Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

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

White supremacy is terrorism.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Consistently wrong since 2002

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

Let me file that under fuck it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

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

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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Miners Trapped

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Some thirteen miners are trapped after a mine explosion about 60 miles down the road:

An explosion at a coal mine trapped 13 miners more than a mile underground, a county emergency official said Monday.

The explosion happened about 8 a.m. at the Sago Mine in Upshur County, said Steve Milligan, deputy director of the county’s Office of Emergency Management. Six miners made it out of the mine and refused treatment.

The trapped miners’ condition was not immediately known as an attempt by coworkers to reach them was unsuccessful, Milligan said.

“They essentially came to a wall,” Milligan said. “So they can’t get to them at this time.” The miners were one to two miles underground, he said.

I hope we get them out ok.

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The Saga of John Demjanjuk

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When I read this, I flashed back to my teens when this first hit my radar:

An immigration judge on Wednesday ordered John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, deported to his native Ukraine, but the 30-year legal battle still may not be over.

Mr. Demjanjuk, 85, has been fighting to stay in this country since the 1970’s.

The United States first tried to deport him in 1977. Mistakenly suspected of being a guard known as Ivan the Terrible at the Treblinka concentration camp, he was extradited to Israel, where he was sentenced to be hanged.

But the Israeli Supreme Court determined that Ivan had been someone else.

Mr. Demjanjuk lost his United States citizenship in 2002 after a judge ruled that documents from World War II proved he was a Nazi guard at various death or forced labor camps.

Have any of you followed this case and have an idea whether or not he really is who he is accused of being? I would have thought the ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court would have ended things, but apparently it has not.

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Quick Hits

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My internet has been going in and out all day long, and I have about 5 things I want to write about, but every time I try to post, my connection dies. Quick links will have to do, since I am tired of trying and am going to just retire to the couch:

Two stories in the NY Times which I thought were interesting. One about plans to recycle nuclear waste, one about conservation programs in Texas.

Next, Wired magazine is having an end of the year lists thingee, and came up with a list of the ten sexiest geeks that included Chris Mooney and Nick Denton but left out Morgan Webb, the hot gamer chick from G4. No disrespect meant to Chris Mooney or Nick Denton, but come on.

In other news, John McCain, the man who has no problem making all sorts of moral and other decisions for you, including whether or not you can have an abortion, whether or not you can use any number of controlled substances, whether or not you can play dirty video games, and what you do with your money in regards to political activities, has finally found something that should be left to the individual- whether or not intelligent design is fact or fiction:

“Let the student decide.” With those well-chosen words John McCain summed up his view on the teaching of “intelligent design” along with evolution in public schools.

Even — or perhaps especially — with controversial topics, Arizona’s ubiquitous senior U.S. senator has an uncanny knack for saying things his audience wants to hear. In this case, Mr. Straight Talk was imparting words of wisdom in an interview with MTV News.

Much more here on McCain from Steve Benen. In other ID news, check out this piece by the Commissar about ID’s Political Problem.

Finally, I just heard on NOVA that the earthquake that caused the tsunami last year was so big that it caused the earth to change course by two centimeters and shortened the day by 3 millionths of a second. Wow.

That is it- I will be back tomorrow when my connection is more stable. I called Adelphia, and they are aware of the problem and working on it.

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