Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

In my day, never was longer.

Republicans in disarray!

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

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

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Bark louder, little dog.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

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  3. 3.

    Radon Chong

    These pictures are our civilization’s answer to the pyramids, and are perhaps even more mind blowing.

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    Keith G

    @CaseyL: Somewhere out there is a civilization which many light years from now will receive our off-cast communications. Once translation achieved, they will be seriously thinking “WTF?”

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    Redshirt

    For those wondering where the mystical elements of any future, rational based Religion will come from – you’re looking at them. Our reality is wondrous beyond belief. This wonder can fulfill that craving many people have for something bigger than themselves.

    We need a new Carl Sagan to guide us.

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    colleeniem

    These are truly amazing, I should look at this type of stuff more often.
    It makes my problems seem a lot smaller.

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    flukebucket

    @Dave C: I’ve never read Bad Astronomy before. I picked up on the ten best pictures from a comment somebody left in one of the threads downstream.

    Balloon-Juice is always a treasure trove of links from commenters.

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    growingdaisies

    Heh heh. I work for Hubble. Really cool to see this thread on what has otherwise been a pretty crappy day.

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    freelancer

    @MR Bill:

    It’s sometimes depressing that modern religion is not celebrating these images as the sign of a creator’s creativity.

    “In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed”? Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.”
    -Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

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    canuckistani

    The lunar landing image is my fave, a) because it’s a gold mine of snarky jokes and b) it is a truly awesome achievement.

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    Leeds man

    Well, as long as no-one thinks this is what the Butterfly Nebula would actually look like to the naked eye, yeah, it’s pretty.

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    growingdaisies

    @freelancer:

    We get a lot of e-mails from religious people thanking us profusely for the pictures and talking, often eloquently, about the wonder and awe they feel looking at them. So I can’t speak for the major religions, but many of the individuals in ’em seem to feel the way Sagan wished they would feel.

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    S. cerevisiae

    growingdaisies, as an amateur astronomer I am green with envy that you get to work with the most amazing scientific instrument ever made. I watched Atlantis lift off on the last service mission in May and I was SO grateful that the service mission went so well (after wondering if it was even going to happen at all).

    Stunning photos and great science – keep up the good work.

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