Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

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

Everybody saw this coming.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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

Books are my comfort food!

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

Republicans don’t trust women.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

An almost top 10,000 blog!

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

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

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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  5. 5.

    demimondian

    Nah — DougJ and I have tangled in replies one and two at least once. It’s hard to be quicker than that.

    Now you all be nice, hear?

  6. 6.

    demimondian

    Where do I sell my vote?

    Why aren’t we hearing about the good things going on around vote selling? After all, we’ve turned the corner on electoral trustworthiness.

  7. 7.

    Slide

    actually this is a great blog. The comments section on most blogs are painfully unreadable. Here I find you get a interesting mix of viewpoints and, while most of the comments predictably have more heat than light, every now and then a topic is explored and examined in a way that I actually find quite enlightening.

    It also allows some of us to blow off some steam in a socially acceptable manner (relatively) when we are frustrated with what we see happening around us.

  8. 8.

    Perry Como

    Where do I sell my vote?

    I’ve set up a 900 number that is based in the Mariana Islands. As soon as the deal goes through with casino cruise ship line, we’ll be in a good spot to dump the proceeds into a rare coin fund that will support the Balloon-Juice ticket.

    But can a blog be nominated for more than one category? Balloon-Juice should really be nominated for Best Liberal Blog and Best Sports Blog.

    /me ducks

  9. 9.

    Krista

    I agree…this blog rocks. Most blogs either have so little commentary, and so infrequent updates, that I can’t be bothered, or else they’re completely inundated with illiterate troglodytes whose idea of discourse is, “You’re soooo stooopid!” For the most part, even when the folks on this blog get into bloodshed, it’s SMART bloodshed, and usually very entertaining.

  12. 12.

    marionette de chausette

    I was going to nominate John Cole as best liberal blog host on behalf of Darrell and Mac Buckets.

  13. 13.

    rkrider

    Just stopped over to see if anything was posted about this:

    The Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year’s offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Falluja.

    I thought they said it wasn’t used.

    “It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants,” spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC – though not against civilians, he said.

    Then they said it was only used for illumination.

    “When you have enemy forces that are in covered positions that your high explosive artillery rounds are not having an impact on and you wish to get them out of those positions, one technique is to fire a white phosphorus round or rounds into the position because the combined effects of the fire and smoke – and in some case the terror brought about by the explosion on the ground – will drive them out of the holes so that you can kill them with high explosives,” he said.

    Globalsecurity.org, a defence website, says: “Phosphorus burns on the skin are deep and painful… These weapons are particularly nasty because white phosphorus continues to burn until it disappears… it could burn right down to the bone.”

    A spokesman at the UK Ministry of Defence said the use of white phosphorus was permitted in battle in cases where there were no civilians near the target area.

    But Professor Paul Rodgers of the University of Bradford department of peace studies said white phosphorus could be considered a chemical weapon if deliberately aimed at civilians.

  14. 14.

    DougJ

    Nothing will ever compete with Little Green Footballs, as far as blogs go, but this is certainly my *second favorite* blog.

  16. 16.

    Off Colfax

    And this is me, seriously doubting that anyone will ever consider my little ramblings as being a Best Of Anything At All. Not even Best New Blog By Someone Named Off Colfax. And you have to admit, that’s a pretty specific category.

    Have to be pretty odd to come in second place when there’s only a field of one.

  18. 18.

    Gray

    “This might be a new record for the earliest eruption of a flame war in a comments thread here.” JC

    If a commenter is citing your name calling, this is an “eruption of a flame war”? Hehehehehe! Gr8 joke.

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