Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

đŸŽ¶ Those boots were made for mockin’ đŸŽ”

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

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

When I was faster i was always behind.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment


Stand up, dammit!

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

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Why I Like Warren As My First Choice

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Not that I have any say because WV will be voting after the primaries are basically over, but this:

I mean, it was fucking beautiful:

More of this. It was almost as much fun as when she murdered Delaney in broad daylight:

Mmmmm.

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Maybe don’t do that?

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The Iowa Democratic Party chair held a conference call with the campaigns a while ago to provide an update on the unfolding catastrophuck:

According to CNN (whose reporter dialed in to the conference call), Price said they’ll release “more than 50% of the results” by 5 PM ET because “we want to get some results out there.”

Oh honey, no.

Price said they’d planned to release information as tallies were confirmed throughout the evening yesterday, which is a fine on caucus night, I guess. It ain’t caucus night anymore. Am I alone in thinking this will make an already embarrassing and fraught situation that much worse?

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Hunting Buddies

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I was not aware that badgers and coyotes team up to hunt, but according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (or, as my dad calls them, “the bunny sheriffs”), the two species do enjoy a beneficial partnership. This pair was caught on night-vision camera:

I love how the coyote wags its tail and leaps playfully at the badger. It has a “lets go!” energy every dog owner will immediately recognize and seems to urge its squat companion to hurry the hell up so they can go slay some ground squirrels or whatever. Then the coyote trots through the tunnel with the badger waddling stolidly in its wake.

It’s the cutest damned thing, but their complementary skills — speed to catch prey on the run and burrowing to flush out underground prey — must make them unstoppable bad asses. I demand to see this buddy film!

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New Orleans is sinking man, and I don’t wanna swim

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Is there anything else to write about other than Iowa? I mean, we have an impeachment trial in progress, and Trump is apparently smearing feces all over the oval office. But this kind of failure is magnetic, so here goes.

The Iowa disaster is just a classic IT fail. Users have a process they want to automate. It is a stupid process and they would be much better off changing their process to a more standard one, buying some off-the-shelf software that works, and perhaps customizing it. But noooo, we don’t want to do that. So instead, they create bespoke software for a process that’s very hard to test: it happens once every four years so they can’t really do a pilot project, because the software would be obsolete by the time the next caucus rolls around. On paper, I’m sure they had a backup plan, but as usual, a combination of optimism and focus on the new software makes the backup plan an afterthought at best.

I feel very bad for the volunteers who staffed the caucuses and had to take the heat for this idiocy. I feel bad for the voters, who are already jumping through hoops to get to their caucus site. I refuse to have sympathy for the glory loving leadership and paid Iowa State Democratic Party staff, or the contractors who built the system.

My final thought is that this better lead to change. No more caucuses and let’s not let Iowa be first anymore. This was an unforced error, and god damn it we can’t have a lot of those in 2020. The way that you keep unforced errors from happening is making an example of those who fuck up.

I’ll mark this as an open thread.

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Iowa SURPRISE!

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I liked it better when that was the midwestern joke term for a cheap, filling casserole that included canned water chestnuts along with the tater tots and cream-of-mushroom soup.

…Buttigieg’s speech amounted to a weird capstone to a very weird night.

He said, “By all indications we are going on to New Hampshire victorious.” Perhaps he has some indications but by no means does he have “all indications.” Nor does anyone else.

By the time people get those indications, it’s not clear that they will matter. The very theory of the Iowa caucus was strained by Monday night’s vote-counting debacle. The idea, stretching back to Jimmy Carter’s coming-from-nowhere victory in 1976, is that a small-state could have large impact by going first and leveraging the power of theatrics. A win in Iowa is supposed to vault people to some new orbit in the public mind—the elusive force called momentum—and produce more victories ahead.

But the theatrics of Iowa have been ruined. The crowning of a winner Monday did not happen. Tuesday is Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Wednesday is the day Trump is supposed to win acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial. Friday is another Democratic debate in New Hampshire, where voters cast primary ballots in a week. Iowa momentum may prove perishable—if it is ever there to harvest in the first place.

The only thing clearly indicated from Monday night’s event was fiasco. At the time of this writing—middle of the night East Coast time—even the dimensions of this fiasco are unclear…

Sensibly, every candidate with a reasonable argument stepped up to explain how the real winner was the friends we made along the way.

From what I was seeing early in the evening, Mayor Pete actually did seem to be doing better than predicted… and that means a lot to a lot of people, so I can’t hate it:

Elizabeth Warren, no surprise, praised all the people who’ve worked to get her here, and who will hopefully keep working as the parade moves on to New Hampshire…

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Late Night Open Thread: Iowa Is Just Blatantly F*cking With Us, Now

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THANK YOU, IOWA.

But seriously: I know you guys take a metric ton of abuse from the rest of us every four years, because civic duty and all, and we are duly grateful for your service.* But even if it is nice to get all this attention (C.R.E.A.M.) every four years, I really really earnestly believe this would be a fantastic cycle to declare that you’re stepping away from the spotlight on your own terms.

Meanwhile, all the candidate seem to be making ‘We’re gonna assume I will win this, because why not’ speeches, so there will be video clips available before the actual results come in…

*I should probably take this chance to personally apologize to commentor Stinger, who thinks I have gone beyond protesting the process to personally insulting Iowans.

I’ll be around till about 6am, because that’s how I roll, so we’ll see if there’s anything to report for the Tuesday Morning Open Thread.

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