It has been a rough week, ‘cados. Let’s let Labelle lift us up and tide us over until tomorrow. It’s been a hard week, but we don’t need to be hard with each other. Be nice to each other today, … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Sings the News, Dances the Blues
For a lot of folks in the American South, it’s traditional to have black-eyed peas, cabbage, and ham (or other greens/other pork, but it’s cabbage and ham in the QHarp family) on New Year’s Day in order to attract health, … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Has Some New Year’s Leftovers
Today we celebrate Boxing Day, so named because it’s traditionally the day on which family members had fistfights over the last of the holiday baked goods. In my case, it’s fruitcake cookies and buche de noel. I’m excited to hear … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Celebrates Boxing Day
At first, I accidentally wrote ‘The Friday Politics Thread is Walking in a Winger Wonderland’ and was going to go with it and post a bunch of Winger songs, but then I stopped because I wasn’t sure if Kip Winger … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is Walking in a Winter Wonderland
I don’t know, y’all, I cannot make my brain get it together. So, let’s have a great Friday, let’s be nice to each other and to the mods, and let’s not threaten Mayor McSquirrel. Let’s do some Folitics. Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is Staring at the Screen
I’m working on the assumption that this will actually go right and I will only post one politics thread this week. Not next week, though. Next week I’m going balls to the wall and making the whole front page duplicate … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is Just the One This Week, Thank You
Happy Day After Thanksgiving/Regular Friday In November, ‘cados! Have a weird, in-between thread where nobody really knows what’s going on for a weird, in-between day where nobody really knows what day it is. Be nice to each other today, be … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is in the Void
Got Covid and flu shots yesterday. Feel weird, arm hurts, living god status TBD. Political because of the signs all over the CVS pharmacy saying ‘Wait! No! You don’t need a prescription to get a Covid shot!’ Because two months … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is All Vaxxed Up
A year and two weeks, I think, I’ve been doing the Friday header? Some of those posts even had effort put into them! This isn’t one of those, though. This is one where you get a song, a quick lecture, … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Celebrates a Year Or So
Look, I know this is hot, hot take for a Friday morning, and I’m sorry, but I can’t keep it in anymore: You know how it’s standard internet practice to take dumb, farcical videos and dub Yakety-Sax over them? I … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is Just Gonna Say It
Happy Halloween, ‘cados! Be nice to each other today, be nice to the mods, candy corn is the best Halloween candy, and no threatening Mayor McSquirrel. Let’s socialize! Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is Grim, Grinning
I’m travelling Thursday and will be in (blessed, correct) Central time on Friday, which…I don’t know how the hell that works with scheduling WordPress posts and I’m not going to learn, so I’m writing this on Wednesday. Since only God … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is [Verb]-ing
Tomorrow (Oct. 18) brings us a second round of ‘No Kings’ protests across the country, because we now live in a country where that is a sentiment that needs to be expressed repeatedly. For the folks who are going out, … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Says No More Kings, Yet Again
I love a good party revolution song. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Ozomatli live, but it was easily a top 3 concert-going experience. Look, I’m just gonna say it: If there are guitars and a bunch of … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Dips, Dives, Socializes
I could have written about the shutdown, but we all know about it, and anyway, I’ve spent the majority of this week mentally curating my ideal Bad Bunny Superbowl halftime show. I think I’ve mostly got it; the big thing … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is Looking Ahead (Way Ahead) to the Big Game
Be nice to each other today, be nice to the mods, and don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. Let’s everyone get nicely posted today. Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread is Getting Posted
Your regular Wednesday PT host is in Germany, so you’re stuck with me. In honor of Cordyceps’s Grand German Adventure, have some polka. As Cordy would tell you, be kind and thoughtful today. Now let’s get out there and make … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Is Subbing In
Keep standing, PT. Sunglasses, body paint, and/or weird leatherdaddy/punk rock t-shirt onesie thing optional. It’s been…rough, lately. Please be nice to each other, be nice to the mods, and don’t threaten Mayor McSquirrel. To wholesale steal Big Wheel’s featured comment … Continue reading The Politics Thread Is Still Standing
Not really, ‘Folitics’ was just a typo. But as it could be both ‘Friday politics’ and ‘fucking politics,’ it seems appropriate. It’s been a week, ‘cados. Be nice to each other today. Be nice to the mods, who have had … Continue reading The Friday Politics, or ‘Folitics’, Thread Is Portmanteau-ing
I think I’ve said this before, but holy moly do Monday holidays throw me off for the rest of the week. I’m pretty sure I thought Wednesday was every single day of the work week over the course of the … Continue reading The Friday (?) Politics Thread Asks, ‘What Even Is a Day, Really?’
Today is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Anyway, it’s been like a full 25 minutes since I wrote ‘Today is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’ and I’ve basically just been staring at the screen ever since. It’s weird … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Has Been Through Worse and Will Be Back Again
