Exactly. Good for her.

he putin’d it

dude remind me next time we road trip i have this bootleg of steely dan playing an end of the world party at bennington, 1977 and i mean i know how you feel about pretzel logic but they do this 7 and a half minute version in that set...hey come back!

you’re usually funny. last weekend i was doing a family visit with one of the kids on my caseload and we were at his dad’s place on chicago’s west side and a small rat ran across the floor. the kid’s little sister laughed and said “it’s okay if the traps don’t kill them assholes fast then the water around here kills…

Christine Brennan got it right (although everyone swears he was on his way out anyway and this was totally not the stake through his heart after his Mixon bullshit):

Isn’t a crucial part to that strategy, though, keeping their fingerprints off of the terrible appointments? Part of making the GOP own Trump is making sure people are confirmed and bullshit gets passed without ANY Dems providing cover.This strategy should be named the, “That’s YOUR dude, assholes.”

actually deadspin’s response to whichever staffer came up with that tweet for cruz was succinct and elegant.

I’m too old and busy with other stuff to follow most entertainment news closely, but I do remember that period when Jennifer Lawrence was the celebrity with whom everyone wanted to be bff’s. And she was so relentlessly wide-eyed and fun and down to earth and she always had an endearing quip ready. And it seemed to me…

I doubt it gets him down; I suspect it gets him off.

I believe he has NPD, probably incipient dementia, and is also an habitual abuser of uppers (probably amphetamine pills).

political correctness run amok, i say.

yes, exactly this.

no. they don’t have quid pro quo. they have nothing to bargain with until the midterms. their only option is to hang every fucking thing around the gop’s neck with no cover—except they’re clearly not willing to do that.

it makes the GOP own every. single. appointment. with no cover. the way the GOP did to obama.

hey, congrats and good luck. you’ve always been one of my favorite posters across these sites.

I don’t think that is unlikely. That is part of why I really want the Dems to do everything they can to hang Trump around the GOP’s neck. Don’t give them any cover.

Well I thought both teams played hard and did a really good job. New England just wanted it a little more.

The Toast was grand and Ortberg is really a treasure.