Q: What books are you reading?A: Look over there. There are some books. pic.twitter.com/9cItkOPMQ7 — Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) January 18, 2017 . All of them, Katie! Yeah, I think Sam Bee is right — the President-Asterisk can’t read, at least not with any fluency. And he’s too spoilt to put in the effort to overcome …
Government, Meet Bathtub
It’s easy to run a government that does (next to) nothing. Here’s where Trumpism — or really Pence-ism, or really, exactly what the GOP has been promising (threatening) will have its most immediate, and quite possibly its most damaging impact: Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White …
Open Thread: Prepping for the Women’s March
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) . if you have a seat in your car you can offer someone looking to march in DC this weekend, check out https://t.co/0hIxUedqPy — Caro (@socarolinesays) January 16, 2017 Advice for the locals, from the Washington Post: Thousands of people are expected to be in the region Saturday for the Women’s …
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Make It Stop! (Open Thread)
My dogs hate ice cream trucks. They cannot abide the tinkling, high-pitched songs played over the loudspeakers. As pups, they used to howl, but now they just frown. (Sometimes we howl when the ice cream truck is near to try to get the dogs to join in, but it never works.) Daisy Mayhem, pictured above, …
Yelling at assistant referees
538 has a good piece on the implicit bias referees have when they get yelled at in NFL games: a sideline bias in the NFL is real, and it’s spectacular. To prove it, we looked at the rates at which refs call the NFL’s most severe penalties, including defensive pass interference, aggressive infractions like personal …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Keep Going After the Bastids
Per Crooks & Liars: … A frustrated Senator Warren asked Rep. Price direct questions about his own policy prescriptions, but he refused to give a definitive answer, even about the cuts he has repeatedly called for. Sen. Warren discussed his calls to cut funding and asked, “You recently authored as chair of the House Budget …
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Late Night Open Thread: Hail, Glowryus Leeder
Just in case you thought Trump's laziness was delaying activation of the dictator playbook: Get ready for the parades! pic.twitter.com/1gP210VEBI — Schooley (@Rschooley) January 18, 2017 Ours or Russia's? https://t.co/HkzsaW4nQb — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 18, 2017 If only it were as lazy easy as trademarking someone else’s slogan! … The slogan itself was not …
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