Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I really should read my own blog.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

No one could have predicted…

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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Looks like we could use an open thread.

I don’t see anyone working on a post and nothing is scheduled, so here you go.  I miss the old music threads.

I nearly titled this Late Night Open Thread but then I realized it’s only 8:30 pm in California, and that’s not late night at all.

Me, I’m headed for bed. What’s everybody else up to?

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34Comments

  1. 1.

    Joey Maloney

    Just woke up myself, first cup of coffee, reading my morning internet. Still eagerly awaiting the Calendar A preview!

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    interesting: Jeffrey Clarke told the 1/6 Committee he plans to plead the Fifth (thread)

    Elie Honig @eliehonig 3h
    The Committee has decided they’re not going to settle for a vague invocation of the Fifth in a letter from Clark’s lawyer. They’re going to make Clark come in and physically invoke it, maybe many times over. They’re going to make Clark own it and eat it.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    My work on Project Omicron is complete. I’ll check in once my freighter from South Africa drops me off at an undisclosed location on the East Coast.

    Take care, everyone.

  8. 8.

    Yutsano

    Between a boss who will just not stop riding me and some shitty Internet tonight…I’m just glad I’m facing first world problems.

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    @Baud: ​

    I’ll check in once my freighter from South Africa drops me off at an undisclosed location on the East Coast.

    So…it’s still going to be a while then? :P

  15. 15.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:  This case is a criminal lawsuit, but if it was a civil lawsuit the fact that the opposing party is entitled to a negative inference would be a practical reason for making the deponent take the fifth over and over. I have seen bank employee deposition testimony where “I invoke the Fifth Amendment” has been only answer for pages.
    In a criminal case, though, it’s probably just what it sounds like.

  29. 29.

    Winston

    @NotMax: I think I had that record on 45 about 1958 when my mom bought me a record player (45 rpm) and let me pick out 4 records for my birthday. I was 11 years old.

  30. 30.

    Winston

    @Winston: In my life Ronstadt was the best, Streisand and Celine were close. but there were so many great women that sang my heart out. Baez, Cher, Mitchell, Joplin, et al, back in the 60’s. 70’s. Loved the music back then. Been a nice 60 years of great stuff since Pat Boone and Roy Rogers.

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