♪ Never take any pictures Just try to remember All I remember is trying Here’s a story I like I think it happened to me I don’t even know if I’m lying ♪ — “Half Life,” Too Much Joy[footnote]Bonus Verse … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets Its Thousand Words’ Worth

Shout-out to all Carolinian Politicados. Stay safe, dry, and sheltered. ++++ Wars and battles will be more grievous and towns, cities, castles and all other edifices will be burned, desolated and destroyed, with great effusion of vestal blood, violations of … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Has a Failure to Communicate

♪ Newcastle Brown, I’m tellin’ ya, It can sure smack you down Take a greasy whore And a rollin’ dance floor It’s got your head spinnin’ round ♪ — “30 Days in the Hole.” Humble Pie This weekend’s Weekend Politics … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Inherits the Reapings of Whirlwinds

To welcome intrepid Politicados this fine-ish first weekend of September 2018, your unfocused WPT host presents a total of 10 paragraphs on three pressing political topics.[footnote]Twelve, ya doof. Count the tacked-on introductory and concluding graphs. Term-paper rules always apply.[/footnote] And, … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Suffers Succotash

♫ Bring the dear old banner, boys And fling it to the wind; Mother, wife and daughter, Let it shelter and defend. “Equal Rights” our motto is, We’re loyal to the end. Giving the ballot to the mothers. ♫ — … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Equals Things Out

♫ Well a dollar I make Is a buck I owe And a forty-hour week Leaves ten to blow But every game in this town Is just a nickel-and-dime And when the sun goes down It feels like the last … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Does Some Prole-ing

♫ Substitute your lies for fact I can see right through your plastic mac I look all white, but my dad was black My fine-looking suit is really made out of sack ♫ — “Substitute,” The Who[footnote]Heard and seen here … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets Riggy With It

♭ Sometimes I can’t help the feeling that I’m Living a life of illusion And oh, why can’t we let it be And see through the hole in this wall of confusion I just can’t help the feeling I’m Living … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Clings Desperately to Its Reality

♪ There’s a bedtime story Lovers, war, and kings They belong to yesterday As if it were a dream …. Don’t know why Don’t do that Dry your eyes Don’t look back ♪ — “Don’t Look Back,” Treat Her Right[footnote]No … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Gets Real Upset About Upsetting Reality

Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs; God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man; man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.[footnote]Call the header image “God-blum” because it calls to mind the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.[/footnote] Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the … Continue reading Another Goddamned Weekend Politics Thread

♪ ‘Til the man they couldn’t hang Stepped to the mic and sang And their voices rang with that Aryan twang ♪ — “Bobcaygeon,” The Tragically Hip Your seasonally renamed Weekend Politics Thread host, Uvular, Peach Lover, loves to eat … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Remains Unimpeachable

♫ Insanity’s everywhere Must be something in the air ♫ — “Killing for Jesus,” Circle Jerks Stretch, hydrate and eat a banana. This one will take a while. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan (R) spent this past week lying about his … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Believes the Believable Team

♫ I’m out in Pittsylvania County On Highway seven-one-eight Middle of a cornfield Know I’m not too late There’s about 13 Thirteen ’67 Chevy Malibus in a circle In the cornfield, with their headlights on And I can feel it … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Opens Up

♪ Somewhere way under the rainbow Dragging round an empty pot of glue Bruised and confused it could happen to you Seeing for the first time that dreams can come true …. When childish habits are slow to die You … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Visits Planet Dearth

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. — Albert Camus, The Plague The American Republic has … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Explores the Lighter Side of Plague

♫ What does it mean What can you do about it What can you say You don’t even know about it Nobody talks Nobody listens Well look around Yeah look out your window They’re having a ball Having a party … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Leaves You to Your Own Devices

And Death, the severe master, invites them to dance. He tells them to hold each other’s hands and then they must tread the dance in a long row. — Jof, The Seventh Seal     Everything Trump touches dies.* And … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Thread Laces Up Its Dancin’ Shoes

Sex clams for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Roseanne now says she “Ambien tweeted” her racist and Islamophobic attack on Valerie Jarret. The Soros calumny must have lain in wait at the bottom of a Nyquil bottle. While drugs and alcohol … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Blames the Ambien

♫ As the young men move out into the battle zone He feels good, with God you’re never alone He feels tired and he lays on his bed Hopes the men will find courage in the words that he said … Continue reading The Weekend Politics Remembers What No One Dares Forget