I intended to make this a brief meditation on the glories of dark humor, citing as an example a joke I wrote decades ago but improved only last week. I thought I could walk through the process of elevating an … Continue reading The Day Thread of Forcing Oneself to Go Nowhere Slowly
♪ If I wasn’t so AmericanI might love you moreBut giving up my independenceGoes against my core ♪ — “American Love Song,” Momo Boyd The United States of America by convention turns 250 years old today. She doesn’t look a … Continue reading The WPT Deems It Necessary in the Course of Human Events
♬ Let’s go where eagles dareWe’ll go where eagles dare ♬[footnote]TW for reckless use of the b-word and alternatingly juvenile/puerile horror-erotica[/footnote] Usually described as a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus),[footnote]Literally, “white-headed sea eagle.”[/footnote] Sam Eagle self-identifies as “American.” You will spot … Continue reading An Aerie Weekend Politics Thread
♫ And if you try to call me, you have reached the Minestrone ZoneLeave a message at the beep and get used to the dial toneSelf-exile in the kitchen ‘til I cook the perfect potI put the veggies in my … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Remembers Things Repast
♪ W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N, baby, D.CW-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N, baby, D.C ♪ Uvular Suspects died November 21, 2025.[footnote]Not really.[/footnote] A coroner ruled the intermittent Avocado Weekend Politics Thread header host’s passing a death by misadventure.[footnote]Satire. Wait for the payoff.[/footnote] “As a white, suburban man in … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Supports Capitol Punning
♬ As it gets colderI grow older, not wiserIn my anger ♬ Two days after the precipitating event, Uvular posted a Politics Thread comments stating, in full, “Senate Democrats who caved on the federal government shutdown shall forever bear the … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Sublimates
Wednesday never wanders far from a Politicado’s worldview. Do your thing. Do what you want to do. Continue reading A Thursday Politics Thread Full of Woe
♪ To the left, to the leftEverything you own in the box to the leftTo the left, to the leftDon’t you ever for a second get to thinkin’You’re irreplaceable ♪ And now for something completely different. Stick with this. It … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Says Deal With Your Sh!t
Emergency fill-in. Do your best. Mind McSquirrel. Continue reading Pfriday Fpolitics Pthread
Gettin’ my potatoes, yeah! Oh yeah!Fresh mashed potatoes, yeah!Ha, well, come on and do it, haSay it! The American goldfinch subsists primarily on seeds. Some people call this plump passerine seedeater a “potato chip bird” based on how they hear … Continue reading ‘Tuber or Not Tuber?’ Asks the Weekend Politics Thread
♪ I held a knife against his breastAs into my arms he pressedHe cried, “My love, don’t you murder me”I’m not prepared for eternity ♪ — Pick a version by pretty much any singer. You can’t go wrong. Who … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Hums ‘Hey, oh, Way to Go, NOhio’
♫ I said there is no justice as they led me out the doorThe judge said, “This isn’t a court of justice, son.This is a court of law.” ♫ Stephen William “Billy” Bragg expressed no original sentiments when he set … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Pleads Its Case
♬ Freedom, freedomFreedom, freedomFreedom, freedomFreedom, freedomSometimes I feel like a motherless childSometimes I feel like a motherless childSometimes I feel like a motherless childA long way from my home ♬ Years ago and on this very commenting community, Uvular responded … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Frees Its Mind (Ass to Follow)
The above teaser trailer scared 8-year-old Uvular witless. The following movie poster did, in many ways, worse damage to the prepubescent psyche of your present OT header host. Twentieth Century Fox adapted it for a series of newspaper ads. That … Continue reading The Day Thread Does Magic (1978)
♫ Maybe tomorrow, maybe somedayMaybe tomorrow, maybe someday ♫— Skip this header if you must, but stream the video and find yourself floored anew by Chrissy Hynde’s mid-lyrics octave drops. December 26 usually means nothing to your workaday American. Your … Continue reading The Day Thread Observed On
♩ I like food, food tastes good!I like food, food tastes good!Juicy burgers, greasy friesTurkey legs and raw fish eyes ♩— Give a person steak, cornbread, or candy. No wrong choices. Now, we all know no one and nothing has … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Threads Gives as Good as It Gets
Most Americados will skip past this header on what, for them, is Thanksgiving morning. Yes, Canadacados and assorted other OT habitués set aside different days for national expressions of general and genteel gratitude. But Uvular gives thanks today, which makes … Continue reading The Night Thread of Thanks Singing
♪ Lido be runnin’, havin’ great big fun until he got the noteSaying, “Toe the line or blow it, ” and that was all she wrote ♪— No garden party lasts forever. Amen to that. ++++ Longtime endurers of Uvular’s … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Knows When to Fold ’Em
♪ In the ’51 flood the river got meanThe levee broke at a town downstreamUp on our levee where the county lines meetCaught a couple of their boys with some TNT ♪— Forty Days and 40 nights [footnote]No, you count … Continue reading Après Weekend Politics Thread, le Déluge
♫ Right before the aftermathI saw where it would endYou said it was an accidentI guess that all dependsOn who you talk toAnd who you knowAnd where you come fromAnd where, where you go ♫— Looking back[footnote]Nat King Cole?! Uvular … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Decries a Scrying
♪ I love my dogAs much as I love youYou may fadeMy dog will always come through ♪— Who could question something on which Sublime, the Bottle Rockets[footnote]Stream this one if none other.[/footnote] and DMX all agree? With the Dog … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gives Every Dog Its Day
