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After suffering a Democratic sweep in statewide races in last month’s midterm elections, the Wisconsin GOP embarked on a project to limit the powers of incoming Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul. Today, Chuck Todd—who wrote an essay earlier this year calling on journalists to fight back against the “campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the American news media”—justified this blatant grab for power, with a nice dose of both sidesism. Todd interviewed Evers today on Meet the Press, and his introduction contained some giant fucking whoppers (emphasis mine): We’re going to turn now to a couple of end runs around the November election results. In Wisconsin the Republican legislature has approved a set of bills that essentially would strip some power from the newly elected governor and attorney general. “Why?” you might ask. Well, the newly elected governor, Tony Evers, and the newly elected attorney general, Josh Kaul, … [Read more...] about Chuck Todd’s Wisconsin Segment Was Fucking Embarrassing

They say the best revenge is living well. The second best revenge is getting your former paramour to grovel publicly. In Cardi B’s case, consider that achievement UNLOCKED. That’s right. Just a few days after Cardi B announced she and Offset were done, her alleged adulterer of a husband proclaimed on Twitter what the rest of us already knew—no one can do better than Cardi. This is a rare spot of justice in a world gone mad. Meanwhile, during an Instagram Live session on Sunday, Cardi addressed rumors that her split with Offset was a publicity stunt. Per E! Online: “I really don’t like how people say my and my husband—whatever he is right now to me—is doing it for publicity,” she said. “I wouldn’t put my family in a bad name for no f—king publicity, ‘cause at the end of the day, ten years from now, my daughter, she’s gonna be looking at these type of things and she’s gonna be asking me about these … [Read more...] about Offset Has Regrets

Because our presidential elections now run on a system that can be boiled down to “sure, why not me?” it looks like Beto O’Rourke might throw his hat into the already-overstuffed 2020 Democratic presidential primary ring. O’Rourke may have lost his Senate race against Ted Cruz, and most people may only have the vaguest possible sense of his policy platform beyond “not Ted Cruz,” but why should that stop him? From a Sunday report in the New York Times (emphasis mine): After a star-making turn in his close race against Senator Ted Cruz, Mr. O’Rourke is increasingly serious about a 2020 run — a development that is rousing activists in early-voting states, leading veterans of former President Barack Obama’s political operation (and Mr. Obama himself) to offer their counsel and hampering would-be rivals who are scrambling to lock down influential supporters and strategists as future campaign staff. Barack Obama’s political … [Read more...] about This Beto O’Rourke 2020 Thing Might Really Happen

Next time you see pasta all’Amatriciana (more often than not, it’s bucatini all’Amatriciana) on a menu, don’t order it. I’m serious. Kind of. You’re better off making it yourself so you can see that it includes its most important ingredient. See, I fell in love with the stuff after the first several times I had it at various New Jersey BYOB joints (my home state is quite stingy with the liquor licenses). But my beloved turned out to be a complete fraud. And, oddly enough, I didn’t learn this until a few years ago when I was in a high-end restaurant in Las Vegas. Pasta all’Amatriciana was on the menu, so I ordered it, and it was better than any other version I’d ever had. “That’s the guanciale,” the waiter said. (Please cut me some slack for my ignorance; I’d only been eating meat again for a year at that point following a long bout of vegetarianism). Turns out that the import of guanciale, or cured pig … [Read more...] about There’s only one requirement for authentic pasta all’Amatriciana

The United States continued its efforts to transform this garbage pile of a country into a literal garbage pile this weekend by teaming up with Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait to challenge language “welcoming” a United Nations report urging immediate global efforts to reduce the effects of climate change. And while the wording doesn’t necessarily matter, it does matter that the US refuses to accept that we live on a rapidly warming planet, but try explaining that to this fucking idiot. According to The Washington Post, the global climate summit in Poland included a conference that hoped to make an agreement “welcoming” an October report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that outlined the effects of a 1.5 degree Celsius rise in global temperature. The report found the planet would suffer catastrophic effects if the temperature rose more than that—which it is on track to do, by an additional 1.5 degrees Celsius—and urged … [Read more...] about US Refuses to Accept Climate Report Urging Action or Certain Doom, Which Will Certainly End Well