Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

I was promised a recession.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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  1. 1.

    st

    Probably because to a lot of Iraqis, the UN and the US are just two fingers of the same hand. Whatever your opinion of the UN, there is no doubt that they were our partners in the sanctions that right or wrong, directly or indirectly caused a shitload of suffering in Iraq (and the UN was no doubt demonized roundly for it by Iraqi state tv – certainly Saddam wasn’t going to acknowledge his own larcenous malfeasance); to say nothing of the UN arms inspectors, whom I imagine were similarly played up as foreign interlopers. Remember, Gulf War I was done entirely under the auspices of the UN.

    It may be tough for someone like yourself (who clearly has, ahem, strong feelings about the UN, France, and the rest of the European antiwar crowd) to accept, but to a lot of people in Iraq who weren’t watching CNN, it’s “The UN? The US? Samey-same, G.I.”

  2. 2.

    poop ruiz

    of course there’s also the possibility that the people who bombed the UN Baghdad HQ were not Saddam Loyalists.

  3. 3.

    Mark S.

    John, it’s simple (IMHO).. they can’t hit targets that are protected, so the cowards hit the first targets they can find, regardless of who it is.

  4. 4.

    Blackavar

    The NY City Parking Enforcement Bureau may have been behind it. I understand the UN is several million dollars behind in payments on diplomats’ parking tickets over the last decade.

    Tony Soprano would kill for less…

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    Peter

    The US and coallition forces have been hardening the nonmilitary targets with barriers and (presumably) locked ‘n loaded troops.
    The UN decided they wanted a more ‘welcoming’ image so they refused the barriers.
    So they welcomed a splodeydope. The Baby Jesus weeps at such stupidity. The UN could screw up an iron ball with a rubber mallet.

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    Emperor Misha I

    Actually, ST, you got it almost right, except that it’s the UN and Saddam that are two chips off the same block.

    Remember who it was that were doing their level best to keep ol’ Soddy in power?

    Yep… Two letters, begins with a “U” and ends with an “N”.

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