Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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

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

Fight them, without becoming them!

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

T R E 4 5 O N

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The lights are all blinking red.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

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Thursday Morning Open Thread

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Only been up for a little bit and today is already turning out to be a mess. Really weird weather- about 40-45 degrees, but the wind is just whipping around like it is April, and the sky is gun metal gray. Even Lily said “to hell with this” about ten minutes into the walk.

At any rate, woke up to two automated messages reminding me about Dr’s. aapointments I had forgotten about and have double-scheduled other things to do to today, so don’t expect me back until later this afternoon. I will leave you with this headline via memeorandum:

“Utahns growing tired of Bennett”

The only reason I bring you that is not because I know of a Democrat who could beat Bennett, but because I had no idea that was how you spelled Utahns. Ohioans (F the bengals!), Pennsylvanians, West Virginians- I could spell all of those, but never in a million years if I were on Jeopardy would I have gotten Utahns right. Utahns looks like a name for a German street.

Now you are prepared, and I feel as if I have performed a duty. I will be back later.

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Cheryl, Bryce Canyon reimagined in pastels.

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Paul, Pray Lake.

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Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one.

Click on the photos for a link to the photographer’s website. To see all photo threads, click on ‘photo blogging’ at the bottom of the post.

If your computer cannot read our email links at top right, my email is (remove the zeroes): portus0jackson0ii at yahoo dot com.

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Early Morning Open Thread: Shared Intentionality

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An article in the New York Times (We May Be Born With an Urge to Help) suggests that the ongoing anthropological argument about the relative importance of aggression versus cooperation on the development of human society may be swinging in favor of the DFH preference. As a blogger, I found the following particularly poignant :

Children not only feel they should obey these rules themselves, but also that they should make others in the group do the same. Even 3-year-olds are willing to enforce social norms. If they are shown how to play a game, and a puppet then joins in with its own idea of the rules, the children will object, some of them vociferously.

Where do they get this idea of group rules, the sense of “we who do it this way”? Dr. Tomasello believes children develop what he calls “shared intentionality,” a notion of what others expect to happen and hence a sense of a group “we.” It is from this shared intentionality that children derive their sense of norms and of expecting others to obey them.

Shared intentionality, in Dr. Tomasello’s view, is close to the essence of what distinguishes people from chimpanzees. A group of human children will use all kinds of words and gestures to form goals and coordinate activities, but young chimps seem to have little interest in what may be their companions’ minds.

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