Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

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

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Come on, man.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

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

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

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Want to see a Roseate Spoonbill poop?

The bird lets fly at about the 2-second mark, then goes on to preen, search for crawdads or mussels and scare away moorhens who would rather not get spooned. It’s such a pleasure to watch our friend Pinko throughout the day.

Pinko doesn’t wander aimlessly — he or she moves with a sense of purpose, always. But I spent the better part of yesterday wandering, despite starting off with purpose. I was traveling to meet a relative at a new location opened by a sandwich place we used to visit in our college town years ago.

Theoretically, this new location was equidistant between our abodes and closer to both of us than the original location. It didn’t turn out that way for me though because there was a major crash on I-75 that shut down all northbound traffic, so I ended up exiting and taking an alternate route on rural roads.

The destination town is one of those “you can’t get there from here” places — no direct routes because why in the hell would anyone go there? I arrived half an hour late.

It took forever to get back home too. I was unwilling to try the interstate again, so I took a different meandering route home, passing through small towns and driving through vast forests and traversing miles and miles of farmland.

There’s this whole other Florida that most people don’t know exists, and that’s where I was. I’d seen most of it before. At one point, I passed a boat launch on a lake that I remembered visiting with a friend who was a fellow Pizza Hut waitress and lived in a godforsaken town nearby.

Back then, young folks would gather at the boat ramp to drink beer and smoke pot. There wasn’t anything else to do. As I drove past, it looked like there still isn’t anything to do 35 years or so later.

I wondered if my old friend had ever left that town — we lost touch decades ago. My guess is no. I only achieved escape velocity briefly. Sometimes, maybe even most of the time, aimless wandering deposits you back in the place where you started. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

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  1. 1.

    Chief Oshkosh

    That video has to be fake – birds don’t poop unless they are perched right above my car.

  8. 8.

    lowtechcyclist

    Want to see a Roseate Spoonbill poop?

    It wasn’t exactly on my bucket list, but sure, why not? ;-)

  10. 10.

    Betty

    Your trip in the hinterlands sounds relaxing except for the part about being late to meet your friend. I enjoy revisiting old places and old friends.

  11. 11.

    KM in NS

    Hey Betty… I was too late for the Theology & Geometry music thread the other night. If you’re still open to suggestions, how about “God Gave Rock n Roll To Ya” by Argent. :)

  12. 12.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    Betty, your bird photography makes me almost miss Florida. Almost. They’re so  beautiful, so serene.

    We lived on the edge of a bird sanctuary in Vero Beach, and I had the most glorious bird sightings as I drove my younger son to preschool. Unfortunately that was the only thing Vero Beach had going for it in my book.

  14. 14.

    Mathguy

    “young folks would gather at the _________ to drink beer and smoke pot.”

     

    A description of teen life in every small town in America.

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    Little beats traveling the length of the east spine of Florida on the A1A for a spot on the worst trip ever list.

  18. 18.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    There’s this whole other Florida that most people don’t know exists, and that’s where I was.

    My daughter once went to visit my Florida sister & brother-in-law, and they took her on a drive through redneck territory. The town of Christmas, I think. Daughter saw a lot of things she didn’t know existed.

  21. 21.

    Anonymous At Work

    That ain’t Florida, that’s the South.  Saw such places all over when I went to college and lived there.  Knew too many people from such places that achieved escape velocity via college scholarship.

  24. 24.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    One of the cool things over the years back in Central Misery were the hummingbirds.  In fact, they should be there now, having started to arrive en masse over the last couple of days.

    We had so many and they’d sit…and poop.  Never thought I’d ever see a hummer poop but I watched em do it for 20+ years.

  25. 25.

    cope

    Wow, that was close, glad my cup of coffee is on the left side of the computer.

    It was “…this whole other Florida…” that we managed to discover when we lived there that made it tolerable for us.

    Your final paragraph echoes one of my favorite lines:  “We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Elliot

    I know this to be true having recently come back to where my family moved over 50 years ago.  I certainly appreciate it more after 3.3 decades in the Sunshine State.

  26. 26.

    Bupalos

    Twice as many R’s in the senate supported the aid bill as opposed. That’s very very good news. Peter Thiel’s senatorial sock puppet worked very hard to turn this into another partisan clinch, and would like you to believe that only 80% means support for Ukraine is wearing thin.

    I continue to encourage folks here not to take the bait by overemphasizing partisan differences on Ukraine. That can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the Putin caucus is counting on it.

  28. 28.

    frosty

    There’s this whole other Florida that most people don’t know exists, and that’s where I was.

    This is why I love the campsites in the state parks. Florida has a great state park system and it’s as different from Orlando and Miami as you can get.

    RE: Escape velocity. I went 3,000 miles to college to get away from my stifling home town. Decided California wasn’t for me long-term and moved back east to Maryland and then moved again … to the same County I grew up in, less than 20 miles from my old neighborhood. Twenty years now and I still can’t believe I’m back here.

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    “They didn’t know where they was goin’ but they knew where they was wasn’t it.”
    – Lord Buckley (speaking of the 16th century gadabout Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s expedition to Florida, encountering crocodiles and swarms of dive bombing insects galore)
    ;)

  33. 33.

    Bupalos

    @frosty: Oh yes it absolutely does have a wonderful park system. Very well managed and a lot of great places.

    I know it got ravaged by hurricane but Cayo Costa is a real gem, and you can kayak out to it. And putter around other little islands.

  36. 36.

    Betty Cracker

    @Bupalos: Cayo Costa is so beautiful!  Last I heard, it hasn’t recovered from Ian, so the bare bones infrastructure it used to have is still not functioning. Tthe ferry service hasn’t been restored. You can kayak over or land in a private boat but cannot spend the night.

  38. 38.

    Betty Cracker

    Oh look:

    Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) took a shot at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Tuesday, saying she is “dragging our brand down.”

    “She is a horrible leader,” Tillis said of Greene, according to audio played on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” “She is dragging our brand down. She — not the Democrats — are the biggest risk to us getting back to a majority.”

    Gosh, when you allow a pack of screeching, poo-flinging baboons to take control of your party, the brand suffers? Hoocoodanode. Tillis is right about Greene, but it’s…interesting that he focuses only on her. Gaetz, Gosar, etc., are just as terrible, and that’s only the Gs!

  39. 39.

    eclare

    Wow!  What an endorsement of Joe by the NABTU president on Morning Joe!  Great to see and well deserved.

  41. 41.

    smith

    Will wonders never cease — the Mittster said something that’s both witty and true!

    Romney: I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump’s character, and so far as I know you don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.

  44. 44.

    cope

    @Bupalos: Cayo Costa was one of the gems we discovered.  Though not open since Ian, the park had primitive cabins that my wife and I loved to stay in.  We had to haul all our food and bedding in but it was so worth the effort.  We made plenty of day visits from Sanibel in those days as well.

  45. 45.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Betty Cracker:

    The follow up question to Thom Tillis should be, “But she is very popular with Republican voters, more popular than you and your cohort. Have you considered whether she might BE the brand?”

  46. 46.

    Kay

    @Betty Cracker:

    I feel like the tone has shifted among Republicans and political media – like maybe MAGA isn’t such a slam dunk after all?  It’s the polling. You wouldn’t know it if you read only political reporters and pundits but Biden’s polling is improving. I actually don’t care if they cover it. I don’t think it matters. Voters are coming to their own conclusions without political media managing their narrative. it’s better.

  47. 47.

    TBone

    @eclare: I really like Sean McGarvey.  That was awesome.  He seems very knowledgeable and well spoken, a great guy to have in our corner.  He used the word ‘patrician’ today and I was like oh yeah! Vocabulary!  Woo hoo!

    Just looked him up, he’s a Philly guy, go figure.  More PA proud.

  48. 48.

    smith

    Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT Biden is so old he just got every dime of Ukraine aid and humanitarian relief he asked for despite Republican and Trump resistance and along the way he managed to flip the politics on immigration just for the hell of it.

  50. 50.

    smith

    @Kay: Looking at the numbers from PA last night, what’s really encouraging are the numbers from suburban counties. Haley got as much as 46% there.

  51. 51.

    TBone

    @smith: my hubby is one of them.  Only filled out one other (uncontested) vote on his ballot so they’d have to count it.

  54. 54.

    Kay

    The anti abortion “movement” is incredibly dishonest. It’s not the worst thing about them, but it really stands out – they lie constantly.
    This is true across fundie religious circles in my experience. They think Lying for the Lord is the way to salvation. It’s incredibly patronizing. The idea is they have to lie to non believers because non believers are too stupid to know better. I had an Amish leader tell me once he was allowed to rip off “English” in a land deal because they’re not saved so not really, I don’t know, people. They genuinely believe they are superior to you, which justifies any bad treatment of you. Only members of their tribe matter as far as morality or ethics.

    After nearly two years of losing elections, Republicans think they have an answer to their abortion problem: If you can’t beat them, pretend to be them.
    Disguised as initiatives to protect abortion rights, these measures would actually trick voters into codifying Republican bans.
    In Arizona, for example, Republicans are considering a ‘pro-choice’ amendment to distract from anger over the 1864 ban and to undercut a real abortion rights measure. A leaked strategy document shows that the amendment would claim to protect abortion up until 15 weeks, but be made toothless by restrictions enshrined alongside it.
    Republicans are even tossing around feminist-sounding names like the “Arizona Abortion Protection Act” and the “Arizona Abortion and Reproductive Care Act.” The goal is to make Arizonans believe they’re voting to protect abortion rights while directing them away from the measure that would actually do so.
    Something similar is happening in Nebraska, where a coalition of anti-abortion groups proposed a measure they hope will distract from a genuine abortion rights amendment. After the pro-choice group Protect Our Rights launched a ballot initiative to protect abortion until ‘viability’, conservatives proposed a similar-sounding amendment, Protect Women and Children.

  56. 56.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Simon Rosenberg with a bit of Hopium (Xitter):

    Friends, this is a single poll. A few points: – Biden/Ds gaining in natl polls, Biden had his best 2024 poll this week (Marist +6 w/likelies) – We now have polls w/Biden ahead in MI/PA/WI – 3 recent polls show NC up for grabs – Trump = raging dumpster fire Keep calm, carry on.

    For those commentating on the campus protests, a few @HarvardIOP youth poll data points: –

    • Vote intensity similar to spring of 2020, a high turnout year –
    • Biden is close to his 2020 results with likely 18-29 year voters –
    • Many issues rank much higher than Israel-Gaza

    The latest Harvard Youth Poll is out. What is the number 1 issue to young Democratic voters?  Women’s Reproductive Rights.

  57. 57.

    Kay

    Police Explorers are a Boy Scouts program where high school kids tag along with police to learn about policing. My oldest son was an Explorer, as was our county prosecutor -they say they were not abused,thank God, so narrowly dodged that bullet . Our Explorer program is closing due to lack of sign ups, which our local Right wing rag of a newspaper attributed to How Kids Are Just Bad These Days.
    Wrong. It’s the parents:

    Explorer sex-abuse findings:Police left to police themselves, violated victims’ trust
    Nearly 20 years later, across the United States, the exploitation of Explorers by law enforcement officers continues.
    In the wake of Louisville’s own Explorer scandal, in which two former officers have been accused of sexually abusing Scouts and the police department of covering it up, the Courier-Journal found that over the past 40 years, at least 137 girls and 26 boys have been allegedly raped, seduced, fondled, kissed, dated or otherwise exploited in 28 states by at least 129 law enforcement officers, firefighters and other advisers.

    I’d write a letter to the editor correcting them but they banned letters to the editor.

  60. 60.

    smith

    @Kay: This site keeps track of news items about child sexual abuse, with information about the offender’s occupation and/or relationship to the child. Unfortunately, a lot of the time that information is not included in the story, but for the ones that do give it, cops are cited more often than politicians, and slightly more often than church pastors.

  61. 61.

    Soprano2

    @TBone: They come through here when they’re migrating, but they don’t stay. My mother had a male who came to her bird feeders for a couple of days, and I got to see him. They’re a beautiful bird.

  62. 62.

    Betty Cracker

    @Kay: Yep, they are prolific liars and always have been. The “crisis pregnancy centers” have been hoodwinking panicky teenage girls for as long as I can remember. Before OTC pregnancy tests were widely available, they used to offer free pregnancy tests so they could lure scared kids in to subject them to proselytization and shaming. I guess they’re still doing that, but now they get red state taxpayer money to bamboozle women and girls.

  64. 64.

    Soprano2

    @Kay: In MO the woman who wrote the amendment the legislature is pushing to restrict the ability of voters to amend the constitution had “ballot candy” stripped out of it. She wants voters to think they’re voting to keep non-citizens from voting (already against the law in MO) and to keep foreign governments from taking sides in MO elections (again, already illegal) rather than voting to keep themselves from being able to ever amend the constitution again. Democrats in the Senate forced them to strip it out, but she wants it restored in the House. How dishonest is that, they know they can’t get people to vote for their measures unless they trick them into doing so. That’s how they got the Clean Missouri amendment establishing non-partisan redistricting removed – they put stuff like that in their measure restoring their ability to gerrymander, and it worked – the Clean Missouri amendment was repealed by the voters in 2020. It’s pathetic that they think what they want can’t stand on its own. They also put in the amendment that they’re trying to put on the ballot that “ballot candy” will be illegal from now on! Just total hypocrisy all around.

  65. 65.

    Jeffro

    We were out in far, far southern Illinois last weekend…does that count as “wandering aimlessly”?  It sure felt like it.

  66. 66.

    Sanjeevs

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups filed a lawsuit seeking to block a ban on the use of noncompete agreements, kicking off a legal battle over the fate of contracts that prevent most workers from joining rival firms.

    This looks like another winning issue for Biden. Around 30m people under Non-competes.

  67. 67.

    Jeffro

    @Betty Cracker: and that’s on top of McConnell taking shots at Tucker Carlson, Rep Gonzales taking shots at Rep Gaetz, and more.

    Just think years from now we’ll all be able to help our grandkids with their history reports on what caused the demise of the Republican Party.  (Tee hee 😁)

  69. 69.

    Jeffro

    @Kay: having trump back in the spotlight…having the House GOP’s antics playing on an endless loop…having Biden out there, visibly running hard/embracing his VP/producing results…

    …it had to have had effect on at least a few normies! 😃

  70. 70.

    Jeffro

    @SFAW: that is a good piece and I think he’s probably correct.

    How does trumpov improve his position from here?  (Answer: he can’t and won’t)

    The worst of the ‘oooo it’s a bad economy’ BS has passed.  Biden is out there, visibly running hard.  The GOP has gone berserk in its attacks on women’s reproductive rights all across the country.  Trump is about to spend the entire rest of the year tied up in his many felony trials.  Speaker Johnson just let aid to Ukraine through against trump’s and MTG’s wishes.  GOP officials are turning on each other on a daily basis.

    Even the anti-trump ads are getting better: “Would you hire this person?  If trump can’t get hired at a store in the mall…why should we re-hire him as president?”

    Add in all the advantages of incumbency, a well-funded campaign, etc.  The Kochs know it – that’s why they are pivoting to trying to take the Senate, in order to block Biden II.

    My question is, what happens at the RNC this summer?  When it is clear that trump is tanking (and possibly, clear that he is mentally unwell)?

  71. 71.

    eclare

    @Jeffro:

    I had lunch with my old school country club Republican aunt yesterday (she knows my politics).  She will never vote D, but she told me she was thankful that D’s in the House saved America’s reputation in the world by voting for aid to Ukraine.  She just hopes it isn’t too late for them.

  72. 72.

    Kay

    @SFAW:

    I like LGM. I just can’t read it because the busyness of the site drives me crazy. Pare it down! Also the badges and things are too complicated.

    its why I never took to Facebook. I hate how it looks.

  74. 74.

    Old School

    @NotMax:

    Happy Mostly American Palindrome Day!

    4/24/24

    If you want to continue celebrating, I’ve got good news for you about the next five days!

  75. 75.

    Jeffro

    @Kay: yup

    He drives up GOP turnout…but drives ours up even more.

    And 2024 is not 2016, or even 2020.  All but his hard core supporters are sick of his endless angry babbling and whining.  Everyone but that same hard core knows he’s both incompetent AND ready to unleash violence on his fellow Americans.

    I think there’s a decent chance that by the time we get to the RNC, the GOP powers-that-be make noise about replacing him on the ticket.  That’s when we’ll see some serious thug stuff going on, only this time it’ll be trump’s red hats intimidating their own delegates.

  76. 76.

    emjayay

    @Chief Oshkosh: I park on the street in Brooklyn. Only just recently I realized that there are a lot of birds here in winter, and that the leaves on trees catch a most of the bird poop before it gets to a parked car.

    There are no leaves on the trees in winter.

  78. 78.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Soprano2:

    I’m sure Thom Tillis would consider it rude. Cf. Nancy Mace’s outrage at George Stephanopoulos asking her a pertinent question to which she did not have a good answer.

  79. 79.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @SFAW:

    I’d rather see that written after it happens. I am leery of predictions about the demise of Trump or the MAGA movement.

  81. 81.

    rikyrah

    Because, OF COURSE….

     

    Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) posted at 7:59 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
    SCOOP: Looks like Trump has been using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between to pay lawyers, allowing him to keep some of the attorneys he’s paying hidden from the public. It’s an $8 million mystery—and experts say it’s probably illegal. Me @thedailybeast
    t.co/gF9dk7nUOs
    (https://x.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1783118671956549987?t=NQmHxNQ76ThbN4LA7snAnQ&s=03)

  83. 83.

    rikyrah

    Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) posted at 8:22 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
    Question on MSNBC just now on why Trump hasn’t attacked Pecker. My guess is that from Trump’s vantage point, Pecker has a lot of power, bc he can create stories (including negative and even fake ones) about HIM! So he has power/leverage; not in Trump’s interest to antagonize him. (Pecker can’t lie, he is already on record and AMI has a non prosecution agreement stipulating to certain facts, so I doubt that is the expectation.)
    (https://x.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1783124357763506597?t=ftjnt0Bt0WoDCf1ff3RT8Q&s=03)

  84. 84.

    smith

    @rikyrah: He may have stories about TFG in his back pocket that he didn’t make up, ones that are even worse than what has already come to light.

  86. 86.

    Miss Bianca

    @SFAW: OK, I’ll read it. (I was taking a break from LGM because of their relentless doomerism, but I won’t deny they have some good writers and some even better commenters.)

  88. 88.

    rikyrah

    hmmmm

     

    Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman are American Heroes! (@Sandra137198021) posted at 6:38 PM on Tue, Apr 23, 2024:
    My Prediction:

    Republicans throw Trump under the bus and try to save the Senate.

    They’ve given up on the House. It’s over.

    This RFK, Jr. thing isn’t working out so well, so they’ve given up on Trump. They know he’s losing…

    They will throw Trump under the bus.
    (https://x.com/Sandra137198021/status/1782917047472488598?t=WbyGYQncfxfrlsd0yHqC3Q&s=03)

  89. 89.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @SFAW: LG&M is a superb blog as long as you can ignore 1.) Loomis’ trolling on his political and cultural (music/food) hobby horses, 2.) Campos’ frequent doomerism and propensity to buy into any DOJ/Garland smear he finds (while dismissing or flat out ignoring any data/report showing countless other factors in why justice takes time) and 3.) the weird belief amongst the FP posters and commenters that Drive By Truckers are a massively important band.  They really aren’t that as big or popular as you would guess based on the consensus at LG&M.

  90. 90.

    Geminid

    @rikyrah: Maybe Lindsey Graham thinks Trump will lose now. I thought that about Karl Rove last month, when he went after Trump over his support of J6 defendents. They’re not denouncing Trump outright but instead are picking discrete areas of disagreement, previewing the blame-casting. It’s like they have begun to look past November and want to shape the post-Trump debate.

  91. 91.

    rikyrah

    truth

     

    17 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 3:51 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
    If you’ve ever seen little old folks who are well over 65 but who cannot retire (a different lot than the ones who did actually retire well, but who are just bored), it’s scary & pathetic.

    Clearly in declining health, and struggling to get into work every day.
    (https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1783056121256615969?t=3aOdS82TZSZzha6wGA8sBA&s=03)

  94. 94.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Jeffro: All but his hard core supporters are sick of his endless angry babbling and whining.

    I heard that he was whining to the reporters that he’s not seeing the mob of protestors he expected to see outside the courthouse. I don’t know if he has any at all. Except maybe Laura Loomer (she who chains herself to one side of a double gate). Thought I saw her name pop up in the last day or two.

  95. 95.

    rikyrah

    This racist attacking Black Medical Students.

    Go colorfullstory!!!

    colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 5:41 AM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
    Now remember
    These Black doctors did not seek out Lauren
    Lauren’s inner ancestral klan bleach demon felt triggered by Black people existing beyond stereotypes so she posted this
    Remember that the next time yall ask why is everything about race in America
    (x.com/colorfullstory/status/1783083874089623701?t=fe1gyBDheCpLoeP61EcIgw&s=03)

  97. 97.

    SFAW

    @Melancholy Jaques:

    The thing which made it more interesting is that Campos semi-predicted TFG in 2015.

    Yes, everyone gets lucky once in awhile, etc. etc., but considering his “doomerism” (as others describe it) …

  98. 98.

    Trollhattan

    Soggy rural Florida sounds a lot like California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Ditch the GPS and leave the map at home–who am I kidding, maps?–and 1. You’ll be lost soon enough and 2. You’ll discover at least one Really Neat Thing.

    Finding your way home: optional.

  99. 99.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Jeffro: I’m amazed what a slow and messy process it is. I’m pretty sure it’s as dead as the Whigs and yet the zombie body keeps rising again and putting people into the House and Senate, and against all reason and sanity That Guy is a viable candidate for President.

    Maybe the Whigs’ death was similarly long and painful. I’m embarrassingly ignorant about history.

  103. 103.

    Layer8Problem

    @Miss Bianca: It’s that Campos, in my estimation, has always been a doomist, albeit not quite to the level of Gloomis; and yet, he’s speaking with some positivity.

  105. 105.

    geg6

    @SFAW:

    I have certainly trashed them here, but I can deal, mostly, with Lemeiux and Campos.  It’s Loomis who drives me insane.  Such a jackass.  I just mostly quit reading his stuff.

    I think Campos may (she says very cautiously) be right again.

  106. 106.

    geg6

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    the weird belief amongst the FP posters and commenters that Drive By Truckers are a massively important band. They really aren’t that as big or popular as you would guess based on the consensus at LG&M.

    I, too, find this hysterical.  No, guys, DBT is not the world’s greatest band and almost no one I know has any idea who they are.

  108. 108.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @geg6: It’s kind of hilarious.  It all feels like “there’s this band that only us cool kids know about.”  I tried checking them out a couple times and they really didn’t do anything for me.  They’re like a bargain-basement version of Wilco with less interesting songs, arrangements, lyrics and musicianship.

  109. 109.

    Bill Arnold

    @SFAW:
    Campos is not wrong, and he is NOT counseling complacency. (E.g. the electoral college tilts POTUS elections Republican.)
    The title of the piece, “The world is changed: Cassandra on Zoloft”, is a bit of gentle self-mockery, too. Good to see.

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