Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

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

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

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

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Second rate reporter says what?

We still have time to mess this up!

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    The TV is safely off.

    I continue to believe that the Dems should ditch moderators and only have town hall.

    All three probably had their best night of the season. My only major criticism was in the quality of the questions that Clinton got, which I thought wasn’t as substantive as Sanders and O’Malley got.

    I would have kicked ass had I been invited.

  4. 4.

    jl

    @Baud: As always, the silent strength of Baud was impressive. You captured the vote of every single one of the audience who knows their Baud.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    @jl: Thanks, jl. What you recognize as silent strength, some people view as a lack of passion. Oh well, I’m not going to get every vote.

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    @jl: Apparently I’ve been offered the job of bouncer in the Baud Administration.

    Rule 1: Never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected.
    Rule 2: Take it outside.
    Rule 3: Be nice, until its time to not be nice.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    Satisfying nap this afternoon.

    Went out to pick some lemons which are currently ranging from 10 – 12 inches around. For a a pasta dish may make tonight or tomorrow, Weird thing is that about one-fifth of the lemons on the tree right now are not yellow, but orange.

    Not pale orange either. Navel orange orange.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    @Adam L Silverman: I hope you check IDs at the White House door and only allow in people who’s mental and emotional ages exceed 21. Which will exclude virtually all Republicans and most network reporters and pundits.

  13. 13.

    jl

    @Baud: I agree with you that this town hall was surprisingly good. Some of that, as I said in previous thread, may be due to the poor moderation of the debates.

    To counter the unfair treatment of the Baud campaign, we could ship a life-size cut-out photo with a loop of some of the famous Baud campaign lines. Like “pull my finger” and ‘if you were drunk, then it would make sense’

  15. 15.

    Mike J

    @Adam L Silverman: I once had to use a Fender Telecaster on somebody in a bar. Problem had started while i was at the back tuning in a quiter spot. One of the few times i would have preferred a Gibson. They tend to be heavier.

  16. 16.

    Baud

    @jl:

    Don’t forget, “Reach across, not around.”

    Or is it, “Reach around, not across”?

    No worries. I’ll get it down before the summit with Putin.

  22. 22.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    Your review for Becoming Phoebe was selected by our Indie Editors to be featured in Kirkus Reviews 2/1 Issue. Congratulations! Your review will appear as one of the 35 reviews in the Indie section of the magazine which is sent out to over 5,200 industry professionals (librarians, publishers, agents, etc.) Less than 10% of our Indie reviews are chosen for this, so it’s a great honor.

  25. 25.

    jl

    @Baud: Just don’t stagger over to the moderator and throw up. And don’t try to wedgie your opponent on national TV.

    Or, at least try to maintain until one of the GOPers goes there.

  27. 27.

    Betty Cracker

    @NotMax: Sounds like Meyer lemons, but presumably you’d know if you had a Meyer lemon tree. They’re my favorite kind of lemons — larger than average and sweeter.

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Sort of. I worked as a bouncer for several years in grad school. At a very large entertainment complex in Scotland. Those are pretty standard.

  30. 30.

    jl

    As for the results. I think HRC really helped herself for the Iowa caucuses. I think she won, in that respect.

  33. 33.

    satby

    @Baud:

    Impressive. I hope my other patronage appointments are preparing as thoroughly as you are.

    I’m totally working the intensity in preparation for my cabinet appointment.

  39. 39.

    jl

    I watched a youtube of the Fusion town hall. That was recent, wasn’t it? That was pretty good too.

    Edit: I think I meant Univision. I’ll try to find it.
    Edit2: what the hell was that I watched? I can’t find it now.

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    The non-musical film made twenty years before the musical version is an, um, interesting experiment. The saving grace is that it includes Buster Keaton among the cast.

  50. 50.

    PhoenixRising

    @Amir Khalid: only in the sense that all trees are somewhere endangered now.

    I think you’re thinking of an import ban on rosewood that Gibson asked for a carve out (pun intended) on, because they make their guitars in the US. The other guys not so much.

    (Since I’m interested in both acoustic guitars and logging in SE Asia, for different reasons, I thought I’d go ahead and swing at that one, but if it was intended for Baud, our candidate, I’m sure he will speak up.)

  57. 57.

    PurpleGirl

    @PurpleGirl: FYWP — wouldn’t let me edit my comment.

    I don’t remember what the fine was, but they did have problems because of the wood they were using.

  63. 63.

    Adam L Silverman

    Time for me to rack out. You all have a nice night. And I will do a Malheur standoff update sometime tomorrow.

  64. 64.

    PhoenixRising

    @Baud: Thanks for the offer. But if we’re going to continue the current policy regarding the issue, which in sum is “Yes, and can you get it done before relations with China are normalized so we get the wood?” I’m afraid I have to spend that time in some more productive fashion.

    Like playing the Gibson I don’t own. My dad, who was an artillery LT, bought it in 1965. I’m taking care of the guitar for the next generation.

  77. 77.

    NotMax

    @efgoldman

    Directed it one time. Had a live actor portraying the statue of Cornpone in the town square.

    Seated, because it would be too much to ask of him otherwise. Agreeing to be made up in silverish body make-up and stay stock still was above and beyond, without risking pain from cramping on top of that.

    But we arranged for his arms and hands to be in a different position each time the lights came up, up to and including thumbing his nose during one long scene. Took a while for the audience to catch on and already be giggling in anticipation of the next appearance.

    During curtain calls, the cast parted and he got to stand and take his solo bow.

  83. 83.

    Davebo

    Can I just say that the rumor that Baud is self funding his campaign is a lie?

    The truth is, Cambodian children under the age of 14 are sewing volleyballs with their teeth to generate revenue for Baud’s evil campaign.

    That’s not all bad, but the fact is there are children in Iowa willing to do the same work but Baud hate’s Iowan’s.

    I’m not saying that the candidate named for an antiquated measurement of data transfer rates is evil (though we all know he is). I’m just saying think about those Cambodian children.

  85. 85.

    Mike J

    @Davebo: Tecvhnically it’s not a measure of transfer rate, it’s a measure of state changes. In practice it usually means the same thing, but there is a difference.

  86. 86.

    PurpleGirl

    @efgoldman: Well, yesterday I heard deBlasio’s comments about the areas not cleaned and he mentioned Sunnyside and Woodside. I live in Woodside but on Queens Blvd, which was plowed. Not sure it will cost deBlasio as not plowing cost Lindsay because deBlasio was open and forthcoming about the problem.

    ETA: What I think was more of a problem this morning was that the public schools were open today. Getting to the schools was a major problem for a lot of kids.

  87. 87.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Just watched Mrs Christie’s Bully Boy get petulant and sarcastic with someone who asked him why he wasn’t taking care of business in his home state.

    He may finally get that bump into double digits.

  89. 89.

    Davebo

    @Mike J:

    Nobody likes a smart ass! And seriously, can’t everything be described as a measure of state changes?

    I would work full time trying to derail Baud’s virtual presidential campaign but sadly I’m having a hard time monetizing the effort.

    Damn! How does Sarah Palin pull it off?

  93. 93.

    The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...

    @Davebo: You mean the difference between whacking someone over the head w/ a hollow body vs a solid body guitar?

    Who did that at Woodstock? Townsend, whacked Abbie Hoffman over the head when Hoffman tried coming on stage during the Who’s set?

  94. 94.

    David *Rafael* Koch

    @PurpleGirl:

    Well, yesterday I heard deBlasio’s comments about the areas not cleaned and he mentioned Sunnyside and Woodside.

    Remember when deBlasio first entered office 2 years ago and a snow storm hit and some parts of the upper east side weren’t cleared but Queens was and the media started freaking out saying he was playing favorites, aiding political strong holds and punishing the rich. Now it’s the other way around and he still can’t win.

  95. 95.

    frosty fka Bro Shotgun etc etc

    @Mike J:

    One of the few times i would have preferred a Gibson. They tend to be heavier.

    But not the SG. Pete Townsend said he didn’t start out smashing his guitars, he just played so hard they broke. Something about feeling like they were made from balsa wood.

  96. 96.

    Davebo

    @Omnes Omnibus: That and the custom has the nifty flip out speed winders.

    But don’t get me wrong, I still love an old Tele. Maybe it’s nostalgia. The upside of liking old guitars, when things go to shit the pawn shops will always take them!

  97. 97.

    rook to queen's 8

    @Mike J:

    In practice it usually means the same thing, but there is a difference.

    Not sure that “usually” still applies here. Was true back in the day when amplification and frequency modulations were the predominant norm, like back in the 300 bps/300 baud acoustic modem days,
    but with the advent of commodity DSPs in the mid-1980s and the associated practicality of more advanced (comparatively, back in those days) modulation schemes like PSK, the distinction between baud (symbols per second) and bps (bits of information per second) has mostly diverged.

    If you’re talking about the communications channel of serial-communications-console (which has become more of a low-level techie thing), then yeah, baud and bps are (almost?) always numerically the same. But the more ubiquitous coding used for WiFi and cell-carrier data links is all multi-bit-per-symbol.

  99. 99.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Davebo: Honestly, I was a violinist and put the Gibson thing in for the onion joke. If I buy an electric guitar, though, it will be a Les Paul. I am a Wisconsin boy.

  101. 101.

    Goblue72

    @David *Rafael* Koch: He’s a liberal. Liberals aren’t allowed to win. They must always be criticized and torn down by the corporate controlled media until a handmaiden to wealth – or in case of Bloomberg, wealth itself – can be installed.

  103. 103.

    Davebo

    @NotMax: Back in 85 or so I used to hang out at a guitar shop called the music box in Jax FL and they had the ugliest pea green Gretsch semi hollow you could imagine.

    One day Roy Clark of all people walked in and dropped 4k (in 85 dollars) to buy it.

    At the time I knew nothing about Gretsch guitars but obviously that one was special.

  105. 105.

    James E Powell

    @Davebo:

    Was it this color? Gretsch has some strange colors, in addition to some natural finishes.

    I started out with Les Pauls. Had two, sold them both. Sometimes I dream I still have the black custom. But when I had them, I almost never played them. Somewhere along the line I became a tele guy. Lately I’m intrigued by G&L updates of the tele, but I have yet to buy one.

  107. 107.

    Davebo

    @James E Powell:

    No, I mean seriously pea green. It was ugly but it was number x of who knows how many. Back then it was word of mouth to find it. Pre-intertubes.

    It was awesome meeting Roy Clark. A super nice guy in addition to being a great musician. Allen Collins used to wheel his ass in also. Asshole.

  108. 108.

    mclaren

    @Baud:

    I continue to believe that the Dems should ditch moderators and only have town hall.

    No.

    Thunderdome.

    “Two men enter, one man leaves, TWO MEN ENTER ONE MAN LEAVES!”

    Or one woman, in this case.

    Unintentionally hilarious Trump Playboy interview from 1990:

    “I don’t use glitz in all cases. And in my residential buildings, I sometimes use flash, which is a level below glitz.”

    .

  110. 110.

    debbie

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    I just saw your decision in the other thread. Good move, especially with this news. Kirkus may be stuffy, boring, and traditional, but they’ve got major pull for the part of the market you need to crack. Congratulations!

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