Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

No one could have predicted…

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

White supremacy is terrorism.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

People are weird.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

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  2. 2.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I hear you and second your wish. We are having an unseasonably long cold/snowy period. We still have snow on the ground from before Christmas (unheard of here). So I am with you, spring can come any day now.

    I’m trying not to be too whiny about it since it seems my brother and his family will be displaced for many months because of the tornado damage. At least we are warm, safe and have a roof here.

  5. 5.

    pat

    I want to hibernate for the next 10 months and when I wake up to President Hillary Clinton I never ever want to hear the name Trump again. Never.

  6. 6.

    Villago Delenda Est

    David Bowie is dead, and Dick Cheney yet lives, or whatever it is the undead do.

    Sucks.

  22. 22.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh36: Jonathan Chait ‏@ jonathanchait 18m18 minutes ago Washington, DC
    The Obama-Biden friendship is really something. Will be a great book one day.

  23. 23.

    ruemara

    Bowie is dead and turned out the lights & the color with him. Meh is right.

    Andre Courreges also has died.

    And singer Otis Clay has died. 2016 is defective. Let’s return it and head to 2017.

  25. 25.

    PhoenixRising

    @schrodinger’s cat: We demand the story of how you broke your foot.

    I already admitted that how I sprained my knee, 5 weeks ago today, was my dogs & I losing a fight with a fire hydrant.

    I hope to offer some comfort when I say that today I’ve only spent 2 hours in the ice compression machine and was close to my normal activity level. It’s going to get boring and then it’s going to get better.

  27. 27.

    Howard Beale IV

    @efgoldman:
    @Mike J: Milo Yiannopoulos is right there with Ben Shapiro and Charles C. Johnson as truly despicable Twitter trolls-thankfully, Twitter put Charles C “The Rage Furby” Johnson” out of everyone’s timeline and then CCJ filed a libel lawsuit against Gawker which should be wrapping up soon (the old boy LOVES to threaten lawsuits against anyone whom he feels has slighted him that a separate website has spun up which tracks every time he makes a threat. But methinks his litigous days are coming to a very unglorious end real soon now.)

    Milo was recently named Breitbart’s ‘Technical Editor’ but he has all the technical skills of a MIcrosoft India IT reject (his last venture, noted on his Wikipedia page, didn’t turn out so rosey.) He states he’s gay, but a recent JoeMyGod interview gives one the question that his gayness isn’t ‘hard-wired’ but one of choice in that it ‘allows him to escape from dealing with crazy women’-hence his frequent misogynistic attacks against women. Combine that with his preening GQ-wannabe-ism, and you have yourself a self-hating narcissistic paradox of chalk-screeching conservative scum writing for Breitfart.

  28. 28.

    PhoenixRising

    @efgoldman: No, that’s how the fire hydrant won the fight. At least I wasn’t mopping the curb cut I went flying over…
    No mustard was found at the scene. Or anywhere else.

  29. 29.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Soylent Green: Q for for Adam L. Silverman: Does this development change the likely response of the government? Pretty ballsy to damage government property using government equipment. I have some concerns that an escalation could get ugly, even when clearly started by the ammosexual occupiers.

  32. 32.

    schrodinger's cat

    @PhoenixRising: I ran into my husband kitteh, head on collision. I was clearing up after dinner, in my own world, didn’t notice him and stubbed my toe on his foot. He was wearing slippers, the wicked good L L Bean kind and I was barefoot.

  35. 35.

    Suzanne

    John, in all seriousness, have you seen a psychiatrist? You seem like you might be clinically depressed. It’s very common with those in recovery. Take care of you.

  37. 37.

    Mike J

    Dave Killen ‏@killendave 8m8 minutes ago
    “If it goes back to anybody it needs to go back to the Burns Paiute tribe”

  38. 38.

    seaboogie

    @lamh36: Per @MomSense, Wow is right. I’m really going to miss this crew when they’re gone…let’s just savor the next 11+ months, even as we lose the earthbound company of those who we appreciate and admire.

  39. 39.

    PhoenixRising

    @schrodinger’s cat: You and I have already entered the contest; the rest of these schlubs better get their submissions prepared for the committee’s review.

    The trophy can rotate among the entrants; I’ve already hauled this machine 3400 miles in carry-on since my ligament tear, and it can be shipped.
    http://www.gamereadyequine.com/products/UtilityWrap.htm

    We can call to inquire about a human foot wrap.

    I borrowed a shoulder wrap for my last accident (bike tire trapped in 3″ diameter hole in fresh blacktop, in front of my house; score included scapular fracture w/displacement, collarbone, 3 ribs & pneumothorax for the ’06 prize).

  40. 40.

    seaboogie

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I think John Cole has been a bad influence on us! We should have a contest, how I injured myself in the most ridiculous way possible.

    Excellent idea, and I was just about to post about how I re-injured my bad knee on Christmas eve at work in a simple moment of grabbing a notecard for a customer, when I thought of this: A comment thread titled “My Most Epic John Cole Moment”.

  41. 41.

    seaboogie

    @Howard Beale IV:

    Combine that with his preening GQ-wannabe-ism, and you have yourself a self-hating narcissistic paradox of chalk-screeching conservative scum writing for Breitfart.

    Hmmm…you are edging into Charles W Pierce level of writing there….

  42. 42.

    PurpleGirl

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I believe someone at BJ mentioned the transcripts of the divorce proceedings were public and on-line. And there are various newspaper headlines from the period, such as the one with Marla Maples (while she was still his mistress) proclaiming he was the best sex she’d ever had. He’s lived his life in the public eye for many, many years. I hoping it comes back to bite him, hard and deep.

  43. 43.

    PurpleGirl

    @ruemara: In 2002, when I was still working, my boss was writing 2000 on her letters. Which I, of course, fixed. But she wanted a do-over of 2001. She was still writing 2000 for two months.

  44. 44.

    PurpleGirl

    Gvg @37: LOL. I have to give that URL to Cassie (rescuer who operates Cassie’s Kitten Kastle). She could easier set up one in a kitten room at her house.

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    Adam L Silverman

    @PurpleGirl: That was me. The issue with the non-disclosures is that I’m sure they’re tightly tied to whatever financial support they were awarded in the divorce.

  46. 46.

    PurpleGirl

    @Adam L Silverman: Okay, however that may be, he’s still lived so much of his life publicly that there is bound to be a lot that is out there for the world to find. He has a big mouth and hasn’t kept it closed as much as he should have.

  47. 47.

    Joyce H

    Oh, a thread about blah? Sounds like the right place for me…

    Yesterday I broke a tooth and thought, “Man, is there anything that makes you feel older than outliving your teeth?” Then today I went to the dentist and learned that actually I hadn’t broken a tooth, I’d broken a crown. Which was fifteen years old, so the dental tech said that was well past its expected span. So yeah, there is something that makes you feel older than outliving your teeth, and that’s outliving the crowns you put on the teeth you’d outlived.

    Plus, replacing it is very expensive. SIIIIGH.

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    @PurpleGirl: There’s been some. There were reports in the Fall that highlighted some of the nasty stuff from the first divorce. Specifically the allegations of marital rape and that he keeps a copy of Mein Kampf on his bedside table. When Ivana was asked about this she refused to comment because of the terms of the divorce settlement.

    There’s also been reporting from people he’s burned in business. I would expect more of this, but given how he’s cowed Fox News – he’s back on the Megyn Kelly warpath ahead of the next debate – I’m not sure anyone in the media is going to risk the revenue stream he’s generating for them.

  50. 50.

    Howard Beale IV

    @seaboogie: I don’t know if I should be flattered or insulted. Meebe Mr. Pierce himself can render judgement since he’s been known to spelunk ’round these here parts…
    (hell, the last time I wrote for real coin was 30 years ago when the Computer Shopper was a hernia-inducing 1000-page broadsheet when the only nationwide dial-up services were Compuserve and the Source-GE would launch a few years later and Dephi would launch right smack in 1985.)

  55. 55.

    Jack

    One of the best movies evoking the beauty and joy of spring is Ferris Buellers Day Off. Maybe watch it now to tide us through till April…

  57. 57.

    tones

    @Suzanne: I think he meant he has the cold that absolutely everyone in the world has right now?
    I know I feel the same , related to how lousy I feel.

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