Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The willow is too close to the house.

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Laura W. said she would kick my you know what if I did not have a shiny new thread up in time.

    She’d never kick yer cat.

  2. 2.

    Libby

    Needless to say I’m rooting for Michigan and the Tar Heels, even though I don’t really like either team.

    I won’t be sorry if UCONN wins it all. They’re my sentimental pick.

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    Whaddevah you do, just dont tell us what she’d do to your kids or in-laws. Off limits.

    Nuts….apparently not so much.

  5. 5.

    Laura W

    @Left Coast Tom: I was equally as demanding under the old system. Ask John.
    These freakin’ green uniforms will be the death of me yet.
    And where’s JenJen?

  6. 6.

    asiangrrlMN

    Go, Michigan STATE! Big Ten represent!

    So, Libby, you just don’t want Villanova to win?

  9. 9.

    Laura W

    Speaking of advertisers, y’all should click through on the new Coupon Dad ad. He’s got some seemingly useful coupons across some good categories. I just checked food and pets, and am delighted to see that in pets he includes a link to free or low cost spay/neuter programs for cats. You click through to this great site that breaks them out by state.
    Lovethatcat.com. I checked NC and am pleased to see two that I am aware of in surrounding counties listed.
    Nice service Coupon Dad!

  11. 11.

    Tattoosydney

    Speaking of advertisers, y’all should click through on the new Coupon Dad ad. He’s got some seemingly useful coupons across some good categories. I just checked food and pets, and am delighted to see that in pets he includes a link to free or low cost spay/neuter programs for cats. You click through to this great site that breaks them out by state.

    Not content with threatening John with kicking his "you know what", now she’s sending coded, castration anxiety provoking messages… Give the woman everything she wants, Cole, or now you know what will happen.

  12. 12.

    Throwin Stones

    My brackets were toast from the start this year. Meh.
    Go Spartans. Game’s looking a bit chippy right now.

  17. 17.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Tattoosydney:

    Bwahahahaha. You made me laugh with your rapier wit. That is good.

    Throwin Stones, chippy will help the Spartans. That’s how we do here in Big 10 land.

  18. 18.

    kid-hater

    i’m gonna kill ya cause i lost my job and i can’t pay my bills or take care of my kids because libs, dems and obama gonna take my guns so the only way to solve this is to go out and kill some people, put the damn thing to use before they take it away from ya.

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    I’m unclear on why Laura W is so powerful in the BJ O’Sphere.
    She calls for a new thread – there’s a new thread.
    She calls for a new pet pic thread – there’s a new pet pic thread.
    She says something to challenge JC’s manhood – there’s a new thread.
    WTF?

  20. 20.

    Laura W

    @JenJen:
    Glass of Bidoli 2007 Pinot Grigio, Friuli, Italy, Darlin’?
    It’s like the 4th PG I’ve discovered this week that rocks. That’s the difference a knowledgeable, wine loving, owner/operator retailer makes when you ask for recommendations based on your specific tastes. They know their stock, and they know how to calibrate palate preferences.
    Just like a good bartender, huh?

  21. 21.

    valdivia

    I know this is a tournament open thread but I will be a little OT (focus on the open part of that phrase)–reading Politico (yes I know, that false puppy alarm had me going back) i see a new meme getting formed: Michelle Obama is the bomb, Obama The Pres not so much. Yeah they sort of like him in Europe, and though everyone thinks he had a great trip (using diplomacy twice to make sure the G20 and NATO meetings did not go off the rails) he did not accomplish anything (he is spinning that things went well) and they think he is arrogant and aloof.

    Yeah I know, why am I reading Politico? And why pay attention? I just find it fascinating how these (often contradictory) memes come out and how they adapt when one of them gets obliterated (see, Michelle is a liability). So now she is great and the one who had a sucky trip was her husband.

    rant over.

  26. 26.

    Libby

    @asiangrrlMN: I don’t have any feelings about Nova, one way or the other. Actually, I usually pick them to go further than I did this year because I kind of like their name. I probably would have advanced them more in my bracket if I had understood the bonus rules better.

    I don’t even really care about b-ball all that much and don’t know jack about the teams. I just love being in a pool for March Madness because it gives me a reason to interested in the games. But in as much as I follow it, I’m originally from CT so I have a soft spot for UCONN.

    I feel guilty for doing so well this year, and being excited about it, since it’s such a fluke. I join a pool every year and this is the best I’ve ever done. I’ve never had a shot a winning before by this late in the games.

  28. 28.

    Chris Johnson

    Wow. I’m impressed with John’s ad-space-fu. You’re using Project Wonderful which is mostly webcomics, and you’re outpulling Schlock Mercenary, Anders Loves Maria, Alien Loves Predator, Girls With Slingshots, Sluggy Freelance…

    Balloon Juice has the tenth most high-bidded skyscraper ad on ALL of Project Wonderful thanks to the madness of Laura W :D

    Hell, it’s the #18 top paying ad of ANY ad on PW of ANY kind.

    High FIVE, dude. (also, thanks for reminding me to poke around on PW looking at how various sites are doing trafficwise :)

  29. 29.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Throwin Stones: You went to the Ohio State? I didn’t actually go to the U of M, but they are the closest thing to a Division I school for whom I can root.

    Libby, hey, sometimes it’s easier to pick if you don’t over-analyze. I love sports, but I often pick teams based on their unis and whether they are underdogs or not. My favorite color is black, so any team wearing black gets a slight edge.

    Tattoosydney, you made me laugh again.

  30. 30.

    douglasfactors

    My brackets are done.

    I just want the corrupt team and the boring team to lose.

    Looks like we’re halfway there.

  32. 32.

    Laura W

    @asiangrrlMN:

    but I often pick teams based on their unis

    Where have you been these last few weeks? I could’ve used the support to stick with my principles. THIS was to be my strategy for bracket dominance too, but my color is GREEN.
    Need I say more?

  34. 34.

    Laura W

    @Chris Johnson: Exciting stats. Hopefully it bodes well for the future. I mean, it’s just been since Thursday night, right?
    John didn’t answer this last night when I asked it in the thread but why is BJ listed in Pets, and not Political blogs? Do you know?

  35. 35.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Tattoosydney: P.S. I looked at your link. I like your stuff, especially your use of color. My favorites are Blue water, Wall 2, and Chopper’s Window – Window 1.

  36. 36.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Laura W: I didn’t do brackets this year, so I wasn’t really following the tourney too closely.

    Wooot! Spartans win!

    P.S. GO ‘NOVA!

  37. 37.

    Throwin Stones

    @asiangrrlMN: no, I was a Miami U guy, but I rarely get to root for them in anything of consequence, other than hockey (go Redhawks, on Thursday). I actually meant a buckeye, as in an Ohioan, which usually by default makes you an OSU fan.

  39. 39.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Throwin Stones: Miami of Ohio? They’ve done better lately, right? So you’re in the same boat as I am–rooting for the biggest Div. I school around.

  41. 41.

    Punchy

    MSU’s victory puts me back in the bracket game. Nobody, and I mean nobody, except me picked these chumps in the Championship game.

  42. 42.

    Tattoosydney

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Thankyou very much.

    Wall 2 was taken in Portugal, in a little town called Evora. In the 16th century, they built an entire chapel – the Capela dos Ossos – out of bones from the local cemetery. Most of the "decoration" is done with different kinds of bones in pretty patterns. Add in the two dessicated corpses hanging from the wall, and you would imagine it would be creepy, but it’s actually quite serene. It’s made even odder however because just behind it is a children’s school, so you can hear the screams and shouts of kids playing through the tiny windows.

  43. 43.

    Throwin Stones

    @asiangrrlMN: yep, Miami Ohio. We had a good football team in the mid-to-late 70’s, then again when Big Ben was in school. We’ve had a few good basketball teams with Ron Harper and Wally Szczerbiak. One of my favorite T-shirts – Miami was a University when Florida belonged to Spain.

  49. 49.

    Tattoosydney

    @Laura W:

    Of course. I understand that Astarte is very fond of chocolate biscuits.

    (Let me know if that doesn’t work, and if the need becomes too great – I can send more).

  50. 50.

    anonocrat

    Off-topic (or maybe off-thread):

    Has anyone else read the Sullivan-sized revisionism in The American Conservative? Jimmy fucking Carter as a true Conservative? The "Malaise" speech as "one of the most conservative presidential statements of the last 30 years"?

    Apparently "conservative" means nothing more than "things we mocked relentlessly at the time but probably should have paid attention to, in retrospect."

  53. 53.

    Skepticat

    Just finished (and really enjoyed) "When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball" by Seth Davis, about the 1982 NCAA matchup between Michigan State and Indiana State. Makes me really miss the Bird-Johnson years…

  56. 56.

    JenJen

    @Laura W: Sorry I missed the fun last night… that is a truly lovely Pinot Grigio.

    You’ve got to try "J" Pinot Gris sometime… it’s my absolute favorite. I’m salivating just thinking of it.

    By the way, why didn’t we do a Juicers Fantasy Baseball League, or if there is one, why didn’t anyone tell me? Because you’re all scared of my prowess?

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