Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Come on, man.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Let there be snark.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

Everybody saw this coming.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

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  4. 4.

    Marcopolo

    I think the thing to note is how much attention the person who made this paid to laying out the course, all those forks & side channels…

    Also too, the names for the marbles..

  7. 7.

    FlyingToaster

    This has been school vacation week for us, minus the trek to Flahridah. I swear, my daughter has spent most of the week asleep (she slept 13 hours last night). I’d given her the decision, back in September, whether or not to go visit grandma, and she decided to stay home. So we did.

    I was already all-in for SPW, so while the week was, well, aggravating, it wasn’t anything new.

    I need sleep myself. Tomorrow we start getting back into the swing of things, lest Monday hit us like a brick.

  10. 10.

    Emma from FL

    That was just the most fun, brilliant thing I’ve seen in a month of Sundays. And yes, I was cheering for Deep Ocean.

  14. 14.

    Barb 2

    @FlyingToaster: Carl

    three cheers for Bailey!!!

    I vote for Warren – mail in Ballot WA state. I am at peace with my vote. So many great women running. Warren said she was in the race for the long haul – for the young girls and their future.

    Actually I was voting for Bailey. Warren mentioned her dog Bailey in her statement in the voter’s pamphlet. He was filling in for her during the impeachment proceedings. What a good dog!

    Only a woman can clean up these rotting piles of crap that Trump is leaving. Seems like Obama cleaned up Bush’s smaller messes.

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax: Re: Chicago

    You shut your mouth.  Do you have any idea how many ballots came in the mail today in an unmarked envelope?!  I ran through an entire box of Bics!

  17. 17.

    hilts

    My nominee for the dumbest Trump supporter in Nevada:

    Donald Trump held a midday rally in Las Vegas today ahead of the Nevada caucuses tomorrow…  in a clear sign of that enthusiasm, hundreds of people sporting red Trump hats lined up hours before Trump’s rally began.

    “It is such an honor to be in the same place as the president,” said Twilight Dwyer, a 51-year-old surgical assistant as she put on a new “Keep America Great” T-shirt she had just purchased. “He is honest … he does not bulls—.”

    Dwyer said she had voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008 because he “spoke well,” but said she came to believe that was a mistake. “Yes, [Trump] cannot speak very well, but who can? The ones who speak well are the bulls—ters,” she said.

    h/t https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20200222-nevada/#trump-trolls-democrats-with-vegas-23

    God help the patient who has the misfortune of receiving any care or treatment from this pathetic buffoon.

  18. 18.

    mrmoshpotato

    Madness.  Phil Liggett and Bob Roll commentating would be awesome.  I could see Phil really getting into a marble race.

  19. 19.

    Morzer

    @hilts: 

    To be scrupulously fair, she’s not the first person in the western tradition to contrast honest inarticulacy and glib corruption. Delusional, yes, but not unusual.

  21. 21.

    JWR

    Has this been mentioned yet?

    A federal judge has tossed out a racketeering lawsuit House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes filed last year against the private investigation firm at the heart of the Trump-Russia saga.

    Alexandria, Virginia-based U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady’s two-page order made short work of Nunes’ suit, which sought $9.9 million in damages from Fusion GPS, its founder Glenn Simpson and a nonprofit watchdog group, Campaign for Accountability.

    The judge also signaled that pressing on with the legal battle could result in sanctions against Nunes and his attorney, Steven Biss. […]

    O’Grady said he’d allow a revised version of the suit to be re-filed within 30 days, but he said that should only happen if Nunes can craft a complaint that doesn’t violate a federal rule against court filings that are frivolous or unsupported by evidence.

    Damn Bush II judge.

    [ETA to add link.]

  22. 22.

    bmoak

    Geez, that video is so old, it’s from before two-time reigning Marble Rally champion Red Number 3 made his debut.

    Jelle Bakker of Jelle’s Marble Runs has come a long way since that video, and his stuff is a lot more polished and intricate. Every year he does the Marble Rally series down that sandy hill, plus the Marble League (basically Olympics for marbles). He JUST launched Marbula One, which is marble racing on an indoor track for ten laps around.

    He sells merchandise for this stuff, and has done well enough to open, a marble store/museum in The Netherlands. Wiki is here.

  27. 27.

    Martin

    People only watch for the crashes.

    I was watching a video with my son and as I was browsing through my rec list on YouTube was a whole section devoted to marble racing. It looked like it was an entire thing, but it turns out it’s just one channel doing this, like they’re trying to get it to take off and it’s just really not.

    But yeah, if this is your jam, just search for marble race on youtube and you’ll get this channel.

  29. 29.

    Anne Laurie

    @bmoak: Cat videos have been around even longer, and that doesn’t stop us swapping them, does it?

    Whatever gives us a break in the current madness!

  31. 31.

    bmoak

    @Anne Laurie:

    Oh, I’m a big fan of Jelle’s Marble Runs and he deserves any success he’s getting for building this thing up from the ground.  I just wanted to point out that he’s got more better, newer stuff out there if people want to watch.

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