Ugh

by Ugh As the liberal illuminati outsmart themselves by sending pipe bombs to their own leaders in a horribly failed attempt to distract from the overwhelming menace of a caravan of more than 100,000 heavily armed foot soldiers of Middle Eastern descent steadily marching toward the U.S.'s naked southern border, and due to get closer … Read more

by Ugh There is too much sh1t goin' on.  Can we go back to the good old days of no drama? Pls thx bai? Whatever. Go Sox, tho' I wouldn't mind a Brewers World Series victory (wait, did I just talk about baseball? Don't tell the Count). If Dems take the House you will see … Read more

by Ugh This whole Florence thing has the 9YO freaked out.  Living just outside DC on the MD side makes me think he might be overly worried but that's his mojo. In other news, I can't really say Serena was robbed (if anyone it was Osaka who was clearly outplaying the legend up to that … Read more

by Ugh As many (some?) of you know, I was "lucky" enough to take Constitutional Law from Prof. John "Torture? Hell yeah!" Yoo at Berkeley, back before his tenure at OLC in the Bush Administration.  This was Con Law I, which mainly focused on things like separation of powers, the rights and duties of the … Read more

by Ugh Today SCOTUS decided Carpenter v. United States, saying essentially if the police want to gather your cell phone location records for the past ____ days they need a warrant under the 4th Amendment.  In the decision, in an opinion by the Chief Justice (who continues to vie with Kennedy for "least awful GOP … Read more

by Ugh The President is horrible. His Attorney General is horrible. His press secretary is horrible. ICE is horrible. Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are horrible. The GOP is horrible. Also, too, horribly racist. The GOP is the party of Sarah Palin on her worst day now. I mean, fnck. Open thread…………………. Update the First:  … Read more

by Ugh Random movie quotes have been popping into my head lately and the number one thing I realized is that none of them are from a movie post-2000.  Either I'm old or my movie watching habits have declined.  Probably both. I was going to put up a thread about how one of the great … Read more

by Ugh Because why not, eh? I forget who said that capitalism needs to be kept safe from the capitalists, but gee ABC, what did you think you were getting? Also, too, I'm spending way too much time on the twitters, and encountering some very special people. My kids are casting Harry Potter spells on … Read more

by Ugh Today in what must be the eleventy-billionth article on the subject, the WaPo makes the rugged, overland, sometimes I'm sure dangerous, journey to the restive provinces to find out just why Trump voters voted for Trump and what Trump voters think of Trump now that Trump has been Presidenting.  Farming, lamb processing, and … Read more

by Ugh Back in the day I suggested that perhaps the higher ups at VW would not run into any trouble for the emissions scandal.  Indeed, informed commentators deemed it "highly unlikely" that gaming the emissions system was a senior management decision and was "relatively contained" in VW.  Well, it seems my and others' surmisings … Read more