Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

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

Democrats are back in array!

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

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

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

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

In after Baud. Damn.

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  1. 1.

    valdivia

    such a cute picture, they really look like they are about the decapitate that.

    So when are you making Green Balloons a new tag?

  6. 6.

    valdivia

    @Keith G:

    yeah that is part of what makes this funny to me. This Rep pol from the south just gave the unsuspecting non-BDSM world a universal safe word, and like all republican things it totally sucks and contradicts its intended purpose! ;-)

  7. 7.

    Punchy

    I cant wait to see Johnny explain to his mom what the “green balloons” comment means.

    God, I hope his mom doesn’t read this fucking blog. So many crass fucking commentors.

  8. 8.

    danimal

    So when are you making Green Balloons a new tag?

    Why not go whole hog and rename the blog Green Balloon Juice?
    Make all the links and masthead green instead of blue and excite Sullivan when he lurks the joint.

  12. 12.

    MichaelR

    Tell your Mom she needs to start a traditional “Rawhide Santa” display for the pups (and keep shooting pics until the batteries give out or the storage card is full).

  13. 13.

    geg6

    Hey Cole, looks like Tunch has decided he likes the new ‘puter. Looks like you’re gonna have to go get yer own. Merry Christmas, says Tunch.

  16. 16.

    Annie

    @valdivia:

    You are the best. Two of your posts, and I can’t stop laughing…

    I think Tunch is registering a complaint over how much Balloon time Lily gets. Finally, he has to sit on the computer to get John to give us his adorable self. I do love that cat…

  18. 18.

    valdivia

    @Annie:

    thanks. though I can’t take credit for the marriage LGF one though cause I think someone said something similar yesterday.

    @danimal:

    that would be one crazy family, for sure!

  19. 19.

    valdivia

    oh Tunch!! I agree with Annie he is upset he is not top bill on every pet post anymore, he is taking over.

  20. 20.

    Svensker

    @beltane:

    Tunch looks like a white balloon, except heavier.

    Wull, yuh. I mean, what does “Tunch” rhyme with? Munch, bunch, lunch, crunch. Every time the poor kitty hears his name, he thinks of lots of food. And obviously eats it, too.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Oh John, *thank* you! I’ve been wishing for pictures of G and G. Tunch is (you should excuse the expression) gravy.

  27. 27.

    JenJen

    G&G!! All is good in the world!!

    Thanks for that, Cole. And Cole-Dad, if you’re listening, how about one of those G&G videos?

  28. 28.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    Tunch is just keeping it warm for ya, which makes it boot faster. Yeah, that’s the ticket! ;)

    You want plump? Our Sammy is small but almost as wide as he is tall. When he is upright but laying down, he looks like a butterball turkey with fur and a cats head. He is on a diet now and is slimming down but I have to deal with his endless bitching until dinner time. Every single day.

    He’s a great garage kitteh though!

  29. 29.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Go ahead. You tell him to move. Have at it.

    No way. When The King lies down, it becomes his throne by definition. Mere peasants must abide.

  30. 30.

    PurpleGirl

    Okay, I’m having dinner…eating a piece of roll and I see the picture of Tunch and read the caption… I start laughing and start choking.

  33. 33.

    MattR

    I don’t understand all the Tunch bashing. It’s not his fault he has such a small head that it makles the rest of his body look ridiculously large in comparison.

  37. 37.

    Seth 4:10

    My head-smacking encounter with a Becker today: Humans cause global warming, not their activity, not eating, just humans and their body heat, and this heat is not caused by the metabolic process (which I had to explain to him first, before he denied it).

    the capper is his solution: bomb China and India

  38. 38.

    CaseyL

    Always lovely to see His Tunchness. He looks content in an odd way; in an “At last I have Dad’s undivided attention so I can conspicuously ignore him” way.

  41. 41.

    valdivia

    sort of a random thought and maybe a tad contentious but this whole Tiger Woods thing (all the text messages and emails are now on magazines) are really going to hamper the ability of lovers to connect with each other without having second thoughts. That makes me sad. I still have archived emails from exes that I treasure, but none of those would happen in this environment.

    PS I don’t intend to do anything with those archived emails btw. For the record.

  44. 44.

    demkat620

    Okay, I get why the cat is on the ‘puter. But why is he not on his futon thingy? That’s his throne right?

    BTW, if anybody needs some more religion at this time of year, The Holy War is on ESPN2

  48. 48.

    Badtux

    The War on Christmas is well underway. I visited a home recently where the owner of the house, rather than being a good red-blooded Christian American, instead worshipped some Middle Eastern god. She had in her living room a sacred totem of renewal and fertility, around which her family gathered to sing songs of worship to their god. Her family also celebrated the birth of their god by holding a feast — while the sacred fertility totem was still erect mere feet away from their feast table! Do you realize how un-American such a blatant and obvious fertility rite clearly is? It was the most horrifyingly un-American thing I ever saw!

    — Badtux the Snarky Penguin

  49. 49.

    SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta

    Somewhere, Mrs. Claus is frantically screaming “GREEN BALLOONS!”

    I knew some kind of reason for living would emerge today.

  55. 55.

    Calming Influence

    @demkat620:
    Cats are the supreme beings of leisure. Just to demonstrate that their bodies are so superior to ours, they will occasionally pass up a soft rug in front of a warm fire to fall into a blissful sleep whilst lying upon a boot.

  58. 58.

    Left Coast Tom

    Go ahead. You tell him to move. Have at it.

    He should be happy you didn’t make any bets involving him dressing up as a Raiders fan.

  61. 61.

    Warren Terra (A.K.A. Warren Chris Mess)

    Tell the truth – that’s not your Apple laptop, that’s your old NeXTcube Tunch lay down upon. Good luck digging it out of the couch.

  62. 62.

    Warren Terra

    Hm. I’ve got a 10:24 PM comment in the Moderation Queue for reasons I cannot discern – possibly because I added a postscript to my Pseud?

  65. 65.

    jl

    Those devil dogs are tearing up Christmas!

    But I am glad they have not totally chewed up and shredded your folks home. Consider that a very generous merry Christmas present from two JRTs.

    And no, I will not tell his Tunchness to move one millimeter. I am not worthy.

  66. 66.

    gbear

    @asiangrrlMN: I was born here (I can see the hospital I was born in from my desk at work), but it seems my ability to deal with MN winters is becoming inversely proportional with my age. If I live to be 100, I will have 0% tolerance for MN winters.

  70. 70.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I’ll get an aerial shot of him to show you just how plump he is but I’ll have to use the wide-angle lens. ;)

    Sammy is one of those cats who has a small head (but a huge schnoz) but he is definitely ‘Rubenesque’ in form. My wife and I laugh our asses off at his small head and small ass attached to the huge blob in the middle. I told the wife that if he didn’t get on a diet we would need to install casters on his moobs.

    Annie, unplugging him wouldn’t shut him off. He’s like the energizer bunny when it comes to food. He loves to hang out in the garage with me and he isn’t perturbed by power/air tools, the compressor or any other noisy thing I am using. I have to keep him out of the way when I am grinding steel because he is fascinated by the sparks. He is constantly being brushed because he picks up metal shavings.

    Turn on the vacuum cleaner in the house though and he will climb on top of the deep freeze and dive behind it, necessitating me pulling it out from the wall so he can get out. I block it in advance now but it had me looking for him the first couple of times I vacuumed…lol

  75. 75.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    I got sidetracked by Public Enemies (horrible, even the 2009 sexiest man alive could not save it) and Glee (okay I admit it, I cried). So it took me a while to get here tonight. Then I come here and get a wonderful surprise, G & G and my man Tunch! Work’s been, life’s been good…waiting for the bus. (To hit me, ya know, cause I’m ultimately a pessimist in optimist clothing).

    Love the pet and snark threads these days.

  77. 77.

    Lincolnshire Poacher

    Nice picture of the white cat commandeering the laptop. An update on the whole cat and mouse game.

  79. 79.

    RJ

    Out of interest, is there any reason why the wingnuts don’t talk about a war *for* christmas? The war *on* christmas by itself doesn’t imply that anyone’s fighting back.

  80. 80.

    burnspbesq

    @valdivia:

    Aww, be fair. If I had to spend quality time with a bat-guano-crazy blonde, I would pick Jane over Ann Coulter all day, every day. And Jane has a cool dog.

  84. 84.

    PTirebiter

    Jeez- I love the war on xmas snap. FYI- To Tunch, your laptop is just a high end heating pad. Slap an Apple logo on a cheap pad set on low and you might fool him, otherwise, consider extending your Apple Care.

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