Today's Tweet

I'm certainly not crazy about adding to the orbital junk heap, but this is pretty cool.

View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit around Earth. pic.twitter.com/QljN2VnL1O

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2018

 

Just Like Black Jesus

So maybe he wasn't really walking on water. Eyewitness accounts can be pretty iffy.

Today's Tweet

More hostages for the GOP.

I wonder if a Debt Ceiling deal might hinge on Dems being willing to fuck over a whole lot more people:

• Community Health Centers
• DACA
• Social Security
• Medicare
• Medicaid

124 days ago, Congress let funding for community health centers lapse.

And that has quietly created a new health care crisis for 26 million Americans. https://t.co/gw4t6UWmTR pic.twitter.com/ijeQ3CJFqq

— Vox (@voxdotcom) February 4, 2018

These guys.

Y'know what we call somebody who's always looking to make people live at the broken end of the bottle - all the time; every day?

We call them assholes.

We call them terrorists.

And right now, right here in USAmerica Inc, we call them Republicans.

Today's Tweet

Well - a coupla days ago anyway.

Twitter is stunned at just how gigantic a fake Paul Ryan is.
Silly Twitter.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 3, 2018

 

Science, Bitches

This was a real 'holy fuck' moment for me.  

Of course, I also get a moment of 'holy fuck I'm ignorant' because I have a kid (almost 40 years younger than I am) who knows all about this shit - and gets a wry smile on his face whenever I bring it up.

Today's Pix

Today's Tweet

Fun Fact: 3:00AM in Washington is 11:00AM in Moscow.

A good time for the Kremlin; they've sorted thru yesterday's news, and they've had a couple of meetings to settle on 3 or 4 Action Items, and it's time to send instructions to 45*.

They didn't even have to get up early or anything.

"The Memo Reveals the Coup" is trending. It couldn't be Russian bots, right? I'm sure tens of thousands of Americans got up between 2AM and 5AM on a Saturday morning to tweet about the vacuous #NothingBurgerMemo. Indeed, #TheMemoRevealsTheDupe.

— Eric Davies (@edavies) February 3, 2018

 

Today's Buzz

Buzz Burbank News and Comment:

The Shearer Dossier:

Unlike Steele, Shearer does not have a background in espionage, and his memo was initially viewed with scepticism, not least because he had shared it with select media organisations before the election.

However, the Guardian has been told the FBI investigation is still assessing details in the “Shearer memo” and is pursuing intriguing leads.

One source with knowledge of the inquiry said the fact the FBI was still working on it suggested investigators had taken an aspect of it seriously.


TrumpIsNotAboveTheLaw.org

Enter your zip code and get ready to hit the streets.

Pay close attention at about 44:10 - when Buzz Points out that we're still pretty much the Stoopid Country.

Today's Today

I've always had a hard time remembering what the whole groundhog thing meant.

Here's a handy updated guide:

That Right There

I've not seen a better example of someone being hermetically sealed in a bubble of deliberate ignorance.

It's the Post-Truth-Only-My-Opinion-Matters-Please-Jesus-Bring-The-Apocalypse-So-I-Don't-Hafta-Admit-To-Myself-I'm-Full-Of-Shit Blues

Fish gotta swim
Birds gotta fly
Rubes gotta rube
And we all know why