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Open Thread Nov. 15: Creeps, Tweets and Balance Sheets

By Alby November 15, 201714 Comments

When You've Lost Hannity...: Sean Hannity has seen the light, in the form of a yearbook signature. He gave Roy Moore 24 hours to get his story straight or he's…

Will Trump Survive Tell-All ‘Fire and Fury’?

By Alby November 14, 2017

Consider this an early New Year's present: On Jan. 9, Henry Holt will publish Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which Axios says has set off…

Open Thread Nov. 14: Trump, Moore and the Keurig War

By Alby November 14, 20178 Comments

The news bombs are dropping fast and furious on both the Roy Moore and Russian collusion fronts. The Atlantic rocked the Russian collusion story by printing the secret email correspondence…

Tea and Clickbait: Kompromat, Corruption and Owl Orgasms

By Alby November 13, 20172 Comments

Jonathan Chait analyzes why Trump talks about Putin as if Putin's his boss. The upshot: kompromat. He makes an unprovable but decent case. California passed a law forcing "crisis pregnancy…

Will Joe Give It a Go? I Say No

By Alby November 13, 20172 Comments

A lot of people think Joe Biden is going to gird his loins for presidential battle one last time in 2020. He's out peddling his new memoir, "Promise Me, Dad:…

Police Thwart Rally Violence With TSA Tactic

By Alby November 13, 2017

Remember those White Lives Matter rallies in Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, the ones that notably lacked the violence of the Charlottesville fiasco? There was a reason for that,…

Open Thread Nov. 13: Joe, the Port and Smash That Keurig

By Alby November 13, 201711 Comments

Joe Fever is sweeping the nation -- well, the part of the nation where Delaware is situated -- as everyone speculates on whether he will run for president again in…

Sunday Breakfast Links: Open Thread, Nov. 12

By Alby November 12, 20175 Comments

Question of the day comes from Lucian Truscott, who asks "WTF is wrong with rich people?" I have to say, I don’t have a clue what’s up with rich people.…

GOP: Grabby Old Perverts

By Alby November 11, 20171 Comment

In blackjack, doubling down is what you do when you're holding a 10 or 11 and the dealer shows a bust card. In politics, it's just what Republicans do. Every.…

Open Thread, Nov. 11: Saturday Scrapple

By Alby November 11, 20174 Comments

When it comes to judges, I like 'em well-seasoned. Republicans like 'em raw. Yesterday every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted for a 36-year-old twerp who has only practiced…

Field Guide to Conservatives

By Alby November 10, 2017

I don't know where this came from originally but it's too good to pass up: Things conservatives find offensive: Pink Pussy Hats Rainbow Flags ObamaCare "Happy Holidays" NFL Players kneeling…

Can a Harasser Truly Apologize? Louis C.K. Gives It a Try

By Alby November 10, 20176 Comments

The tsunami of stories about men behaving badly is sweeping the worlds of celebrity and politics so fast that nobody who has been accused has been able to come up…

Call Roy Moore a Perv, Get a Spittle Shower

By Alby November 10, 201720 Comments

The list of men called out for bad sexual behavior, from creeping on underaged girls to rape, keeps growing. Comedian Louis C.K., who was trailed for years by rumors of…