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We saw this floating around yesterday and couldn’t decide whether it was, y’know, cool to post, and then we saw that Dan Savage himself posted it, and then we realized we’re getting really chickenshit in our dotage.

We can’t tell you how many times we’ve asked, Where are the Great Existential Cat Movies? Finally, an Uncaring God responds to our pleas.

Our guest columnist just admitted that “Springfield” is Springfield, Oregon, which we knew all along, since we grew up next door in Eugene and he grew up in Portland. Here he’s responding to a request for comments about a notorious daily panel cartoon featuring a family of single-nostriled aliens. Do you know how fucking cool it was to have a font of your own comic lettering in 1992?

June 22, 1992

Dear [Nojo],

Your letter just floated to the top of the pile of mail sitting on my desk, and since I have a couple of minutes to spare at the end of a long day before I take off for one of them Hollywood parties you’ve read so much about, here’s a rare reply from me.

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Give it time… Give it time… Give it time… There.

[via Know Your Meme]

Back in the Nineties, while we were still living in Oregon, we had occasion to visit Los Angeles for a publishing conference. We borrowed Dad’s van for the trip south — unlike our Chevette, it had air conditioning — and stayed with a friend an hour east of the conference’s downtown location.

The van, alas, was not as roadworthy as we expected. One weekday afternoon, crawling back to our friend’s place on a Great Big Freeway during rush hour, the van began to stall. It wasn’t completely dead, but the slow speeds were killing it. We would pull over, wait five or ten minutes, and try again.

It was during one of those punctuated stops, on an elevated stretch of road, that we noticed the exit sign:

EAST L.A.

Oh, shit, we thought. This is the last place we want to be stuck with a stalled van.

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So we had this long, blustery post all written up, stemming from Rachel’s segment last night on Michigan Republicans railroading bills through their legislature by not taking roll calls, in apparent violation of the state constitution.

It included the word “tyranny”. Unironically.

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Barack Obama said something mildly unkind about the Supreme Court and then a bunch of deeply cynical conservatives were Shocked! that Barack Obama would say something so Outrageous! and then a federal judge told a DoJ attorney to write a three-page paper on Marbury v. Madison and then everybody found video of George W. Bush saying something mildly unkind about the Supreme Court and then Dear Fucking God Nobody Cares Can You Get Back To Government-Mandated HooHah Probes Thank You America’s Bloggers.

[via Sully]