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some light reading....

In Her Defense, I'm Sure the Moose Had It Coming
BY AARON SORKIN -- Huffington Post

IT'S TRUE!!!

Tea parties are for little girls.

Please Keep in Mind

If you're not drinking, you're not paying attention.

Reagan's '80s

(some of us remember)

Pol-ly-an-na

–noun
1. an excessively or blindly optimistic person.

–adjective
2. unreasonably or illogically optimistic

The Literate Electorate

Just An Earth-Bound Misfit

Did Trump Self-Identify with the Nazis? - Go listen to his press conference, starting at the seven-minute mark. Or here. He may have said "what about the alt-left that came charging at us" I'm not...
31 minutes ago
DownWithTyranny!

Blue America's Newest Endorsed Candidate-- Derrick Crowe (TX-21) - Blue America has been busily vetting new congressional candidates since spring. Sometimes it takes a while since we don't base our endorsements on quest...
2 hours ago
The Professional Left Podcast

The Latest Podcast from The Cornfield Resistance -
3 hours ago
Mock, Paper, Scissors

Pop Quiz! - It’s come to our attention that the sobriquet for Fratsputin and The First Shady needs a Mock, Paper, Scissors frisson of elegance. Sure, the media is call...
3 hours ago
Teena in Toronto

High Park, Toronto, ON - After lunch, Gord and I walked to High Park. *High Park is a municipal park in Toronto, Ontario. It spans 161 hectares (400 acres) and is a mixed recreati...
3 hours ago
MarketWatch 666

July’s retail sales, industrial production, and new home construction; June’s business inventories - the past week's key reports were the Retail Sales for July and Business Sales and Inventories for June, both from the Census bureau, the July report on I...
4 hours ago
First Draft

Diverse Books - A friend recently reached out asking what her good-hearted, brave daughter, barely a teenager, could do to combat racism in her mostly white small town. Th...
6 hours ago
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

HONORING THE ARTS - It is standard protocol for the President and his wife to attend the Kennedy Center Honors for the arts. But not this year https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/...
11 hours ago
skippy the bush kangaroo

another park another sunday - gun sales are down in new hampshire white house source: trump is afraid of firing bannon the lesson of the trump family troubles: nepotism doesn't pay is...
13 hours ago
field negro

CAPTION SATURDAY. - I need a caption for this pic. Example: *Hopefully that future will start with parents who know how to count.* **Pic from twitter.com*
20 hours ago
Progressive Eruptions

America is Proud of Boston - *UPDATE:* *Boston Police: "We had 40K standing tall against bigotry & hatred in our city & that's a good feeling" * *Fox News (Fake News): It was violent...
1 day ago
d r i f t g l a s s

Alex Jones Running Like They Just Announced Dollar Nite At An East Texas Titty Bar - Alex Jones is losing his mind. pic.twitter.com/UorRXjzUSD — jordan 🌹🌹 (@JordanUhl) August 18, 2017 driftglass
1 day ago
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

Roger and Me - You will lose you mind when cousins aren't two of a kind *"All these folks worried about erasing history when the Confederate statues come down will be thr...
1 day ago
Murrmurrs

From Here To Totality - Let the record show we were on to it first. First, I say, and everyone else should get in line. By "we," of course, I mean my friend Linda, who notified me...
1 day ago
Talking Points Memo

Trump: White Nationalist or in his Second Childhood -- A Response - I got an email about my post on Trump from an old friend Fred Block, a professor of sociology at UC Davis, and the author of pathbreaking books on the re...
1 day ago
Blue Gal

Ep 402 The Professional Left Podcast - The button below allows listeners to throw a contribution specifically towards the Professional Left Podcast. Thanks for your listenership and support! ...
1 day ago
We are respectable negroes

A Special Episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show: Analyzing the White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville - This week's special episode of *The Chauncey DeVega Show *examines the white supremacist terrorism in Charlottesville, Virginia which took place last week....
2 days ago
OB Rag Blog

Locals Push Back on New Design for Bermuda Project at Ocean Beach Planners’ Review Meeting - *OB Planning Board’s Project Review Committee Meeting* *By Brett Warnke* The OB Planning Board’s Project Review Committee on August 16 included only three ...
2 days ago
Firedoglake

Survivors Win Confidential Settlement In Lawsuit Against CIA Torture Psychologists - Two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, who were contracted by the CIA to develop torture techniques, agreed to a confidential settlement wit...
3 days ago
Monkey Muck

Where in the USA is it okay to punch Nazis, fascists, and white nationalists? - In every state in the union.
4 days ago
phantsythat

two classics - Then the nightingale sang. "That's it," said the little kitchen girl. "Listen, listen! And yonder he sits." She pointed to a little gray bird high up in ...
5 days ago
Urantian Sojourn

The Rainbow Roots of Racism - The first human beings were not Caucasians. They were not black; they were not yellow; they were not red, orange, green, or blue. They were brown. The po...
6 days ago
The Democratic Daily

Heather Heyer: An American Patriot - William Lewis Moore a postman from Baltimore was shot and killed during a one-man march against segregation. Rev. Bruce Klunder was a civil rights ...
1 week ago
Sleeping with The Devil

Man Who Farts In Deep Doo-Doo. Will He Or Flynn Bring Down Trump? - This thing is going into a critical phase. When they start raiding your offices for documents, they think you're lying. They think that you are hiding in...
1 week ago
darkblack

Someday My Pence Will Come - [image: Someday My Pence Will Come] ;>)
4 weeks ago
Fried Green al-Qaedas

Entertainment for you! - What you need is a good song and soft-shoe. The sand is on me.
4 weeks ago
Ornery Bastard

Tell Me Why - How you fuckers been? I've got five years of bein' sober under my belt finally. Shits different now. I'm still an asshole though so there's that.
5 weeks ago
finefroghair

Wash, Rinse, Repeat - Republican, Modus Operandi They Lie, They Cheat An endless cycle Wash, Rinse, Repeat Pick any notion Watch their retreat Ask them a question Wash, Rinse, Re...
1 month ago
Border Explorer

Border Patrol Raids Humanitarian Aid Camp in Targeted Attack - Border Patrol agent interrupts humanitarian assistance of migrants provided by No More Deaths. Thursday, June 15th, 6:00 pm, Arivaca, Arizona: As tempera...
2 months ago
Ask 'But Why?': Knowledge is R3volution

Katy Perry Witness LIVE Everything on Camera Youtube Spectacular - Right now.. Neil Degrass Tyson Katy Perry Witness LIVE Everything on Camera Youtube Spectacular Big Brother style or whatever you want to call it. {Youtub...
2 months ago
Kill This Character, Please!

Endangered Creature, Shemdangered Creature - Kill it. I am trying to think of a more moronic motto than the one that Xyzal uses. Maybe "Our Name Wins at Scrabble"? At least this thing can be taken to ...
3 months ago
Louis Yagera - InfiniteXpansion [Brainwaves entrainment| Hemi-sync| Meditations| Law Of Attraction]

Vivre sa passion sans diplôme grâce à la loi de l’attraction - Dans le passé, j’ai eu une belle carrière d’analyste-programmeur et j’ai aussi eu une belle carrière de producteur-réalisateur pour la télévision Irlandais...
4 months ago
Comrade Kevin's Chrestomathy

Life Story - Some people front-load their condition in life The what could have been’s the almosts The man who reaches across to me on the train needs connection with m...
5 months ago
Awful Library Books

Your Sex Pot Handbook - Sex Pots… And Pans The single girl’s to hooking her man-through cooking Howard 1970 Ladies! Are you worried about snagging that man? Today’s post features ...
6 months ago
The Underground Unbeliever

Completed Transition and Export to Wordpress. - I've finally completed exporting this blog to Wordpress. The new location is undergroundunbeliever.wordpress.com My email will be changing shortly to an en...
6 months ago
Raw Dawg Buffalo

My New Blog - My NEW Blog, do follow.
7 months ago
Helloooo...... Mr. President, are you listening??

#NotMyPresident - Lets fix this??? #NotMyPresident The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days. What does this mean? Right now, the presidential ...
9 months ago
impeachment and other dreams

Well, we're really screwed now... - The results are in. Now we have four years of this: And in case you thought it'd be okay, that their policies will affect someone else:
9 months ago
Keep It Simple Survival

Yeah, Screw This Shit - I'm done. Had enough. Mercy. Uncle. No mas. Screw this. Later. Most of my real friends are in hell or headed that way anyhow. A man can only take so much, ...
10 months ago
The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks!

Being Right and Wrong at the Same Time - The nation is emotionally raw today. Murders do that to people, especially when people choose up sides like a nightmarish game of dodgeball Continue reading →
1 year ago
bogus zen

Bagaimana kucing peliharaan sendiri - Baru-baru ini, keturunan anjing telah menjadi topik yang populer. I think it's super manis untuk berpikir tentang bagaimana kemitraan kami menyebabkan ...
1 year ago
Okjimm's Eggroll Emporium

Hold the mustard! - Show me a sane man and I will cure him. ~Carl Jung Show me a cured man and I will show you a ham. ~okjimm Show me a cured man a...
1 year ago
SagaciousHillbilly

"The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer" has taken on a whole new meaning. - Oh look, I'm back, but no one reads my blog anymore so 'oh well.' Hey, there has been an extraordinary primary process in AmerryKKKa these past few months t...
1 year ago
Left Edge North

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1 year ago
Hello Dolly Llama

THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. - THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. Let’s discuss the real reason why “Face The Raven” was a heartbreaker. The episode wasn’t just sad because ...
1 year ago
D.R.Scott's Pulp Culture

Testing 1, 2, 3. - I'm back. --The Thin Black Duke
1 year ago
Just Ain't Right

Career Advice - Pursuing a career is significant investment of time and money, so really investigate whether this is what you want to do. Research the career to ensure it ...
1 year ago
Of course I'm a communist, I'm a follower of Jesus

April 14, 2015 - Let me tell you about my week... Directing 2 plays for Elementary schools in Dunlap (performances this week, neither is ready). I was given one month of 1 ...
2 years ago
A Blogger and a Father

My Wife Wrote a Guest Post (Spoiler Alert: She Loves Me Too) - Ever since Oren started blogging he has asked me to write a guest post. I would be venting or kvelling about one thing or another and he always, under his ...
2 years ago
Utah Savage

Losing It - I've been losing words Old lover Why am I standing in the kitchen Lost Bad habits, good health Trying to gain weight Wanting loss to matter I cancel ancient ...
2 years ago
PARSLEY'S PICS

Weeping While Congress Sleeps - Fifteen years ago in Denver, I was working on a research project for a reporter when a city editor came running in and yelled, "Stop what you're doing." Wi...
2 years ago
EYEAM4ANARCHY

Oct. 24th Radical Movie Night - "30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle" - October 24th Radical Movie NightSeptember's debut of the Las Vegas Radical Movie Night went well enough that we will now be doing two showings per month. ...
2 years ago
Freida Bee

Meow Mix - I don't even think I'm going to apologize for blogging, for being away or for existing, for a change. Obscurity= anonymity I always sometimes say. I jus...
2 years ago
Love At Home

Acrylic Nail Supplies - Acrylic Nail Kits Wholesale#Acrylic Nail Kits Nails schoolAcrylic nails suppliesAcrylic nails suppliesImproving the Beauty of Nails with Acrylic Nails Supp...
3 years ago
Enemy of the state

WTF? - Ok so besides the FBI,CIA,NSA, DHS, we now have armed agencies including but not limited to IRS,NOAA, yep the weather people,of Course Border patrol howeve...
3 years ago
American Apocalypse

If you haven't heard this you Gotta listen. - Sorry about the ad. But awesome song,written by one of us! Hat tip to the Ghost,somewhere in southern Ind among other places. China III
3 years ago
How good is that?

An incredible thing is happening right now in protest of FCC plans to break the internet - A little bit of background: To cut a very long and technical story short, every time you connect to Netflix, YouTube, or your high bandwidth website of cho...
3 years ago
Los Cuatro Ojos

Dirty Trick… But Big Fun… -
3 years ago
The Online Magazine Formerly Known As Rob's Blog

Cruelty, malice, and their far-reaching consequences - Someone once encountered and captured a relatively tame and docile forest animal. The person was, however, very sadistic. Despite initial kindness to win...
3 years ago
L'ennui mélodieux

So long, Kyrie, and thanks for all the mope -
3 years ago
Know Your Government

THE FLIGHT FROM DALLAS - From noon to dusk on November 22, 1963, history went dark, locked inside the closed and crowded cabin of Air Force One. Fifty years later, what happened af...
3 years ago
Watergate Summer

Holding Time.... - Taking a moment to really see the world....the Leaves changing...the crisp autumn sky...the blues...the wispy clouds...Yesterday part of my day was spent ...
3 years ago
Pulp Friction

UGH. - *One Reason I Haven't Posted Much This Year* Yep. Just the thought of Senator Ted Cruz(R-TX)makes me feel like comedian Lewis Black just before his head ex...
4 years ago
I, Splotchy

Splotchy Has Moved And Stuff - HEY I MOVED MY BLOG TO HTTP://WWW.SPLOTCHY.COM PEACE OUT
4 years ago
43-Ideas-Per-Minute

If The Right Wants To Legislate Video Games, They Might Ought To Consider "Freedom of Speech" - After Newtown, like after any great tragedy where lives are lost in a mass-shooting, you automatically know that the Modern American Right will blam...
4 years ago
Zaius Nation - Some apes are more equal than others

NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence - [image: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence]
4 years ago
Its my Right to be Left of the Center

This blog is not currently active. - It was used for many years but I now blog at leftwingnutjob.net. Check it out. But this one is only a warehouse for old posts.
4 years ago
Fact-esque

Everythings Coming Up Roses! - From the Desk of Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s Big Chief in Charge of Bragging, Boasting, & Corporate Victimization: Hey, kids! Well, our policies may be hurtin...
4 years ago
Guys from Area 51

VOTE 2012 -
4 years ago
Handmaiden's Kitchen

A Very Telling Quote - McDonough manages to say *exactly* what is wrong with Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Medicine in America in 81 words. Good job! So here's where I get radical. ...
5 years ago
Hello, Negro

Racism I Found Today: Non-Black Version of “The Talk” - I’m late hearing about this terrible and blatantly racist article. It’s written as a response to recent articles about “the talk” that black parents have ...
5 years ago
No Smoking in the Skull Cave

Oh how I wish this was real... -
5 years ago
Swiftspeech!

Great Depression II - From a N.Y. Times commenter: I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...
5 years ago
ULTIMATE HAIKU

- polar bear picnic things were going pretty well and then it started
5 years ago
MOMocrats™

Come On Over to Our New Pad, MOMocrats.com - Hi! If you've come to us from the Washington Post article that mentions PunditMom (yay! also a MOMocrat and running the 2012 election coverage at iVillage)...
5 years ago
PhysioProf

Sickening -
5 years ago
Bloviations…

Maher: Indicative of an Asshole in Real Time. - Update: Thanks to reader @ribletsonthepan for tracking down the clip in question. I’ll try and find a more stable version, given that it may not remain on ...
5 years ago
Just my little piece of the world

Yeah, I am back again. But this may be the only one for a while. - Reading blogs today I found a reference to a blog post at DailyKos from 2005. Now I normally don't read much at the big orange anymore because I just can't...
5 years ago
Übermilf

Writing Tools: Idiots Who Think They're Great Because Other Idiots Respond to Them - I write for my local Patch*, a fun diversion that also pays a bit of extra pocket money so I can get my eyebrows threaded and keep Dilf in bon bons**. Fo...
6 years ago
Godless Liberal Homo

It's Time for the FCC to Investigate "Fox News" for False Advertising - Now that Rupert Murdoch's neo Nazi media empire is facing controversy and criminal investigations in Britain, it's time to consider the illegal activities ...
6 years ago
SteveAudio

Now don't you wait or hesitate - Who is the best male Rock'n'Roll singer working today? Probably a stupid question; there are many fine ones. But I think a case can be made for this guy:
6 years ago
Journeys with Jood

Jane Harmon to step down - Jane Harmon leaving Congress to become the next President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I'm sort of surprised, but it's quite a ...
6 years ago
My Saturday Evening Post

Want What - A new poem.... Want What Sometimes I just want to separate Jump out This skin Evaporate Into thin air Into ether Into another body Who's happier than me So...
6 years ago
CheapThrills

Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger should be a spokeswoman for damaged Black hair - I enjoy the Millionaire Matchmaker as much as the next couch potato, but there’s something about Patti Stanger’s “tough love” critiquing that irks the hell...
6 years ago
aarting

Blankie release party Oct 1st! - Join us to celebrate the launch of Blankie™! a new designer blind box series by design company Aarting. We’ll be hosting the official release party which...
6 years ago
Attentive Aphorist

Final Blog - As most of you may have already heard, TheMom lost her long health battle on July 3rd. I am sorry I couldn't post any sooner than this but there have been ...
7 years ago
The Dean's Office

In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'. - I left the democratic party today and registered in the Oregon Progessive Party. I encourage anyone in the state to also join the OPP. They need to get o...
7 years ago
Staying Alive

- I am now getting off line. Financial and technical problems have become too much. Stay live. Michael
7 years ago
Marcy's Musings

Odds & Ends Sunday - It's time to cook up a storm and restock the freezer with my homemade TV dinners...First thing this AM I made a tamale pie from a new recipe ...turned out ...
7 years ago
Politics Plus

Politics Plus has Moved - Please join me at our new location. http://www.politicsplus.org/blog I’ll leave this site up, because it is where we have been, but I’ll be turning off com...
7 years ago
The Unconventional Conventionist

"I'll Take the Dreaded Opera Category for $500 Alex" - Turandot [The Village] must be satisfied by being begged for marriage and having her pre-requisite riddles answered and never challenged or rebuked. She’...
7 years ago
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda

Blog is Dead. Long Live Blog. - Well, my inner defeatist has triumphed over my better intentions. Considering I have nothing to add in terms of half-enlightened commentary to this ongoing...
7 years ago
FranIam

The End - No - not exactly the end, but a departure of sorts. I am going to take a break here. I'll be back or I will turn up elsewhere. Don't worry, I am not that...
8 years ago
Mixed Martial Arthur

UFC 98 Happening This Very May 23rd - ...And oh what an event it threatens to be. Tapped for May 23rd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena (you can catch it on PPV starting 10 PM Eastern), this even...
8 years ago
The Nefarious Lair of LGPPP, Inc.(Lesbian Gangs Packing Pink Pistols)

Happy Birthday, BAC! - Darlings, it's BAC's birthday! I almost forgot, but Dr. Zaius reminded me. You simply must *go and wish her a happy birthday!*
8 years ago
Jon Swift

Sometimes There Are No Words - One of my favorite bloggers and frequent commenters has suffered a terrible loss. Fair and balanced commentary from a modest and reasonable conservative.
8 years ago
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