Russian Blues are just pricks.
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Russian Blues are just pricks.
Dear god! The Republic is doomed!!!
Quibbling: He thinks he bought the state.
My bright line for "evil" is deliberately doing harm to a child. This qualifies. Just about everything this "administration" is doing qualifies. (And keep in mind just how much of showing their "toughness" involves targeting children.)
I'm old enough to recall one of the points made by recruiting ads was that joining the military was a good way to learn a trade. So...
"Invasion" is a good word. So is "secession." If specific cities and states are going to be treated as enemy territory, then in a very real sense the Union has already been voided.
"riots and violence"???? Christ, we couldn't even throw a half-decent sandwich!
I think "implicit" is clear, though. We should all be able to agree that the Founders absolutely would have given the president that authority if only they had known that the office would be filled by someone as supremely awesomely awesome as Donald Trump. (Snark now; a 6-3 SC ruling soon.)
Rolling Stone called this movie the sequel to The Rocketeer [also directed by Johnston] that you didn't know you needed.
Chris Evans cannot be praised enough for bringing that character to life. To make a character that-too-good-to-be-true as believable as he did is one hell of an accomplishment.
I seem to recall that was one of the throwaway Kilgore Trout plots in Breakfast of Champions. Minus Mar-a-Lago, of course.
I do know that KKKristi Noem and Donald Trump should both go fuck themselves. Signed, A Guy In Los Angeles
Can confirm
October surprise, anyone?
That's because there's mass money to be made off mass shootings. The doom of this country will come down to this: that decency could not be viewed as profitable.
Can't recall his name. Student Teacher in 8th grade history who told the class that generals tended to make lousy presidents. First time history was presented to me as something other than memorizing dates.
I took it as snark. But you never can tell these days.
...because all the money still was not enough for them.
"Republicans" and "protect public health" are diametrically opposed concepts.
...and prone to tearing up paper for no reason.
It is also possible to understand sarcasm.
JK Galbraith: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
"Fiscal conservativism" has always been code for "no money for black people." They have a lot of codes for that, actually.
Jesus Christ! If an op-ed won't do it, I don't know what the hell else we can even try!
Slightly off topic. Wife watches all those British murder shows, and I can't stop thinking of this Clash lyric: "Yankee detectives are always on the TV Those killers in America work seven days a week" Oh yeah? Check your own quaint market towns, pal. It's a friggin bloodbath out there.
Not so sure. But I will grant it's the greatest shark movie after Citizen Kane.
While they're at it, they could put up a statue of Benedict Arnold at West Point.
An accurate summation.
Libertarianism, n. - A philosophy some people adopt once the roads have been paved.
Marshall Crenshaw showing up as a meter reader in The Adventures of Pete & Pete. That show also features appearances from Michael Stipe and Iggy Pop.
Random comic book panel...
I sure do miss her.
Some serious recessive genes in that family.
Dude doesn't even qualify for a Nobel Hairpiece Prize.
Seconded!
We'll have voted for a dictatorship 6-3
I would, but right now I've gotta beat the clock.
I'd say so. Dred Scott, egregious as it was, had at least some basis in a Constitution that countenanced slavery. But there is nothing in the Constitution that countenances a de facto king. Even the most cursory reading shows the opposite.
Not gonna happen. That means the ball is in your court. What are you going to DO?
Ya gotta consider that the Right People make money off school shootings.
Golddiggers are hungry guys
Don't those guys have high-pressure hoses? And maybe some axes???
Except for the fact that none of that is true, he's 100% right!
"I'm only kidnapping people. He's wiping them out."
If that's not the title of a one-act play, it should be.
Vance will have to do something extra fascistic to demonstrate his bona fides to both his backers and the MAGA base. More tanks in cities, for starters. Maybe widespread arrests of judges & blue state governors. Maybe ICE starts rounding up African-Americans. (You know they want to do that.)
Pretty good movie, though...
That is to say, I'd find my observation verified by more informed sources than I. Grant was a pretty cool guy - mostly. If I was offered a chance to hang out with any historical figure, he'd be my choice.
A thing I picked up reading history was, Lee is a "great general" even though he lost his war, while Grant and Washington are not-great generals even though they won. Washington, of course, evolved on the question of slavery. Grant - well, we know. All part of the "Lost Cause", I'd later learn.
This was a fixture of the cut-out bins during my formative years. This particular label lost their deal because they couldn't come up with an eight hundred dollar royalty payment. Consequently, these "Beatles" were never heard from again...
You misspelled KKKristi...
Well, of course. We can't run the risk of universal healthcare benefitting Those People. That would make Baby Jesus cry.
I've got my fingers crossed for a somewhat less soft secession.
A folk hero deserves a folk song... www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2OO...
If recent history is any guide, that Democratic POTUS will have two years before voters decide it's "time for change" and saddle him with a Republican majority in one or both houses of Congress.
Not a mistake. Enemy action. How much are you getting from Putin to be this ineffectual?
Well, we're at 44 years and counting, so I'm not holding my breath.
To be fair, he did not specify which war they would be warfighting.
I'd be willing to bet Dowd has no idea AC/DC is a band...
In Schumer's case, Freedom's just another word for "Can I still use the gym?"
Your comment is extraneously superfluous. Also, too --
Literally the reason the Federal Reserve exists is to make monetary policy decisions without “input” from elected officials. That’s why it’s there.
That would be nice.
He seems like the kind of guy who'd chuckle at the end of Old Yeller.
While there is much to hold against Eisenhower, there is also much to admire him for.
As someone who did stand up in the 80s, the most accurate parts of Seinfeld for me were the cringe scenes with Kenny Bania. I knew at least half a dozen Kenny Banias.
Waiting for Hakeem Jeffries to tell the President of Portugal that he needs to focus more on kitchen table issues...
JD doesn't have to command the cult, as long as the folks bankrolling all of this can command him.
Hell of a way to update the Trolley Problem...
Quibbling, but I think we have moved beyond mere cruelty. We're at outright sadism now.
I clicked the little heart, but I can hardly say that's a like. We need a button to indicate "I find this every bit as infuriating as you do."
I was working on the animated X-Men when he passed. Our producer @larrytoons54.bsky.social went to Fox to get an "In Memory Of" credit on the episode that was delivering next. We also worked him into the audience of the Mojo Vision episode.
I loved that scene because it makes perfect sense mythologically. Diana is from a race of warriors, and if you think about it Batman is the purest warrior in the JLU. A guy with no powers who can go toe-to-toe with virtual demigods without flinching? Of course she'd pick up on that.
And, of course, the bestest way to be sure you've won is if you can clearly see how many other people lost.
The rich, ironically, have no idea of the value of a dollar. They've never had to decide between food and rent, between utilities and medicine, between the phone bill and shoes for the kids. It's just scorekeeping for them. So another 13K points is a win - and that's all that matters.
All those people who got a D+ in high school biology can finally feel vindicated.
Can you think of another bright orange predator, boys and girls? I bet you can...
That... would have been better.
Ya know who else, surprisingly, really gets a key thing about Superman? Jerry Seinfeld. Those lengthy American Express ads he did with him palling around with Superman hit on an essential aspect of the character - that he IS someone you'd want to just hang around with.
Yeah, that was my takeaway as well.
Also, too, vaccines are all sciencey. Science tells us there is no such thing as race. That can't possibly be (permitted to) true - so science is just going to have to go. All of it.
Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED BENEFIT!
I'm thinking there should be a class action suit against her family to get that 5 million back...
If we're taking requests, my best friend committed suicide on September 22 and I'd appreciate something else to commemorate on that date.
I would start a band called "Mitochondrial Challenges" but it would have to be a prog-rock group and I'm not that good.
Accurate
To be fair, your kids can also be gunned down at the mall. Or at a concert. Or at the grocery store. Or in a park. Or...
We should do like Star Trek: "You were just killed in a mass shooting. You have 24 hours to report to the disintegration chamber."
Every fascist movement needs its own Horst Wessel.
But... is that a kitchen table issue???
No notes.
Respectfully disagree. What they are after is too many bodies to even be counted.
Of course, the studio was never going to bill him as "Jacob Krantz."
