August 2012
Just North of Something Important: Shocking true... →
maryphillipssandy:
The other day I was sitting in a tent in Tampa, about six feet from Rick Santorum, watching some dreadful movie he’d made (imagine your junior high American history class mashed up with every speech Rick Santorum has ever given). From where I sat I could see Rick and his…
Yup.
“We should sink Todd Akin. If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my...”
– Karl Rove, Exclusive: Inside Karl Rove’s Billionaire Fundraiser - Businessweek (via brooklynmutt)
What does “look for my whereabouts” even mean?
Five will get you twenty if Paul Ryan went to bed last night knowing that tomorrow half of America would be calling him a damn dirty liar.
“This speech was not only a bad speech, it was one of the most remarkable acts of...”
– Rachel Maddow (via kateoplis)
I’m seconding that. Also, that’s one fat, fat man.
“He uttered his first words (‘I like to fire people’) at age 14 months, made his...”
– David Brooks on Mitt Romney (via peterfeld)
All David Brooks ever really wanted to be was Buddy Hackett.
langer:
election:
Hooters girls ejected from free coffee/muffins line at MSNBC Morning Joe tent.
Every generation gets the Theodore White it deserves.
Siren.
Who will be the last to run a Tampa strip club story?
Come on, Heritage Foundation. Don’t let us down.
jasencomstock asked: What is your favorite thing to do with other people's beds?
“They brought me down here on Sunday just in case there’s any idiots on the beach...”
– Gov Christie @ NJGOP Welcome, Tampa FL (via govchristie)
Which my staff will quickly post to Youtube. Because if you need a man calling someone an idiot, call me.
Fortune Favors The Bold: REPRESENTATIVE Paul D.... →
REPRESENTATIVE Paul D. Ryan, the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president, favors grunge music, Coen brothers movies and craft brews. He sprinkles the word “awesome” into daily speech and, as a teenager, worked the ultimate “McJob,” at McDonald’s.
So it might seem fair to assume that…
It’s not the first time I’ve seen this pernicious bit of speciousness. But to...
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Now we get to talk about gun control AND trigger-happy NYPD.
Super.
OBEY
Just think: in twenty years, you guys’ll get to write condescending/infuriating features about whatever they call the generation after you.
Something to look forward to!
and Tina Brown too, I don't want her talking... →
jasencomstock:
Like, if I can’t tell London how to run their fucking Olympics why do these assholes get to tell me how to run my failing superpower?
Seriously, if you can get through Ferguson’s hur dur about “riding the Arab revolution wave to freedom” (which started in Iran- NO MATTER there Fergie), his analysis of the Presidential race is fucking nuts.
Over the past few years Ryan’s “Path...
“Among the ranks of bullies, the only fair fight is the one that ends with them...”
– Give Ta-Nehisi Coates the job already.
Hellloooo Pantera
I think I beat the church groups by a couple hours.
“Reached by phone by TPM, von Spakovsky said he was on vacation and didn’t wish...”
– Hans von Spakovsky coordinated with the State of Florida in their vote suppression roll-out. This is his comment.
“I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal in the mid-90s. He asked me how I...”
– Some dude, two minutes and forty five seconds into the 30 for 30 documentary, Silly Little Game.
This dude was talking about inventing fantasy baseball.
I have 57-more minutes of this NEXT LEVEL naval gazing to go.
(via thebombbag)
Fantasy baseball is my mistress.
(via dubiousmerchant)
That...
Second Amendment loving American stops another... →
jasencomstock:
take THAT you freedom haters!
SPARKS, Nev. - Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the buttocks at a Nevada movie theatre during a showing of “The Bourne Legacy.”
Police in Sparks, Nev., say the 56-year-old man’s injuries are not life-threatening and no others were hurt.
Authorities say the man had a permit to carry a concealed firearm. The man told officers the gun fell...
