Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Everybody saw this coming.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

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

Let there be snark.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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

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

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  1. 1.

    James F. Elliott

    Dogs rule! You can get a nice mellow breed (or one with one in the mix) and the two should get along fine. Of course, now that I say that, one will eat the other within the first 72 hours.

  2. 2.

    Laura W

    Need some help? I can help! I’m very helpful!
    Dog bless you for posting this. I was about to go pull my eyelashes out, one-by-one.

    (You sure you don’t want to say one more thing about RW?)
    And how about a Tunch photo or two, for old time’s sake. No wonder he eats your shoes.

  5. 5.

    Laura W

    My comment is trapped in moderation hell because I, once again, most unselfishly and out of nothing but the kindness of my huge heart, offered to help you find an adorable JRT puppy to rescue/adopt?
    I am outraged, uproared, and, um…cranky!

  7. 7.

    Keith

    Puppy should learn to respect a full-grown, dominant cat…at least if it’s male. (this is basically my experience with various terriers, including pits, but I do know of a couple of female pits that ultimately grew up getting beaten up by cats only do one day take the cats’ heads off). Course a lot of it is the individual dog’s personality (bad word, I know), but I intentionally got a male dog for that very reason.

  11. 11.

    smiley

    I have two cats that are littermates. They hiss and claw at each other every day. One is conciliatory, the other is resistant. That is my life. I love animal pictures where they’re "hugging" each other. Doesn’t seem to happen in my house. Luckily, my human family is all love.

  13. 13.

    demimondian

    @smiley: The demi-bunker is infested by three cats, none of them litter mates. Two of them curl up together and do all the "kewt kitty" stuff. They both hate the third one.

    I don’t suppose it’ll surprise everyone that he’s the one who decides that my computer really doesn’t belong on my lap any more…and tries to push it off onto the floor.

  15. 15.

    JL

    Finally got a picture of the 18 pound micro deerhound (mutt) and now have to figure out how to send it. I assume I just send pics to John’s email. Moxie would be so proud to be on such a famous blog.

  16. 16.

    Laura W

    @smiley: Good Lord it was a joke. This is way too early in the evening for me to start explaining myself, especially on a Friday. Sheesh you’re sensitive.

  20. 20.

    Laura W

    @JL: Can you upload it to flicker or photobucket or the like so you can just post the url here for us all to click on? It might take John a while to post it, what with all the new JRT puppy competition?

  21. 21.

    tom p

    A Jack Russell and a cat???? Don’t do it John, don’t do it…. Not if you value your China, your art, your furniture, your shoes, your….

    I think you get my drift.

  22. 22.

    South of I-10

    It is totally cruel to continue to post pictures of adorable sleeping puppies. Can’t you post a picture of one of them chewing a shoe or peeing on the rug so I will stop wanting one?

  23. 23.

    smiley

    @Laura W: Sorry. I misunderstood (and I still don’t understand). Maybe you should put some thing like (joke!) after your jokes. I’m a little dull after all.

  27. 27.

    Delia

    I believe that it’s cats who decide if a dog-cat relationship is going to pan out. I used to have a cat, Vita, who was firmly resolved never to tolerate a dog or at least to bamboozle any one that came into her life. When she was a five month old kitten I took over my sister’s aged Papillon for six months while she was living in Australia. The cat took one sniff of the harmless little dog and casually reached up a paw and scratched her nose. She would take pieces of kibble out of the dog’s bowl and bat them around the room. Years later when I got my own large dog puppy, who wanted to play with her, she rudely repeated her scratch-the-nose tactic, and through the rest of her life they acted like two siblings who don’t like each other much.

    Sadly, she died of a sudden-onset liver disease shortly after I arrived in Oregon. The cat I have now loves the dog. She licks his ears and his head. He likes it, but thinks it a little strange. I think it’s a dominance behavior on the cat’s part.

  28. 28.

    Laura W

    @JL: Great job! And if you click on the photo, it gets bigger. See how I figured that out so fast?
    Moxie is adorable! Now you can upload a whole slew of shots and have no more excuses for not showing her off.
    She must be very fragile to weigh so little, like the Labradoodles my friends own. One is huge, but weighs nothing, their bones are so tiny and light. They are all hair and bones, it seems. But kyooooot.

    Jeffreyw: your spaniels are too cute to live.

  29. 29.

    Tattoosydney

    @Laura W:

    It seems to be sensitive week on BJ, what with all the kicking and screaming going on in the Warren threads, and Atanutjob slagging me off as a poor hack in another thread because I called him a dancing troll monkey.

    That said, Pedro says hello to your adorable doggy. He says to tell her that he’s had his morning toast (with cheese, or he won’t eat it). His morning walk yesterday was very eventful – he went to the beach and swam for a bit, and then talked to a poodle. Right now, he’s sleeping under the Christmas tree.

  31. 31.

    JL

    @Laura W: When I first adopted her, the vet suggested that I watch her weight because of her skinny legs. It’s not a problem because she eats like a cat. I have had a few goldens and a shar pei so Moxie’s feeding habits are quite different. It has taken me months to come up with one picture so it might be awhile before there are updates.

  32. 32.

    DrDave

    I think I need one of these for my house. Not sure how Tunch would feel about that, though.

    Free professional opinion: As long as you bring the puppy in while it is still small and helpless enough for Tunch to teach it respect, they will learn to coexist happily together. Cats don’t like to be chased by dogs. If the puppy learns early that chasing the cat is taboo, they will be best of friends. A couple of well placed swats to the snout is generally all it takes.

    So go get yourself a puppy!

  33. 33.

    JL

    A local GA rep is quite upset with Obama for not appointing more southerners.

    Georgia Republican congressman Jack Kingston says it’s hard to believe there’s nobody from the South who’s qualified for a major post.

    Jack Kingston is the congressman who questioned Michelle Obama’s patriotism.

  34. 34.

    Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

    Not sure how Tunch would feel about that, though.

    After the first attack, Tunch probably won’t feel much of anything.

  35. 35.

    demimondian

    @Tattoosydney: Face it, Warren is a tough case for all of us. I think that everybody is incensed at some level about him, but we disagree with what should be done.

    Then again, Atanougat shows the standard fact about lefties: we hate each other more than anything on earth…except republicans.

  37. 37.

    demimondian

    @JL: Heh. I see we need another fainting couch. Wouldn’t want the America-hating fifth-columnist gentleman to be strenuously disagreed with.

    No, no, no.

  38. 38.

    Laura W

    @smiley: You called me "cranky" when I said you "weren’t the boss of me" (which was also a joke) over the CIC v. POTUS-E reprimand issue.
    I thought it was funny and referenced it tonight because it felt appropriate. Has nothing in the world to do with "thin skin". Quite the opposite, actually.

    I was known as L’Archivist in another online community I was very involved in early 2000s. I have a knack for remembering conversations, snippets and small details. I like to weave them back into future posts. Something creative in that for me. An ongoing plot line of sorts. I’m wacky that way, but it’s fun for me.
    To start tagging my posts with /snark or JOKE AHEAD takes the fun out of it. It’s really not that hard to get, is it? I’m pretty easy to read when I’m serious about something, and when I’m not, I’m playing. I come here to learn and to laugh, I keep sayin’.
    Enough about me. Back to puppies.

  40. 40.

    Tattoosydney

    @demimondian:

    Warren is a tough case. It just frustrates me to see the debate on what is an important issue falling to the level of "You disagree with me on this issue so you must hate all gays", which some posters seem to have been resorting to.

  42. 42.

    Laura W

    @Tattoosydney: Leah has take to her bed with the vapors.
    I will have to get a flicker account because I feel guilty linking to my cats’ blog so Pedro can see some of Leah’s glam shots. All these poor BJ readers who come here for erudite commentary and political snark end up clicking through to photos of my cat playing with my bra.
    It just ain’t right.

  49. 49.

    tom p

    photos of my cat playing with my bra.
    It just ain’t right.

    Bra?? Where??? What is wrong with that? I like playing with my GF’s bra… (and she likes it too)

  51. 51.

    jeffreyw

    @Indylib:

    I’m not absolutely sure, Jack was a rescue of sorts (long story). We think he’s a Brittany, tail is bobbed in that fashion. The bastard who dumped him on us was thinking Springer. He was starved, and had been kept in a pen all his life. The pads on his feet were soft.
    It’s taken a few years for him to learn how to play, still not very good at it. He must have been isolated with little human contact and less interaction with other dogs.

  52. 52.

    KRK

    Not sure how Tunch would feel about that, though.

    Oh, come now, John. I think you can make a good guess how he’d feel.

    It’s bad enough that these puppies have taken over Tunch’s blog (which he allows you to run for him), now you want to bring one into his meatspace?

  53. 53.

    AnneLaurie

    I think I need one of these for my house. Not sure how Tunch would feel about that, though.

    As long as you got the inanimate, stuffed variety for your house, both you and Tunch would be quite content! Given your travelling schedule, I don’t see a *live* dog — particularly a puppy — doing very well at Casa Tunch. Now a nice *kitten*, or even two little girl kittens… that would be a whole different bowl of kibble!

    JL, if you think it would help Moxie’s self-esteem, you could tell people she’s a lurcher. In Britain, people looking for a multi-purpose dog frequently crossed a sighthound with either a "collie" (what we’d think of as a border collie or an Australian shepherd) or a terrier. Her fragile little deer legs & coarse coat are classic lurcher traits. There are still loyalists who insist that a good lurcher is the best possible dog EVAH, combining every sterling quality (smarts, speed, strength, trainability, adaptability) into one adorable package.

  54. 54.

    Cain

    Arrgh, the wife and I made the mistake of visiting the shelter. Cuttest little kitten ever. Started crying out to us as soon as we walked into the door. He was sooo precious. I had my eye on a orange and white cat who was making eyes at me.

    Then we went into the dog area, and oh man.. so many nice dogs. They were so nice. Couple of pit bulls, and some really large dogs that would bowl me over easily. I hope they find nice homes. :/ I literally get misty eyed if I ever think of any of my cats in a cage. It’s not fair :(

    cain

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