Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

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

In my day, never was longer.

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

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

“Squeaker” McCarthy

I really should read my own blog.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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And We’re Off With a Bang

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Steve bitching for breakfast at 5:45 am. Rosie won’t get out of bed to potty so I am going to have to watch her like a hawk to make sure she doesn’t vengeance shit on the carpet because I didn’t let her out the moment she decided to get out of bed. Damn JRT’s. Lily is hurt because she can’t sit on my lap while I am at the desktop so I am going to have to do some relational maintenance involving belly rubs and lullabies.

2015 seems a helluva lot like 2014- up too early and being bossed around by pets, each in their own special way.

Also, it was one of those super cold cloudless nights. When I woke up, the wind was whipping and you could just feel the cold go straight to your bone, but the sky was almost glowing from the stars. Those were the worst nights in the army- you knew as soon as the clouds dissipated it was just going to get cold as hell. It’s actually worse than being rained on because everything on a tank is cold hard steel.

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Thursday Morning / New Year’s Day Open Thread

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Wise words from Mr. Charles P. Pierce:

… We are a little lost here in America. Too many of us have tuned out, and too many of us are deeply tuned in to the wrong things. Our eccentricities have curdled into crochets. Our love for the strange and deeply weird has soured into a devotion to the mean and deeply angry. Our renegade national soul has given itself up to petty outlawry. We have tailored the principles of our founding documents — flawed though their authors were — into cheap camouflage for our boring traditional grudges. None of these things are good things. But none of those things is permanent, either. Imagination always has been the way out — a faith in that which seems impossible, a trust that not every mystery is a murder mystery, and that not every mysterious creature is a monster. Imagination is the way out — a belief that safety is not necessarily the primary (or even the secondary) goal of democratic citizenship, and that a self-governing political commonwealth does not always come with a lifetime guarantee. Yes, we are a little lost here in America, but we can find our way, and the best way that we can find is the one that seems like the least secure, the darkest trail, the one with the long, sweeping bend in the road that leads god knows where. We must trust what we can imagine, and we must trust that what we can imagine is the product of what is the best of us. And, whether we imagine it or not, it’s going to happen anyway…

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What’s on the agenda for the start of the new year?

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