Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Republicans in disarray!

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

How stupid are these people?

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

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

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

All hail the time of the bunny!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

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Get Off My Grass

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Am I the only one who gets pissed off when people send me emails marked as urgent? Isn’t that pretty damned presumptuous? Shouldn’t I be the one that gets to determine it is urgent? And if it is so damned important, call me.

And it really pisses me off when it is marked as urgent and turns out to be a mass mailing and it has NOTHING to do with me.

And one more thing. Ed Schultz just spent fifteen minutes talking about the party crashers, and actually said “What is one of them were a ninja? Obama could have been killed.”

Just shoot me.

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A Village Story

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This story was hand-made for DougJ:

Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky.

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Mezvinsky is a son of former Pennsylvania Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and former Iowa Rep. Ed Mezvinsky, longtime friends of the Clintons. Ed Mezvinsky was released from federal prison last year after pleading guilty in 2002 to charges of bank and wire fraud.

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The couple became friends as teenagers in Washington and both attended Stanford University. They now live in New York, where Mezvinsky works at Goldman Sachs and Clinton is attending graduate school at Columbia University’s School of Public Health.

Whenever you find the nexus of money and power, Goldman Sachs will be involved.

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Open Thread

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fuddmain, Anhinga.

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Jeff, Black Rhinoceros Spraying a Trail.

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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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Steelers Open Thread

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This time for reals, although I don’t even feel like it is game day. I sort of feel like this is a scrimmage or a pre-season game, because I honestly have no expectation that we might win. I guess this is what it is like to be a Browns fan.

In other news, memeorandum’s top story is a bunch of wingnuts who couldn’t tell you what a Pearson’s correlation is (or, for that matter, spell correlation) are claiming that the modeling done by some of the smartest people in the world is fake and a scandal. How do they come to that conclusion?

Because shut up, that’s why!

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Give ’em enough thread

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There was a request for an open thread, even though there are two fresh threads up already. I do what I’m told.

Question: I did some wine-tasting in the Willamette Valley yesterday (visiting my sister in Portland). Any interest in some wine blogging about expensive pinot noirs? I worry that it might seem, well, too fru-fru.

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