Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

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

Their shamelessness is their super power.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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

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

The revolution will be supervised.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Come on, man.

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Here is a shot of Tunch lying behind me bitching because he wants more food.

He was down to 16 lbs at the last vet visit the other day, and we have lowered his food intake from 1/2-2/3 a cup a day to no more than 1/2 cup, and he is pissy. I have been doing it slowly because I read you can blow out a cat’s liver by putting them on too much of a diet.

In other news, does anyone know of any way to add your own artwork to Itunes? I have several albums with no artwork, and that irritates me. Also, I am wondering if there is any way to find out what Dead show this set came from:

Jack Straw
Stagger Lee
Wang Dang Doodle
It Must Have Been The Roses
Memphis Blues
Tennessee Jed
Let It Grow
Here Comes Sunshine
Playing in the Band
Box of Rain

The name of the disc was “Here Comes Sunshine,” but it was an off label disc and I can not find it anymore. Likewise, I appear to have lost my copy of it (I bought my copy at a now out of business local store), and I know there was a second disc that had an amazing Drums/Space, and I would like to get it. If anyone can figure out what show that was, it would be much appreciated.

*** Update ***

Also, I saw this picture at TPM:

You know you have issues if your first response was “God, I hate the Browns.” Being a Steelers fan is a full time job.

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Joe Klein, unplugged:

Bush flunkies trying to argue that Obama is more polarizing than Bush was. Given the fact that Obama had to take dramatic action, at home and abroad, to start lifting the country from the mess Bush made almost everywhere–and also begin to turn the country aware from the myopia and greed of the Reagan era–it’s amazing that he hasn’t raised more dust or teabags. And, I should add the fact that the alleged polarization mostly results from the fact that Obama gets extremely low ratings from self-identified Republicans, who constitute an extremist shard of a party at this point, is a badge of honor.

In the long run, it’s a safe historical bet that Bush will prove more polarizing than Obama because he was such an abject failure in the job–I doubt we’ll ever see Obama submerge to approval ratings in the mid-20s, or launch wars peremptorily without cause or purpose. The constant sniping from Rove, Wehner and the others during Obama’s first 100 days is a deeply neurotic reaction to the enormity of their own cockups in office. It shows a profound lack of class or grace, but then, that’s no surprise with these guys, is it? They ran the country like thugs, and thugs they remain.

Yes. Yes. And one thousand times, yes.

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Afternoon Open Thread

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Thought we could use one. Still working my way through all my cd’s, and ran across some Man or Astro Man. Again, long time since I have played that.

You know what really irritates me about the tea parties? The basic fact that if right now, it were President John McCain and not President Obama, and nothing else had changed, these tea parties wouldn’t exist. You know it, I know it, and even the teabaggers know it. It is just such transparent bullshit that it is offensive. The most these guys ever did during the last lost eight years was put a limp Porkbusters logo on their website, but now that we have President Malcom X George McGovern Shabazz, they are freaking out like there is no tomorrow. So absurd.

You know what else I think of every time I think of Dick Armey or Newt Gingrich or these Club for Growth clowns flogging this nonsense? The movie Bob Roberts. A friend and I have decided that movie is a more accurate representation of American politics the last three decades than any news piece, history book, or documentary. Why isn’t Bob Roberts on a channel every night of the week somewhere? It should be.

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Blackwater on water

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It’s hard to imagine anything going wrong with this plan:

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and a growing number of national security experts are calling on Congress to consider using letters of marque and reprisal, a power written into the Constitution that allows the United States to hire private citizens to keep international waters safe.

Used heavily during the Revolution and the War of 1812, letters of marque serve as official warrants from the government, allowing privateers to seize or destroy enemies, their loot and their vessels in exchange for bounty money.

Here’s one of those national security experts:

“If we have 100 American wanna-be Rambos patrolling the seas, it’s probably a good way of getting the job done,” said Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow and security expert Eli Lehrer.

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Not to turn this blog over completely to my dyspeptic rantings about coffee, although at this point, that may be a noticeable improvement over the rest of my posts, but on the suggestion of many, I was set to have a cup of Dunkin Donuts medium roast while waiting for the Community Coffee I’m ordering to show up. Sadly, I fat-fingered the mug and dropped it, smashing my new favorite mug into a thousand pieces on the kitchen tile and shooting hot coffee everywhere. It smelled great.

I’m back to drinking coffee out of a measuring cup again, it seems. I really need to find a coffee mug I like and order 100 of them. Or install rubber floors.

Here is a picture of Abby, who belonged to commenter Polish the Guillotines, and had to be put down yesterday after 18 years:

Not that it makes it any easier, but eighteen years is a pretty solid run. The most awesome cat ever, the cat we had as a kid, Mr. Purr Puff (my sister named him), lived for close to twenty years, and at one point my father’s only goal in life was to “outlive that God damned cat.”

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You People Sure Like Your Coffee

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In the seven plus years I have been running this website, I have never received as many emails about a specific post as I have in the past 24 hours regarding last night’s rambling coffee post. I have received at least 50 emails, varying in length from a link to a coffee store to 2-3 page long pieces from NASA engineers (not a joke) with detailed bean descriptions and brewing instructions.

At any rate, I just wanted a decent coffee I could use as an every day drink, so I think I am just going to go with Community Coffee, although I am going to try some of the other ones for special occasions. My local grocery has Peet’s, but it is already ground.

**** INCOMING BSG SPOILER STOP READING ***

In other news, I am finally working my way through season 2.5 of BSG, and I cheered loudly when Admiral Cain was shot. I don’t think there has been a character I viscerally disliked as much as her in a long, long time.

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Mary in the comments says I’m not being very gracious, and now that I re-read this post, it does seem kind of snide. I didn’t mean it that way. I just thought it was funny that coffee, of all the thousands of things we have talked about, provoked such a response. I am grateful for every email and read every one, and had no idea there were good coffee houses in Fiji and Oklahoma and all the other places. In fact, one of the emails mentioned an aeropress, which I am definitely going to get. I didn’t mean to sound like a jackass. It is just natural, I guess.

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