Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

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

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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

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

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

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

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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  1. 1.

    Violet

    I’m envious. It’s hot and humid here. Will be going for a run in a little bit anyway, despite the suboptimal conditions.

  2. 2.

    Bob In Pacifica

    A slight dampening here in the SF Bay Area. Some sprinkles moved through last night. A real storm should be coming in off of the Pacific within the week.

    The air is clean. Good day for a walk.

  4. 4.

    RedKitten

    Chilly here — the husband’s gone off to do some work, and I’ll probably just spend much of the day tidying, as my mom is coming to visit on Monday.

  6. 6.

    JD Rhoades

    A great flaming orb has appeared in the sky. The People are frightened, but I vaguely remember something like it, back in the long-long-ago, before the coming of the Rain That Never Ends.

  7. 7.

    burnspbesq

    Can I just say that Fox Soccer Channel sucks?

    Crucial World Cup qualifying matches going on on three continents today, and they choose to show the meaningless friendlies involving the US and England.

    Wankers.

  8. 8.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    Having a job again after eleven months of unemployment means I gots LOTS o’shit to get done today.

    Thank goodness it’s going to be a lovely, sunny day here in northeast Ohio.

  9. 9.

    Keith

    Anyone what to wager how long Drudge is going to keep the “Obama Bows To Japanese Leader” picture front and center on his site?

  13. 13.

    dSquib

    Sunny day in Chicago, listening to Fever Ray. May perform some tedious errands while it’s still bearable, and perhaps attend dog park.

  14. 14.

    HRA

    @Pasquinade:

    LOL I had the feeling it meant something untoward somewhere.

    It’s cloudy and cold here which is the norm for us. Though the last week has been very nice and we were happy to have the Extreme Makeover crew here to give us some plus media on our usually depressing weather.

  15. 15.

    General Winfield Stuck

    It’s a cool and cloudy morn here in the high desert. Perfect sleeping weather and I’m going to take advantage of that and catch up some.

    The other night I had a dream that a bunch of us were in the WH helping Obama clean up a dirty kitchen. Don’t know what that means, if anything, but maybe I’ll find out if we got the job done.

  16. 16.

    Montysano

    Gorgeous day here in north Alabama. We’re going to Birmingham this tonight to see a production of “Parade”, which is our son’s senior project in college (he’s a lighting designer). We’re blue highway junkies, so we’re packing our DeLorme Atlas and plan to find yet another obscure way to get from here to there. Maybe go see the highest covered bridge in the USA.

  20. 20.

    Skepticat

    Pouring rain and blowing fairly hard north of Boston. Small lake forming in the stone dust walk to the front steps, not good for the showing the real estate agent is doing at 3 p.m. However, it won’t make it noticeable that the windows haven’t been washed.

  21. 21.

    Pasquinade

    @Morbo, I couldn’t find it at a Brit slang site, but I did find a slang term appropriate for Carrie Prejean:

    Rosie Palm and her five sisters: Noun. The hand when employed for masturbation…Also Rosy Palm and her five sisters. Cf. ‘madam palm and her five sisters/daughters’.

    http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/r.htm

  24. 24.

    Sanka

    More Obama awesome:

    Michigan and California are likely to face a fresh round of budget woes when federal stimulus funds used as a fiscal crutch dry up, finance directors for the states said Friday.

    Short-term budget gaps have battered states as revenues plummeted during the recession. Aided by about $250 billion in funds from the stimulus package expected through the end of next year, states managed to close the gaps this year. But both finance directors, speaking at a Pew Center on the States event in Washington, were pessimistic about their states’ futures beyond fiscal 2011.

    “We’re facing a cliff in 2011 when stimulus dollars run out,” said Mitchell Bean, director of the Michigan House Fiscal Agency. “There is not an end in sight, even in recovery.”

    The obvious solution to the states’ financial woes is cap and trade…kneecapping industry. Also, the much more immediate solution, is to pile on billions more in states’ obligations to the sheeple, by way of a massive new bureaucratic health-care entitlement, a Medicaid for everyone, that will pass these costs onto the states the public option, which “keep the insurance companies honest” by keeping costs low.

  25. 25.

    geg6

    Western PA is having the most beautiful November ever. Temps have been in the 60s with sun shining in sapphire skies. And they say this will last for at least another entire week. Amazing, considering we usually have fewer sunny days than Seattle.

  27. 27.

    licensed to kill time

    Why I Love Balloon Juice

    Woven through a serious discussion recently about the asshat State Senator who thinks it would be a good idea for babies catch AIDS so as to teach their slutty mommies a thing or two, El Cid does his channeling BoB riff and that inspires Comrade Mary to propose marriage to him, adding that since she’s in Canada it doesn’t matter if he’s a dude or a lady or a hamster.

    This inspires wedding gift suggestions, including Canadian Tire money, gold bullion, guns, ammo, canned food and hamster re-inflation kits (the latter has something to do with obesity on the rise in Canada and pcbedamned worrying about hamsters married to humans getting squashed).

    Then Laura W informs us she would have totally married her hamster Fred if he hadn’t died right on her boobs in bed one night and whose subsequent necropsy revealed him to be a hermaphrodite anyway.

    Which prompted Just Some Fuckhead to say he was pretty sure he had read about Laura and Fred in his issue of Pethouse Variations, and that Fred was rather taken with Laura, as he recalled.

    General Winfield Stuck confessed that he’d once bought two hamsters and two months later had about a hundred of the things and that now his backyard is a veritable Hamster Graveyard.

    pcbedamned had some kind of typing spaz and told us about developing an allergy to bunnies when she got pregnant with her first 16 years ago; also she was ragging on her kid and clarifying her wiring for some reason, after which she swore to lay off the meds and go to bed.

    At this point I was laughing so hard in that stifled choking helpless kind of way that I wasn’t sure I’d ever catch a breath again and I thought “this is why I love Balloon Juice” and I had to write about that and then the comments went back to stuff like Christians burning in a lake of fire, Hell having a limited amount of real estate, PETA’s Klan rally at the Westminster dog show and “watch me fuck this goat!”

    Sigh. BJ is a special place. Thank you, that is all.

    (I was inspired to write this after reading the thread “Where do they find these people?”)

  28. 28.

    Jay in Oregon

    As for me? Cloudy with a slight chance of rain, temps in the 40’s.

    Will probably do some yard work and clean up around the house.

  31. 31.

    Chuck Butcher

    It’s clear and crisp here with a couple inches of snow on the ground. It should melt off in the next couple days.

    There aren’t a lot of you that have experience with what I mean by clear and crisp here.

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