Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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

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

I really should read my own blog.

I was promised a recession.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Bark louder, little dog.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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Just a few house keeping notes on retirements and people who will change the amount of time that they spend with their lawyers.

First Trey Gowdy (R-SC-04) is retiring.

There is a freshly opened judgeship on the 4th Circuit. Given how he phrased his retirement letter, I would not be surprised if he is nominated to the bench.

Secondly, Bob Brady (D-Philly/PA-01) is retiring as well.

He has been under investigation by the FBI for allegedly paying off a 2012 primary competitor.

From a Fall 2018 perspective, PA-01 is a D+31 district. Any map that the GOP state legislature and the Dem governor (Wolf) could agree upon would probably protect incumbents. Removing an incumbent from a Democratic vote sink seat allows for some more precincts to shift to other seats so that a D+31 seat could still be safely Democratic at D+20 instead of an incumbent protected seat at D+25.

Finally, in some surprising news:

Removes the prime opportunity for Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot this year.

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  2. 2.

    Raoul

    Gowdy is a complete moron. So he’s a perfect Trump appointee for the bench. Not perfect for people who care about the law. But perfectly awful, which is Donnie Dumfuk’s m.o.

  4. 4.

    Bobby Thomson

    Why on earth would Rosenstein think Trump would cooperate Inc getting Nunes to back off with subpoenas unless he was in fact on Trump’s team? Trump is the poster child for dirty. He doesn’t even try to hide it. In that context Trump’s question not only isn’t surprising, but expected. It makes me wonder if Rosenstein was wearing a wire.

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    @Raoul:
    Jeez yeah, Gowdy bespoiling a federal bench the next two or three decades is a judicial monstrosity in the making.

    The National Academies Press has annotated the SOTU with publications related to various talking points. Surprisingly devastating in places, such as after Trump creams over our “brave veterans” where they link studies about agent orange, Gulf War blast exposure and PTSD.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    @debbie: I’m pleased about the Menendez case but sad that the Supreme Court basically said bribing is okay in reference to for VA Governor McDonnell.

  8. 8.

    TenguPhule

    White House seeks 72 percent cut to clean energy research, underscoring administration’s preference for fossil fuels

    Spending for the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is set at a $2.04 billion level for the current fiscal year, which ends Oct. 1. Last year the administration asked for just $636.1 million, a decline of over two-thirds, though Congress did not implement the request. For 2019, the administration’s draft proposal would lower that request even further to $575.5 million.

    The document also suggests substantial staff cuts, down from 680 in the enacted 2017 budget to 450 in 2019.

    The budget would ax research in fuel efficient vehicles by 82 percent, bioenergy technologies by 82 percent, advanced manufacturing by 75 percent and solar energy technology by 78 percent.

    The proposal would cut funds for electric car technologies and fuel efficient vehicles — at $307 million currently the biggest of the program areas — to $ 56 million in 2019.

    I see no way this ends well. At all.

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    @debbie: I still would like to see Menendez replaced if for no other reason than he’s crooked as all get out. Then again how clean we’ll get out of Joisey is part of the issue as well.

    @TenguPhule: Since Yertle has already all but admitted he has zero interest in actually doing any budgeting before midterms this is DOA.

  14. 14.

    dr. bloor

    Removes the prime opportunity for Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot this year.

    Hah. When it comes to shooting feet, the Democrats are truly the party of opportunity.

  15. 15.

    trollhattan

    @dmsilev:
    These four sentences may the most chilling passage of the entire speech.

    All Americans deserve accountability and respect — and that is what we are giving them. So tonight, I call on the Congress to empower every Cabinet Secretary with the authority to reward good workers — and to remove Federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.

    In our drive to make Washington accountable, we have eliminated more regulations in our first year than any administration in history.

    We have ended the war on American Energy — and we have ended the war on clean coal. We are now an exporter of energy to the world.

  16. 16.

    Raoul

    @TenguPhule:

    I see no way this ends well. At all.

    Well, it will end well for others. Oil prices will be rising. Already are somewhat. As the global economy finally reaches a reasonable output level after the ’08 collapse, oil prices will be forced up, fracking or no.
    And while we in the US may be led by tailpipe huffing shitgibbons (lookin’ at you, Rex + Donald), the rest of the world will look at the growing supply of cheap solar and other renewable energies and kick our asses making electric cars and other battery and or fuel-sipping products.
    Sucks to be us.

  17. 17.

    MikeifromArlington

    HERE Is a good article on the elections for the next couple cycles. If we don’t get Senate next year, 2020 and 2022 are great opportunities.

    Most important is we regain as many state legislators as possible. Redistrictng is killing us and 2020 is our chance to get even

  21. 21.

    gbbalto

    I see that Fema reversed their PR cutoff. The blind pig rooted up something good for a change (apologies to real pigs)

  22. 22.

    gene108

    @TenguPhule:

    It is good news for China and European manufacturers. One less competitor in the market.

    Not only will we import everything, we will rely on the rest of the world to do R&D for us.

    Republicans must be on Putin’s payroll, because they are actively trying to destroy this country.

  23. 23.

    randy khan

    I didn’t realize it until I saw the story today, but the handwriting was on the wall in the Menendez case. A week ago, the judge acquitted Menendez on 7 of the 18 counts, based on a conclusion that it was impossible to prove he’d committed a crime in each of those instances. The DoJ concluded that it didn’t have any chance with the other counts, either, in light of the ruling.

    When DoJ announced it was going to re-try him, I thought it was a dumb move, since Menendez would have been able to portray it as a witch hunt. Now he actually may get the benefit of the witch hunt argument without the potential jeopardy of a trial. The current DoJ is not very clever. Of course, he almost certainly was going to win either way.

  24. 24.

    gene108

    @gene108:

    Even George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who were happily in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry, sunk resources into biofuels and gave some lip service to fuel cell vehicles.

    Trump & Co. are part of a death cult, which 62 million Americans are cheering on.

  25. 25.

    danielx

    It’s almost like being the chairman of the House Oversight Committee means nothing in a GOP Congress that’s devoted to providing absolutely no oversight of this particular administration.

    And congressional oversight was SO effective during that prehistoric period known as the Cheney Regency.

  29. 29.

    Ohio Mom

    @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): There is a post at Lawyers Guns and Money discussing in depth this attack on the civil service.

    It was the most depressing thing I read all week — I usually succeed in keeping myself on an even keel by repeating to myself, “this can and will be reversed,” but everything has a tipping point.

    How would we get back from dismantling the civil service?

  31. 31.

    mai naem mobile

    Dolt45 and the whole fucking Republicon machine are like an entitled little fuck who’s inherited some class A well maintained money making apartment complexes and lets them all turn to shit from lack of maintenance, gross negligence and poor management. Ofcourse people like these are shocked when they have no income coming inn because nobody wants to rent a shithole.

  32. 32.

    Thoughtful David

    @TenguPhule: The way it ends is that the Chinese end up owning all clean energy patents, and charging us for them.

    ETA: Charging us to drive a car, to keep our houses warm, to keep our hospitals open, etc.

  33. 33.

    Josie

    @JPL: Look at it this way. Isn’t it nice that a supreme court ruling that was reached to help a Republican has actually helped a Democrat? Just imagine them grinding their teeth over that one. I know, I know – it’s petty, but we have to take our pleasure where we find it.

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @mai naem mobile: They are killing golden geese with glee. Clean energy, for example, is a chance for the US to dominate the energy sector of the future…and these fuckheads are throwing it away for short term gain.

  37. 37.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @TenguPhule: yes, it’s not as though one can search Google Patents to see how much of the R&D is already coming from overseas, let alone the French initiative to do more research on climate change that’s in C&EN, and the German reaction to the French initiative. If I was 20 years younger I would emigrate. As it is, I am relieved to be childless and I will tell my nieces and nephews to study German and French

  39. 39.

    TenguPhule

    @Ohio Mom:

    How would we get back from dismantling the civil service?

    Short answer, we don’t.

    Iraq had a fairly stable civil service. One De-baathification later…..

    Government by bribes, only bribes and fuck everything else.

  42. 42.

    TenguPhule

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    and these fuckheads are throwing it away for short term gain.

    Worse. Oil and gas are still near their lows, so essentially they’re selling for minimum profits in the market too.

  47. 47.

    Baud

    Women were always treated with respect before the 1960s.

    A leading candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri recently blamed the problem of human trafficking on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s during remarks he gave at a religious conference.

    Josh Hawley, the state’s attorney general and the Trump-endorsed candidate as the party tries to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, made the remarks in December at the event “Rediscovering God in America,” hosted by a Christian political group, the Missouri Renewal Project.

    “We’re living now with the terrible aftereffects of this so-called revolution,” said Hawley, according to audio of the event. “We have a human-trafficking crisis in our state and in this city and in our country because people are willing to purchase women, young women, and treat them like commodities. There is a market for it. Why is there? Because our culture has completely lost its way. The sexual revolution has led to exploitation of women on a scale that we would never have imagined.”

  48. 48.

    Baud

    This just showed up on my feed. I did not click. As much as I call the NYT garbage, I am disappointed that WaPo seems to be trying to emulate the NYT’s oeuvre.

    Hillary Clinton’s fatal flaw
    10 Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis / by By Christine Emba, Ruth Marcus and Alyssa Rosenberg / 1 hour ago

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I clicked for you. Her fatal flaw was her “tepid” response to the guy in her campaign that wasn’t fired after the woman’s claim of harassment.

    edit: You’re right, the Washington Post is playing down to the level of the NYT.

    From the promotional blurb I clicked on: Opinion writers Christine Emba, Ruth Marcus, and Alyssa Rosenberg discuss. Ugh.

  52. 52.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Oh my god, it reads like a bunch of snotty mean girls gossiping in high school. I have pasted the whole thing (sue me!) because I don’t want to give them anymore clicks in case someone wants to read this crap.

    Christine Emba: Oh, Hillary. What were you doing on Facebook?!

    Alyssa Rosenberg: My husband and Sonny Bunch, who writes a weekly column for Act Four, sent me that Facebook statement at the exact same time last night, and I practically screamed in frustration. Obviously, I’d just written a column about the events of the 2008 campaign, which Clinton was trying to contextualize, and so it’s always frustrating, as a writer, when a development breaks after you’ve published something.

    Christine Emba: Was it really a statement, or more of a rambling letter to herself? It came across my screen this morning, and my first instinct was to roll my eyes at the self-indulgence of it all.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Yes, there is SO MUCH going on there.

    Christine Emba: When I read it, the first thing I noticed was that so much of it was about her — excusing herself, talking about how hard the decision was for her, bringing us into her personal debates about forgiveness and second chances. There was that hoary first line: “The most important work of my life has been to support and empower women,” but very little was about the woman in question. In the entire statement, “I” appears 37 times, and “Sorry” not even once.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: But there’s ultimately so much about the woman in question, who is never named, and is not directly quoted, but is marshalled as proof that Clinton’s decision-making process should not be questioned because she turned out okay.

    Christine Emba: Yes! I noticed that too, and it rather infuriated me.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: And parts of it felt so inevitable, most notably the turn to blame the media.

    Christine Emba: The media has long been her scapegoat, and not without reason. But in this case, it was frustrating to see. because ultimately, this wasn’t about whether the media did something wrong — which they didn’t! — it was about what Hillary did (or, as it were, didn’t). And for all her discussion of her feelings and thought processes, she never fully owned up to it. Still!

    Ruth Marcus: I saw it in real time last night too, and I guess my reaction was: Better late. Not perfect, but way way better than the initial statement, which expressed Hillary’s “dismay.”

    [Hillary Clinton: #MeToo, meet #SoWhat]

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Do you still feel that way this morning, Ruth? Because for me, I think I just feel intensely exhausted by the entire dynamic, which is both incredibly predictable and yet impossible to avoid.

    Ruth Marcus: Well, that wasn’t totally the way I felt, for reasons of the unnecessary and fundamentally misleading attack on the messenger (i.e. NYT). For the record, Glenn Thrush is not equal to (wish I knew where that symbol is on my keyboard) Burns Strider. Whatever happened in the Thrush case, it wasn’t someone who was his direct report; it wasn’t at his current employer.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Right, and the women who are reporting on sexual harassment and assault at the New York Times are not Glenn Thrush’s boss!

    Alyssa Rosenberg: The fact that we’re even debating the nuances of the Times’s collective guilt or innocence is sort of the point to me. We can’t actually have a conversation about anything Hillary Clinton has said or done without litigating the past 26 years of national politics and media. And sometimes that’s for good reason! Sometimes those dynamics are actually in play! But a lot of the time, it ends up taking us very far away from the actual subject at hand.

    Ruth Marcus: More important, reading the statement, I felt like: Haven’t I watched this movie before? The delay in responding — why oh why can’t she ever get it right the first time. The “in retrospect, I would have handled it differently” — definitely having some PTSD flashbacks to e-mails there.

    Christine Emba: Completely true.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Right, Ruth! I’m burned out, and I don’t feel like I’m getting anywhere.

    Ruth Marcus: And I don’t know about you guys, but I am just exhausted by the outpouring of why do you hate Hillary (I DON’T HATE HILLARY — I WANTED HER TO BE PRESIDENT, FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE) and the why are you writing about this because Trump is so much worse reaction to what I wrote over the weekend.

    Christine Emba: But Ruth, why *do* you hate Hillary? (I’m joking!!!)

    Christine Emba: I think that you were both more invested in Hillary and her narrative than I was. I think that she’s an interesting figure — obviously smart, strong, important — but this is another example of how it was always going to be a problem for her to move past years of complex narrative and allow new and interesting things to happen. And despite the fact that she’s a woman, and the first woman president would have been amazing, she is extremely flawed and not always as “pro-woman” as we would like to imagine.

    Ruth Marcus: For the record: Trump is terrible. He has done some terrible things where women are involved. I try to call him out all the time although, confession, some stuff slips through the cracks — e.g., the porn star thing I haven’t gotten around to writing about. But I write about Hillary and my frustrations with her — going back to the campaign — not because I hate her but because — like Alyssa before the Big Breakup — I like her so much and I am so disappointed by her seeming inability to change some drawbacks in the way she approaches things.

    [Hillary Clinton and I are done]

    Alyssa Rosenberg: I hate that you even have to issue that disclaimer about Trump, Ruth!

    Christine Emba: Yes. We can all agree on Trump’s manifold flaws, to the point that they become less worth discussing. Because there’s nothing to argue! Truly nothing new there.

    Christine Emba: But with Hillary, there is a sense of some sort of promise being thwarted. Although I personally wonder if that promise was ever truly there.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Well, and that’s kind of the big question, isn’t it?

    Ruth Marcus: Everything now is seen through the lens of whether it’s good or bad for the Resistance. That’s not the way I think about things, and if I started to I would quit. I think it’s really important for writers, even opinion writers, to call out the people they agree with, maybe even especially.

    Christine Emba: Holding those people accountable could make them better. ::cough:: HILLARY ::cough::

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Right, and I think Clinton’s total resistance to even warranted criticism has made her much weaker as a public figure. It’s genuinely bizarre to me that so many of the people who have been writing to me in the past 24 hours cannot square the circle on the idea that criticism can be motivated by sincere investment and admiration.

    Ruth Marcus: As to the big question of the promise thwarted, let’s not forget (and maybe it wasn’t the best strategy for Hillary to be the one to instruct us not to forget) that she has been a life-long advocate for women and girls. That in her office, in the WH, Senate and State, even if she fell short on the Strider front, she did practice a lot of what she preached in terms of empowering women and accommodating their personal needs, for flexibility, etc.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Right, of course!

    Christine Emba: That’s true! Maybe I’m being too harsh on her myself. I think this is so frustrating because it’s such an obvious lapse, coming out at a particularly touchy time.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: And a story that’s been lingering for ten years! That’s part of what bugs me about this, PURELY as strategy #metoo is an obvious thing. Sexual harassment has been a subject that’s persistently dogged your public life, and that almost brought down your husband’s presidency. How do you not prepare for something like this to come out?

    Christine Emba: Honestly, it sounds like she thought she had it covered.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Right, and I think this is a pattern. Because the standards applied are often unfair, Clinton and her people have often acted as if they shouldn’t have to meet them, rather than accepting them as a political reality.

    Christine Emba: Or, because she’s a unique and politically privileged figure in her own right, she has acted as though the standards simply don’t apply to her. But they do, Hillary, they do!

    Alyssa Rosenberg: And I think this is a contradiction a lot of women in public life, including probably all three of us, have to live with. I both want to smash the patriarchy, but I also recognize that I *live* in the patriarchy. And so I have to conduct myself in such a way that my life is livable in the meantime. That doesn’t mean I accept the terms of the engagement, just that I know that life is long and I have to find ways to keep going and be effective, rather than refusing to cooperate in a way that denies me any efficacy at all. And while in a weird way I admire what seems to be Hillary Clinton’s inability to accept that bargain, it’s a choice that doesn’t really work if what you want to do is be in national politics.

    Christine Emba: Patriarchy aside, even: Some standards are unfair, but some standards — like how to deal with sexual harassment in an office you manage, and how to behave once it comes out that you’ve botched it — are wise and good.

    Alyssa Rosenberg: Right, and it’s not like anyone is guilty of presentism here! Clinton rejected the recommendation that she fire Strider ten years ago. She rejected the standard people were offering her *then*.

    Christine Emba: Not accepting unfair terms of engagement is fine. But not accepting that you’ve made a mistake is an entirely different beast.

    edit: These 3 give women a bad name.

  53. 53.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl:

    WaPo seems to have turned some very bad kind of corner in the last few days. They also have Dana Milbank whining about how embarrassing it was that Democrats wore black and didn’t jump up and cheer for Drumpf.

  54. 54.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Baud: I don’t want to read the article, but I suppose it’s okay if her fatal flaw is “She’s treated horribly by the media, republicans, and far-leftists, and the also unfortunately ran against a man and a party with no morals that was backed by illicit Russian interference. It was also her fault that Republicans were so morally and ethically spineless that they went along with all of it.”

    But then, that’s also blaming Hillary for her enemies’ weaknesses, which is par for the course.

  59. 59.

    MisterForkbeard

    @WaterGirl: Jesus H Christ, those women are fucking terrible. “Why can’t Hillary ever get it right the first time? Why is this letter so self-indulgent? Why is it always about Hillary? We’re going to pretend that some people in Hillary’s campaign didn’t recommend she fire the guy, too. And ignore literally everything she wrote in the letter explaining what happened, how the woman in question was protected and the man punished but given a chance to redeem himself, and how the woman in question thinks it all turned out okay.”

    Nope, it’s just all Hillary’s fault and waaaah.

  65. 65.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Baud: I didn’t click it on either, but I’m guessing their derangement syndrome was triggered by her great Grammys joke.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I laughed out loud! You almost have that right… the way it is now, it’s like 3 Maureen Dowd’s talking among themselves. I can only imagine if you added the real Maureen Dowd.

    Maybe we should make it a BJ contest to see who can do the best/worst job of splicing MD comments into the conversation.

    edit: bonus points form Maureen Dowd comments added while MD is in a hotel room with edibles in CO.

  67. 67.

    TenguPhule

    And Ben Carson is grifting for his son at his Department in Housing and Development.

    Color me surprised.

  68. 68.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @WaterGirl: Trouble is, the timing of this bullshit is interesting. It’s right after Hillary’s appearance at the Grammys. And what makes it worse is that night was about women stepping forward and raising their voices (Thank you Ke$ha). We can’t have that, now can we? Not with elections just around the corner…

  70. 70.

    TenguPhule

    @JPL:

    I want Obama.

    There is a timeline where President Obama kicked off his third term in office by having Donald Trump and his entire family killed on Jan 20, 2016 at the swearing in ceremony, disbanded the House and Senate for incompetence and corruption and kicked off the Second American Civil War which ended with him ruling over the 37 remaining States as a benevolent dictator.

    I wish I was living in that timeline right now.

  72. 72.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @WaterGirl: sadly he passed away too young at age 68. He was a good baseball player, but he got great and enduring coverage of his fabulous style. Even today, when there is a retrospective of style or baseball of the 70s, Gamble will be mentioned, if not interviewed.

  73. 73.

    Meg

    @The Thin Black Duke: WaPo always allows some crazy people to write opinion pieces. Like many, I usually just click on them to read the comments to watch them being shredded by the readers. But it is still better than NYT on the hard news apartment.

  79. 79.

    Jager

    Cutting research for fuel efficient vehicles by 82 percent makes zero sense. The auto industry is totally invested in fuel efficiency, gas and electric so I’m sure they weren’t begging for “relief” One of my friends has a Challenger Hellcat, 707 god damn hp. His Hellcat under full throttle can burn a gallon and half of gas in 60 seconds, the top speed is close to 200 mph. Now get this, on the highway at 70 he gets 24-25 mpg. The V6 version of his car gets close to the mid 30’s on the highway. That kind of mileage was impossible in anything except an econo-box not that long ago. Every car today, whether it’s an economy car or high performance car is all about fuel efficiency. The fossil fuel folks would love to see us driving the 9-12 mpg shit boxes from the 70’s again. Too bad for them the car companies won’t build them anymore and never will again.

  82. 82.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    Hilariously, I got an offer in the mail from FTFNYT for Sunday delivery for only 2 bucks a week. No thanks. My first thought was wow, they must be getting desperate. I’ve never subscribed to the NYT and I live in Northeast Ohio. Not exactly a place where people read the Grey Lady.

  84. 84.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @Jager: hell, the French are trying to eliminate using internal combustion engines by 2050. Not sure that they will succeed but I’m cheering them on every step of the way

  86. 86.

    tobie

    @WaterGirl: I’m late to seeing this ‘bitch-fest’ but it’s truly odious. I’ll write a letter to the Post tonight and would encourage as many people as possible to do so. It doesn’t have to be pretty. It won’t get in as a Letter to the Editor. But enough complaints about how this truly content-free dialogue between three women of privilege might make the paper take notice.

    I really think Ruth Marcus has psychological problems. In 2009 or 2010 she said the Obama administration was pitching a “hissy fit” when they complained about Fox News coverage; a few years later she used her column to name and shame a 16-year-old girl for her incivility to then Gov Brownback. This latest Hillary outrage is just another example of her consistent pattern of kicking people (read: Democrats) when they’re down.

  87. 87.

    WaterGirl

    @tobie: I had to work really hard to not use the words “catty” and “bitch” in my descriptive comments, but they surely both fit as descriptors of their petty mean girl conversation that was printed in the Washington Post.

    I hate these people.

  88. 88.

    Another Scott

    @gbbalto: According to ATC on NPR this evening, FEMA will continue to distribute food and water in Puerto Rico, but they’re not shipping any more supplies to the island. Presumably when the remaining stocks are gone, then that’s all FEMA is going to do along those lines.

    So, they didn’t really reverse their decision. They apparently just want the bad publicity to end.

    Grr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  89. 89.

    Gelfling 545

    @Baud: As we all know, sex was invented in the 60’s, thereby releasing all ills on the world. Before that, all were paragons of virtue and chastity.

  91. 91.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Sab:
    I just don’t see them on store shelves often. It’s either the Cleveland Plain Dealer or our local area newspaper, The Vindicator.

  95. 95.

    Jager

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    I went to a seminar with my Hellcat friend, a Dodge engineer said the future is all about maximization of energy from ANY fuel source, gas. electric, hydrogen, you name it. He said his company isn’t married to any one source of energy, what ever works the best, that’s what they’ll go with in the future. He told us that the most efficient internal combustion engine today is a F1 racing engine, close to 90% efficiency and clean as it can be. He told us Cummins is researching an electronic engine management system for diesels, the engine is maximized for efficient fuel burn every 250 rpm, testing so far has shown it needs no pollution controls. Getting it small enough and reliable for everyday usage will be the trick.

  96. 96.

    mai naem mobile

    RUh Fucking Marcus used to come on some show regularly with Mona Charen and Mona Charen used to run circles around Marcus. Marcus would be nicey nicey and Charen would be slapping her silly. Ugh, I used to think to myself no wonder peopLe don’t want to vote for Dems. Ruth Marcus is an Ivy League law school grad and I’m pretty sure she’s not a legacy or a Jared Kushner. It’s not like she doesn’t know how to argue.

  97. 97.

    J R in WV

    @Ohio Mom:

    They need 60 votes in the Senate to destroy Civil Service, no matter how much Trump and McConnell and Ryan drool at the thought. Don’t lose any sleep on this crazed idea, it will never happen.

  98. 98.

    Tenar Arha

    @WaterGirl: I used to read Alyssa Rosenberg’s film commentary. This is very disappointing to find out about her.

    One of the worst things in this was

    Christine Emba: Yes. We can all agree on Trump’s manifold flaws, to the point that they become less worth discussing. Because there’s nothing to argue! Truly nothing new there.

    Where they’re both acknowledging their need for “novelty” in news by saying “there’s nothing new there,” while apparently criticizing Hillary for not being new enough? I’m just ?

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