It’s weird to hear a Republican call another “Colonel Sanders” as an insult...isn’t he basically their team mascot?

Hard to think of much more American than someone facing a censure vote for coming out strongly against slaughtering children and other innocent people. 

If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”
― David Frum

Pour some buttermilk out for the Mike Pence campaign. I wonder if his congressman brother was supportive.
Since he will probably be relegated to becoming a podcaster will the show be named Hanging with Mike?

How that sanctimonious, whiter than whitebread dipshit thinks he is Presidential Timber is beyond me. The jellyfish hid behind a potted plant for 4 straight years and catered to a schoolyard bully who whines like a petulant colicy bag of a spoiled meat if no one licks his ass. And hell, he still has people who think…

Holy shit, that quoted bit is a real...thing. I wonder whether anthropologists of the future (if we get to have such a thing) will think sentences like that are just Mad Libs created by children.

I don’t know which is worse, polling 1% with evangelicals or not being able to get 15 Republican voters into a Pizza Ranch. I’ve been to a Pizza Ranch, you’d have to somehow drive Republican voters away from one and that’s no small feat.

He should be forced to carry this bid to term, as God intended it.

Pence should have had several invasive prostate exams and a year long waiting period before being allowed to his abort his campaign. Who does he think he is?!

Yes, the Donald-nazis have obeyed American Hitler and turned religious fanatic Pence into a pariah.

There were plenty of vile, despicable people in the Trump administration but for whatever reason I hated Pence the most, second only to Trump himself. Just the blandness of him, his “This is my serious face” face, the fact that he’d lie at the drop of a hat like his boss and never suffer consequences for it (like his…

Pence, known in his Congressional days as “Congressman Dense,” was all but washed up when Trump decided he was Veep material. This is just the natural progression. It is funny that he can’t even get any traction in Iowa.  The whole “Mother” thing comes from his peculiar branch of Jeebusism, in which “mother” is…

I cannot wait for the day that child entertainers are outlawed. Like what the fuck?

Animal Bossing:

I’m not sure, other than book coverage in general is down here beyond the monthly round up and the occasional cover/excerpt reveal, or an article about GRRM. I don’t think it’s necessarily about io9 in specific, and more about the “enshittifcation” of the internet in general— stuff about books and book awards don’t…

The state of the law in the parts of the country covered by this ruling is that the state can’t require licensed medical professionals to tell the truth, but can require them to lie (the rulings allowing states to require false information be given to patients seeking abortions). If you wrote this as fiction, it would…

Am I just tired or is this article a barely legible mess?

The republican party went fully demented the moment a black man was elected president, and they’ve been punishing the country and its citizens ever since.

I’m quite scared for what’s going to happen in Virginia. While my own state, Ohio, seems clearly headed toward enshrining abortion rights in the constitution, Virginia is a different ballgame. We’ve seen several times now that when people get to vote on the issue of abortion, they vote for reproductive freedom. But…

This feels like a face-saving explanation on the part of manufacturers. More than likely they’re saving money by using more plastic and less ferrous metal, but want to present it as a “only trailer trash use magnets on a fridge”.