Today's Quote

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

-- Robert F Kennedy

On Being Stoopid

The secret to demagoguery is to make yourself seem as stoopid as the average citizen. Then that average citizen will think he's as clever as his leaders. He'll believe he's in on the joke, and  he'll never admit he's been left holding the bag.

Christmas Wishes

Here's hoping we all eventually get what most of us wanted for Christmas.

Score Card

It's good to know Shep Smith is trying to keep it 100, even though we can't really be sure this isn't just ass-covering.  

But I think get it - DumFux News needs some kind of beard; they need plausible deniability; something that muddies up the water a little; something that lets them maintain the illusion that their "coverage" during the day is real news while their prime time programming is all about opinion and blah blah blah.

Anyway, Media Matters For America does some good work once in a while by making these mashups so we can keep track of some of the epic volume of bullshit that flies out of Cult45 at record speed.

Merry Christmas

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Make A Joyful Noise

After all the shouting and pain and bloodshed that go hand in hand with religion and the politics that comes with religion, I'm always left with these three things:

One is my atheism - and thank god for that.

Another one is that eventually, we get to Christmas, where we find some amazing and glorious music to help us process all the silly (and often dangerous) weirdness that goes on in our minds.

The third is a wish - that we could just stick to the art, and learn how to skip all that other shit.

Sometimes it's hard not to see winter as bleak and harsh and bereft of anything hopeful, even knowing it's just part of the continuing cycle of our lives. But if we hold each other in the warmth of our hearts, we're not alone - and we can welcome a long and lustrous season waiting for spring.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

Making for home

Not A Hipster Was Swingin'

Today's Tweet

Shove your incivility.

Listen to this idiot. pic.twitter.com/zG04hSXET6

— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) December 23, 2018

Great Line

Got done Christmas shopping, leaving the dollar store, I glanced over and I saw Chuck Norris, face down in a pool of his own blood. 

I helped him to his feet, I blurted out “ Chuck, what happened?!” He turned, spit out a tooth, looked into my soul and said one word... “Ginsburg”

-- Christopher Titus

ProLeftPod

• No "Best Of" nonsense here, guys - a fresh episode every Friday, no matter what.
• Losing DumFux News
• Christmas got its start with a mad king doing some really scary shit
• Cue David Brooks
• Gender Neutral Gingerbread Persons

It's Christmas, ya cheap bastid - send 'em a little love

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