Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

Second rate reporter says what?

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I love the NY Times because they produce editorials like this.

The Bush administration’s plans for military tribunals to try suspected terrorists are less troubling now than they were when the idea was first announced four months ago. But there is still no practical or legal justification for having the tribunals. The United States has a criminal justice system that is a model for the rest of the world. There is no reason to scrap it in these cases.

Here is how it works, from the NY Times handbook on how to bash anyone to the right of Nader.

1.) Before any action of your opponents, make wild exxagerated claims. Claims like, ‘Bush and Ashcroft want to suspend habeus corpus with secret military trials’
2.) When the guidelines come out, and they are not as onerous and awful as you have screamed from your editorial pages, do not admit sheepishly that all along you were wrong. INstead, pretend that is was your oversight that ‘moderated’ the administration.
3.) Continue to insist the action is a bad idea anyway.
4.) In the future, refer back to point #1 so that you may paint your political opponents as fascists running a secret government, but do not repeat or mention steps 2-3.

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