Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

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

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Republicans don’t trust women.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    Uh….Nope……

    Annnnnnd that is my cue to go to bed…LOL

    Good night BJ.

    Hey Ann, did you see the clip of HRC on the Graham Norton Show? FYI: The entire HRC interview on Graham Norton should be on BBC American tomorrow night…

    Again, good night BJ

    ETA: Corrected, the entire ep is online here: https://youtu.be/OukHWprOPoU

    Catch it before…it’s taken down I thin

  4. 4.

    BruceFromOhio

    Had the pleasure of attending a brief fundraiser event at a beautiful hall in an old bank building. Kind of fitting as Sens Brown and Warren gave a brief, informal speech to a very energized crowd. Bright rays of hope and perseverance in these troubled times.

  9. 9.

    lamh36

    @rikyrah: it war a pre-taped recording for a bit of the show, but it’s a bit longer I understand but not being released except as extra footage i guess

    Showed up for the clip to see HRC stayed to see Jeff Goldblum! I LOVE JEFF GOLDBLUM!

  11. 11.

    amygdala

    @Mnemosyne: Hey, did you see Daveed’s Baccalaureate speech when he got his honorary degree from Brown over the summer? Hit me up for the link if you didn’t. That might cheer you up.

  15. 15.

    No Drought No More

    I had to google the name, because I was maybe 9 years old when I outgrew watching the only snagglepuss I ever heard of, and whose character I couldn’t quite recall. As soon as I saw the cartoon, I remembered the character- and immediately burst into laughter at the poster and concept behind it. It is absolutely fucking brilliant! I got tears running down my face. Bravo, bravo!!

  19. 19.

    amygdala

    @Mnemosyne: Doctor of Fine Arts (“I asked for engineering… they said no.”): enjoy. His talk starts at ~7:30, but there are some fun nuggets in the intro. It’s marvelous, even if his raps at 20:30 or so about existing while Black made me cry.

  20. 20.

    Major Major Major Major

    Well, it looks like my fiction-writing tools website will be up this weekend for early testing. Got it deployed and everything, just doing some basic “hey mom, how can I make this make sense?” UI testing and then I need to add the delete buttons for created objects.

    Woohoo! Work has actual work coming up Wednesday or Thursday, so this turned out to be a perfect-size hobby/portfolio project to do in ~three weeks, and I learned a new programming language to boot (the best way I know how, by doing a project from the standard library). Lemme know if anybody’s interested in testing.

  24. 24.

    Major Major Major Major

    @NotMax: Wanna help?? Collaborating is fun!

    1) An undo option for the delete function

    Maybe a one-week-duration autoemptying boneyard sort of thing?

    2) A truly global replace function

    I can think of more ways that this would make people mad at the result than ways it would make people happy.

  25. 25.

    Anonymous At Work

    I’m just amazed that DC Comics had the stones to tackle this…a few hundred issues after Marvel did…

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    @trollhattan: Quentin Crisp m’lad! First thing I thought of when I heard the premise.

    Granted he denied his homosexuality until the day he died but it was way obvious in Manhattan social circles.

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    @Major Major Major Major

    Thinking more along the lines of an ‘intelliigent’ find and replace/global replace such as has been found in Metapad since its introduction last century (a tool of which have been a fan and booster for just as long – leaves Win Notepad in the dust and always has).

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    @Yutsano

    Franklin Pangborn.

    ;)

    Kind of wonder what Bert Lahr’s descendants think of this, as Snagglepuss’ verbal idiosyncracies were inarguably modeled on Lahr’s delivery.

  33. 33.

    Fair Economist

    I hadn’t seen Snagglepuss for 40 years so I looked at a bit available online. That fits shockingly well with the original concept. I’m also now unironically excited, even.

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    @rikyrah:
    I really enjoyed her as well.
    I’ve never understood why some say she’s not a good speaker. Every time I’ve heard her she sounds just fine. She doesn’t sound like Tom Jones but then who does?

  41. 41.

    Amir Khalid

    @Ruckus:
    The only people who say that are the Hillary-can-do-no-right crowd. She’s not quite in Barack or Michelle Obama’s league as an orator, but she has plenty to say and she says it perfectly well.

  43. 43.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:
    Well, I think she does just fine as an speaker. I don’t judge political people on their oratory, but on what they say. It’s not that I don’t like the oratory just that it’s not the most important part. I liked Bobby Kennedy better than JFK. JFK was a better orator but Bobby had more nuance and more developed political concepts. JFK was destined to be President, Bobby earned it, even though he never got there. I didn’t vote for President Obama because of his oratory but because he ran a better campaign. Hillary grew and learned and was very much ready to be president this time. I think she earned it. She wouldn’t have been Bobby, but then he wouldn’t have been Hillary either.

  46. 46.

    ThresherK

    @NotMax: I…can’t believe I hadn’t noticed this before. And I watched enough cartoons as a kid to learn which ones were good and which were not.

    I now have to tell Spousal Ms ThresherK, Oz geek nonpariel, about this. She was never a comics reader, and isn’t much into the internet, but I have been giving her glimpses of the newer stuff (by which I mean ~20 years) by folks who are enjoying creative flexibility by skipping the whole “trying to get onto a Gannett-owned dead trees page next to Family Circus and Hi & Lois” bit.

    @Ruckus: Oratory is one more thing Hillary will never do well in just the correct, Village-approved manner, no matter what voters think. “Why doesn’t she just relax and be the version of herself we imagine she could be John McCain?”

    (*Was that the year?)

  52. 52.

    Jacel

    @ThresherK: I hope you have found and shared the Oz graphic novels written and drawn by Eric Shanower in the 1980s-90s. He also scripted some Oz adaptations published more recently by Marvel, but his own art and storytelling is phenomenal. “The Forgotten Forest of Oz” is still in print.

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