Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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

Peak wingnut was a lie.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

This blog will pay for itself.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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  13. 13.

    ice9

    Ballgame. Buh-bye.

    PS just shows how no hitters, perfect games, etc. are fluky and weird. I love the fact that a guy can throw a perfect game then get hit like normal (that’s still pretty good.)

    PS read on Howler about Bunning’s no-hitter, then PG. Noticed that he hit the AL MVP, Boston’s Jackie Jensen, twice in his no-hitter at Fenway…odd. Maybe Crazy Jim just didn’t like Jensen. I’ve got wicked stuff today, he thought, so I can plunk my enemies and get away with it. I wonder who else ever got hit twice while losing in a no-hitter.

    ice

  16. 16.

    ice9

    Twins almost never swing at the first pitch. Now that Torii plays on the Coast, that is.

    Sox can’t win at the Dome because the hatred of Pierzynski is so strong. In fact, when the Sox come the entire stadium is powered by hatred electrodes implanted in the seats.

    When the Yankees come, the entire city of Minneapolis is powered. Until about the middle of the seventh, when the hatred voltage peaks and the anguish voltage kicks in.

    ice

  17. 17.

    Robin G.

    Buehrle was, what, at 60 pitches after 5 innings? The Twins were swinging at things they couldn’t hit well. The Twins don’t do it often, but when they do, they all do it in the same game.

    And I’ve never felt the Dome really hates AJ — or rather, they love to hate him. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard someone scream, “You’re a bum, AJ! We miss you!” It’s just the nature of Pierzynski.

    We shall not speak of the F#*$&n’ Yankees.

  18. 18.

    DougJ

    PS read on Howler about Bunning’s no-hitter, then PG. Noticed that he hit the AL MVP, Boston’s Jackie Jensen, twice in his no-hitter at Fenway…odd. Maybe Crazy Jim just didn’t like Jensen. I’ve got wicked stuff today, he thought, so I can plunk my enemies and get away with it. I wonder who else ever got hit twice while losing in a no-hitter.

    I’ll have to check that out. Somerby’s gone nuts but he’s always got some good old remembrances all up in there.

  19. 19.

    lethargytartare

    one more game and the Sox can go back to playing baseball instead of the comedy show they alway take to the rollerdome.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    @DougJ:

    Bunning’s PG was against the Mets on Father’s Day, 1964. I didn’t need him to turn into a wingnut dipshit Senator in order to hate his guts.

    Four in a row. Gotta crawl before you walk. Someday we will start to get guys back off the DL. Wild card is the objective.

  22. 22.

    Ash

    Ok, this isn’t an open thread, but holy shit, is that SERIOUSLY Orly Taitz on Colbert right now?

    My mind is bending.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Mary

    I’ll see your mind bending and raise you: the woman is SO batshit crazy that I flinched and switched to TVO (Ontario public television) at one point, where I found that Ta-Nehisi Coates, that sane and lovely man, being interviewed by Steve Paikin.

    So I was turning to Orly, diving back to TNH, in quick succession, over and over again, as if I were gasping for air in a forest fire.

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @ Ash 11:47 pm

    No kidding. That was . . . surreal.

    If it wasn’t Orly Taitz, it was a pretty convincing double with a Tina Fey-like SNL career in her future. But damn, that eye makeup. As someone once said about Dame Barbara Cartland, it looked like a couple of crows crashed into the White Cliffs of Dover.

  27. 27.

    Cat Lady

    How, after watching Orly Taitz talking, would anyone think she’s OK in the head? She’s a train wreck derailing into a ditch where a plane crashed into a bridge collapse.

    This is what the birther’s sound and look like? O RLY? Keep her on 24/7. Bachmann/Taitz 2012.

  28. 28.

    Martin

    Ok, this isn’t an open thread, but holy shit, is that SERIOUSLY Orly Taitz on Colbert right now?

    True crazy is when you have no clue that you’re crazy.

  29. 29.

    2th&nayle

    @KG: I’m fairly sure they hate you back. That is all. (just making sure making sure my cookie is still engaged)

  30. 30.

    KG

    @29: eh, I can live with that… just being frustrated by the Dodgers inability to score runs in the gateway city.

  31. 31.

    Ash

    I honestly couldn’t tell if it was really her or just some elaborate Colbert-esque ruse. It seemed the audience was totally confused too. The whole thing was just so fucking weird.

  32. 32.

    MikeJ

    Since the freepers are convinced that Colbert is actually conservative and is pulling a double reverse whammy on us by pretending to be a liberal posing as a conservative, they probably thing O RLY is a liberal agent provocateur.

  34. 34.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @ Ash / 12:58 pm

    There was something very odd about the camera shots. Except for (I think) one split-second long shot of them shaking hands at the end of the piece, it looked like one of those deals where each of them was taped separately and then the two “interview” bits were spliced together clumsily. If I can stay awake a little longer, I’ll watch the repeat to see if I can figure it out (that’s assuming the crazy doesn’t kill me first).

  35. 35.

    2th&nayle

    @KG: Sorry! Just checked the box score. 10-Zip! No wonder you’re in a bad mood. Apologies! Dodgers can afford an off night though. Cards can’t.

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @ SiubhanDuinne / 1:29 am

    Meant to add, I think that might explain the weirdness of the audience reaction. If it were a spliced interview then there wouldn’t have been any continuity for the audience. Seems gratuitously cruel for Colbert to do that to them on top of subjecting them to the crazy dentistlawyerrealestateagent with the dead crow mascara.

  38. 38.

    Charon

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Missed Colbert. Did Ms. Taitz do the same thing on tonight’s show that she did on CNN where when she blinked her eyelids didn’t move in tandem? That really freaked me out when I saw it.

  39. 39.

    KG

    @35: true, this is the Dodgers’ first three game losing streak of the season (and hopefully the last). Just frustrating.

    And finding out that Vin Scully is likely going to retire after next season does not make things better.

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @ Charon / 1:50 am

    Maybe that’s it! I didn’t see the CNN piece.

    Colbert repeats beginning in just a couple of minutes (2:00 am eastern) if you want to check it out.

  41. 41.

    p.a.

    O.T. but I have to get this out: saw a t-shirt on the bus today, picture of 5 mounted, armed
    American Indians. Above pict in large script: HOMELAND SECURITY. Below pict in smaller script:
    fighting terrorism since 1492.

  44. 44.

    Linkmeister

    @KG: Man. When I started making dinner it was 0-0 in the 5th. 2 1/2 hours later I turned ESPN back on and saw the score, 10-0 Cards, and thought “what happened??”

    If Vinnie does retire after 2010, that would mean the end of 50 years of me listening to him. I first heard him teamed with Jerry Doggett in 1959 on KFI in LA.

  45. 45.

    2th&nayle

    @p.a.: Ain’t that the truth! Best t-shirt I ever saw of that genre was a mounted warrior holding a compound bow above his head. The caption read “What If?” With all due respect to ‘Manifest Destiny’ and all that bullshit; all I can say is, ‘mores the pity’!

  46. 46.

    KG

    Link – yeah, I did the same thing, only watching on gameday from the office. left, check the score later and did not want to check DT.

    I’ve said a hundred times before, after my parents, it was Vin Scully that made me a Dodger fan and Chick Hearn that made me a Laker fan. I don’t want to let him go, but, all good things, I suppose…

  47. 47.

    2th&nayle

    Danger! Danger! John just posted an open thread and all hell broke loose. Yikes! Looks like just late nighters may have to do with what we got!

  48. 48.

    2th&nayle

    Danger! Danger! John just posted an open thread and all hell broke loose. Yikes! Looks like us late nighters may have to do with what we got!

  52. 52.

    2th&nayle

    This is probably some kind of nefarious cyber hit to undermine the teachings of “Tunch the Great and Powerful”. You knew this had to come sooner or later. To show my devotion to the uber cat, I’ve decided to have a sandwich and a glass of milk, wash my face and take a nap. Good luck, John

  54. 54.

    Ash Can

    @cleek:

    perfect games are pretty dull to watch

    Not for me they’re not! No matter who’s pitching, I start to get nervous by the fifth inning. By the seventh, I’m a nervous wreck. By the ninth, I’m a basket case.

    My mother and I were at Milt Pappas’s near-perfect game in 1972 (and yes, the ump should have given him that corner on that fourth ball). It was beyond exciting. It was as if the stands had been plugged into a giant power grid. That ballpark could have lit up the city and suburbs for a week. Years later, she and I were at a Single-A minor league game in Florida and saw Felix Rodriguez throw a no-hitter for the Vero Beach Dodgers. I was so excited in the late innings I could barely stay seated, and my mother shooed me away and made me stand back on the concourse because she was nervous enough already and I was making her crazy. Good times.

    I may be a die-hard Cubs fan, but I think it’s terrific that Mark Buehrle pitched a perfect game (besides breaking the record for perfect innings).

    @2th&nayle:

    John just posted an open thread and all hell broke loose.

    Boy howdy. I came here this morning and whoa! Fuxx0red! Never a dull moment here at the Juice.

  57. 57.

    Comrade Mary

    Looks like John yanked the most recent open thread that was skewing the site. Everything looks good now, but hopefully John can bring the thread, Willie and his own fine self back soon.

  59. 59.

    Fulcanelli

    Yes, it appears the open thread John put up during his bout of insomnia last eve wound up in the same place as the month of December 2008 in Goldman Sachs’ accounting records.

    But it looks like BJ is back, albeit in a slightly hobbled form (no preview, no edit, no comment formatting thingie). You are now free to move about the cabin.

  60. 60.

    2th&nayle

    Thought I’d swing back through and peruse the damage. Looks like John’s back to the original CSS prob. Heh, I have no idea what that means (being the HTML moron that I am).

  64. 64.

    A Mom Anon

    @p.a.: I have that shirt,I got it from a company called Northern Sun. I also have one that says Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society with a cute little flower logo.

  67. 67.

    Tax Analyst

    Linkmeister said:

    “@KG: Man. When I started making dinner it was 0-0 in the 5th. 2 1/2 hours later I turned ESPN back on and saw the score, 10-0 Cards, and thought “what happened??”

    If Vinnie does retire after 2010, that would mean the end of 50 years of me listening to him. I first heard him teamed with Jerry Doggett in 1959 on KFI in LA.”

    Yeah, the roof freaking caved in on Billingsley in the 6th. Walked a bunch of guys, then gave up a barage of singles. Next thing you know it was like 6-0. Cards caught everything that came within leaping or diving distance after a throwing error in the first. That kid shortstop is a damned acrobatic vacuum-cleaner.

    I moved to L.A. in March, 1959, just in time for a then 9-year old kid to get to see the Dodgers win a dog-fight of a pennant race in a play-off (1 game, I believe, I think it was either an extra-inning or 9th inning score that won it) over the Braves, then take the Chisox in the World Series. Dad took me to Roy Campanella night, too. 92,000+ there for that exhibition game! Campanella never even played out here, but the people still came out for his night out of respect. Yeah, Vinnie is the greatest. Nowadays I hear him make a mistake every once in a while (he kept calling Furcal “Tejada” in a game recent against the Astros, I was hoping someone on the broadcast team would tip him so he could stop doing it, but hey, if I can get around without drooling at his age I’ll be happy). Chickie was right there, too, until his death a few years back. Dodgers, Lakers – L.A. might as well have been paradise as far as I was concerned.

  69. 69.

    Julia Grey

    It’s a jinx to say out loud that a game might be a no-hitter while it is in progress.

    You people RUINED IT!!!!

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