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You know how conservatives operate. At one of their Panic and Policy huddles someone must have made the horrified observation that Biden’s tenure could well turn out to be as transformative for America and as destructive to Republican priorities as FDR’s New Deal, and being a muddle-headed gobshite Cornyn has only remembered the names and forgotten that, to the vast majority of Americans, being like FDR isn’t actually a bad thing. It’s what comes from being bad people surrounded by ot...

I swear, each month of 2020 will have its own history degree. My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year. You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one. What fresh hell is this? I personally stopped the public option… Four legs? good! two legs? we’re not so sure… No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while. Just a few bad apples. The house always wins. Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe. Every...

@VOR: This framing is annoying. Democrats in Congress have known for a long time (probably decades)that Republicans deal in bad faith. A noise media and lackluster voter support with most of the low info voters insisting “both sides”, plus being the minority party, plus blue dogs limited what Democrats could accomplish. What changed is us, our voter turn out, our demand for better policy; and that gives our elected Dems some room to accomplish it in spite of a media still bleating about bi...

Re: CVS and Walgreens v local pharmacies: I was wondering the same thing. My dad’s large nursing home has lots of experience with giving vaccines to its residents, and it has used one particular excellent pharmacy to do so. Seems inefficient or outright nuts to force them to work through CVS and Walgreens when they already have the expertise in house. Re: Allergic reactions. I have been getting flu shots for decades, and they always want you to hang around for a while afterwards to be sure th...

If there were one vice-president who could be absolved of dreaming about a coup, you’d think it would be Mike Dense, the guy who couldn’t outwit a ball-crazy labrador retriever with a fake throw. But needs must when the KKKrazy wants feeding! Alas, the latest Extremely Legal Petition from Dumbest Guy in the House, Rep. Louie Gohmert, has just met another setback: A federal appeals court on Saturday dismissed a last-gasp lawsuit led by a House Republican that aimed to give Vice President Mi...

Since we’re sharing things that amuse us, and since this is the 141st anniversary of the horrible (not at all amusing) Tay Bridge Disaster, I’d like to present for your delectation the best worst poem of all time. Here is William McGonagall’s 1880 masterpiece, “The Tay Bridge Disaster.” Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember’d for a very long time. ’T...

“Out of the secret world I once knew I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit,” he wrote. “First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I’m sitting now.” The first book of his that I read was A Perfect Spy. In it he describes a childhood so sick and twisted that it was truly horrific to behold. At the time I wondered what kind of demented mind could even imagine such a thing. Years later I learned th...