Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Giving up is unforgivable.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

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

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

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

This really is a full service blog.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

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

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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  3. 3.

    Fester Addams

    Our tech support guys will use the acronym PEBKAC – Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.

  4. 4.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Fester Addams: PEBKAC is a time honored acronym. Everyone in tech learns it in their first year on the job because it’s always applicable.

    If he’s using it to your face, he’s probably both a good tech support guy AND a jerk :)

  12. 12.

    mardam

    My beef is with people on video calls who think it’s necessary during a staff meeting to tell you who they are when they begin to talk. I know who you are. I work with you.

  23. 23.

    Quicksand

    OK, so I KNOW it’s been nearly two years, but it’s still true that:

    My work laptop sometimes just randomly stops noticing that a hardwired headset is plugged in and refuses to use it;

    My bluetooth headset just drops its connection because it feels like it; and

    I sometimes accidentally speak while muted BECAUSE I’M TRYING TO BE POLITE WHEN I’M NOT SPEAKING FFS!

  25. 25.

    sab

    Also too, they said they would take the dead branches off the roof. Husband and tree guys pronounce “roof” the same way. Rhymes with “hoof”.

  31. 31.

    Almost Retired

    I had never heard of PEBKAC before, but I’m confident many IT professionals have applied it to me.   Fortunately, my wife has a tech-related master’s degree so she functions as sort of a reluctant domestic tech support for my home office.  Unfortunately, on all matters tech-related, she treats me like a mildly precocious child or a reasonably teachable dog.

  34. 34.

    Old School

    @sab:

    Davey Tree is here to euthanize our front yard locust tree.

    Now you’re going to have to buy your locusts from the store.

  37. 37.

    not_a_cylon

    Tom Cardy is a treat and is dearly loved in this household. Business Man is especially silly and quoted frequently here.

  41. 41.

    Anonymous At Work

    “You’re on MUTE!” was the quote of the year in 2020.  I need that on a T-shirt and a polo shirt with a collar (depending on who I am on ZOOM with…)

  43. 43.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Anonymous At Work:

    “You’re on MUTE!” was the quote of the year in 2020.  I need that on a T-shirt

    or to paraphrase a button my sister wore in her irreverent youth: “You’re not on mute, I’m ignoring you”

  44. 44.

    Jeffro

    The modern equivalent here would be post-1980 Dems waiting to see if Jimmy Carter was going to run again, or post-1992 Reps waiting on GHW Bush.  LO

    [Pence] did not address the fact that numerous rioters at the Capitol called for his execution during the attack, demanding that he be hanged for not carrying out Mr. Trump’s wishes. And Mr. Hannity didn’t bring it up.
    Then there was a speech by Nikki Haley, another former Trump administration official whose relationship with Mr. Trump was damaged because she had declared herself “disgusted” with him after Jan. 6 and predicted that he’d “lost any sort of political viability.”
    But Ms. Haley, who served as governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations, praised Mr. Trump in an appearance at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.

  45. 45.

    rikyrah

    I do believe her success is an example of ‘ timing is everything’.
    Without the pandemic, I don’t believe that Tabitha would have become such a huge success. I think the shutdown of the world gave her the moment to break through and become huge. I don’t think without the pandemic, we would have been as receptive to her message.

     

    Tabitha Brown (@IamTabithaBrown) tweeted at 7:37 AM on Thu, Oct 07, 2021:
    I made #1 on NY Times best seller list https://t.co/OveaA14Eko
    (https://twitter.com/IamTabithaBrown/status/1446092326212829184?t=jw44grpXMLaCWEksujXF8A&s=03)

  48. 48.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, at the Virginia bipartisan/citizen redistricting commission…

    Thread:

    After another lengthy legal debate the only idea the Va. Redistricting Commission has floated for how to move forward is a “decision tree” on race.

    Like a literal flowchart telling them when race should or shouldn’t guide their decisions.

    — Graham Moomaw (@gmoomaw) October 8, 2021

    As many of us (on the losing side of the state constitutional amendment) argued, this process is nonsensical and flawed and was apparently designed to be kicked to the state supreme court. And depending on appointed state court justices to be politically impartial is a silly bet at best.

    (via BlueVirginia.US )

    Grrr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  50. 50.

    Geminid

    @gene108: My parents were from Wisconsin, and I learned to say “cow” so it rhymes with “wow.” In the part of Virginia I live in now, country people pronounce cow “keow.” This may be a Scots-Irish thing.

  52. 52.

    Another Scott

    @Jeffro: I don’t think that will work.  People need to be overtly involved.

    E.g. there are rules and federal laws about disenfranchising minority voters.  That has to be explicitly considered, and is one of the reasons why the VA commission apparently failed (the GQP didn’t want to do so as I understand it).

    Yes, we know that the parties slice and dice the electorate and use computers to draw maps that help them, so a non-partisan commission must be able to do the same.  And compactness is important and can be programmed.  But human judgment needs to come into play too.

    I don’t know the best way to do this.  It can be a difficult problem.  Parties should not be picking their voters.  But if parties are winning overwhelmingly in a state, then they should get a closely similar percentage of the seats.  States that have the GQP getting 40% of the vote but 80% of the seats are broken.  It (seemingly obviously) violates “equal protection” if nothing else.

    My $0.02.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  55. 55.

    germy

    The Jan. 6 select committee on Steve Bannon defying the panel’s subpoena:

    “We will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock, and we will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of Congress referral.”

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 8, 2021

  58. 58.

    Central Planning

    @WhatsMyNym:

    I’m familiar with both.

    Me too. But it rhymes with speak.

    I’m sure there’s all sorts of regionalisms like that. Another is route – does it rhyme with moot or pout?

  61. 61.

    artem1s

    @Central Planning: 

    Another is route – does it rhyme with moot or pout?

    depends. “I’m taking root 66 to get there”. “I’m going to rout this thru payables tomorrow”.

  67. 67.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    @Anoniminous: Yes, and did you know that 86.217% of all statistics are simply invented on the spot? (Yes, I know, there’s profound debate on whether the final digit is significant, due to rounding error, and statistical drift of the collective imagination.)

  74. 74.

    Jeffro

    @Another Scott: People “need” to be involved, or people “have historically been”/”can’t imagine not being” involved?  I think it’s the latter.

    As long as the districts represent equal numbers of citizens, and they’re as compact as they can be made, that almost has to be more fair than the current system.

  75. 75.

    Geminid

    @Jeffro: As Virginia is still covered by provisions of the Voting Rights Act, racial distribution must be taken into account. Federal Judges intervened in Virginia districting twice the last decade, once to redraw Congresional districts. This resulted in the excellent Dan McEachin’s election to the 4th District. And later a court order  redrew 11 Delegate Districts east of Richmond.

    But a good mapmaking program could factor racial composition into a map generated along the lines you suggest. I would have liked to vote for such a system, but this was not an option, so I ended up voting for a flawed system that I decided was the lesser of two evils. And I knew Democrats have been kicking Republican ass on a map those assholes drew anyway, so I did not feel the independent commission was going to hurt us. I don’t think the Supreme Court will either. I expect they will hand this hot potato to a Special Master known to play things down the middle.

  76. 76.

    J R in WV

    @WhatsMyNym:

     

    @gene108:

    Roof and hoof rhyme. Your post confuses me.

    Same here.

    I had a great aunt from over in Giles County VA, ived much of her life in Atlanta. She said “house” as if it rhymed with “moose”… Other old-fashioned pronunciations as well, that I don’t recall that well. She was my grand-mother’s very older sister.

    Eleanor IIRC. Been gone for a long time now.

  77. 77.

    sab

    @J R in WV: In my husband’s family the boys all rhyme roof and hoof, just like their dad whose family had roots in central Ohio.  His sisters followed their mom with roof rhymes with aloof, like her parents from Pennsylvania. I follow my parents ( who agreed with each other) with the Connecticut Western Reserve accent of NE Ohio that is a lot like actual Connecticut.

    Basically we are all hicks and every region has its own accents. I think I will stop teasing my husband, because his feelings were hurt, although he is merciless to my nephew  from Columbus who married the Canadian and lived in Ontario for a while and picked up some of her accent.

  79. 79.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @gene108: Just FTR, down here in Balmermerlin, hon, roof rhymes with poof. Go roughly 55 miles NNE as Poe’s Crow flies (Lancaster PA) and it sounds more like puff. Go figger.

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