen. I remember it started to get really crowded and disorderly…people fighting and throwing things as well as each other.

  54. 54.

    Schlemazel

    Just found out from FB that my niece is in a family way.

    They have 4 kids now (and struggle to support them) and were told after the last one that having another baby could kill her because of her medical condition. Since then she has had two miscarriages. She was deathly ill with each of those & is now sick again. The refuse to use any form of birth control because it’s against their religion. A couple of kids back I asked why not since she could end up leaving a widower and many motherless kids & their reply was “God will take care of us”.

    I had to come here to unload because I do not want to tell them exactly what I think f them.

  56. 56.

    Mike J

    @BGinCHI:

    I’ll bet you that info gets out. I sure hope so.

    The incident surprised officials at venue, the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, because the company that rents the suite, beer wholesaler Eagle Sales, has “been a great partner,” according to the center’s executive director Craig Baltzer, who spoke to KOTA-TV.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/01/28/fans-at-a-minor-league-hockey-game-reportedly-pour-beer-hurl-racist-insults-at-native-american-children/

  58. 58.

    Goblue72

    @nellcote: It’s complicated and an emerging area of law. However, in most jurisdictions, under current law, the general answer would be – no, you can’t shoot down a drone on your property. Your primary recourse is to call the police to report a trespass.

    https://gigaom.com/2014/10/01/can-you-shoot-down-a-drone-on-your-land-new-incident-raises-self-defense-questions/

    http://abovethelaw.com/2014/10/can-you-shoot-down-drones/

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/03/new_jersey_man_shoots_down_drone_over_his_property_gets_arrested.html

  60. 60.

    trollhattan

    @Schlemazel:
    (Most) people don’t put things into their mouths randomly in the belief God will magically guide them into just eating healthful things. Why should procreation be approached in the same brainless manner? He “allowed” us to discover contraception, after all. (Or was it Satan!?!)

  61. 61.

    Schlemazel

    @JPL:
    The saddest part of this (after the ugly behavior of the clowns in the box) was his comment that “Several other members of the skybox seemed extremely uncomfortable with what was going on but I surmise that none of them wanted to escalate the confrontation with their “friends” who were possibly a bit too rowdy from their libations.”

    The only thing bad men need to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

  62. 62.

    JPL

    @BGinCHI: It depends on the meaning of consequences. Without naming the culprits, its difficult to cause shame. The owner of the booth rented it out and didn’t say to who.

  63. 63.

    JPL

    @Schlemazel: That line made me sad. Of course, the entire incident was upsetting but it’s odd that even as adults, we don’t like to stand up to bullies.

  64. 64.

    scav

    @Mike J: Just to get in in the thread here, that article says that

    Eagle Sales President Tom Helland apologized for the incident, but noted the suite had been rented that night to out-of-town visitors. He told KOTA-TV that no one from Eagle Sales was involved.

    so there’s still a little find the pea game going on. So we’ll see, although we’ll also see if they’re just hoping for things to blow over a bit.

  66. 66.

    jl

    @Bystander:

    Soon Fox News will have a special “Biden’s random facial expression” expert to divine how awful and dysfunctional Obama is.

    If Biden runs for 2016 prez nomination, that will morph into how awful Biden is. Why does the US Public watch the garbage the corporate media pumps out, which is most of what they do for US politics, domestic affairs, foreign relations and national security?

    Oh, that’w right, more and more they aren’t watching it. Which leads to nasty possibility that the networks, broadcast and cable, will follow Fox News because they all will be competing for, and mining, an audience of scared bitter old ignorant white people who can find nothing better to do with their time than to watch such stuff.

  68. 68.

    opiejeanne

    @Tommy: try googling Little Stevie Wonder. He was in one of those Beach Blanket movies when he was a kid, early 60s.

  69. 69.

    Anna Granfors

    I loved most early Sly–that Woodstock medley was incredible–but he made three perfect singles (actually, two were on one 45): “Hot Fun In The Summertime”, and “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” b/w “Everybody Is A Star”. Then came cocaine excess, and we got two more that were great, but not perfect–”Family Affair”, and “If You Want Me To Stay”. (Actually, “There’s A Riot Goin’ On” and “Fresh”, the albums those two came from were pretty wonderful as well.)

    What a tragic waste, but I don’t think even $5 million can put Sly Stone’s genius back together again…at very least, he’ll be comfortable.

  74. 74.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Pogonip: That’s right, I know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, and I’ll blow people’s asses from here to Pakistan…

  75. 75.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Betty Cracker: I’d go for a quad-50 if you can find one just laying around in some Army surplus store.

    Well, there is that little “discharging firearms” thing, but I doubt in Florida, what with SYG and all, that’s too much of a problem.

  76. 76.

    Roger Moore

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I’d go for a quad-50 if you can find one just laying around in some Army surplus store.

    I would think a Bofors would be a better choice. Maybe a German 88mm if you can find one; it would also be useful if the neighbor blocks your driveway.

  78. 78.

    shelley

    In a van down by the river?

    Sorry, not mocking. I too hope he gets every nickel cheated from him.

    Love the Sly Stone medley from the original “PeeWee’s Playhouse.”

  79. 79.

    Anna Granfors

    @Betty Cracker: you’re not wrong. The triptych I named were (IMHO) perfect pieces of pop music…and “Thank You” was Sly finding that funk, which he perfected in “If You Want Me To Stay”.

    By the way, even though it’s long out of print, the first CD version of “Fresh” that CBS released in the States (1991) was erroneously mastered from a different tape, with alternate takes of every song except “In Time”. It’s effing amazing.

  80. 80.

    Anna Granfors

    @Betty Cracker: you’re not wrong. The triptych I named were (IMHO) perfect pieces of pop music…and “Thank You” was Sly finding that funk, which he perfected in “If You Want Me To Stay”.

    By the way, even though it’s long out of print, the first CD version of “Fresh” that CBS released in the States (1991) was erroneously mastered from a different tape, with alternate takes of every song except “In Time”. It’s effing amazing.

  81. 81.

    Tree With Water

    @Roger Moore: Since you seem to know weapons, here’s an idle question for you: In WW2, the German 88 was acknowledge as a premier, superb shooter. Why didn’t the allies- or even the Soviet Union- copy it down to the last bolt, and mass produce it for their own troops?

  82. 82.

    John Revolta

    @raven: I was at that Grant Park concert. It was quite a scene……………….the crowd had been there all day, partying in every sense of the word. Sly, of course, had a reputation for not showing up for shows, so when the opening act hit the stage maybe an hour late, everybody assumed he was gonna do it again and the place went nuts. I looked up toward the sky and all I could see was bottles, flying at the stage, so I decided to go somewhere else……………….as I was leaving I saw guys coming in with cans (yeah, cans, punks) of motor oil with rags stuffed in the top. Good times.

    Apparently Sly WAS there and was going to play, but it obviouSLY didn’t happen. Bummer, man…………..it was a pretty good party, though, until the shit hit.

  83. 83.

    Tree With Water

    @John Revolta: There were only two times in my concert going days that I witnessed San Francisco crowds get agitated about a show running late. The second time was at a Led Zeppelin concert at Kezar Stadium; the first was Sly & The Family at Winterland, and he must have hit the stage at least 3 hours later than scheduled. My memories of that night aren’t particularly sharp, but that I do remember.

  85. 85.

    Paul in KY

    @Tommy: What a performer! saw him 2 years ago at The Hangout. That crossed one off my bucket list! Glad you are grooving on him.

  88. 88.

    Paul in KY

    @Tree With Water: Soviet Union had artillery every bit as good as the 88. Don’t know why we didn’t. Might have been very hard to machine a copy, already heavily invested in our own artillery, etc.?

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