One week to Operation Move All the Shit You Own commences. We’re relaxing until then.
Jeff Sessions: Not A Good Man, or An Honest Legislator
Graham & Sessions commiserate on how it feels to be caricatured as southern racists. "How does that make you feel?" "It does not feel good." — Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 10, 2017 I've no idea whether Sessions personally hates black people. I know with near certainty that he will try to keep black people from …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: “What the Bleep Happened At The Trump News Conference?”
Political satirists may be best positioned to explain the President-Asterisk’s actions over the next days and months. Alexandra Petri, at the Washington Post: …[Trump] has decided that his official position on the kinds of conflicts of interest that might arise if he kept running his business while president is that If The President Does It, …
And it was all yellow
I’m not a journalist and I’m certainly not an expert on journalistic ethics, so there’s no way I’m going to understand why Buzzfeed is now history’s greatest monster in the eyes of media elites. I’ll tell you what I do think though: publishing the dossier was public relations genius. I’m sure as hell going to …
Look at the Birdie (Open Thread)
I saw this big guy in my laurel oak yesterday, pecking away at a dead branch: Thank Flying Spaghetti Monster for lovely birds to keep despair at bay. Otherwise, the antics of Sunkist Stalin might compel me to pour a quart of bourbon into a half-eaten container of Häagen-Dazs Dulce De Leche ice cream and …
And Why Not: The Watergate Is On Fire!
Fire at the Watergate. pic.twitter.com/T83ttowUpr — Joe McMonigle (@JoeMcMonigle) January 11, 2017 Because of course it is! D.C. Fire and EMS are working to put out a blaze Wednesday afternoon in the Watergate complex. The fire is on the 13th floor at a building in the 700 block of New Hampshire Avenue NW, officials said. …
Negotiating drug prices
Politicians of both parties like to call for Medicare to negotiate drug prices but it never happens because the actual politics of it suck. This matters as President Elect Trump led off his press rant today with a line that he wants to get a better deal on Medicare drugs. The reason is that any …