Kathy Henderson has announced her campaign for mayor of DC. This is not a drill. (For those of you who do not follow local DC politics, imagine Nancy Mace as a perennial candidate for power-mad HOA president, only without the professionalism, ethical standards, and financial probity.)

RIP to the first political candidate I ever voted for. (1988 Indiana presidential primary.)

I’m proud of our common inheritance of ordered liberty and our heritage of killing Nazis when necessary.

Food is great. It Unites us as a Country of diverse tastes. Kind of a true equalizing force Isn't it neat to Come together Enjoying our memories?

For the typical Bluesky audience, Mayor (later Secretary) Pete. (In other communities it might be Traci Paige Johnson, my 10th period biology classmate and creator of Blues Clues.)

Today's Republican Party in a nutshell: it's perfectly fine to kill your daughter for not liking Donald Trump. You shouldn't even feel bad about it, especially if you have two more daughters at home anyway. ca.news.yahoo.com/woman-shot-d...

Post a banger that isn't in English, you say? So many to choose from! Let's go with... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8U_...

Jason Myers for MVP. In your heart, you know it’s right.

A touchdown? Can they *do* that?

/2 I’m being told meth labs typically deliver and do not have on-premises seating

Watching the game from a neighborhood bar. When the ICE propaganda came on, the bar fell silent. Then someone shouted out “fuck that shit!” Applause.

I'm no Yale PhD, but I'm a heterosexual male who has both made and received recommendations for job candidates, about half of whom were women. I can honestly say I have never mentioned, asked about, or been asked about a candidate's physical appearance, and the idea is creepy as fuck.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Thanks For Loving Me Even Though I'm Trash" Sticker. If you ever feel unworthy of being loved because you're trash, just remember that means your partner is a weird freak who is attracted to trash. You deserve each other. collabs.shop/vrbi3e

Never mind jobs you had, tell me classes you took at college: 1) Organization and Bureaucracy 2) Theories of International Trade and Payments 3) Political Violence and Terrorism * 4) Western Ways of Wisdom 5) Philosophy of Minds and Machines * Class was about stopping it, MAGA-heads.

If something is worse than half-assed, is it fully-assed or assless? (Question inspired by walking two blocks and comparing shoveling jobs.)

Starbuck's CEO Brian Niccol may have the longest history of extraordinary pay ratios, having made more than 1,000 times median employee at his company for 10 years (prior to Starbucks it was a Chipotle & Yum Brands). This year Nicols comp of $30.99 million. The median employee earned $17,279.

Today should have been my friend Jeff's birthday. (Fuck cancer!) In his memory, I'm sharing this thing he wrote during Trump's first term which is, sadly, still relevant today.

There are two kinds of fans of (American) football: those who think a good game is an offensive showcase played under ISO-standard precipitation, field surface, temperature, wind, light, and humidity, and those who get goosebumps when John Facenda says “frozen tundra.” I’m the second kind.

Man, did I pick a good game to watch tonight or what?

I support the call for “reforming” and “providing guardrails” for ICE, provided that the end result of these reforms is salt, ashes, and prison time for those at the top.

When you've lost the funny pages, you've lost America. (Technically this strip was published in 1944, but great art is timeless.)

On one hand, we could have had IU and ND battling it out for Indiana supremacy within the hallowed grounds of the Rose Bowl. On the other hand, watching IU treat Bama like Anthony Johnson treated Jake Paul is entertaining in a very different way.

May this year be better than the last.

Ever notice how the only people in America who get a concrete reason why they didn't get a job they applied for are white right-wingers who got passed over because the company was only hiring minorities?

To be fair to the clanker, when you hear hoofbeats you look for horses rather than zebras. And this is America, where every weirdo with anger management issues has a dozen guns but playing the clarinet is very much a niche activity.

WaPo has an article on “five Rob Reiner films that stood the test of time.” That must have been hard to write. (*Six* Rob Reiner films that stood the test of time? Easy! You could even go higher than six with some padding. But cutting it down to five?)

Wait, a retaliatory Virginia gerrymander means we might get a Tom Perriello comeback? DOOOO EEEET

Was that three turnovers on a single play?

So a 63-year-old neo-Nazi with long COVID opened fire with an AK-47 on hyper-militarized police who’d come in armored vehicles to evict him and his wife on behalf of an anonymous investment firm? The Trump coalition is fracturing before our eyes. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Well, barring a Christmas miracle it looks like I’m getting laid off for the holidays. Whee. (I’m well set financially and can expect to get back to work pretty soon, but it’s still not ideal.)

The Pop-Tarts Bowl is the Maryland state flag of college bowl games.

Since the "one of these has to go from Thanskgiving" threads are starting, here's one I created some years back.

Indianapolis, Indiana--the city so nice, they named it one and a half times. (One and seven twelfths, if you want to be really precise.)

Notre Dame’s women’s basketball team is ranked lower than I expected, but I’m sure a win over ranked Michigan will set things straight. Let me just sip a mouthful of pop and check the game results…

My mind insists upon trying to make this skeet fit the meter of William Carlos Williams' "This Is Just To Say."

The Dropkick Murphys' Veterans Day tribute/honor for the people of Ukraine. But what really left me agog as a person who follows politics is the appearance of former Republican Congressman (former Republican former Congressman, to be precise) and all-around Interesting Person Denver Riggleman.

If the dead don't want to be spoken of poorly then they should have been better people in life.

It's a measure of how bad things have gotten that when I heard that Dick Cheney had died my first thought was "lucky!" rather than "good."

It's surprising how rarely the word "stagflation" is appearing in the media, though on second thought we must remember the media likes Donald Trump and wants him to win, and the prospect of stagflation would not help him.

Stop fucking texting me. (I like to embroider the "stop" messages for the junk texts I get from Republicans--Winsome Sears, in this case--who think I'm a right-wing nutjob named Milton. If I ever catch the person who used my number on something that got added to a RWNJ mailing list...)

Since Roku is on my mind: does anyone recommend a replacement remote for a Roku stick? Searching on Amazon for “replacement remote Roku stick” gets all kinds of helpful matches that prominently include my keywords in phrases like “NOT FOR ROKU STICK.”

There’s an announcement on my Roku home screen, “Sean Hannity’s wanted dead or alive.” For some reason I am reminded of an old Looney Tunes episode in which a desperado’s wanted poster says he’s wanted dead or alive, with a bit at the bottom adding “preferably dead.”

And another finger curls up on the monkey's paw. (Seriously, are NYC and DC trading places on the mayoral quality front or what?) www.axios.com/local/washin...

If you’re going to try and argue that your Nazi tattoo can be excused because you were drunk when you got it, you probably shouldn’t be on record arguing that if women don’t want to be raped they should refrain from being drunk around strangers.

When you figure how to put an entire playable 90s arcade game in a social media post, it’s DOOMscrolling.

I'm considering making this quote from the Mother Jones article my bio: "If your definition of a violent mob includes well-organized Mennonites, that says more about you." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"My son has to clear any videos I want to watch involving defecation or urination."

"No time for proofreading!"

"Not all southerners" is to American electoral politics what "not all men" is to feminism.

I really want to see a Transformers cartoon or comic where one of the Autobots is a Cybertruck, and all it does is try to transform into a robot inside parking garages only to smash its head into a concrete ceiling.