Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

“Alexa, change the president.”

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

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  10. 10.

    tom c

    That was weird. I got this message from wordpress on the first post or something. Then I started smelling sulfur come out of the tower and the audio went to what I think was Latin being spoken backwords. Everyone’s computer did that, right?

  11. 11.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    John, I feel like you may be squandering an opportunity here to disappear the early archives.

  12. 12.

    robertdsc

    I guess Tunch is really upset at his reduced diet by resorting to messing with the blog.

  13. 13.

    RedKitten

    Glad the site’s back up — I was getting bored, and one can only look at so much pr0n, really.

  15. 15.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Since we seem to be in the middle of the summer doldrums how about some peak oil news. It will probably get here in 2020 or so, which is about 10 years ahead of previous predictions. And this is coming from the chief economis of the IEA. But that isn’t the REALLY good news.

    There is now a real risk of a crunch in the oil supply after next year when demand picks up because not enough is being done to build up new supplies of oil to compensate for the rapid decline in existing fields.

    Oh goody, just in time to fuck up the economic non-recovery. Time to by stock in Huffy and Trek.

  16. 16.

    Ash Can

    @tom c: I recommend you duck and cover.

    @everyone else: Everything seems to be looking and working as normal. If it’s all fixed, then so much the better. If not, then I’m still game for a fundraiser. Say the word, John.

  24. 24.

    RedKitten

    John, it was because you had all of these posts saying you were tired of blogging and/or had nothing about which to blog. Fate heard you and said, “I’ll give him something to keep him occupied with his blog! Bwah-ha-ha!”

  25. 25.

    pattonbt

    Whew…that was close. I was actually having to get work done and my superiors were getting suspicious of my dramatic increase in productivity.

    Back to slacking off.

    That was weird though.

  29. 29.

    Beeb

    I thought all those “Hello World” posts were kinda cute in an alien invaders sort of way.

  30. 30.

    RedKitten

    @RedKitten: The site has to stay up and running. It’s not going to be long before we get info on the new red kitten.

    Well, that’s what I was thinking. I plan on posting a heads-up when I actually do go into labour, and that would have really sucked if the news got lost in WordPress hell.

  31. 31.

    PeakVT

    I still get the error 28 back on the Five Editors thread. That seems to be the only one out of the most recent five where it shows up.

  35. 35.

    Comrade Jake

    I swear I posted a joke about WordPress errors and then the next minute the entire house of cards collapsed. Thankfully it was short-lived.

  36. 36.

    RandomChick

    Yaahhh! It turns out that Balloon Juice generally makes my weekends less boring. Who knew?

    As it was, I had to turn to playing Sims 3 for entertainment. There all kinds of new personality traits to make your characters more interesting. For example, I have created a large woman who is insane, inappropriate, neurotic, and a genius. She gave birth to a baby whose only characteristic so far is “evil”.

    However, I am disappointed that you have to force them to act out these traits. It seems like those traits would give you more self-directed action.

    One interesting point . . . one of the ways you can have her act our her insanity is by clicking on another character and instructing her to “talk conspiracy theory”.

    I imagine she’s discussing the Kenyan birth certificate.

    For a hilarious (although exaggerated) Sims 3 experiment, check out Cracked.com’s Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with the Sims 3

  41. 41.

    Betsy

    If this had gone on much longer, I might have actually stood a chance of finishing my dissertation on time. That would have been tragic.
    @Demo Woman:
    Agreed!

  42. 42.

    Betsy

    In random news on my weekend, some crazy motherfucker I knew in jr. high found me on facebook and proceeded to send me bizarre and somewhat scary emails. That was fun.

  43. 43.

    jnfr

    Clearly BJ has been infested with teabaggers screaming against health care reform! Is it a coincidence that this happened just as the memos went out to disrupt all town hall meetings? I think not.

  44. 44.

    Joshua Norton

    See what happens when you time your drugs better?

    Of course, since you don’t have a clear solution to the problem, it should return in just about 4,3,2……..

  47. 47.

    OriGuy

    @RandomChick:

    As it was, I had to turn to playing Sims 3 for entertainment. There all kinds of new personality traits to make your characters more interesting. For example, I have created a large woman who is insane, inappropriate, neurotic, and a genius.

    Until I got to the last word, I though you were simulating Orly Taitz.

  48. 48.

    asiangrrlMN

    Wheee! Balloon Juice is filled with hot air once again! I can haz a picture of the Tunchinator to celebrate?

    Though, it was kinda fun to see what I would get every time I came to visit BJ today.

  49. 49.

    D-Chance.

    Depends on your definition of “fixed”.

    5 “site’s fucked up” threads mixed in among 48 DugJay bandwidth wasters =/= equal “fixed”.

    Perhaps a pet pic open thread for the Grand Re-Opening?

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