Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

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

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

The lights are all blinking red.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

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  1. 1.

    Zam

    Saw a decent sized anti-war protest today, in fact it was about the same size as the tea party protest here the other day. Not a single mention on the evening news though.

  2. 2.

    Jeffro

    O.M.G. (to use my 8-year-old daughter’s favorite phrase)…I knew coming to this blog would pay off in the long run.

    I’ll see your “always been a fan” and raise you a “was a fan even through the serious suck years” (and just eagerly downloaded new Slash w/ Ian Astbury on vocals…I’ll take what I can get at this point!)

    If you want a good copy of Peace Dog, I have a few non-album versions that were on the Rare Cult box set, and do they ever RAWK – I put ’em on iTunes, so however I can send that to you, let me know!

  3. 3.

    KSH

    Peace is a dirty word
    She used to be a faded bird, yeah
    And war, she’s a whore,
    Don’t you know we love her, more and more

    (from memory – hope that’s right?)

  5. 5.

    Cat Lady

    @jeffreyw:

    Lamb or beef? Homemade tzatziki? Yum!!

    In honor of asiangrrrlmn who went to NC to see this woman, and is also an antidote to whatever horrible hair band crap that was that I just subjected my beautiful mind to. Also. Too

  6. 6.

    Bnut

    Holy christ, my girl took me to Peter Lugar’s Steakhouse for my birthday dinner last night. And she got me an atlas of famous battles printed in 1876. I don’t know what love is, but I think I’m getting close to finding out. It’s nice dating a girl woman smarter than you are.

  7. 7.

    BruceFromOhio

    Oooh, Electric. It would resurface like a bout of ebola, destroying other music forms and eclipsing rational thought.

    For about a week. Then back into hiding it goes for another year or two.

  10. 10.

    debit

    Caribou’s new dark roast, Lacuna, is possibly the best coffee I’ve ever had. My daughter just bought me 5 pounds worth of beans. I am the luckiest mom on the face of the earth.

  12. 12.

    gbear

    @Zam:

    There’s going to be a protest tomorrow moring in St. Paul at St. Thomas University (mottto: the best business degree that money can buy).

    The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis have invited two leaders of the fight against same-sex marriage in California’s Proposition 8 battle in 2008, Maggie Gallagher and Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, to speak about bringing the battle against marriage equality to Minnesota.

    I’m going to try to be there. If I make a sign, it will say:

    As if I’m going to let the Catholic church tell ME who I’m not supposed to love.

  13. 13.

    debit

    @gbear: They really want to fight this battle now? All one would need is a sign with a pic of the smiling pope and the words: No to gay marriage, yes to raping little boys.

  14. 14.

    Zam

    @gbear: Damn if I knew about that in advance I might have tried to get out there. Oh well, I’ll give my sister a heads up for it.

  15. 15.

    slag

    If you haven’t seen the Faux News Jail clip yet, I highly recommend it: tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/fox-news-its-very-finest. This alternate reality world we’re living in has got to be one of our biggest problems. Maybe Jake Tapper will show this tape of his “sister” organization to his own viewers as a means of airing out the family’s dirty laundry. Or maybe not.

  17. 17.

    BettyPageisaBlonde

    Ack! This is The Cult’s faux AC/DC shit. It’s all I can hear when people put this album on.

    She Sells Sanctuary? Now we’re talkin’.

  18. 18.

    Kristine

    My favorite Cult song is “Black Angel.” It has that graphic novel cursed wanderer-slash-gunslinger thing going. Shane with an edge.

  20. 20.

    Jeffro

    Zap City, The Witch, umpteen remixes of She Sells Sanctuary, and if you’ve got your lighter handy, Bleeding Heart Graffiti

  21. 21.

    Jeffro

    However, tonight is “Sometime Around Midnight”, by Airborne Toxic Event…

    …yes, I know I’m late to the party. =)

  23. 23.

    robert green

    E! True Hollywood story:

    when i first moved to LA at 22 to make my fortune etc. on my very first day in the city i went to look for a soccer game, as i am wont to do. happened on a pick up game at UCLA. there was a guy playing, sun-weathered face, rocker hair, and a wicked left foot. i kept staring at him–i knew this guy, but couldn’t place it. finally, after the game, i say: fuck, that’s Billy Duffy of the Cult!!!! i saw him rock it at the Rat in Boston AND at some place in Hartford!!!! my first star sighting!!!!!

    20 years later, we still play soccer together. billy is a super person and still can tear it up both on the guitar and on the field.

  26. 26.

    hypusine

    Mobile text entry fail. I meant:

    The entire solar system is islamofascist thanks to our cryptic Islam president. I know this because I looked up and saw that the moon is a crescent. I now suspect that, given proper magnification, there are crescents everywhere. WHY IS THE MEDIA NOT REPORTING THIS?!

  27. 27.

    robert green

    that fact that john and dougj are such brilliant writers is JUST enough to overcome the fact that john thinks that republicans somehow changed under W. like they weren’t always the same fucking liars and cheats and frauds until suddenly W. rode in a horse of shit.

    i find that unforgivable BUT I AM STRUGGLING TO BE A BIGGER MAN in my senescense.

    anyway Renato, grumble grumble grumble as usual i should be at coachella etc.

  28. 28.

    Comrade Kevin

    That album is pretty fucking awesome.

    and now, I’m downloading it thru iTunes, because I only have it on vinyl.

  31. 31.

    Ejoiner

    I was a big fan back in high school – and went with a car load of friends to see the Cult open for Billy Idol in Houston (probably around 1985 or so). Man, that was a show. Idol put on a great performance but he kept forgetting the lyrics. The stage design was a giant backdrop of a woman’s open legs (parted and feet out toward the audience) with a giant mock up of his head rising between the thighs. Ahhh, so classy!

  33. 33.

    ZippyD

    “She Sells Sanctuary” one of my top ten. Also “Rain”, “Nirvana” oh hell just by the album “Love” and let er go!

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