Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

The willow is too close to the house.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Books are my comfort food!

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Second rate reporter says what?

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

This really is a full service blog.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

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  3. 3.

    Derelict

    Trump is spending Christmas at Mar-a-Lago (or Disgraceland, as some have taken to calling it). It would almost be worth the price of admission just to watch him ramble the hallways and fume about the unfairness of it all.

    Trump got Pelosi’s Christmas card–that one that has the family newsletter saying “This year, we impeached the giant asshole.” If Santa is real, Trump will get a lump of that clean beautiful coal he’s always going on about.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Minor mystery afoot chez NotMax. There’s a small pen knife I regularly have uses for which is always kept in the same spot on the desk, where it has comfortably nestled for decades. Yesterday had a need for it and it is not there. Nor anyplace else, apparently.

    Fairly certain I didn’t sleepwalk and swallow it.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    Like a guy announcing plans to rob a bank who’s then surprised cops are there when he shows up.

    I remember reading at least once about such a maroon. I had expected that McConnell and Graham, being lawyers, would know better. But no …

  7. 7.

    satby

    @Amir Khalid:  their need to signal support to their deplorable constituents outweighs any common sense they might have once had. Plus, I think they feel pretty immune to consequences, which should worry us.

  8. 8.

    WereBear

    @Derelict: Trump is spending Christmas at Mar-a-Lago (or Disgraceland, as some have taken to calling it).

    Me likey!

    Good morning all. I’m sure just seeing our distinguished prior President burns Trump’s ass, and I hope it feels like a blowtorch.

  17. 17.

    Lapassionara

    @NotMax:  There is a saying that people use to help them find something. It goes “Tony, Tony, come around, something’s lost that must be found.” I believe Tony is St Anthony, patron saint of something pertinent to lost items. You might try it, just to see.

  20. 20.

    raven

    @NotMax: I “lost” my wallet after a wedding last month and spent a full day walking the grounds and combing the house, drove me nuts. I had everything in place to cancel card (I had put them on hold) and get another brand new drivers license and VA ID. It was in the bottom of my closet and I have no idea how it got there.

  21. 21.

    germy

    You can view the entire 20th century though the lens of the automobile. From the bitter lake agreeement to atmospheric lead to sit-down strikes developed in unionized auto plants to white flight to chain stores to exurbination to climate change to defunding public transit
    — John Leavitt ? (@LeavittAlone) December 19, 2019

    It’s like a science fiction story, we invented this one thing, based our whole civilization around it, and now it’s going to kill us all
    (Ford was close to an electric build for his engine but Edison, yes that one, told him it would take too long and to stick with petrol)
    — John Leavitt ? (@LeavittAlone) December 19, 2019

  22. 22.

    germy

    http://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

    The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people. Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one. That is how in both conception and original purpose the car is a luxury good. And the essence of luxury is that it cannot be democratized. If everyone can have luxury, no one gets any advantages from it. On the contrary, everyone diddles, cheats, and frustrates everyone else, and is diddled, cheated, and frustrated in return.

    This is pretty much common knowledge in the case of the seaside villas. No politico has yet dared to claim that to democratize the right to vacation would mean a villa with private beach for every family. Everyone understands that if each of 13 or 14 million families were to use only 10 meters of the coast, it would take 140,000km of beach in order for all of them to have their share! To give everyone his or her share would be to cut up the beaches in such little strips—or to squeeze the villas so tightly together—that their use value would be nil and their advantage over a hotel complex would disappear. In short, democratization of access to the beaches point to only one solution—the collectivist one. And this solution is necessarily at war with the luxury of the private beach, which is a privilege that a small minority takes as their right at the expense of all.

    Now, why is it that what is perfectly obvious in the case of the beaches is not generally acknowledged to be the case for transportation? Like the beach house, doesn’t a car occupy scarce space? Doesn’t it deprive the others who use the roads (pedestrians, cyclists, streetcar and bus drivers)? Doesn’t it lose its use value when everyone uses his or her own? And yet there are plenty of politicians who insist that every family has the right to at least one car and that it’s up to the “government” to make it possible for everyone to park conveniently, drive easily in the city, and go on holiday at the same time as everyone else, going 70 mph on the roads to vacation spots.

  23. 23.

    gene108

    @NotMax: 

    I went to sleep and put my usual glasses somewhere, because as of this morning, I have no idea where they are.

    Usually keep on the night stand by my bed.

    If I’m reading or something, I’ll put it by the side of my bed.

    They usually remain in place.

    Not so much last night.

    Now using backup frame.

  24. 24.

    WereBear

    One of the most frustrating things about losing something is that my mind helpfully shows me the last time I saw it, but never any surroundings that would help me find it!

  25. 25.

    debbie

    Problem with @senatemajldr & @LindseyGrahamSC is, in their preening for Fox, they proclaimed in advance plans for a sham hearing. They could have waited till House referral. But no.

    Overreach. It’s in their nature.

  26. 26.

    debbie

    @satby:

    I can’t think of a time when the Rethugs seemed even a tiny bit mindful of consequences. I don’t think it’s in their DNA.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    The site is snappier but recent comments is gone. I hope that’s not the culprit because I like that feature.

  34. 34.

    sab

    @raven: We spent a whole day last week looking for my husband’s lost wallet. We finally found it the bathroom behind the toilet, where one of the cats had pushed it off the counter while husband was taking a shower.

  36. 36.

    PST

    Twice in my life I have lost my drivers license in airports when I needed it absolutely. Both time I found it in my pants cuffs. That was long ago when I wore suits on the road. Now that I’m in shorts or jeans I don’t know where I’d even look.

  37. 37.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @NotMax:

    Speaking from my own experience, first, go to the place you last used it. It’s possible you put it down and wandered away.

    After that, get creative. Anything is possible. Look in the fridge, the cupboard where you keep the coffee cups, your underwear drawer. Think of it as a treasure hunt.

  38. 38.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Think of it as a treasure hunt.

    Yes. Back when I lived without a landline (in a big city with decent cell service) I couldn’t find my cell phone. Searched everywhere. It was gone gone gone. Of course I couldn’t call myself to locate it via ring, so I emailed several friends to phone me. Finally one responded and my laundry hamper started chirping. I have NO idea how the damn phone landed not on top, but in the middle of a pile of laundry.

  41. 41.

    Other MJS

    A Unified Theory of the Trumps’ Creepy Aesthetic is a hoot.

    There’s no fun in it, of course, because Trump and his family are not people who are into fun. What’s spooky about it goes beyond Melania’s personal uncanniness or Trump’s world-historic tastelessness or the built-in stiltedness of White House ritual. The pure anhedonic cheerlessness of it all points back to a deeper psychic deficit: an inability to understand what any of this might even be for, if not to spite or defeat someone else.

  42. 42.

    Miss Bianca

    @Lapassionara:

    I hadn’t heard that one – I usually resort to an “oh, blessed St. Anthony, where the fuck did I put the (fill in the blank) – oh, there it is! Thanks!”

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Other MJS:

    ashen pucks of meat festooned with two bereft asparagus spears adrift in a speckled pool of broken butter 

    Haha, what a classless pile of shit

  44. 44.

    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    @NotMax:

      Elves. This time of year it’s always elves. But don’t fret, they only took it to help with wrapping your toys!

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