Balloon Juice - Poor Mr. Nick Kristoff gets

Poor Mr. Nick Kristoff gets Mr. Lilek’s dander up and pays the price- In other words, Lileks has a new screed up.

Kristoff = Italics, Lileks = Bold

A sample:

It also turns out that a British organization, Indict, is already pursuing an indictment against Saddam for war crimes.

And the Belgian organization Frown is already drafting plans to mount an international campaign of scowling, which will force his regime to divert precious resources to rubber chickens, joy-buzzers and Singing Telegram Gorillas to improve their standing abroad. Meanwhile, the French organization Surrender is drafting plans to cede Marseilles to whomever wants it, just in case.

Need I mention the plans of an American organization, Depose? They’re known informally as the Armed Services.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

“Alexa, change the president.”

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Poor Mr. Nick Kristoff gets