Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

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

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

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

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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

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

Republicans in disarray!

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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Which day of the week figures the most prominently in songs? It’s got to be Friday or Saturday, with Monday a close runner-up. My choice for best day of the week song is “Stormy Monday”, as done by Bobby Bland. I also have a weakness for a certain Bay City Rollers song when performed by children.

Also too, there’s Black Friday, Bloody Sunday, Good Friday, Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday….is there anything Thursday?

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  1. 1.

    Verdiphile

    Holy Thursday, for the Last Supper (which was a Passover meal for Jesus and the apostles since they were Jewish).

  2. 2.

    cope

    Don’t forget Ruby Tuesday.

    As for Thursday, David Bowie’s “Thursday’s Child” is one.

  5. 5.

    West of the Cascades

    Maundy Thursday – not to be confused with “Monday, Monday” or Manic Monday

  7. 7.

    Lizzy L

    The Thursday before Good Friday is called Maundy Thursday. “Maundy” is a corruption of “mandatus” which means “command” in Latin. Maundy Thursday is the day of the Last Supper: the day in which Jesus instituted the Eucharist, and commanded his disciples to “do this in remembrance of me.” It was also (according to the Gospel of John) the night on which he washed his 12 apostles’ feet, and told them they should do likewise, i.e. become servants.

    Fun Catholic/Christian facts. Maundy Thursday is the first day of what Catholics call the Triduum, the 3 holy days before Easter. Practicing Catholics go to church the night of Maundy Thursday, if they can.

  9. 9.

    germy

    Fats Domino:

    Blue Monday how I hate Blue Monday
    Got to work like a slave all day
    Here come Tuesday, oh hard Tuesday
    I’m so tired got no time to play

    Here come Wednesday, I’m beat to my socks
    My gal calls, got to tell her that I’m out
    ‘Cause Thursday is a hard workin’ day
    And Friday I get my pay

    Saturday mornin’, oh Saturday mornin’
    All my tiredness has gone away
    Got my money and my honey
    And I’m out on the stand to play

    Sunday mornin’ my head is bad
    But it’s worth it for the time that I had
    But I’ve got to get my rest
    ‘Cause Monday is a mess

  10. 10.

    Humboldtblue

    @West of the Cascades:

    Beat me to it. Also known as Holy Thursday or the day the last supper was supposed to have taken place.

    The local taco joint used to have Two-Taco-Thursday but they weren’t a band or nuffin like that.

  11. 11.

    ArchTeryx

    Reposted from dead thread downstairs (and boy, am I good at catching them just as they get buried)

    With all the complaints about the ad and our completely useless media, one thing seems to be slipping under the radar: Our Democrats Iz Learning (and yes, the atrocious grammar is deliberate).

    Ron Wyden coming out and outright saying, “Fund the Obamacare CSR payments by direct appropriation or we shut down the government” is one of the most heartening things I’ve heard in a long time. Did the Rs in Congress suffer one iota for their government shutdown? Nope. They got to take over Congress in the election the year after. Since government shutdowns seem to rebound on the President’s party more then Congress, why not do it?

    Between that, the death of ACA repeal (even if the dead-enders keep endlessly trying to dig it up and re-animate it), and the filibuster of Gorsuch, our party is finally starting to act like a genuine parliamentary opposition party, and it’s about f*cking time.

  12. 12.

    Humboldtblue

    @Lizzy L:

    We used to have a Passover meal. My Jewish friends were gobsmacked when I could recite parts of the Passover (in Hebrew) and related to them that we did a Catholic seder.

  14. 14.

    Peter H Desmond

    @Lizzy L:

    i see in the the online etymology dictionary that maundy thursday is “said to be so called in reference to the opening words of the church service for this day, Mandatum novum do vobis “A new commandment I give unto you” (John xiii:34), words supposedly spoken by Jesus to the Apostles after washing their feet at the Last Supper.”

  19. 19.

    Gin & Tonic

    I’m sure I’ll piss off some haters, but Bob Weir’s “One More Saturday Night” is a pretty great song.

  20. 20.

    Ohio Mom

    “Never on a Sunday” from that old movie, wasn’t it about a Greek prostitute? Going to have to goggle that now.

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    Remember…it was CRIMINALS that they were going to target…….

    Uh huh
    Uh huh

    THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 4/13/17
    ICE targets mother with no criminal record for deportation
    Rachel Maddow reports on the outpouring of support for Maribel Trujillo, an undocumented mother of four American citizens, including a 3-year-old girl with special needs, who has no criminal record but faces deportation under Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policies.

  26. 26.

    Louise B.

    I personally like the version of Stormy Monday recorded by a young Lou Rawls in the early 60s. It’s on an album of the same name – a great collection of jazz and blues standards, with Les McCann at the piano.

  27. 27.

    EdTheRed

    Don’t sleep on Tuesday. Maybe not the quantity of other day-themed songs, but some top quality offerings for a random mid-week day:

    Tuesday’s gone with the wind
    My baby’s gone with the wind

    Also,

    Tuesday afternoon
    I’m just beginning to see
    Now I’m on my way
    It doesn’t matter to me
    Chasing the clouds away

    And the aforementioned Ruby Tuesday.

  28. 28.

    pacem appellant

    @Miss Bianca: Back in the days before the internet, I would get very excited when I heard The Boomtown Rats “I don’t like Mondays” come on the radio. But back then, I didn’t know the band name, just the chorus, and I wasn’t able to find the album because I didn’t know the band (and neither did my circle of friends). Later in college, my friend had a mix tape, and lo! the Boomtown Rats anthem was on it. I learned the band name and was able to get the album. In two more years, Google would become a thing and make my passive sleuthing skill obsolete, but I still like the song, the mix tape owner became my best friend (for lots of other reasons as well), and I will never tire of “The Telex Machine was Kept So Clean” for all the right reasons.

  29. 29.

    mai naem mobile

    Elton John’s Saturday Night’s All Right and Moody Blues’ Tuesday Afternoon.

  38. 38.

    Mike J

    Manic Monday, Rainy Days and Mondays, Monday Morning in Lagos (Fela), Monday morning, Monday Morning will never be the same, Monday (The Jam), Every Monday (Marvelous 3), Blue Monday (New Order), I don’t Like Mondays
    Actually several songs in my itunes just named Monday by a half dozen different bands. MOstly different songs

    Tuesday Night (Kristen Hersh) Tuesday Afternoon (Moody Blues), Ironing Tuesdays (The Posies), Groovy Tuesday (Smithereens) Tuesday Heartbreak (Stevie Wonder)

    Wednesday Week (Elvis), Wednesday Morning 3am, Wednesday Week (The UNdertones)

    Thursday – Morphine

    Friday Night is killing Me (Bash & Pop) Friday on my Mind, Good Friday (Cowboy Junkies) Friday Night, August 14th (Funkadelic), Friday (Joe Jackson), Friday Night (Lilly Allen)Love You til Friday (The ‘Mats) Friday Night, Saturday Morning (The Specials)

    Saturday (Judybats), Saturday Option (lambchop) Saturday Come Slow(Massive Attack)Saturday Night is Dead (Graham Parker) On a Saturday Night (Eddie Floyd) Love you Tonight Saturday’s Gone(Prix) Almost Saturday Night, Drive in Saturday (Bowie) Saturday Sun (Crowded House)10:15 Saturday Night, Saturday Sun (Nick Drake)Saturday Night (E,W, & Fire), Saturday (Fall Out Boy)

  40. 40.

    germy

    Every day is a sad day:

    In an essay at Vox, the founder of the American Conservative said he is having second thoughts about his vote for Donald Trump, believing his “America First” campaign promises are being waylaid due to the influence of his newly installed advisers, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.

    According to Scott McConnell, he voted for Trump because of his non-interventionist rhetoric during the campaign, writing, “America was not imbued with a unique moral innocence in foreign policy.”

    “Many of our interventions have had terrible results. We don’t win wars any more; we have increasingly pressing problems at home—evident in such measures as shocking decline in the life spans of working class Americans,” McConnell continued. “I voted for Trump for anti-war reasons. But President Trump’s precipitous military strike on a Syrian airbase makes me and others doubt whether the prudent non-interventionist thoughts he expressed in the campaign mean what we hoped they did.”

  42. 42.

    Splitting Image

    Does “Monday Monday” by the Mamas and the Papas count as one or two?

    “Wednesday Morning 3 AM” is one one Simon and Garfunkel’s most underrated, I think.

  43. 43.

    ArchTeryx

    @Big Ole Hound: Some of us younger whippersnappers are big fans of the Mamas and the Papas, too, and know their work goes beyond California Dreamin’. ^.^

  48. 48.

    Humboldtblue

    @Louise B.:

    On discovering North Carolina native and soul superstar Roberta Flack:

    “For two or three years, Tony Taylor, who owned a club called Bohemian Caverns, in Washington, D.C., was telling me about this young lady who he thought was the greatest thing he’d ever heard. Once, I had a Monday night off, so I went to Washington a day or two early, and Roberta happened to be working at the club. When I heard her, I knew right away something had to be done, so I went back to California, picked up my recording equipment and recorded her. I sent the tape to Atlantic Records, and they said, ‘We don’t need another singer; we’ve got Aretha Franklin.’ So, I sent it to Columbia, and somebody there said, ‘Yeah, we’re interested.’ When they heard that, Atlantic came back and said, ‘Wait a minute. We have a second thought here.’ And that’s how she got to be known.”

    He tells the story on his album (I think it’s) Les is More with Cannonball Adderley

  49. 49.

    Ohio Mom

    @rikyrah: Maribel Trujillo is from a Cincinnati suburb, her sad story is being featured prominently on the local news. I feel for her of course but roll my eyes at all of those who are protesting madly because I’m betting most of them voted for Trump.

  52. 52.

    Miss Bianca

    @Mike J:

    Saturday (Judybats), Saturday Option (lambchop) Saturday Come Slow(Massive Attack)Saturday Night is Dead (Graham Parker) On a Saturday Night (Eddie Floyd) Love you Tonight Saturday’s Gone(Prix) Almost Saturday Night, Drive in Saturday (Bowie) Saturday Sun (Crowded House)10:15 Saturday Night, Saturday Sun (Nick Drake)Saturday Night (E,W, & Fire), Saturday (Fall Out Boy)

    Pretty comprehensive list…but strangely, you seem to have forgotten this gem by the Bay City Rollers: S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!

    Or DID you forget? >: >

  53. 53.

    Mike J

    Forgot:
    Sunday’s Pretty Icons (Belle & Sebastian), Sunday Girl(Blondie)Sunday Sunday(Blur)Sunday Night (Buffalo Tom)Sunday’s Best(Elvis), Sunday (Cranberries), Blue Sunday(the Doors), Sunday(Nick Drake),Hello Sunday!Hello Road!(Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson), Young Girl Sunday Blues(Jefferson Airplane) Sunday Papers(Joe Jackson)Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon) Sunday (Lemonheads) Tell it to the Judge on Sunday(Long Ryders) High on Sunday 51 (Aimee Mann) Pleasant valley Sunday (Monkees) Sundayafternoonweightlessness(Morphine) Bracing for Sunday (Neko Case)Sunday Afternoon (Paul Simon) Lazy Sunday (Small Faces) Sunday (Sonic Youth) Sunday Street(Squeeze) One Sunday Morning(Wilco)

  56. 56.

    Miss Bianca

    @germy: The loss of innocence is so hard, isn’t it? Somewhere, the world’s saddest song is playing on the world’s tiniest record player…

  67. 67.

    J R in WV

    @rikyrah:

    I was sayin’ to the wife just the other day…why don’t they just use fentanyl, with a couple of strong shots of brown liquor?

    Can cause respiratory distress and death when taken in high doses or when combined with other substances, especially alcohol.

    Most OD deaths for smack addicts seem to come when their new bag of dope is cut with fentanyl to make it better, as in strong! 50- 100 times more potent than morphine. Of course, that might make the execution chamber too much fun for those violent offenders being killed.

    I’m pretty anti-death-penalty if you can’t tell.

  69. 69.

    Groucho48

    Let’s not forget the Fugs nothing Song

    Monday, nothing
    Tuesday, nothing
    Wednesday and Thursday nothing
    Friday, for a change
    A little more nothing
    Saturday once more nothing

    Sunday nothing
    Monday nothing
    Tuesday and Wednesday nothing
    Thursday, for a change
    A little more nothing
    Friday once more nothing

    Montik, gornisht
    Dinstik, gornisht
    Midvokh un Donershtik gornisht
    Fraytik, far a noveneh
    Gornisht pikveleh
    Shabes nach a mool gornisht

    Lunes, nada
    Martes, nada
    Miercoles y Jueves, nada
    Viernes, por cambip
    Un poco mas nada
    Sabado otra vez nada

  71. 71.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @J R in WV: The history of capital punishment is one of constantly trying to make it more “merciful”, as if putting someone to death is a good thing in the first place.

  73. 73.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “Lady Madonna” mentions every day but Saturday. Paul says that even Lady Madonna needed a night off from all those downer days.

  78. 78.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “But it was Saturday night I guess that makes it alright” – Prince, “Little Red Corvette”

  81. 81.

    Oatler.

    Group 1850 did “Friday I’m Free” on their 1969 Paradise Now album, great for tripping…

  85. 85.

    Peale

    @Humboldtblue: Wait. So instead of borrowing some equipement locally, he went all the way back to California, picked up a tape recorder, then flew back to Washington? I guess in the days before FedEx and UPS it took a long time to send a package.

  87. 87.

    RandomMonster

    Nick Cave’s relentlessly cheerful “Sunday’s Slave” has all the days of the week in it.

  88. 88.

    EllenR

    @Groucho48: My parents bought me that album for Xmas 196, I think it was. Their faces when I played it are memories I will never forget. But my dad really loved Swinburne Stomp.

  91. 91.

    Immanentize

    @Villago Delenda Est: somewhat true. Foucault talks about us removing the spectacle of execution because a crowd that loves an execution might like to see a King in front of the crowd….

  92. 92.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @Immanentize: In case you didn’t see my late comment from an earlier post, my thoughts are with you and your wife for well tolerated and completely successful chemo. If there’s anything I can do remotely to help you stay on top of work, Adam has my email. I have a surfeit of time available, and will happily help however I can.

  94. 94.

    The Moar You Know

    Rachel Maddow reports on a plan in Arkansas to perform four pairs of back-to-back executions in the span of 10 days with a drug they’ve never used before that is set to expire at the end of the month.

    @rikyrah: They’ve used it before. Problem is that it does not work as advertised. I’m living proof; Versed (the trade name) is supposed to relax you and put you into a semi-conscious/amnesiac state where you don’t feel anything. “Twilight sleep”. It does relax me. But I’m still fully aware, somewhat able to communicate, feel and remember everything. Had it three times in three different settings, administered by three different anesthesiologists, so it’s not somebody screwing up the administration, it’s me.

    My mother has the same issue with it. And she’s not the only one out there.

    They’re putting people to death with a drug that does not do what the manufacturer says it does.

    I was sayin’ to the wife just the other day…why don’t they just use fentanyl, with a couple of strong shots of brown liquor?

    @J R in WV: Can’t have them enjoying themselves as they die, now can we?

    Truth be told, since I’ve gotta die, that’s about the best possible way to go out that I can think of. Good hot shot and a couple belters of tequila. And it’s not unproven, medical science knows goddamn well this method works and works 100% of the time.

  95. 95.

    Immanentize

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: thank you so much. That is such a wonderful offer. I have four briefs due in the next two weeks with my clinic students but I have some great colleagues who have stepped up and allowed me to completely step back.

    But maybe we could think up something fun and trouble making to do this May or June??

  97. 97.

    Gin & Tonic

    @J R in WV: I’ve had both morphine and fentanyl, different occasions, but ER settings in both cases. The fentanyl really didn’t do much, frankly. But I recall feeling pretty wonderful after the morphine.

  100. 100.

    MJS

    @Lizzy L: “Practicing” Catholics do go to church on Holy Thursday, and for the Saturday Easter Vigil as well. “Experienced Catholics” avoid those marathon sessions like the plague.

  101. 101.

    rikyrah

    The presidential learning curve remains steep for Donald Trump
    04/14/17 09:30 AM—UPDATED 04/14/17 12:08 PM
    By Steve Benen
    One of Donald Trump’s most important early flip-flops came just 11 days into his presidency. As a candidate, Trump broke with Republican Party orthodoxy and endorsed lowering prices on prescription drugs by using Medicare’s negotiating power. That, however, did not last.

    On Jan. 31, after a meeting with executives and lobbyists from the pharmaceutical industry, Trump denounced the idea he used to support, calling it a form of “price fixing” that would hurt “smaller, younger companies.” Trump had one set of beliefs, he heard conflicting information, so he adopted a different set of beliefs.

    The Wall Street Journal noted a similar shift this week on the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

    During the campaign, Mr. Trump was skeptical of Ex-Im Bank, which funds U.S. trade deals, calling it “unnecessary.” The bank has been a target of Republican criticism, which Mr. Trump seized on.

    But that view changed earlier this year after he talked to Boeing Co. CEO Dennis Muilenburg, who explained to him what role the bank plays, according to people familiar with the matter.

  102. 102.

    rikyrah

    Trump-era damage to the EPA appears increasingly brutal
    04/14/17 12:52 PM—UPDATED 04/14/17 12:53 PM
    By Steve Benen

    It’s been a difficult year thus far for the Environmental Protection Agency. Consider the developments from just the last couple of weeks.

    EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s controversial far-right choice to lead the agency, decided two weeks ago to side with Dow Chemical – against the advice of the EPA’s researchers – on the use of an insecticide. The next day, the EPA’s scientific integrity office said it was reviewing whether Pruitt violated agency policies when he publicly questioned the role of carbon pollution in climate change.

    Five days later, EPA officials proposed eliminating “two programs focused on limiting children’s exposure to lead-based paint.” The day after that, Trump’s EPA issued a press statement praising the Energy Star efficiency program that the Trump administration intends to scrap.

    And yesterday, Scott Pruitt traveled to western Pennsylvania to describe his regressive vision for the EPA at a coal mine. The New Republic’s Emily Atkin explained that the EPA chief specifically chose the Harvey Mine, which opened in 2014 as part of the Bailey Mine Complex, owned by the 153-year-old energy company Consol Energy.

    Pruitt might point to the Harvey mine as evidence of coal mining’s bright future. But a closer look at the Bailey complex shows it’s hardly a shining example of profitable, environmentally friendly coal mining. Last year, the EPA and the Department of Justice fined Consol $3 million for discharging contaminated wastewater from the Bailey complex into tributaries of the Ohio River, which provides drinking water for approximately 3 million people. In addition, all three mines in the complex have racked up millions of dollars in Mine Safety and Health Administration violations. […]

    Granted, it would be a challenge to find an American mining operation that hasn’t broken environmental laws or struggled financially over its lifetime. But Harvey Mine is a bad symbolic choice for yet another reason: It’s owned by a company that wants to get out of the coal mining business altogether.

    …………………………..

    This comes on the heels of a Washington Post piece on the state of the Environmental Protection Agency itself.

    Twice during an hour of interviews for this column, EPA workers in different parts of the country asked to communicate with me by using encryption software. All who spoke feared retaliation and would not allow their names to be used.

    “It is pretty bleak,” one staffer, an environmental engineer, said about employee morale.

    “It’s in the dumps,” said another.

    “Pretty much everybody is updating their resumes. It’s grim,” added a third.

    They and their colleagues are dedicated to EPA’s mission to “protect human health and the environment.” They fear that Trump administration policies will do the opposite.

  106. 106.

    Shane in SLC

    Velvet Underground, “Sunday Morning”
    Thelonious Monk, “Friday the 13th”
    Run the Jewels, “Thursday in the Danger Room”
    Also, I second @35.

  111. 111.

    Lizzy L

    @MJS: I don’t (avoid them). I went to church last night, and the Easter Vigil is my favorite liturgy. YMMV. I will skip the Good Friday afternoon service, though.

  112. 112.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @Immanentize: Oh, yes, let’s do! And my offer stands as long as you might need any remote assistance.

  117. 117.

    ruemara

    @ET: I have no shame for loving that song. And I liked the videos off Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

  124. 124.

    Aleta

    Was this mentioned, Shirelles:

    Well I met him on a Sunday
    And I missed him on Monday
    Well I found him on a Tuesday
    And I dated him on a Wednesday
    Well I kissed him on a Thursday
    And he didn’t come Friday
    When he showed up Saturday
    I said “bye bye baby”

  129. 129.

    Fred

    “Lookin’ for the heart of Saturday night”
    by Tom Waits

    With your arm around your sweet one
    In your Oldsmobile
    Barrelin’ down the boulevard
    Lookin’ for the heart of Saturday night

  133. 133.

    Matt McIrvin

    …And there was also the one in which the Beatles collectively mentioned all 8 days of the week.

  135. 135.

    JustRuss

    I live in a college town. Thursday is Thirsty Thursday for those who just can’t wait to kick off their weekend.

  136. 136.

    frosty

    So it looks like nobody called out “Saturday Afternoon / Won’t You Try” from After Bathing At Baxter’s, which may be my favorite Jefferson Airplane album.

  137. 137.

    drdavechemist

    And of course I’m very late, but Seven Days by Sting is another song that goes through the whole week…

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