Wanker of the Day

I mostly stopped doing the "wanker of the day" because too often it seemed to trivialize things. Candidates for that prestigious prize generally deserve worse, and thus "worst humans" was born.


Still it's probably an appropriate award for David Cameron.

You can understand why Cameron believed this – because Jeremy Corbyn said it was a tragedy Bin Laden wasn’t put on trial, and then said, “The attack on the World Trade Centre was a tragedy.” And when you read between the lines of that sentence, it obviously means “the attack on the World Trade Centre wasn’t a tragedy in the slightest”.

This is a marvellous technique, to pretend your opponent said the complete opposite of what they actually said, and then get angry about the words they didn’t say. Corbyn could retaliate now by saying, “The Prime Minister said the Battle of the Somme was a bloody good giggle. Well, it’s not so funny if your great-grandad was run over by a tank. He also said nothing makes him laugh so much as gangland knife crime. But I for one will never shank anyone.”

Good At One Thing

I've known people like this, though they usually don't decide to run for president. They go through life, doing their thing, and remain blissfully unaware of basically everything else.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked him: “Just clarify, if there had been no gun control laws in Europe at that time, would six million Jews have been slaughtered?”

Carson replied: “I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed … I’m telling you that there is a reason that these dictatorial people take the guns first.”

If only those silly Jews were packing!

Aside from the general offensiveness of invoking the holocaust in this way, no a few rifles and pistols are not any protection against state tyranny. The state always has more and bigger guns.

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America's Worst Humans

William Hite.

Vote Atrios

Hilarious.

Republicans may be forced to solicit Democratic help to break their Speaker stalemate, Rep. Charlie Dent (R) said Thursday.

The Pennsylvania centrist, who often serves as a mouthpiece for outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), said there is only a small handful of Republicans who can win 218 GOP votes to fill Boehner's shoes. The trouble is, none of them wants the job.


“We may need a bipartisan coalition to elect our next Speaker,” Dent told reporters after Thursday's closed-door GOP meeting. “That's a very real possibility right now, and I think anybody who's honest about this knows it. They may not want to talk about it, but they know it.”

But They Were So Moderate And So Rebellious

All they needed was more death machines and some quiet Americans to tell them how to use them.

LONDON — The Obama administration has ended the Pentagon’s $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels, administration officials said on Friday, in an acknowledgment that the beleaguered program had failed to produce any kind of ground combat forces capable of taking on the Islamic State in Syria.

Late Night

Rock on.

Thursday Evening

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Thursday Nepotism Blogging

Why not?

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Contracts

Could someone in Philly step up and sue the hell out of the school district pro bono for these people?

Pretty sure Fernando Gallard's salary offer was a mistake, too. Will be so sad when they claw it back.

This Man Was Mittens's VP Candidate

I honestly have to look this up every time. I can never remember.

But WTF?

Be Crazy But Shhh Don't Talk About The Crazy

It does seem like Republicans are in a really weird moment that the #bothsidesdoit crowd will never admit. They have to amp up the crazy, but they can't admit that what they're doing is actually crazy. It's like they have to make clear they're burying their children alive in the basement, without actually saying out loud they're burying their children alive in the basement.

Hard to walk on that balance beam. Slippery.

Dems In Disarray

I don't have a clue what's up with Team R anymore.

What's Going On

Gog and magog.

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SMDH

McMegan gets worse every day.

People train your children well in the art of suicide.

America's Worst Humans

Jerri Collins.

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