Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Second rate reporter says what?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Come on, man.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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  6. 6.

    Splitting Image

    Listening to P.D.Q. Bach on the Air, third album by Peter Schickele dedicated to the “youngest and oddest of J.S. Bach’s twenty-odd children”.

  7. 7.

    Ken

    @Fair Economist: That’s nothing, you should see the video where Frida puts all the carrots back into the right slots.

    (Disclaimer: Video may not exist, or may be one of the above videos run backward.)

  8. 8.

    Hoosierspud

    My cat, Simone, had the same look on her face when my two year old niece would carry her around under her armpits with her back legs dragging on the floor.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    Watching travel videos on YouTube.  I could go for a thunderstorm, but that’s always true.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    @NotMax: That’s very cool tech. Heard an interview and they noted while the transfused amounts are small, because the cells are all “new” the blood lasts much longer. Normal transfusions contain a lot of aged cells that do not last long, something new to me, but “duh.”

    Of course it will cost ten bucks per corpuscle and Peter Thiel will buy it all.

  15. 15.

    trollhattan

    @mrmoshpotato:  I could go for a thunderstorm, but that’s always true.

    Is that what the kids say now? I remember “Netflix and chill” but I’m old.

  19. 19.

    Splitting Image

    @trollhattan:

    Don’t throw the term around frequently but Schickele is a genius. He conducted our orchestra once and it was one of the funniest nights of my life.

    I only got into his music recently, but I’m loving what I’ve listened to so far. Definitely a man who marched to his own drummer.

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    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @Splitting Image: I’ve also read references to P.D.Q. Bach as “the last and least of Bach’s children”. Trollhattan is right, Schickele is a genius – think of a classical-music version of Weird Al Yankovic.

    (I checked YouTube to see what there was of P.D.Q. Bach, and the first hit was … something else. Peter Schickele and Itzhak Perlman on violins, backed by the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by John Williams, performing P.D.Q. Bach’s “Konzertshtick for Two Violins.” That’d be like … something like Weird Al doing a duet with Dolly Parton, while being backed up by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.)

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    OzarkHillbilly

    @NotMax: Pretty damned cool. I await the conspiracy that this blood is derived from the blood of sacrificial newborns, because that blood is “newer.”

  26. 26.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @mrmoshpotato: So was I, but over the years I have been caught in a couple of life threatening situations. I have a lot more respect for the destructive power they generate and the randomness with which it strikes.

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    There go two miscreants

    Now I will have to dig out my copy of Music For An Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion.

  28. 28.

    Torrey

    @trollhattan:

      Many years ago, I attended a Schickele concert with some friends, one of whom was a musicologist, who spent the concert trying desperately to hold in his laughter because he was afraid he’d miss something. Needless to say, he caught all kinds of things the rest of us missed.

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    The Pale Scot

    I enjoy the very specific look on the cat’s face of ‘this is deeply humiliating but I love this small human and am putting up with it.’ it’s the same look our cat used to have when my sister would tuck him in bed and read him stories.

    HaHAaa.

    Memory of BFF’s daughter wearing her princess outfit, putting a bonnet on the family cat and carrying him around with her arms wrapped around his stomach. Our eyes met and all I could see was “hey, it’s a living”

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