Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Let’s finish the job.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Republicans in disarray!

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

White supremacy is terrorism.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

“woke” is the new caravan.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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  3. 3.

    greennotGreen

    Now, THAT’S “Feel the burn!”

    Isn’t there anybody in the Republican party who realizes that while they might disagree on Hillary on just about everything, she isn’t a loose cannon filled with nukes? Or are they just so sure they’ll be able to control Trump from behind the scenes…just like they have during the campaign?

    Sheesh!

  6. 6.

    srv

    Hillary’s Godwinaziation of the campaign takes Scott Adams prisoner:

    My interest in the race has been limited to Trump’s extraordinary persuasion skills. But lately Hillary Clinton has moved into the persuasion game – and away from boring facts and policies – with great success. Let’s talk about that.

    This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear.

    The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms.

    So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.

    Imagine what she will do when she has total control.

  9. 9.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    Or are they just so sure they’ll be able to control Trump from behind the scenes…just like they have during the campaign?

    @greennotGreen: Been reading Decline and Fall of the Third Reich (timely), and although I do not subscribe to the idea that Trump = Hitler for many reasons, I can’t help but notice the quiet reassurance from the GOP establishment that “we’ve got this guy under control for reals, trust us” is exactly what everyone surrounding Hitler said about the guy, right before he took their jobs, bumped them out of power, and several years later had them murdered.

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    Trump overruling his campaign staff’s instructions to surrogates. Hoocooda?

  12. 12.

    Keith G

    Samantha Bee certainly was able to land an amazing number of punches in that short opening bit. Good for her and her writing team.

  13. 13.

    Llelldorin

    Ahh, Scott Adams. He’s like a blast of formaldehyde-scented air from the (relatively recent) days of my youth, when the tech world was tilted towards smug glibertarianism instead of liberalism.

    God, I don’t miss those days.

    **shudder**

  15. 15.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    Imagine what she will do when she has total control.

    @srv: Have Scott Adams and other MRA idiots put in FEMA camps? Dude, I will be voting for her with EXTRA VIGOR today, with that aim in mind.

    Scott Adams in the camps. I’m getting a stiffy just thinking about it.

  18. 18.

    Eljai

    Just got done voting for Hillary in the CA primary. I hope we can start unifying. I, personally, will start with my 80+ year old Mom who voted for Bernie in her state’s primary. Conversation got a little heated lately, but I think she still loves me.

  19. 19.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @greennotGreen:
    It’s a bunch of things. Cleek’s Law is real. Their grip on power is a mile wide and an inch deep, and they don’t feel safe letting Democrats win any major position whatsoever. Trump’s hate and assholery is the Republican Party. They are horrified by how he makes their beliefs ridiculed, but they do basically agree with all his hateful shit. The politicians can’t defy their constituents, who have made their preferences plain. By themselves, many of these make supporting Hillary literally worse to them than supporting nuclear war. Together it’s no contest.

    And all that would apply to any Democrat, without their visceral hated of Hillary personally, which has been stewing for a generation.

  21. 21.

    Mike J

    @schrodinger’s cat: A common theme in his comic strip is that the women Dilbert dates are too stupid to understand that a) he is always right and b) how wonderful this makes him to be around.

    So I’m guessing yes, but I don’t have enough interest in him to look it up.

  23. 23.

    Punchy

    Sorry, but I dont see Trump making it to the convention. He’s completely out of gas. Today his lackeys are calling Speaker Ryan racist for intoning that Trump’s attacks were racial. The “I know you are but what am I?” routine. Pres candys going 3rd grade schoolyard bits cant get elected and will fuck all downstream electoral candys.

    Also — this autoplay ad that keeps popping up is completely shitstorming my comment. What the hell is an autoplay ad and why is on my goddamn blog?

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    @Punchy:

    Sorry, but I dont see Trump making it to the convention. He’s completely out of gas. Today his lackeys are calling Speaker Ryan racist for intoning that Trump’s attacks were racia

    l.

    His supporters LOVE that Trump’s attacks are racial. They’re tired of all this political correctness.

    they wanna party like it’s 1948.

  28. 28.

    Cacti

    Who is Scott Adams and why should I care what he thinks?

    ETA: Never mind. I see he’s the creator of Dilbert. Now I know I can disregard him freely.

  31. 31.

    Ramping Up

    @Punchy:

    LOL. Trump dropping out fantasies? The media, pundits and observers such as yourself have correctly predicted 148 of the last 0 Trump drop-outs. Ditto statements that will “end his campaign”.

    POLITICALLY INVINCIBLE, that’s Trump!

  33. 33.

    MomSense

    @Eljai:

    I’m going through the same thing with my 78 year old mom who told me last night she’s in mourning.

  35. 35.

    Llelldorin

    @Major Major Major Major:
    He was also a tech worker in the late ’80s/early ’90s. His political views are a sort of time capsule of that era’s tech culture, which was heavily into Ayn Rand.

    (Basically, there were a _lot_ of people who couldn’t quite process the idea that “I worked really hard in college and in my career” and “I had unfair advantages due to growing up middle-class, white, and male” aren’t actually mutually exclusive, and so assumed the latter statement _had_ to be bullshit. It was an annoying time to be in tech.)

    [[Edited to add “and male” above. The sexism was absurdly prevalent.]]

  36. 36.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Llelldorin: Ah. I knew he was an engineer of a certain age, and that they tend to be like that, but I’d never really spelled it out like that.

    It was an annoying time to be in tech

    As opposed to now, where it’s a gender- and race-egalitarian utopia with a hefty liberal bias. //

    So glad I’m leaving that scene.

  37. 37.

    Ramping Up

    @Llelldorin:

    Sexism, racism, misogyny, waaah waaah waaaah. President Trump isn’t going to listen to your victim-bitching. He’s going to be so un-PC his press conferences will carry their own trigger warnings, lol.

    You’re going to have to learn to sack the fvck up and make your own way in the world rather than blaming what you don’t have on imaginary horseshit like “privilege”.

  38. 38.

    Chyron HR

    @Ramping Up:

    I don’t see how you posting 148 deranged rants about INVINCIBLE JEB invoking HAMMER TIME on Trump is somehow our fault, Timmy.

  40. 40.

    catclub

    @Llelldorin:

    when the tech world was tilted towards smug glibertarianism instead of liberalism.

    So you think now the tech world is tilted toward liberalism? Wow. Important if true.

  41. 41.

    Ramping Up

    @Chyron HR:

    That’s just it–the fact that he crushed Jeb proves how strong he is. He utterly smashed the most talented Republican field in a generation with a minimal amount of money, no Super PAC. He was a genius at using free media and Twitter–this is the next frontier of campaign ops, skeleton crew, little money, and tweet, tweet, tweet. The idiot media gives him MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of $$$$$$$$$$$$ in free coverage. And will continue in the general. All TRUMP., all the time! And not a dollar spent!

  42. 42.

    Llelldorin

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Utopia? Well, no, it’s still horribly tilted… but a lot more people are worried about it, and liberalism is closer to being the “default” position. “Better” isn’t actually “good.”

    It’s like getting into the shade on a 110° day. It’s still fucking hot, but the change is still nice.

    Yes, I’m happy about incremental changes. As you’d guess, I’m a Clinton supporter.

  43. 43.

    Chip Daniels

    @Ramping Up:

    That’s the fantasy that fuels the Trump voter- the revanchist spite and bitterness of a lost golden age, the yearning for a Strong Man On Horseback will make those people obey.

    Pretty sad, actually.

  44. 44.

    Barbara

    @Punchy: Well, Speaker Ryan’s comments were racist but not because he was criticizing Trump, but because he said that he would vote for Trump anyway.

  45. 45.

    Ramping Up

    That’s right–MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of dollars in free coverage and Twitter!

  46. 46.

    Ramping Up

    And Trump is now pushing CRISIS OF CHARACTER on Twitter which describes Hillary as moody, erratic, and borderline violent, many mood swings, also unpredictable! Unpresidential anyone? She threw a lamp at Bill!

  47. 47.

    Barbara

    @MomSense: My mother was in mourning in 2008. We had to agree to stop talking about politics but she voted for Obama in November.

  49. 49.

    Amir Khalid

    @Ramping Up:
    Trump “crushed” 16 of the feeblest candidates ever to run for president. His strength was never really tested. Now he’s up against one of the best candidates ever. Nearly a week after her first really good go at him, he still hasn’t recovered enough to come back at her.

  52. 52.

    Donut

    The state of the race right now is that the nominal head of the GOP, its standard-bearer, is a sniveling asshole, deeply mired in the twin swamps of white male resentment and victim hood; more importantly, the elite members of the Trump party, most crucially members of Congress and the Senate, are being asked repeatedly to defend his racism, and they are forced to say he’s wrong. Some are holding out, but it’s all over the news today that DC elites are saying his statements aboit Curiel are indeed racist.

    The real question to my mind is how long do Congress-critters stick with him? At some point the Blue-eyed Granny Starver and Yertle the Turtle are going to have to make a judgment call – stick with their nominee or try to save their majorities.

    I’m not holding my breath waiting, but the tipping point may be coming. If Trump can’t get out of this hole he’s dug (and he is definitely not follow in the first rule of hole-digging: which is, simply, stop) then it will be before their convention.

    Good stuff. Let’s hope Clinton keeps the pressure on. And it’s more crucial than ever that Bernie finally give up the ghost and let the Democratic Party feast on Trump now.

  53. 53.

    Jay B.

    LOL. Trump dropping out fantasies? The media, pundits and observers such as yourself have correctly predicted 148 of the last 0 Trump drop-outs. Ditto statements that will “end his campaign”

    I think you’re right here. He won’t drop out. He’ll stagger on to the end and lose by 20 points to a woman and I’ll never, ever, ever stop rubbing it in to lard-assed white men who still somehow think yours is the only voice or vote that matters. Your boy Trump is gutting your beloved party and it’s AWESOME to watch the rationalizations of big talking douchebros as they crash and burn.

  55. 55.

    Corner Stone

    @Donut:

    At some point the Blue-eyed Granny Starver and Yertle the Turtle are going to have to make a judgment call – stick with their nominee or try to save their majorities.

    It’s kind of beautiful because if they ever hit that point then every R congressperson in a reddish area will not only run against the Washington Establishment but also specifically against Ryan and Mitch. They, hopefully, have lost their majorities no matter what they do.
    The Senate is actually a possibility and the House is not looking as far fetched as it did in just March of this year.

  56. 56.

    Jay B.

    @Amir Khalid: To be fair, those 16 candidates represented the true creme d’la creme of the Republican Party, each one of them was a very credible candidate in their own way, but of course, at the same time, were deeply awful people. Just like their standard bearer. The GOP will retain plenty of power, but that will ebb over the next generation. Soon enough their idiotic epoch will fade into history and the Bush regime will be seen as its high water mark.

  57. 57.

    Donut

    @Jay B.:

    As noted above, I don’t think he drops out but I don’t think Trump has long before the GOP elite decides to try to defend Congressional majorities and to cut their losses and leave him hanging.

  59. 59.

    Ramping Up

    @Jay B.:

    LOL just like Trump was totes going to lose the nomination or drop out because it’s all a joke or whatever, right? 20 points? Fucking delusional, this race comes down to one TCTC state on election night like 2000 and 2004.

  61. 61.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    Kim Kardashian gets a lot of free media publicity, but no one wants her to be president. Crying, “Yook at me, yook at me!” (in Trumpy’s petulant whine) is no virtue or sign of presidential fitness.

  62. 62.

    bemused

    Republicans are saying don’t worry, they can control Trump if he makes it to the WH. TPM

    They totally flailing.

    When in danger, when in doubt,
    Run in circles, scream and shout.

  63. 63.

    Mike R

    @bemused:

    When in danger, when in doubt,
    Run in circles, scream and shout.

    Wonderful can’t wait to use it on my republican friends.

  64. 64.

    Mike in NC

    @Llelldorin: I stopped reading Dilbert about 10 years ago after finding out Scott Adams was a massive Glibertarian douchebag.

  65. 65.

    Mike in NC

    @Mike R: That saying was something people used regularly in the Combat Information Center aboard my ship.

  66. 66.

    Brachiator

    @Ramping Up:

    And Trump is now pushing CRISIS OF CHARACTER on Twitter which describes Hillary as moody, erratic, and borderline violent, many mood swings, also unpredictable! Unpresidential anyone?

    What, did Trump look in the mirror and describe himself?

    Trump is all these things, and stupid.

  67. 67.

    Chyron HR

    @Ramping Up:

    These are the bitter fruits of public employee unions controlling the education of our children for 60 years: Hillary vs Trump. We’ve educated two generations of idiots.

    So you admit that you’re an idiot, huh?

  68. 68.

    Mike J

    brian feldman @bafeldman
    many have asked for my take: the hamilton porn parody is disrespectful to lin manuel miranda’s broadway musical about rapping presidents

  69. 69.

    Mike in NC

    @Ramping Up: Please be careful not to trip over your clown shoes as you make you way down to mom’s basement to watch your favorite smut videos. On second thought, go break your fucking neck.

    No matter how many times you change your name, it will always be Right to Rise AKA the biggest loser.

  71. 71.

    Amir Khalid

    @bemused:

    Republicans are saying don’t worry, they can control Trump if he makes it to the WH. TPM

    What they’re leaving unsaid: Now please vote for a President who has to be kept on a leash.

  72. 72.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    @Ramping Up:

    Dude, slow it down. Colbert got to do it first, but he delivered in small doses so as to sound plausible. You’re definitively doing it like a firehose and have managed to do unfunny parody to the point of grating.

  75. 75.

    catclub

    @Mnemosyne:

    I can’t help but notice that the only people I ever see talking about an upcoming “race war” are white dudes. It’s creepy as hell.

    Anders Breivik, Dylan Roof, Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh. Run, do not walk.

  77. 77.

    Mike in NC

    My wife’s best friend from high school has an adult son with anger management problems. I first met him when he was living in the basement, working a crappy minimum wage job because he had trouble staying employed. He got his girlfriend pregnant, married her, they had the kid, then he got dumped. Moved back into the basement for several months. Went through a couple more dead-end jobs, met and got dumped by a couple more women, and arrested for DUI. Currently not living in the basement but I figure it’s only a matter of time. Does this sound like a certain troll?

  78. 78.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mike J:

    If a porn producer listened to “Say No to This” and didn’t immediately figure out a parody, I would wonder what was wrong with that producer.

    Of course, it will be lame and unfunny, like 99 percent of porn parodies.

  80. 80.

    hovercraft

    Don’t worry about Trump dropping out, his ace team of surrogates are out changing the narrative, and it’s working.

    On Tuesday morning, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) appeared on CNN and tried his hand at Trump’s preferred approach. He started by insinuating that Democrats were the real racists for trying to mobilize minority groups.

    “[W]hen you’re micro-targeting a community, and you are putting blacks together and Hispanics together, and certain economic messages and positions on issues, quite frankly, with the way I define racism, I see it in a lot of policies and statements that have taken place,” Zeldin said.
    Not content to end there, he added that he believes President Barack Obama, the first black president in U.S. history, is actually the one promoting bigotry. As for how and why, he kept it vague.

    “You can easily argue that the president of the United States is a racist with his policies and his rhetoric,” Zeldin said. “You could go back to presidents of the past.”

    This strategy cannot fail.

  81. 81.

    bemused

    @Amir Khalid:

    Barely unsaid but it’s glaringly obvious they have nothing, absolutely nothing to get them out of their self made mess.

    And suddenly they are big fans of the Constitution.

  83. 83.

    Actually, Bob IS My Uncle

    Had a Republican colleague tell me today that he’s waiting to see if Trump picks an acceptable VP candidate because then if Trump got out of line, someone could just shoot him.

    I think he was joking. I hope he was joking.

  84. 84.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Punchy: To be fair to tRUMP, Ryan is probably a racist just like the rest of them, including tRUMP.

  88. 88.

    Mike J

    @Major Major Major Major: OK, now do, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but this man’s father is my father’s son.”

    What’s the capital of Nebraska? What’s the capital of the Chase National Bank? Give up? Now, I’ll try you on an easy one. How many Frenchmen can’t be wrong?

  89. 89.

    Chip Daniels

    @hovercraft:
    Conservatives are blind to racism, so they see the word as a magic totem, a all-purpose stick to beat someone with. they imagine they can just invoke THAT WORD, and liberals will immediately cower in abject terror.

  91. 91.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne:

    Of course, it will be lame and unfunny, like 99 percent of porn parodies.

    errr…OK. If you say so. (backs away slowly from keyboard)

  93. 93.

    hovercraft

    @Brachiator:
    Trump and his acolytes think their still in the primary where every brain fart dominates the news cycle. Two things the media loves to tear down everything they build up. Especially after they have been hammered for not doing their jobs. Secondly it’s the final day of the primaries and Hillary just won, so it’s not so easy to distract them.
    He will still be able to send them off into click heaven, but there are now investigative journalists who are digging through his garbage.

  94. 94.

    Trollhattan

    @Ramping Up:
    November 8, 2016, 8:00:01 p.m. PST, the first news organization declares Hillary Clinton to be president-elect of the United States.

    Book it, hippie.

  95. 95.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Ramping Up: The difference is his schtick on twitter is a turnoff to anyone who is not in the Republican base. It worked in the Republican primary because those dipshits want to hear crass insults and schoolyard putdowns. Everyone else…not so much.

  99. 99.

    bemused

    @Mike R:

    That’s been around for a long time but I don’t know the origin.

    Thom Hartmann just said Joe Scarborough spent most of his show saying Republicans have to disavow Trump. They really are pooping their pants.

  100. 100.

    hovercraft

    @bemused:
    After spending most of the last year fluffing the Donald mornin’ ho does not get to suddenly see the light. He like the rest of them has to own their nominee. He GOP ‘you built this’.

  102. 102.

    Enhanced Voting Techinques

    @srv:

    Imagine what she will do when she has total control.

    First they came for the Fake Silicon Valley Engineer Marketing Specialists,…

  106. 106.

    pat

    @Ramping Up:

    And Trump is now pushing CRISIS OF CHARACTER on Twitter which describes Hillary as moody, erratic, and borderline violent, many mood swings, also unpredictable! Unpresidential anyone?

    Pure unadulterated projection on Trump’s part. What a clown..

  107. 107.

    Jay B.

    @Ramping Up:

    Well, I never said any of those things. I was surprised he won the nomination, but not completely shocked. After all, I don’t underestimate the stone-cold ignorance and spite of the Tea Party or the Republican Party. They were going to rally around some idiot, it just happened to be the loudest, crassest, most racist one. But, since America doesn’t solely consist of white morons and even many stupid white people aren’t aggressive assholes who cheer on the wholesale debasement of the country, Trump really doesn’t have what I’d call “broad-based” support. Right now out of nearly 2,500 Republican delegates, 18 of them are African-American. The Latino vote is growing, enrolling and energized. He’s managed to pick fights with an entire gender and several races. I know you are a hilarious satire of people who sounds exactly like you, but seriously, you top out at maybe 35% of the total electorate. Maybe he gets to 42%, tops. But probably not. He’s an anchor, an albatross, dead weight. The Democrats will be busying bringing people together to make history. The GOP is tepidly rallying around Typhoid Donald. Have fun, douchebro!

  108. 108.

    Trollhattan

    @Origuy:
    They all have a “gentleman’s agreement” to not call the election until the West Coast polls close. The outcome will be clear before that, I’m pretty confident.

    ETA This year I’m praying Fox puts a monkeycam on Karl Rove to get live video as he runs around the studio after Megyn Kelly. Absolutely my favorite takeaway from 2012.

  112. 112.

    Jeffro

    @pat:

    Pure unadulterated projection on Trump’s part. What a clown..

    Can you imagine the reaction – from the media, from our various elected officials on both sides of the aisle – if positions were exactly reversed? What if the Dem candidate was on Twitter constantly, bashing religious folks or whomever, knocking federal judges, saying male judges would probably be biased and have to recuse themselves from hearing a case involving her, if she had a failed & fraudulent business, etc etc?

    What if Chuck Schumer was telling Hillz to “get on message” – or if Harry Reid was telling everyone that HRC’s latest racist comment was a “good off-ramp” for people who had previously endorsed her?

    And so on and so on. The headlines all day every day would be DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN FLAMES…DISINTEGRATING BEFORE OUR VERY EYES…and yet all we get is this steady stream of air quote “reporting” with the latest GOP poo-bah saying Trump is off the reservation but they’ll still support him ‘if he comes around’ (or gets ‘on message’)

    Ugh

  113. 113.

    chopper

    @Ramping Up:

    And Trump is now pushing CRISIS OF CHARACTER on Twitter which describes Hillary as moody, erratic, and borderline violent, many mood swings, also unpredictable! Unpresidential anyone?

    yes, trump’s twitter feed is very unpresidential.

  119. 119.

    Schlemazel Khan

    Several people have committed on the GOPs hinting not to worry about the Trumpster fire winning because they can control him. I will repeat the fictional quote I made up a month ago that perfectly reflects the thinking of the period:

    “Relax boys! Once he is in office we can control him and he won’t be so wild.”
    – Albert Junker speaking with friends at the Berlin Businessman Club 1933

  120. 120.

    burnspbesq

    @Ramping Up:

    I hope Trump stays the course. Five months of merciless flaying followed by a crushing defeat is exactly what he needs.

  121. 121.

    2liberal

    according to wikipedia Scott Adams recently endorsed hillary clinton , i think

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Personal_life

    However, Adams officially announced his endorsement of Hillary Clinton in June 2016, stating that Clinton had paired “…the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear” and that he would be “…a top-ten assassination target” because he “…wrote about his (Donald Trump’s) persuasion skills in positive terms

    Weird.

  122. 122.

    Trollhattan

    @2liberal:
    Methinks Adams believes he’s playing 11-dimensional chess, but his chessboard is missing ten dimensions.

  123. 123.

    aimai

    @srv:

    The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms.

    Man, now I’m excited.

  125. 125.

    Mnemosyne

    @Miss Bianca:

    I started towards the end of the “Desperate Duchesses” series and am working my way back to the beginning.

    Also, can you try and email me through my site (linked above) and I’ll check when I get home after 8 pm tonight? I’m really curious about your first chapter!

  126. 126.

    tsquared2001

    @Mnemosyne: Do NOT, I repeat NOT, read the Ms. James’ Pleasure Trilogy. The rest of her back list is pretty good; my favorites are the Essex Sister books.

  128. 128.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne: eep! sure! I actually have two first chapters that I’m thinking about merging into one work, but I’ll send you the one I was thinking of when the topic first arose.

  129. 129.

    Mnemosyne

    @tsquared2001:

    I only just discovered her. She’s no Lisa Kleypas or Mary Balogh, but her books are fun.

    I got “Marrying Winterbourne” on my Kindle and read it the same day. I thought the beginning was a little shaky, but she made a potentially cliched ending really work.

  132. 132.

    Llelldorin

    @Major Major Major Major:

    No, obvious sarcasm was plenty obvious! :)

    I was just hurriedly making it clear that I don’t actually believe that the tech world is now awesome. It’s just significantly better than it was (at least in my neck of the woods).

  133. 133.

    Brinks Truck Driver

    @Ramping Up: is millions and millions more than a Brinks trucks full of cash?
    Disclaimer: I may have a professional interest in this.

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