Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

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

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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  1. 1.

    Applejinx

    Oh, wow. On sooo many levels. Is @GOPTeens a troll account? Not sure it matters.
    (you see, guy was a carpenter, and… oh never mind)

  5. 5.

    pacem appellant

    That’s not a facetious twitter account? That is HI-larious! So is AN’s perfect reply!

  8. 8.

    scav

    @sigaba: And they apparently can’t even manage to find the eyes or ears on the beast to to affix them properly, so it’s got that sort of paleolithic multi-perspective thing going. Head in profile, horns sideways is a common tweak in the originals.

  10. 10.

    jl

    Damned if I can figure out what it is.
    The site design is such a dead-on stone cold perfect self-parody of GOP outreach to the youths, that it might even be genuine of official.

  12. 12.

    MattF

    Poll says that Donna Edwards is leading Chris Van Hollen among Maryland Democrats in the race for Senate nominee.

    If this holds up, it would be quite amazing. I suppose it’s possible that a ‘side effect’ of the Republican crazy is to make Dems more progressive. We shall see.

  14. 14.

    Tree With Water

    Having once had my seven year old ass chastised for drawing a cartoon of Jesus falling through the cloud upon which he was ascending, I’d only say to the GOP Teens: “Are you kidding? He was the Son of God. He must have had a fantastic sense of humor, literally the best in The World. And he would busted a gut laughing at that wise-ass remark”. If at that point they contend otherwise, I would only advise them to avoid thunderstorms (or go stick their wet fingers in electrical outlets and pray for forgiveness). I’m reliably informed there have been times when the man hasn’t suffer fools gladly…

  15. 15.

    dedc79

    The most unintentionally hilarious twitter idea since Cole’s PIttsburgh Penguins came up with #AskNeal

    ETA: Unless, of course, the account itself is a joke. Which would not surprise me.

  16. 16.

    Joel

    Fuck Winning.

    If you haven’t seen by now, the NFL’s James Harrison made his sons return trophies they received for participating in sports, because they did not win; because, by his reckoning, his sons did not deserve the trophies. He then went on Instagram to congratulate himself for “believing that everything in life should be earned” and that men do not “believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their best” and so on. For this demented nonsense, he has been praised to high heavens, in media and elsewhere; USA Today has him striking a blow against “entitlement culture.” His sons, by the way, are eight and six years old.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    So Jesus walks up to the reception desk at a Hyatt, slaps down three nails, and says “Can you put me up for the night?”

    I’ll be over in the corner.

  26. 26.

    Chris

    @Joel:

    Huh, I’ve heard that meme before…

    From one of the Aryan Brotherhood types in Sons of Anarchy, if I recall correctly.

  29. 29.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Remember when Campbell Brown was sold as the reasonable middle ground between Sean Hannity and his mirror image, that crazy lady Rachel Maddow?

    Jose A. DelReal ‏@ j delreal 4h4 hours ago
    Campbell Brown begins, “I don’t think you’re going to tell us who your choices are for Secretary of Education…” as Bush points at her.

    (wingnut headline: Bush Vows To Maintain Department of Edumacation!)

  30. 30.

    Tree With Water

    @Joel: Six and eight are the perfect ages to acclimate kids to a forty hour week, too. Their tiny fingers can perform miracles of labor denied ham handed adults. Puff The Magic Dragon was a red.

  31. 31.

    Kay

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    She has a 12 million dollar anti-public education website now. They gave her 12 million dollars for a website, and they’re (allegedly!) The Best and Brightest.

    The grift continues, and everyone’s making money. She’s got a whole new career in anti-public school activism. Failing upwards.

  33. 33.

    ranchandsyrup

    Deez Nuts is polling at 9% in North Carolina. His favorite band is Imagine Dragons.

    “The new PPP poll revealed independent candidate Deez Nuts is polling at 9 percent in the Tar Heel state. Running as an independent from Wallingford, Iowa; population 197, Deez Nuts has gone viral and has a large fan base.”

  38. 38.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @schrodinger’s cat: my recollection is she went from ABC to CNN, where she was supposed to become their big star, tanked in the ratings and is now a (well, I’m sure) paid advocate for “education reform”

  40. 40.

    Jack the Second

    I dunno, did most of you go to nailed-to-the-cross first? I thought “duh, carpenter.”

  41. 41.

    Pee Cee

    @Jack the Second:

    I dunno, did most of you go to nailed-to-the-cross first? I thought “duh, carpenter.”

    For a lot of us, pain and suffering was an integral part of the religious experience. So … nailed to the cross.

  44. 44.

    Gindy51

    That definitely needs to be a tee shirt like those WWJD, What Would Jesus Pack or some shit like that, nail gun being the obvious choice.

  46. 46.

    Fair Economist

    @MattF:

    Poll says that Donna Edwards is leading Chris Van Hollen among Maryland Democrats in the race for Senate nominee.

    I think it’s just respect for daring and accomplishments. Edwards gets a lot of cred for taking out Al Wynn. She’s got guts. Van Hollen is OK, but he’s not done anything special like she has.

  47. 47.

    Kay

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I think she got fired. I once watched her grill this nice lady from the CDC on why Campbell Brown’s friend couldn’t get a flu shot in NYC. So government works like this- there’s a national public health agency and they send to state public health agencies which send to county public health agencies.

    She was asking the wrong person. Rather than admit that, she simply screwed up her face into “tough, no-nonsense reporter” and continued to display her ignorance about the most basic 6th grade federal-state-local chain. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be for her when she grills the Justice Department on why they don’t respond to a call to her local police. It was painful to watch.

  48. 48.

    Fair Economist

    @Tree With Water:

    He was the Son of God. He must have had a fantastic sense of humor, literally the best in The World. And he would busted a gut laughing at that wise-ass remark”.

    But it’s not really a wise-ass remark from a religious viewpoint. I don’t remember Jesus ever using any weaponry, but he was a carpenter. So he *would* have preferred a nail gun to a babykiller.

  50. 50.

    Riley's Enabler

    I want. Gonna forgo the $21 because budget, but the Librarians tee is 47 kinds of terrific.

    And yes, parody site – dig down a couple of tweets/responses, it becomes clear.

    WELL PLAYED TEEN GOOPERS.

  51. 51.

    Tree With Water

    @Kay: Didn’t Brown get fired by a network for publicly criticizing the stampede to war by American journalists; that criticism having cut too close to the bone for Bush-Cheney and their corporate media allies?*

    * the “people’s airwaves” hardy har har…

  52. 52.

    D58826

    Huckleberry is talking about his plan for the Middle East. In his world;d (and Bibi’s) Israel will annex the west bank because it is Jewish land. The Palestinians can just suck it up and learn to be non-citizens and non-entities. No two state solution ever. Maybe negotiations to determine the rules of the apartheid state going forward. Oh and Iran should just surrender to all American demands.

    This won’t end well.

  54. 54.

    Patricia Kayden

    @MattF: I love Donna Edwards and would love to see her make history as the second Black female federal Senator evah! But I also love Mr. Van Hollen. Either of them would make great Senators. One of the perks of living in a Blue state is that most of our Reps are solid.

    P.S. Still don’t know how Gov Hogan (R) was able to win. Sigh.

  56. 56.

    Kay

    @Tree With Water:

    I don’t know. She’s married to Dan Senor and she wrote a weirdly unhinged pro-Romney piece in 2012, about how Republicans love women.

    I think she was between jobs so decided to appoint herself spokesperson for 74 million children. That’s actually the second 12 million dollar anti-public school website. There’s another one. Same number- 12 million dollars in start-up billionaire bucks. Must be the going rate for celebrity hacks to post free content from earnest anti-public school activists.

    There are actually a lot of pro-public school bloggers, but they’re all volunteers. I think the multi-million dollar sites are a response to that. It’s very lively on the pro-public school side. Some of them are wonderful writers.

    I sponsor one for 5 dollars a month. She does original reporting. Obviously other people are also sending her 5 dollars a month, but she isn’t making 12 million dollars.

    I see she already has a Campbell Brown Education Summit piece up! :)

  59. 59.

    srv

    Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday that birthright citizenship is a “constitutional right,” casting doubt on fellow 2016 candidate Donald Trump’s plan to do away with it.

    Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush says that the government should be granted broad surveillance powers over both the American people and and private technology firms so that intelligence agencies can better fight “evildoers”, according to the Associated Press.
    …
    Additionally, Bush railed against the tech industry’s use of encryption to foil government eavesdropping. “It makes it harder for the American government to do its job while protecting civil liberties to make sure evildoers aren’t in our midst,” Bush said, calling for “a new arrangement with Silicon Valley in this regard.”

    Where is that Rise guy to cucksplain this to us?

  64. 64.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Roger Moore: True. I am reading a book about the Partition of India and the extreme arbitrariness of the Radcliffe line that separates India and Pakistan, just boggles the mind.
    Niall Ferguson’s heroes have a lot of blood on their hands.

  65. 65.

    Belafon

    @Tree With Water: I think you’re thinking if Ashley Banfield:

    In April 2003, in a Landon Lecture Series speech at Kansas State University, Banfield raised concerns regarding media coverage of the conflict in Iraq. She spoke against “cable news operators who wrap themselves in the American flag and go after a certain target demographic” and specifically named Fox News Channel as an example.[9] The New York Times reported that her speech angered NBC management, who rebuked her and lowered her profile. “They just fell in love with a new toy and they played with it and played with it and played with it until the paint came off,” said an NBC News correspondent of the network’s relationship with Banfield.[4]

    I was office-less for ten months … No phone, no computer. For ten months I had to report to work every day and ask where I could sit. If somebody was away I could use their desk. Eventually, after ten months of this, I was given an office that was a tape closet. They cleared the tapes out and put a desk and a TV in there, and a computer and phone. It was pretty blatant. The message was crystal clear. Yet they wouldn’t let me leave. I begged for seventeen months to be let out of my contract. If they had no use for me, let’s just part ways amicably—no need for payouts, just a clean break. And Neal [Shapiro, the News President of NBC] wouldn’t allow it. I don’t know what his rationale was—perhaps he thought I would take what I felt was a very strong brand, and others felt was a very strong brand, to another network and make a success of it. Maybe that’s why he chose to keep me in a warehouse. I will never forgive him for his cruelty and the manner in which he decided to dispose of me.

    —in New Canaan-Darien Magazine, January 2009[10]

  70. 70.

    boatboy_srq

    @Cole Moore Odell: From the article:

    On July 7, Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback sent this now-deleted tweet: “Thanks for following me @GOPteens; You are the future.”

    As usual the GOTea doesn’t even recognize that their b#tsh!ttery is just plain cray-cray to the rest of us.

  73. 73.

    Citizen Alan

    @Kay:

    Fun fact: That wedding in California that Shrub blew off responding to Katrina in order to attend? It was the Campbell Brown/Dan Senor wedding.

  74. 74.

    rikyrah

    I want her GONE. She’s incompetent and corrupt.
    …………

    Brown: Dems seek open primary for state’s attorney

    Written By Mark Brown Posted: 08/18/2015, 05:55pm

    A Cook County Democratic endorsement committee chose Tuesday not to name a preferred candidate in a crowded field for the 2016 state’s attorney election, passing over incumbent Anita Alvarez.

    The same 30-member group narrowly recommended party support for Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown’s re-election and flirted with an endorsement of former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger for a seat on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District before backing down.

    The full Cook County Democratic Central Committee, composed of 80 ward and township committeemen, is scheduled to vote on the recommendations Wednesday, at which time there is expected to be a renewed push to endorse both Alvarez and Stroger.

    This is the process long known by party insiders as “slating” or “slatemaking,” where Democrats try to pick a ticket that will keep the various party factions happy and hopefully prevail.

    ………………………

    Some will tell you the party endorsement can be more a hindrance than a help to a candidate, but that rarely stops any candidate from seeking it.

    “In the end, everybody’s going to do what they want anyway,” observed one committeeman, meaning the party leaders don’t necessarily honor the party endorsement any more than do the voters.

    Although the slatemakers deliberated behind closed doors, in this case what looked like a 4-inch thick castle door, the candidates presented their credentials in public.

    Three would-be challengers — Kim Foxx, John Fritchey and Donna More — declared their intentions to run against Alvarez in the March 15 primary.

    Alvarez, seeking her third term, pitched herself as someone who has not only been tough on crime, as is her reputation, but also is “smart on crime.”

    http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/7/71/888496/brown-dems-seek-open-primary-states-attorney

  76. 76.

    jl

    This is a kind of parody too, I guess.

    Ben Carson Open To Using Drone Strikes At The Border
    ‘Carson spoke at a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, where he said that the U.S. should use surveillance and drones to patrol the border, ‘
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-border-drone-strikes

    Click the link for a memorable quote on how it would work.

    I wonder, (or hope?) this will give Trump a chance to be the voice of reason on immigration and border security? If so, maybe not from a good motive, since border drone strikes might mess up the hugest classiest most luxurient border wall in all history.

  81. 81.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    This is a bit of a surprise, a good one:

    Dylan Williams ‏@ dylanotes 1h1 hour ago
    Swing Sen. Joe Donnelly (IN) announces support for the #IranDeal, continuing momentum and shifting cloture whip counts in favor of the deal

  82. 82.

    PurpleGirl

    @srv: I hate the term “evildoers”. I’m not sure what I’d use instead of it but I know I hate the term and wouldn’t use it.

  83. 83.

    Jeffro

    @ranchandsyrup:

    Deez Nuts has gone viral and has a large fan base.”

    Which is another two jokes in itself, right there…well played!

    I’m doing my best to spread the news that Deez Nuts are gonna be in the next GOP debate – they’re polling better than everyone but Trump, Carson, and Cruz. Just picture Deez Nuts in between Rubio and…and…oh, I can’t finish…

  84. 84.

    Iowa Old Lady

    My guess is that when Trump spouted off about anchor babies, he didn’t know this was a constitutional question. He’s ignorant about most of the issues he’s babbling about.

  85. 85.

    Thoughtful Today

    “He’s ignorant about most of the issues he’s babbling about.”

    ^ A perfect Republican candidate.

  87. 87.

    NonyNony

    @Mary G:

    It’s gotta be some Doug J-level trolling; check out their T-shirt store.

    Honestly, while I figured “parody” had a high probability of being the answer, it took until I saw the “Where Should #America’s next #War be?” T-shirt to make it 100% parody. (The one after – “You are almost #old enough for your #opinions to #matter” seals the deal).

    The other ones look like T-shirts that wingnuts I know would actually think might be things that Republican-leaning teenagers might actually wear. Even the creepy “Fantasy Grampa” shirt…

  89. 89.

    jl

    @Iowa Old Lady: A number of GOPers have been making noises about how they think the 14th amendment can be changed by legislation that ‘reinterprets’ it. Or maybe they are giving hints about what the GOP gang on the SCTOUS should do.

    So, poor Trump may have been mislead. But, he is not alone in saying, or implying, it is not really a constitutional question.

  90. 90.

    trollhattan

    Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, Bad Lip Reading returns, with the Republican debate.
    Not for work unless your cow-orkers are accustomed to seeing your choking back laughter and crying while looking at your screen.

  91. 91.

    jl

    @NonyNony: I was confused at first. The banner photo at the top of the account was a perfect parody of what a GOP youth outreach twitter site would look like.

    I was thinking “Wow, that could almost be real… uh wait… maybe it is, nawww.. or…?’.

  92. 92.

    NonyNony

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    My guess is that when Trump spouted off about anchor babies, he didn’t know this was a constitutional question. He’s ignorant about most of the issues he’s babbling about.

    Doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t – his answer would be the same. Right now he’s focused on WINNING! and the way you WIN a GOP primary is to say outrageous things to get the base to cheer you and then never back down when told that what you’re saying is ridiculous and/or illegal. Also never give specifics – just reassure them that their beliefs are correct and right and that if you’re elected you’ll do what needs to be done. They’ll fill in the gaps and project their own solutions onto whatever you’re saying.

    Trump has this red meat to the base thing down. Jeb! is trying to win the primary by telling his voters that he’ll make them eat their broccoli and maybe give them a sundae after dinner. Trump is telling them to have the sundae for dinner and then he’ll give them cake for dessert and helicopter and pony rides until they puke. And then more cake and sundaes! Trump is a showman, and so long as he can get away with talking about what he wants to do and get rewarded for not actually making any specifics, he’ll continue to get at least a third of the base to swear their undying allegiance to him.

  93. 93.

    Tree With Water

    @jl: It’s for those very reasons, and because those people do not fuck around, that I fear the convening of a Constitutional Convention. At least for the time being…

  98. 98.

    Bobby Thomson

    @jl: shit, look at RFRA and DOMA. Or the flag burning statute. All blatantly unconstitutional attempts to amend the Constitution with legislation. There’s a long history of that sort of thing, and the SCOTUS effectively nullified the 14th amendment until the 20th century.

  99. 99.

    Paul in KY

    @Mary G: If that is an actual shirt (won’t go to site), anyone wearing said shirt would be some kind of super-goob, destined to a life of virginity (IMO).

  100. 100.

    jamesbfranks

    The thing is, a nail gun is exactly the type of gun that a carpenter like Jesus would want.

  101. 101.

    dedc79

    @srv:

    dditionally, Bush railed against the tech industry’s use of encryption to foil government eavesdropping. “It makes it harder for the American government to do its job while protecting civil liberties to make sure evildoers aren’t in our midst,” Bush said, calling for “a new arrangement with Silicon Valley in this regard.”

    Yes, Jeb, because clearly the problem is that IT companies aren’t doing enough to help the snoopers snoop:

    The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.

    While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.”

    AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the N.S.A. access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T.

  104. 104.

    Paul in KY

    @ranchandsyrup: Have seen Imagine Dragons. Aussie band. More or less a 1 man shop, although the other band members are there to realize the music.

    Fine band, good to see with a nice buzz.

  105. 105.

    sharl

    I love @GOPTeens, but some of these young punks can actually write prose comprised of more than 140 characters.

    Meet former FULL Professor of War Jeff Newsroom, inspired by a real life NatSec dood (NOTE: NSFW if you scroll down too far) and his dismissive tweets, which to certain denizens of Twitter were as attractive as chum is to sharks.

    I suppose that this is an example of being deeply nested in the warm and dark embrace of the military-industrial complex, and thus losing any perspective of how the world looks and feels to everyone else.

  106. 106.

    Kay

    @Citizen Alan:

    Fun fact: That wedding in California that Shrub blew off responding to Katrina in order to attend? It was the Campbell Brown/Dan Senor wedding.

    I actually remember hearing that but I was never able to find an article saying so. I have to admit, I really loathe Dan Senor. That was such a bad time for the country and he had that puffed-up self-importance of all the Bushies, like he was seeing himself in historical terms. It turns my stomach. I always felt like I was watching soft, pampered weaklings play “war leader”, like they were in a movie.

    “Here we are in Scene Three, striding across the tarmac” I can’t describe how alienated it made me feel, like “OMFG, these people think this is a story they’re in”.

  108. 108.

    jl

    @Bobby Thomson: Thanks for understanding my comment, even though I typoed it and made a mistake. I meant to say that there are several places in GOP putting out that birthright citizenship could be abolished by legislation or SCOTUS decision (on a statutory or constitutional case), it didn’t need no constitutional amendment.

    And I agree, that possibility would be hair raising, and even worse if it were botched. One commenter asked, unless you are willing to grandfather (pun there? not sure) in the already born, when would you start? What papers would they show?

  110. 110.

    boatboy_srq

    @jl: More Tentherism. There are enough idjits out there that think every amendment from the 11th (which protects states from legal action by nonresidents including foreign powers) on is somehow illegitimate. Now that includes the 13th (slavery), 14th (birthright citizenship), 15th (race and the franchise), 17th (direct election of Senators), 22nd (POTUS term limits), and 24th (poll tax) along with the rest, so the Reichwing does have some interest in undoing the amendments that hinder its ongoing persecution of Others.

  111. 111.

    Aunt Kathy

    If Campbell Brown didn’t actually get fired, could it be that she “didn’t renew her contract?” All I know is that she bothered me enough that I e-mailed CNN that I could no longer watch her because she was unwatchable, and it wasn’t long after that that she was gone.
    You’re welcome, everybody!

  112. 112.

    Tree With Water

    “​There should be a special circle of derision reserved exclusively for prosecutors who botch important cases in very stupid ways”.

    Charles Pierce wrote that today (esquire.com) about a new trial being ordered for the Danziger Bridge “cops”. I didn’t follow the trial closely, but nonetheless suspect intentional malfeasance on the feds part. I suspected as much when Ted Stevens conviction was overturned, too, and could name others given time. Bush-Cheney are not only war criminals. Their various, successful, and above all calculated subversions of the Justice Department for 8 long years did enormous damage to that institution- and the fuckers were & are just getting started.

  113. 113.

    boatboy_srq

    @Paul in KY: I thought they were Las Vegas locals. I do know they play an awful lot of LV gigs: they did EMC World last year. Amazing percussion.

  114. 114.

    scav

    @boatboy_srq: I’d think they’d be clutching to the 22nd for a bit longer yet, despite their constant speaking of what all true ‘mercans really want and feel.

  115. 115.

    ranchandsyrup

    @Paul in KY: i’m neutral on imagine dragons.
    it’s a juvenile twitter bit, which goes something like. “Imagine draggin’ deez nuts across……”
    i’ll spare you the rest and delete my account.

  116. 116.

    jl

    Things to do list for Scott Walker’s first day in office:

    tear up Iran agreement and start bombing Iran.
    executive order re-interpreting 14th amendment to do away with birthright citizenship
    executive order to stop administration of ACA
    appoint Kasich to taskforce banning teacher break rooms in order to keep them from complaining
    publish a youtube of Walker shutting down Wisconsin union protests to scare Islamic State
    order hot rolls and ham for inaugural ball

    Make FDR’s Hundred Days look like a piss in the wind, won’t it?

  117. 117.

    boatboy_srq

    @scav: Not so sure: that would have bought their boy Dubya a third term, which they’ve convinced themselves he would have won… when it’s their guy who’s affected, they’re very happy to shred the regs.

  119. 119.

    Tree With Water

    “The Dodgers are on the verge of acquiring 2B Chase Utley for two minor leaguers. The Phillies will reportedly pick up $2 million of Utley’s salary”.

    Speaking as a Giants fan I’m OK with the thought of simply needing to secure a play-off spot to win another World Series, both this year and from here on out. The Dodgers can stick 3 In 5 in their deep pockets, or anywhere else that suits them. They’re the west coast Yankees now, and and don’t get me started on their fans..

  120. 120.

    dr. luba

    @NonyNony: As always, follow the links of the Twitter account to GOPTeens.com:

    *@GOPTeens is a parody account.
    *GOPTeens T-Shirts (#GOPTees) can be purchased at bit.ly/GOPTees
    *Daniel Kibblesmith is a comedy and comics writer in New York City, New York.
    *He is currently a staff writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS.

    Redirects to:
    https://about.me/kibblesmith

  123. 123.

    Kay

    @Aunt Kathy:

    You’re welcome, everybody!

    The combination of journalistic sanctimony combined with utter hackery was unbearable. I don’t mind salespeople. I mind people who won’t admit they’re salespeople.

  126. 126.

    Brachiator

    @boatboy_srq:

    There are enough idjits out there that think every amendment from the 11th (which protects states from legal action by nonresidents including foreign powers) on is somehow illegitimate.

    I say bring back Prohibition (18th)!

  127. 127.

    swbarnes2

    @Joel:

    Funny, becuase all the parenting books now are saying that rewarding effort over results is what you DO want to do if you want kids who achieve. (Google “process praise” and “growth mindset”) You want the kid’s first lesson to be that effort is rewarded, so that they work hard to improve themselves. Tell kids that they are just good at something, they become paralyzed at the fear of what happens when they don’t live up to that. Praise kids for their effort, and they will keep trying and improving.

  129. 129.

    Sad_Dem

    @Fair Economist: I’m dismayed how everyone is missing something important here: There were no nailguns when Jesus wrote the Constitution. Only an activist judge would allow him to buy one, three-day waiting period or no. It’s hammers or nothing, people.

  130. 130.

    boatboy_srq

    @Sad_Dem: Given your statement, there’s no reason for the War Department to require aircraft (or aircraft carriers), tanks or guided missile cruisers, and the definition of submarine would be “something already sunk.” But you’ll notice that’s not stopping the Reichwing clamoring for more of each. And fighting over ME oilfields (let’s face it that’s what GW2 amounted to) would be pointless because a) petroleum was barely understood and b) whaling supplied all the lamp oil required. Founding Fathers 1776 = Amish 2015. You’re asking for consistency when there’s reams of proofs that none is required.

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    Paul in KY

    @boatboy_srq: Sorry, my bad. Had them confused with Tame Impala. You are completely right. Have seen Imagine Dragons too. Liked set until lead singer asked for a lot of crowd surfers & I had to evacuate a prime spot. They are a really good band, though.

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