Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

In my day, never was longer.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Bark louder, little dog.

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  2. 2.

    Pablo

    Through our Dementia hazed vision, DNC server, Crowdstrike and Hillary’s emails ring a bell in us oldster’s semi-consciousness, and we know Dobbs is looking out for us.

  4. 4.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    The house in Sunset Blvd is the Jenkins/Getty* house that was on Wilshire between Irving and Lorraine(yes it took up a whole block on Wilshire). It was torn down by ol’ J. Paul to build a large office building for his oil company(Tidewater) that still exists today and is called the Harbour Building. Crenshaw Blvd. ends at Wilshire in front of the Harbour Building.

    *It’s unclear if J. Paul ever lived in the house or if he just bought it for one of his ex-wives.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    “The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis — out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.”
      – Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard

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    Mary G

    @NotMax: He will miss all the fun of beating up on the president! He’s worked so hard trying to pry information out of the administration. RIP.

  15. 15.

    hervevillechaizelounge

    I’m late as fuck with this but yesterday someone was looking for 101 Dalmatians. Most classic Disney animation is in the public domain and thus available for free on Vimeo, no sign up necessary:

    Direct link to film: https://vimeo.com/46838098

    Archive.org has a ton of classic Disney as well but the Vimeo prints are better quality IMHO.

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    TS (the original)

    @Mary G: Oh no – and such a loss – he has fought so hard for all Americans. Best thoughts to his family & if there is any after – the best will welcome him.

  22. 22.

    BlueDWarrior

    I don’t have anything real erudite to say about the passing of Congressman Cummings, other than it really sucks, on multiple levels, and I hope that his family can process the grief with grace and serenity.

    Hopefully the next (wo)man up in the Oversight Cmtt. will handle proceedings with the same doggedness as the departed Elijah did.

  24. 24.

    Billcoop4

    Looks like Carolyn Maloney of NY is next in seniority, followed by Eleanor Holmes Norton.

    BC

  26. 26.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @OzarkHillbilly: My Congressman. RIP. Shit to the Nth.

    Wonder who becomes committee chair.

    Looks like the seat remains vacant until filled by election. We’ll see what Governor Hogan sets for a date. My uninformed guess is that he lets it ride to next year’s primary & general election – so MD-07 will be without congressional representation for the next 14.5 months…

    I’ve been out of touch with local politics for some years…but AFAICT there is no obvious successor for the seat. Cummings’ predecessor Kweisi Mfume turns 71 next week & last ran for office in the 2006 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Looks like it’ll be a rugby scrum. ETA: MD-07 is 60% African-American but without a clear front-runner who knows who will emerge from what might be a crowded field.

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    Ladyraxterinok

    @hervevillechaizelounge:
    101 Dalmatians book was written by Dodie Smith. She also wrote the great coming of age book I Capture the Castle, often on lists of great or important books of the 20th century.

    I’ve read it and found it fascinating.

  32. 32.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Mary G:

    Elijah Cummings has died.

    A sad loss for his family, friends, and colleagues; and for the country.

    May he rest in peace and power.

  33. 33.

    rikyrah

    Trump watches Lou Dobbs in the same sad way Norma Desmond watched her movies every night.

    — Schooley (@Rschooley) October 17, 2019

    I just saw this.

    BWA HA HA HA HA HA AH AH AHA HA

  35. 35.

    Jay Noble

    @hervevillechaizelounge: Almost zero Disney works are in the public domain. Steamnoat Willy is one of the main reasons our copyright laws are so ridiculaus. Everytime Mickey came up to go public, ouila the copyight law was changed to add years to Disney’s ownership. If Vimeo has anything from Disney, they are paying for it.

    Disney has done something with their animated properties since Snow White. After the initial run, they would put it in the vault for @ 7 years the re-release it to a whole new bunch of kids. They continued the practice with physical media. If they said it was going into the vault you’d better grab it. I had a DVD of “The Little Mermaid” that was selling for $60-$80 while it was in the vault.

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