Sadder still, this was retweeted by 77 people.

Shorter White House: I am trading your social safety net cow for the promise of some magic beans that I will plant when I am re-elected which, by the way, David Plouffe assures me is totally gonna happen now. You can thank me later.

Krugzilla: Jonathan Chait has an excellent piece documenting the way in which what he calls the establishment, and I call Very Serious People, misjudged the way the debt ceiling thing would play out: “The failure to understand the crisis we were entering was widely shared among centrist types. When Republicans first proposed tying a debt [...]

I was sad  because I had no job until I met a dilettante who was forced to sit on a couch and  stare at a laptop while typing continually wrong stuff about everything for A WHOLE WEEKEND. This is worse than working in the Himalayan pink salt mines. Much much worse… (Added) In comments, MBouffant [...]

Second Coming off to a rough start: Multiple reports have indicated that the Broncos will trade Kyle Orton, most likely to the Dolphins. And yet when the Broncos practiced for the first time today, Orton wasn’t just on the field — he was running the show with the first-string offense, and from all accounts outplaying [...]

The place where I get my cars worked on is less than a mile away so mrs Tbogg and I took the boys with us when I dropped off my truck this morning, providing them with a nice long (by their standards) walk back home. Weather-wise it’s in the high seventies and humid today which [...]

Hot on the heels of her experimental film’s smash two week engagement at cavernous mostly empty movie theaters prompting Box Office Mojo’s Brandon Gray to gush: Undefeated boosters ran with the notion that the movie’s opening had the “second highest per-theater average of the weekend, behind only Harry Potter,” but the movie was actually sixth [...]

You know what is awesome? Showing up after the opening act and twenty minutes into the headliner, making everyone in the row get up out of their seats so you can get through, and then spending the next thirty minutes screaming over the music about “fucking awesome” your seats are. This is why concealed carry [...]

Shorter Ross Douthat : With notably rare exceptions, like the massacre of innocent children, people like that Norwegian guy have some valid concerns about the browns. Alternate Ross Douthat: Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism extremist genocidal tendencies, Dude, but at least it’s an ethos.

Everybody now bring your family down to the riverside Look to the east to see where the fat stock hide Behind four walls of stone the rich man sleeps It’s time we put the flame torch to their keep -E.John/B. Taupin Burn Down The Mission Jesus lamprey Rick Warren, author of The Profit Purpose Driven [...]