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As long as I’m asking rhetorical questions and making futile pleas, I’d like to add one more. Please stop doing shit like this:

Jeff Darcy phones it in (like much of the media)

Seriously, I know it’s hopeless to call for anything else but that doesn’t change the fact that this is fucking bullshit.

“Congress” is not the cause of America’s debt-ceiling time bomb. Republicans in Congress are.

In its official editorial on debt politics, The Economist does everything it can to pick at Democrats on this issue, and then having made those token efforts acknowledges that “…Mr Obama and his party seem a model of fiscal statesmanship compared with their Republican opponents.” Their generally conservative-leaning Lexington columnist goes further, calling this whole farce

a problem entirely of the Republicans’ own making. The reason for this crisis is that instead of just raising the debt ceiling in the customary way so that the government can pay the bills Congress has already run up, the Republicans decided to point a pistol at the American economy and threaten to pull the trigger if they did not get the spending cuts they wanted.

Seriously, what the fuck are the Democrats supposed to do, here? (more…)

First, on a relatively-serious note, apparently I am not the only one fed up with Sherrod Brown’s tireless advocacy of polluting free-riders. The business-as-usual skeptics at 350.org have decided to call shenanigans on Sherrod, and hope to launch a campaign shaming him for an April vote to dilute Clean Air Act regulations.

Good. I’ve already kicked in a bit of cash, and I hope others will do so as well. You cannot be a friend to the lying delusional profiteers who run the coal industry and to progressive Democrats both. If we just go on giving Democrats a pass because the Republican alternative is always worse on some issues and never really better on any, what the fuck can we be said to actually stand for?

In his blog post, 350er Jamie Henn alleges a friend from Ohio expressing hesitancy, saying “I feel a little bit nervous funding an ad going after Sherrod.”

Well, get over it, Nellie.

Moving on to the category of farce…

I really hope that one of these months the reality that Osama bin Laden is actually dead will catch up to news media, and we can stop seeing and hearing his name everywhere. But, I have to acknowledge the reports of “revenge attacks” and threats of same, just because it’s so fucking silly that it’s actually entertaining.

I mean, I feel like Walter blowing up at the nihilists when they demand a ransom after their lack of a hostage became common knowledge.

Seriously, you al-kaseltzer guys: you’re offended because U.S. Navy Seals killed your figurehead? Who are the fucking terrorists here??!? You’ve already committed yourselves to war on the United States and our allies! What the fuck conceivable meaning is there in your swearing, now, to attack us? I thought that was your fucking plan anyway, dipshits! What, you were kind of half-assing it lately but now you’re really mad? You expect to send this message and then deliver credible threats? Again, you were already supposed to be an active terrorist organization committed to violent action against us; threatening violence does not afford you any further fucking leverage at this point!

“WHAT ARE YOU, A BUNCH OF FUCKING CRYBABIES?!”

Sheeeeeeeesh.

Conversation one:

Dumbfuck: The sidewalk is covered in snow. The street right next to it has been cleared. I’ll walk down the street. (In the dark. At rush hour.)

Me: Get a fucking pair of boots you retard. Or a shovel. Or just fucking cope, or just fucking stay home. But do not walk down the fucking street.

Conversation two:

Me: God damn these roads are full of holes.

Dumbfuck: Yep, it’s the harsh freeze-thaw cycle; man, these Ohio winters…!

Me: No, it isn’t. It’s because you pave your fucking roads with a mixture of ground styrofoam, used printer toner and old coffee grounds here. In many parts of the country, where road-building has advanced into the 20th century, roads do not complete disintegrate by the beginning of February every fucking winter, despite harsh freezing and thawing. Get this through your fucking thick skulls, Ohio is not particularly unique in any way, shape or form, climate included.