Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

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

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

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

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Late Night Open Thread: Musical Interlude

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(My favorite Christmas carol, and one written by a Jewish composer. The grocery where Guilherme Assunção currently works is not quite close enough that we shop there, but given the number of small venues around here, I’m hoping to see him on a larger stage someday.)

I’m guessing there are still West Coast jackals wrapping last-minute gifts / finishing the meal prep / waiting for the travel-delayed relatives to show up. Not to mention those in more distant climes, now cleaning up after the big celebration (possibly nursing sunburns to go with the incipient hangovers.

Merry Whatever-Year-End-Celebration, y’all!

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    Mnemosyne

    I’m not sure I’ve seen this version before, but TCM is showing the 1936 version of A Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen. I’m a little surprised that the dialogue is pretty much verbatim from the book, to a noticeable degree.

    (We can’t get the Apple TV to spit out Shop Around the Corner, so we have TCM on instead.)

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    Mike J

    Just finished watching 2015’s A Very Murray Christmas. You always think Bill is nothing but smarm, but in the end he sells you his sincerity.

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    Mnemosyne

    @Mike J:

    We really liked that when it came out. Chris Rock makes me laugh really hard every time, and the cameos are terrific.

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    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Originally was planned with Lionel Barrymore in the lead but he had to bow out for health reasons. Reginald Owen manages to crank out a Scrooge-like character but never seems to fully embrace the role’s essence, a hunched back standing in for a hunched heart; store brand cola compared to Coke or Pepsi.

    And his bald wig is not affixed invisibly – a lot.

    Not a bad version, simply a mediocre one.

    Trivia: A real family affair, with Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit, his wife Kathleen as Mrs. Cratchit, and daughter June as one of the Cratchit brood.

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    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    As you like period costume drama, will mention a personal fave among Xmas movies – John Huston’s final stint as director, The Dead.

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    John Revolta

    I was glad to hear you found your ornaments Anne. I know how it is, every one has a memory attached.

    Merry it up, ye jackals all!

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    We did our Christmas festivities last night, things turned out well. Everyone seems happy with their gifts and dinner turned out nice(thanks to Adam’s recipe tips). Cleanup will span well in to the morning I fear.

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    opiejeanne

    Supper was glorious and we all went out to play in the snow. We got only a few inches of the white stuff but there are several small snowmen sitting on the deck table, we had a snowball fight, we discovered a Tesla stuck back end in the ditch across the street, there are snow angels in the front lawn as well as the word “spotted” and the outline of a huge dick, the result of a pirate gift exchange that featured a can of spotted dick. It’s an English dessert thing and we are all a little wary of it, but will open it in a couple of days and some of us will bravely try some.
    Two of the. gentlemen smoked cigars and polluted the outside world but we all survived. My two daughters and their spouses are staying over and making breakfast, my niece and her husband and my sister headed south to Puyallup Tomorrow our older daughter has tickets for Jumanji in 3-D, not a film I would pay to see in a theater I think but much better than past Christmas Day choices. I doubt that it will be as bloody or disturbing as Django Unchained, which I loved, but damn!

    We have been tasked by the youngest with providing a white Christmas next year,, here at this house, just outside Seattle where snow is never a sure thing. .

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    Bemused Senior

    https://youtu.be/oMmhKsU_udw My daughter the singer- songwriter writes a Christmas song. Every year I get Christmas harmony for my present from my two daughters. Not religious but love carols. Maybe ten years of driving the carpool to the San Francisco Girls Chorus was worth it.

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    NotMax

    Lawdy. People in the neighborhood already testing the New Year’s fireworks. Several door-rattling booms interspersed with lesser ones.

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    FlyingToaster

    Not-at-all-guilty secret: I live walking distance from Russo’s. That kid has sliced pastrami for me. HerrDoktor was there the first time he sang (the one that freaked people out and ended up on ABC). If you’re in the near-Metro-West area (Watertown, Belmont, Newton, Waltham), this is the place to get your deli stuff. Also their prepared foods counter, and cakes from the bakery counter.

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