Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Let there be snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

So many bastards, so little time.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

No one could have predicted…

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

“But what about the lurkers?”

Be a wild strawberry.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

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

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Bark louder, little dog.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

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Happy Monday to all. Today is the astronomical Summer Solstice, but the traditional “Midsummer Eve” celebrations are usually held on the evening of June 23, so you still have time to find a beach where bonfires may be lit and intoxicants consumed. (Of course in America, we’ve repurposed the ancient group pyromaniacal urge to July 4th, but I say the more stuff lit up the better.) I thought about posting some traditional Midsummer bonfire videos, or a clip of a young Judi Dench doing Vulcan bikini cosplay, but no visual could outdo this shot of the aurora australis from space:
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(h/t Bad Astronomy via Gawker)

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I wonder why this is happening

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Remember, folks, Glenn Beck, Rush, and the rest are just entertainers:

Among the more troubling were incidents that arose from residents’ seething resentment that anyone from the government would seek their personal information.

Some people pointedly mentioned President Obama.

While conducting follow-ups in an upscale Seattle neighborhood, Grover Ellis said he came across a woman who considered him an agent of Obama, not the U.S. government.

“The idea of the census just enraged her,” said Ellis, 64, stressing that the overwhelming majority of people he met were welcoming and responsive. “The way she saw the census, she was required to help Obama. And she wasn’t going to do anything to help out Obama.”

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In a rural part of California’s Nevada County northeast of Sacramento, two census workers told authorities that a man ordered them off his land. He mentioned his submachine gun, then followed them down the drive with a crossbow in hand. No charges were brought against the resident, the sheriff’s department said.

This is all going to get a lot worse, of course. When terrible things happen it will probably be the work of liberal plants.

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On a boat, motherfucker

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Yesterday, I thought about going on my local Tea Party website and spoofing “Joe Barton was right, this *was* a Chicago-style shakedown and we all do owe Tony Hayward an apology”. But it turns out a lot of winger are already seriously saying this. We can’t be more than three or four days from the official “Joe Barton was right” opinion piece in the Washington Post, to be written by some AEI/Heritage bigwig.

Nevertheless, standing with Tony Hayward against Obama seems an increasingly foolish political move:

BP chief executive Tony Hayward, often criticized for being tone-deaf to U.S. concerns about the worst oil spill in American history, took time off Saturday to attend a glitzy yacht race off England’s Isle of Wight.

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You Know Who Else Ran a Nation and Liked Dogs?

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Hitler. Just saying.

Cute piece in the Washington Post with a 36 picture spread about all the dogs our Congressmen take to work. There is a dog named Maya who looks a lot like Lily in there, although my favorite picture is Kent Conrand in the elevator carrying his pup.

Speaking of dogs, it appears that as long as I have Rosie, my days of sleeping in past 6 are over. Looks like I am going to have to crate train her or I will never get to sleep in again (although I usually wake up around 6:30 to 7 anyway).

Also, I have noticed a distinct difference in the attitudes of Lily and Rosie. Lily is content to just spend time near me. Rosie, on the other hand, has very firm ideas about how I should be spending my time. Not surprisingly, they all involve her. Since I found her the other day, I don’t recall her being more than three feet away from me. I also had forgotten about the intensity of a Jack Russell stare, which can bore through human flesh. “Why aren’t we doing fun things? Why aren’t we doing fun things? Why aren’t we doing fun things? Why aren’t we doing fun things?” I’m so screwed.

Also, amusingly, someone is too pudgy to jump up on the bed. It is about 3 feet off the ground, and Lily can stand at the base and jump up no problem, but Rosie has to get a running start and barely makes it. What this means is that if I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I have to turn the light on and pick Rosie up and put her back in bed before I can go back to sleep, since she inevitably jumped down thinking I was going to do something fascinating like throw a ball or hand out treats or go for a walk.

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