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May 8 Open Thread: Pervs ❤️ New York

By Alby May 8, 20187 Comments

Calling all pervs -- there's a government job for you in New York, at least if you're a male Democrat. Eliot Spitzer's call girl problem looks tame next to Anthony…

May 7 Open Thread: Anything Trump Can Do, He Can Do Trumpier

By Alby May 7, 20182 Comments

If you're having a race to the bottom, you shouldn't invite a guy who makes his living underground. Don Blankenship, America's most lethal boss, went ballistic this morning when Trump…

Open Thread, May 6: Approaching the Event Horizon

By Alby May 6, 20184 Comments

Sorry for the interruption, I had a lot of gardening to catch up on. I also developed a theory that Donald Trump is a black hole of such massive proportions…

Open Thread May 4: No More Fucks to Give

By Alby May 4, 201815 Comments

Sorry, but I've run out of fucks to give. I think it was Trump's Dr. Bizarro that tipped me over the edge, actually admitting that he didn't write the statement…

Who’s Against Taking Guns From the Mentally Ill? That Answers Itself

By Alby May 1, 20184 Comments

You might have heard of a fella name of Earl Lofland, Earl R. Lofland, Earl R. Lofland of Clayton, Del. This fella seems to harbor a grudge of long standing…

May 1 Open Thread: Refuse to Lose, Even After You’ve Lost

By Alby May 1, 201812 Comments

To everyone else, "refuse to lose" is a sales-motivational cliche. To Republicans, it's an operating system. So even if you're Roy Moore, and you lost not just the election but…

Pete Schwartzkopf Rips Dover Downs a New One

By Alby April 30, 20185 Comments

As El Somnambulo predicted last week, the casino giveway relief bill that sailed through the state Senate on a 17-3 vote faces a tougher road in the House, where its…

April 30 Open Thread: Won’t Someone Think of the Trumpkins?

By Alby April 30, 20184 Comments

Washington is running out of fainting couches, as dozens of media figures have joined conservative snowflakes in expressing shock, shock at Michelle Wolf's routine Saturday night at the White House…

Lynching Memorial Opens to Near-Universal Praise

By Alby April 30, 201829 Comments

Last Thursday the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, better known as the lynching memorial, opened to wide coverage and effusive praise from all quarters -- well, almost all quarters.…

April 29 Open Thread: NRA Convention Bans Guns for Veep

By Alby April 29, 20181 Comment

The jokes write themselves. The NRA convention, the ultimate gathering of self-defined good guys with guns, has banned their fetish objects for a speech by VP Mike Pence because the…

April 28 Open Thread: Pew Says Democrats No Longer Want Compromise

By Alby April 28, 201810 Comments

Somebody please show this Pew Research graph to Chris Coons: It shows that, while Democratic voters used to value compromise more than Republicans, but over the past year that's no…

Democratic Leaders to Liberal Candidates: Get Lost, We Prefer Moderates

By Alby April 27, 20187 Comments

Liberals have realized for a long time now that the leadership of the Democratic Party is beholden to business interests and therefore is only as liberal as corporate America will…

April 27 Open Thread: The More He Talks, the More He Accidentally Reveals

By Alby April 27, 20186 Comments

Pundits are still buzzing over Trump's disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday's "Fox & Friends," which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne…