Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

This really is a full service blog.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Republicans don’t trust women.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

In my day, never was longer.

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

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

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    How are all of you doing?

    Same answer which have been stating vocally for over half a century:

    Fair to partly cloudy.

    ;)

  3. 3.

    mvr

    OK, so far. Hope you are doing well. And you came across as the same down to earth person you seem to be in your (cranky) online personality in our Zoom calls this past week. Happy to know you. And always grateful for the space you’ve made for a bunch of jackals. FWIW.

  4. 4.

    Major Major Major Major

    I got No Man’s Sky during last week’s Steam sale (half off!). I’d been waiting to play it for forever, since they hadn’t, you know, actually finished it yet for some reason. Man! What a great game, absolutely perfect for me specifically. I’m about ten hours in, a fair bit of that is just screwing around.

    Tonight I’m going to start reading Hogfather for the book club! (Meeting 12/19 afternoon, but I’ll post something more specific soonish.)

  16. 16.

    glc

    For your reading pleasure:

    A memorable editor’s note (and added footnotes) noted by Amy Maxmen:

    https://twitter.com/mslopatto/status/1334539466271203330

    Does not quite reach the level of Atlantic Monthly’s recent contribution:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/

    And one can always go on to Retraction Watch:

    https://retractionwatch.com/2020/12/04/bad-medicine-journal-publishes-doubly-brutal-retraction-notice/#more-120978

  17. 17.

    westyny

    @Anon in NC:  So sorry for your loss.  And I hate this year.  The mother of my partner’s SIL is in grave condition from kidney failure from a previous condition complicated, of course, by COVID, which she caught from the driver sent by the hospital to bring her in for said previous condition.  The whole thing sucks.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    @Major Major Major Major

    You also might like Astroneer if haven’t already tried it.

    Haven’t been to Steam since January. Really should finish the last third of a game I was enjoying then; just haven’t felt motivation for gaming.

  27. 27.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Anon in NC:

    My condolences to you and your family for your loss. Thanks to the Orange Asshole and his Republican cult, every 30 seconds or so we are losing someone to Covid and it’s only going to get worse. I heard that Covid beat out heart attacks for the #1 cause of deaths in America this week.

    Republican built this…

  30. 30.

    StringOnAStick

    @Anon in NC: I am sorry for your loss and the pain brought to your family. It makes it even harder to know it didn’t have to be like this, but we have evil people charge who care for nothing but power and money.

    A very close friend lost an uncle to Covid yesterday. As the infection continues to spread at wildfire rates, more families will feel it’s icy touch. My oldest sister’s husband and his brother are positive and showing symptoms, and I’ll bet she is too. She takes care of our elderly father but felt that going to her Southern Baptist services several times a week is more important.

  31. 31.

    SWMBO

    @Anon in NC: @StringOnAStick: 
    Labor Day my mom was diagnosed with Glioblastoma (cancerous tumor above and behind her right eye). She finished up her cancer treatment on October 28 and was getting ready to start the next phase of treatment when she was diagnosed with Covid on October 29. She was hospitalized on November 4 with difficulty breathing. She went on a ventilator November 7 and died November 18. Fuck Cancer, Fuck Covid. And fuck everyone who says this is a hoax and no worse than the flu.

    Peace and comfort to all who are facing this horror.

  32. 32.

    Anon in NC

    Thank you all for your kind support <3. Yesterday I was sad; today I'm also angry because it didn't have to be this way, not just for us but for so many families around the US. Anti-maskers taking stupid risks with other people's lives – what an indictment on our society.

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