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Oh, heavens. Your respectful silence would have done nothing to make this terrible situation worse.
If I were going to glory-hole that fucking hard, I'd wear a bib.
Just a moon-faced fucker with bad, bad hair. There will be a sex tape. You can count on it. One in which he'll be some sex-worker's oiled-up sub. It'll happen.
So the state should own the means of production? Wow. I and my democratic socialist pals were never willing to go *that* far.
Where muh free speech peeps?
Coronation day in hell. www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/p...
I read the Christianity Today obit for MacArthur a few weeks ago. It boiled down to: "He was a great Bible scholar and also just a really cruel son of a bitch." They managed to say this, of course, without saying it.
If you’re fucking people out of health care, talk about something else.
One day, AI will help us filter for picayune, throat-clearing observations. But until then, we'll just have to do it manually.
Muted for cruelty. Asshole.
"I did it! I threw the sandwich!" is the best fucking unforced confession I've ever heard. Better still if you play it in your "Thin Man" Edward Brophy voice.
I didn't realize until now that you could mute on phrases. That's awesome. Thank you. I'm about to kill a bunch of cliches.
Instead of taking over the DC Metropolitan Police at a time when crime in the capital is declining and is lower than it was during Trump's first term, wouldn't it just be easier to release the Epstein files?
Tim Cook can wipe his mouth now.
If by "federalize", he means make it a state that is abso-fucking-lutely guaranteed to send a Democratic House rep and two Democratic senators to the capital, then by all means, sir --- proceed.
Right. "Skepticism" lends a patina of intellectual respectability to what is, at best, willful ignorance. Skepticism is good. Denialism is an epistemological malfunction.
If you’re that hot to simulate the natural food chain, let that fucking cat go.
She should refuse to be part of any organization that would accept her as a member.
Eyes too weak to see the list. Was one of them the President of the United States?
She should have launched it from a very gender-specific restroom in a Greyhound bus station. Related: she has to know that by focusing so intently on toilets, she has provided a focus for her opponents' campaigns. www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/p...
CLICHÉS DON’T
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Why is "TRUMP" in quotation marks?
I've been asking about her whereabouts for months. You begin to imagine that she wanted the job more than she wanted the work.
Damn right.
*lie*
That is an amazing article. Blows my mind that the AG would like about the video recording system reset thing. Sheesh.
I have always favored this explanation because it accounts for the anomaly yet requires the fewest moving parts. There's no grand conspiracy. Just squalor.
We should consider ethics alternatives too, right?
A basset-faced consigliere has been confirmed to the Court of Appeals. Jesus.
Yeah, I'm a sucker for things like this. My GF occasionally teases me about my relationship with pencil cases.
*at* UW
It's not ethical. It's profiteering. My doctor is UW used to do that shit with my blood pressure medication. Losartan is not a damn opioid. It's not like there's a market for it. And that's why I don't go to UW anymore.
Why not just rename the Fermi Lab while we're at it? He has about as much appreciation for the arts as he does particle physics, after all.
Maybe the CEO should get his ass into the office. finance.yahoo.com/news/starbuc...
Why, hell yes.
You see, one toxic thing about fundamentalism it the dynamic: it metastasizes. Someone is always willing to be more extreme, more fucking crazy than you are. Graham's chickens may now come home to roost.
Be sure that he paid for the abortions.
His conversation with Ross Douthat, his glib explanation that the fire-bombing of Dresden was, sigh, a means to an end (what the fuck isn't?), should have been enough to get his banished from decent society.
Thank you.
Holy fuck. Genius.
Hell, you’re probably right.
And what do I want to see in North Korea, pray tell? A public execution?
The most interesting thing about the EU “deal” is that the US president, a 34X felon who was found guilty of sexual abuse, is trying to cover his other wrongdoings by pardoning a convicted sex offender and child sex trafficker.
New Pixar short: “Operation: Epstein Files” - Rated E for “Everyone’s Involved.”
Contrarianism! The Dark Web!
I don't eat meat anymore, but when I did, the best damn fried chicken I'd ever had was at a Shell station a couple miles down the road. Don't know what the hell they were putting in that batter.
I love that Niven is sporting a carton of Marlboros and a book.
Yes, you're correct. My understanding of the FD was mistaken. Thank you.
Actually, you may be right about this.
Fine. Feel free to educate me. How am I getting it wrong?
That policy antedates cable channels. It applied to all the public broadcast channels that were operational when it was enacted.
Well, Vanessa, you say it doesn't do any good. But for decades the FA kept us from having echo chambers that could basically act as the propaganda wing for one party. Am I impeding your free speech by disagreeing with you?
But the Fairness Doctrine didn't limit what you could say. It recognized the reach of mass media and limited what you could say unopposed. So you don't want someone to be able to disagree with you on the airwaves. You want a propaganda machine.
Since BlueSky is a web site, and not a network, it's irrelevant. But the two other networks you mention would fall under the umbrella of the Fairness Doctrine, if it still existed. So, no, in a Fairness Doctrine world, MSNBC could not exist in its present form.
So, you know, we once had a Fairness Doctrine that made echo chambers like Fox News less likely to exist. Is that the fucking course correction he's talking about? Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine?
Visionary, even!
I wrote about this in my book. People all over America were convinced their location would be the first destroyed in a nuclear war. Everyone had their own reason, some plausible, some not. People drew grim comfort from this. But the most likely, as far as I could tell, was Nebraska.
A benign despotism is that of rabbits.
He never runs out if the most incisive apothegms, does he? Idiot crank. In a similarly modest vein, he might have said, "I'm going to sit in the dark quietly sometime, and sometime, I'd gonna open my idiot trap, opine on things that are beyond me, and embarrass all of nature."
Wired really is on its fucking game nowadays. It has never been better.
But did he freeze long enough? I don't think so.
This is some fine verse here.
I like to hope he's looking up at us right now.
Hell is never full.
One of the great things Ted Turner did was to snap up rights to play old films to fill up programming time on his nascent network (in the 80s). Which is how I was first exposed to this absolutely delightful film. I otherwise might not have been.
So I wonder how embarrassed Stephen Pinker and Larry Summers feel to have been taken in by this crude, backward flim-flam artist. Much like George Schultz must have felt when his grandson finally opened his eyes to the true nature of Theranos.
When I see Bari Weiss doing that with her hands as if she's laying down some real thought-leader, TED-talk shit, I think "grifty crank" and dissolve into laughter.
So, Murkowski's trademark scam is to screw her constituents, then pretend that she was the target of a con. And to stare off into the middle distance. Her constituents should replace her with someone else "innocent". www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
It's true. And there was no caller ID, so my irritating older sister always answered the phone with a breathless "WHO IS THIS?", which we explained to her was a bit, um, unceremonious, if not preceded by a decent greeting.
Of upper management? Sure!
Easy choice. Fuck ‘em.
Well, I hope Mike Johnson knows that if he shuts down the House, he can't reopen the Benghazi investigation. And I suspect that any day now, he's going to want to.
That always sort of blew my mind too. If you'd told me to guess, "What group will save the constitution from a tyrant?", this would never have been my answer.
So we are shutting down the House of Representatives to protect a pedophile president? Wow. OK.
This is a great way to pantomime the dogged pursuit of justice while actually trying to silence or get out in front of a witness.
Bothell is getting so much right.
We're not a cult. You are. If Clinton's in it, let's see it.
I know how I'd like this to end.
He’s a known *rapist* and sexual assailant. You’ll know we’re serious, when we stop using euphemisms to describe his behavior.
Oh it’s damn difficult. Bill Clinton has been incredibly accused of sexual assault and rape, yet he spoke at last the DNC convention. And will probably speak at the next one.
And what do you tell your students to do instead?
Every goddamn word was fabulous. Hell, even the punctuation was great.
"He stands athwart history, yelling the wildest possible bullshit." This woman is wonderful.
No one is unhappier under Trump than Melania. So let's keep a little perspective here.
We can't have a basset-faced consigliere running the prosecutor's office? WTF?
Of course. apnews.com/article/powe...
I read the headline, thought: who got kneed in the face, and why were the charges dropped?
And the NYT fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
This is a meaningless trick. A court cannot violate rule 6(e), which prohibits public disclosure.
She, like the Epstein scandal, simply refuses to die.
Wow. It must be Bag a Pervert season. It's raining perverts!
Probably more than one, but they're all between the ages of 13 and 17, I'm pretty sure.
Call me when you see the slouching rough beast. Oh, fuck. Wait. There he is!
When they, as a group, realize the blood is in the water, it's going to be quite the spectacle.
"I and my wife have decided to unconscionably uncouple."
True. Which means he won't need fucking CBS to stay in the public eye. Fuck them.
