Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

We still have time to mess this up!

So many bastards, so little time.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

The words do not have to be perfect.

“They all knew.”

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

You cannot shame the shameless.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Let there be snark.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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  2. 2.

    Phylllis

    Weekend went by mighty fast. Looks like we’re going to have to keep an eye peeled for Hurricane Irene in these parts by the end of the week. Sure hope it just turns out to be a good soaking rain.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    I agree. Wish one of these pop-up storms would at least cool things off. Well, looking at the projected path of Irene, if it doesn’t veer off or fizzle out, we may get some of the rain on the leading edge. But that’s probably close to a week away.

    How about those Braves!?

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    Omnes Omnibus

    It looks like prosecutors may drop the the charges in the Strauss-Kahn case. Link.

    ETA: Doesn’t mean he didn’t do it. Doesn’t mean he did do it and a political fix is in. Probably just means that prosecutors really don’t think that they will be able to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.

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    Phylllis

    @SiubhanDuinne: We’re about 60-70 miles from the SC coast, so likely not so much in the direct path. We are on the evacuation route though, and if the coast is evacuated we’ll have to look at possible school closures due to sheltering, etc. So I get to be on call to alert the media*. Thanks for the good thoughts.

    *Yes, I do hear John Geilgud in my head whenever I say/type that.

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Phylllis:

    LOL, I constantly use the “I’ll alert the media” line, probably to the point where my colleagues have forgotten where it came from!

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    Phyllis

    @siubhanDuinne: And hell yeah about those Braves! Fun games to watch all weekend.

    No reply button that l can find on the ‘droid.

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    ExpatDanBKK

    Thanks for that vid (I think LOL). I sooooo miss living in Japan (I had a condo 150M from the Harajuku train station for five years, and then moved to Shinshibashi in Osaka). Other places I’ve lived in, even Hong Kong, Singapore and now Bangkok, suck totally lifestyle-wise in comparison to Japan…

    Yes, this is a non-political post. The whole US political thing depresses me, even tho’ I have not lived in the US for decades, since I really do care about my country and still pay taxes to it. I wish I could see a positive outcome of all this. But it is hard….

    Oh, sorry. Don’t want to be depressing.

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