Baraka is super into burning it all down and real life consequences be damned. Baraka hasn’t had to play the “food vs rent” game; that’s why they can remain so ideologically pure.

And poor Kate Fagan stuck next to him trying to make a radio show out of it.  That was not a good week of podcasts.

We all fell for it. Even after reading the 9/11 commision that couldn’t bring itself to blame anyone in the intelligence community for missing the signs, for some reason I still thought something big would come out of this. My bestie kept saying “nothing is going to happen to Trump” and I constantly disagreed. “Look…

Was Locomotive Jones just another Tomatoface burner or did LJ become Dak Sausage? 

We had a choice between a boring policy wonk who wanted the job and an evil grifter who openly appealed to nationalism. The grifter won because a bunch of idealists weren’t “inspired” to vote. There is no thing as “too cynical” anymore.

Many adults will look back at their own lives and hope their children don’t have the same experiences. 

You need something off a high shelf? I'm good for that.  Need someone to keep a cool head in an emergency? Yep, can do.  I also am kind to people and stay organized well at work.  Beyond that, unless you're the actual young man I am raising, I doubt there's much anyone sees as special about me.  

I’m closing in on 46 years of being a white guy and I have to say, we’re not really that impressive as a whole.  You get the occasional Chris Evans or Norman Borlaug, but most of us are fairly meh. 

And she’s funny as hell, too. 

Yeah we’re drowning in politness. 

Maybe some sort of gun owners insurance and licensing process?  I have to show competence and have proof of insurance to own my car.  Seems like that might be a good thing for gun owners as well.

The Special Olympics should reclassify themselves as a defense contractor.  They'd have more money than they could imagine. 

The proper term to incite greying is "childblogger".  

There’s also his moment with Joe the Plumber when he talked about spreading the wealth around. The GOP hung that “socialist” albatross around his neck before the even got the job.   Nothing wrong with thinking through how policies might sound to the public.  

This is good Kinja.

I try to exclusively work in dogshit takes myself.  (I realize this is two days late, but work has been nuts.)

That’s what blows my mind with all these white supremacy types. They only want the credit for all the good shit. You can’t declare yourself in charge of, and take credit for, everything while simultaneously absolving yourself of any of the problems of society as well.

Peter Ustinov gets no love?

Just two thumbs are fine. 

Eat poop.