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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.
Our messy unity will be our strength.
When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.
If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.
Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.
If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.
The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.
If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.
Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.
Shut up, hissy kitty!
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.
Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Jeffro
How did they NOT catch Big Bird on the highway with that net?
rikyrah
Glad to see you Cole.?
stinger
When I refreshed my screen and saw this new post, it was showing the Barry Manilow vid, which I must say surprised me a little, that you Loved Everything About It. When I clicked on it, to remind myself just how great and lovable the Barry is, it changed to the Beastie/Sesame mashup. Whew!
rikyrah
Ari Melber is reporting that Turtle is still trying to shill Trumpcare.
Noel
I’ve always said if the original video was an actual 70s crime show I’d watch religiously. Even more so with this.
Major Major Major Major
Mushrooms are forever!
Gravenstone
Never a huge fan of the Beasties, but this works for me. Nice palate cleanser too.
lamh36
Ooh… Excellent link tag…so I’ll take this opportunity to pimp the latest post on my personal blog. I actually think it’s one of my best post.
What started as a sarcasm filled twitter rant/blog comment, became the latest blog post on my personal blog (I don’t post there nearly enough).
More here: “A Black Bond Would Stand Out Too Much”…Oh…Really!!
So check it out if you feel so inclined…
Yarrow
@lamh36: Idris would be a great Bond. Have they picked the next Bond? Is Daniel Craig done with the franchise?
He lives in the Bahamas where he probably also stands out.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Has Elba indicated any interest in the part? Clive Owen got mentioned and said he had no interest. If a black Bond is in the works (something I think would be just fine), I think Adrian Lester is the go to actor. Sorry.
Laura
If only there were track suits . .
Laura
If only there were nylon track suits . . .
Please enjoy this lovely invitation:
https://youtu.be/OFzXaFbxDcM
Major Major Major Major
@lamh36: Cool, thanks for sharing. I left a comment (I’m Just This Guy, You Know?).
eclare
@lamh36: Middle age white woman who would love Idris as Bond, but he will always be String to me.
Steve in the ATL
Saw the Beasties open for Run-DMC on their Licensed to Ill tour. Any street cred that might have gotten me is lost when I disclose that the concert was in Paris.
But it was a great show!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: You lost no street cred with me. I know that doesn’t help.
Major Major Major Major
@Steve in the ATL:
Why? They were the ones holding a damn concert there.
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: Mitch McConnell is the example from a Voight-Kampff test that proves we’re all replicants.
Villago Delenda Est
@Steve in the ATL: Yeah, I saw Simon & Garfunkle in Frankfurt, not Central Park, but they were still great.
efgoldman
Forgive me if this was posted on Balloon Juice earlier. I haven’t been able to go thru the threads. Anyway, it’s worth repeating, pointing and laughing.
Somebody should have told president Bannonazi that the people who worked in the various now-empty offices, desks and chairs in the WH and various departments actually had fucking jobs to do!
[In my mind’s eye. I’m seeing the oval office, and president Orange Julius sitting in one of those really ugly chairs next to an end table with a phone on it, furiously dialing – yes, dialing – down a list of hotels.
Collect, of course.
So much competence. So much winning; he was right – I am tired of it.]
Fuckem
Villago Delenda Est
@lamh36: Live and Let Die was, indeed, pretty much a direct sendup of the blaxploitation movies of the late 60’s/early 70’s such as Shaft and Superfly.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I cannot talk about that right now. I literally cannot.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
You can still point, and laugh until your sides hurt and you’re afraid you’ll pee your pants.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: Nor to really get into this argument again, because at this point i don’t really care if Idris is Bond or not. Adrian Lester was mentioned by one of the writer as a choice over Elba after saying he though Elba was “too street”.
The point of the post (if u haven’t read it) that the argument that Bond couldn’t be Black cause he would “stand out”, which is the go to argument some folks like to use instead of just saying they think Bond should stay white, as written, which IMHO is a better, less controversial argument.
BTB, my personal options in Lester is that folks want a bland Bond in the vein of the pre-Craig Bond. Ya know the more suave over brawn type Bond that Craig was…so sure Lester would fit that bill. He’s a bland enough Black guy to not offend some white sensibilities.
Idris Elba on the other had has the combination of brawn, suaveness and commanding presence that is the essence of the James Bon super sexy spy mystique.
i can almost guarantee u Elba would bring in the ladies (of ALL ethnicities) and the guys to the Bond fold.
But again, i don’t really care if Idris is in a list or not just tired of the “he can’t be Black cause he’d stand out” argument
Excuse the typos i’m using my phone and not my laptop
Yarrow
@efgoldman: How are you feeling? Hope you are recovering nicely.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: This failure is at the feet of the Deputy Assistant to the President/Director of Advance. Can’t remember the guy’s name, but he screwed up royally.
Mike E
@Steve in the ATL: saw the Beasties at Lollapalooza 6(?) and a tiny riot broke out, but it was in Charlotte so…
lamh36
@Major Major Major Major: thx i just replied. It would be so cool if the Doctor was a woman or P.O.C. once…i mean what would one season hurt. heck they should try it and if it fails call it all a dream like they did on Dallas when they killed off Bobby Ewing
JCJ
Just glanced at GOS and found a link to a story about today being the 71st anniversary for President and Mrs Carter. There is a link to a facebook page Honoring Jimmy Carter.
Best wishes to The Carters!
rikyrah
@JCJ:
Happy Anniversary to them??
Laura
Best wishes to The Carters!
Those folks walk their talk.
Jimmy Carter irradicated the guinea worm and brain cancer.
Bless his every day.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: I was iffy about Craig and I liked what he did. Lester is an easy Bond. Idris isn’t. He might work as well as Craig did. Me, I read the books and, after trying to shed iffy shit that Fleming dropped, I still think that Lester is the better Bond.
Yarrow
@JCJ: Wow! I hope they have had a wonderful anniversary. They are such great people.
mainmata
Meh…I thought they did the play on the action movies mediocre (and I am a lifelong fan of Sesame St). Suspect it depends on better writing and direction since the “production values” were fine.
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman:
At that level of competence, I assumed the job was left unfilled and maybe Tangerine Torquemada either tried to do it himself or told Kushkie or one of the boys to do it.
You’re probably correct on the facts, but my way is funnier.
efgoldman
@JCJ:
And many people we know think our forty years next month is an extraordinarily long time.
My parents made it to 60. One of my mom’s aunts and uncles made 75.
gene108
@lamh36:
Elba’s in his mid-forties, which is a bit older than other people, who started off playing Bond.
Figure a run as a modern James Bond would last 7-8 years, he’d be in his early fifties at the end of it.
I am not sure how well he’d be able to hold up.
I’d prefer going with a younger actor.
Major Major Major Major
@lamh36: Heh. Thanks. Yeah, I can’t imagine that their audience would actually abandon them if they did, but who knows.
efgoldman
@gene108:
Isn’t that what stunt persons, stand-ins and CGI are for?
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
My dream Doctor is still Chiwitel Ejiofor. Someday …
Mnemosyne
@gene108:
I thought that Ron Perlman was going to be way too old to play Hellboy, but damn if he didn’t pull it off. You never know how an actor is going to come across in a particular role.
Mnemosyne
Also, too, I got home from a stressful and busy week at work, only to discover that not only had G drunk all of our rum AND all of our gin, he hadn’t bothered to replace it. So I had to go drinkless. Damn it.
(He drank it slowly over time and didn’t bother to buy more when he used the last of it, so it’s not like I came home to find him passed out surrounded by empties. That would be a very different type of comment.)
gene108
@Mnemosyne:
Perlman had a lot more make-up / costume going on as Hellboy, to hide his age, than anyone will have as Bond.
Roger Moore started as Bond in his early forties and stayed till his mid-fifties. He looked too old for the part after awhile.
Mnemosyne
I hate when there’s just ONE more freakin’ song that needs to download from the album you just bought at Amazon, but the stupid thing keeps getting hung up for no reason. Argh.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@gene108: Roger Moore was 45 when they started filming ‘Live and Let Die’, he played Bond for 12 years.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Obviously, G should make a visit to a local licker store and replenish your supply.
SFBayAreaGal
@lamh36: Idris as Bond, heart be still. This white woman would love to see him as James Bond. Especially wearing a tuxedo. Oh my. I am looking forward to seeing him in the Dark Tower