Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

The revolution will be supervised.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Everybody saw this coming.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

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  1. 1.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Finally, a non-Hill hate thread:

    the glorious offensive in Basra has resulted in medals and promotions for everybody (not!)

    BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government announced Sunday that it had dismissed 1,300 soldiers and policemen for refusing to fight or performing badly during last month’s offensive against Shiite militias in the southern city of Basra.

    Maj. Gen. Abdul-Kareem Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said that 500 soldiers and 421 policemen were fired in Basra, including 37 senior police officers up to the rank of Brigadier General. Police officials said the remainder were fired in Kut, where fighting also spread.

    “Some of them were sympathetic with these lawbreakers, some refused to battle for political or national or sectarian or religious reasons,” General Khalaf said in Basra.

    On April 3, Mr. Maliki promised to dismiss and prosecute the worst offenders among the more than 1,000 who deserted, laid down their weapons or refused to fight against their fellow Shiites and tribesmen. At the time one of his senior officials acknowledged that fear of the militias was a principal factor. “One of the main reasons is that they felt the other party was too strong, and too courageous and they couldn’t confront them,” he said.

    Can you say “Brusilov Offensive” ?

    Putting further political pressure on Mr. Sadr, Ali al-Dabbagh, an Iraqi government spokesman, said Sunday that the cabinet had agreed on a draft law that would ban any party from taking part in the October provincial elections unless they disband their militias. But it was unclear how much effect any law could have, given that the two dominant Shiite parties in government — the Sadrists and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq — are both closely affiliated with their armed wings.

    This is going to end well.

  2. 2.

    Rick Taylor

    The President of the United States just admitted being fully aware of officials at the highest levels designing “enhanced interrogation techniques” and it’s been greeted in the media by a big yawn. I have to admit, I’m speechless myself I don’t know where to go from here. We’ve finally gotten to the point where the President can come out and say something like that, what’re you going to do about it?

    Of course seeing as two lines of a talk Obama gave last Friday could be interpreted as being disrespectful towards people who value religion and being able to use guns, there hasn’t been a lot of attention to spare for minor matters.

  3. 3.

    LiberalTarian

    So, how does the general public force the DOJ to put Bush up on high crimes and misdemeanors??

    Not in our name, right? He broke the law. He broke international law. If he is saying, “So what?” now is the time for a major civics lesson.

  4. 4.

    Mary Racine

    Do I get bonus points for having seen both La Belle Noiseuse and Divertimento in the theater?

    A question I pose to guys I know – would you sit through a four hour French film, if you knew it had over two hours of Emmanuelle Beart naked?

    But… have you seen Premiers désirs?

  5. 5.

    Tim F.

    A question I pose to guys I know – would you sit through a four hour French film, if you knew it had over two hours of Emmanuelle Beart naked?

    2:30 before the movie crawled so far up its own what-is-art-without-feeling navel that I turned it off for fear of spawning a black hole.

  6. 6.

    b. hussein canuckistani

    A question I pose to guys I know – would you sit through a four hour French film, if you knew it had over two hours of Emmanuelle Beart naked?

    Thanks to the internet, nekkid chicks are easy to find without sitting through 4 hours of French film, so I would have to say no, naked actresses are not enough. Is it any good otherwise?

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