Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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

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

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Wait, what?

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

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

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

T R E 4 5 O N

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

We still have time to mess this up!

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

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

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

He really is that stupid.

People are weird.

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

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  4. 4.

    Jack Roy

    Nngh. Just thinking of what the S,N! guys are going to do in retaliation for this gives me the jibblies. Someone needs to draft a Butt-Metal Youtube Non-Proliferation Treaty, and fast.

    The jibbly-jibblies.

  5. 5.

    Tony Alva

    Funny story about that Jackyl singer… When I first moved to Atlanta they were enjoying C list celeb status. They had a small following and that video in light rotation, but they did have the support of a couple local radio stations. One of the radio stations scheduled a publicity stunt whereby the singer would show up, seemingly unannounced, to a local pub grub eatery and slice a table into with a chainsaw. Well, Jackyl singer dude and/or the station/establishment got the time/date/location wrong and the poor guy scared the piss out of unsuspecting lunch diners and wound up being arrested.

    Absolutely hysterical.

    Perry,

    Don’t know if you’re a real metal fan or not, but riddle me this: Why couldn’t a guy like Y.J. Malmsteen ever figure out that if you can’t get a singer who can write or sing a melody it’s going to sound like crap.

    TA

  6. 6.

    demimondian

    Hey! Perry, I *love* Malmstein’s performances. (No, seriously.) His music is ghastly, but, my God, that man can play the Guitar.

    (And, besides, isn’t his song _Liar_ dedicated to Dick Cheney?)

  7. 7.

    Perry Como

    Don’t know if you’re a real metal fan or not, but riddle me this: Why couldn’t a guy like Y.J. Malmsteen ever figure out that if you can’t get a singer who can write or sing a melody it’s going to sound like crap.

    It’s one of the great mysteries of the universe.

    Metal has been doing some interesting subgenre break downs lately:

    Swedish curling metal.
    AD&D metal.
    Viking metal.
    Pirate metal. Yes, a parrot is the lead singer of Hatebeak.

    By interesting I mean “wtf?!”

  8. 8.

    LITBMueller

    Speaking of songs so bad they wish you were DEAD….

    Another Enron-tied suspect has been found dead: Neil Coulbeck, A Royal Bank of Scotland exec questioned by FBI in connection with Enron, has been found dead in a park in East London.

    That makes three: Coulbeck, Ken Lay, and the Cliff Baxter “suicide” in 2002.

    Anyone else starting to think of “Goodfellas?” I wonder who will be found in a dumpster…

  9. 9.

    demimondian

    C’mon, Perry, if you’re going to mention Malmstein and Vikings, you ought to at least add a pointer to the…inimitable…_I am a Viking_. The lyics are vintage, with such gems as:

    You are a loser
    And you will taste my steel
    You are a loser
    And it's such a shame
    That you don't know it

    I mean, really, can anyone do better?

  11. 11.

    capelza

    I feel like I hit the wrong link and went to Metal Sludge.

    Though there aren’t enough Kiss avatars here. :)

  12. 12.

    Rusty Shackleford

    I broke my arm when I was a freshman in high school and my friend, who is now a doctor, signed my cast “Yngwie” (his nickname).

    Yngwie Malmsteen cracks me up. We used to cut out of high school during finals to watch Yngwie concert videos and 70’s porn. Those were the days…

    Btw, anyone see that the doctor who blew up his NYC brownstone was a wingnut?

    Here’s 14-page suicide note.

    My favorite is:

    Why U.S. Company’s cannot make a few holes in Alaska?

  13. 13.

    demimondian

    I never noticed that there were lyrics in Malmsteen songs

    I don’t think that Malsteen ever did, either. At least, that’s how I rationalize them.

  15. 15.

    The Other Steve

    This is funny

    Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) offers a few more lessons learned:

    Mr. Speaker, yesterday the President said we continue to be wise about how we spend the people’s money.

    “Then why are we paying over $100,000 for a ‘White House Director of Lessons Learned’?

    “Maybe I can save the taxpayers $100,000 by running through a few of the lessons this White House should have learned by now.

    “Lesson 1: When the Army Chief of Staff and the Secretary of State say you are going to war without enough troops, you’re going to war without enough troops.

    “Lesson 2: When 8.8 billion dollars of reconstruction funding disappears from Iraq, and 2 billion dollars disappears from Katrina relief, it’s time to demand a little accountability.

    “Lesson 3: When you’ve ‘turned the corner’ in Iraq more times than Danica Patrick at the Indy 500, it means you are going in circles.

    “Lesson 4: When the national weather service tells you a category 5 hurricane is heading for New Orleans, a category 5 hurricane is heading to New Orleans.

    “I would also ask the President why we’re paying for two ‘Ethics Advisors’ and a ‘Director of Fact Checking.’

    “They must be the only people in Washington who get more vacation time than the President.

    “Maybe the White House could consolidate these positions into a Director of Irony.”

  18. 18.

    Perry Como

    Has BJ ever done an informal political survey like this one? I think it’d be interesting to see where people fall on the scale. I’m a looney liberal leftist that suffers from BDS:

    You are a Social Liberal (90% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (80% permissive) You are best described as a: Libertarian You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.

  20. 20.

    John S.

    Has BJ ever done an informal political survey like this one?

    We sure did. A while back.

    Hello Social Liberal/Economic Conservative. As for me, I’m a Social Liberal (61% permissive)/Economic Liberal (26% permissive).

  21. 21.

    demimondian

    Heh. So, Tim, you may or may not have once asked a question of the Resident Republicans here, and included demimondian as an example. You’ll be amused to know that according to the highly scientific test, I’m a genuine lefty nanny-state type:

    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (63% permissive)

    and an…

    Economic Liberal
    (35% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Democrat

    You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.

  22. 22.

    Perry Como

    You’ll be amused to know that according to the highly scientific test

    That’s why I qualified it with “informal political survey”. And it’s something that’s on a dating site (didn’t realize that until I hit the root).

  23. 23.

    Jay C

    Yo, Rusty: thanks for the link to Dr. Gasline’s Last Screed: Doc Bartha’s home urban-renewal project scared the { } out of me: his townhouse is/was maybe 50 yards in a straight line from where I’m staying – fortunately all we got was a smell of smoke. But at least no we know part of his problem:

    Even now the Neverlands consulate in N.Y. employs Cordula.

    (His soon-to-be-ex-wife)

    I just KNEW it would be Michael Jackson’s fault, somehow! Is there no stopping him??!!

  24. 24.

    p.lukasiak

    >MAKE IT STOP!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!!

    …..oh, so that’s what that ll button does….

  25. 25.

    The Other Steve

    Interesting…

    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (78% permissive)

    and an…

    Economic Moderate
    (43% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Democrat

    You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc:

    See, that’s what I get for taking moderate positions on things.

    I guess to become a Republican, I have to agree to toss people in prison for having children without a license.

  26. 26.

    The Other Steve

    I’m worried about the number of people who appear on their charts as Fascist and Totalitarian.

    But it’s interesting how much more moderate Democrats are on economic issues.

  27. 27.

    demimondian

    Actually, given some of my answers to their questions (like the one about setting a standard if one has kids), I really expected to be labelled a reactionary, so I was very puzzled by their final measure.

    I know — they know who I really am, and they’re…looking for me. But I’m not worried, I’m protected by a well-documented protection device.

  28. 28.

    rbl

    heh:

    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (83% permissive)

    and an…

    Economic Liberal
    (3% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Socialist

    yeah, more or less

  29. 29.

    rbl

    heh:

    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (83% permissive)

    and an…

    Economic Liberal
    (3% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Socialist

    yeah, more or less, but what really bugs me is that anarchist is at the extreme of libertarianism. Anarchists generally don’t belive in private property, or wages, or a few other tenants of capitalism.

  32. 32.

    Ancient Purple

    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (80% permissive)

    and an…

    Economic Liberal
    (15% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Socialist

    You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.

    There we go.

    Ignore that last post.

  33. 33.

    John S.

    Wow, I had no idea that so many of us were of the same political stripe…

    Social and Economic Liberals – UNITE!

  35. 35.

    Dave So

    Fred Goodwin ex senior director of The Royal Bank of Scotland should lose his pension. He hasn’t done well for his company and should suffer the consequences. Should the senior director for any company not be held responsible? Letting him get away with such a big pension is ludicrous.

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