Yeah, okay Quinn is more of a typical local pol than Weiner. Problem is that the Mayor’s job is to get things done. Maybe you don’t like Bloomberg’s intrusiveness on social habits (smoking, sodas, etc.) but he has been a much more effective results-oriented big city mayor than the grand-standing and alienating Giuliani. Not saying Quinn is a Bloomberg but she knows she would have to step up her game on account of expectations that Bloomberg has set.

Aside from the oft-remarked and suitably ironic association of weiner with dick, I got nothin’, well maybe except that Touchy Tony doesn’t really have the chops to be Hizzoner and I would expect Ms. Quinn to utterly destroy him anyway. So, in other words, fun times and popcorn.

I’m laughing at the explanation. And, yes, I also thought of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” and now I am also thinking about all those secret, funky goings on with that Midwestern couple that Wood maybe knew about or not. Still, thanks to the diabolical TBogg I will never look at that iconic painting the same ever again.

You have developed the rant art form to new levels of sardonic deliciousness. But I have to agree with Jay B; these people were always crap, it’s just the language has become cruder and more cynical.

That photograph of your daughter is extraordinary. You need to embrace the concept of snow. It’s going to disappear in the next 20 years anyway.

Your wit and sardonic but right-on views are also extraordinary. Lao Tzu’s sayings were pithy and scarce but everyone likes them. I’d rather have distilled, pithy but occasional TBlogg than none at all.

yeah but “Carvlle/Matalin” isn’t an example of a synecdoche. Something like “political odd couple” would be more generic, no?

This is one of the densest collections of puns I’ve encountered. Good stuff people. Tea cup was left well removed from keyboard.

My Mom also raised six kids and neither she nor my Dad needed any kind of weapon in the house. Okay she did whack some of us with a broom if we were fighting too much and threatening to destroy the furniture.

This women is a sicko and frankly I feel bad for the kids.

Sounds like your today was a bit like “La Recherche du Temps Malaise” by Marcel Boggs. Do hope you quickly get well since you and Charles Pierce are my two favorite sardonists

I got nothing except adoration of Shakira’s Ass. As for the music, whatever.

TBogg, my doctor prescribes at least a weekly dose of Tea Bogg to counteract the insanity of our “normal” culture. Although I am not a fan of bassett hounds, myself, yours are…um noble looking indeed. But it is your stiletto work that I like the best. Keep on it; after all things are not actually going to get better in our political culture, unlike Shakira’s ass.

Cheney…oh right he is a zombie, so never mind. (I thought Chuck “Prison Holy Joe” Colson bought it a while ago. Maybe not.)

Ah, that movie was just soooo well done, so many good lines and scenes. As for the upcoming Maya event, well, in Indonesian “maya” means illusion or hallucination so there’s that.

In mt experience, Bassett hounds only have a sad expression; we’re not talking about the happy mouths of German Shepherds or manic expressions of Chihuahuas.

You know, China is definitely a very different country these days (certainly from when I last was there, which was pre-Deng Xiao Peng – yikes). I think the “People’s Daily”, which has always been much more like the World Net Daily than, say, the AP or Reuters has gone totally post-modern and “ironic” in order to keep the vast Peoples’ Liberation Army computer virus/espionage teams amused; those that are totally plugged into the Intertubes and busily sabotaging us and otherwise stealing stuff. It’s a chaotic world folks and only going to get much, much more chaotic.

By definition, it is infinitely worse than Roy Rogers because Roy Rogers doesn’t make pizzas

Yes, but is your basset’s French as good as Marat’s? (Basset hounds originated in France.)

Hey who needs exit polls when you got Peruvian sha-people: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/11/06/ayahuasca_2012_hallucinating_peruvian_shamans_see_an_obama_win.html

I grew up in Pittsburgh in the ’60s and was struck by the difference between northern and southern Ohio (traveled there for high school debate tournaments). Back then, the Cincinnati and other southern Ohio areas were kind of “southern” (this was in the Civil Rights era). Thinks they may still be.

Ahhhhhh. Not only are these people self-confessed dumbfucks but they don’t care. So that settles who the GOP Base are (as if we didn’t already know).