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In my day, never was longer.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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

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

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

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

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

“But what about the lurkers?”

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

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

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

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

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

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

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

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  6. 6.

    used to be disgusted

    Interestingly, if you google “behometh” you get an amazingly large number of people talking about behomeths.

  10. 10.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Dennis-SGMM: Whew! I didn’t want to be left out of the loop. Though, used to be disgusted is right. There is a lot of crap on Googly about behomeths.

    Oh, and in response to the article–naht ganna happ’n without stricter regulation. Wall Street and bankers still fucking think they create their own realities.

  12. 12.

    Dennis-SGMM

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Oh, and in response to the article—naht ganna happ’n without stricter regulation. Wall Street and bankers still fucking think they create their own realities.

    Heaven forfend that the Masters of the Universe be in any way forestalled from dreaming up new variations of the Ponzi Scheme!

  14. 14.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    John’s just describing how McMansions have become a lot less attractive to house buyers.

  15. 15.

    Laura W

    Are you trying to subliminally suggest that I should Be a Meth Ho?
    ‘Cuz I will, you know.
    If it makes you happy.

  16. 16.

    Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse

    Holy crap, it’s behemoth day. Some guy on the radio was just talking about the new ride by that name at Canada’s Wonderland.

  17. 17.

    Dennis-SGMM

    “Behometh” is a contraction of the phrase “Be home in time for the meth.” Commonly used in and around Wasilla, Alaska.

  19. 19.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Laura W: Ha! Good one.

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Not a typo, though, since he switched two letters. He deserves some ribbing for confuzzling me.

    @Dennis-SGMM: It’s their god-given right, doncha know. They are the best and the brightest–you know, if I hear THAT applied to the Masters of the Universe one more time, I’m going to smash ’em in their best and brightest bits.

  22. 22.

    PeakVT

    At the risk of being on-topic, I think Surowiecki isn’t accounting for how much of the new demand for capital came from LBOs instigators and other non-productive actors. The useful portion of finance relative to the rest of the economy probably hasn’t changed much since the mid-1980s.

  23. 23.

    Laura W

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Yah know John is going to be pissed when he gets back here and finds out you are all making fun of his typo. Just sayin…..

    That kind of stuff doesn’t piss John off. In fact, I’d bet good Pinot Grigio that it was intentional just to inject some fun and life back into this blog tonight.
    And not a minute too soon.

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    I thought Behometh was that small town just outside Altoona. Are they having economic problems too?

  25. 25.

    gypsy howell

    Phew. I was afraid we would be expected to read the linked article and have something interesting or insightful to say about it.

  26. 26.

    Snark Based Reality

    Hmm a quick link with nothing but a line of filler text. I think you mistyped “Open Thread”.

    How am I supposed to be outraged unless you tell me what exactly to be outraged about?

  29. 29.

    HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker

    @Corner Stone:

    Har. Not that many. I am me, TZ, Snark Intern, Hat on Cat, Smoot’s Ghost and one or two others that I forget. They’re stored in cookies in various machine/browser pairs that I graze over the course of a week or so.

    It’s hell filling out my timecard.

  31. 31.

    Beauzeaux

    Here is an interesting piece on the financial industry…

    Would that be “Cokie Roberts” interesting, or another kind?

  32. 32.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    That kind of stuff doesn’t piss John off.

    Everything pisses him off. He’s a heater.

  36. 36.

    Laura W

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Beringer Pinot Grigio on ice cut with Perrier Citrus. Not only is it too damn hot for red, it’s almost too damn hot for white. (But for the cool rain today.)
    I hear the siren call of Ketel One Citroen, Perrier Citrus, fresh lime and stevia.
    I’m gonna take some photos of my blueberry bushes for you and JL soon. I am just waiting for them to leaf out a bit more.

  42. 42.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    See I told you he was gonna be pissed, would you guys listen to me, noooooooo, you figured you would get all picky on his ass, like you have never made a typo ever in your lives, ever. So me in my +3 haze was smarter than all of you. Also. Hic. Besides which making a typo on a blog is like a minor blip, do you know what it is like for your boss to be reading the briefs in a COA case six months later when the case is now in the Supreme Court and your boss is reading the brief to draft his Supreme Court brief and says “there should have been a comma after and” I mean come on!

  43. 43.

    John Cole

    @Litlebritdifrnt: For the love of everything holy, I’m not pissed. Hell, ask Laura, who has emailed me corrections and I have responded and thanked her.

    I would much rather you all correct me than have me look like an idiot, especially in this case in which I just fat-fingered things.

  47. 47.

    asiangrrlMN

    @John Cole: Shhhhhh, Litlebritdifrnt is a different kind of piss and drunk-typing. Do not disturb.

    I want snow, but I’m not getting any. That makes ME grumpy.

    Dennis-SGMM, or if you use the Dvorak system of typing like I do.

    I have a trademark on bite me, by the way. Just FYI.

  52. 52.

    Laura W

    @John Cole:

    Hell, ask Laura, who has emailed me corrections and I have responded and thanked her.

    HA! If by “Thank” you mean, “DIAF”…
    John, has anyone told you today that you are FULL OF SHIT and LOADS OF FUN?!
    Yer funny.
    Don’t ever change.

  58. 58.

    Thankovsky

    @John Cole:
    It’s raining like crazy in northern California, too! What the hell? It was all sunny and glorious here just a week ago!

  61. 61.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Now I take exception to someone changing a quote, it is “April Showers bring May Flowers” or my English poetry is way off tonight.

    Strange Climes Bring Changed Rhymes.

    Man, I am so on.

  63. 63.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Folks, if there’s anything else you need to get off yer chest, rant about, whatever – just drop me an email. I’m here and I care.

  65. 65.

    Corner Stone

    @John Cole: If I didn’t call you on your cowardly lion routine who would?
    You’re running with a bunch of sycophants otherwise.

  66. 66.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @asiangrrlMN:

    True but I was using the word in US speak, damn it is so hard being US/UK bilingual these days, next thing you know I’ll be asking for a packet of fags at the convenience store and all hell will break loose.

  69. 69.

    Dennis-SGMM

    …next thing you know I’ll be asking for a packet of fags at the convenience store and all hell will break loose.

    I would think that would depend on the neighborhood. Who knows, you might be presented with the Village People.

  71. 71.

    MikeJ

    next thing you know I’ll be asking for a packet of fags at the convenience store

    One of my brit friends and I were at Fabric one night, and two American girls came up and started talking to us. Then my friend started in about how much he loves a good fag, can’t get started in the morning without a fag, nothing makes a cup of coffee better than a fag.

    Ok, it wasn’t what I was planning, but I still got a blowjob.

  72. 72.

    Corner Stone

    @HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker:

    Dude, you must have the wrong BJ. Unpleasant disagreement is the glue that holds this place together.

    You know what TZ? I would think you’re right but Cole can’t take the heat when it’s focused on him. He pulled a Big Bad Massa routine on the Kemp thread and essentially told me “my way or the highway”. I’m just a little supplicant commenter and he’s The Man.
    Taking it off here Boss. Taking it off there Luke. I’m shaking it Boss. Shake it over there Luke.
    Yep, I’m the moran I guess.

  75. 75.

    Ned R.

    Speaking as an elegant advanced degree holder in English who never gets anything wrong with his typing and is eating a fine self-made dinner with white wine I’d just like to say dasc;amklr;em;wfasofvhn*GRRRRRAAAH*durnk.

  76. 76.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Dennis-SGMM:

    I would think that would depend on the neighborhood. Who knows, you might be presented with the Village People.

    One of them was straight.

    Or maybe he just didn’t find me attractive.

  77. 77.

    TenguPhule

    You know what pisses me off? It has never rained for four straight days here in my entire desert rat lifetime. Not once that I can remember. Four days of rain sounds like something absolutely fabulous.

    If it rained 4 straight days in your desert, you’d be flooded out.

  78. 78.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @MikeJ:

    LOL the old we speak the same language but don’t thing is a classic, and I still don’t know what the fook a “pocket book” is, I mean I can handle “handbag” I can roll with “purse” if need be but “pocket book” WTF?

  79. 79.

    Corner Stone

    @HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker: I’m coming for you mofo. Wherever you are – I’m gonna find you for that one.
    Intimating I would’ve voted for Bush even one time is enough for me to dispense unto you an asswhuppin.
    Ok, not me maybe but rather the people I hire to dispense it. Ok, maybe not the poeple I hire to kick your ass but maybe the people I hire to heckle you repeatedly.
    Ok, maybe not the people I hire to heckle you but rather the people I pay to send you nasty-grams.

  81. 81.

    TenguPhule

    Unpleasant disagreement is the glue that holds this place together. extended family connections that make this place a civil war zone.

    Fixed.

  82. 82.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Corner Stone: Dude, clearly you need some time off. I think you’ve got a lot of pent-up sexual tension from not being able to get laid in teh last twenty or so threads. I’m here for ya when ya come outta yer shame spiral.

  83. 83.

    HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    It’s become a figure of speech. Here in murrica the pocketbook is your personal finances, your accounts. If something hits you in the pocketbook, it costs you money. If it helps your pocketbook, it makes you money.

    For example, George Bush really did a number on my pocketbook.

  84. 84.

    Corner Stone

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Actually, not that it’s your biz JSF but I’m dating someone a little here and there. I’m a single parent and so is she so it makes things pretty freakin tough to manage. We’re not at the part where we intro each other to our kids yet. So we steal a little time when we can.
    But with that said, fuck you. Or rather, you’re right. I need some straight up loving.
    Thanks man.

  85. 85.

    TenguPhule

    If something hits you in the pocketbook, it costs you money.

    Yeah, they’re called muggers.

  86. 86.

    Ash Can

    @Ned R.: Gesundheit.

    @Dennis-SGMM:

    These things don’t happen if you use spell czech.

    I’m going to be laughing at that for years.

    — Ash Can + a shot and a beer

  87. 87.

    HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker

    @Corner Stone:

    Uh, did I miss something? I can’t figure what you are talking about. Seriously.

    I was suggesting that Cole might be irritable after putting up with me for four years. I don’t know what this has to do with Bush.

    If I am missing something here, fill me in.

  88. 88.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker:

    But what the f**k is a pocketbook? I understand a purse, I understand a handbag” (the brit term) I understand a wallet, I just do not understand a “pocketbook” is it a book that one keeps in ones pocket to account for all of ones finances? It makes absolutely no sense.

  89. 89.

    TenguPhule

    I just do not understand a “pocketbook” is it a book that one keeps in ones pocket to account for all of ones finances? It makes absolutely no sense.

    British word for wallet.

  90. 90.

    JL

    Did anyone watch The Olde Curiosity Shop on Masterpiece Classic? I recorded it last night and just finished it. What a downer.

  92. 92.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @JL: Still trying to finish the Kent State diaries at KOS. Slow down, hon.

  95. 95.

    Corner Stone

    @HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker: I was trying to be funny here – and obviously failed. You said I’d “act just like him”, and I used that to call out the BS that anyone could have ever voted for Bush in the first place, much less twice.
    So, I spoofed that.
    Obviously I failed miserably if I have to explain it. My apologies to the board.
    Sorry, sorry. Unlike some people I can say I’m sorry for past mistakes.

  99. 99.

    Corner Stone

    @HitlerWorshippingPuppyKicker: As I said previously – my ex had some nasty walking pneumonia and gave it to 15 or so of her extended family, including our child my mom and sister. Everyone but me.
    I’m like Wilford Brimley. I don’t get sick and I won’t ever die.

  101. 101.

    MikeJ

    I can roll with “purse” if need be but “pocket book” WTF?

    Proper young ladies wanted to appear brainy at some time in the past. They always carried books of poetry with them. Eventually somebody substituted a handbag for the book, but it was basically the same size.

  103. 103.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Corner Stone:

    I don’t get sick and I won’t ever die.

    Good thing, cuz we’re gonna totally trash you when yer dead. In front of yer kid. Til she cries.

  105. 105.

    Anne Laurie

    John, you could’ve gone with claiming you meant Behayma, as in the Yiddish insult, literally “water buffalo”, for a big fat sloppy low-class woman. Putting English vowels into Yiddish words is somewhere between ‘free form’ and ‘random’ so there is no resorting to canon that doesn’t start an argument. And the banking industry has truly become a big fat sloppy low-class industry, although not very female…

    Litlebritdifferent, I once had a senior VP, my boss’s boss — a British expat, no less! — who literally spent almost three years at the beginning of the 1990s harrassing the tech support people because he didn’t like the way the Times Roman font looked when a sentence ended with an ‘R’. Despite his Oxford education, he could *not* be persuaded that the geeks weren’t slacking (or worse, mocking him) in their stubborn refusal to re-arrange the kerning between the ‘R’ and the period. The administrative assistants in the office wasted an inordinate amount of time re-writing sentences so that the Tragic Combination wouldn’t appear on any reports seen by Lord SVP. Yes, this was in the financial services industry, how did you guess?

  106. 106.

    Corner Stone

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I have a son. And you know what? I can’t believe advocating for people, for the powerless, the poor, the non-lobbyist will ever stand me in poor stead with him.
    We donate to Star of Hope, Goodwill, Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity and have walked in three American Cancer Society 5k’s – and he’s 4.
    And when I say “we”, I mean he and I. I take him with me everywhere and every time to donate or contribute. He may not understand it all yet but one day he will.
    He picks out toys and clothes he’s ready to donate, and in the store he picks up the brown paper grocery bag we buy to donate.
    I know yours was a toss off comment, intended to slight me, but the fact is that I would never take a position against people in need, nor advocate for the strong against the weak.
    I’ve spent my lifetime doing what I can, not just talking about it. If my son looks down on me in my box and finds reason to castigate my actions then it’s on me for not doing enough.
    Not for taking the wrong path.

  108. 108.

    tc125231

    NEWS FLASH——TYPO AT BALLOON JUICE….
    Will we recover?

    Be still, my heart.

  109. 109.

    tc125231

    NEWS FLASH——TYPO AT BALLOON JUICE….
    Will we recover?

    Be still, my heart.

  112. 112.

    Corner Stone

    @The Other Steve: Well, relatively new. I showed up during the Dem primaries, mas o menos.
    Are you saying that if we criticized Nicolae Ceauşescu, Cole would bitch out?
    Yeah, I can see that.

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