And here I thought you were going to refer to my very favorite field guide of all time for help in identifying the other piece of this puzzle:

Are they all leaning forward, is the camera crooked, or is that just bad posture?

That wasn’t a recent discovery. Nixon was the one who perfected this. Let’s not pretend the current administration is some anomaly of the GOP: this is Republican policy and politics distilled to its essence.

Fun (?) Fact: I live abroad, and the German-language magazine I was reading (on the high-speed train that cost me less than a taxi crosstown COME AT ME BRO) had a political columnist that was talking about “Trumpisierung.” The -sierung suffix is equivalent to “-ification” in English, so I guess “Trumpification” as a…

Addendum: let’s raise a glass for that mythical oddity of the early Internet, the sadly now-defunct dolphinsex.org. Lots of useful (?) tips in the world of dolphin seduction (female dolphins have all kinds of internal muscles, and know how to use them; don’t let males put their penis into any orifice: they are over a…

To be fair, the dolphin was a whoo-a.

Something occurs to me. One of the things people keep mentioning is that, of all the cabinet appointees, the only one who doesn’t seem to have any shady Russian ties is Ben Carson. And I kept wondering why that would be: because honestly, if you were to ask me to imagine what it would look like if the Russian — I…

Honestly, as somebody else around here argued a week or two ago, I don’t think it’ll be an impeachment that gets him. I think one of the (many) committees investigating this shit is going to subpoena his tax returns, and he will resign rather than see them published.

Those servers were the reason for the FISA warrant in October. I’m sure some shit is about to hit the fan.

Yup! That’s the one! You could tell, actually, when he suddenly stumbled over his words and abruptly ended with “…and I’m unable to comment on it” that it was already dawning on him.

As John Oliver pointed out, what’s really amazing about that clip from the hearing is what Sessions does right after he offered up a whole bunch of unasked information about his own personal involvement with the Russians. Right about 4:00, he lets out a bunch of what I believe poker players refer to as “tells.” He know…

there is a very good chance that at some point someone she encountered there would do much more than bat an eye at her.

Man, I just watched 13th last week, and it is fucking depressing. I thought I was all #woke and whatever, but fuck: it’s so much worse than even I thought.

inb4 racists dogpile the thread with “but Sikh isn’t even a race, so how can this guy be racist, huh??? Punish the crime, not the thoughts!! #reverseracism etc etc.”

Well, there’s Huffpo, which just pointed this out:

Rachel Maddow did a dive into some of this last Monday, and:

Holy shit, y’all. Your New Boyfriend, Wonkette, has a rundown of all the bizarre dirty-Russian-money WTFery going on in That Asshole’s administration, and it is fuuuuuuuucked up.

I like the part where the term “alt-left” is now showing up on Fox News chyrons. As if that’s actually even a thing.

Jesus shit. If John Clancy wrote a book about a deep and convoluted conspiracy to undermine the US, with shit like this going on, nobody would have believed it. I mean, between this and Carter Page and Dmytro Firtash, the reality is so fucked up and bizarre, it’s exhausting just to try and figure out what is even…

Somebody wrote a whole book a few years ago pointing out that “dominion” has very specific usage in the Bible: it’s the same language used to describe the Christian god’s relation to humanity. It’s quite reasonable to conclude that this passage means to instruct us to act as caretakers of something we love, not as…