Complicity Redux

Time again to reiterate: I have to raise my daughter and pay my mortgage in the immediate, and I cannot get past the ruby reality that as shitty as Democrats are they bribe me better for my complicity than shitty Republicans.

Everything is negotiation. I understand why some condemn smartmarks for their complicity as more morally reprehensible than stonestupid and rote rubes. I play on the line between tool and fool constantly, and if I favor myself tool it's because I mock my complicity while engaging it fully, and congratulate myself for doing so too! Rube.

If America's decline is inevitable and irreversible macro, micro we're voting for who will negotiate my daughter's parachute, and suck just less on Planet Me-Me-Me is better than just suck more. My team sucks just .06% less than Team Pig, and I want that .06% Mr LaForge.

Plus, there's that whole pig's heads exploding thing.

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• Billmon's still back and he's still sharp and he still beats me to what I was about to say.
  
• Rhetorical snarky question no one will ask: If John McCain wants to assert that his five plus years of POW torture ultimately qualifies him as presidential, what future Muslim leaders are we training at Guantanamo?
• Broder hearts Biden. Dagger.
  
• Biden: Mark Penn approved.
• Biden's second chance.
• Joe Biden as Lewis Black (snarfle!)
• David Ignatius is profoundly toolish.
• But not as toolish as the Post publishing Kathleen Parker.
• Ask a crazy wingnut Christian this.
• Pigs, lesser-evil, yadda.
• Pigs, lesser-evil, yadda.
• If the words don't kill you, the bombs will.
• Deborah Howell is one lame-ass mammajamma.
• HRC can end this Tuesday night. Odds she'll try?
• I'm anti-slot but not rabidly, which doesn't mean Ike Leggett isn't a sack of shit.

Updates later. Or not.

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In my head, be in yours.