If his mug shot has half of the awesome-sauce of Tom DeLay’s, I will pee my pants laughing. And this wasn’t some liberal Austin grand jury either!
@SanFranLefty: I want a number on that photo. And I loved when Molly Ivins pointed out that Texas has exactly one campaign finance law, and DeLay managed to break it.
Arraignment, mug shot with number, and new hashtag of #RickeyDon’tLoseThatNumber will be so sweet.
@weejee: I was hoping our resident poet, ManchuCandidate, could do something with “Rick’s indicted, and it feels so good / Rick’s indicted, and it’s understood….”
In more important news, all the barn swallows have now gone even the juveniles, there is a young bear who has taken up residence in the woods above the house and has taken to traipsing about the lawns, and I find I have a big old ash tree that is infested with Emerald Ash Borer. And no, that is not the name of the Duchess of Devonshire’s daughter.
@blogenfreude: Witty woman.
@blogenfreude: For the record, overturned on appeal.
@DElurker: Yeah, much as I’d like, I’m having a hard time buying this one. Does the Texas governor have the authority to yank funding? Does he have to provide Reasons? Does the stated pretext even matter?
The seeming comparison is Andrew Cuomo. You can rake Cuomo over the coals for what he did with an NY ethics panel, but nobody is saying he didn’t have the authority to do it.
BURR DEMING • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Thank you for this, nojo. He was a wonderful talent and, by all accounts, a wonderful human…
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Oh, and there’s a Catholic church across the street. Maybe I can do a little dance for them!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 Now that I’m in NYC, plenty of pigeons to poison in his honor.
NOJO • All the Vice President's Men 2025 update: Nothing happened. And here we are!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Weeping Angel Imagine going from hope to Fascism in less than two decades enabled by greedy ass (millionaire)…
NOJO • Nightmare at the Museum From the last time he threatened to bomb Iran, 2020. Remember that one? All a misty blur now.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Only the sane parts... like the West coast, New England (minus the Bruins and…
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.