You mean NOBEL PRIZE-winning, surely.
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You mean NOBEL PRIZE-winning, surely.
It may or may not be. But kids + sex is definitely one for McEldowney.
'a "Citizen Kane"-esque attachment' You could just write "fetish" and save yourself a lot of keystrokes.
you misspelled "realists"
"Just concede on the sports thing and then they'll leave you alone" is so shockingly naive I can't believe people are using it as a serious argument here.
What did you write about in the days before literally everything that happens had to be about Zohran Mamdani?
No, not IN SUNGLASSES! That changes everything!
This thread is going to seed awfully quickly.
Yeah, but on the other hand, a 19-year-old used the word 'Latinx' during a meeting of the Undergraduate Student Council at Bennington last week, so both sides need to more careful with their linguistic choices.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
I'm thinking about all of the queer/trans activists I follow here, and what it would be like if they reposted all of the hateful garbage that gets hurled at them on a daily basis. But they don't do that, because they don't feel entitled to a pity party when people are mean to them online.
As I read this article yesterday I couldn't help thinking of this ongoing discussion. Specifically, the part beginning "One of the economic puzzles of the last five years has been the persistence of serious consumer negativity..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
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Yes, everyone who knows anything said that. The problem is, the only way to make it in mainstream media is to forget that you ever knew anything.
"David Shor, a message-testing consultant who is invited every month or so to speak to party leaders at a luxury hotel about how to 'win back the working class.'" That casual reference to "a luxury hotel" is such a tasty burn.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize trans people has completely lost touch with the common humanity."
And they’re all screaming at me, which just proves that I must be right.
I'm nearing retirement and have looked into various options. Canada is virtually impossible for retirees from the US. France, in contrast, would be relatively easy.
See, my conclusion would be that the phrase "Go fuck yourself" is actually a kind of prayer.
Don't leave out the punchline that immediately followed that brainfart: "Would it work? I have no idea." That's why she's paid the big bucks.
What the hell's wrong with people? Why were they throwing metaphorical daggers at Sean Hannity's eyes and not literal ones?
I'm still holding out hope that "Doogie Himmler" (as coined by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social) will catch on.
Mind you, Trump will still shiv you in the back and piss on your corpse if it serves his purposes.
"Who's the guy who's always sitting by the cracker barrel?" "Oh, that's Old Man Swenson. He's always sitting out there in the afternoons just when the football team comes back from practice. Always asks them if they played 'shirts and skins' today. Don't make eye contact, whatever you do."
Defensive crouch has been their default mode for literally decades.
I look forward to seeing you all primaried out of office next year. Pathetic weasels.
I hope they have the humility to acknowledge the contributions of their noble predecessors.
"The owner of a casual restaurant a couple of miles from the White House, who requested anonymity because of fear of retaliation from government and law enforcement officials..." ***fear of retaliation from government and law enforcement officials*** But don't call it fascism, whatever you do.
I remember thinking Scott Walker had the GOP nomination all sewn up back in…whatever year that was.
It’s like the uneasy mix of mass murder and punctual trains in Mussolini’s Italy. Life is all about trade offs.
What’s the fancy Greek term for “government by spite”?
My least frightening scenario is that it’s a show for the base, as you say. And that they end this after a month or two, once they’ve fed the cult enough red meat in the form of arrest porn. At that point Trump will declare DC “crime-free” or say crime is down 750% or whatever and they’ll eat it up.
Yeah, no one could have possibly predicted that Bibi would show such callous disregard for the lives of innocent people. He'd been a true humanitarian up until then.
Maybe the most misunderstood band in history.
Republicans fear their activist base and cater to it, while Democrats despise theirs and need to constantly make a show of shitting on it.
I'm old enough to remember when we couldn't allow gay men in the military because they would prey on the poor straight guys in the showers.
I will not make an OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD joke, I will not, I will not…oops
And in turn, this flatters their readers into thinking of themselves as independent thinkers. "I especially like reading [x]...he's a Dem, but he's not afraid to go off the reservation." (Said about a "liberal" op-ed writer who devotes 75% of their output to criticizing Democrats.)
"Dems aren't sure how to attack." Wow, what a shocker. Most Dem officeholders aren't sure how to get dressed in the morning without consulting a team of pollsters and consultants.
"Can't we reach across the aisle and engage them in constructive bipartisan dialogue first, and *then* eat them?"
We’ll have to take Edda’s word for it, since we didn’t see a cafeteria, let alone “everybody” (or anybody) in said cafeteria. One of the big drawbacks of comic strips not being a visual medium.
He'll be announcing that crime in DC is down by at least 1,000% next week. I'd put good money on it.
It feels like so many of the people who have been covering him for many years are constantly "rediscovering" this basic fact, over and over. It's maddening.
Long before that. I first learned of his existence in the late '80s when I moved to NYC, and suddenly this boorish, thin-skinned, desperately needy attention whore who I'd never heard of was in the paper every damn day. The mental decline is fairly recent, but the sociopathy has always been there.
The really good ones can maintain a shit-eating grin while they talk about things like tariffs bringing in literally trillions of dollars or inflation being down to zero. The grin that says “We both know what I’m saying is bullshit, and you’re not going to do a damn thing about it. LOL LMAO.”
“Trump works transactionally” sounds so much nicer than “The President is a kleptocrat.”
“Sounds woke to me.”
Next you’re going to be telling me that the trans “debate” isn’t really about high school athletics!
The Clash -> The Scuffle
“He wouldn’t hit you if you didn’t provoke him. It must have been something you did.”
Lettuce not race to conclusions
It sounds to me like they’re laying the groundwork for the coming inflation: “If people are feeling pinched by rising prices, it’s only because they’re making bad choices.”
Bored of the Rings, the Harvard Lampoon spoof of LOTR
People really need to stop talking about what he “can” and “can’t” do when he’s repeatedly doing the things he supposedly “can’t” do and getting away with it.
Unorthodox, even!
Pfft. All he has to do is go the White House and hand Trump an Arizona can made out of solid gold, and his problems will be solved. You’d think a big-time CEO would understand how the free market works.
Timely comment!
1) “High level competition” my ass. Rahm Emanuel said “a man can’t become a woman.” But why bother reading the actual article? 2) It’s spelled “fascism.”
“If declaring that trans people shouldn’t have the right to exist is what it takes to ‘win for human rights,’ then that’s what we’ll do.”
Oh, is that what’s supposed to be happening here? I thought this was just one of those days where Brooke jerks off to the thesaurus rather than to drawings of Edda.
While we’re at it: car and truck horns should be as loud inside the vehicle as they are outside.
PRAISE ME GODDAMMIT
Laura Ingraham sporting that “who farted?” face, like in every other freeze-frame she’s ever been in.
“Seth and Amy threw the greatest party on Saturday—everybody had a blast. I DON’T CARE IF YOU JUDGE ME.”
“I don’t care if you judge me” says the person who still hasn’t forgotten the time a white guy with dreadlocks called them “privileged” in that sociology class.
It’s incredible. These people’s entire worldview consists of “I was annoyed by some holier-than-thou leftists when I was an undergraduate and I’m never going to stop obsessing over it” and they think they’re some kind of profound intellectual avant-garde.
When the “controversy” is made up out of whole cloth by bigots who want to deny trans people the right to exist, you don’t “listen to it.” You call it out for what it is.
“People who aren’t like me are expendable. I am a tolerant free-thinking open-minded progressive.”
This is CURE YOUR [INSOMNIA/SNORING/CONSTIPATION] FOREVER WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK but because it’s being hawked by a billionaire we’re expected to take it seriously
Back in the ‘70s Anita Bryant thought cis gay men like Pete (and me) shouldn’t be allowed to teach in schools because we would “recruit” children into homosexuality. Tens of millions of Americans agreed with her. I guess that was a concern that needed to be taken seriously too.
“Credulity” is giving it too much credit. This is propaganda.
AI: It’s what’s for dinner! It’s also what’s left of dinner when it comes out the other end! It is the alpha and the omega!
As if there needed to be yet another reason why Edda shouldn’t have had children.
Oh hey…I’d never heard of Gen Jones until now and it turns out that’s exactly what I am. Born in ‘64 — being a Boomer in the most technical demographic sense while sharing virtually none of the cultural cliches — is probably why I’ve always viewed generational discourse as nonsense.
“Generations” are about as analytically useful as astrological signs. Whatever cultural commonalities there might be to these arbitrary demographic slices, they’re completely swamped by things like ethnicity, social class, religion, region, and the like.
Mark Ruffalo in “You Can Count on Me.”
“Provided it’s limited to men trafficking women, obviously. We’re not a bunch of sickos.”
Utterly depraved.
His ability to blame Biden isn’t going anywhere. He will continue to blame Biden, his base will continue to believe him, and the “respectable” media will continue to say that there are “differing views” on the subject.
Finally answering the question no one has ever asked: “What if Andrew Sullivan, but black?”
It’s frustrating as hell to see all the talk about how Trump is slipping into senility now, given that he’s been a textbook-case sociopath his entire adult life and we’ve been expected to just accept that as his personality.
I’ve been studying this for an hour now, and I think I’ve finally been able to make sense of it. And the answer is: BM is a skeevy old perv who gets off on drawing his #1 wank object as an adolescent in a Catholic schoolgirl uniform. Just look at those gams, amirite fellas?
That’s a sincere question, by the way.
“Get away with it?” Who’s going to stop them?
“Hitler adopted an uncharacteristically aggressive tone at last night’s Nuremberg Rally. Could this be a sign of a more combative approach from the Führer?”
Based on everything I know about him, Brooke McEldowney is an aggressively unlikable person. Simple as that.
Oooh! Eyebrows have been furrowed! This changes everything.
I’m outside the UK and I can’t use the Sounds app, even with a VPN. However, I can access the Sounds website on a browser and stream past shows that way. Which is a huge relief!
“like why make one of your main characters so aggressively unlikable” Occam’s Razor would like a word.
Amos and Edda, of course, are nymphomaniacal exhibitionists who fucked like bunnies before they were married, and their daughters are fully aware of this. But I guess we need some of that good old patriarchal “The father is the protector and guarantor of his daughter’s chastity” bullshit this week.
And it should be noted that not so long ago, Flopsy or Dropsy or whatever her name is was desperately horny for Amos 2.0, who responded as if he were a naive alien from the planet Sexless. But Brooke has never let continuity stand in the way of a good joke. Well, a joke. Well…something.
Xenophobia and spite.
He’s going to make exceptions for anyone who pays him off. Oops, I mean “donates a substantial sum to his presidential library.”
LOL - he was responding to someone who tweeted that they saw a cop crying because Trump had lost to Biden in 2020. You are beyond pathetic.
"Please be assured that the person responsible for slathering him in honey and dropping him onto a nest of fire ants has been severely reprimanded."
They should just come right out and say "Besides which, the kid probably would have turned out to be a terrorist anyway." It's certainly what they're thinking.
People don’t seem to remember that there was a big chunk of public opinion in the ‘80s that disliked Reagan’s policies, but liked Reagan, so they never really made the connection between the two. It wasn’t *that* long ago…
This is bad news for Zohran Mamdani.
Next week: "It is time that the United States seriously consider the possibility of entertaining a course of action that has the potential of making Benjamin Netanyahu unhappy." The week after that: "OMG OMG ZOHRAN MAMDANI RAISED A CLENCHED FIST AFTER A SPEECH WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE"
Trump assumes the Roberts Court will come up with a reason why the previous decision doesn't count in this one particular instance...and he's probably right.